The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1873-12-25
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been issued. It will speedily be followed by
"His Cheek Was What Made Him."-!S.
Louis Democrat.
-"Good-Rye, you old scolding, red.
headed heathen," wrote Dubuque man to
his wife the last thing before suiciding. She
says she'd like to have got hold of him for
about one York minute.
Wendell Phillips in a lecture entitled
Chances Abroad" delivered at Association
Hall last Saturday night, said: God forbid
that we shall ever return to the delusion of
specie payments. New York Post.
Providence, in beautiful accord with its
name, has snch thorOughfares as Faith
street, Hope street, Joy street, Benevolent
street. Happy street, &c. The other day
man was found fainting from starvation in
Benevolent street, and was carried through
Happy street to an hospital.
job says his patience ia nearly exhaust
ed by watching the woman of the period.
He met Miss Fuss-and Feathers lately in
Broadway. She wore a crown of plumes
around her head, and long trailing ones down
her back; her Jacket was girt round and
about with feathers. She could not have
carried more feathers unless previously
tarred. "In tine," quoth Job, who is fond
Of Scriptnral quotations, "she looked az
though she had taken up her bed and
walked"
"A Syracuse paper states that "lady
kleptomaniac" in that city has stolen goods
to the amount OF $40, 900 and her husband
has invariably footed the bills. Her latest
theft was box of kid gloves; the husband
paid the bill az usual, and then asserted,
with tear in his eye, that he had tried
every possible remedy TO cure his wife of
her unfortunate malady.
What must the ordinary atmosphere of
a Pennsylvania school-room be? Seventy
children we're nearly suffocated by coal gas
in school-room at Oakland, Pa, tho other
day, and the teacher never perceived that
there was anything unusual in the air of the
room until the simultaneous falling of
twenty children from their eeBts suggested
that something was not quite right.
-"Who hurt you, bub?" asked a pedes-
trian yesterday OF small boy who sat howl
ing on the curbstone. "Johnny Kydd,"
sobbed the victim. "Pll see about him If he
does it again, remarked the man, condol-
ingly, but the boy suddenly stopped bowling
and exclaimed: "Just leave him alone.
When grow up I'll get on the police force,
and then can belt him all want to ~
1t is related of one of the children of
MIR. Sigourney, of Boston, whose family
was lost on the Vile de Havre, that prior
to their sailing though elated with the pros
pect Of . voyage, she presisted in saying:
'But we are going to be drowned" had
they reached France in safety, nothing
would have been thought of the childish ex-
preston, but now it is remembered a.
prophetic.
Mark Twain, at q public dinner in
London, recently, responded to the toast
1.-THE ladies, and in the course of his re-
marks said: "Ah. yon remember, you re-
member well, what throb of . pain. what
q great tidal wave of grief swept over us all
when Joan of Arc fell at Waterloo. Laugh
ter. Who does not sorrow for the loss of
Sappo, the sweet singer Of Israel Laugh
ter. Who among us does not miss the gen.
tie ministrations, the softening influences,
the humble piety of Lucrezia Rorgia
Laughter. Who can join in the heartles
lible that woman Is extravsgant in dress
when We can look back and call to mind our
SIMPLE and lowly mother Eve arrayed in
her modification Of the Highland costume"
lsNl0k C0Ius luz bHl6 ocoSOu arc VI TIC
finest unglaized Bristol board, and . little
larger than formerly. Some are in delicate
TINT. The shape is more oblong than square.
The London styles for gentlemen are very
small-those for the ladies very large. When
the words are not printed on the corners of
the care, turning them down in the following
order will denote the object of the call: The
right hand upper corner is used to denote a
simple call or visit; the left hand upper cor.
ner signifies congratulation after weddings,
engagements, etc. The left hand lower cor
ner is used for coincidence; and the right
hand lower corner for . visit previous to
leaving town 1t is customary to have the
words risi,e, tliciiation, condoieanes and ddieu
printed on the reverse side Of the corners
When leaving for a long journey, or voyage
to the other side, it is necessary to send cards
to friends with the simple word congo, or P.
P. c., in the left hand lower corner.