Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1873-11-29
TIE GENTLE SEX.

4 lOf the lalr sex. w ldt utAl
Cornell has had sixteen girl students
the past year, of whom one has just
graduated, beiRg sixth in the class of
ninety seven
WHY'S young lady like bill of
exchange : Because she ought to be
settled VIXEN she arrives at maturity.
A Western woman complains that
since her husband joined the Patrons of
Husbandry he has sown nothing but
wild oats.
In Java young ladies in want of hus-
bands make knows their wishes by plac-
ing an empty flower pot on the pertico
roof.
A Young lady at Elmira spent four
! wears in learning Greek. Latin, French
and Spanish and then married a yegeta-
bic peddlcr.
A New York glove store has adopted
the Paris custom of having pretty young
girls to fit on the gloves purchased by
ladies' and gentlemen.
An old lady who has six unmarried
daughters started out few days ago on
: search for the patrons OF husbandry.
''Oh, what is home without mother J
Most of Cleaveland girls will fall ia
love with man for the same reason
that they do with their looking glasses
because they are constantly telling
them that they are charming.
a young lady ct Dodge county, Ga,
who found rattlesnaSe clinging to the
skirts of her dress the other day, had
presence of mind enough 10 trample on
the serpents neck, and thus tear him
loose.
4 handsome young lady at Peoria
made bet that she could raise $40 in
twenty minutes from crowd at the
passenger depot by getting tears 10 her
eyes, and claiming 10 have her pocket
picked, she was soon possessed al u
purse containing S62.
A girl of the season commcnts cn
Mormonism "llow absurd-ioT or
! five hundred wives 10 one man. When
the fact is, each woman in these times
ought 10 have four or five husbands. lt
would take about that number to sup
port me decently.
A Connecticut father has christcned
his daughter glycerine. She will bc
good for chapPed lips. She might not
be good for chaps lips, for the old dad
NAV have, in an uuacc0untable streak of
forbearance, foiborne the prefix Nitro
and no man likes TO be blown up at
close quarters.
'Facts are stubborn things" said
barrister to female witness under ey-
animation .Yes sir, said the witness;
land so are women, and it you get any
thing ont of me, just let me know IT,"
.:You'll be committed for contempt
said the lawyer. "Nery wer," said tho
witness, 81 shall suffer justly, for | feel
the utmost contempt for every lawyer
present
Women who are afflicted with drunk.
en- husbands may bless the days that
witnessed their weddings, as there is a
mine of wealth in their possession It
they will remove TO Iowa, where man
pays ten cents for drink and his wife
collects $4,000 damages from the man
who sold it 10 him. This 1000 per
cent. better than life insurance, and the
wife keeps her husband and he keeps
the liquor.
A Western reporter thus describes
the toilet Of the belle At late ball {:
''She was magnificent IN green calico
over a crnolne full four inches larger
than the rest of her apparal, white
apron with red strings, blue stockings,
a yellow neck ribbon, and while cotton
gloves Her reddish hair was fastened
in pug behind, and well adorned with
the tail feather Of the rooster she had
for dinner
The reporter Of a Nashville paper,
who, mentioning a-young lady's dcccasc
touchingly alluded 10 her as zone of the
brightest jewels that ever glittercd in
the diadem of al earthly home, one OF
the purest stars that ever CLEANED upon
the frontIet of our social sky; one Of tho
sweetest flowers that ever bloomed in
the garden Of earliest association"
Some one suggests, with most excel
lent good sense, thatfhe immense door"
plates worn by ladies on their belts
might be utilized by engraving thereon
the wearers name, age, residence, for
tune, or expectations, and stating wheth-
er her heart is free or engaged.