Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1873-11-13
AnvRRTIslNa RAgns
FAIR SEX.

"A handsome thing is ladies' hosea
neat little foot.
The most curious thing in the world
Is women who is not curious.
1t is suggested that belI-pulls Womb
oe appropriate appendages to the door.
piates now worn on ladies' belts.
Down in New Bedford the folks ara
so monest that they dare not risk more
than one eye on the naked truth.
Dan Rice advertises that old maid
cah visit his show at half price. but he
never had female call for a half-price
ticket. p'-'o
Two la:iies have received appoint-
ments as clerks in the Department of
SustIce, being the first women ever
employed there.
fashionable modistes now divide
mourning toilets into first and second
degrees, according to the proper amount
OF grief for the occasion,
What lies easiest in some ladies,
mouths! The answer which accom-
pahies tnls question must be mistake.
1t says: Their tongues"
War against gilt and imitation Jewell
ry still continues furiOusly. AS a resnlt
very little of it is worn now bv wonI3
be fashionable ladies.
The ''TaIlna" is classed among tb.
IIasnlonable Wr pS, and the most popu-
lar ef the style is the sacuue tallna.
with sleeves and double cape.
Siam is al ungallant country. There
the first may be divorced, and after
that every wife may be sold for cash or
trade for yellow dog.
The excuse of a young lady to her
minister, who caught her mapping.
was: Don't you think ladies had bef,
ter be fast asleep tn n .si swake?''
Ga. Mary Ann don't see ANYTHING 80
very -:id in the phrase ''ii might have
oetii. When she was told that she
lnisht have Ben, she was glad of it.
y crazy woman in Georgia recently
m"lnttd locomotive, which was
standing unattended, and run it until
the steam gave Out-fifty-fve miles.
| Ii is ii constant recurring order of
phen0mena that as soon as a Young
woman goes into politics her lovers ali
lali OH and nobody wants to marry
her.
4 woman in the Joliet Penitentiary
cut OF her forefinger the Other day so
that she would now have to SOW, but
they are going to keep her washing
dishes.
"Shall cut this loin of mutton sad
dle-wise?s' said Il gentleman. mo"
said one Of his guests, 'cut it bridle-
Wise, for then may have a chance to
get bit in my mouth"
The height Of roughness-To come
home ut night when your wife has
gone away for day or two, and find
that she has accideutllycarried off the
key to the closet where the consolation
is,
The well-disposed people of Dunleith
are troubled with a model fault-finder
Ia man wha is so mean as to Quarrel
with his wife about the politics of the
newspaper she stuffs her hustle with.
The Des MOines quartette were some
what startled the other evening by
finding the selection, "When wearied
wretches sink to Sleep" had been prin-
ted ON their programmes, "When mar
ried wretches," &c.
Women are said to be adapted for
employment on railroads, because they
lcan manage "trains," and understand
Switches" perfectly; but theee is one
J disqualification to be colsidered-they
attract too many sparks.
| There is an old negress in Nashville
who has used whisky as beverage
from her youth up. When she wants
to go ON spree she stops whisky ana
takes to water. Six glasses of water
, will give her the "horrors."