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SATURDAY MORNING, MAR. %. 1874
Gossip and Gleanings.

SATURDAY MORNING, MAR. 22, 1873
Gossip and Gleanings.
The law phrase ''benefit of clergy" was
never, perhaps, so well illustrated as it has
been in the case of the convict Foster.
Many would contentedly suffer the conse-
| quences of their own mistakes, rather than
the insOlence of him who triumphs as their
deliverer, = Rambler.
o euil tonges which clap at eury wnde!
fe slea the quick, and exc the dead defame,
Those that liue well, some faut in them We fnde.
Ye take no thought in slaundering their good name
-Vncertaine Auctors
An Ohio paper desires to know how how
the member of the Legislature got along with
the ice-cream he slowed away in his pocket
at recent reception.
My yoke is easy and my burden is light"
as Georgia youth said when his girl was sit
ting on his lap with her arms around his
neck.
The latest statement about heirs is made by
the World which reports that 'sthe heirs Of
Robinson Crusoe have begun suit to recover
possession ofthe Island of Juan Fernandez.
There are but three ways of living, as some
one has said, by working, by begging or by
stealing. Those who do not work, disguise it
in whatever pretty language we please, are
doing one ofthe other two.-Froude.
Ogoody usage Of those antique timesl
In which the sword was servant unto right.
When not for malice and contentious crimes, .5
@ Bpt all for praise, and proof Of manly might,
The martial brood accustomed to fight.
-Spenser.
After asking your name in the State of Ar
kansas the natives are in the habit Of fur
ther inquiring, in confidential tone, ''Well,
now, what was your name afore yer moved to
these parts ?'
Blue, dear to the heads Of blondes, is said
to be the fashionable color, in all its variety
OF tints. Turquoise, navy blue, Napoleon
blue, and the green tints which have also a
blue shade, are much in favor.
They have Judge in Kansas who fined
lawyer for saying sic transit. The official
thought it was swearing, and remarked in
dignantly that nobody should "sick'' him in
that court.
The christian is one who, if shipwreck or
a fire were to take all luxury away, could de-
scend, without being crushed into the valleys
OF existence. He wears all this on the out
side, carelessly, and could say "My all was
not laid there. ."-Robertson.
The st. Louis Journal officially announces
that false hair is hereafter to be tabooed.
The Journal is probably correct. Whatever
advantages false hair may have here, any
thing so combnstible would scarcely be of
much value hereafter.
Dresses for the promenade are made to Just
touch the pavement, the effort to revive the
street trains having, happily, died out. The
polonaise is still the prevailing garment for
out door wear, and appears in all the new
spring styles.
Cashmere in all the new light shades will be
the most popular material for spring cos
tunes. The trimmings are generally of the
goods itself or of silk of harmonizing color
The silk is laid on in plain double folds or u.s.
ed for narrow rufies, fiuted headings, bows
and fan shaped plaitings.
A Cincinnati pedagogue named Rapp re-
Gently raped pupil on the skull with
quarto grammar as the only way of getting
pint o grammar into the youths head, and
the experiment was so successful that the sub
ject thereof went into decline and parsed
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