, 1875-04-25
Social Notes in Evanston and
Oak Park.
Club Parties..Announcements.
CAPITAL GOSSIP.

question Of: "How do you spell such word
The epidemic has enterod the Departments, II
is making great havoc among the clerks, esp
ciAly thoss deslrous OF promotions. Tho few,
has extended to the Sunday schools, and NOW Il
latest attack ia in the misaion schools. Son
day this week the rival woody y-heads Of tw
schools OF dusky-fnced young ideas are going
meet to "spell each other down" On such word
"Shut de do" and "Wash Do do'," and othe
characteristic negroisms. They will be asked I
define such words aa " onliest, " 'tholped," etc.
NOTHING NEW uSuEn TEE sux.
The furore now SO prevalent is merely the r,
rival Of old-time spelline-matches Whittie
speaks in one OF his pretty little poems, Of
brown-eyed New England girl having "spella
down"
"Tho Ntue boy
{Nhoro} Her childish fancy singled"
Lord Palmerston gave several Of his sssociate
il the Cabinet simple sentence containing th
following words: SIT is disagreeabIa to per
caive the embarrassment Of an harassed Wagon
er gaugipg the symmetry Of peeled potato,
and not ous OF h,s comfIetes spelled I'll ths
words correctly.
One Of the papers quotes verse which was
1paWlch, 80 says Lord Rebart Cecil as authority
Hhfao he~ing yew. Hugh lost his ere,
And put It in the Hue aud Cry.
To name ita facets dusky hues
Was I'll the effort ha could ute.
And only begged the hewers ever,
Eour hands to wash in water pure
Les. nice-nosed ladies', not few,
Should CIT On coming you, "Ugh!o
MORE 1s MEANT TIA. MEETS TIE EYE.
The papers announce that Mary Harris has
been removed from the Government Insane
Asylum across the river, to one in Providence
believe. Perhaps you Chlcagoans wosld look at
such An announcement, and see nothins OF the
romance snd traoedy lyine conceaIed in the
letters Of the woman name. Some Yeara ago,
I have forgotten lust The number. the nauo Of
simple Department clerk was brought into
world: :wide notoristy through The unerring bull
let aimed Ut him by tho hand Of this girl. He
uxs = married man, quiet in his mnunors, pleas
snti his address, with Intelligent brown eyes. and
dark hair and aoft Wavy beard- He closely re-
se1nbied his brother, who has ruade his nane
knou1 to cultivated readers by his articles on
birds and nature, replete NTH exquisite English,
beautiful ideas, and teii. :ae observations.
ABSENCE MAKEs TIE HEART GROW FoSDER OF
SOMEBODY EsI-
The Department. clerk sometimes in his
Harris. and paid her very decided attention,
equivalent, in her mind, to an engagement but
afterwards he removed to. some other locality,
md With the characteristic versatility Of his sex,
oae he afterwards made bis wife. Mary Harris
vowed vengeance, and, instead OF seeking redress
in the courts, where her wounded heart might be
healed BY greenbach plasters, she resolved to
take tho lsw into her own bands, forgetting that
the Good Book says: ''Vengexnce ia mine, I |
will repay, Faith the Lord"
AN EVIL dEN1uB- |
Like Fate, she pucsued tho man who had !
elghtod her Love, biding her time for the faaI |
catastrophe. Ono day her victim, upon t
raising his oyes from his desk, SAW I
looking in at him through a half |
opened door, = pair OF dark eyes, filed with |
such vengeful light, that he luyoIuntar1y COT /
cred his own With one hand, while be stretched |
ont tbs other "a II begging for mercy. or ward
ing OF blow. His fellow desk-mares asked
Lin, III surprise. what wss the matter, and he
answered that he felt Is il weighed down by the
approach OF some dtrefuI evil Then he left his |
desk, and, as II fascinated, walked mechanically
towards the door through which those fiery eyes
had gazed IN upon him, waking such unqniet
memories in his hestt But nobody WAS djscov-