, 1875-12-05

through it. Bracelets were favorits ornaments,
and we're generally worn on the right arm.
they reached up to the elbow. Rings on the
fingers vera worn chains OF fine gold or strings
of pearls with little silver balls or small tlnklinR
bells, worn around the neck.
couRTsHlP.
II. II. B., in q New York lettar to the St.
Louis Republican, says: The Detroit Free Press
describes Texan courtship, but it is not half
funny aa one that ia carried on twice weak in
afneud's kitchen. Her COOK Is 4 German named
Louisa, and she has for beau q mlddle-aged
Yankee OF small pretensions to intellect.
One report Of one conversation is : yarbatim
account Of the whole courtship.
Smith knocks and epters. Louisa says
Crafty:
"Putty we'll. Louisa" drawls Smith.
Than silence for fvs minutes, whsn Louiaa
says:
..Vot vas tha ve1der oudslde7"
J t'Pretty fair, Louisa"
Another intermiss:on.
did squ bring your razor NIT you' SMITH"
Then he proceeds to cut his fair ir.morata's
corns-a solemn ailence bzooding above thepai-.
ABOUT Smitt ventures to remark:
II Is'pose I must be going, Loulsa7"
And Louisa rephes
f6l& uAely &S HOt II F0NIQ % OaIEaT.
| And this door closes and the counting is over
! This has been going on for four years without
| single accident Twice = week this rning1iug
OF soul and sentiment, this cutting Of corna and
exchange Of affection, takes place. Probably
| this winter the marriage will eyentuate, and
Louisa will get some one else for a corn-doctor,
| since it's against all nature that = husband
should be, for moment after marriage, What he
| Was ~ lover.
| cIDn'T CONF OFF
few days ago, Detroit wldo1er (asys the
Free Press), who Was engaged to Detroit
widow, each having two OF three children, and
| both being we'll OF. determined to test her love
| for him and at the Same time discover il abe
| WAS aotuated by naerceuary motives, rs some Of
| his friends had asserted. He called upon her
At the usual evening hour, and After while re-
marked:
.tMy dear, you know have two children,
! ard to-day I had my 1fe-insuranco policy for
So, goo changed to their solo benent IN case OF
| nv DEATH"
| ''You did quite right my darling" she
! promptly replied II have turee children. -
had every dollars worth Of my properly 20 20.
cured that they alone can hare the beRett OF 1t.
! He looked.
| 6ho looked.
The marrage didn't come on at ths time ses
last eek, and it may narar OCCUR.
HANS ANDERsEh's tovE-HisTo RY.
! It was on Andersen's journey through Zea-
land, Funcn, and Jutland, that be mot young
girl with whom he fell deeply In love, but who,
| unfortunately, ut ths time was engaged to
another man, and, as Andersen never met
| another woman whom he could love as be loved
this girl, be remained unmarried all his hfe.
Many years 1aser, peasant girl, who had heard
| about him as \ great and woEid-renowned poet,
| whom all men honored,-and who, believe, had
also read some of his stoEiea,--took it into he1
i head that 10 was the one man ale vanied to
| marry. So she started out for Copenhagen.
| where Andersen was then living, went to his
| house. and told him her errand. You can iu1a:-
| ioe how astonished he must have beeo at being
| told by young handsome girl that she wished
| to marry him. II should be 10 very good to
! yon," said she, ''aud always take good care OF
| you" but, my dear girl. | don't Wish to be
married" answered he; and shs departed n
| suddenly az eEa had come-
COULDN'T SIT DOWN.
| 'She can't ait down." SAID female Custom
| House Inspector at New York the other day, as
| she observed a lady who had just como of =
Hamburg steamer standing On the wharf. The
new arrival was pretty, but she looked ver3
weary. They took her, protesting against the
ourrsee, into dressing room, and, penetrating
the mysteries Of her makeup, they discovered
| that from her waist down che IVES solid mass
t OF smucgled hair. Luscious golden treEsee
twiped themselves around her dainty limbs and
, surged up to her waist, minglinE with rave1
| her. and she then was able to cit down. She va
| importing the pluuder for fashionable hxoad'
| way human lalr-dealer.
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES.
Albany pagers deny the story that girl o.
| hari iowor fhrax 1unf
in hia eyes while aha could pull I'D her stocking
4 girl With three arms ia attracting attention
in Tescelo, near Jatspa, Mexico. When that gir
gets her two arms around her husbands neck
she'll etiIl have one to art With ths othar fellow
! across the street,
Since Brigham Young's re1ense from confne
uent, he acts like changed man. It Is oni.
necessary for any Of his wives to hint that th'
fra is low. and be will trot out to the wood-shes
| without murnlur.
4 Aty1annica1 Kentucky Judge has decided that
no matter how anxious farmer may be to Pusf
his work forward. he has no right to harness biz
wife to plow. They had bctser justice than
that hundred years agol
"Chs1les !" she murmured, rs they strolled
along the Irenont-street mall the other even
ine, aud gazed upwards at the beje"elod hEma-
| ment, '.Charles. dear, which is Venus and which
| il Adonis ?"-Bos:o,s Globe.
4 lady applying for admission to the junior
| class of au Eastern seminary, being questioned
by the President rs to her qualifications, re;
Piled, Ut amt much OF an arthmetlckes, out
! an an elegant grauamar1st-"
Mrs. Livermore Bays girls are not particular
enough about the men they marry Mrs. SMITH,
of Omaha, is 60 particular about the man si'e
married that shs takes her sewing to his Office
and sits there Ill day-tiu be is ready to go homo
A colored woman IN Macon, Ga, wrots to he.
husband in South Carolina: '.You rote me woEc
you Was comm hum soou. and you have no 40.
kun. So am kortng now; am goln, to gu
yure wife"
An African Prince once offered Du Chaiilu ht1
choice OF = wife among $50 girls. To prevcn
jealousy, he took them all A he couldn't mr. r
caap cut With them, and be says it surpassed
any strawberry-fes be ever attended
| A New York man. who has been rising frotu