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pUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.
NEW BEDFORD is said to have but one
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NEW BEDFoRD is said to have but one
whaler left-a schoolmaster.
RELIGIOUS intelligence in the Mem
phis CTeRn.) Appeal: "Her matchless
and perfect~figure was q model, and
never shown to so much advantage as
when she knelt for baptism"
DoN PEDRO, of Brazil, will bring two
hundred thousand dollars worth of diss.
monds when he comes to visit this coun-
try He is going to give them away to
young men who part their hair in the CEN
ter.-Free Press
IT is very desirable to be a good read
er. A clergyman is said to have once
read the following passage from the
Bible: Sand the old man said unto his
sons, saddle me, the ass; and they sad
died him"
The women sufragiSts of New Haven
are wrestling with the question, ''Who
Is the superfiuous wOman?" OF course
we can't tell, but we know number OF
family men in town, each of whom
thinks he has married her.--NOru-it
Bulletin.
A New HAVEN lady recently went
abroad in order to take charge of the
remains of her husband, who had died
there. She is expected back next week,
and being a woman of thrift, brings
both a live and dead husband with
her.
FOURTEEN summers ago she went
back on a feller because he was left
handed. She now shares life's JOYS and
sorrows with man possessing an eye
of glass, leg of the finest hickory,
with one ear absent, and who is inn
mense in the deaf and dumb alphabet.
So much for waiting few years.
john BRIGHT is reported to have said
that girls are intellectually the equal of
boys. 1t must be so, for oft in child
hoods sunny hours, when q strategic
movement is made for which somebody
has to take a-lieking, it's the boys back
that aches, though the girl puts up the
job.-Brooklyn ArgstS.
A NEW ballad is entitled 'Tell Me,
Mary, How to Woo Thee" And if
Mary is a sensible girl she will tell him
not to come oftener than three nights in
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clock a. m. This going seven nights a
week, and sitting up till 3 O'Clock in the
morning ruins the health and augments
the old mans coal bill.
CoNDUCTAH,n simpered lady on
an out-going Eastern train last evening,
twill yeOu be so keind as to bwing me
gleass of watahP'' The polite con-
ductor thereupon marched to the water
tank, detached the German-silver mug
from its long, clanking chain, and re-
turning with it filed to the brim obse-
quiously proffered it to the fair travel
er. She took it with a smile; she bow
ed-and stuck it under the nose Of a
musty-Iooking poodle-dog on her lap,
who quietly Tapped up the liquid re-
Chicago journal.
"YOU keep postal-cards here, don't
you?"asked a little woman of the stamp
clerk at the POst-oflice yesterday. eve
do, madam - I'm take one, if you will
write it for me-" "All right-now 90
ahead" 'Tt's to my husband, who is
in Chicago" she said. ''Write like
this: SIR am most sick, baby is
under the DOCTORS care, and James and
the other children have the measles.
The rest of us are usually well. All the
women are wearing back-cOmbs, and
don't forget to write often. We.all send
love, and our house almost got on fire
last night. JANE. '''-DetrOH Free Press.