The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-11-15
THIS AND THAT.

THIS AND THAT.
Unmarried girls in Vestula have to
wear little bells on their ankles, and
the clipping business IS not good in that
locality,
Wealthy ladies now have models of
their figures made by French artists,
and leave their models with their
dressmakers.
Danbury News: ''Y0ung ladies
should not be deceived by this moder-
ated weather into leaving off their
buckles. There is dampness in the
air which should be guarded against
The Burlington Hawk-Eye can't un-
derstand why it is that a married man
cannot 60 into store to buy a new
rolling-pin without blushing to the tip
of his ears if anybody happens to gig
gle when he prefers his request.
Angelina (who has been rerusing the
t'Births, Deaths, and Marriages.
Edwin, l do so object to that horr1d
word "relict - If should die, Edwin,
promise, oh promise, you will not al
low me to be described as your relict
DIR. Mary Walker is little more con-
sentative in the style of her dress
since the dog bit her. She now wears
a row of knife pleating all around the
tails of her coat, and the waist band
and the ends of the legs of her treus-
ers are trimmed with ball fringe.
sit may be very well, Mr.. Henry
said Johns wife the other day, Ito
stay out half the night working for
the glorious Republican cause but if
the Republican party left that long
yellow hair and that big greasespot on
your new black vest it amt the kind
of hairpin take it for
It is sweet to observe the patriotic
ardor with which the man with note
book and pencil mounts the steps of an
Erie palace car for the purposeof taking
the votes of the passengers on the
presidential question, but it is sweeter,
far sweeter, to remark the childlike
expression that fits across the colored
porter's face as he politly lifts the
intruder by the ear and desposits him
on the platform.-Brooklyn Argus.
''Brutus Blinkenberry,'' said that
gentleman's wife, drawing a paper
from her pocket in the privacy OF the
chamber on Sunday morning, ''Brutus
Blinkenberry, I've counted, AID out Of
the last 30 days you have come home
intoxicated q nights; what do you
think of yourself!' Bill ~kenberry
groaned. "Well, what are you groan-
ing aboutnow.?" ''Them three nights,''
replied Blinkenberry, with an express
ion of horrible suffering.
81 want you to play something
brilliant and dashing,'' said young
Mr.. Romeo to the organist arranging
for the music at his wedding, "none OF
those old, die-away, WORKOUT things
usually played" ''How would Beeth-
ovens symphony in E minor, arrang
ed as fantaise in four flats and one
stop to the high c. suit youe :" inquired
the musician, s:well,'' said the BRIDE
groom-elect, evidently puzzled, elf it's
got the ring and 60 to the 'Skidmore
Guards or 'Tommey Make Room for
Your Auntie' in it think it'll do
An agent for the sale of some house
hold articles attempted to mount the
steps of house recently, but a dog
came around the corner and took half
a yard of cloth from the back of his
coat. The man sliding out when the
owner of the house came and asked:
s'Did doze dog bite you!'' 'sHe didn't
bite me, but he ruined my coat was
the reply. ''My good friend, excuse
doze dog if he didn't bide you. He
ish young now, but by and by he shall
take hold of some agents and eat their
bones ride oud of them. He bides a
coat now, but he shall soon do better -