The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1876-06-02
EVANGELTCAL CORNER.

EVANGELICAL CORNER.
"He's polished gentleman" she said,
gazing fondly at the bald head which show
eth her handiwork.
A Franklin (Pa.) girl would rather be
dozen widows than one old maid. She had
been to hear the Washington chimes.
According to Washington correspond
/ ent, the face of Mrs. Christiancy does not
look as bright or as happy as it should at
twenty.
VIII not the court take pity on my
motherless children" said an English
prisoner sentenced to death for numbering
his wife.
Ii isn't the work that kills man-it's
the dodging around trying to get away
from the woman who gives the orders
Brooklyn Argus. -.. ..f 4.n.
"The latest thing out" Mrs. Fitzgib-
bons, of Fifth Avenue, says, Is her dear
duck of husband, who don't come home
from the club before morning. -....
The four different dresses worn by Miss
Dickinson in the course Of her performance
of the play "A Crown Of Thorns,' cost
$4,000, and were all made in New York.
A man who bought one thousand Havana
cigars this week, ON being asked what he
had, replied that they were tickets to
course of lectures to be given by his wife.
The bustling Burlington Hawkege has
been to church often enough to observe
that ga woman seats herself in pew in
seven motions a man with one.'' #
The jewels sent by the Khediye of Egypt
to Mrs. Minnie Fitch, it is said, will be re-
exported to Europe in June, as otherwise
5hey might be sold at auction to pay the
duties. sa IT, r.
Somebody who has been looking into the
literature of the eighteenth century finds
that some of the most immoral novels in
the English language have been written
by women.
To clean straw hats, rub the soiled straw
with a cut lemon and little salt, and wash
off the juice with water. Then sprinkle
little gum-water on them to stiffen, and
dry in the sun. a
A young lady who advertised in TIE
Herald for light housekeeping, received an
application from the keeper of the light
house at Sandy Hook. saying he would
like her company.
Belle Plain, Iowa, claims the smallest
woman in the world-Maggie Minot. She
is eighteen years old, twenty-six inches
high, and weighs thirty -one pounds. Tom
Thumb is six inches taller.
After all the severe and adverse criticism
on Miss Dickinson's performances, most of
the Boston papers claim that her engage
ment at the Globe Theatre last week was
not only a satisfactory financial, but most
decided dramatic success,
woman found q house that pleased her,
but the back yard didn't give satisfaction.
The fence didn't contain single knot-hole
and she said she wasn't going to break her
neck BY climbing o. top 2ty ef az apy old RaEal tg
a young lady standing at the door of the
hall was addressed by an honest Hibernian,
who was in attendance on the occasion.
"Indade, miss" said he, "I should be
glad to give you a safe, but the empty ones
are all full.''
It is often said that woman has no
talent for business, but when man goes
home and finds that his wife has swapped
off his Sunday pantaloons for a patent
tack hammer and china ornament for
the mantel-piece he is compelled to wonder
at the genius that succeeded in getting the
tack hammer thrown in.--NoseoicA Bale
tin. - ..- 81
A good mother was trying to explain TO-
young hopeful the other day about fight
ing against the devil. After telling the
little fellow who the devil was, and how
hard he was to resist successfully, he
turned around and said: Mamma, I'd
be scared of the old devil, but if / was to
come across one of his little devils I'd
knock the stufing out of him."
The man who can build a fire in the
morning, not spill any ashes, nor make
gridirons on his face with SCOT, and repeat
the ten commandments, while his wife
yells down stairs" Don't forget to fill
the tea kettle. Don't put too much coal
on. Turn the damper down. Shut the
stair door. Don't make such horrid
racket. Now get mad and smash up all
the lids. Set the chairs all back. Spread
something over that yeast. Let that poor
cat out. Open the door you're filling the
house full of smoke. Look if the milkman
has come. Don't break all the dishes in
the house. Is that fire burning get? Oh
clear out; I'd rather make the fire three
times myself. A man can never do any
thing without getting mad and turning the
house upside down ~ need have no fears
that there is anything else in this world
i that can make him forget his early Sunday
schoo training. .-Easton Free Press.
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