, 1877-12-23

The song OF the widow-' What is home with
out anothcr!"
Query: Is not fashionable party loan ex-
Cow neck) hibltion?
The frost on the milkrnan's mustache chills
the hired-girl to the core.-Dandury lNeles.
When girl begins to take an interest in C.
young mans crayat, it is a sign she does not
love him as asistcr.
Never write letters to a widow. She always
takes down the old box and compares yours
Will. the other mans.
4 philosopher rem arked that men like women
opposite to themselves. OF course they do.
Go into any ice-crraln saloon and see if they
don't.
At Swedish funerals a small handglass is put
Into the coffin of woman, in order that she
may take 4 last look at herself when the trun-
pei sounds.
kha'il Pasha recently, while playing cards
with his wife, Became crazy. We should think
any man would wien he sees q woman trump
the ace-lHew Iork Herald.
4 young lady, just home from boarding
school, Oh being told By the servant that they
had no gooseDerries, exclaimed, "Why, what
has happened to the gooset"
Among tue many surmiscs as to what will be-
come Of the last man, it is queer that nobody
has yet discovered that he is destined to be
talked to death by the last woman.
':Thcm pottery things is real NICE" said Mrs
Vcnecriug. s.Me and nv daughter Maria have
got the rage, you know, and buy all VIC kin cit.
But what OH earth is they intended for!"
A man out, West has been terribly trounccd
By his wife because he took his oycrcoat and
boots out OF her bustle, just as she wanted to
put it on. Next time he'll mind his own busi-
ness.
"What constitutes marriasc9" asks the Bos-
ton Adeertiser. Getting down to one cigar day
in order to pour money into the Golfers OF tue
man who sells striped stockings Worcester
Press.
The proper way for q lady to direct a letter
this winter is to run the DIRECTION from corner
to corner, scatter threc-ceut STAINS over the
envelope, and write Il important ~ Oh any va
cant space lett.
At Dubuque wedding. the other day, among
the wedding presents ostcntariously displayed
was 800 bill. present IRON tile dotins father
to his darling laughter. After the guests had
departed the old man coo!ly rolled up the bill
and put i: in his vest pocket, and that was the
end Of it.
Scene on the New York train-Conductor ito
lady with small boy. Have to pay haIf-farc
out $40 notc.l Cooductor-.t Haven't YOU
that tj-1nonths-old baby over thcrc!'' Conductor
cxp!odcs and explains. Fact !-Ph,IadetDhia
Gnhctin.
Scene in private box of fashionable the
atre-Entcr servant, considerably excited: t.If
you please, mistress. your husband has inst had
bad fall, aud the doctor thinks he has sus
ta,ed serious injuries, so-' Loving wife.
''What pity! ! sl,all nave to 20 home at oncc
ans. sec to it. (Turn,ng TO .!oorkeepcr, Grc M.
4 return check, quick! !"-FItoeude Bla<lter
Olive Logan writes: sIt is really tho f,,+
that jaunty English girls are now raising the
hat by way Of acknowledge. bow, tic same as
the gentlemen do. The hat used is tue )itt1e
round felt Oxford, which looks well enoro1, ~,
top ol a pretty young face, but is power.
fully hard-tooking affair On the poll OF woman
wno ranks in that large aud Increasing army of
the has beeEs.''' A' ~
The Young man who halted in front of dol
,ar store, and, alter looking turtre!y about
him, walked briskly in, found the s:queen Of his
| thoughts" there iuquiring for seSomethinr
suitable for gcntlenaann lie has since her1,
reaaine WITH gloomy satisfaction the acro,,nt
OF desperate lovers who have shot thc ohicrt of
their aucetlous.-Bos0n Euleti,t
The lady with stexperiencc as a writer and
ocVoted TO journalism wanted place on y
hrst-class daily journal. She .t would be ron.
teut with her expenses for salarytill she showed
her value, - and the editor thought it yould bc
encouraging cheap labor to engage her. til she
sent down to the office her bill at an uptown
hotel, with her laundry account charged S2l a
month for dutcd skirts.-Neao York .uaH.