, 1880-01-04

CIG0 QuG VI L46 N4LL1CSt HOlleA OA kA0
Coast, is In Washington.
Statistics show that women's teeth decay
at an earlier age than mems, which conclusively
proves that gum is more injurious than tobacco.
We see by the New York Tribune that
AElectricity has been applied in Frnnce, by II.
Dalmas, to the destruction Of phyllo1era::' The
spectacle Of a man putting up jobs to have lit
tie phyllo1era struck by homemade lightning
must be an interesting one.
The ladies Of Pennsylvania, having sue
ceeded in purchasing the mansion which Gen.
Washington occupied Us his headquarters at
Valley Forge, have now started the movement
to buy the 1900 acres adjoining, in which the old
breastworks are still in good preservation, and
then erect soldiers home there. 49,.
Unless Mr.. Edison can arrange some con-
trivance whereby his electric light can be turned
down to such point as to be practically e1ttn-
guished and still be instantly turned on by means
Of string connecting with the sofa in case the
old man Is heard in the ha1l, he can never hope
to make it popular with young people.
Mary made little pie;
Tho upper crust WIS tough;
=. But Marys brother chewed away,
And couldn't get enough
She tried piece herself one night,
And, strange as it may seem,
That simple chunk Of pie
Became the fabric Of DREAM "
4 young lady who signs herself "Ogden
Avenue" sends us a verse1et commencing:
Snqnla 9nn,s Ts Sansy met tas ryer
It depends. If he lives west Of Ashland av-
enne you are liable to miss each other unless
you put up job with the driver and 'tsnfpe"
the car on which he comes downtown, but uu-
der other circumstances you ought to be able to
capture him nearly every morning.
The recent extraordinarily cold weather in
Minnesota was the means Of introducing a new
and popular game In come Of tho first families
on the West Side. It is entitled Is Minneapolis"
and is played by the eldest daughter and her
young mnn,-the latter personating IN infant,
while the girl plays the part Of the mother de-
Tending it from the storm:f It is nice game
except when her pa happePs in and furnishes
the storm. -.
The glamour Of romahice which has en-
shrouded poets for generations is being rapidly
dissipated- Mr. ". W. Story has poem in the
last atlantic which gives him away completely
It Is all about sleighrde TINT he had with girl
some years since Passing over the hfghfalutin
part Of the effort, which relates to the wills
being "o'ersurfed with snow,' we extract the
business portion Of the tdyl, which reads US fol-
lows, and shows that, although poet, Mr.. Story
WIS also one OF tho boys:
And closely you neat1e nRnInst me,
While around Jour waist my arm
have slpped-'tis 80 bitter. bitter cold
1t Is only to keep rs warm.
We talk, and then we are silent;
Istooped-conid | heip its-yo9 lifted your face
We dssed-there Was nobody nigh.
Many an old man, as he reads these verses
this morning, will feel as il he was boy a9ain-
and then take measures to prevent his daughters
going sleigh-r1ding with any young fellows.
Gambetta is bachelor; but he has not
lived so long without having at least contem-
plated marriage. The story Of his engagement
to an hedress in Western France, and it's sudden
breaking of, gives fresh glimpse Of his char
acter: From the time Of his leaving his humble
home at Canors till his rise to the highest rnnk
OF public personages, Gambetta lived with
faithful, loving, devoted aunt, who had followed
him to Paris, and who made, everywhere he
went, pleasant home for him. She was at once
bis maid -all-work and his congeuIal compan-
ion; and he was as deeply attached to her as she
to him. His engagement to handsome and ac-
compbshed girl with dot Of seven millions WIS
shock to the good aunt, but she yielded gracefully
TO tho Inevitable. When the arrangements for
1ne naff1as sa were being discussed, however, the
young May look 1t into her head to make it
cono1uon OF their union that the aunt should be
e1cluoed Hpm the new establishment She WINS
scarcely elegant enough to adoru g1lded salons
Gambetta explained how much his aunt
aad been to him; the rich beauty was only
the more obdurate. Gambetta took up bis hat.
and, With profound bow, j" "Adieu," said he:
- we were not made to understand each other"
and the marriage was put OF forever !.