The Evening critic., 1882-02-06
A sidewalk-tho crabs.

Spring time-the ball season.
New York hus cat convention next week.
ombre moire fahs are selected to match
dresses,
A rosebud nestles above the ear on new bon
nets.
Knee brceches don't bag at the kncc, any
way.
An Australian sheep was recently sold fol-
$4,000,
Horace D. clafiin is said to be worth $1,000
600.
II any man appears in knee brooches shoot
him on the spot.
The Florida orange croy is said to be 40 per
cent. in excess of that OF last year.
Scarlet fever has caused the public schools
at Pennington, N. j., to be closed
Mr.. Surgeons eldest son is pastor OF
q Baptist Church at Auckland, New Zea-
land.
Francis Murphy, the temperance lecturer,
is at work in Scotland, and is well liked.
Wouldn't giants mako bully painters?
They wouldn't have to lower the scafrolds SO
often,
Vertigo is tho illness which now aniicts
Mr.. Longfellow, and prevents him from work
ing,
The man who discovered volcano In
Virginia must have been taking drop or the
crater.
Waste not, want not Never throw any
thing away, not even the kisses-Boston 7'rdie-
sceipt
The Harvard students are like widaws-
they are always trying to take advantage of q
fresh man.
In Florida there are 19,763 white people
over 10 years Of age who cannot write their
own names.
talks back, be chary with your passions all the
same,
The shortee the sleeves and tho longer the
gloves, the more fashionable is the young lady
at a ball.
Nevada is turning out parad ise OF poison
ers. She has Just discovered mountain OF
antimony.
When the doom of a man convicted of q cap
ital crime is sealed, his end is evidently wax
ing naturalization Courier.
Last summer the English dog cart was
| fashionable; this winter It is the English os
car.-Boston Commercial Bulletin.
Riches and religion are not incompatible,
only a man does not want to have too much re-
ligion in the way while he is getting riches.-
| Neao Orleans Picdyune.
People who stay away from church through
fear of catching the smallpox may, in the
| sweet by-andby, become familiar with a bot
tomless pit.-Boston Courier.
1t is useless for lady to swing down the
| aisle OF the parquet with the air of one who
| has Just alighted from the family carriage
| when there are several long straws attached
\ to her trail.
A new movable bowsprit has been patented
| for the navy. Now the country is really safe.
In case of a war all that will be needed will be
| to build vessels to ft tho prit.-Iftitddet
| phid CtT0Rtcie-H Herald.
| Statisticians have begun to discover the
fact that widows live longer than other peo
pie. 1t seems, though, as If the girls hac
known this for long time, and that the onl,
way to reach that condition is through mar
riage-LoWeH Citizen.
| After New Zealand savage marries, he Il
not allowed to look at, speak to, or live in thu
same camp with his wife's mother. Singula
that they call a race savages who had the wis
dom to establish such custom as that!-
Son1eygiHe Journal.
DR.. johnson remarked that every sentence
r-1,Ic oh t,,lro B.a ON
out. If this rule were strictly adhered TO
there would be very little original matter lef
for publication in the daily newspapers.-Ne1
York Commercial Adcertiser.
friend called upon Rossini one day an,
found the great maestro smoking. "Ah, tina
| is good" said the friend, taking out his ciga
case, ''since you don't object" "Pardon me,
| replied the artist, placidly, 'the smoke of m
own cigar satisfies me."-BTench Paper.