The Evening critic., 1882-01-02
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PansleS are blooming out al doors in
some parts of Massachusetts,
Cream and pale blue are pretty combina-
tiOns for bridesmaids attire.
The Duke of Devonshire and the Earl of
Leicester are patrons of skating.
Yellow crysanthemums are worn on the
mufi or at the throat, with dress of dark
green.
Flat baskets of flowers are placed near
a guests plate and the menu is tied to the
handle.
little boy attending a. wedding may
wear black velvet, with red stockings, says
Fashion.
Black gloves, black stockings aud black
slippers are worn with white satin evening
dresses.
Damah Brooks. negress, 123 years old,
visited the Atlantic Cotton Exhibition the
other day.
White nuns yelling dresses for New
Years receptions are to be worn by ladies
in mourning.
If half the stories of his gains be true,
Meissonier must be growing very rich in
deed. He is to have $4,000 for Mrs.
Mackey's portrait.
Doctors say THAT the gout may be in
herited. If any fellow-were to leave us the
gout we should contest his will on the
ground of insanity. 1T, ,. ..ei~t.
A druggist of Bellows Falls, Vt, has been
sent to prison for thirty days for selling
liquor as a beverage. He had been fined
before for a like oifense,
At the last session of the court in Ha rt-
ford, divorces were granted in succea sion tC
four couples, who were respectively French
German, Yankee and colored.- l4;'.
Eagle, an old Nez Perce Indian, hav-
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his tribe, calmly dug his own grave,
lay down in it and died at Lewiston,
Idaho. r''.
Clergymen should be paid marriage fee
large enough to enable them to guarantee
that the couple Should live together at
least six years In case theunion proves
unsatisfactory return the goods and secure
your money.
Most Americans arriving in France take
Paris green.
The doctor puts out his sign, and. then
the small-boy puts it ont. -,
The Pope's Italian newspaper has, failed.
He didn't pay his paragrapher enough
money.
Mr.. Damit lives in Illinois, aud a
stranger always wonders why so many
persons swear at 50 well-behaved.
man. r.t. .t..
A Logansport, Ind, magistrate has re-
fused to marry white washerwoman to
colored upholsterer, The color line at
Logansport appears to be the close line.
Jenny Lind is represented as gracious
and helpful to American girls who are
studying music abroad and seek her coun,
| sci but she advises them to return to
America for training and employment, both
| of which she thinks can be better obtained
here than in Europe, where the field is
| Oyercrowded.
The Birmingham ALA papers tell of
| blind miner named w. A. Graves Of
Georgia, in that region, who Is as efficient
as any other in digging coal. He works
without a lamp, as that would be of no
benefit to person deprived Of eyesight.
| The coal mined by this man is said to be as
! clear from slate and dirt as thato of any one
employed in the mines and the yield from
his room as great as that Of other miners.
His little son leads him to the mines and
into his workroom, aud then leaves his
father during the day, who digs coal, separ-
ates it from the dirt and other substances,
keeps the roof Of his room propped up, loads
the small cars and pushes them out to the
main track as well as if he possessed the
sight Of two persons.