The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1886-04-23
VOL. XXXI----NO. IL
VARIETIES.

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worth her weight in gold marries man
who is not worth his weight in scrap iron.
"A fashion exchange tells of new wrin-
| kles for men," 1t seems to us that what is
| most wanted is not new wrinkles, but some
method of getting rid of old ones.
I'm ball room: Mrs. Brazen-"Ah, DIR.
Pillsbury, see you are looking at my new
dress. II is very low-necked, / know; but
really what do you think ofit?" 'Pneumo-
mia, madam, pneumonia
ii the wives and mothers who labor from
early morn until midnight, with little time
in the twenty-four hours they can call their
own, were to strike for eight hours day,
what would become of their lords and mas
tiers?
-Teacher-"Miss Sinnico, please parse the
sentence, 'Adolphus married Caroline"
Miss Swell, 'Adolphus' is noun, be-
cause it is the name of a thing married is a
conjunction, because il joins Adolphus and
Caroline, and Caroline is a verb, cause it
governs the noun"
"A German of unspeakable height and
corpulence was one day walking through
the streets of Berlin, when poor woman ac-
costed him and begged for aims. He refused
her. "Well," said she, II beg you at least to
give me one of your left-off shoes" "What
would you do with it ?" "Why, make it into
cradle for my child"
Mrs. George II. Pendleton is credited
with leveling at Oscar Wilde one of the keen
est shafts of wit of which he was the target
when visiting this country. He had remark
ed, disparagingly, that America has no ruins
and noted curiosities, you know" She is
said to have retorted: 1.-THE ruins will come
in time, and, as for the curiosities, We import
them"
Boston Girl Cooking over bill offare)-"I
rrtrn I Arln
us go somewhere else"
Clarence-"Why, what's the matter, Pene-
lopez"
Boston Girl-"Beans on the menu is spell
ed with two els. If their photography is so
bad, what must be their cooking ?"
The daughter of a fisherman down the
coast had a tiff with her lover because she
would not allow him to name his new boat
for her. "Why do you stand out agin it?'
asked her father. "Well," quered the girl,
"do you think it such great compliment to
hear every few weeks that Matildy Slocums
up for repairs, Matildy Slocum's in the dock
that? If you do, don't, and that's got to
settle it'll
Not long ago as an elderly couple were
out walking lady on the opposite side of
the street slipped and fell down. The old
gentleman rushed across the street, raised his
hat, and offered to assist her in any possible
way. His wife followed him across at q
slow pace, and witnessing his devotion to
the stranger, shook her fist at him. Its all
rght-it's all right" he whispered. "Yes, l
know it is" she holly exclaimed there an
unknown woman hurts her toe, and you
plow across the street to eat her up with
kindness. The other day when fell down
stairs you stood and laughed, and wanted to
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The "Virgin of the Napkin"
When painting the pictures for the Capu-
chins, Murillo dwelt in their convent nearly
three years, it is said, without once leaving
it. He painted for these monks twenty pic
lures with life.size figures, and several small
er works. Seventeen of these are now in
the Museum of Seville, for the monks had the
wisdom to send their pictures to Cadiz for
before the "Plunder-master-g gen
eral of Napoleon" as Soult has been called,
could reach them. When the French wars
were ended the pictures were returned to
Seville. can not speak of them separately,
but will say that the Madonna called "LU
Rtyen de Ia Seroiletd," or the Virgin of the
Napkin, now in the Museum, has this story
with it. The legend is that the
cook of the convent grew very fond of Mu-
rillo during his long service to the artist, and
when the time came for them to be separal-
ed, the cook begged the painter for keep
sake. The painter said he had no canvass
eft; the cook quickly gave him a napkin
and asked him to use that With his usual
5ood-nature, Murillo assented, and soon
painted this picture, which is now one of the
famous art treasures OF the world. 1t is not
arge and represents the Virgin with the
Child Jesus, who leans forward, almost out
Of the picture, as if to welcome any one who
approaches it. 1t has brilliant color, and
70 affects one that it is not easy to turn away
rom it.