Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1888-06-30
THIS AND THAT.

81 guess we have so many things to learn at our
schools that we don't have any room to under
stand them in, " said little girl, pathetically.
The Kreus Zeitung says the Empress Victoria,
under the will of Frederick, nherits Charlotten-
burg castle and the palace in Berlin occupied by
the emperor when he was crown prince
Brown made bet with Wagerly that he could
cause nine out of every ten men that passed GER
tain building that day to touch the structure.
Wagerly accepted the bet. Brown simply hung
out the sign "Paint. = Judge.
The finest roses are selling in New York at one
cent each. They are cheaper than vegetables, but
not quite so nourishing 1t is said, however, that
Turkish women who want to be plump eat them
with butter Baltimore American
Judge Allen Thurman never keeps a carriage.
though well able to afford one. When the distance
he wishes to 60 is too great for walk, he takes
the street car, and enjoys talking to the driver
during the ride.
Mrs. Cleveland, it is said wears gloves two sizes
larger than before she became the wife of the pres
dent. Her left hand is very little if any larger,
but the right hand which has done 50 much hand
shaking in its official capacity is so much larger
that she finds it impossible to wear the same num-
Der in gloves that she wore in her girlhood
Mrs. Mary B. Brooks, associate editor of Wo-
MANS CHRONICLE, is daughter-in-law of the late
Gov Brooks of Arkansas. In addition to her
editorial duties, she is principal of one of The
public schools in Little Rock. Miss Ida Joe
Brooks, professor of mathematics at the Little
Rock university, is a daughter of Gov. Brooks
Woman's Journal.
1t was at the Institute of Technology, few
days before the close of the term. One of the
professors had been troubled by hearing some of
the students ndulging in slang. Accordingly,
when his class had assembled to hear his lecture,
he gave them a ten-mnute discourse on the use of
slang; told them how it was corrupting the Ian
guage, and that its was, among persons of cul-
tvation and refinement, sure sign of i'll breeding.
Then he went on with his regular lecture, and at
its close called the attention of his class to The fact
that some of them had been remss in their studies,
and that it behooyed them to make up for lost
time or they would fail to pass the approaching
examinations. 'The fact isl he concluded,
you've got to brace up or you'll get left" which
shows that preaching and practice are often wide
apart Boston Herald.
1t was the custom in Babylon, five hundred
years before the Christian era, to have annual auc-
tons of the unmarried ladies'. In every year, on
certain stated day, each district assembled all its
virgins of manageable age. The most beautiful
were put up first, and the man who bid the highest
gained possession of her. The second in personal
charms followed her, and so on, so that the bid
ders might crafty themselves with handsome
wives according to the length of their purses.
There may yet have remained in Babylon some for
whom no money was offered, but the provident
Babylonans managed that When all the comely
ones are sold, the crier orders the most deformed
to stand up, and after demanding who will marry
her for small sum, she is adjudged to whoever is
satisfied with the least; and in this manner the
money raised from the sale of the handsome serves
as portion to those who are either of disagree
able looks, or that have any other imperfection.-
[Leslie's Sunday Magazine.