The Nuneaton Times. — 1875-05-01 (Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England)

NEARER THE 3IARK.—The editors of the Union and thin: If the rooms were we;ted she might. catch cold; if the: windows were cleaned glass might be the Pays have fought a duel about nothing on the broken and somebody hurt. She never washed her. frontiers of Lorraine. Both are described as 'elf for fear of cold; as a substitute she ennointed her "slightly wounded in the hand." They were face and neck with a little milk and hog's lard, finish. evidently 'lightly touched in the head before they ing off with a touch of rose pink on the cheeks. She met, was methodical in all her habits, eating with one favourite knife, fork and plate, and drinkine out of All the girls are vegetal...me—They wear tern-up hats. one cup. She h 8 de EL .ellent health, abhorred physic A woman's right—A right to a husband, if she can and doctors, and cut two new teeth' at the age of • get one. , eighty-seven. She had no near relations, and refused to see those more distantly related. Oae Chicago has a female sexton, and she is charged pleasant characteristic is recorded: she had a large, with reserving all the best graves for the 1 young men. well-kept garden, in which she passed most of her A burglar who was found under a maa s bed excused himself on the ground that he was looking time, reading. Although she lived entirely through the reigns of the first and second Georges, and far for his dog. into that of the third, she continued to wear fashions "The more the merrier." Multitudinous a ssemeseges of the time of George 1., as being those of her are the most provocative of cacchivatory hilarity, married life. Notwithstanding this, she was every. What' kind of paper most resembles a sneeze ? where treated with respect. Perhaps ,her gold had rissoe paper. something to do with that, however. Her household Hum to make money go as far as possible—Give it consisted of one servant (an old man), two lap dogs, to foreign missions, and a cat ; and these were her only couipeuiens. She Quartette singers may make more popular inesio, survived until extreme old age. peiheps, but are they as wise as Solo-man I" NIGHT IN THE Moo.—At last, however, night sets Theory may be all very well, but young doctors and lawyers prefer practice. in. Gratefully it comes after the sun hies gathered lin his smiting beams and gone down to rest. All at The reason why the oyster beds are dim inishing is once we are plunged into comparative obscurity, for because so many ce eters are ci ibied. again there is no twiliebt to stay the steps of depart. Red, used on a railway, 'jennies danger, and says, big day. At one stride comes hue dark; eue louking "Stop!" It is the SAM thing displayed on a Man's up into the sky, we behold a vast orb, whelt pours 110 Se. down a more milder and more beneficient spleudeur An Aberdeen girl supposes that the reason she has than the great lord of the system. It is such a moon never kindled a flame in any man's heart is bscause as we terrestrials cannot boast, for it is not less then she is not a isesod match. thirteen times as large and luminous as our own. ' The ladies always think of Cupid. with a bow, and sometimes they re all of a quiver when they refer change eit o hangsf place, in the firmament, withoet apparent 1 as if "fixed in its everlestine dean" to him. this great A gentleman having a mnsical s'ster being asked But not without chemise of surface, fchi globe is a painted panorama, arid, turning round what brunch she excelled in, declined the piano was majestically on its :MIR, presents its 0811,111 S and con. her forte. tinents in grand succession. As Iluropo end Africa, ' Mr. Spinke is not going to do any more in conun- locking the Mediterranean in their emlweee, roll drums. He asked his wife why he was likes donkey, away to the right, the stormy Atl .ntic offers its waters and she said because he was born so; and he says the to view, and then the two Amerie is, with their huge answer is very different from that, forests and vast prairies, pass under inspeetien. Then A scientific writer says that scorpions commit the grand basin of the Pacific, lit up with inland fires. suicide. We are glad to hear it. If mesquite's' meets the gazer's eye, and as this glides over the would only get into the habit of doing so how umels more should we think of them. scene, the eastern rim of Asia and the upper portion of Australia sail into eight. The Indian Oceen, and "How old may you be," said Mr. A. to his friend afterwards the Arabian Sea, spread themselves out in H., the other evening. •t I cannot tell yesu," was the their subdued splendour; and thus, in four and twenty reply, " haw old I may be, but I know how old I hours, -"the great rotundity we tread" turns its am. pictured countenance to the moon, and grandly What is worse than to have your mother-in-law repays the listening lunarians by repeating, to the plump in on you at this season? asks a contemporary. best of its ability, the story of its birth. Nor is the Well, nothing, we should say, unless it is to have your sky less marvellous in anoiher respect, for thseabsence father-in-law plump in with her, of any atmospheric diffusion of light permits the A lawyer pictured the memnees of an opponent by constellations to shine out with a distinctness which saying that if his soul should be placed inside of a is never paralleled on earth. They glitter like diamond mustard seed it would have as much playreem as a points set in a firmament of ebony. Stars' and blackbird would have in the county of Yoikshire. clusters which we never see by the naked eye flock Quite forcible, that, into view, and crowd the lunar heavens.—British Au Irish boy having driven a gentleman a long nuartv.iy. stage ride during torrent, of rain, the gentleman '. Most of the shadows that erceie Our pith through civilly said to him, "Paddy, are you not very wet?" life are caused by standing in our an lielit. " Arrah, I don't care about bobs very wet, but plaze