Year: 1874




A WHITE blue-bird is the latest red
about.


THE society of Washington dotes on
Fish.balls.


MINISTER'S of the interior-the cook
and the doctor.


No other living thing can go as slow as
boy on an errand.


AN INTELLECTUAL FEAsT-The enter.
tainment of an idea


No man who is not housekeeper can
be juror in Kentucky


CHIEF JUSTICE MCKEAN refuses to adj.
nit Utah polygamists to citizenship.


THE prodigal son of wealthy parents is
now tending fires in st. Louis hotel.


TINE is short, and if your cross be
heavy remember you have not far TO car
ry it.


QUEsTIoNABLE-Whe man marries a
poetess, does he take her for better or for
verse?


Books are mediators between the past
and the present, the great and the small,
the distant and the near.


JUDGING from the manner in which he
makes his proposals, Cupid's tabled
weapon is merely pop-gun.


Snow is such luxury in California
that when it falls the entire population
turns out TO Snow ball Cinnamon.


THE great wish Of most people is for
fortune and nothing to do How fully
men are punished when it is realized.


NOTHING is so bad that it mi ght not be
worse. 1t is a deal pleasanter for the en-
gineers to strike than for the engines to
do so.


UTICA, New York, has pincushion
which belonged to the wife of one of the
original Boston Tea-party, and, of course,
Utica is proud about it.


WHY are the young ladies at the break
ing up of party like arrows? Because
they can't go off without beau, and are
all in quiver till they get one.


ECONOMY is said to be carried to such
an extent in certain western town that
the paper mills of the place have been
compelled to suspend operations for want
of rags.


THE Scientific american has discovered
a man that doubts the truth of the theory
that the earth goes around the sun. He
has written to ask that journals opinion
on the subject.


BROWN corduroy jackets, made double
breasted, with deep collar and reverse, are
fashionable this winter. They have no
trimming save double row of large
bronze buttons.


THE Cambridge (Mass.) Flower Mission
has distributed nine thousand bouquets
and twenty-five bushels of fruit and veg
etables during the past year to the sick
in that vicinity.


GENEROSITY during life is very differ.
ent thing from generosity in the hour of
death; the one proceeds from liberality
and benevolence, the other from pride or
fear.-HOrace Mann.


WHITE cambric handkerchiefs with
colored hens are new. The prettiest
have a white center and deep hem of
pink. Another style is iuted and has a
colored monogram in the middle.


THIS bit of sarcasm from the Stage: "As
times are hard, wooden weddings and
other nuptial anniversary celebrations
will be very numerous this winter, with a
view to replenishing ones household
goods"


THE redingote remains the most popu-
lar garment of the period. OF late 1t has
been modified and Improved, and is now
very stylish. The beauty of the garment
is that it can be worn with almost any
skirt and look well. Very large buttons
are still used to trim the redingote also,
ball fringe and fur.


THE word Syndicate means a council,
or body of syndics. The University OF
Cambridge, Eng, has its syndics, who
are chosen from the senate to transact
special business, as the regulation of fees,
forming of laws, etc. A syndic is an off,
Ger of government, invested with different
powers in different countries; also, are
chosen to transact business for others.


THE very latest thing in the advertising
line is lady who, through the newspa-
pers, seeks for employment as an lorna
mental guest" She will assist at dinner
or evening parties--by her grace her wit
and beauty, contribute to the entertain
ment of guests, and she will do every
thing in the highest style of art-only she
demands that a handsome compensation
he made therefor,