Year: 1874

No man is safe these times. A
convict At Sing Sing has had notice
Of j breach of promise served on
him.


An Ohio lady bases her Claim for
a divorce on the ground that on
one occasion her husband put her
to soak in the rain-watcr barrel.


\ Brooklyn woman has just un.
ravellcd a case which the detectives
vainly worked on for six months.
Her eyes hadn't becn blinded with
grccnbacks.


An Octogcnarian lady in Ken
lucky has shawl woven from the
hair of rabbits. She caught her
own hairs and made the unique ar
ticle herself.


Old lace appears to be rs much
priced and sought after as in the
days Of Queen Ann. \ set Of an
tiquatod lace brought 81 800 in n.
York last week.


The Bay State has a town where
the wedding bells haven't rung for
n decade and a half. But tho hearts
of expectant damsels living there
arc constantly wrung.


Divorces arc hardly known in
| Spain, for the reason that the hus-
band can find some one TO shoot
his wife for twenty-five cents when
he gots tired of matrimony.


Spanish proverbs are at dis
count Just now, but this one is at
par: 'At eighteen, marry your
daughter TO her superior; at TWEEN
ty, to her equal; but at thirty, to
anybody who will have her.


A New Hampshire farmers wife
fell into well, and it was four
days before he missed her, and
made search, Tic said he thought
the house unusually quiet, but be
didn't know what made II so.


Julia Ward Howe asserts that
while men rist aud revolutionize,
there is nothing but dumb submis-
sion for women Julia's submis-
sion is one of the most affecting
spectacles of the age.


Mary A. Booth, the accomplish
ed editor, says the woman who iu
any sphere of manuel or mental la
Dor is a selfhclper and helper of
others, is the glory of her genera
ton aud of Anglo-Saxon woman
hood.


The Philadelphia Star thinks
that genuine love is played out
Humph. The old sinner ought to
travel through Michigan aud see
the sparkle of the eyes as two low
ers hold the same peppermint To-
zenge between their teeth.-DetrOit
Free Press.


The Princeton CIll) Clarion
blows q blast about q dry goods
merchant OF that town who in a fit
OF semnambulism arose from his
couch, neatly cut tEe bedquilt in
two with his pocket scissors, and
then asked his terrified wife If he
could not show her something else.


In Golden, Colorado, an editor
wrote some advice to newly mar
ried friend, and was foolish enough
to print il. After his wife had
looked over a proof Of the advice,
the editor felt compelled TO add
this postscript: Have your hair cut
close to the skim


A young girl near Marongo.
Iowa, is wonderfully marked by "A
raftlesnakc. Running partially a
round her neck, side by side, are
two snakes, as natural as If alive,
and the skin being transparent,
they seem TO be only lying in wait
for victim. On the front OF the
neck and upper part Of the neck
are the rattlcs-as though a breast
pin-making a perfect picture and
shedding regularly every year.


A Keokuk wife asked her hus-
band for a new dress. He replied:
Times arc so hard my dear-so
hard l can hardly keep my nose
above water Whereupon she re-
torted: you can keep your nose
above water easy enough, if you
have Z mind to; but the trouble is
that you keep it too much above
brandy Right again; and there
are lots of noses in the same bad
fix.


A young lady in Waco, Texas,
who lost the power Of speech two
years ago from an attack of the
measels, attended a picnic, and
while enjoying a swing the excite
mcnt brought return of speech.
She WAS congratulated by every
body present but one; he was the
fellow who took her TO the picnic,
and had got her consent by mods
and squeezing Of hands, and the
day was set. He went around the
picnic swearing he would put 4
head on the man who proposed the
swing. The peace and quiet of his
future life had been blasted by that
swing.