Year: 1875

VARIETIES.


The fare thing.-A horse car ticket.


A winter suit-The close of the
canals.


Woman hood-a bonnet. Man hood
"a hat.


A poor relation-Telling an anecdote
badly.


Why is q man who lets houses likely
to have a good many cousins ? Because
he has tenants.


1t seems as il it would make COM
positors howl to discover that there is
only one EN- in poem.


Four toddies down a mans throat
these cold days won't warm him up half
so much as single hot punch ON the
nose.


So many women leave their manners
at home when they go out, it is .
wonder that their little children do not
pick up some.


SIS there any man in this town
named Afternoon ?" inquired Missis-
sippi postmaster as he held up letter
directed "P. NJ"


Tom Hood, at Lord Mayors dinner,
once leaned back at about the middle
of the feast, and requested the waiter
to bring him the rest in money.


To ensure perfect ventilation, from
two thousand to three Thousand cubic
of air should be allowed to pass through
a chamber every hour for each person
sleeping or living in it.


This world would be sandy desert
OF .onesomeness if women were not
privileged to attend auction sales and
pay more for an old bureau than a new
chamber set would cost.-DetroH Free
Press.


81. Gray-Pack with my box five
dozen quills." There is nothing re-
markable about this sentence only that
it is nearly as short as can be con-
and yet contain all the letters
of the alphabet.


Said she: "How long are you going
to stand before that glass "Said he !:
Until see how my ulster hangs.
But that's Just the way a woman never
takes any interest in her husbands
dress after she's been married year."


When Swampoodle woman detects
her husband walking crooked" down
the street she doesn't get mad about it,
but thoughtfully observes to her COM
panion "Jsne, / shouldn't wonder if
it was an earthquake makes John walk
that way.


The destruction of the forests in
Southern Indiana has approached such
as to excite serious alarm
among the resident population, who
have to travel forty to fifty miles every
time they catch horse thief, in order
to find tree high enough to hang him
on.


A Shakespeare relic of a singularly
curious kind has come to light. 1t is
fragment of an edition of the first part
OF ''Henry the Fourth, anterior to the
one of 1898, which has hitherto been
always considered the first impression.
The text of this fragment preserves q
word which has been accidentally omit
ted in all the subsequent editions.


Many a child, and woman too, would
be safer walking with bare feet through
wet grass, than walking in tewn in
shoes supposed to be water tight.
They are not cold tight and it is not
water on the sole of the foot or any
where else which harms people, but
the chill which water induces, and
which is as injurious through the sole
of the foot as through the chest or
loins.


Anna Dickson describes the new So
ciety bow, as executed by Washington
ladies'. She says that to bend the head
except to acknowledge superiors, is
out of fashion. The lady looks coolly
in the face, smiles as sweetly as she
can, and gently inclines her head
toward the right shoulder, with little
backward movement at the same time.
A slight, Frenchy shrug heightens the
effect.


Lady Barker, IN a recent work, gives
her idea of model boy as follows eff
/ could make a model boy, I'll tell you
what he should be like. He should
love cold water and hate a lie. He
should be frank and unsuspicious as
becomes a noble, trusting nature, and
yet he should be neither silly nor soft.
He should have plenty of manIas. He
should have an appetite like q wolf, for
/ should wish him to be tall and strong:
but he must not be a bit greedy. He
should nave fine, sweet temper. yet
he should be as the Yankee song says,
AN orkered man in a row, and he should
know how to take care of himself with
his fists.


There was a panic in a Paris street
over the conduct of a magnificent re-
triever in front of window of dealer
in picture frames. He jumped yelled,
barked, tried to throw himself through
the glass and he was mad, of course.
losopher interfered. 1t seemed to him
that all these eccentricities of the dog
had relation to portrait in the window.
SO it proved. All this was Joy at sight
of the portrait of a lady. That lady
lived in Marseilles, and the dog had
been stolen from her many months be-
fore. Strange chance to find its way
home by the picture placed there cssu-
ally to exhibit the frame.


An alloy of copper. prepared as fol-
lows, is capable of attaching itself
firmly to the surface of metal, glass
and porcelain. From 20 to 80 parts of
finely divided copper obtained by the
reduction of oxide of copper with hy-
drogen, or by precipitation from solu-
ton of it's sulphate with zinc)sre made
into paste with oil of vitrol. Seventy
parts Of mercury are then added, the
whole being well tritursted. When
the amalgamation is complete the acid
is removed by washing with boiling
water, and the compound is allowed to
cool. In ten or twelve hours it becomes
sufficiently hard to receive brilliant
polish, and to scratch the surface Of
tin or gold. By heat it assumes the
consistence of wax, and as it does not
contract on cooling. it is also useful to
dentists for stopping teeth.
A discovery interesting to archaolo-