Year: 1871

drukards."


There is q way to reach the heart,
even of the most hardened. A young
widow in Berlin, returning home after
short absence, found this note lay
ing on her table:


"Madam: l came here with the inten.
tion of robbing you, but the sight of tho
little room decorated with religious
pictures and two sweet little children
quietly sleeping in their bed touched my
heart. The small amount of money ly-
ing in your drawer l leave untonched,
and take the liberty of leaving fifty
dollars besides.


A correspondent informs us that
Arlington. Illinois, has woman
kickist who could discount mule.
The merchants in that town have
fashion of filling the sidewalks with
their goods. The lady in question,
finding barrel Of salt in her way in
front of grocery store, promptly lifted
her No. 3 boot and kicked the bar
rel into the streets. 1t took two men to
put it back.


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necticut, few days ago, request was
made that the four front seats be va.
Gated by ladies over twenty, to make
room for those under that tender age.
A malignant reporter says: at is
unnecessary to add that there was some
rattling among the false teeth after
the service was over"


A good old lady in Maine who once
commissioned her grocer to buy for
her, among other things, a nutmeg in
Boston, paid him the money before he
started. As it happened he forgot the
nutmeg, and when he returned home
the old lady demanded interest on hei
money, a demand which the trader
satisfied by giving her needle.


A Boston lady, who has been there,
saws that, in view of the awkwardness
which men aid lady in rising from
the sidewalk, she would rather remain
in that position than have such assis-
tance. The gallants must not be SO
gingerly, but take hold with both arms
lift neatly and firmly, and not disen-
gage themselves too soon.


A st. Paul girl got pistol in
hotel and went up stairs and drove
everybody out into the snow, and then
went to an upper window and opened
it and asked the crowd, GLOW is this
for high p They set dog on her and
treed her up the chimney. Those
Western girls are full ofhulnor.


a Bridegroom IN Monroe, Wis, dis
charged gun into crowd of boys who
had come to serenade him and his bride,
and learned the next morning that he
instantly killed one ofhis new brothers
in-law, besides seriously wounding two
other persons.


An Irishman brought the following
advertisement into-ai i,ftAt,ssss sssss'asSSs-.i.s
other day: "Lost, between this and
don't know where, an empty sack with
cheese in it the letters q. P.were on
the outside, but so completely worn of
as not to be readable"


1t is said that the height of ambition
with Piute Indian is to marry a wo-
man who has laid in a good supply of
dried grasshoppers for the winter.


A postmaster in Wiconsin does not
know what to do with letter addressed
to "the most honest wheat buyer in Ber-
lin."


A paper has this advertisement;-
1.-TWO sisters want washing" We fear
that millions of brothers are in the
same predicament.


About six thousand women so far
signed the memorials toCongress, asking
that suffrage should not be extended
to their sex.


A Western editor represents money
as"close," but not close enough for him
to reach.


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