Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 4, Number 31, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 31 January 1874 — Page 2

Vol.

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4.—No.

31

THE MAIL.

OOQD MORNING."

We are highly Dieted with our ven tore In offering tbe beautiful cbromo "Good Morning" to each mall subscriber of this paper. As stated a few weeks since tbe mail edition ban more than doubled since tbe first of October. Tbe first edition of tbe chromes was ex hausted about tbe first of January, and we have just received a second edition, Wben tbls lot is exhausted, we will probably cease giving tbe picture to subscribers. Send in your subscriptions er renewals immediately.

On the seventh page of this issue we print a wood-cat representation of the cbromo. Of course the plain bfsck Ink does not do Justice to the bright colors ol the chroma, but it gives an idea of tbe design.

Hundreds of city patrons buy Tbe Mall each week to send to distant friends sod relatives. We suggest that tbev band in two dollars for a year's subscription, secure the cbromo. and be relieved of all further trouble in mailing the paper.

Town-Talk.

THAT LOMC KMUHT.

T. T. would respectfully suggest to the Kuights of Pythias, that diligent search be tnttde among their number for the doughty "lvnight" who, incens ed at T. T's. suggestion that Crawf Soott needed a bible moro than he did aoaue, aud tbe parson a cane more than be did a bible, buried a lance at T. T. through tbo col• tuna of the Express and ho would further suggest, that, wbtui found, no iucb, or an iucb and a half augur hole be made over tbe sp wbt-re the brain is supposed to be, in ordur that jokes may be admitted. Uutil this is dune bo had bettor spell it without a K, as Night would be more appropriate, die did well to leave off tbe l»st word of the name of his. order, for though ho may be an ass, ho ocrtaluly ia not a pithy ass.

Sl'IIUrS ON0B MORE.

Crowds flocked to the Opera House Munday night to see Baldwin aud Miss Salllo Cooper. It is evident that very few people in tbe city "honestly believe" that Spiritualism, as manifested at Pence's Hall, ia a "humbug." If they did so believe they would not have been at the Opera House. (If the

Knight" reads this, T. T. desires to say that tbe foregoing is intended to be sarcnstical.) We spiritualists have great reason to congratulate ourselves and the "barmoaial philosophy" that, at last, public attention is turned to tbe important question of the truthfulness of spiritual manifestations. Converts are tnultlplylug by scores In tho city, (a Joke, dear "Knight") The loaders of the spiritual movement are happy clams. Last Sunday night they had a triumphant seance, (No such thing, Sir

Knight") and all present were convinced, and these leaders werfe In beautiful humor, and urged Fisko to come on tbo platform and investigate. (Don't swallow tbat, good Pithy Ass.) Tbesi leaders wore even a great deal happier after Baldwin's performance at the Opera House than they were before. They all know tbat lie is a hrstclass medium, aud so is Saliie Cooper. The manifestations were all made by spirits. Even Baldwin's opeuing speech was dictated by spirits. None but spirits ever use such grammar as that (Dear "Knight," Baldwin's grammar was awiul.) The feats were entirely tbe *g*rk of spirits, Just knook Bldt win, 8*1 lie Oooper, or the little boy, on the head till the spirits are all out ot then* and see if they can do these things then. It's their spirits tbat do theee things. (The "Knight" m«at understand that T. T. slyly alludes to their own spirits, and not to the spirits of any dead folks baek on a visit.) Spiritualism is more vigorous, and spreading more rapidly than ever before Id this city, iTbe "Knight" must not expect to understand all this. But when he gets that hole bored, If he reads T. T. with the bung out, he will see that it is twy funny. He should get the hole put in quick, for he Is losing bslf the sweets of living.) rat* ttKWBit,

T. T. finds tbe people very anxious for more cards on the Sewer business. They just hanker after this kind of lit* eratur*. It was cruel to out of) tbe supply so suddenly. (The "Knight" must understand by this* that that roBtrowrsy was an awful bom.) It was to be hoped that J*e Blake woukl put forth some more pious eJfaatons. How the Mlow did quote scripture! Who would have thought It! There has been nothing tike It since the Devil attempted toast op that job In the wilderness. In foot Joe beats the devil In this, Le has In numberless instances heretofore.

it

was net given "direct" among those eouocilmen. What would have been the result? Something very funny no doubt. But they are high-minded men, and only take tbe lie, as they take

whisky,

fight

it

straight. Those who are used

to it always take it tbat way. It is to be hoped that a movement all along tbe line will be made soon. If not, then efforts must be made to ket-p up the

between

HILLIOAK ASD LEE.

Lee oagbt to get off something pretty good against tbat testimony which Milligan publishes. These confounded lawyers do set up some mighty mean tricks, and it will'not do for a fellow to be too confident about anything. For one to swe-tr tbat he cannot be mistaken, and then to be trapped into a mistake on the spot in reference to tbe veiy point on which bs was sure he could not blunder, puts bitn in a tigbt place, and makes him feel that people suspect bis truthfulness. But Lee can pitch in now regardless of consequences, for Milligan has certainly done bis best, or worst, whichever it is, in playing tbat card. But "after all, if tbe public can be accommodated with further fighting over the sewer, T. T. would advise Milligan sad Lee to sign articles of peace. Bnt if pious Joe Blake, the wicked Common Council, and Miller

Co. will keep »tlH, then let tbe

othr-r

two sacrifice themselves for tbe public good. Tbo public must have its victims. (Any points in the above which are not-clear to tbe "Knight" will be fully explained to him, if he will call at tbe Mail office. T. T. hopes be will not fail to call before publishing any criticisms upon this effusion. Let him get that hole put in at once.)

Husks and Nubbins.

XCI.

A CRITICISM.

Says Richard Grant White, in Wie February Galaxy It is tbe free«se of words, without regard to their graaamatical distictions of verb, noun, adjective and adverb, but with a clear apprehension of their inherent meaning, tbat gives to Elizabethan English tbat force and pungency and pieturesqueness which, with all tho later refinements and enrichments of our tongue, even our best writers find it difficult,nay, quite impossible to attain. We are more exact, more precise, but we are comparatively tame aud weak."

Tbejuery occurred to my mind, as'I read this and th® rest or Mr. White's article. Is it not our very struggle after exactness and precision tbat makes oe tame and weak Is there not a tendency to grow hypercritical In our use of language—to sacrifice sense for expression? We pause in our thought, perplexed to choose between words or hesitating as to the turn of our sentence. Wheu these points have been decided with critical exactness, what wonder if our thought have lest something of its subtle essence? Doubtless the Elizabethans were not so fastidious of evord and phrase. More care had tbey,perhaps,that their thought should come out strong and clear through ite filter of words, than that tbe filter it self should be unexceptionable. Not that their language was the worse thereby, for when the thought Is fully expressed tho medium of expression will perhaps be the fittest tbat could be found.

It seems to me that some modern writers, instead of seeking words to express their thought, try to put words together so as to ma£e thought. Instead of evolving from within tbey build fom without. Such persons are al ways tiunting up quaint and obnoleteish words, as If they would surprise their readers with their verbal smartness. Yet I think it will nearly always be found tbat the thoughts which particularly please or impress us are exactly those which are expressed in the simplest and oo in moo eat worda. And it Is undeniable that thoee writers who have produced the fl nest effects are remarkably free from this verbal affectation. Irving, Willis and Dickens are examples.

And after ail this critical choice of words snd expression, what is gained One might reasonably expect Richard avast White to be guiltlees of aoy sin against syntax or rhetoric. Bnt be Is not. We all remember how George Washington

Mmb

out up the Dean of

Canterbury while in tbe very act of defending tbe Queen's English. The poor Dean was almost made out to be the sinner of all. Even so, Mr. White la

Dot

infWHble,and in this very

article from which the above extract ia taken be Is guilty of several inacenraetea and inelegaociea.

To Illustrate. On page 179 ocean tbe following sentence

MOnr

journey

brings ns heck just whence we started.** If any school teacher Its Indiana can parse tbat sentence 1 ahooid like to

the interruption by a JT of tbe cortinnal biasing la net tbe pleaaaater, etc." A very awkani and unenpboa-

What a pity It waa, too, that tbe lie ions expression, to s*y tbo least of it.

i.wmii. mi .in i^iiu)i'iMwi»uj nw wmmmiwi'')

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On the same page is this: "Tbe sain whereby to their language in strength, significance, and symmetry has been great, and no less in nationality of character where tbe reader is puzzled for a moment to know just what tbe writer intended to say. If for "no less" be bad put "not less so," the sense would have been apparent at tbe first glance. On page 188, in the sentence: "As to the word proposed, however, there does indeed seem to him no necessity of transplanting it, etc.," the intensive adverb indeed is thrown in where there is not only absolutely no use tor it, but where all the meaning must be taken ont of it before tke sentence will express tbe id«t intended. A glance at tbe context will prove tbe truth of this statement. Further atong on the same page is an error of tbe same kind. As to other words brought forward it is not so certain that some of them might not well be spared." The phrase not ao certain" would naturally convey tbe idea that the question of adopting someof these other words Is not so clearly settled as in the case©! tbe former one. But Mr. White does not mean this at all. He only means tbat (throwing aside the awkard donble negaitve) it is pretty certain that some of them might well be spared. A reference to tbe article will make the case plain.

So we find that even Richard Grant White,with all his profound knowledge of the origin, derivation and primitive force and meaning of words, with all bis critical culture in language, does himself fall Into errors and inaccuracies which must be obvious to a majority of his uncritical readers. And aa noted these blemishes tbe thought occurred to me, Is not the very watchfulness and anxiety of tbe writer for etymological and syntactical infallibility. tbe main cause of bis stumbling?"

THE EXPRESS AUD til'. PAUL. Editor of Tbe Mail: Will you allow me space in your pa per to call attention to two very valuable expositions of Paul's writings, found in tbe editorial column of tbe Express last Thursday. It is very de desirable tbat all new light thrown upon these writings by those who have evidently made them a subject of profound and careful study should be diffused as widely as possible. Tbe first passage is that, in which Paul says, "Let the deacon's be tbe husbands of one wife." It has generally been sup posed tbat this passage meant to forbid tbe having but one wife, but tbe Express says it forbids any but married men to be deacons. We have beard this idea advanced as a good joke upon bachelors or widowers who had been made deacons, but never before saw it advanced in sober earnest by a learned student of tbe Bible. Tho query now rises in our mind whether, after all, it does not mean tbat all the deacons of a chureh shall have the same wifo. It says plainly "Let the deacons also be tbe husbands of one wife." Tfeis is an interpretation tbat would suit tbe Express' well-known friendship for Paul and the Bible even better tbau the one that it has found. In tbe same article It says:

The apostle was especially severe on •widows. Speaking to tbe ctiurch at Ephesua, he say*: l.ut not a widow under tlx score years be taken into tbe number. But the younger widows reftise: for tbey will

UIO JVUUJC1 wiuuwn inuw. iw lucjr mi marry, anil withal they will be idle, wan dering about from hou*e to honse and not •uly Idle, but tattlers also, and ousyfcodles, epeakiog thing* that they ought uou

tUre ehureh nurmbenkip (i clearly demied to teidowt under sixty.'" It may be safely asserted tbat this is tbe Drat time, that, even la joke, tbe Idea has been suggested that Paul forbade ohurch membership to widows under eixty years of age. It baa generally been supposed tbat tbey were not to be admitted into the number of deaconesses, or tbus supported by tbe church- But of course ibe Express is right, all other bible students to the contrary notwithstanding.

LXARNKB.

CHURCH NOTIC8, ft

Services in tbe OoagreaaltonaJ Cbureh tomorrow at tl a. x. and 7 r. v., ttev. K. P. Howe, pax tor. ftutyect of evening sermon, tbe xeeond e? tbe aerie* to young peopl- on tbe parable of the Ptodigal Hon. ••The jwaug man in the Car country." Seats

Tbe IQble Claw, taught hy Bev. £. F. Howe, will be opened, by request, to txth sexes. ladlw aa well as aeatlemen are cordially invited to attend. CUas meets at o'clock

a.

Mm in the Sunday School

Service at the Unlversa!tet Cbarefe tomorrow at II

a.

and 7 r. xM v. M.Craa

ley, pastor. Subject la the morning, Tbe LtMfty of the Uoapel:" ia tbe evening, •Th* Re nrrecUon to Life and Damnation.' Sunday «ci.ooi at Ik a. Mn

Bf.

with a Bible

Class eennected, eoadaoud by tbe jpaator. All are Invited. 8eats tree. fW-sn -*$

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SPIRITUALISM.

i* neither dead nor dyiag." Beiievrny that tbe gentlemen wh* odScUed as nn Is•e» Ugxting coouutuee at tbe rweeni ao-oali-ed expose at tbe Opera Honseof ptMnoaaoMlsulrtUMllMB, are thereby lb.« mu« prepared to defect a fraud, ana being partiennrly deatvooa to know ibe faaa, w* rcapeei* fully turtle these gentlemen to acc-pt ibe •a* po-lUon at tne public man at t» be (keen in large nail, Sunday even-

February in. MmBailieCooper isoerneaUy MaiMHM to beymwnt and wbmttto the «wm! Uacondition* lu»po—d os Loan

make bis acquaintance. On page 178 anw to eotastHtre aad 'ibe aodk-ne*

wennnuust— ii tnoeod tbe latter by

we dad this:-~M If Indeed the l'aiter tlw*ib"y l*u»* p*a*sm»d rn»od axtd deee^ I ®f

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tinaoo* eoancaen at p. *.

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TERRE-HAUTE, IND., SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 31, 1S74. Price Five Cents,

People and Things.

Put no faith in

tain

bearers.

When one will not, two can not qu»rrel. Warrick county has a seven year old horse-thief.

No cards" is what a Western gambler attached to bis wedding ri*e. When tbe name of John Smith is called in tbe Ohio Legislature, eight men respond "aye." "Jesus Christ, the great misapprehended Spiritualist," is tbe title of Gerald Massey's new lecture.

A singular instance of skepticism ia recorded in the case of a man who said the Bible was "too good to be true."

Dr. Holland says a newspaper, recognized as strictly a party organ, is regarded as a newspaper without auy seul.

ANew York professor is lecturing en tbe cultivation of tbe ear. He doesn't say when is the best time to pull it.

Tbe usesof an umbrella are various. One use it is to teat the honesty by lending it. Tbe honest are as yet undiscovered.

Somebody says if a man only has a little brains and a good deal of cheek he need not use his hands much in tbe battle of life.

If everybody would pay everybody what everybody owes everybody, how easy it would be for everybody to get out of debt and not owe anything to anybody.

Bishop Hennessy, of?Kansas, has prohibited dancing in that diocese at catholic fairs and festivals, stating tbat hereafter churches will be built with out dancing.

A dutiful son at Atlanta set out to wbeel his grandfather's corpse to the burying ground to save expenses, but a crowd gathered and argued with him until he consented to hire a hearse,

A Boston minister who complained that bis salary was too small was told that be ought to be quite satisfied as he had $2,000 while the organist received only 13,000. The parson litted his hands. Tbe paws were emphatically expressive, if not exactly musical.

In tbe New York Legislature, a few days since, Mr. Eastman rose and said: "I come here for |S a day when I might make $300 a day elsewhere," and a still, small voice was heard responding from the lobby: "You might make it heretoo,if you went the right way about it."

A St. Louis Medium has beer communicating with the spirit of Salmon P. Chase iu reference to tbe appointment of M. R. Waite as Chief Justice. Salmon is not pleased with tho selection. He considers Mr. Waite incompetent, but upon being pressed declined to give bis views in full.

Charles Dickens said that "tbe first external revelation of tbe dry rot in man is a tendency to lurk and lounge, to be at street corners without intelligible reason, to be going anywhere when met, to bo about many places rather than any, to do nothing tangible, but to have an intention of performing a number of tangible duties to-morrow or tbe day after."

The Boston Transcript says: "If the gates of Heaven were suddenly to swing open and all mankind to be asked on equal terms to enter into tbe -Kingdom, don't you know seme people who would panee to see what some other people were going to do about it and some who would draw back for fear tbe Celestial City was getting vul gar and some wbo would refuse altogether if tbey saw tbe so-and-sos about to enter?'*

Says tbe Louisville Coarler-Journal: "Tbe 'Editor's Drawer' in Harper's Monthly, tho depository of tbe largest collection of stale and stupid anecdotes In tbe world, tells of a negro man 'wbo recently deceased at Bangor at tbe age of 110 years.' There used to be a young man In this offioe wbo was addicted to writing deceased wben be abould have written died, but wo bad him token ont and shot." Mp?

Vice President Henry Wilson some times says queer things. Once be attempted to illustrate a point In party discipline, by reference to church cus to ma. He said In bis blandest tones, "now In the Methodist Church, to which my wife belongs, and of which I am an unworthy member," "Amen!*' shouted an entbosastie brother, and tbe remainder of tbe Illustration was drowned in **t re men done applause.**

Here is a warning to dentists. Tbey attempt to eootbe by klaaing, tbe agonies which tbey Inflict. A young dentist of Gre an Bay, Wis., recently stopped bis work on a Mr pstteot's molars Id Impress a liule con-

Morgan, under whlcb certain Mwlfata* ,"T Uecw take place iu tne dark, and doaon- •©latkm on tier IIpa. Tbe young lady

th®

titdir unMnqMetiag ftMntb, asaiie gave him a slap on tbe jaw tbat set now^i^^upiwatteg ibe same pten.

Hm to

Aloft*!

sort, and she

admiring tbe eccentric course of

innumerable- stars. Tbe next day be b*4 a very bleck-and-tan eye, and tbe

9y order of (be Omncrrrcx. girl's fhtfeer called on him, and after an

&'

V*& imp"**

:*•?--?**&!

amiable conversation, the dentist was so pleased with his remarks that be gave him a check for five hundred dollars. Tbe young dentist doesn't think it pays to give consolation to the lips wben the mouth's in psio.

S'une thou hiful person says: "It is unkind to ridicule these items in tbe papers about centenarians. It is no easy thing to become a centenarian several have failed."

A modern writer on social scienoe divides the human race into three classes: Thosje who tiiink it is so, those wbo hink it isn't so, and those who don't care ad whether it is so or not.

Feminitems.

Electric bells—Female telepraph operators. Strange as it may seem, our belles are fond of colored bows.

Two things that are apt to be detested—A new mamma and anew dog-ma. Young ladies are now creating artificial dimples by sacrificing their four molars.

In some way »h«v hiv ascertained tbat only one Iowa woman in ten wears a corset.

A Soul Saved, by Gail Hamilton," is tbe head put on by the New York Independent.

It Is remarked tbat wood will last much longer if left for the women folks to saw and Bplit.

Mr. Gladstone has declined to receive a deputation to urge the claims of wo men to tbe suffrage.

Lydia Thompson will retire from the stage," says an exchange. She will come baek if encored.

Tbey playfully sby peanuts at the heads of actn ssea in tbe N«w Orleans theatres Instead of flowers.

Properly to understand what a won derful thing "woman's love" is, one must see her in a milliner's shop.

Mrs. Buckingham was knocked down and robbed in tbe leading thoroughfare of New Albany the other evening.

The Rev. Mrs. Roberts of Kittery. Me., had tbe pleasure of oonduotlng the cercmony at the marriage of her son last week.

It was an expressive remark of practical man regarding tbe woman of the period, recently, "She don't ?*uow enough, sir, to bile hot water."

Who saya woman is not getting her "rights" competing against men. Misa Mary Charlton, of Chi -'g was elected clerk of the Illinois House of Repre sentatives.

Dc gustibm non est dispiUantum For there was a young lady In Louisville, the other day, wbo said she always felt well if she hod on only a nioe fitting pair of kid glove*, if nothing more^

You can judge how cold it is around St. Paul, Miun., by tbe fact tbat young ladv froze to death in a sleigh while riding four miles, and a feller had his arm around her all the time.

Some person t* put upon tbe market a preparation for coloring the gums a delicate and be utiful pink. It is intended for ladies only, says tbe label— a bit of superfluous iuiormation, we think.

Mrs. Burnbam, of tbe 3t. Louis Republican,say "Economy must come in somewhere. Wben ladies wear so much lace and silk about their necks and collars, dress skirts must necessarily be narrqw and scant."

Washington society" is disposed to turn up its nose at Mrs. Delano, because she receives callers with knitting in band. And yet, if tbe country had to choose between the dowagers knitting their brows and Mrs. Delano knit ting her stockings, their voioes would be a "yoa knit" for tbe latter.—[Commercial Advertiser.

One of tbe lady teablidrk of Bcn&bn speaks her mind with freedom. Thus: Tbe most boorish, most ignorant man tbat wss ever made one of tbe School Committee treats a lady with some consideration, simply because she is a lady, bnt from tbeirown sex tbe teach ers can, and Jo, expect nothing but harshness and snubbing." Knowing these things, tbe teachers of Boston are, as a body, wilting to remain under tbe present masculine government, and only a auffragist here and thare desirea anycbasg*. l, ~-j'

A writer in the Daily urmpbkt talis of tbe art studios in New York, and tbo female models wbo apply for employ* meat. The applicants are numerous, bat good female models are extremely ram. While some porfkms of a figure may be ao deveolped as to enrapture tbe artist* other portions may be •banlate deformities. Co reels, tigbt garters, and shoes, and Irregular living will render any woman unfit to be a modeL A disseiato life will deatroy tbe beauty of a woman's figure, and

from that, and other members from msny different persons. While this In ordinarily the case, there is one female model in new York wbose form is nearly perfect. She will never accept pay, and always wears a veil. She is reputed to be the wife of a wealthy merchant, and it is difficult to gu»ss what her motives are. Her action furnishes a curious bit of romance.

The prettiest new face—some say tbo prettiest woman—in Washington thin year is the wife of tbe new Arkansan senator, Dorsey. She is

Qnllp and his wife had a bit of contention tbe other day. "I own that yo« have more brilliancy than I," said tlm woman, "but I have the better judgment." "Yes," said Quilp. "your choice In marriage shows that!" Quilp was Informed that he was a brute.

Victoria Woodhull Is cavorting around lecturing the Grangers of Iowa. One lovely Grangeress got out of a sick bed to wait for her farmer at tbe doer of Woodhull's grange, and then sbn raked all tbe hay-seed out of his head with a brootn-handle.—[St. Louis Republican,

A young lawyer at Monroe, Iowa, engaged himself to two ladles. As tt» time arr'ved for bis nuptials with ono he went to plead off with the other, but tbe paternal relative of tbe about-to-be deserted girl appeared on tbe spot and compelled tbe fellow to ro rry bio daughter then and there.

President Nott, in bis wise old ago, once took a newly-married oupi» aside, and said: "I want to give yon this advice, toy children: Don't trjr to ie happy. Happinoss is a sby ny inpb and If yon chase her you will never catch Iwr. But just go quietly on aud do your do^ty, and she will come to you."

A younglady of Lyons, Iowa, recently said: "Some men are always talking about patronizing their own town —always harping on tbat duty .ad yet they go abroad to get married, while here we all stand waiting, waiting I do hope that some of these men who marry Eastern women will get cheated I"

A yeung inan in Detroit wbo wan married about six months ago wa* recently finding fault with ibe price* at tbe uiarket. He said be ennid no' «iaderstand how it wss, for be to figure it out as be sat with bis arm ronnd her waiat on Sunday nigb's, and sli would cost them to live was F.'7S a week, and now be spent IS an.l was hungry half tbo time.

A love-smitten gentleman, after conversing a« bile with a lady on the subject «r matrimony, concluded *t with the emphatic queatiou, "Wllfyo* bave lite "I am very m«rr t«» 4 *ppoint you," replied tbe l*dy. "and »"P® my reiusai will not give you pain '"ut I moat answer'no,'" "Well. well, tbat will do,'' a4id her pbiloa«pMM and now anppooe wo change inject,"

F.»r.be benefit of thoee s1re«d* ried and those unfortunate* to he, an xchango gtvrs

bonne It is that good models are always cot rfciny iiTib an"-'-*"-chaste and modest. Artists are oom- fortm*h aouiversary, wooksn.fr ypnllei? in almost every Inetanee, In or- Aft »«nivor*sry, silk fiftieth d«r to complete abotr Idea' figures, to sarv. goSd«*o serenty-fiiib astake an arm from tbis model, a neck ry, diamond.

m"y-»w»

a

Spanish-

looking beauty, with very long, black: lasbet*,

dark

eyes, and rather small,

tidv figure. Miss Cass, a Boston dressmaker, took home the pieces of silk and velvet left over from an employer's work. Sbn was arrested and upon her trial sho pleaded so earnestly tbe invariable custom of dress-makers as to "perquisites" that tbe justice let her go with warning.

Connubialitsies,

A Topeka girl has been left a qnartgr of a million dollars by her unole, aaril now all through trains stop at Topeka.

Nine Chinese girls jumped into tbo river to, avoid being married. Amerl08,ti girls jump in because they cant p* an offer.

A well-trained family dog recency officiated at a Des Moines wedding' by carefully holding a porftoo of tbo bride's dress during the ceremony.

A marriagoln a "buggy is announced aa having occurred lately in irglnia. Butfawhat any excuse for the bride bocoming a little sulky a few aays afterwards

Miss Milwaukee II. Smith, the firdl white child born in tbe village of Milwaukee, has succeeded in getting married at last, after carrying that nam* nearlv forty years.

A Dulutb couple were married on th* ice tbe other day, and ft "would liftiifc been highly romantic if the bride hado^t fallen down and cracked her auburn head and kicked the minister's feet ont from under him.

u--«et be

'o»

wtddtng anniversary Tnnse d*«,»uger4 *i*ty d*s first anniversary, lro»4 fi»»b ^oniversnry. wooden tenth am: if ••J*** ry. .**n fifteenth anniversary, crystal ,-«we»»M»«tfc Moiverawry, cbina tweaty fifth *nnl» yerssry. silver thirtieth aoni ver- ry.