Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 5, Number 10, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 5 September 1874 — Page 1
Vol.
5.—No.
10.
THE MAIL
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the old man at the fair. I'm wj «U»*ty and ttnd. wife! l'w jost com# baca* from tbe talr: Ho five tu« my pipt sad tobooeo» Md IH smoke In toy nqr ehilr: It's tiresome work a-ptayln' far a feeble old •m Ilk* It's a tlrmwaw work sodo' whwetwron*
Wish** to 1
Our htr» are *-runnin' down th*y iur« mot like the ftUrvofokt, Wlun yoa took tbe iniM Mr bnad, and butler yeUow as mid Tbrre wen huadmts oi awful Uilng», UmU were well worth wela' then Now, doutis mi m«tn* bones, and hundred* 01 brtUu'inm. Wbotalt tbt* sportln' will lead to, kaon than I uow cau tell: Bat, ftomehow, it «e*ms to rat llko fbedown ward road to—wall. 1 may be a little bank, bat I'm speaking
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tat* of our noble youth. We shall com* toa nation ot famblW*,if mtt«n kwppa this way Why ©_ When b**nt seen ten real* yet— And called btm a one Iml* fellow—he an nwol mebaek, "Yoa bet 5" "Tat,tat! HUU» man," saidI, "thatthin®I bare never done: Come atand by grand po*» knee let me son with you, my son." Ha straightened up his dothes aod Mid a look so queer,
y, what do you think? a youngster ae ottaed me of bettln'to-day en 1 laid my hand on the head—that
come here tor nreachln',
walk olTott your ear ^3'' We never beard talk like that when jrou and 1 were foaac My father and tuoiher—blew brk»« upon my tonane. I'm old, aotll'm pttn'MlBd, beta difference 1 can tee TwUt the boys of eighteen hundred and eighteen »venty-tfiree. How I* It aboat theglrki? They, too, ftott ill* Mth havt ftniye^* I didnx see.one a-ahowin' the batter bar hand" had made: They atood In their pony phaetons, with
And Hbouted aa load aa any when a fkvorite won a race. All eye^ were watching the track ther*«e wa* erery man's theme And I Mtd to myself,
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only »dHMr' aw voot adoaen taye lookla' round at the sheep and swine, And the fronts of seventy winters had all vetvd their heads tike mine. Why on earth doat they change the name when the wrong name It has get? No Umgt-r cau it alUr, bat an acricoltural Then men wont be takin' things foraenatbie foikatonee, With nobody there to see 'em bat crippled old men like me. There, take my pipeaad totmeco 111 sleep in my easy chair It's tiresome work, a-telkln about a dagen erate tblr. You needn't disturb me, wife, until the bells of the erenfng chime For I may go baek ia my dream* to the lairs u( olden time.
Town-Talk.
THE HOt'lAJL DAWOUUL
T. T. tods the nodal dawdler ubiquitous in what l« tormed "good society." He la one of the great charms and attractions of that myrtle circle. Tbe dawdler ia generally a yoang man, although oomettrrMw elderly Individuals appear in that role. Tbe exceptions ore thaw hardened old ftin ncrs whoae endeavors to ainraiate yooth and gayety only exdte the levity of thoee who witneoa their coper* and antim. The geooine, ttnodnltented aortal kranger or dawdler hi yonag man, and dreasoa in the extreme top of the feahkm. Ha wean the moot fealtk«» plug aporta tbafovaliast tacbe, swingi the linieat of eoneo, dri the moot flaahy tumouta, smokes the post Heat cigars, drinks the parest of winea—or, at leant, protends to do talks abont parties «ad women, plays croqoet, (Isikm and ainga, ptaoUoas the art of llirt 'i with every new-comer, and aartdctuuJy stadiea pases and attitodna which are ouppoaed to be the aooat agreeable to the ladlea wheat be propoeea to honor with his ecmspany. Mow this eoHtd daa ller is oonatitutlonally brasay. ifelmagineahelstitemoatftadna^ng of men, and oaanot beHeva that anybody thinka otherwtoe. He allow* im U* *fB%* him—oh, no!— but tort** Mmeelf lata her society antil^ with his VApid ntteraneea, ide 1 It roavenirat to be
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all idler*. Many of thaaa work. Atom of them are ia bmdnesa. All, however, lire $aft the preaent. 11m woman who morriea net will roe it. Hnafaands in nana they may !*, bat In alt that the word Mprr^s, never. They are decidedly gay, ft»^by.a»d aUthot, bat home, dear to other people, will have no attraction tor Mr. Dawdler, whoae
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T. To. ahrlnks he with narrow that there axe a (toil too many good-hearted Mus* «ily. Thee* good-hearted man ptl«tleged harbari ,!.•» and rafl a, who mem t6take a delight to oxHuiJtlag their oqtrageone maxuaeta, and asakiag their neighbors nwMnl iM#. T. T. bo* eeen and wr^ohea, oven to the jmpmtof lea ntelligesioaand reAaontter the Hiultat hmgoage' *?,»( tl wt ex .-ed beeanae they were :.'»w», Theaegood-heart od ft «r»i ,7««^(ialkn»udtfthey eaat iMmlt yoo,! t, if yoa MWMtfltt, cmmMtt/ wfQ flrowB opony mw.i'' 1y«J "ly fc -~*n to thmk 14.1, yoti a a 1 m,Mh indeed.
Tide thing of being a good-hearted Illlow, like charity, covers a multitude of sins and oooe get your reputation fcirty established aa a good-hearted WteWi yoa immediately become a privileged character. A* a good-hearted fellow, yoa can pick your teeth with a fcxk ta the ehotoeet company tell «mutty rtorfea, lntenperaed with profluaity, to ^e preeenoe of ladlea owe yoor oroflU and laugh at them get drank and heal your wiite, and even laugh at the tanoml of your mother-in-law. Still, community will smile upon and ftwgive
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for are you not a good-hearted fellow? Buck a reputation la better than a email fortune, and you are fully licenaed by the eurtooa and immutable laws of eooiety to do just aa you please, niokiog yourself as much of a beast aa possible. Theae good-hearted fellow*, at beat, are social pirates, dreaded and secretly despised by all yet,toraemeInexplicable reason, they are protected and flattered by the very people who hold them In jitter contempt. Save us from all goodhearted fellows, says T. T. Then there are the V'
XOIST SWAOGKRBBa.
People, endowed with more than an ordinary stock of impudenoe and amur anca, who can put on more atyle with twenty-five cento, than their more modeet neighbor can aesame with five dol lara. Theee swaggering people always Insist cm the best that is going at tbe
Mi table they will crowd Into the most eligible seat in the car tbey will take two double seats, if possible in public oesemblogea they will struggle to the front, generally with a crooked handled umbrella under their arms, and even at church they will usurp the moat comfortable pew, reckning little of the occupant or what ha may think. The stylish swaggerer persistently enjoys a high opinion of himself, and, never aaing an opportunity to exhibit his aeMahnesa, evidently regards the world an oyster, to be devoured for his special delectation and refreshment. Such people seem designed for tbe torment of lr quiet neighbors, and their loud and vulgar assumptions are sufficient to drive even a moderately nervous person Into convulsions. These toasting, exacting swaggerers area terror wherever tbey go, and people who desire peace fly before their irresistible approach. They are continually wanting something or other, and are always hectoring and ordering some timid mortal to do so and so. Such fellows, after all, are generally as much coward as bully, and it is refreshing occasionally to see one of this numerous class discomfitted and discouraged in his boasting presumtion and vaporous swaggering. T. T. saw an instance of this kind, tbe other night ft the Opera House. On a repetition of tbe men«, T. T. will speak of It in such a way that this noisy swaggerer may see himself as others do.
Husks and Nubbins.
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TOO X17CH 2TSWSFAPKB KHAJD1SO, We are in the habit of boasting of the rapid and continuous Increase of all kinds of newspapers and periodicals in this country aa an evidence of the growing intelligence of tbe people for If tbe people were not intelligent they would not toad, and if tbey did not road the newspapers could not be supported. There Is great deal of truth in this but there is another tendency growing right parallel with this increase of perishable literature which the newapapota do not care to allude to and henae la not so easfly observable: it Is that the trade in books la fitlllng off almost in the ratio that the trade in newspapeio is in ing. The book sellers and publisher* have noticed this tendency for some time past and have met together in confront all porta of tbe country to consider what they should do to lnftiae anew Hib into their baa!
It Is onqoastkmabiy true that books are not read so much as they were twen» ty or even ten yean ago, compared with Mm aggregate of reading that la door. The nawqpaper, In ita triple shape of dally, weekly and monthly, la crowding the books to the wall. Nowhere can we go but the newspaper flatters down upon our knee or is lit our Angers'ends. Yt comes to uaintbe ofllee or shop twice a day. If wa say aot it accamalatea In appalling quantttkw at homo It Is on •vary train end In wty hotel $ to short It Is eveiy where, to help ns while away aa idle moment or to claim oar dose at for consecutive boara. Everybody roads the newspapers now mart or lea^ and with eoaaa tbehabtt is as strong as that of the opium eater they toad ond read, from morning MB noon, from noon till night, from night tall bed time. It is appalling to think what a quantity of sensational trash dri vela through their minds in the oooiss of a ytar. It would roln the best mind in the work! bat there is not maeb to be appMbanded to this dlreetkm, for their mental organisation It ao rickety that It cant bold enough to break It down. The ntna in and out much as water a ato*o and hum nary little ,i4
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TERRE HAUTE, INDf, SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 5. 187#.
newspaper In aa high eotsem as anyone and consider It to be allagalher indispensable. Aa an nniliwiil lTngtlsb writer to cm of bis Isle worica, *fter commenting on the ftralta et the prem "Hewspapets are to the whole dvOlaed world what the dotty how—talk la to the members of a household they up our daily In tares! to eocihothar, they save no front the evils of hptoHon. To live aa a member of the great white race of men, the race that haa flUed Kuropa nfl America, wid noionl end or ed whatever other tenttodea it haa been pleased to occupy, to shave from day to day ita catoa, its thoughts, its aaptrattona, It la necessary thst every man should road his daily newspaper." But newspapers, Ilka everything elae good, out be abuaed and it la the abuse of them weta?eMih*i*taat. The man who too much of his time reading the and especially onea, or the eensatianal pasta of them, la guilty of this abuse. The experienced uewsgiaper readfr knows almost trilh the first glance over a newspaper page what there is on it that he ought to raid, or whether there is anything for bo it understood, no one should read all, or even the greater part of any newspaper, The authenticated news, with an occa slonal editorial, is oil we have any business with. Newspapers may be compared to frogs the hind legs are to bo eaten and the rest thrown awav.
Bat we wero going to say something of books. Wo commit a grievous error if we let the newspapers crowd ns entirely oat of our libraries. There is that in books which cannot be put into the newspapers, just as there is that in the newspapers which cannot be put into books. The proper business of the newspaper is to be the gazetteer of current events, to keep us informed of tbe important matters that are going around us also to comment on these and, to some extent, deduce lessons therefrom for our guidanoe. But there is much besides current and transpiring events to,think about. There are other questions of great moment to us such as are found in the realms of philosophy and the sciences which find no legitimate pJace in the daily newspaper. There are before me aa I write some books which are my dearest treasures, Emerson's volumes among them, and they could not by any means be put into tbe newspapers. Yet they are more valuable to me than any newspaper and if I did not get to look into them sometimes I would feel that I was loaing my bearings. Poetry, Histosy, Belleslettres every intelligent reading person ought to have something to do with as well as with the newspapers and magazines.
Somebody once called the newspapers "teachers of disjointed thinking." That was too harsh a term, or at least is so now, for some of tbe best minds in the land are now engaged in the profession of journalism. Yet it is painfully apparent that there is in the newspapers a great deal made of comparatively small matters and long-continued discussions are had on subjects of trivial importance Will any intelligent person dony that if many of the hours which tbe Beecher scandal has consumed had been bestow ed on some valuable book tbe reader would be the better and wiser for it? Tbe newspapers are very much like a bad habit,—they ding to us eternally, we road entirely too much in them. We get ao spoiled with their freshness and piquancy that we come io think books dull and shy round them as we would a friend who hi watching to button-hole us. Another thing we can take up a paper if we have but five minutes to read, and throw It down aa soon as we like, but a book seems made for hours of leisure.
Yet we onght to boy books and read them. We cannot sflbrd to lire entirely on newspaper literature. It will have a belittling Influence on tbe mind. Dwelling continually cm the booty, partisan and untruthful interpretation of events which the newspapers contain, the mind will become warped by prejudice and ita bortaon oadly contracted. There men who sit apart from passing events, who raise themoelveo to a lofty position and, looking down without passion,without pr^udtoe, see things In a broader and truer light than the majority—men like Buckle and Smeraon— whom it la oar miafortune If we do not learn from. They cannot be put into newspapers. Tbey would be too ••heary" —like gold whore only chaff Is wanted. They most be sought in tbe book-store, in the library, and they will well repay aeektog and reading. It seems that everything moot ha "popularised" to days, which means, as nearly as wo can understand It, that it be forood the attention of people, that it be hawked under their naaes ao It were, like the boy does his newspapers. Could not same plan be invented whereby soch arias aa "Here's your Hiatoiyof Civilisation," "here's your Kssay on Cosmogony," here's your "Poetry and Critldam," eoald bo beard mingling stmttltanooaaly with, "Here's your Dally Bbwfw, only live cents?" Perhaps not, practically, yet it wonk! be well if every man, aa ha buys bis daily !«per could imagine be heard theae, and similar cries, ringing In Ms earn.
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People and Things,
A legal lewder—The court-room door-
The Astow own fifteen hundred hensea in )Tew Ycek dty. Who killed the moot poultry? lot's uncle, for ha did "murdar moot foul."
Chicago "nmao "TUton oayshe 'feels old HP cmcptog over him.' bit Susan B. Anthony."
A pertinent qnsotion—uHow can we party** aa the barber add to his bald headed anetomer.
A lecture agent In Kanaso City adver tioai Mr. Beechisr n» one of hie great cards for tbe Ml.
A contemporary defines the waits aa hitgging set to music." The definition is new, if the idea is not,
Old John Htapatfc head woo levsl after ill the first paragraph of Ma will directed that htodebta ehould he paid.
The father of Governor Moses, of South Carolina, was the man who fired the first gun at Sumter—so they ssy.
Moulton promised to show Beecher bow a "heathen" oottld save a friend. He has kept his promise.—[Cin. Gaxette.
They say at Narrsganaett Pier that COrl Schar* can wade in deeper without wetting his waist than any other man there.
What," asks the Detroit Free Press, has become of the 'Immortal J. N.' Oh hush! For Heaven's sake dont roust him out again.—[Courier-Journal.
Stewart, of Novads, has reconsidered his reconsideration not to be a candidate for re-election. They change their minds oftener than they do their shirts out there.
Old John Harper left f4,000 to his colored servants in consideration of their fidelity to him. Itiey didn't get their money in time to enjoy the watermelon season in full. ,jj
Ben Butler wanted Kansas to namd'a town after him, but they wrote back that they had a hamlet called "Hellville" and couldn't think of blasting thatfitate further.
What small, boy does not envy the nerve of the portly man who enters a church, takes out a big handkerchief and deliberately blows his nose three times before sitting downf
A New York auctioneer says that twenty-five years' experience has taught him that people are willing to pay as much for old thingB at auction as new things would cost at the store.
A spread-eagle barber announces that he is "Professor of Crinicultural Absciskra and Crsniologieal Tripsis/' It is not often that- four such high-prioed words get into a single sentence. -*1
It is reported that the Methodist campmeeting, at Martha's Vineyard, will welcome President Grant with 100 guns on the eocasion of his approaching visit there. What a funny religious aervloe I
President Grant Is good on the catch." Last evening, as I drove down Ocean avenue, saw him amusing thi boy* gathered on the lawn playing ball. The President delights in being "a boy once more."—[Long Branch Letter.^
The first photographer has opened his saloon in Truckee, Nevada, and has been shot by a miner, who insisted on having hia picture taken by lamplight, aa ho was going away early in the morn ing!
A Bridgeport man has made a large kite, which be intends using to draw himself serosa Long Island Sound in a boat. The thought auggesta itself that ho might have saved his trouble and
When the Arkansao census-takor next goes around he will And Peter Dayton misaing from earth. Tbe old man found a paekage and threw it on the fire to aee if it was powder or sand. It wasn't sand.—[Detroit Free Press.
Tbe condition of Frank H. Walworth It Is said, la not such as to inspire Ui highest hopes of his ultimate recovery, and many of the insane asylum offldala mm the opinion that tbe best course would be to restore him to his friends.— The New York papers,
George Alfred Towuoend hi referred to by Olivia in one of her Philadelphia Preos letter* aa folio wa: "There ia no fountain of knowledge which he haa not tooted. He cin write ao ikst no the lightning can telegraph, and can tell the host story that ever woo read."
A correspondent tolls a story of a would-be fiiahkmable yoang gentleman leaning over In the midst of a crowd of people at Saratoga and drawling forth languidly to a friend, "I say, Ned where the donee h*ve yon been? I— I've boon looking all over Europe for yon!*'
There Is a time in the going to sleep of weasy men when a noiee, continued for fifteen minutes, deprives the would-be sleeper ot an entire night's rest. With a oagadty which la of the devil hlmoelf, the dog In the next yard hits upon that particular time to do its barking, and only ita thick-headed owner can rest
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Yoang ladles and gentlemen of elejaauinners have discarded "That's the, kind of a hair-pin I am," and now say, "I'm tbe snoose that sickens quick." It Is only In the hlgheot sodety that this expression is in general use.
And now a doud la gathering above the head of Henry W. Longfellow, surviving relative of Edgar Allen Poo la preparing to prove that, aa a result of an intimacy which existed between Pee and the fellow with along name, Longfellow had come of Poo's unedited MHS. In his keeping when Poe went to his Kaveu and that theee MSB. wen afterward publiahed ao "The Song of Hiawatha, by H. W." etc. The senoation will probably be reserved until the Boojsher busineae qnlets down »little,
Feminifcems.
Queen Himbefh h*d ^e?t l*WJ«i|*d 4 A a Jacksonville, Fla., claimo a fully developed woman not yet ten years of age. "Elisabeth" will not be a popular name for girl-babiea this year.—[Boston News.
Have a care for a yoang girl who never ssys dreadful things she understands them.
He thst hath knowledge spareth his words but a woman keepeth still only when she cant help It.
Her way* were ways of pleasantness, but when die took off her slippers she got a thorn in her foot*,
Now Elisabeth claims that she lied when she said it was impossible for her to tell the truth.—[Chicago Timea.
A woman while exhorting at a prayer meeting near Lockport, N. Y.» loot week, fell In a fit and died almost instantly.
A Decatur Methodist girl forces piety upon her lover by making him say the Lord's prayer every time he Idssee her.
A Saratoga lady refuses to write home to her husband. She's afraid he'll give the letters to one of those Western pa-
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An Arisona girl has a fortune of 10,000 head of cattle, and threatens to go to Chicago to escape the importunities of candidates for her band.
Human nature Is the same the world over, only you can see a good deal more of it at the seashore resorts during bath ing hours, than you can anywhere else.
Grundy says the ladies are too fond of milk punches and brandy smashes after they have dipped in the sea. Grundy saya this every year, and drinks continue to be mixed just the same.
A Providence, Rhode Island, woman, 84 years old, after using spectacles 46 years, has given them up and read every word of the Beecher correspondence without them. She says it has fairly "opened her eyes," and no spectacle could equal it.
At a reoent commencement in the West a young girl road a fine sassy. On the wsy home from the hall she heard one of the lady listeners remark to another "Wasn't that fine?" "Yes," wss the reply, "bat what a moan little train she wore."^' mmvm aft ha*
At the seaside a sort of day nightgown is put on by intensely foshionable women as they emerge from the surf. It covers them completely, and spectators on the beach are spared the usually sickening spectacle of a female swell en route from sea to bathing-house.
It la the observation of one of the profound est philosophers of modern times that the most dread fill calamity that Arte can visit upon sensitive mind is a salt of hair that wont curl, coupled with a corroding anxiety for It to do so. An Arkansas lady hung herself the other day because her sister's hair would carl and hero wouldn't.7
Mme. Nilsson-Bouseaud is oaid to be teaching her husband to speak tbe German language, and to be also Imparting the knowledge of gutturals and oeparable compound verbs to the waiting maid whom oho took from this country with her. The moid—who, by the way, ia a great iurtlste to dreos writes of Mme. NUsson 00 "the nobleot of women."
Engliah women dill wear thdr skirts long, dragging them in the dirt Parisians wear street drooseo without even a tendency to a train, and three or four Inches from the ground. Americans Incline In this respect to the English siovenlineoo and extravagance, rather than to the Frenoh noatneoo and thrift bat connoisseurs prophesy that the Pftrio mode will yet triumph here, and that cold weather will find street oklrto made as tbey ahould be.
What eonsUtuteo a Saratoga belle:
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yards of muslin in trailing underskirts, |4ft worth of wig, one twenty-inch fen, |88 worth of dangling smelling bottlea, cant cooe and straps, iw yards of gros grain dlk, some cotton, pearl powder, 973 worth of teeth on gutta percha, sixbutton gloves, mammoth umbrella, copy of Edmund Yates' book—and all hanging on the arm of oemething intended to represent a man—a sort of atoatenr gentleman." 1,
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It is nothing for Art0011a girts to own five thoaoand cattle and ten thousand sheep but psoas, yoanj man. She otumpo around barefooted, spits through her teeth and plays a "lone" hand of euchre.
Mlao Charlotte Cash man has stated that she will retire from the stage to the spring of 1875, "finally and forever," as Mark Twain oagfi. The lady is somowhot odyoneed In years and the duties of profeadonal life materially affect her health. Miso Cushman Is credited with a fortune of $280,000.
Soya a correspondent: "A pretty woman looks prettied early in tbe morning—at Saratoga. And indeed it oeemo the prettleet of them rise early here. They look queenly in a ball-room, whirling around in the richest of dreaoeo they look beaatifol as they come bearing down qp a table through tho main channel of the dining room, butto the morning—say about oeven o'clock, and hundreds of them are sampling the waters at that time—when it Is cool and pleasant and the balooniea are not crowded, there, in the hi teat of lawn dresses, their hair dressed ins plain but winsome manner, arose doing duty for the diamonds at the neck, they look jnot pretty—not queenly, not besaitlfol and poettyf
Connubialities.
Vanderbilt has just celebrated the fifth anniversary of his wedding—and so young!
Oedar Rapids women screech "fire" wheh their husbands begin to wipe tho floor with them. "Come around. I will achieve a mother-in-law at 8 o'clock sharp," woo the invitation sent oat by Milwaukee man. «5"v' *'i
An M. D. recently discovered that tho chill of wedlock will cure the fever of love. He recommends his remedy to the afflicted.
We are Improving in the art of abridgment. When a man has been whipped by his wife, it hi in order to say tint he ia broometuck.
A St. Louis parson haa hem arrested for beating his wife. He used to do it mostly up stairs, in thdr bed-chamber. It may consequently be remarked that, he was above doing a bad action.
A parting at a Chicago railroad depot: Do not forget me or cease to love me," murmured tbe husband. "Never, never," sobbed the wife, and she pulled out her handkerchief and tied a knot to it, that she might remember.
Soys the Milwaukee Sentinel: "They have had a game called kisdng-czoquet at Oshkosh. A girt is allowed to move her ball six inches every time she kisses a felloW. From the market reports we see that trade In tape-meaoure is active^"
If there is one thing more than another calculated to provoke proftmity on the part Of pater fenxfllas, it is being complacently told by his wife, after he has tried half an hour in his night clothes to dosea window into which the rain Is pouring fariously, that "there's a stick under it 1"
A Nevada man,who woo walking with his brother to attend his wedding, was astonished by a proposition to take the bride off his hands and marry her to his dead. With true, good nature he asoeated, and the prospective bridegroom and groomsman dunged places to the satisfection of all parties concerned.
The Philadelphia obituaries abound to remarks to the effect that the dear deceased has "gone to meet her fether," "gone to meet his three little sister*," "gone to meet his aged and respectable grand parents," and the like but we have yet to see the statement that any man who boo left this vale of tears hss "gone to meet his mother-to-law."
A married pair were reoentiy divorced by a decree of the supreme judicial court of the state of Maine on the ground of cruelty. The trim reason woo that be loved flowers, books, poetry, pets, «mI all tho beauties of nature, while she confined her thoughts solely to "blled victuals." and the interests of the children. &
When the late Gen. Thomas, U. S. A. wss asked for a furlough by a book woods soldier, in order that he might vldt his wife, to whom he had been married bat three months, he replied:
Why, dear fellow, I havent seen my wife for three years." The backwoodsman stared Incredulously at the general for a moment, and then broke out, "Bat you see me and my wife ain't that kind."
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The sensation at Saratoga at preeent consioto of two gentlemen from New York who are feat friends. The beauts fill wife of one io divorced and is married to the other, and yet the men have never broken with each other. The case is one that has been known of andjp-j. talked about in New York for years,f tbdogh the marriage only took place about a month or six weeks ago. ThdMt bride Is resplendent with diamonds and magnificence.