Rich Life

-CnnTATtf Fringks, Fortváus per yard. - A New York pnper informs us that at a aalc of the splendid furniture of a banlcrupt who paid as much us forly per cent., on his debts, the anctioneer in sellinpr a snit of window eurtains, said; "Ladies and Genilcmcn, if tlio fringe on these curwins lid nut cost.orZ. dollars a yard, it is no sale." ís il surprií-im; that w'th such extravagante wc liave so niany bankrupts? The furniture of the honee cost ftrelrc thousand dollars: a barouche and horse $ixfeen hundred; the rent of the house tuslvc htndred per annum; the annaal support of the whole estjibliehiaent about mrentecn thnusaiid dollars! Here we have ihc other fiftv per cent. of the bankrupts effects. Had he Bved like a prudent reasonablo man. he never would hnve been on the bankrupt's list. A ood wife should ahvays sav to her husband, ll Go to no expense which your profits in biisinss will not permit: let us live in two rooms and nny our wp.v, rather ihan in splendid miscry." We commiserate the condition of a woman of fcehncr nrK] ponsibility, who eeesthe auctioneer walk into the house and kripek down and cany off all her furnituve ándctmfortsi but a sensible womnn tooks into thnse affaire herself, and will not allow hor husband to make snerificeson her account. More rich furniture hns been sold this spring than on anv former occasion. The reform ia in procreas. - "Keep the ball ín