The Origin Of The Kiss

. onaKospeare lons oí an inicien t, worm y who at the close of tho uiarriagu cerèinony, " Took The bvide nbout the neck nnl k-sM'il her lips With sncb 11 damorout smuok tlmt ac the partiny All thecïmich ecboed." This must have been rathei embarrassing to the poor maiden. A kiss luis always hnd a " sounding name," bnt, alas, how : ; origin. AVo uro informad that a ghrewd Roman caught liis wife suoking his best wines out of the o;isks vith a straw, and uftcr that tho custoin b( ffeneral for husbands to kias fchei.' wivee that they might discover the quality of their good ladiea' stolen libations. [ndefault ofnny botter story, s.'ü:.' husbsnds will aocopt this as rtic origin of the but only of tho post-matrjnionial variety Al! otlior kinds must have :: 'Uíú nut origin. The gypsura block from whieh the Cariiiil' (iant, was curvod has proved tho romer stons "la vcry comi'ortablo fortune for the inventor of that oelebrated Eraud, Mr. Hall, tho originator of tlie hidoous statue, is ïi ow said to be building a large hrick block tor business houses, in Jüm;1haiuton, from tlic procn-ils of liis experiment apon the pubüo oreduüty. All tho dis&greementS at tho St. Loxiis end of tho Saginaw and St. Louis railroad havo been scttloil, and tho line wil onter at tho soutli slde of tho village Tho 130,000 of stock there subscribod wil will soon be p 'id. Work upon tho lino is boing pushed forward wlth vigor. Thir teon miles of the road is already preparei to reooivo tho iron.