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If you wake up in the night in an Italian hotel and shoot aburglar, the chances are that you can't see the laudlord next morning and that his wifo is a widow. The St. Louisian never dies suddenly, he walks around half a dozen years, telling people about hia liver and chewing quinine, before crossing tbe river. - Müwaukee New. A lady correspondent of the Woman't Journal asks why women have not the inpependence to give up skirts at once. She suggestg warm, full trousers, buttoned to a shirt waist, with a band belonr the knee, a full plaited skirt reaching to the knee, with handsome boots. Nineteen years ago a Tennesseo father refused to let his young duughter go to a candy pull, and she disappeared. The other day she returned, lií'tod eleven children out of the wagon, and entered the house and took off her things as coolly as if she had not been gone over a day. Third-term advocates as they read the signs of the times, the New York Tribune surmisea. feel a good deal like the pious and perplexed Gertuan who exclaimed, " 1 vould schust like to say py tam a ooople times !" The maddost kind of a woman is one who spends a half hour in arranging her toilet before descending to the parlor on the arrival of a visitor - who proves to be a book agent. The Eichmond Enquirer says there is something that no true-hearted southern girl will do, that is " marry a young northerner before he asks her." The Brooklyn Argus adds, " How different it is up here. In Missachusetts, for instance, where the spinsters are yearly getting more desperate, it is said that a young man traveling without protection is Hable to be waylaid at any moment, jerked up to the hymeneal altar and sacrificed before he has time to send word to his parents or procure the aid of the pólice. . A Nashville paper says that a certain life insurance company is " out " nearly $36,000 on account of accurate pistol practico in Teunessee withiii the last fitteen months. Misa Anna M. Lee, the daughter of a Phüadelphian, has made a success as a paintnr in Londori, The gallant Gapt. Forney says there is no painting in her room half so interesting as herself, and describes her as about twenty-five years oíd, with a light yet strong figure, a broad brow, a fírm inouth, and dark eyes.