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Womon recently been appointed to ciurkships n the bank of Ungían.!, after passing prelirainary examinatior.s. Confiilent al Friend, rushing in - Oh, Madeline, the lionrislougpassed, and the bridetrronm has not arrived. ( Madeline - ÏYeil, thank heaven, my j dress sjot bore! Little Girl - Did you ever dream of being in heaven? Little Boy - No, ! not exactly; but I dreamed once that I was rigiit in the middle of a big apple dumpling1. Old Gravely - If you do not care to I be my vv.fe. perhaps the prospects of i being a rieh young widow might ! tempt you. Jlinnie, eagerly - Oh, Mr. Gravely! If I ere only sure I could I trust you. Thereare three women doctors - AlI ice Mitchell, }Ielen Knight and Fi-ances , G. Deane - now amonj the sanitary corps of the New York board of health, and it is agreed that the board is all the healthier for their work. "You don"t mean to say you gave living pictures at the church fair?" "0 yes. "We advertised them well, too, and the house was crowded." "'What pictures did you give?" "0, just a lot of flower pieces. With living flowers, you know." A widower at Rondout, N. Y., aged 60 years, was married a day or two ago to a woman of 2:.. As a romantic incident of thi s wedding, it is stated that the bride was first introduced to the groom by the latter's son, who at the time was in love with her. Corean women carry the children on their backs like the Japanese, and their system is a simple one. Tne child rests on a strap of cloth, the ends of which go over the mother's shoulder and cross her breast; the child's leg-s clingaround her waist. "Now teil me what the trouble is," said a mother to her little girl whom she had been obliged to take out of church beeause of a violent fit of weeping-. "He called me," said the child between her sobs, "a simple little cross-eyed thing." The child was cross-eyed, and the minister had just given out the hymn: "Simply to Thy Cross ICling-." There was a curious spectacle at a school election in Westchester oounty, N. Y., when a score of Italian women, most of them with a babe in one arm and a ticket in the unoceupied hand, marched to the polls and voted. An incident of the same election was the succcssful challenging of a minister's wifo on the ground that she was ohildless and paid no rent. She and her husbaud occupy a parsonag-e provided by the coug-regation. Tli e best presa work is always found at the Couricr Office.