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A fair fashionable, lately united to one
Of the most dashing dandies of the day,
having cause to complain of neglected be-
haviour, the bridegroom replied, (" Have
patience, my dear; ] am like the prodigaI
son, and will reform by-and- by."


+" And !, sir" replied the spirited bride,
~ will also be like the prodigal SON.
In what particular, madam ~
IviH rise and go unto my father.
She left the house the same morning


N.'. --------------------------- 81 III. m
To marry widow, in good French, sig
ni6es to make ones fortune but it does not
always happen that this meaning is COR
rect.


"That's smart fellow" said one.---
!" How do you make that out?" H Why,
he has been living for the last two years TO
my knowledge without earning penny





A lady more remarkable for gossip and
spiritual Irritation than practical godliness,
was once told by Mr. Hood to beware
lest her piety, after all should prove moth
ing more than sheer " Magpiety."


OLD ENouGH.-The New Orleans Delta
tells OF young lady blooming as rose
bud, lovely as Houri-of sweet seventeen
but as unsophisticated as boarding school

friend ofthe family, the conversation tur-
ned on the Oregon question, when she very
ingeniously remarked I: aa
Pa goes for $40 40 because he says
he's in favour of the whole or none. Ma
says she'd take 49o because she's in ia
vor Of peace. would not like to take
any older than Harry Bloomfield, and he's
but TWENTY-FIVE" @ &a