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Clutha Leader, Volume I, Issue 20, 26 November 1874, Page 3

An obituary notice in a Connecticut paper concludes with the announcement that " the deceased leaves two infant daughters, both girls." A man of the world says that " about the only use of the wife of the period is abolished by the invention of a pianoplaying machine." Do you go to Sabbath School, my lad ? kindly asked a cit3 r missionary of a depraved little Dubuque urchin. " Nary" answered the innocent child, "but I've got a fightin' cock that can walk over any bird in this town that wears gaffs." A phrenologist told a man he had combativehess largely developed, and was of a quarrelsome disposition. ." That isn't so." said the man angrily ; " and if you repeat it, I'll knock you down." 1 Dear George,' said an American young woman, ' I am willing to marry you if we have to live on bread and water.' 'Well,' said the enthusiastic George, ' you furnish .they bread,. ;and I'll skirmish round and find th*.; waters