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Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2294, 13 September 1870, Page 2

Why is a hen immortal ? —Because her son never sets. A New Orleans policeman, before light the other morning, came upon a stranger pacing before the station-house, and on enquiry found that he had been doing the same all night, waiting for a lady. “ She s a good while iq coming, ain’t she ?” said the officer. “Yes, hut the poor thing ain’t to blame; they’ ve got her locked up there, pointing to the station-house, “ and as soon as sheets out we’re going to get married. a lottery ticket, and 1 I found out last night that it had drawn a pile. She’s no idea of it, you know.” The Pall Mall Gazelle says The Tyrolese hats which some gentlemen have taken to, are ' now ornamented with pheasants’ feathers, parrots’ wings, and humming birds’ heads. For mourning, blackbirds’ or ravens’; for half-mourning, swallows’ or magpies’ are worn. One enterprising hatter has contrived to fit these adornments with an apt paratus for imitating the cry of the typl selected as an A slight move, meqt of the forehead is sufficient to set the little machine in movement. It is," therefore, unnecessary to taka off the hat on meeting a friend—yon frowni or elevate the brow —the bird screams, and this constitutes a greeting, , , :