YANKEE NOTIONS.

Evening Star, Issue 4069, 11 March 1876, Page 2 (Supplement)

YANKEE NOTIONS.

The women of lowa have developed a new mania : this time it is the Married Women’s Association for the Confiscation of Night keys. After awhile the married men won't have any show at all. .Among some of the mining camps in Colorado, law is condensed into six inches of malleable iron, and an offender is not obliged to wait long for a verdict either. If the criminal does not pay the debt of justice they hang him up. Ijetrophemy is the latest. It signifies ■saying one thing when you mean another. When a young man informs his tailor that he will “pay up ” in thirty days and omits doing sOj that is hetrophemy, and it sounds much better than “giving your tailor d brace.” And it is also much more complimentary to the tailor. Ann Connolly, of San Francisco, aged seventy-three, has sued for divorce from her husband, Henryk aged seventy-five, because he had failed to keep the promise he made to her before they ware manned and give up tobacco.

The maddest man in Wisconsin is John Leigh, of Oconto. He’ was a candidate for member of the Assembly, and, being a conscientious man, voted for his opponent, who was elected by just oue majority. This is canying the thing too far. Somebody has attributed the authorship of “I want to be an Angel ” to General Butler. Sergeant Bates writes from somewhere up in the Arctic regious, “ that a man can aft down by the fire of patriotism and freeze to death.” He is “busted,” pecuniarily speaking, his earthly possessions consisting of a pair of worn-out shoes and the Star Spangled Banner^