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Globe, Volume III, Issue 248, 27 March 1875, Page 3

The newest thing in glove boxes is * miniature trunk, divided into compartments for morning, afternoon, and evening gloves. It is of Russia leather, bound with fire-gilt, and will do in country housea for a mante! ornament. Fifteen years ago, says the Washington Stars a gentleman of thifc city scratched his name on a good dollar and sent it on its travels. But it disappoints the anticipations of curious people by adding, " He had never seen it since." A bellman of a seaport not 100 miles from "Whitby, in announcing a teetotal meeting to be held in the Temperance Hall at that place, said that the meeting would be addressed by six females " who had never spoken before." Poetry is spoiled sometimes by the addition of a single word. A young lady listening to her lover's rhapsodic description of the setting sun, exclaimed, " Oh, Alphonsc! Alphonsc! what a soul you have for art; you were meant for a great painter!" Her father, unexpectedly close behind, added •* and glazier!" The Rochester Express is responsible for this:—"A married man hearing that tha eating of certain kinds of animal food would aid the same tissues of the human body, as, for instance, calves' brains would nourish the eater's brains, or beef's liver the eater's liver, immediately gave strict orders at his family market that no more tongue of any kind be sold to his wife or mother-in-law." A man wrote to Agassiz, the American savant, that he had an apple that lie preserved for fifty three yearn, aud when Agassiz wrote for it, tlis joker said it was the apple of his 6ye.