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Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2030, 26 August 1880, Page 4

An innocent exchange haa a disaertation_ o i “ Why the hair come* out. ” After the editor gets married he will write wholly on other subjects, deeming that too simple. A Complimentary Notice.—Dumas one day dined at the house of Dr. Gistal, a celebrity of Marseilles. After dinner the good doctor brought his distinguished guest an autograph album, and asked him to add his name to it. “ Certainly,” said Dumas, and he wrote: “ Since the famous Dr. Gistal began to practice here they have demolished the hospital “ And on its site made a cemetery,” added the author. Thought it was a Compliment. —An honest farmer receives a visit from a dealer in live stock who wishes to purchase his pork crop. After chaffering over the price, they rise to go out to the farmyard to inspect the animals. On the threshold they meet the farmer’s daughter, a handsome, strapping girl of nineteen, whose plumpness and color would have delighted Rubens. "By Jove,” says the admiring and gallant dealer, feeling that soine compliment is demanded of-him, “ I say, if your pigs are anything like your daughter we will have no difficulty in making a bargain.” The last rage among young ladies is to possess an old-fashioned spinning wheel for a parlor ornament.' The desire to possess an old-fashioned wash-board and tub as a kitchen ornament doesn’t rage much amongst young ladies. They are a.bout as as the spinning wheel, but they are not fashionable. —“Norristown Herald.” It requires only two ounces of force to the square inch to convince some men that it is too hot to go to Ohuroh when it is not too warm to row a boat five miles.