News m a Nutshell.
A lady says m London Truth that she thinks that the noses of English ladies are deteoriating. An English writer speaking of the .dowdiness m the dress of American married women, calls them "alpaca females." The Duchess of Montrose appeared recently with a brocaded dress of the shade of London smoke, and the bonnet was dark red. A British paper reports that many ladies are now cultivating the lute and the Greek harp, while the organ has re--^. placed the piano m some saloons. AT LAST. They left the parson at the gate Two happy souls, I ween — No more he'd burn her father's coall And waste the kerosene ! And forth they journeyed hand m hand — Life's sun was newly risen. His brawny had was held m hern, And hern was held m his'n. Ten women were blown to pieces and two others wounded by an explosion of dynamite at Nobil's factory on May Bth. The English railway companies, owing to depression m trade, discharged 2500employe8 recently, and reduced the salaries of clerks 10 per cent.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 159, 3 June 1884, Page 2
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180News in a Nutshell. Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 159, 3 June 1884, Page 2
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