. So Innocent a Widow !—A widow's husband had been dead seven years, relates a sporting writer, and she still preserved her weeds, to the astonishment of many admirers both of her face and her fortune. An English nobleman, well known in Paris and an acquaintance of her husband's, became enamored of her, and ventured to send liEr a splendid bouquet one morning. To his intense delight he saw j her pass his window in the afternoon with the. flowers in her bandi He rushed out to T&eet her, his gallant soul all on fire,» " I am so pleased to see you with them!' he exclaimed with empressment. " Ah. yes," she replied, demurely, with a glance of purest innocence, " it was very kind of you! I always knew you liked him. lam taking them to Pcre la Chaise to Jay them on his grave, abt Csittcisv.—A visitor to an art gallery, on beipg asked whether he preferred pictures to statuary, said he preferred the latter, as " you kin go al} round the statoos, but you only see.one side of the pipters." ' ' A\'' .' Apt to be Hot headed. —The man who has a fire in his eye.
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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2644, 29 June 1877, Page 2
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