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ladies 
araijiaiiian 
,ara: 
watering-pots between the flowers and her own little 
feet. Her simple but becoming dress contrasted favor¬ 
ably with the gorgeous apparel now worn by the little 
damsels of the rising generation—a large straw hat 
and a suit of white cotton; a colored fichu was the 
only ornament she wore.” 
“What ails dis beoples of America,” says an 
old traveler from Germany, “is dot dey walks mit der 
legs too much in der sthreet gars out, und don’t got 
some muscles some more.” 
Lady Sydney Morgan, who was very proud of 
—.. her sister, Olivia, was in the 
habit of addressing every new- 
y&g?s ftjg.comer with “I must make you 
J* acquainted w 7 ith my Livy.” 
mm She once used this formula to a 
gentleman who had just been 
worsted in an encounter of w'its 
with the sparkling Olivia. 
imp“Y es, ma’am,” lie answered, 
- -"-"I “ I happen to know your Livy, 
and I only wish your Livy was 
‘‘‘vta Tacitus.” 
The Princess de Metter- 
nich is as frolicsome as was 
Marie Antoinette. A Paris 
correspondent of the Philadel- 
phia Telegraph says that her 
I// last freak was to go out to 
(pa...lunch in the forest near Marieu- 
:^^f^ EwwSaiHIWll bad in a cart drawn by oxen. 
the. cart, harness, animals, and 
all being covered with garlands 
ill * fee'll ffi of flowers, while Madame de 
{aHfca| Metternicli, dressed as a 'Wat¬ 
teau shepherdess, herself drove 
the oxen, directing their inove- 
if|S|§l-3 merits with her rose-wreathed 
crook. Her guests, who occu¬ 
pied scats in the cart, were all 
arrayed in Watteau costumes 
|j )'> to correspond with that of their 
hostess. 
A wa ggish fellow, some¬ 
what troubled with an iinpedi- 
Tjk ment in his speech, while one 
day sitting at a public table, 
had occasion to use a pepper- 
ilMPw| box. After shaking it with all 
due vehemence, and turning it 
* n various ways, he found that 
the pepper corns were in no 
wise inclined to come forth. 
“T-th-this p pe pepper-box,” 
he exclaimed, “is something 
like myself.” “Why so?” 
jVr-~ ts- _j interrogated a neighbor. — 
“ P-poo-poor delivery,” was 
ing ) I will give you a cow and call it square. She’s 
an awful poor cow, just like your preaching.” The 
parson drove home the cow 7 . 
A nicely-dressed lady stopped a boy trudging 
along with a basket and asked : “ My little boy, have 
you got religion ? ” “ No, ma’am,” said the innocent; 
“I’ve got potatoes.” 
An old farmer once said, with more truth than 
elegance: “ There are tw 7 o talks in this world to one 
The country storekeeper 
said: “ Here, my friend, those balls of butter L bought 
of you last week all proved to be just three ounces 
short of a pound.” And the farmer innocently an¬ 
swered : “ Well, I don’t see how that can be, for I used 
one of your own pound bars of soap for a weight.” 
Poor Preach, Poor Pay. —An Onondaga minis¬ 
ter, who has preached in an agricultural community, 
has had a varied experience in getting his pay. One 
farmer, at the end of the year, offered to settle by 
giving him a buck, or two dollars in money. The 
minister took the latter. Another met him one day 
and said : “I have subscribed forty dollars for preach- 
