she died.

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A RASH ACT.

Extract from the report of a ladies' Lacrosse Club:--

"The deplorable habit of scratching with no sufficient reason,
just before a practice, has mounted almost to a disease."

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"Will any kind gentleman help an Indian with a loan of Rs. 7,000
at 6%? No risk. Gentleman having deep love for mother will
understand advertiser's noble cause. No brokers should
apply."--_Statesman_ (_Calcutta_).

What's the matter with brokers? Aren't they also born of woman?

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LIPS AND THEIR LESSONS.

["General PERSHING has collected round him a staff of thin-lipped
determined men."--_The Observer_.]

If physiognomists are right,
And faces count as half the battle,
We clearly ought not to invite