THE COURIER
SEbECTIONS from town topics.
O, Miss Willard, she rides on a biexelo wheel.
And is not afraid to pay so;
She can sit up erect and can nlwas feel
That, bat ring a cropper. sho'll Btay bo.
She can ride f.ist or slow, up a hill swiftly go.
And, despite all conflicting rumors.
She's a sporty young thing from her crown to her toe
Though sho draws the line at bloomers.
"Why," asked tho Turkey, gently, "do you weep?"
At tho sound or a sympathetic voice the Hen's tears flowed afresh.
"So many of my eggs," she sobbed, "turn out bad and go on tho
stage.
There was a littlo girl
Who had a littlo curl
Right in tho middle of her forehead.
When she in the theatre sat
Sho would not remove her hat
For fear 'twould make her curl look simply horrid.
Sho preferred, indeed, to hear
From persons in the rear.
Remarks but mildlv characterized a torrid.
"These stories they tell about us," remarked the fairy prince,
"make mo tired. Why do they always say we married and lived
happily to tho end of our lives?"
"Just as if," tho fairy prinr.css rejoined, "we were from the
countrv."
Tno house was still, the hour was late;
She thought: "Now pa's abed.
My love will seek to learn his fate.
And in a month we'll wed."
He clasped her hand and o'er her bent.
Fond hope inspired him then,
"Think you," he asked, "your pa'd consent
To loan me, say, a ten?"
Mrs. Fuzzier Your husband is a very quiet dresser, T think, Mrs.
GuzzW.
Mrs. Guzzler Yes, he is generally quite suKlued in the morning
butt you ought to hear him bang things around at night.
Nagger My wifo is forever throwing hints at me.
Dodger Gad. you're lucky. I have to keep out of the way of
crockery.
"What do you take me for?" Baid Lord Fitzboodle, haughtily.
A glad smile spread over Mr. Yellowleaf's countenance, and as she
fell upon his manly lwsom, she replied:
"For better or worse.'
I pinned a rose upon her lily breast.
Some little time ago;
Since when I've suffered sweet unrest
And know
J must have pinned there
My heart also.
TJio rose has faded, but my heart's in thrall
Within her bosom pent,
So let it be, for I am all
Content
To have it lie in such
Blest 'prisonment.
"What ! Jane Dummitt married? She used to declare that she
wouldn't marry the best man in the whole world."
"Well, she didn't."
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The reception tendered the members
of tho senate, s'ato officials and Lincoln
society peoplo by Senator and Mrs.
John H. Wright in tho senate chamber
Monday evening is conceded to havo
been the largest as woll as tho most
successful semi-public social events in
tho history of tho city and was a fitting close of tho society season.
Tho Shrincrs banquet at tho Lincoln Tuesday evening was perhaps
the most elaborate banquet that has been given in a long time. At
present there is nothing in view for next week, the lenten season
having begun Wednesday. Society will be quiet until after Easter
Sunday.
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The Empire club gave ono of tho most enjoyable parties of tho
season at the Lansing hall last Saturday evening. Among those
prebcnt were Ex-Governor Nance, Mr. and Mrs. Walter B. liar
groaves, Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Dennis, Mr. and Mrs. Will Green, Mr.
and Mrs. A. G. Beeson, Mr. and Mrs. R. II. Townley, Mr. and Mrs.
II. R. Nissley, Mr. and Mrs. R. II. Oakley, Mr. and Mrs. John B.
Wright, Mr. and Mrs. II. A. Sutton, Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Jansen, Mr.
and Mrs. W. F. Kelley, Mr. and Mrs. Dr. Righter, Mr. and Airs. W.
M. Leonard, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Wilson. Mr. and Mrs. F. W.
Brown, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. BuckstatL Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Rodgers,
Mrs. O. R. OaMey, Mrs. Robinson of Chicago, Mrs. Lippincott, Mrs.
Hooper; Misses Tatum of Omaha, McClure of Mt. Pleasant, la.,
Jeannctte Wilson, Marie Marshall, May Moore, Lucy Grillith, Hallio
Hooper, Mae Burr, Nan Lillibridg?; Messrs. Harry llarley, Frank C.
Zehrung. C has. Howe, C. P. A. Clough. Fred Houtz, Frank Polk,
Mattson Baldwin, Guy Hurlbut, Will Meyer, John Dorgan, Robert
Joyce.
The G. O. R. J. F. club gave a ball at the Kimball hotel last Fri
day that was enjoyed by all who were fortune enough to be present.
At nine o'clock Georgo and Martha led the grand inarch and until
tho small hours of tho morn'ng tho enjoyment was kept up. Tho
following were present: Misses Richards, Hathaway. Katie Malone,
Guilmette, Goodwin, McCord, Wharton, Stanton, Pierce, Prindle,
Thiebaut, DuTeil, Cooper. Carpenter, Brown, Raper, Stewart, Hoyt;
Messrs. Painter. Grant, Woodward, Hasbruck, Guild, Mock, Lud
wig. Deemer, Atkinson, Bowling, Radmore, Latfcrty, Prindle, Day
ton, Mclntyre, Bell, Banks, Anderson, Fellows, Richards, Blair.
Miss Tatum. of Omaha, who has been the guest of Mrs. Walter B.
Hargreaves, has returned home.
Tho inventory of the estate of the late Ward McAllister, founder
of tho Four Hundred, shows that he left no real estate and only
810,000 of personal property. How he could have "kept in the swim"
with such a comparatively beggarly estate is ono of the mysteries
of society which will never be solved.
The ladies of tho Universahst church gave a chicken pie supper
Wednesday evening.
Mrs. J. E. Baum returned to her home in Omaha Sunday.
S. E. Moore, who has been in Ohio on business for nearly two
months, returned home Thursday.
W. II. Govert, a prominent attorney at Quincy, 111., is in tho city
on business.
Miss Maude Berkey, daughter of T. A. II. Berkey died Monday
evening at the home of her parents, 1930 R street.
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