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In Sicily the flr tree la unkrtown
aa a Chrlatmaa adjunct, but the very
ludicrous custom of. "heating the
bachelor" la observed by the women.
All of the unmarried man In toe vil
lage are driven into the ohureh after
mass by the outnumbering women,
and run about the sacred edifice and
beaten until they declare (often false
ly) that they will wed ere another
Chrlatmaa home around.
^ " ; . Maine Stage Propertlee.
. Miss Luclne Finch, who entertained
the Fortnightly club of Bath, request
ed the committee to have as stiffs
properties an old-fashioned chair, a
table and candles. Her request was
compiled with, the chair contributed
being 225 years old, the table more
than a hundred years old, and the
brass candlestick nearly aa old as the
Uble.-^Lewlstnn Journal.
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. Barometer of Trade.
Smiles Irradiated the floorwalker's
face. Business bad been poor, hat it
tra/fr*tor
ii0 nowT WWwb W6W iuoppiflS la
palra and trloa. "They always buy
so mqoh mote,*’ ha said, "when they
come' in bunches. When a woman
/hope alone she buys only what she
needs or can afford, but when she
shope with friends she buys what she
wants them to think she oan afford."
Ttsklee the Clerka.
** VeuaeUi atasibe easM ^ A
humor," remarked the friend of the
great merchant. ‘Tee," replied the
great merchant "My wife has just
been in Sad It ticklee them to death
to see somebody boss me around."
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