The Daily Evening Leader.
The young nmn who was arrested
for stealing a kiss, was diseliarired <„
condition that he would t.evT
brace another opportunity.
It is related that nrar I>nnuin<* i
voting man of twenty-four, who hrs
just married a widow of forty-two
has discovered since his mai-riaim that
his wife was his wet nurse. g
The ladies have, for the past eight
een centuries, enjoyed special privil
eges during leap year. In an ancient
Saxon law it is enacted: “Albeit -is
often as leape years doth occurs the
woman holdeth prerogative over the
menne in matter of courtship love
and mattrimonee; so that when the
ladle proposeth, it shall not he lawful
for menne to say her nae, hut shall re
ceive her proposal in all good cour
tisie.
