Ever Binoa Eve first put on her corsets there have been flippant allusions made to a supposed fondness that young ladies oherish of having their waists squeezed, No visible proof ol that weakness has ever been offered to tho publio gaze until recently. But it is here now, and the girls oan't dodge it, The silver girdle business has beoome fashionable, and young men who are addioted to tho arm are as bluo e.3 policemen, It's hard enough to mako an improssion through corset armor,' but when n silver log-chain is added mash}- live humanity gives up and takes to lamp.' posts. The now girdlo is just such an ar rangement as the Grecian maidens used to wear (B. 0.) to keep their Mother Hubbardj from soaring over their heads and leaving them in the highly ridiculous and embarasa-, ing position of a reversed umbrella, It it mads of silver links of plates, and is worn' outside of everything, for the simple reason that it would bo a very uncomfortable thing to wear inside, and would seriously interferi with tho fit of a dress. Again, more people see it on the outside, and that what it's worn lor, As an article of olothing the girdle ii not a praotioal success. It affords very little protection in a rainstorm or a whirlwind, and is calculated to breed oorns on the hips, Naturally, it is worn around the waist, In-, cause it is too big for tho neok, Bnd a girl oouldn't grab her skirts with ono hand and her baok hair with the other if she wore it around her arms. A smelling bottle, a box of caramels, a powder puff, or, iu fut,almoit { anything oan bo hitched to the front end of the girdle as an excuse for wearing it. It' is a convenient plaoe to oarry surplus hair<' pins, But with all their drawbaoks they have! many advantages. When a girl is drowning' a girdlo is a muoh surer thing to lift her out' with than her hair, Hair is liable to oome off. /

Among the liabilities ol a merchant wfip] teoently failed was a bill ol £IOO due lw painting hia advertisement on fences. When a saw hears itself being filed, its] teeth are naturally set on edge! We have a Jew of thesel jokes bottled expressly for Sun/ day use. 