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Clutha Leader, Volume VIII, Issue 428, 23 December 1881, Page 7

Etiquette. — A ' society lady ' "writes to a fashionable journal to know lif etiquette allows a lady to- remain seated while a gentleman guest departs.' It depends on who the guest is, but it is always safe to accompany a St. Louis man to the door to see that he doesn't carry off a lOdol. ivory handled silk umbrella instead of the 50 cent, cotton one he brought. Seeing that the Supreme Court, the judge of another court, and the jury sitting, were . lately puzzled as to what constitutes a deadly weapon, we give a few which seem to have been left out of the consideration of these Solens : A woman's tongue, a flatiron properly propelled, bad whisky, a mule's hind leg, a. bad. omelette, a pen.. We have several thousand 'more deadly weapons to treat of, but lack of '• space bids. , us stop. Questions that were Unnecessary. — 'You haven't asked me all f the questions. Now, don't say you have, for you know you haven't !' '■'- said an American to. a; census . official. ' ;£To,' replied the latter demurely ; ' I haven't asked you, sir, whether you could read or write-, because that wpuld c be, an insult ; I haven't asked you whether you were a negro, Because 1 1 can : see 'thai you are not ; I haven't asked" you j whether" you are lame, or blind, or deaf, | for the- same reason ; and I haven't.i asked : you whether you are ai) jsiot,l .'"becfl-use that is unnecessary^ ; - ' " •