GOSSIP.
At Richmond (Virginia) Police Court Mrs M. J. Hain, a well-known and pretty lady of that city, was placed under a bond of S3OO to keep
i the peace for being a common scold. This is the first time such a judgment has been rendered in that part of the State for more than a quarter of a century, possibly. An old lady was telling her grandchildren about some trouble in Scotland, in the course of which the chief of her clan was beheaded. ‘ It was nae great thing of a head, to be sure,’ said the good old lady, ‘ but it was a sad loss to him.’ The Biblical story of the Fall has often been quoted to the discredit of Eve’s sex. But there is a great deal in the art of putting things. The Rev. Mark Guy Pearse has just been expounding the incident in a fashion which shows that he possesses a remarkable talent for ingenious compliment. The devil, he says, did not give the apple to the man, but-to the woman, because he knew that the man would have eaten it all himself, but that the woman would go halves.
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Southern Cross, Volume 5, Issue 37, 18 December 1897, Page 7
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196GOSSIP. Southern Cross, Volume 5, Issue 37, 18 December 1897, Page 7
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