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Thames Star, Volume IIII, Issue 1762, 26 August 1874, Page 2

Getting Clothes.— When a woman buys an article of wearing apparel, it is ail right; She is' not counselled to take it back because ofJ this or that defect. She ignores man's knowledge of the matter, and he is only too glad to escape to make any protest. But when ho upholsters himself in.any ..particular, she gives th* article, the most critical examinatiott, am?, in nino, cases of ten, hurries him.right backwith.it. • Between that lnan'sriegard for his-wife and feaf'of the merchant, he loses a great deal that is • peasant in this world; It is-also a little ; singular^hat a wpunderful effect the store where you ! havemadi the purchase has upon ;the, fit of the .article. I have kndwn amanto go three times back with a c6at. 'The first time it pinched, him a .little under the arms.' l The'dealer hid him try it on!; .thempulled it down in: the back, stood off arid iquinted at it, and then said, " How does that feel now? ','■<; The man, perspiring atevery pore, arid feeling that he was guilty, in some way, of taking unfair advantage of a trustiug fellow-mortal, confessed that it was much better/and went off. The next day he appeared^, with the impression that there was no wool iv' the cloth ; his wife said so. The salesman gave him a pitying glance, and .whipped the coat over from one side to to the other so rapidly, aad talked, so fast about texture andlwool, that the, miserable wretch was glad to gefc the garment back and get out of tho*. store,. Two. days later he sneaked in again with the coat under his arm. This time it pinched across the back. The tailor had him try it on again, and rubbed it across' the-back and pulled it at the front, and said he never ,saw anything fit like that, in his life ; and the man went off with pi" similiar belief; He didn't ;go back anymore ; but he used to stand, in front df that:store, when no one was looking, and shake his fist through the window at the jtailor, and think'up the things'he wanted to.dp t v o him, but which there appeared, no immediate prospect of his doiag.—Dan- : bury News. ■. „•■• '-^ ' . j .-! Thb Pack or Cabds.-- Shakspeare says ( there are sermons in stones, and so it appears may,a scientific lecture lie in a pack of cards. There are four suits in the pack—that intimates the four quarters pf the year ?and^there are:thirteen •«rdi in ea,c^.- euft, so,there are thirteen; weeks'ina auirter.; t^er© also the tame number, of lun^tiipn.s ; the £w t eissrjs sjgns of th» zodiac, through which thp s»^. sjfceejps ifs diurnal cour»» in one year ; there are'fifty r two cards in a pack, that directly answers' for; the number of weeks in a year. Examine'them"more minutely, and you will find 365 spots, as many as there are dajs j'n' thei year ; these multiply by twenty-; four ea# sjxty, and ypu have the exapt n|umb>r of jho'nrs &n,^. minutes in a year!: •; R,El>nQ±sff:iX£s.—§ss§,* fcipg of Jfche i%e half-draped^'statue' 61 W.ash^ng,top, whi.ch' cost §0,Q00c101.,- in the -E*»t Park, D, p., 'Gra^ {T.reenwood «ays that his p»fcsji;r£t%id arm^points. reprachfully, tow»r% glass cases in t^.e Patent-office where, hang bis much desired liabilinlents.. s 1