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Thames Star, Volume VI, Issue 1767, 1 September 1874, Page 3

A Niw Definition.—A nun is now set down as an organised old maid Some missionaries have erected a tent on Broadway, Oakland. From the centre part of the tent floats a flag bearing the question. " Wbat is truth ? Since they are so anxious to know, we will tell them: it is something very cl«ely resembling a lie before it is found out.^ —San Francisco Bulletin. The Good Little " Vitleb."—Grandma Cross — " Grandma, Bruce sentycu to bed at twelve o'clock, but as you were a very good boy last election, Grandma Cross will let you stop up till halfpast 1 !" (Intense delight of the good little Vitler.) , Chignons anb Ba.ldness. —A correspondent says :—" A distinguished French doctor, by the bye, has just solemnly ■whrned the ladies of France that in a short time every one of them will be bald. The wearing of chignons and plaits, he tells them, deprives the roots of the necessary air,:. and thus produces disease which speedily kills them. But bless tho good doctor's heart; they, won't heed the warning, ■they'irgo on piling Pelion upon Ossa until they liave worn every natural root of hair away, and then we shall suddenly have them making a virtue of necessity, and bursting put upon us with heads as smooth as billiard balls, and asluring lis that that is the most becoming style for women after all." If a Bedouin should loose his teeth, would he take gum Arabic ?