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Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 556, 18 September 1869, Page 2

Woman's Btgitts. Mrs Olive Logan, iu a speech at the Brooklyn woman's meeting, said :—" I reject the trowsera with contempt and scorn Men cut a sufficiently ridiculous figure in them themselves. The trouble is they don't like their own costume, and are envious of our laces, jewellery, frills, and dresses. Trousers, forsooth ! Trousers ? Shake not the ridiculous garment at me. No. So long as we can have our silks, satins, and shawls, we will repudiate your absurd bifurcated unwhisperables. Look at your swallowtail coats, stovepipe hats ; and you wear your hair so short, some of you, that you look precisely like monkeys, and I don't wonder that one of your numher has written a book showing that animal to be the father of bis race." Ax impious parrot belonging to a clergyman in York was generally remove 1 at family prayer lest he might join irreverently. Eecently his prerence happened to be unnoticed, and for some time he maintained a decorous silence ; but, at length, instead of 'Amen,' out he came with ' Cheer, boys, cheer.' On this the butler was directed to remove him, when the bird, thinking he had better apologise, called out, ' Sorry I spoke!' We read in an American paper that one daring performer practising in a covered velocidrome, "ran his bicycle out of a French window, down the roof of a house, over a ten-foot lane, through a steep gravel hole, and over another roof, bringing up finally with his errant instrument on the top of a maple tree." There is a place in New Hampshire where they never have any old maids. When a girl reaches the age of twentynine, and is still on the ladder of expectation, the young fellows draw lots for her. Those who escape pay a bonus to the one who gets her. A wealthy San Francisco Chinaman has become a Fenian. His countrymen say he is insane, and have locked him up.