The Gatherer.

A snapper up of unconsidered trifles.

SHAKSPEARE.


ELEGANT COMPLIMENT.

A French officer, having arrived at the court of Vienna, the empress, knowing that he had seen the Princess de * * *, asked him if he thought this princess was, as reported, the handsomest person in the world? "Madam," replied the officer, "I thought so yesterday."


Should women sit in parliament,

A thing unprecedented,

A great part of the nation, then