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 Epigram. and restored, show that the Roman ladies dressed their long hair into a "top-knot" just as some of our modern ladies do; and the sculptured female profiles on the Par thenon exhibit no great difference in the fashion of wearing their hair, between the Greek women who lived long before the time of Christ and the women of our day. Nor can we overlook the fact that the

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breeehes which we wear was a garment worn by the Gauls at the time of Julian the Apos tate, and that we get from those ancestors not only the garment, but the name. And so with new fashions in the law. Although sometimes discarded after experiment, they may, on the whole, be set down as progres sive, and not as destructive changes.

EPIGRAM. {From the French.)

By Hon. Russell S. Taft.

' I "HE world is but a comic play Where each one takes a different part; There, on the stage, in costume gay, Shine prelates, — generals show their art; While we, vile people, sit below, A futile herd of no account; For us the actors come and go, We pay to them a small amount, And when the farce provokes no mirth We hiss to get our money's worth.