Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-05-17
THE sOROsIs.
The Last Spree Of ear Literary
Sisters. a brs sra
The Eaen NeSVhers Tea and
TOast-NO whisky.
From the New York sunday Mercury.l

From the New York Sunday Mercury. /.
AT SUPPER. .
Att pm. the gong sounded for supper,
and in thirty seeOEdS the guests settled
at the table like flock of reed birds at
| the side of country brook. The news
/ paper veterans Ike Ottsrsop, Simo3ton
and Stitson looked st the tea-caddy in
dismay, and glanced about the room rs
if som methiDg necessary was lacking. No
rum, however, was served. The vete-
rams slipped the tea as il they were ia
torture, and said nething. Toe courses
were brought on rapidly. and the viands
disappeared like magic. Teal, sausage,
ham, peas, oysters, blanc marge, ics
cream, bananas, and Gran berry sauce, all
Travelled the same road with fearful ra-
pidity. =
THE OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES JUNE OPENS
THE BALL.
At pm. Mrs.. Croly sprspg to her
feet and spitefullyS knocked on the table
with a silverplGted fork, David G., who
was laughing with golden-hslred sprite
at the second table to her right, stopped
talking in an instant, and shivered upon
| his chair, like q schoolboy who had been
caught Whispering. In. few words,
Mrs. Croly told the men that they would
be required TO hold their tongues, and
| listen TO choice tit-bits OF feminine wis
dem. She then announced the first
toast of the evening: The ComiDg
Mar" and cslled on Fanny Fern Parton
to respond. Fanny blusbed, and sent
roll OF manuscript up to Mrs. CrOly, who
read il 10 the audience amid frantic
cheers. IL was an old Ledger TRADE oR
the masculines, for which Robert Bonner
paid 500 per column. $50. =
THE COMING WOMAN.
The second toast was THE Coming
Woman" II wss answered by Mrs
Andrew jackson Davis, who wandered
amid the mysterious spherical orbs
swinging in the boundless immsrsity of
space, and shook her legs in the awful
corridors of time for fifteen minutes,
when she subsidsd, amid a shower of
fork knocks. The BOhemiaRs stood the
shock hravely, though few gave sigGs
Of somnolent distress~ sr .s.. r.
MEN AND THEIR BUTTONS.
This was the third toast. Mrs. Clara
Nicholson gave it TO the boys hot and
heavy. The sleepy OlRs passed up their
tescups, and laughed heartily. Buttons
were things that they appeared TO UNDER
stand. Mrs. Nicholson, however, gave
them new light on the subject, and her
remarks were relished accordingly,
At the conclusion OF her spsech, Mies
Josephine Pollard read poem, in which
she intimsted that she was soon to be
married. The intellectual Billy Swim
ton, who sst ct her side, blnshed like
maiden OF six'esn as abe took her seat.
1t was thought that she stood upon one
Of his corns during the delivery Of. her
poem.
HOW BURLEIGH CAUGHT IT.
Mrs. Croly announced the next toast,
The Newspaper Man from Domestic
Point OF View y which was responded to
by Mrs. VIM. II Buleigh. She unoorked
bottle Of literary assf0 ida, and flung
the liquid over all the gentlemen present.
During the delivery of the speech every
man appeared as If he had just been
struck by lightning. Burleigh himself
ooked as Il he had been before Judge
Bowling, and had been given six
months on the island. The speech was
a seOroher, and rubbed off a good deal of
cutiosS,