Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1871-09-23
LADIES COLUMN.

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amputated a mans leg a few days
ago.
SILK dresses with brocadcd nounces
are coming in fashion again this
winter.
The new style OF dress in three
colors are called the patchwork cos
tunes"
The wife of Sir Walter Scott did
not appreciate his literary attain
ments. She called his novels mon
sense books"
1t is said that Sallie Ward Hunt, of
Louisville, is engaged on a book to be
entitled "The History Of q Belle"
Ladies' in the country have taken
to wearing thick boots with broad
square heels, as the Louis Quinze
boots and heels are not at oil adapted
for rough service.
Queen Victoria, an English paper
says, is troubled with visions of the
poor-house. The table of the Queens
servants is about the worst served Of
any in the country.
Miss Mary G. Rca carries the honor
of being the first woman who has
made a pre-cmption purchase of one
hundred and sixty acres Of public
land In Montana.
Miss Lydia Nye wears the honors
of champion female pedestrian" of
Bennington, VT, having walked the
other day thirty miles within eight
hours over rough and mountainous
road. .......
A Lynchburg colorcd woman fell
thirty feet out of third-stcry win
dow, striking the ground head fore
most. They are filling up the hole.
She w'sn't hurt any.
Mrs. Stanton says she never knew
what it was to be perfectly happy
until she found herself in the Yose-
mite (Cal.) valley in big straw hat
bloomer costume, 'astride ofa mule.
The Washington "Women's club
have conceived the strange idea that
the most prompt way TO cure the So
cial evil is to describe in glowing
terms the splcndors of the houses de-
voted to vice.
A Belle at Saratoga boasts of hav-
ing had twelve offers this season.
Her friends think half of them must
have been done by letter as there has
has not been that number of unmar-
ricd men in the house all the summer.
An Illinois agricultural society
has hit upon shrcwd plan for in
creasing the population. 1t is to otlcra
heavy premium ten years in advance,
to the couple who will at the end of
that time show Inc largest number
of descendants.
| Among the lamp-lightcrs in Nil.
| waukCc, Wis, is little girl ten years
old, who makes her rounds In oil
! kinds Of weather, and runs up the
ladder like squirrel, while her
elderly mother watches for her safety
! below.
a Louisville Ky.) girl, whose brida
! dress was white satin and point lace
and whose train was carried up the
aisle by n page, caused the choir tC
sing. by her own special request
! during the ceremony:
strip ne Of the robe of pride,
Clothe me with humility"
St. Winifred Siubbs, an elderl,
. maiden lady of London, was directed
by the health officer to discharge from
further service fourteen dogs wht
lived with her as companions, anC
! shc was so sorrow. stricken at the sac
rifce that she died instantly on re
cciving the order.
There is food for thought in thi
l extract from the writings of Madame
= Guizot: "a woman who has reached
l the end of youth must not suppose
b that she has any further concern Will
c passion-not even with vanquiShin.
} it. Her strength must henceforth liz
r in calm, and not in courage"
: A Honolulu paper relates that a
native man and woman were on
fishing on reefa shark appeared
and attacked the man, and by sue
Y ccssive bites took off his arms an,
= legs; that the woman made for tn
c shore with the limblcss trunk of he
a husband that she reached it in safety
}, and that the man still lives!