Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-04-23
GOSSIP ABOUT WOMEN.

Something about women --Flounces.
''The wife's secTet"-Her opinion of
her husband.
Philadelphia is talking of female street.
car conductors.
There are $780, 600 more women than
{ men in England.
One hundred ladies of Colmsr have
vowed TO wear mourning till Alssce is
French again.
A good hearted woman in the rosy
beauty of her joy is the loveliest object
in the world.
The newest bonnet is called the 'Con-
gress." Fashionable milliners say new
style now comes out every two hours.
Solomon's wisdom is said to be due to
the fact that ne had seven hundred wives,
whom he consulted on all occasions.
A shrill old lady in Scott County, when
ever she loses her scissors, rouses the
family with, "Where's them shears sp-
peared TOT"
A little Buffalo girl wants to know if
fleas are white, because her uncle told her
that 'tMsry had little lamb with fleas IS
white as snow"
The following toast was read at a med
icsl banquet not long since: THE ladies,
God bless them, are the only cure for the
palpitation of the heart"
whats the matter, mamma 2"
''Toothache, dearest" "Oh, dear
What tooth is i'm "Wisd0m tooth"
"Wisdom tooth! Ali / suppose that's
the dreadful tooth that knows all about
the French irregular verbsl"
"Wife, do you know that Ihave got
the pneumonia New monis, indeed
Such extravaganza You're the pend
thriftest man ever did see, to go and lay
out money for such trash, when l do need
q new bonnet so much
Miss Fowler, sister of the phrenolo-
gist, makes SIS, 900 year by physicking
the people of Orange, n. ]. About
fifty adventurous bachelors are manifest
ing symptoms of willingness TO becO me
the marital possessOrs of that Y cry pro-
fitsble orange b ossOm.
A little girl who loves 10 pray, one
night was very tired and sleepy, and was
going into her little bed without saying
her prayers. Bot her mamma told her &c
kneel down first to pray. So she folded
her little hands and said: "Please God,
remember what little Polly said last night,
she's so tired tonight. Amen.
A lady residing in q German city which
is heavily taxed by the war, writes to he
friends that the cost of living is 30 much
increased in consequence that she has tC
pay sixty five cents for q pair OF Whit
kid gloves with two buttons" that {
new silk bonnet is worth nearly dolla1
in gold; a cab for two persons to the opert
and back thirty-fVe cents, and washing
is charged for at the extraysgant rate o.
twelve cents dozen pieces.
An old lady recently in a court befor,
which she was brought as a witRess
when asked to take off her bonnet, OBJ
stinately refused to do so, saying
''Theres no law compelling woman t,
take off her bonnet" "Oh," impru
IDENTIFY replied one of the judges, ''yor
know the law, do your Perhaps yOl
would like to come up and sit here, AM
teach us2" 'tNo, thank you, sir, " sait
the woman, tartly, "lhere are old womeI
enough there now.
Mss Anna Dickinson is unfortunate il
her relations with college students. Sh
has had feud of several year, standin
with those of Yale. Now the ChrOnict
of the University of Michigan intimate
that her letters are not so brilliant as he
diamonds, and is willing to wager ''ths
she could not deliver 8 lecture withOu
ringing in the word hell somewhere.
of COT rse the amiable lady looks dow
upon this class of critics as '9ittle ships
and ''mere men,
King Louis III of Bavaria, it is a well
known fact, cannot refuse anything to
woman appealing to him with tears
her eyes The other day the folloWin
seen eoccurred at the Kings chateau,
the environs of Munich: The King VIZ
passing through the hallway, when SUE
denly young girl, with streaming eye
and choking voice, threw herself upo
her knees before him and implored hir
to have mercy upon her brother, wi
was lying in the Auspsch jail under sci
tence of death. The King kindly rsist
her up, and after putting few question
to her, granted her brothers pardon.
More than a century ago certain Mi
Wrsgg died in England. She had do
nothing remarkable 10 render her mem &
lasting but she is not yet forgotten. &
riously enough, she bequesthed sm
amount 10 a certain parish for charity,
condition that the vault should be open
every year and Der coffin busted. If Il
was not scrupulously done, the sum "
to be given to another parish. The no
ity of the clergymen and wsrdens to tn
sacred trust was secured by leaving 0
guinea to the former for preaching g.
mon, and a certain sum TO the latter TO
dinner to celebrate the cheerful anniver
= yon which the vault is opened.
BUILDING UPON THE SAND.
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