Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1872-03-16
LADIES COLUMN.

A French woman IN Toledo, wife
ofa fisherman, speared five hun
dIel pike in four days.
Come and kiss me" is the name
\. q small Nicksburg steamboat.
Anna Die .inson, report says, is
bot to marry, but is to go on the
tagc
Ms. RAwlins, widow of the late
secretary of War, has married Mr..
4. 7. Daniels, Of New York.
Some "horrid" man says that il
bio present style of dressing young
laiios hair it is hard to tell which il
witch.
"Whats in a dress?' says a popu-
II writer. Sometimes a great deal
pnd sometimes a precious little.
There is time for all things. The
line to leave is when young lady
lsis you how the walk is.
Mrs. Lamb, of Petersburg, Va,
became deranged from investing in
Ittery tickets and failing to draw
Fr2es.
Half Of the sorrows Of women
Fould be averted if they could re-
press the speech they know to be
lscIcss nay the speech they had
'solyed not to utter.
Tight lacing caused lady of I'm
.lilla, New York, to burst a blood
es:cl two days after her marriage.
A cynical lady, rather inclined to
irt, says most men are like cold
cry easily caught, but very difficult
o get rid Of.
lTol.ia Morton is the most unpop-
lar young lady in Louisville female
ireles now. She was the especial
pyorito of Alexis when he was in
bat city.
1t is the fashion for ladies during
,At to wear a large chain of jet
round the waist, which hangs at
he side and to which is attached a
rso jet cross.
knoxville, Tenn, has a youthful
fminiuc tax collector-Miss Lucy
tevens who collects more in a day
IAN a dozen publicans could in q
rn;ght,
A South End, Boston, woman has
.centlypresentod her husband with
$1,000 house, which amount she
I'd saved out of her housekeeping
nd.
A yirtuouswoman is thus describ-
! by solomon: She looketh well
the way of her household, and
.theth not the bread of idleness.
Six hundred girls, aged from ff-
en- to twenty, applied in one after.
Jon at the New York Grand Ope-
,houso for places in the Oriental
arches in Laiia R0okh.
There is woman in Philadelphia
10 weighs but ninety-fve pounds,
though she eats three pounds of
lent between the sunrise and sun
Il Of every day.
Mrs. James W. Mays has amazed
lo people of Fulton, Ky, by her
a.l as a marksman. Last week,
It'll a rifle, she shot several wild
sese, hitting each exactly in the
cad.
Mrs. Horace Greely, who has been
incurably sick with pull
onary affection, has almost entire
recovered her hesl!h at the Isle OF
'lght, and will soon return to
merica.
An Ohio man has been married
years, and has had bis
other-in-law as a boarder during
le whole time, He says he has
ever had cause to regret her COM
any, and recommends her as a
!odel mother-in-law. She is now
10 years old.
A Boston lady declares that she
guilty of downright falsehood a
91en times a day, by saying to peo-
le whom she meets, "I am so glad
see you" and she cannot break
PrSelto of the habit of so lying.
In the Elgin watch factories three
,Nndred of the five hundred EN-
Ioyes are girls who earn from tel
p twenty dollars a week, and do the
P2re ,, delicate part of the work more
EllIiully than men.
Mrs. Brown of North Carolina,
a'ing stated that she cured her
!. assumption by partaking Of kero-
~ cue oil, her example was quickly
moved ~ by several neighbors. The
vi, was soon exploded, how
u Inc girls in the Iowa State Agri-
hu, hhltural College not only knew more
Oou' ' farming than the male stu
'n'S, but have become profcients
! making beds and dusting, under
Nc Vt, ,Super'ntendence of q matron
M ooi'or'l housekeeper.
A ane Chicago Post has q female
'ous ~'Of + whose extraordinary abilities
y Iulc M nrSt manifested, according to
~ ". Woman's Journal, when she
rS trS,s sent out to write up q slight
~, ,;Ie'-car difficulty, and returned
a ,l'a a full report, to which was add
,co,S y complete history of vehioulsr
,UTITOtlon n6 nc from the days of Hector
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