Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1872-08-07
ABOUT WOMEN.

uiaulouu rings never refuse 10 play
the piano.
"Annadickersonian power of jaw"
isa Chicago Postal contribution to
the literature of the day.
A woman in Jacksonville, Florida.
has shipped fifteen hundred alligator
hides to Boston within the past five
months.
''Thc Cook of the Period" formed
the title of tho recent graduating
Grafton of sensible New Orleans
school girl.
Hawthorne said that Miss Bremen
was "a most amiable little woman,
worthy to bc the maiden aunt of the
whole human race"
When 4 lady indulgcs In yawn or
two, gentlemen callers are justified
i'll taking their hats aud viewing the
house from the outside.
The daughter Of Musurus Pasha,
Turkish envoy in London, has re-
Gently been welded to member of
the British aristocracv.
Mary Gray of Grecuwich county is
the oldest lady in Kentucky. She is
ono hundred and fourteen, and her
Youngest son is scventy-sevcn.
1t is reported that General De
Schwcnitz, German Eavoy to Aus
tria, is to cspousc the daughter of
United States Minister, jay Gould.
A young lady being asked by a
rich bachelor, eff not yourself who
would you rather bc?" replied,
swcctly and mcdcstly, "Yours,
truly
Miss Anna IIcws. who graduated
from Michigan University al the head
of class of ci cightv-siX students,
proposes to practice medicine at
Newport.
Spicks toll hiswiic that she could
have all the Dolly Warden things she
wanted or II new piano. He says
now that the piano would have been
cheaper.
The modern faro has found his Red
Sea in San Francisco, in the shape OF
a black-cyed girl who wins 81 .0Ot
nightly, and has broken several bank:
in the city.
The toast of "The ladies' NIGH
have been given ut Il recent literary
banquet thus: "Woman-thc fairest
work of all creation. The edition i:
large, and no man should be withou
Il copy"
Women always measure thci
l strength in the beginning agains
men they are OH the eve of loving
. They make brave display of battle
at first; but when they once yield,
. they yield forever.
| The young lady students in l.,
l. Roy, Pa, are "doing" the Eatin in
c very practical manner. One of thcI,
has a beau, and he asked her wha
c "sic transit gloria mundi," meant
+ She translated il: :'Come and see IN
8 oil Monday"
: a gallant school-boy's toast: eth
l girIs-May they add charity to beau
: ty, substract envy from friendship
multiply genial affections, divide tim
by industry and recreation, rcduc
, scandal to its lowest denomination
and raise virtue to its highes
power
A clergyman said to man buryin:
his fourtl, wife: 1.-The Lord has in
decd afflicted YOU" The mourncr
sobbing, replied: "ics, yes, he has;
and pausing Il moment. and wipin.
his nose, he continued: "But dom
think the Lord got nurl, ahead of me
for rs fast rs he took one took an
other"
\ young lady who had been sud
denly lifted from hereditary povert,
to opulcncc by an alliance will
, money AMI old age. called the attcn
: ton Of her mother to one of her we'd
. ding presents in the shape of n cluster
i, diamond ring. The old lady dropped
, her spcctaclrS to the end of her nos,
and exclaimed: "That n diamond
ring! l.or' sakcs alive, ! thought i
, was an old seed wnrt y
This is the way it Is done in Crane
= Haven. according to the Herald
, ''rhc other night - young man pro
. pounded the usual question to th'
( idol of his heart. She laid her soft
, white hand in his. put her head upol
c his manly shoulder. hove n sweet
l. sigh of resignation. and in dulcc
! accents that sounded like sweet mu
, sic upon the water. whispered: Yes
$ dear. anything to beat Grant.
e The Fat Contributor stands iirml,
t for woman'S rights. lie says: .
t. am not only in favor of womam''
0 rights, but of womam's rights an'
, lcfts. am in favor of women voting
| provided they vote for me. l see M
: reason why n woman should not holt
y Office, except perhaps the difficult! o
. gcttim: hold of it. Nor should there
e be any bar to Il woman's accomplishing
/ property and supporting the famil!
9 if she wants to-
The Macon. Georgia, Telegraph
:. thus ventures to point u moral ant
adorn tale:
"lt is reported that several young
l ladies at fashionable watering place
+ who had the benefit of pious train
e ing, still show the fruits of their earl,
Q education by using on Sunday fol
embonpoiat nothing but religious
newspapers. They are true as steel
: too, to their dcnominational tencts
5 and n bright little Presbyterian
: blonde patronizes the Southern Pres
c byterian; another black-eyed discipl,
u of Wesley, will support nothing saw,
] the Christian Advocate; while Ger
b. tain coy maiden, with a dark com
plexion and flowing ringlets, who ha
n been under the water, clings to tn
dear Index, which is 90 eloqucn
. about immersion aud the necessity O
being buried beneath the liqui,