Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1874-05-16
ABOUT WOMEN.

ABOUT WOMEN.
Said a Milwaukee orator: 'Gc
back with me 500 years Splnk,
says that he is too busy to 60 him
self, but thinks that his mother-in
law would be delighted.
Laura Fair publishes card in
which she says. d shall demand an
humble apology from each person
who has dared to traduce my
character
A young lady in Ohio was so
moved By a sermon that in the
midst of the congregation she took
out her earrings and stripped the
flowers from her bonnet
Very provoking, says Mr.. Quilp,
to find that your mother-in-law has
hidden your opera-glasses after
you've bought ticket for Miss
Thompson.-Boston Post.
The marriage of Miss Jerome,
daughter of Lawrence Jerome, of
Now York, to Lord Robert Chur-
chill, son of the Duke of Marlbor-
ough, is to take place in Paris on
the 18th of this month.
Olive Logan intends to return to
the stage. She has been studying
anew in Paris, and has been offered
an opportunity to appear on the
French stage in French plays. She
will, however, return TO America
to effect her reappearance.
An exchange asks, why is il
that there are so many bald-head-
ed men and so few bald-headed wo-
men? We presume it is because
few husbands are so unmanly IS to
snatch their wives bald-headed, 10
matter what the provocation may
be.-Courier Journal.
A New Hampshire lady died re-
Gently, after having read the Bible
through thirty-iour times. After
this terrible example it is hardly
necessary to warn readers not to
read the Bible through but thirty
three times if they would live long
in the land.
Mark Twain has "a window put
Just above each fireplace in his
now house, which will allow the fe-
male members of the family to keep
themselves warm will put neglect
ing to observe what is going on in
the street and across the way.
A Maine man has been fined $40
for attempting 10 kill his wife. The
judge told him that if the president
hadn't vetoed the imitation bill be
would have fined him $40 more.-
The decision gives considerable sat
lsiaction throughout the state, as
the women were getting very un-
ruly.
Mary A. Livermore lectures and
breaches nearly 200 times a year,
and ranks next to Cough in the
number of her engagements. She
is now in her home in Melrose,
Mass, preparing two new lectures
for the coming season, entitled,
concerning Husbands and The
Iusurrection of Woman
Mrs. Anna NJ. Fitzhugh, who
died at her home at Alexandra, Va,
a few days ago, bestows the bulk
of her property upon the children
of the late Gen. r. Z. Lee, rcla.
tives of her husband, by whom it
was bequeashed to her. She was
worth two hundred thousand dol
lars in bonds, stocks and money, in
addition to large landed estates.
The Princess of Wales was very
pretty when she was first married;
she is beautiful now; she will be
handsome ten years hence, and she
can never be otherwise than refined
aud distinguished in appearance, if
she lives TO no matter what age.
The Duchess Of Edinburgh, on the
other hand, is not only without
beauty, she is almost without fea-
lures. She has Of l may venture
to describe her in the plain Ian
guage Of the passport ofice) a
round head, fiat face, small eyes
and a nose so insignificant that one
may almost describe it as conspicu-
GUS by its absence.-LcDdon Cor.
n. Y. Times.
A lady correspondent Ofan East
ern paper has 'struck it rich in
giving her ideas Of Madame de Met
tcrnich who has recently returned
to Paris. She says: Never pretty,
but always elegant, stylish, and at
tractive, even while she frankly
displayed her skeleton (being the
thinnest of mortals) in the most
decollete of ball dresses, often wild,
foolish, and ontre. but always the
great lady even in her maddest
caprices. An Austrian who sets
the fashion to Parisians, q plain
woman who eclipsed the loveliest
bellies Of the imperial court, the
widest and most erratic Of beings,
yet she is of spotless virture and
unsullid reputation.