Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1874-01-03
NUMBER Z
sRoUT TIE LADIES.

\ fashionable young lady in BOstOI
demands S40O pin-money per month
4 pretty foot and ankle get NJ
stairs easier than those not so pretty.
Where shall l put this paper so as
TO find 1t tomorrow" inquired Mary
/ of her brother Charles. "On the look
! ing glass, was the brothers reply.
/ It is stated that there are fifty wild
ows in Orwell. If YOU don't know
where Orwell Is, remember that lg-
+ norance is bliss.
Illinois has elected ten female Su-
/ perintendents of Schools. but nine Of
them married Christmas, and viii re-
sign.
Bishop Meade lately said: "Our
girls are poorly educated, but our
boys viii never find It out, ," which is
pretty rough ON the boy"
Sir Samuel tells US that the value of
girl in East Africa is two cows. The
American girl. on the contrary. some
times gives herself mp to a calf.
4 woman's journal has discovered
that the first daily paper printed in
the English language was published
in I702, by.a woman-ono Elizabeth
Mallet.
A woman in San Francisco proposes
to walk 1000 miles IN 900 hours.
and her husband who Is a Methodist
preacher, wishes the bet was for ten
times the distance and that she would
march of IN a straight line.
A learned doctor in Iowa has given
his opinion that tight lacing is a pub |
lie benefit, inasmuch as its tendency |
IS to kill of all the foolish girls and /
leave the wise ones to grow into wo-
men.
A Missouri Yoman turned her hus-
band upside down in the milk churn 4
the other day because he swore at her
mother. He respects his mother-in-
law now.
The proprietor Of young ladies'
academy in Illinois has utterly ruined /
MS business by causing to be inserted
N a large number of papers a picture
IF the building, with two girls stand
ng on the balcony with last yeas hats
IN their heads.
Pining; sickly women should 90 to
Colorado if they want health and
strength. Mrs. Prather was not able
% sweep her own room when she
ived IN Ohio, but the other day, after
living in IN Colorado one short year,
he chased her husband half n mile
With a pitchfork.
4 Troy editor took his wife to New
FORK. The conductor, when he came
long, recognized our Troy brother
IS entitled to free passage, but not
moving the lady, whispered to him:
Is this lady friend of yours?' '.No,
10, said the Troy editor in haste,
she Is my wife"
A young lady in Indiana sought to
lemolish an unfaithful lover by pub
lshing some verses addressed to him, /.
n which, after prophesying her inn |
Mediate dissolution, she said: Come !
-aZe upon my dust, false one" But |
he compOsitor spelled dust with 81
nd the young man went to see her the |
lext evening.
The very latest thing in the adver-
ising line Is a lady who, through the |
seeks for employment as
n ornamental guest" She will as
ist at dinner or evening parties-by
er grace, her wit and beauty, contri-
ute to the entertainment of guests,
nd she viii do everything ia the high :
st style of art-only she demands
hat a handsome compensation be
made therefor.
Punch has a hit at the domestic SER
ice question in the following squib:
Lady's maid-Please, ma'am, 1 wish
o resign" Lady Why Parker
'ou came hero ea-ls rusturrisIy. La
Us maid-''Ive been looking over
our dresses ma'anI, and find your
hings are not up to the mark, and
7ouldn't do ne credit"
The wedding ring is put upon the
0 urth finger of the woman's left ,
and, because in the original formu-
ar of marriage it was placed first on
he top of the thumb, with the words, !
III the name of the Father" then on {
he next finger, with "And Of the {
'on, then on the middle finger, with {
And of the Holy Ghost" aud final
Y on the fourth with the GAmen'