Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1874-09-12
ABOUT WOMEN.

Cedar Rapids women screcch fire
when their husbands begin 10 wipe
the floor with them.
Some Boston girls are about to
establish a sock -darning factory
for the benefit OF iricndlcss young
bachelors.
Chicago has a rich young lady
who has a strange mania for buy.
ing dogs. She has invested $1,000
in them so far.
a Princeton Ta.) woman vas re
comfy stung on the arm by "a com.
mon honcy-bce, and died IN tvcnfy
minutes.
a woman, while exhortinc at O
prayer meeting at Lockport, Y. Y.
last week, fell in q fit and died al,
most instantly.
An Arizona girl has a fortune Of
10000 head Of cattle, and threatens
e. go to Chicago to escape the i'm
portunities of candidates for her
hand.
Polly Bickiord Of North Wake
field, who Is over 104 years old,
had a tooth drawn the other day,
and, as she has hut one left, she con
templates getting a set of false
ones.
Those little Swiss trinkcls so
commonly seq in Europe arc be-
coming very .ashionable here, and
the girl Of the period makes fine
display Of the pretty nicknacks on
her precious person.
A correspondent explains that
married men have their hair cut
short during the vacation because
they do not. in the absence of their
wives, need it 10 dcaden the blows
of the roIIingpin.
Combination dresses are in high
favor now, and will be probably
next winter. Tho combinations
are not always in harmony in the
matter Of colora, bat that doesn' /
appear to distress anybody very
/ much
Speaking Of engagements, there
is lovely little blonde, aged ten,
at Saratoga, who wears diamond
solitaire on her engagement finger,
and is actually botrothcd to young
man of CORES
pondcnce.
The Lowell Courier says there
is a noticeable increase in drunk.
cnness among the young women of
that city. Girls Is, Is and Is years
old have been arrested on the
streets for this offcnse within few
days.
The list Of women saioon-keep.
ers in the city is nearly as large as
that of the men. This is account
cd for by the fact that many of the
saloon men consider their establish
ments safer, in case of business fail
uro, in their wives Dames.-Chica-
so Journal.
Mrs. Tracy, Of Missouri, had
been sick long time, and Tracy
had her coffin in the barn. When
she died the coffin was found four
inches too short, and the neigh bors
wouldn't even let him saw off four
inches Of the body to make it fit.
Loontine Fay, the retired French
actress, who was once tho only ri
val of Mile Mars in high comedy,
devotes her whole life to good
deeds Some one terms her "a St.
Vincent dc Paul in potticoats,' and
it is said that the common people
declare she has visions and other
divine tavors.
When they want TO find out in
the country if a girl is counting or
not, an old lady steps in and re-
marks: q sayl there amt no one
sick in this here house or nothin',
is there? | seen light burnin'
nigh into twelve O'Clock last night,
but don't smell no campfire nor
nothin' round.
Anna Dickinson says that it is as
much as she can do TO resist fitting
her chair back and putting her feet
on the window-sill. Only one OBJ.
lection is that her shoes might fall
off and kill some innocent horse
standing under the window.-Froc
Press.
1t is very convenient for Mrs.
McFlimsey at the watering places
to put her hat on for breakfast
when she gets up late. A net and
hat hides negligence, and is not
uncomfortable. Besides some Me
Flimseys look better with hats on
than of, as almost everybody
knows.
Mile. Agar, the great French ac-
tress, who has appeared in London,
Is described as a young and intel
lectually beautiful woman, with
fine hair, noble brow, and supreme
grace of figure and movement
The whole house rose to her at the
end of her performance in Cor
neilie's Les Horaces.
Detroit Free Press: We are hold
ing on like grim death to our con-
6dence in Susan B. Anthony. If
it turns out that woman as old
and ugly as she, having for the
past forty \ ears to take hot bricks
to bed with her in July, has been
guilty of anything or other, wen
let the whole world 90 by the
board.
Miss Lilly Conrad, the original
of Rinehart's 'Hebe,' has married
Alfonso Teodolia, Marchese di San
Vito-a handsome young man with
a fno aristocratic face of the true
old Roman medieval type. Miss
Conrad is described 'as beautiful as
an angel-tall and graceful, with
brown eyes, and hair as golden as
Fra angelica painted on his Ma
donnas.'
Mrs. Celia Burleigh, a widely
known speaker and writer in re-
form circles, and widow of the late
VIM. ii. Burleigh, the Connecticut
poet, has recently gone to the City
Hospital in Rochester, New York,
probably TO spend her last weeks,
she being far advanced in consump-
ton. She has, it is stated, neither
q home nor near relatives. -Phila- |
delphia Press.
At the recent annual examina- |
lion at Harvard College of women |
rs candidates for collegiate honors, |
only seven appeared. They all pre- |
-erred to be questioned on elemen-
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