Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1874-04-11
ABOUT WOMEN

OF promise.
/. Cne of the Western railroads has
a female engineer Of the beautiful
: blonde order. She makes the
sparks fly.
King KoiTce keeps his 1888 wives
under the same roof with his maga-
zinc Of military munitions. They
do about as he says.
The ladies IN Cincinnati, in CON-
mencinga crusade against liquor
dealers, devoted their firss prayers
to the members of the press.
a Paris letter says il took the
drcssmakers there four years to
make the Duchess OF Edinburgs
trousseau. Young ladies' should
make a note Ofthis.
A Swiss girl passed through A
vOea, Iowa, on last Sunday, en- route
for Kansas, having walked all the
way from Chicago, and purpOsing
to complete her Journey on foot
She goes to meet her lover.
Honorable mention is made ola
Maine servant girl who is now ser
wing her eighty-sccond winter IN
der the same root. She has wash
cd dishes S9,790 times, and comes
yet gaily to her task. Blessed old
girl
A woman lawyer in Chicago
snatUhcd QUO hundred dollars from
the hands Of a defendant and gave
1t TO her client, that being the a.
mount for which shc had sued
That shortening Of the laws pro-
cesses, however, has resulted in her
arrest.
Mrs. Louisa Vannxem Smith,
who lately died at an advanced age
in Philadelphia, was once the hand.
soonest woman Ia that city. Her
beauty doubtless accoents for her
! longevity, for without something
like that to soOthe and sustain her,
no woman conld jerk Vanuxem
Smith mach beyond the halfway
house.
A Corking Qa.) youth paid his
attentions TO two yOung ladies and
proposed marriage to both. They
found out about it, invited him TO
the house of one of them and asked
him TO take a scat between them,
which he did, sitting down in a tub
of water over which a covering had
been nicely spread. Then they po-
litcly requested him not to be in a
hurry to go, but he went.
A Baltimore woman was taking
time by the forelock. A few days
since sho brought 20 tho register of
wills in the city a will made by her
husband and which she desired to
file for probate. "When did he
die ?" inquired the sympathetic
clerk to whom the document was
handed. "Why, bless you" respon-
ded the woman, che amt dead yet,
but hc gave me that, (pointine to
the wilD, and he drinks a quart Of
liquor every day, and | guess"
continued she with laugh, "he'll
play out in about three months"
The officer bad no more to say, and
quietly filed away the will.
Some lonely maiden IN New York
is signing for an escort to tho The
aters. The dear things proposes
in iniation of ST Louis society,
she says-that an association of
young men should be formed for
the express purpose Of serving as
escort to stray waits like herself.
This is a Christian girl, too, and
must have an escort who is religious
and she therefore insists that the
young men must be members Of tho
Young Mems Christian Association.
But how is their fitness in other
respeC table matrons, says thc dear
thing; and tho fact of their men,
bership should be sufficient evidence
of their character. She thinks that
thus a largo number Of deserving
young clerks and poor young men
could earn something every even
ing, besides enjoying all the amuse-
ments (as tho lady would, of course,
pay Cor the tickets.) Whether she
would also provide for the cigars
s.sd dfiaka which the youth might
indulge in during the intermissions,
and whether the acquaintance, once
begun, would be allowed to ripen
into intimate friendship, tho dear
thing does not say. At all events,
/ have no doubt that hundreds of
our young men will jump-jumpy
plunge at the idea.
Il young lady in this city who has
a mother that is rather too circum-
spect to suit her fancy, complains
that every time charming Gus calls
TO see her, mother seats herself in
the parlor with them as though she
was trying 10 sit them out. She
says Gus sometimes stays until u
o'clock, but her mother don't get
tired worth a cent, and she firmly
believes that the old lady would sit
there and knit aud sew until broad
daylight in the morning. A few
nights since Gus remained until
o'clock in the morning, Just to sec
how things would work; the moth
Or hummed that lively old tune,
When shall VIC three meet again.
and when the beau announced that
nc was going, she placidly said,
Oh, don't be in a hurry, adjusted
ler glass es, and went on with the
une. After dinner the young lady
with her mother, and said
he did not like it. Why said the
mother, Il thought you would like
o have my company NO, moth
~ she said, your room about the
ime Gus is here would be compa-
", and you must know that my
pinion is, two is company and
hree is a crowd. The mother is
low debating the question, and says
he believes that is the way she
sed to think when she was court
lg.
WHAT MARK TWAIN THINKS OF
he ROYAL BRlDE.-Mark Twain
q his Innocents Abroad thus de-
eribes the Duchess of Edinburgh as
be appeared about seven years ago:
)uring the imperial reception who
YER chose stepped forward and
poke with the modest little Grand
duchess Marie, the Czrr's daughter.
he is fourteen years old, light-hair-
d, blue-eyed, unassuming and
,retty.' Further on he = = = Il
vas glad 10 observe that she wore
Ter own hair. plated in thick braids
gainst the back of her head, in
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