Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1874-09-19

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" Aere.t. sn eager, angered crowd exelaims
Better than yoR dead wall Though pale
and faint
| Our faded Edens better iends and flames.
By fancy painted in her ooarsesi paint"
Every Saturday.
ABOUT WOMEN.
1t is said that four women out of
five stick the postage stamp on the
left hand corner of the envelope.
Female physicians are popular
in London, and strange to say they
are especially popular with their
own sex.
A young mother says that you
may always know an old bachelor
by the fact of his always speaking
of baby as 'it.
The talk In fashionable circles Is
that Miss Bristow, daughter of the
secretary of the treasury, will be
the belle of Washington this win
ter. She is only sixteen.
With a sardonie grin, Wix pour
ed some mucilage into his empty
hair-oil bottle yesterday, and this
morning the hair of one Of she ser
want girls was stuck so tight that
she could not shut her mouth.
After throwing eight boys over
the fence, out of watermelon
patch, Clay county woman charg-
ed them especially: Now sec ere
boys, you'll keep this thing up till
ye get me riled.'
Some women at Long Branch
are wearing shoes or slippers with
gilt heels, and trying TO persuade
the wholly unsophisticated that
they are fashionable. No lady
will appear in these vulgar, Mabille
affairs.
Deaths Order of the Carter
According to newspaper reports,
tight gartering has killed FIVE wo-
men in this country within the last /
six months To fall into poetry !
as Silas Wegg says:
Whene'er we take our walks abroad
Some limping girl We see,
Let's cry aloud with one accord:
"Oon't garter below the knee"
The recently widowed Mrs. MUIR
ply to friends: We'll thin, Mrs. |
Lannigan, when poor Micky, rist |
his sowl, was all nately crama-
shioned, | put him in the joog, do /
ye mind, for thought, ye know,
he'd be feelin' more contented |
there nor any other place at all.'
Are the Joneses backl' inquired !
Mrs. Spilkins, who hasn't been out |
Of town all summer. 'Yes'm,' re-
piled the cnok, 'and Mrs. Brown
and the children got home from
Saratoga this morning. Then,
Mary, you may open the front shut
ters,' continued Mrs. Spilkins, 'and !
cay that we have returned too
Few of the fair sex, who, in obe-
diente 10 the DEGREES of fashion,
have loaded their dresses, eloaks |
and 0onnets down with white and
black Jet ornaments, are aware that
by so doing they are restoring
prosperity to the working classes |
of Venice, who, prior to the revival
OF the taste for jet trimmings, were |
in a state of great distress.
There is girl at Nashua, New
Hampshire, who was so badly |
scalded, when very young, that her |
eountenance is perfectly hideous.-
She went upon the street, the 9TH |
or day, and so revolving was her /
appearance that several ladies fain- !
ted at the sight of her, and a call /
is now made upon the authorities
to forbid her going into public pla-
ces. She once lived at Lowell,
Massachusetts,, where the city was
obliged to take this course.
John Paul, in describing Sara
toga ball, says a lady attracted
considerable attention by having
her dress cut down in the back
with a liberality which astonished
me, and delighted the back-biters
on the back piazza. Twas not
Pampadour style, exactly, rather
more on the barndour order Of ar
chitecture, 1 should say; and moth
ing could be in better taste If la
dy's back we're q bOulevard-but if
not, not
AS a very pretty girl asked a
young man on the Maine Railroad,
this morning, If the vacant seat by
his side was engaged, after saying
No, miss he, highly appreciating
her beauty, unconsciously said,
Are your She so pleasantly and
promptly replied, No, sir that the
agreeable conversation which fol-
lowed for ten miles leads him to
hope for better acquaintance be-
fore his season ticket expires
Boston Transcript.
What constitutes q Saratoga
BELIEF Nine gallons of inflated
panier, 1z6 yards of muslin in trail
ing underskirts, S48 worth of wig
one q inch fan, S36 worth of dang
ling smelling-bottles, card-eases and
straps, 1876 yards OF gros grain silk,
some cotton, pearl powder, s72
worth OF teeth on gutta percha,
six-b4tton gloves, mammoth um-
brsEa, copy of Edmund Yates book
and all hanging on the arm of
something intended to represent
mana sort of amateur gentleman
At meeting in London to re-
ceive a report from the missionaries
sent to discover the tribes of Isra-
el, Lord H was asked to take /
the chair d take he replied, "a
great interest in your researches,
gentlemen. The fact is, l have bor-
rowed money from all the Jews
now known, aud if you can find a
new set. shall feel very much |
obliged
EMPLOYING WHITE LABoR.-We |
learn that the officers Of the Mont |
gomery and Mobile Railroad have |
discharged all negro fremen and |
have substituted strong, intelligent |
white men in their places. This is
Just as it should be; and so long as
there are honest and sensible white 4
men wanting work, We can't see
the sense in bring an irresponsible
nepro 10 do IL. The move Is q /