Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1874-05-23
ABOUT WOMEN.

ABOUT WOMEN.
Queen Victoria has twenty-one
grand children to comfort her fast
declining years.
Mrs. Hayden, of Sharon, VT, has
peOny which she watched bios
som for seventy consecutive years.
Chicago has a female sexton who
reserves all the best graves for
young men who fall dead in love
with her.
Grace is u modest girl aud relu-
ses to wear low dresses. Mamma
she remarked 10 her maternal,
'that is more than / can bare
! a New York lady seeks employ
ment as an ornamental guest at
dinner or evening parties. She ex-
poets a handsome compensation for
her unique services.
A New York girl got mad at her
Kansas lover and expressed him
four hundred love letters. She got
pleased again next day and tele-
graphed him to return the letters at
her expense.
A Vienna journal recently con-
tainei an advertisement Offering
the services of 'Anna AgFikoi, sick
nurse, watches dead bodies, repairs
straw chairs, applies leeches, makes
pastry, desserts and delIcacies.
A shrewd old gentleman once
said to his daughter, BE sure, my
dear, you never marry a poor man;
but remember that the poorest man
in the world is one that has money
and nothing else"
A New Bedford wife, who has
not yet completed her fourteenth /
year, has become a mother. The |
couple have commenced early, and /
ought to be presented with one of |
the new territories as a homestead. !
AS the thirty young ladies who
are 10 carry the temperance war TO 1
the Pacific coast are all young, and
probably pretty, the bachelors of
the coast are awaiting the raid with
eager anxiety.
For an instance Of remarkable
presence Of mind, commend us TO
the sagaeious Illinois woman, who,
when her husband was bitten by
mad dog, drew pistol and prompt
ly shot the man.
1t is hard to get ahead OF sharp
witted women. The women's cru
sade in Columbus, Ohio, to avoid
the technicalities of the ordinances
against obstructing the streets,
have rugged up big transfer wag-
on and propose TO move about the
streets on wheels, stopping in front
of saloons aud praying and singing
without alighting.
Miss Lester, of Baltimore, has
sent Tennyson "a wild daisy plucked
from Poe's grave last Sunday. The
package was tied with a satin rib
bon, upon which was written: 'The
only blossom from the nameIess
and neglected grave Of Edgar Al
len Poe, 1874 1t was the only
flower to be found on OF near the
desolate place.
A young lady left her home in
Wilmington, Delaware. in Decem-
Der, TO meet her betrothed husband
who is a captain in the Pacific
Mail Steamship Company, in San
Francisco. He could not get leave
of absence from Yokohama, how
ever, and the lady made the long
voyage to Japan and was married
two days after her arrival there.
1t is thought that the Ex En- :
press will gradually begin to G.
merge from her self-imposed etrdite {
at Chieselhurst, where as yet she {
seldom stirs out, except to cross the {
common to the chapel which holds {
her husbands remains. Her Ma
jesty looked quite herself again
when she went to London recently.
Two girls has been arrested at 7
Detroit lately who are not above [
reproach. They have committed
various thefts, and awhile ago they I
,limbed upon a locomotive, started '
it going, and jumped of. 1t ran t
On until it smashed freight train g
and caused quite a loss to the com
pany. The energetic young wo-
men are not sweet sixteen. s
A lady, mentioned by an ex- h
;hange, is mother of large family q
Of children, and they are all rather I,
A few days after the /
birth of the youngest, not long d
since, little niece Of the lady called I
70 see the baby. After looking at 4
he tiny specimen for a few min
ties, the little girl said, Aunt Ma
ia, don't you think it would be bet r
er to have less of 'em and have C
EN- bigger? b
New York World: A most extra !
D. binary scene was presented at the :
Academy yesterday afternoon at
he benefit OF NJ. Capoul, the tenor {.
IF NJ. Strakosch's company. The !,
women fairly fought for seats, and :
every third victor had a bouquet !,
The building fairly reeked with TO-
ies. Fhe Office was banked up with !;
hem so that all passage way was
Instructed. During the perform :
lnce the stage was literally covered :
With what the manager calls floral
tributes At least a ton was thrown
at Capoul, and certainly not less /
.han two tons were thrown, carried, /
lifted, and passed up by ushers, or [
and other employees. At |
ter the performance the five or six q
hundred ladies who waited at the
stage door to get a last look at Ca
poul, as he came out with his face
were regaled with the spec 2
lacle Of two drays and an Adams {
express wagon taking away the !
floral tributes 1t was, in the Ian
guage of one OF them, sweet :
scented affair
Judge not man by his outward
Of faith; for some
there are who tremblingly reach I
out shaking hands to the guidance {
of faith; others who stOutly ven {
ture in the dark their human conf
dence, their leader which they mis-
take for faith; some whose hope ,