Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1874-10-31
-ADegT WOMEN.
A gem from one Of Oliver Wend
ell HOlmcs' latest nnems.

- ASAA from one OF OllNer Wcuu =
ell Holmes latest poems:
son IA the breath Of a maiden's Iis:
not The light sossnruer stirs with less;
But never a cable that holds - fast
through ali the battles OF wave and blast
And never an echo Of speech or song
That lives in the habbiinE air so ion-
The daughter Of Baron Alphonse
de Rothschild has just passed at Pa
ris the examination required for
persons who intend to adoDt the
profession OF teacher.
A Cincinnati young man sent a
note to his girl asking at what time
he should call, and received in re-
turn the following brief billet-doux
"DEER JON Comet afpastate.
"MARY."
An Illinois girl drugged her f.
ther and mother the other Ei0ht
when she expected her lover. who is
deaf and talks in a loud voice. and
il was fOrty-eight hours before the
doctor could bring The old folks out
OF it.
The young lady Of Milwaukee,
whose falher collected $500 OF dem
fist for kissing her, stole the money
from her parent and used it all up
in bribing the toothjerker 10 kiss
her some more.
A correspondent writes from a
Swiss town; 81 was much amused
on looking over a visitors book at
the inn to find under the head sOc-
cupatiOn,' two German girls had
written, Looking for a husband
Girls, as you value your lives,
don't get up and get breakfast in
the morning. A young lady at-
tempted il one day last week, and
was burned 10 death. Show this 20
TO your mammas.
Woman's rights arc being curious
ly pFactised in a town ia the West
of England. A very fast lady has
lately been wrenching or bell-pulls
and knockers upon returning home
little late at night after dining
out.
One reason why female telegraph
operators are not more numerous is
because If one OF them wanted to 90
to a ball she'd get up and 90, even
IL the presidents message Sras com
ing over the wires.
The wind took of the hat OF a
poor, unhappy old lady the other
night, but she said cheerfulIy, wip-
ing the mud from Il with the ragged
end of ragged shawl, "At last 1
have found my fall bonnet"
When one woman attemps to pass
another woman going downa church
aisle, and rips of that other wom-
ans hanging pocket in doing il, even
the most cursory examination OF the
latter's countenance will make il
plain that the Sabbath in her soul
has fled.
Mrs. Swisshelm said at the Wom-
ans Congress that IL the women
would sit down by the side OF the
men-they might even sit on their
knees and ssk for their rights.
they would be likely to get them.
Miss Anthony, who Sat mas l-I---i-
ed like Evd, red rose.-Boston
TOst.
Many years ago, Gardiner Brewer,
the recently deceased Boston mil
lionnaire, offered his daughter an
annual income Of $4,000 upon con-
dition that she would remain sim
gle. Miss Brewer had sufficient
Boston brains about her person TO
accept the offer, though she's been
head over ears in love so often, that
the bare recollection Of it makes her
dizzy.
There is a story current in Paris
respecting an actress who was to
play the leading part in a forthcom-
ing comedy of fashionable life, and
who, being late one day at rehear-
sal, was somewhat sharply reproYed
by the author of the play. She cx-
cused herself by saying that she had
been rehearsing with his cOllabora-
teur. "But have no collaborateur,
Mademoiselle; the piece is wholly
from my pen," answered the dram
atist. "YOu forget the dressmaker,"
replied the actress.
The other day, after a meeting Of
a certain famous Women's club in |
New York, the ladies amused them
selves comparing their garters, to I
sec which wore the handsomest, for
garters of extravagant expense
have lately come into fashion, and |
several of these club members wear |
theirs clasped with gold and pre- |
cious stones. The jewelers. are all |
new designs for garter |
clasps that promise shortly to cost I
as much as the bracelets that fash |
ion has discarded. "A charming /
woman and singer in society is said |
to wear a pair Of garters that cost |
$500.-N. Y. Express.
A lady in Maine had q dream |
which was not all q dream. There |
was a painful reality about it. She
dreamed that her husband, who was |
leader of a choir in the village, was |
too intimate with one of the young
ladies who sang in il. Her dream |
told her that in trunk in the girls |
she would find ali her
husbands amOrous letters. So
powerful wa s the influence of the |
vision that the wife searched the |
girls trunk, and there found a pack |
ct of letters, as she half-expected. |
The choir numbers one less than il /
did; the leader has tried arnica and |
hair-restOrers in vain, and has been /
compelled to resign the baton, and |
a divorce suit is pending. And all |
through the influence Of an empty |
dream.