Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1875-05-08
ABOUT WOMEN

4pOO nOAEN.
She that is loved is safe-Jeremy
Taylor.
Oftne 22I, O42 teachers in this csun.
try, l27, us are women.
Miss Elizabeth Thompson, the artist,
is said 10 treat the critics with the
same POliteness that she bestoWs on her
titled visitors Acute Miss Thompson.
A young Chicago clerk devotes his
salary to the support Of his mother and
two sisters-all three habitual drunk
ards.
To father waxing old nothing is
dearer than daughter; sons have spir-
its Of higher pitch, but less iuclined TO
sweet endearing fondness.-Euripides.
A charming young lady who attends
evening church service regularly, is
called the "vesper BELLE" by the dis
tracted youth Of the parish.
A candidate for Office in Mississippi
/ informs his fellOw-c' tizens that, Eat she
earnest solicitation Of my wife and
daughters, have consented to become
a candidate for County Treasurer"
An economical Connecticut girl re-
fused to be married by the clergyman
Of her lovers church because another
parsOn owed her 81 for knitting stock
ings, and was too poor to pay cash. a
A wealthy woman died receu,r ri
Michigan who had paid taxes s-fnder
protest" for fifty years. The protest
part seemed to afford her great com
fort in her last hours.
A handsome Edinburgh edition OF
Edgar A. Poe's works, recently issued,
was printed from type set up by two
young women who learned the trade af-
ter she recent strike of the Edinburgh
printers.
Mrs Oswald Ottendorfer, wife of the
proprietor of the Staatszeitung news
paper, of New York, has given $780,
900 for the establishment of a home
for aged and infrm persons of the
Evangelical Lutheran denomination.
There is no quality Of the mind or Of
the body that 50 irresistibly and instan-
taneOusly captivates as wit. An ele-
CANT writer has observed that wit may
do very well for a mistress, but that he
should prefer reason for a wife.-COl-
ton.
A Kansas farmer purchased a revolt
yer for his wife and insisted on target
practice, so that she could defend her
house in case of his absence. After the
bullet was dug out of his leg, and the
COW buried, he said he guessed she'd
better shoot with an axe.
According to the Hearth and Home,
longevity is the rule among literary
women. Says that journal: Miss Mar
tineau, Miss Bremen, Mrs. Hewitt,
Mrs. Strickland and Mrs. Browning
all either living or not very long de
ceased-were born almost at the be-
ginning of the century. Nine. De
Stael lived to be ffty-one, Mrs. Brad
street ffty-nine, Ida Pfeifer sixty-One,
Miss Milford sixty-nine, Lady Wort
ley MOntagu seventy-tWO, Miss Edge
worth eighty-two, Mrs. Opie eighty
four, Nine. Darby eighty-hve, Mrs.
Somerville ninety-one and Nine de
Genli Rinety-six."
At Aylmer. Canada, = few days ago,
an act was performed by a girl seven
teen years old which was as heroic as
its results were mournful Her little
brother, who was left in her care du-
ring the absence of their mother, fell
through the ice into deep creek, near
the shore of which he was playing
She plunged in after him, and, getting
him TO the surface, thrust him by main
strength into position of safety, al
though by so doing she knew that she
was losing her only chance of escape
When his hands had grasped some
thing on the bank by which he could
draw himself out, she calmly bid him
brace his feet against her and Chamber
up The frightened boy did 50, and
the pressure thus brought 70 bear upon
his sister pushed her beneath the ice,
where her body was afterwards found.
A Java chief who is now very old has
given orders that On his decease his
two youngest wives shall be killed in
order to accompany him to the next
world The two women became aware
of the fate awaiting them and fed 10
the English fort on the border, where
they put themselves under the protec-
ton Of the English flag. The chief
was furious on hearing this, and FORM
ed a plan to get back his fulitiye
wives But the women were neither
ready nor willing to die, and having |
found out that their souls and bodies |
were as much their own property as
his, they propose remaining where life |
Is not held 50 eheaply as in their IA
tive province.
THE BAR CLOSED AGAINST WOMEN. !
The Board of Legal Examiners in |
Philadelphia having refused 10 exam /
inc one Miss Carrie ). Burnham, a can /
didate fer admission TO the bar, she, /
through her counsel, petitioned the |
Court Of Common Pleas for rule a
gainst the Board of Examiners to show |
cause why they should not examine /
her as other students Of law are exam
ined. After some delay the judges re-
fused to grant the petition for a rule, /
one of the judges dissenting. Miss |
Burnbam proceeded at once 10 insti- 1
tute suit against the Board Of Examin-
ers for 500, 900 damages. The case
will probably be carried up 10 the Su-
preme Court of the United States
The ground Of refusal by the exsmin
ing board was that there was no pre-
cedent for the admission of a woman /
to the practice of the law. 50 in Pen 4
at least, women will have to 1
content themselves with the laying .
down the law at home, as they are not
permitted to lay it down in the courts. /
Richmond Wing.
The funeral of Mrs. Eliza Ford, a Ia
dy who weighed between 500 and eco /
pounds, took place the other day from /
her residence, Eighteenth and Hamil- /
ton street, Philadelphia Her history |
has been very peculiar. Seventeen |
years ago last Thanksgiving Day Mrs. /
Ford, who then resided at Darby, was |
engaged in pouring out tea for some 1
guests who had been spending the at !