Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-07-12

Mrs. Oates is going to Paris TO
study four new opera bouffes. !
Annetti Galctti, a famous dancer
fifteen years ago, is living quitely
near Baltimore.
Queen Victoria has cersured four
women this year for appearing at
Court in ''unbccoming' costumes.
The average age OF the graduating
class of Nassar girls is gwen as twen-
ty years but how were the figures
obtained!
The daughter of one of the Siamese
Twins has lately procured divorce
from her husband, Nathaniel Bolejack,
in North Carolina.
Mrs. -. G.. Croly (JcLnic Junc) is
doing Europe like Il telegram but,
being q journalist, she takes in more
at ii glance than stupid people get i'll
week.
In Paris colorcd costumes are COM
ing into vogue for evening wear by
gentlemen, the customary suits OF
solmcn sables being silently abandon
ed to buffers and walters.
The alleged Indian names of some
of the watering places in the nci i"h-
borhoOd of Boston are rs difficult to
pronounce rs the coglomens Of some
of the Russian Generals
The keeper of Il summer hotel III
the East told Il reporter the other day
that the best guests are those who
live the best at their own homes.
There is Il good deal in that remark.
Lace mittens for girls Of the period
are all the rage, and SO long as the
fashion is confined to ladies' Of the
upper social sphere. the price OF the
delicate covering for the hands remain
high.
Another prospect of a rise in silk
comes in an announcement of a heavy
frost in Japan, in May, which killed
many mulberry leaves, and sent up
the value OF the remainder several
hundred per cent.
Freaks Of Fashion: How to be a
a nodc-The compleXion-undis-
guisedly disguised; square corsages
openly cut to the heart: ball dress
cs--barely decent; shirts-tied back
with cll'rontcry. Punch.
The Pope has received II novel
present from Madame D'IIerially. OF
Philadelphia. 1t is teapot from
Honolulu, which keeps tea warm tor
twenty-four hours. The Pope, how
ever. never drinks tea.
Miss Van Lew, the former Post
master OF Richmond, Va, has turned
over the Office to her successor, Col.
Forbes. The local Papers speak high
ly other integrity, but find much fault
with her politics.
Susan b. Anthony will summer In
Rochester, y. Y. She has just re-
turned from two-months' visit with
her brother in Leavenworth, kas. In
the fall she will work for the Woman
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Sutierage cause in Colorado.
Many women of the Russian wealthy
class have enrolled themselves as hos.
pital nurses for the army. Theil
unitoHm is Il gray dress, on the breast
of which is Il red cross white hood
and u short black cloak.
Newport, II. l., has the richest
married lady in the country, the wife
of Prof. Gammcll. The richest un,
married lady-Miss &. L. Wolfe, o.
New York-is also there. She il
taxed for $40, 900, 900 in New York
Marie Seebeach, the German ac.
tress, who played in this country
several years ago, has been requested
by the Dresden Conservatory to EN-.
ploy her leisure time in giving instruc-
tions in the dramatic art to the pupils
Of the higher classes.
Mandarin fans are the newest.
They me said to bc the same as are
used hy the nabobs and bald-hcaded
swclls of China, and are neat, but not
gaudy, il we except what looks to be
a lot of dragons playing ''hcre we go
round the mulberry bush. "
Flora Temple the famous trotter
of the past OH which thousands have
been won and lost, is at Chestnut Hill
farm, near Philadelphia. She is 32
years old and is described by a letter
writer as very poor decrepit old ami
NAL, every bone standing out as though
the flesh had worn away. In her
palmiest days when admired by the
sporting world she was said to be very
homely.
Little girls under twelve wear
princess robes of white cashmere
trimmed with Clovis lace. and bows