The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-01-06
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FEMIN1NITIES.


A New York jury has decided that wedding
presents belong to the wife.
The Grown Princess Victoria Of Prussia Is .
womans right woman
"Two bits worth Of complexion" is the way
fhe Santa Barbara belle puts IL as she mean
ders into her favorte drug store.
AT the Baltimore baby show "two-thirds 81
those present were well known old bachelors
Prof Darwn's son has married nm American
en Thf J ws6 y p Ss al'' one owing u
A would-he suicide wrote these farewell
words 10 his wife "Dear Mary, when my body
is dragged out of the river they can identify II
by The linen patch you put in the seat of my
black cloth trVwsers."
A Spanish illustrated paper Ia threatened
with prosecution for publishing portrait OF
the Princess Mercedes, the destined bride OF
King Alfonso, the portrait being by no means
fattering ..
While growing at her husband last sum
mer. New York woman was struck by light
ming and instantly killed. tf you wish your
wife to see this paragraph, cut Ii out and paste
Il on the looking glass
London dressmaker worked eight girls
twenty-three hours Mt u stretch In order to
complete a wedding outfit, and had to pay u
fine of $50 to say nothing Of getting adver-
tised for inhumanity
One Of our citizens says there is nothing
really astonishing about The case of the Rhode
Island man who Is alive with two bullets in
his head. for he has daughter whose head is
full Of balls and parties all the time.-I Mon
tague Lumberman.
Satin is now the rage. It went out Of fash
ion In England twenty-eight years ago. when
Mrs. Manning, a celebrated murdereas at one
time ladys maid 10, the late Duchess Of Suth-
erland, was hung In a black satin dress.
An elderly couple who were married In East
Greenwich. X. l., after short oourtship. four
months ago have already separated, having
found that at sixty-tive or SO they were not
compatible.
The two ladies among the wives of Senators
10 whom is awarded the supremacy In beauty
are Mrs. Conover, Of Florida, and Mrs. Dor
Rey, of Arkansas Mrs. Dorsey is u native of
Ohio, and Mrs. Conover Of New Jersey.
The New York courts have decided that q
man must pay his wifc's funeral expenses out
OF his own pocket even II she leaves money
enough to do II with. IT. however, the wife Is
charge her estate the extras due to church
forms-such, for instance, as wakes.
A peddler In Green Bay, Wis, cheated wo-
man, and she discovered the fraud before he
had proceeded far. She tried to get her money
back, but the peregrinating merchant would
not listen to any such proposal. The woman
reported at the next house that the peddler
coming had the smallpox and tho fellow sold
no more goods in that vicinity.
An English clergyman says that the chat
tering OF the South African apes Is Ian
guage, and that If he could live long enough
with them he could learn to understand and
speak it. The growl of u bulldog Is Ian
guage, too.
As society is now constituted there is little
use OF trying a classical education on tho av-
erage American girl The young man who
holds her hand on Sunday night after the old
folks are gone to bed, viii soon make her Lat
IN and Greek look very sick Andrews
Bazaar.
Celia Lewis, n pretty Jewess of New York,
sues her husband for divorce because he OBJ
tanned her under false pretenses. Before mar |
riage he claimed to be jew. Now 1t appears
that he is Christian, and she wants TO get
rid OF him.
Have women who go to church for other
purposes than to get married any right to
wear orange hlossomsP This question in
France appears to be n serious one, and was |
the indirect cause of the death of q young gen
tleman Mt Marseilles who took a negative
view of it. Mr.. Daime, editor of the Agile |
his opinion on the subject in the |
presence of NJ. Clovis Hughes, editor of tho |
Jetine Repnbtiqne, who, having been married |
shat amy religious h CEREMONY supposed
sent a challenge. They fought with swords |
III. Hughes was slightly scratched, and NJ |
Daime was run through the lungs and died |
mmediately.
Japan, richly attired Japanese young lady
was found lying dead in castle moat, with |
her fathers head in her right hand and a
bloody knife in her left. This devoted heather
heroine had cut off her fathers head at his
and then killed herself that the
Two might not be taken prisoners.
A ST. Louis girl shook out her stocking
christmas morning, and was bitterly disap-
pointed at discovering no presents. On a
loser examination. however. she was, mada
happy by finding a splendid upright piano.
which, as 1t had concealed itself at the EXP
RENE toe-end of the stocking, had at first
,scaped her attention.
One would recognize Mrs. Hayes anywhere
-, Ia Il ,St.:
ler hair is laid smoothly down by the side of
Ter face, but it suits her remarkably well,
md separates her most decidedly yet unos-
from every other woman in the
DOM wherever she is. Her dress was curl
,usly Inspected by every lady present. two
birds of whom triumphantly remarked, "a
Worth knew she would come to it."-Jen-
lie June.
An Irish jury has had the audacity to assess
woman for damages done to mans heart
ereas was Tilted by winsome young lady of
hirty-five; and, after hearing the sad story |
a lovers woes from his own lips, the gen
rous jury awarded him $3.50 as damages.
that the consolation afforded him is of a
cry solid kind. The lady coolly admitted a s
romise to marry the plaintiff, but pleaded
hat she was not very much in love, and that i
he declined to be dictated to- during the t
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Recently a young woman in New York city
as met by man on the street in broad day
ghts who placed his arms around her neck
nd gave her first rate kiss The PhiIadel- t
hia Times says: so long as girls will persist {
being sweet, and having red lips, and walk
y IN lonely places at night, and young men t
etain their level headedness they.the girls {
lust expect to be kissed There is no valid i
,ason, however, why one should cry about $
like the body comm through the rye. or '
,sh off to police court, as Matilda Pelcher S
ID in New York on Saturday. 1t is calculated +
, discourage the enthusiasm of young men.
no, according to the very best feminine t
lthority, are not any too much given to this v
,rt of thing t
The English Dead Letter ONCE. t
Last year nearly six million letters found |
eir way into the dead letter department off S
q British postoffice, in the large majority of
SEES the cause having been insufficient adj