National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-05-26
FOR THE WOMEN,
Miss Brownstone saws that if s.

Miss Brownstone says that if she has
a dog she wants one of those great Sarah Bernard
dogs that dig those dear old monks out of the snow
in standardization Commercial Bulletin.
-" The first baby" says the New York
| Tribune, is something more than an event-it is
an episode" What does Editor Hay mean by
this? Is it his desire disturb the sweet serenity
of Editor Reid's honeymoon?
The Earl of Gainsborough wishes to
| lay the body of his daughter, Lady Blanche
| Murphy, beside that of her mother in the family
vault on his estate, and the poor young ladys re-
mains are to be sent to England from Boston.
Mrs. Bell, wife of the inventor of the
telephone, is deaf-mute. If she had not been it
is safe to bet that Bell would not have been such
halloa fellow as he is to-day. The old lady would
not have stood the racket during the experiments
| None but cottage owners will be rec
ognized by society" at Saratoga this season. That
is a sword which will cut both ways To avoid
society" with its emptiness and sham, stop at a
hotel when you go to Saratoga, instead of taking
cottage.
"A patent medicine advertisement is
headed Women Never Think" But let one find
perfumed note, written in feminine hand, in
her husbands coat pocket and she will think
with all her might and main for upward of con-
sderable.-NOrristO,rn Herald.
"A correspondent of the New Orleans
Democrat is much excited over the recent marriage
of a white man to q Quadroon in Opelousas. La,
| and regards it a most unfortunate precedent
The actual existence Of the quadroon does not agi
tate the correspondent so deeply.
-Sojourner Truth, the venerable Afri-
can, who is now one hundred and six years old
has received from England gift of a silk gown,
which, she declares 81 am bound to live to wear
have started in for another hundred years, and 1
want to live now more than ever. There is no bet
ter world than this
He came, he sat from half-past eight till
ten
With Annie, brightest and most witty maid,
In silence most intense.
Would had wealth to traveil" spake he then
Here, take this nickel" quickly Annie safd
''Thy fare in the street car hence"
Maggie Mitchell is making more
money than ever We remember when Maggie
played at Ford's Theatre in 1862 and infatuated
camps used to spend all their pay in boxes
and bouquets. Maggie could have married any
officer in the army she pleased, including the
writer, but she didn't.--Ne,o York Commercial
Miss Bessie Balch, of the United
States, wore at the last queens drawing room a
waist to the bottom of shape tGblier with white
satin wreathed with marguerites bluettes and
buttercups with tiny butterflies lowering here and
there. Court train of black satin brocade lined
with cardinal plush and bordered with the same
combination of field flowers, regulation - feathers
and veil fastened with diamonds, completed this
toilet.
The little son of Mrs. jackson Wilson,
at Wrightsville, Ga, fell into deep well She
soon decided that the only way to save her child
from drowning would be for her to go down into
the well. With q stout heart she was nerved for
the OCCASION aud by the of the little steps
which were dug in the walls of. the well she
quickly descended and snatched her precious
child, almost drowned, from a watery grave She
managed by the same means TO ascend with the
child in her arms, and thus saved her darling boy
from an awful death.
At recent ball given by the Count
and Countess de Camondo in Paris Mrs. J. W.
Mackay was attired as Oriental Jewess. 4
bodice of plain blue velvet, embroidered with
gold, was worn above draperies of pale yellow
silk, interviewer with gold and looped with
clasp formed of large diamonds. The cafian
loose robe was in pale and blue satin, embroidered
all over with tropical flowers and birds in their
natural colors. Her dark tresses were braided
with diamonds and surmounted by 4 tCque IN
lilac velvet embroidered with gold.