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The Princeton union., 1881-05-12
Why Eve Had No Servant.

A lady furnishes some of the reasons
why Eve did not keep hired girl:
"There has been much said about the
faults of women and why they need SO
much waiting on. Some one Ca man, of
course) has the presumption to ask:
when Eve was manufactured of a
spare-rib, why was not servant made
at the same time to wait upon her 2
She didn't need any. Adam never came
whining to Eve with ragged stocking
to be darned, buttons to be sewed on,
gloves to be mended fright away
quick, now!' He never read the papers
until the sun went down behind palm
tees, and, stretching himself, yawnel
out, Isn't supper ready yet, my dear {? ,
Not he. He made the fire and hung the
Kettle over it himself, pulled the rad
lshes, peeled the potatoes and did every
thing else he ought to do. He milke5
the COWS, fed the chickens and looked
after the pigs himself, and never
brought half dozen friends home to
dinner when Eve hadn' tany fresh pome-
granates. He never stayed out till IL
o'clock at night, and then scolded be-
cause poor Eve was sitting up and cry
ing inside the gate. He never loafed
around corner groceries while Eve was
rocking little Gains cradle at home. He
did not call Eve up from the kitchen to
get his slippers and find them in a cor
ner where he left them. Not he. When
he took them off he put them under a
fg-tree beside his Sunday boots. In
short, he did not think she was espe-
cially created for the purpose Of waiting
on him, and he wasn't under the inn.
preston that it disgraced man to
tighten his wife's cares a little
The Princeton union., 1881-05-12
WOnnen,s Pockets.

"Oh, DEAR" sighed young woman,
after exploring the festoons and furbe-
lows of her new spring suit with des-
perate air for some time, II do wish
dressmakers would put in a pocket. Or
1 wish [ was man. Bob, how many
pockets have you got?" Brother Bob
after some seconds of profound arith-
metical effort answered with delibera-
ton tinged with sadness: "Well, let us
see, four and three is seven and four is
eleven. but 1 mean to have another put
in my vest right away, and an inside
one on both sides of my coat would be
handy. Father carries things some
times in his hat, but can generally get
along with about a dozen pockets" "
Pockets are a privilege which must be
opened to the female sex. The incon-
veniences of feminine attire for business
purposes are sufficiently onerous with
out making it barren Of pockets. Trim
ming is most all pockets nowadays, ex-
cept that they seem to be put on wrong
side out. Even the lady's purse has to
be carried in the hand, or is exposed in
shallow outside bag with mouth gap
ing to the passer-by. There is scarcely
a woman's right Of which the sex is in
more dire need than the right to
pockets. It is concession which will
not be gained perhaps till wrung from
dressmakers by a campaign at the
ballot-box. But it will have to come.
When it was once decided to teach
women the alphabet, all other exclusive
immunities of manhood were thrown
open to her, and in due time pockets
right side out and receptacles of the cur
rent impedimenta ofimmortal souls shall
be devised both to improve and adorn
the attire of womanhood. What would
man be without pockets2
The Princeton union., 1881-05-12

a HOTEL dinner-The fellow that
sounds the gong.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-12-23
WnlI Street.

New York, December %. 3.-11a.m.
Wheat is about &c. higher, but quiet
and firm, The stock market opened
at decline from yesterdays closing
quotations, from / to q per cent,
Richmond & Danville, and Memphis
& Charleston leading the downward
movement. In early dealings the
market was irregular and unsettled,
the most important change occurring
in Northern Pacific preferred, which
fell off 81 per cent , but recovered II
and R. & D., which advanced H..
Money 6 per cent, and prime mer-
chantile 6a7. Bdf silver, 1921;
exchange steady at so for long and
81 on sight; governments arc quiet and
unchanged; States dull; railroads
light, with requests for stocks. Since
II am. tho market has been active but
irregular, with tendency downward
and lower prices. 6s extended, 1909
5s, 1925 4ls, l14I; Is, 11Ss
Pacific 6s, 95 to 125.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-12-23
DECORATING CHRISTMAS
TREES.
Pretty and Becoming Paper
Chains and Gimcracks
Made Hf Home.

Plant your tree in a small wash tub
filled with brickb4ts or hod of HARD
coal or anything that is heavy and will
keep 1t in place, and cover over the
tub with gayly striped afghan or Q
fur robe or flag, and upon this base
many of the larger articles, such as
books, desks, etc., may be arranged.
Tue children can manufacture many
beautiful decorations for the Christ
mas tree, in which they will take quite
as much pleasure as it they were from
the fancy shops. With a few sheets
o gilt, blue, scarlet and silver paper
cut into tiny strips four inches in
length and half an inch in width.
you can make long chains to en-.
twine from bough to bough Of the
tree. With a bottle Of mucilage paste
the two ends of the strips together
until half Of them are made into rings;
then make up some more by slipping
one end through two rings and joining
them together. Let the three rings
become dry and join them into long
garlands. Suspend around the outer
branches of the tree from top to bot
tom. Twenty yards will be needed to
trim large tree, twelve for small
one.
lfyou possess a broken looking-glass
carry it to a glazier and have it cut
into bits three inches by two. Paste
a bit O. brown paper over the back Of
the glass and bind the edges with
strips of gilt or scarlet and blue papers.
and paste bit Of ribbon or paper at
the top to suspend them from the
boughs. You cannot have too many
tiny mirrors.
Little lace bags made Of bobbinet
lace or illusion, by running them
together with scarlet, blue and gold
cOlored worsteds, and using a bit of it
for string to draw them together,
are also very pretty and desirable when
filled with nuts, raisins and sugar.
plums for the children.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-12-23
BY CABLE.

LONDON, December 23.-The Lord
Mayors fund for the defense of prop
erty in Ireland amounts to e7O,0C0
The fund for the relief of Irish ladies
in distress has reached 10000
The Mincing Lane Markets, Lon
don Stock Exchange and Liverpool
Cotton Exchange will be closed Satur-
day and Monday, the oath and 26th,
and the Liverpool Cotton Exchange
will also be closed on the 3lst inst,
and I'd of January.
Reports are current at St. Peters
burg that the relations between Russia
and China are somewhat strained.
Large purchases of Panama Canal
stock are reported from Paris on the
American account.
BERLIN, December 23.-Emperor
William gave an annual banquetto the
diplomatic body last evening.
CORK, December 3d. Later partic
ulars from Aghaballague represent
that the men engaged in repairing the
Protestant church there were not
attacked. They were only Boycotted.
ALEXANDRIA, December %
rhirty-two deaths are reported from
cholera at Elmedy for the week ending
the 18th inst. Some caravans broL e
quarantine by avoiding the ordinary
route.
ST. PETERSBURG, December 23-
The persons who participated in the
anti-Jewish riots last August are now
on trial by court-martial at Miejin.
Among the prisoners are some ofthe
wealthy merchants, accused of melting
the mob.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-12-23
VIII a Railroad Ever Cross the
sahara?

Some years ago Victor Hugo made
an after dinner speech in relation to
the possible future of Africa, which was
ridiculed even by people possessed Of
an intelligent Imagination. The ground
which the great poet took was that,
perhaps many centuries hence Africa
would develop civilization of her
own as wonderful in its way as any
civilization that has yet existed. Sure
ly, it is not more remarkable that in
course of time a highly cultivated
race should develop from negroes than
that human beings be evolved from
the quadrumana-and the latter is a
theory almost universally accepted al
present hy the scientific world. 1t is
not known whether the project in con
temptation by the French, Of building
across the Sahara, will have any effect
in fastening the realization of Victor
Hugo's dream. The idea is to CON
struct a rosd Of this kind from the
headwater5 of the Niger to the French
possessions in Africa, and then to form
a union with another railroad running
east from Senegal. There are numer-
Gus obstacles at present in the way of
this project being carried out. 1t has
long been cherished by the French ma
ton, however, aud there is every prob
ability that it will one day be fully
carried out.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-12-23
ADDITIONAL COTTON.

LIVERPOOL. December %, 3 pm. -
Cotton fair bushes at previous prices.
Uplands, 6 ll-16d; Orleans, 6 f3.l6d.
Sales to-day, 10000 bales. Receipts,
225O bales; American, 1000 bales. Flu
lures and steady.
MANCHESTER, ENG, December %,
3a.m.-Yarns and fabrics are firm.
New ORLEANS, December %. II 80
a.m.-Cotton quiet. Middlint, 11kc.
Sales TO day, 500 bales. Receipts
1919 bales. Steck, 322,752 bales.
New YORK, December %. 1925 am.
Cotton inactive. Ordinary, 9 5-l6c:
good ordinary, 10 1l-l6c; low
middling, II 9-16c; middling, l2c;
good middling, l2sc; middling
fair, 1870; fair, l3Jc. Futures barely
steady at very little change from last
evenings closing figures, except on
December deliveries, which arc 10
points higher.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-12-23
Pretty Girls in Mexico.

st. Louis Globe-Demoorat.
The Mexican girl has not the life,
the yivacity, the animation OF the
American girl, but she is very lovely
in her way, and think her the best
product of the country. She has the
most beautiful eyes in the world, with
a soft, languishing expression in them
for those who like that sort of thing
a good complexion, not rosy, but col
orless; a maenifeent head OF hair and
a very shapely head to wear 1t on; a
slim waist and a graceful walk. She
is perfectly modest, in fact, rather
timid perfectly we'll bred, and does
not find it dull to nave the old folks
along. Itwould be hard with her il
she did, for these would as soon think
of letting her 60 up in balloon as OF
letting her 60 out Of their sight.
figured up that there must have been
at least 800 pretty girls in the crowd
and it was pleasant to pass two hours
between nine and midnight admiring
them.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-12-23
The AltacI. on SnrnI,.

Particulars of the attack on Sarah
Bernhardt in Odessa have come to
hand. A furious crowd gathered
around her carriage, and, amid cries of
Down with the Jewessl" "Out with
your money" threw stones at the
vehicle. The coachman, however. wa !
able to break away from the crowd and
Mile. Bernhardt reached her hotel in
safety, but here another crowd was
gathered and the attack recommended.
Nile. Bernhardt opened the case con-
tanning the jewelry she had Just worn
and flung them among the people. A
scramble Immediately ensued, and the
actress and her companion, taking ad
vantage Of the lull, rushed into the
hotel, the doors Of which were at once
closed. While Mile. Bernhardt Law
fainting in the hall, the mob endeav-
ored to effect an entrance, shouting
"Out with the Jewessl She has given
us false diamonds. Out with her. OF
we shall smash everythinglp The ae-
tress, who had quickly recovered from
her swoon, laughed gayly, exolsimipg
DO these gentry think | am going Il
cast pearls before swine7" Quiet wa
not restored till past midnight and ;
number Of arrests were made. -Tb,
troops occupied the houses Of III,
Weather Jews to defend them from
AGGRESSION, and patrols promenade,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-12-23
Maury Opposes the IOO-s.
Cor. Nashville World

Cor. NASHVILLE World.
COLUMBIA, December 20.-The real
truth is that this county is strongly
opposed to the 1908 settlement.
Ninety-nine one hundredlh of all re.
spectacle, honest and industrious
farmers exeerate such a settlement,
and feel defrauded and outraged by
the measure. Our people will readily
assent to 50-4, and will resist repudia-
tion, but they are bitterly opposed to
the 100 3 Can't you send us some
one to publish a peoples paper-anti-
l00-3-in this town? am sure very
large subscription list could be OBJ
tanned, and great success attend a bold
and persevering enterprise in this
direction. Our peoples sentiments
are not reflected in the two papers as
now published here. Respectfully,
CITIZEN TAXPAYER."
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-12-23
TEXAS NOTES.
Notorious RObber Caught-Fighf
Between SmuggIers and
CustOmhOuse Guards.

ST. LOUIS, December pa Texas
special says: Stewart, the notorious
train rObber, incendiary and bank
robber, has been arrested at Houston.
1t is said that he robbed the Chicago
& Alton train of $4,000. Detectives
have been looking for Stewart for
seven years. He will be taken to
Kansas City, where ten indictments
stand against him.
A Dallas dispatch says a combat
between twenty smugglers and custom
house guards, assisted by cavalry,
occurred just across the boundary in
Mexico. Lieutenant Meja, com.
mandiDg the cavalry, corporal and
one private we're killed. The SNUG
glors escaped into this State with
considerable booty.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-12-23

Pail Mall Gazette,
The sporting correspondent of the
Saturday Review consoles us for the
triumphs Of Mr.. Lorillard and Mr..
Keene as follows: ut is no disgrace to
the English turf when its races are
won by horses of English blood" etc.
1t may be no disgrace, but from ma
tional point of view it is to be re-
gretted. 1t may not have been dis
graceful to General Burgoyne's army
(his men, We believe, struggled stoutly
enough, which is more than can be
said OF our present four-footed cham
pions) to have been worsted at Sara
toga, but it would have been cold
comfort to old George LII to have told
him that he need not mind it. be
cause his soldiers had been beaten
by antagonists of the same race
The professed object of the turf
and Its only defense against moralists.
always has been that by its help we
bred, for England, the finest horses in
the world; and that this result was by
no means an unimportant one in esti-
mating the social and political re>
sources OF the country. II the Satur-
day Review is satisfied, as seems to be
the case, that all our expenditure and
all our efforts should end in our Civ
ing foreign countries a type of animal
superior to anything we possess, we
have no more to say. To US il is her
feetly obvious that the manner in
which American racers have come
and they will continue to come-as
conquerors to EPSON and Newmarket
is conclusive against the modern sys
tenn Of breeding, training and running
horses as compared with our older
methods; but the racing tradesman in
possession has got (for the moment
only, believe) the kind Of horse he
wants. and there are none SO blind
as those who won't see.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-12-23
A PeIriGed Forest.
Colorado Register CALI

Col0rad0 hoglster-Calll
From twenty to thirty-fye miles
from Denver, between Cherry Greek
and Running Greek, the Denver &
New Orleans railroa forces struck an
unusual obstruction, it being NOTHING
else than a buried forest. The trees
are all petrifed and agatized, are Of
all sizes, and lie buried at various
depths, from ten to twenty five feet
which is as deep as any excavations
were made BY the workmen. They
came upon these relics of bygone age
in at least halt dozen localities, and
have met with not little difficulty on
their account. The trees are very
perfect and could be taken out nearly
whole if suitable machinery was
employed. The trees show the bark
and the grain very perfectly. Above
these buried representatives of . once
mammoth forest grow the pines Of the
present generation.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-12-23
CyeRrInghouse Renorf.
Window Pictures.

Boston Letter to Fargo Republican,
The most elaborately decorated win.
dows ever seen in Boston are those OF
the large store of Jordan & Marsh
corner of Washington and Avon
streets. Their five large windows
present a full illustration of the poem
commencing: Twas the night before
Christmas and all thro' the house. y
etc. Three windows present as many
rooms in an elegantly furnished home,
the first being the nursery, where the
children lie awake in bed listening for
Santa Claus the second the room of
pater familias, where mamma 10 her
kerchief" lies in bed while L in nv
cap land night robe) is looking out at
the window. On chairs and on the
floor in these two rooms lie elegant
dresses, underclothing, tiny boots.
silken elastics, ETC.. in lovely disorder
as though they had just been worn.
The finest scene is sledge containing
Santa Claus and drawn by eight real
(but not liye) reindeer, very spiritedly
mounted, The crisp snow and keen
moonlight make this a
picture of which one never tires.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-12-23
Great Lumber Regions.

The great lumber producing regions
Of the northwest are divided into three
distinct districts, known as the Mis-
sissippi valley district, the Eastern
MICHIGAN and Huron shore, and the
Lake Michigan. The first named,
embracing the territory drained BY the
Mississippi, St. Croiz, Chippewa, Wis
consin aud other rivers, produced last
year, 1000. 100000 feet Of lumber. and
$50, coo, 900 shingles, The second dis
trict, including the Green Bay Shore,
Cheboygan, Manistee, Ludington,
White Lake, Muskegon, Grand
Haven and Wolfriver, yielded about
the same amount, while Eastern
Michigan, taking in the Saginaw val
ley and Huron shore, produced about
| 200, 100000 feet. Although there
has been an unusual cutting in the
Saginaw valley, the greatest increase
this year is in the Mississippi valley.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-12-23
River kilograms.

LOUISVILLE, December 23.-The
river is rising, having 10 feet 1Oinches
in the canal, and l2 feet 8 inches in
the chute on the falls. The weather
is cloudy and chilly. The Condor and
tow, from Pomeroy to Pomeroy, and
the VIM. Ernst and tow from Pome.
roy, arrived last night. The Nellie
Spier and tow, to Pittsburg; W. W.
O'Neil, Fred. Wilson, Alex. Swift and
the Pacific arrived from Pittsburg
with coal.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-12-23

THREE men have mutilated them
selves by chopping off their hands, in
the Kentucky penitentiary, within the
past few months, the last being man
named Denham. who murdered George
Ray in Pulaski County, in 1878. The
self mutilator had task at breaking
hemp, and claiming that it was more
than he could do, and dreading pun
ishment, he took an axe, laid one hand
on block, and with the other severed
it from the wrist at single blow.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-12-23

Louis Niros and Herbert Leach, Bos-
ton, Mass; Peter johnson, Sweden;
Ed. Stats and August Goertz. Ger
many; Adolph Dressler, Berlin; Henry
Wilson, Sweden; H. Erickson, Den
mark; Henry d. Warren, Providence,
II. l.; Henry Kaack, Germany; George
Kahn. Prussia; G. W. Boyd, Pnila-
delphia; John Linderback,, 4, South
Germany; Nelson Jansen, Denmark;
Fred. Neuman, New York, and three
Chinese, a steward, cook and boy.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-12-23
ghe weather.

WASHINGTON, December 23.-FoI
Tennessee and the Ohio valley, colder
and clearing weather, with northerly
winds and higher pressure. For the
lower Missouri valley, fair weather
and variable winds shifting to south
erly, with a stationary or higher
temperature in the north and west
portion and lower pressure.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-12-23
Diamonds Under 1he Hammer.


fhlladelphia Ledger.
Another attempt will be made BY
Messrs Thomas & Sons to submit to
public competition the celebrated col.
lection Of diamonds and jewelry, once
the property of Mrs Vein, widow OF
the deceased Frankford manufacturer
but which are now in the control OF
creditors. On two previous occasions
the sale has been stopped at the last
moment by injunctions issued at the
instance of Mrs. Vein, but the parties
interested in the proceeds of the sale
now say that all possible legal tactics
have been exhausted. The catalogue
is divided into twenty-nine lots. and
authorities on such matters say that it
is the finest collection which has ever
been disposed ofunder the hammer in
this city. Among the special features
are pair Of solitaire diamand ear
rings, each stone weighing 261-16
carats; pearl necklace and diamond
pendant with fifty brilliants in each,
and set of pearl jewelry, comprising
necklace, bracelets, earrings, tiara
and breastpin, which is pronounced as
being unique. Another pair of ear
rings weigh l34 carats each, and dia-
mond and gold breastpin Beetle, {"
hair dress and loeket have sixty stones
and still another pair Of cluster brace
lets set with nine pearls, rings with
six stones, and several lace pins set
with diamonds and emeralds. Every
article in the catalogue save four is
studded with precious stones.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-12-23

COLONEL MCKEE, the Chairman Of
the Kentucky delegation to the Chi
cago convention, and one of the
immortal 3O6 champions for Grant,
is the authority who announces that
tho General will spend a month at the
White House with President Arthur,
Immediately after the holidays.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-12-23
Millionaire PuIIman's Gin and
Sugar Days.
Denver Inter-0cean.l

OenNef lhter-Dcean.l
In 1860 Judge Sumner, now of Las
Vegas, kept the Guy House at the
foot Of the big hill on the road to the
Gregory Diggins. He relates his first
remembrance Of George Pullman, of
palace car fame, in this wise: "One
morning as the coach came dashing
down the hill at break-neck speed, +,
it wheeled up at the door for change
OF horses and stout, red faced man
jumped from the box and called out:
Gin and sugar for twelve and bottle
Of hair oil for one. This was George
Pullman and the bald headed man
was Joe Chaffee. Henry Willard, the
fifty million man Of the Northern Pa
ci6c, took soda"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-12-23
Liverpool Market.

LIVERPOOL, December 2s.-Bacon
i. O., steady at AIS Cd; shoulders, dull
at 36s. Lari-prime Western steady at
56s. Tallow-prime city, frmer at 4Os
Sd. Rosin-common, steady at Is.
Turpentine-spirits steady at London,
at Ais Cd. Corn-mixed, steady at 5s
I0d.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-12-23
The Postmaster at LouisviIIe,

Special to the COurier-Journal.l
WASHINGTON, December 21.-Mvs.
Thompson, postmaster at Louisville,
intended to leave for home tonight,
but she is delayed by business con-
nected with her Office, and will not de-
part until to morrow night. There is
nothing definite in regard to her
office. President Arthur has not
given attention as yet to the minor
Federal appointments, where there
are cOntesting candidates. He will
take them up after the holidays.
Mrs. Thompson believes firmly, how
ever, that she will bo re appointed.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-12-23
Novel Use for a Hotel Register

Nhhnfli0 WOriO'
Last night Texas doctor walked
up to the register at the Maxwell
House, and asked the most princely OF
hotel clerks to permit him to register.
Oh Otcourse the book was wheeled round
to him with alacrity and pen with a
full dip oil ink handed the gentleman,
who went on to state while he was
afixing his autograph that he just
wanted to register so that Representa-
tive H might see that he was
here. but" says Mr, Peacock, "he
does not stay here, and | don't know
that he will see il" Nothing daunted.
however, the gentleman from the Lone
Star State proceeded further to show
where be was going, and having no
further time to waste, shot out OF the
hotel right past the Representative in
question, and Mr., Peacock, with ele-
waited eyebrows, said he had been hotel
clerk for 10 these many years, but this
was the first time he had seen regis
ter used in just such way.