National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-05-20
FOR THE WOMEN.

1t is said that Maggie MitchelPs net
profits this season will reach $4,000.
Mrs. .Langtry is again in London, the
observed of all observers. Her husband is with
her now.
One of the grounds on which an
Ohio wife demands divorce is that her husband
habitually sleeps with pistol in his hand.
Miss Kirkland, of Chicago, has fin
ished a statuette of John Mccullough as Virgin
ius. She took advantage of rugged Johns absence
from the country.
Miss Mackay, the daughter of the
gentleman known as the "B Bonanza King" Is en-
gagged, it is said, to marry Count dHarcourt a
kinsman of Marshal MacMahon.
"A Cincinnati man has been arrested
for biting piece out of his wife's arm. 1t was
claimed this was only an Ohio mans method OF
showing the strength of his affection.
"A fashionable married couple, whose
drawing room is adorned with handsome motto
of There's No Place Like Home" have just
started on trip to Europe, to be absent one year.
-Vassar girls should not make fun OF
spectacles The first time pair of spectaeles get
on board of mans nose they are as unwieldly as
if they were having their first ride down the ban
nisteTs.
The girls of neighboring high school
have agreed to wear gingham dresses at the COM
ing commencement. They argue that twelve
cent gingham, with fifteen dollars worth of trim
ming. and the customary jewelry, is good enough
for any commencement
"A West End Miss we'll call Dolly,
Whose head was full of girls folly
Used lead eosmaiqBes
On both of her cheeks,
And now sleeps beneath the red holly.
Mrs. Stonewall Jackson's father, who
is still living, is Presbyterian clergyman, Rev.
DR.. Morrison of College Home, C.. The first wife
of Stonewan Jackson also was daughter of
Presbyterian clergyman-Rev. Or. Jenkins at one
time chaplain of the navy.
-"Gentle maid, why so detected?
Pray tell me why this great distress?
Pray dol" sighed he.
Why, Tom proposed so unexpected
That said no when meant yes;
Boo-hoo!" cried she
81 DESIRE" said the husband to the
wife as they were walking along the shore, "thst
when die 1 may be buried in a plain, stained
pine coffin, without expensive trimmings" "But,
my dear" said she, chow much more respectable
and fashionable it would be TO have black walnut
and silver" Possibly" he said; but / was
thinking of that for you.''
Alexandra Dumas fls is the author of
the following maxims. They are written in the
album of the beautiful Vicomtesse d'A.: "I like
wicked people better than stupid people, for they
rest at times. 8 Men look at women from
head to foot; women look at men from the feet to
the head. Allwomen wish to be esteemed.
They care less to be respected. : You must
never try to convince woman by reason but al
ways by the emotions"
Princess Jeanne Bonaparte, daughter
of the late Prince Pierre Bonaparte and sister of
the young man who recently married Nile. Blanc,
can. Mile. Greyy, the daughter of the French
President, is also to be married-to NJ. Francois
Charmes, once journalist and now one of the
chiefs in the department of the Ministry of For
eign Affairs. 1t is supposed that NJ. Charmes will
receive, as wedding gift his appointment to some
important diplomatic post.
When Miss Una C. Pearson arrives
at years of discretion she will conclude that Du-
range, Col was good place to be born in. She is
the first native of that fiourishing camp and her
advent was the occasion of much JOY among the
hard-tisted frontiersmen, many of whom. no
doubt, had not seen baby for twenty years That
was tender-fOot" " whom the veterans were glad
to welcome, and within few hours after her ap-
pearance in this vale of tears she had received
presents of all kinds and values, in
Guiding bag of gold-dust half dozen bottles of
a dog, a town lot, years sub
scrption to the local newspaper four tons of coal
and n noSt -Ofica hOx