Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-03-26
ABOUT WOMEN.

The late Colonel Forney's son and two
daughters have formed a corporation in
Philadelphia known as the FOrney Publish
ing Company, with a capital stock OF $4,000.
Annie Louise Cary has offered to sing in
Portland, April 1lth, for the benefit Of the
Maine General Hospital. the proceeds OF
the concert will be used in maintaining an
elevator.
y Young lady Who wac valking Oh Union
square asked her mother why she saw 50
many men who had short mustaches OF
months growth. "They are actors ont of
situation, my child. York Herald.
Mrs. Langtry and all the rest of the pro-
fessional beauties can now step down and
out-CIara Belle has spoken, and she de-
clares that Alice Dunning Mrs. LingaTd) Is
the most beautiful woman in the world.
How she ever came to marry William
Horace Captain jerks, OF the Horse Ma
rines" Clara is at a loss to conjecture.
Mrs. F. H. Burnett is mentioned by a cor
respondent OF the New Haven Journal and
Courier as calling her two handsome little
sons her "proit ssional beauties The little
fellows have a high opinion OF their mothers
taste and appreciation, and when the other
day she told one of them who had a had
| toothache that he twas looking positively
ugly" that already sufficiently agOnized
young Adonis burst into fresh weeping and
was not to be consoled.
The last anecdote Of Victor Hugo concerns
Madeline Brohan, and the economy which is
a part OF the poets character. Charles
Hugo, who was paying court TO Mile. Bro
han, received orders to conhne himself to
three shirts week; he disobeyed, and he
punished him; a chop was Withdrawn from
his breakfast fare. After Hermann, when
Hugo, in raptures over his bona Sol,
| kissed her and said: Ask me something,
anything, what you like" she duplicated
| "Let Charles have his chop again"
An Iowa journalist has come across lady
| in that State who claims that in her youthful
days General Grant was very attentive TO
| her. "Uliss," said she, would say to me,
| Let's gather flowers and see which will have
| the most kinds WREN we get through. We
| ALWAYS called him 'Uliss," and while he was
/ counting me and wanted to marry me, my
father used to plague me, saying, He Is the
! greenest looking boy l ever saw and,
smiling to herself, she added, land he was a
green looking fellow. When the flowers
were gathered he would arrange them nicely
and exchange bouquets
ilYou will not have forgotten the sensation
created last year by the legal annulment o.
| a runaway marriage contracted IN Eng anC
| by a Young beauty of a noble family, Mile
d'Imecourt and the son OF Musurus Bey, th'
| Turkish ambassador. 4 few weeks 2ltel
j maternal barbarity separated the lady iron
the husband OF her heart, and lett her neithe-
| maid, mother, wife nor widow, but a niue
all four. Nine. dImecourt had seventeen
fresh matrimonial proposals for her daugh
ter's hand 1t is now rumored that Primo
Galitzin is to be the happy man. Iurke-
has again been cut out by her tradluona
enemy, the Russian.
Lillian Whiting, speaking OF Mr.. Lathrop'
new novel, In the Diaanee, says: Mr.. Lathrol
ia as is we'll known, a son-in-law OF Nathan
lei Hawthorne. OF the three children OF tn
great romancer only two are living, Rose
the wife of Mr.. Lathrop, and his son Julian
who is now in Europe. Mrs. Julian nav
thorne is at the old home, The Wayslde, a
Concord, with her seven children. de
daughters have all somewhat r9 ON nti
names, two of them being called Gisdy ga am !,
Gwendolin. There is something oesnSilGi =
the thought that Hawthorne . grandchiiia:re
are now in that home where he so long iiy We,
and worked, the most obscure man o. Ie'
tersi as he himself said, in America