Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-06-11
ABOUT WOMEN.

w. i. Dougherty, contractors and bnIlders.'
Count DeLesseps, who is now in his
seventy-seventh year, was presented lew
days ago by his young vile with another
child-the tenth.
Miss Jane Chamberlain, of New York, now
in Europe is declared to be the most beauti-
| full American girl who has yet appeared at
| the English court
An Illinois woman OF eighty has brought
| suit for divorce against her husband OF
| twenty-five She thinks he married her for
money, and not for love.
A marriage is TO take place in Boston
shortly in which the bride, the bridegroom
and the officiating clergyman. though not re-
| lated, bear the same name.
Representative Mackey, of South Carolina,
| escorted his cOlored vile, who is described as
| a pretty, red-cheeked brunette" to the gallery
| of the House OF Representatives Monday.
| Princess Beatrice is now allowed by Queen
| Victoria to manage the royal establishments
at all the palaces. She prefers this, with
music and painting, 10 marrying German
prince.
Mrs. Ada NJ Bittenbender, of Osceola,
| Neb has been admitted to the bar, and gone
| into partnership. Like Mr.. Beecher's friend,
Ada evidently believes in giving the old man
a chance.
Virginia w. johnson, the author OF An
Neptune Vale, The CdLkW FAIRIES, etc, is
Bostonian by parentage and descendant OF
| Judge Sewall.
| The wife of a Milwaukee physician IS
going TO Jail for fifteen days rather than
pay fine of S., which was imposed on her
| for persstently keeping an unlicensed dog.
She wishes TO be martyr for principle.
They were talking about beauty the other
evening, when Miss Smith remarked: "Well,
l.. bnDnalu raania a almost
always unusually bright" Miss Brown
(sotto uoeel: "The egotist p'-Boston Transcript.
Miss Clara Barton, the well-known hos
pital nurse, lectured last week IN Orange, N.
j., on her experiences during the Franco
| German war. Miss Barton is president OF
the American Association of the Red Cross.
Mrs. Westinghouse, wife of the inventor OF
! the railroad aIr-brake, has been prominent IN
| the American colony in the Eternal CITY oil
| late, and the local papers refer IN apprecla-
| tive terms to her benevolent and generous
acts among the poor.
| Cohoes. n. Y, has had to pay a woman
| $4,000 for leaving a dirt heap in the street TO
inset her carriage and break her nose. The
| city held that she had no legal right to ride
| out on Sunday and be upset, but the court
| decided that she had.
| Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe will complete
| the seyentieth year of her age next Wednes-
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| Houghton, Miffiin & Co. will give a garden
| party at 1.-The Old Elm" the residence of
| Mr.. William Clafiin, in Newtonville, Mass.
Vermont's poetess, Mrs. Julia c. r. Dorr,
| whose legendary poems have gained Tor her
| a public name, lives in very pleasant way
i at 1.-THE Naples" in Rutland, VT. Her
dwelling place il a frame cottage on green
alone. with the peaks OF Killingten and Pico
| not far away.
| Do nothing to thy neighbor that thou
| wouIdst dislike TO be done TO thee. Here
| thou hast the whole law; all the rest is but a
\ commentary. Thus answered Rabbi Hillel,
| probably the teacher of Jesus, to heather
| who wanted 10 learn OF the Jewish religion
| in a lew words. ...s, .- b.
| The Boston papers are Poking fun at Miss
| Blanche Roosevelt by saying that they ind
no mention, in her book on Longtellow, of
| the poets opinion OF the Mosque Of Pdndord,
as produced by her in Boston. lie said 1t
| was the worst he had ever seen in a some
| what varied experience. .1.I a.-
| 1t would be interesting to know what the
| late Mr. Schuyler Colfax means by his reck-
| less and very patent bulling of Miss Anna
! Dickinson's "Hamlet" stock. 1t can hardly
| BE- in contemplation to lniiIct Miss DIekin-
sons rendition of the melancholy Dane"
| upon the Sunday in Indiana.
A New York woman paid so to bs intro
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| if he would marry her. After two months
| of IN trimony and paying him $50, she has
caused his arrest, charging him with threat
| enipg her life for refusing 10 consent to
| separation. The ladies OF New York have a
| tough time in this world. .i.1 ifs.L-A B
Two dressy widows past middle age
| CHANGED to confront weeds in the aisle of a
| Washington street car recently, each being
| in waiting for a vacant seat. One at length
| being vacated, the forward dame patroniz-
| ingly pointed the other to it. The latter,
| flushing angrily, responded Indignantly:
Cake it yourself, Pm as young as you are,
| m ADAM"
On the Doth of the present month Queen
Victoria will have reigned just forty-fve
years. The reigns OF only three other
| English sovereigns have exceeded hers in
| length. They are that OF Henry III, which
| lasted fifty-six years; that of Edward ILL.,,
which numbered fifty, and that of George
| I'LL, which was the longest Of all-sixty
| years.
A case of suspended animation, mistaken
| for death, is reported in Boston. A girl was
| pronounced dead by her physician. few
hours alter W hen her father turned to leave
her alone, she cried: 'Please don't go, papa"
| She then told her friends, as they gathered
about her, that she had been in heaven, a
| glorious place, and wished TO return. She
| soon after died.
Mrs. Jackson, the 81. H." of magazine
| literature, has been in the country around
| Los Angeles, Cal, for several months, gath
ering material for descriptive articles. One
! Of her subjects will be the old mansions Of
| Southern California. Two special artists
have been assisting her, as well as her hus-
band, William S. Jackson, wealthy banker
| Of Colorado.
A marble statue OF Harriet MartiDeau is
/ soon to be SET up in Boston, the plaster east,
| by Miss Anna Whitney, having already been
| shipped TO Italy, to be reproduced IN stone
i Ii represents Miss Martineau sitting IN
| straight backed rustic chair, her hands lying
folded over a manuscript IN her lap. The
| hair hangs low upon the broad brow, and lie
| loosely knotted al the back of the head.
| In the attire of Partisan women stripes
| have ousted piaids and checks. The stripes
| NAV either be simple cOmpOsit-of one
/ color or Of many colors- In this matter OF
| coIsrs it Is further to be remarked that the
| ladies now display perfect craze Tor yellow,
| In spite Of the symbOliczl sIgnihcatlOD-Inh-
| delity-attached 10 that hue in France At
the I,ongchapsps races the ladies' hats and
dresses displayed every imaginable shade Of
| velIow-gold, saffron, wall-hoTer, buttercup,
canary, crocus and harYest-moon.
"Ihe awfully jolly girl" has been mem
toned az the latest and perhaps most appal
ling English type OF her eek. "The other
DAWN Richmond Park, writes correspond
ent Of the Pol Nal G0atfte, Il came upon
three or four Of these ePicene creatures, who
were perhaps awful enough, but were by no
means Jolly. One wore a mans scarlet
cricket cap. All had their hair cropped
close, and all four carried heavy walking
sticks. On inquiry / was told that at
Brighton and elsewhere it is quite common
for young ladies TO go about with walking
sticks and oonvict's crop. Who are the
men that these poor girls imagine they can
! attract by this ugly masquerade"
| SOMETIMES little assistance NJ the right
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