Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-06-18
ABOUT AND FOR WOMEN.

Miss benz n-aden is said to be the only
feminine railroad othceT ia the country.
She has Just been elected treasurer of the
Waynesburg and Washington railroad, in
Pennsylvania, and ia ac-ting-paymaster.
Mallock, who tried to answer the question,
Is Life Worth LiUiHgF and failed, and then
wrote a Romance Of the Niasteenh Century, has
produced another book. The title is Social
Equdtityj @ Study Of a Missing Science.
The people about Claremont take to the
new Duchess OF Albany, who goes about
bunch OF flowers. She is pictured there as
being pleasing in appearance, OF the kind of
beauty common in the country maidens of
every German village, aud entirely wanting
in the grace and distinction belonging to a
court.
When President Arthur was a school
teacher he did not punish the big bad boys
by seating them with the girls. He placed
them on the lowest bench in the primary
department and made them recite the alpha
bet with the little children. BY this simple
method he permanently reformed one very
bad school in exactly two hours by the
watch.
Lena Sherman, a reputable girl OF Iowa,
had a lover who proved TO be a h~orse-thief,
and was sent TO the penitentiary. To pro-
vide the money necessary 10 procure her
lover a new trial, Lena stole a horse, sold it,
and with the money procured the liberation
Of her lover, hut was herself sent to prison
for the theft. The romantic story ends with
her pardon by tue governor.
If the Marquis of Louville is the son OF
Mime. TESsaud, his mother SHOULD be con-
graduated on raising a figure su perior TO any
OF her wax-works; would exhibit well among
the live stock at a county fair; Lady Hardy
reported as saving he has perfect right to his
title, AZ it was bought and paid for; English
nickname said to be Young Waxworks.
The first indications that the lecturing tour
OF Mira. jesse James and her children would
b a financial failure are happily borne out
by subsequent experiences. AtSt. Louis last
week the indecent show drew only SO. 1t is
10 be deyoutly hoped that this is a case in
which the prophet will be as utterly without
honor elsewhere as in her own country and
among her own kinsfolk aud acquaintance.
Her gold hsir fell on the wall Of gold
Like the delicate gossamer tlnglcs spun
GA the FURNISHED d:SS OF the mlrigold,
OR the suuaDwer farming to meet the sun
When the gloom OF the jealous nights done,
Aud the spear OF the lily Is aureoled.
and her sweet rcd lips on these lips of mine
Burned like the ruby fire set
In the swi.ging lamp Of n crimson shrine,
Or the bleeding wounds of the pomegranate,
Or the heart OF the lotus drencheu and wet
With the s~pilt-out blood of the rose-red wine.
Young Nan VINO Can't Forget II.
In l. ,ndon is made public an epigrsm
which Emerson wrote in the album of a we'll
known firm OF photographers to whom he sat
for a photograph during his last English
visit. When asked to write something he
readily assonted, and, without hesitation,
penued these words:
The man who has a thousand friends
Has no Il fri nd to spare,
BI; he who hiss one enemy
VIII meet him everywhere
Mr.. John Gilbert form erly a reporter in
Brooklyn and Pniladeiphis, has been en-
gagged by + nma Abbott TO take the place of
the late Mr.. Comfy in her company. Mr..
Gilbert has not done any professional sing
ing, but he is said to have "a voice like a
bull" This pleasing description of Mr.. Gill
bert's voice Indicates that he is a basso
rObusto profundo, aud will be brought out in
Cdrmca, probably as the bull. Miss Abbott
has a votce like a canary, and when the two
sing together it will sound like thunder
playing on a flute.
The strength OF tradition among the ortho-
doK Hebrews was strongly illustrated the
other day on Long Island, the trustees of a
Jewish cemetery refusing to allow a monu-
meut to be placed by a lot-holder on his
wife's grave, on one side-o OF which her face
was cut in bas-relief, GA the ground that it
was contrary ID the command, Thou shalt
not make unto thyself any craven image"
There was a dsaOueHcnt to the case, however,
oil which Moses, the great law -glver, never
dreamed, in the shape of an Injunction by a
civil court against the trustees, and the mon
ument was placed iu position.
l am flying, Egypt, flying!
Ebb nay boot-heels. moving fast;
am getting out of Egypt,
Egypt OF the dim old pasti
From great Arab I'm skippingi
He's a high Old. bad Old Bey;
am flying, Egypt, flying,
For the devil is 10 pay.
lam flying, Egypt. flying,
Even as the startled mu,ei
Farewell. Cleopatra. Apis!
am going ID Johnnie Bull!
A Piute squaw can pack more than the
average mule. What would rupture the
kidneys OF a Mill creek j4ckass would Just
about ballast 4 Piute matron. Last week,
on the plaza, a stout buck was loading
up a squaw for a tramp. He piled a lot OF
blankets and baskets on her back and started
her. Ga one side she towed a clumsy New
toundland dog, that wasn't broke TO lead
well, and it pulled back. On the other side |
she had a tat boy, five or six years old. The
dog wouldn't come along, and the bow
wouldn't come without 1t. The buck solved
the problem at once by pitching the dog into
one basket and the boy into another to bal
ance things, and the caravan started with the
big buck in the rear, sweating under the
weight of linen buster, smoking a cigarette
and not a bit concerned whether ms darling
wife was staggering under half a ton or only
800 pounds.