Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-03-29

cissa CowaTt by name, at a bali n Dickens
county, Georgia, several years ago. has been
pardoned ont Of prison by Governor Col
quit.
Miss Mary Anderson will sail about next
summer IN a steam yacht which she has had
built for her. 1t i to be deliberately finished
and furnished, will have g speed OF fifteen
miles an hour, and will be called the Gala
tea"
The agent Of an uptown hotel IL New
York has begged that an order issued by an
official TO provide fire escapes on the build
ing be so modified 10 except the upper
story. 'Only female servants sleep there,
was his explanation.
London society is deeply interested IL
ladies hygienic lectures under the auspices
of the National Health Society. There Is an
exhibition of dress, clothing, boots, classical
costumes Bloomer, and other improved styles
hanging chiefly from tee shoulders.
London World: con the ztsge the indis-
crctions Of the elderly are somehow more
diyerting than the errings and strayings OF
the young. One laughs at the troub Is and
discussions Of Mr.. and Mrs. Cauule, but the
quarrels OF a married Romeo and Juliet
would be OF tragic import"
An English journal pokes fun at young
! lady who offers herself kitchen maid,
saying that she has had kitchen experience
from her tenth to her twentieth year. The
great trouble in this country Is with the
| large number of kitchen maids OF about
| twenty years who have had no experience
| at all.
| The khedive is very much under petticOat
! government, his wife, Princess kat da
| Hauem, having a strong mind and stout
temper. This young lady keeps herself re-
markably well posted in all that goes on in
| Egypt, and is something of a politician. She
| speaks excellent French, has blazing black
eyes, and wears yellow satin and plush, with
| large diamonds in her ears.
A great deal OF the platitudes we hear pro-
| nounced against the young women of the
present day are species of cant. There is
| not one young woman in thousand to-day
who isn't capable of making a more agree
able home, and keeping a more inviting
table every day in the week, than the most
accomplished housewife of a century or a
half century ago.--FhjGds,phid Press.
There is pending in the New York assem-
bly, bill, introduced by Mr.. Erastus Brooks,
directing that az vacancies occur among trus-
| tees OF correctional and charitable institu-
| tions of the State which have custody of
women or children two or more women shall
| be appointed upon each Of the boards, which
usually consist OF at least seven members,
and that subsequent vacancies shall be filed
so that there always shall be women among
the trustees.
Nine. LaDuchesse DsChaulnes, who has
furnished Paris with q good many pretexts
for gossip is once more the ubject Of discus
sion on the boulevards. A lawsuit Is pend
ing between the lady and the Duchesse
| DeChevreuse, to whom, on the death of that
much-iDjured husband, the Due DeChaulnes,
the charge of his two children had by legal
| decision been intrusted. A desperate, but
unsuccessful, attempt to carry off the chill
| DIAN do Of Nina do 1ceaf,
chateau, short time ago. by man supposed
to have been in the pay of NJ. DeD"-,
one OF the Duchesse DeChaulnes's most
ardent admirers.
a lesson for young men: GLOW charmingly
beautiful the Easter cards are this year, are
they not?" said Algernon to Isabella last
evening as he sat in the parlor ''making
talk. ayes, indeed; they are beautiful;
| but there are some things / would prize more
than Easter cards" 81 presume so. If
! should offer-offer-to--" II don't know
what ma would say to an offer in Lent
| And she blushed beautifully. Algerpon was
entrapped nicely. He was merely going 10
offer to escort her to the opera next week,
and now he has got to have her lean on him
through life. young man cannot be too
guarded in his conversation.-Neg Hdrel
Register.
d. X. Russell, formerly a well-known
| comedian adverises in one of the evening
! papers that he is destitute, and appeals TO
the charitable to help him. His case is an
exceedingly melancholy one. 1t is said
that he was once The husband of the famous
Adah Isaacs Menken, and lived life of
luxury until he became separated from her.
He then began to drink freely, and drifting
into the poor class Of peripatetic theatrical
companies was often in the most Strengthened
| circumstances. He continued to travel,
however, until about four years ago, when
he received stroke of paralysis, which left
him in an almost helpless condition.-.S
| Louis ReDubLicln