Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-09-02
FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN.

Mr.. ;. k. DYKE, member OF the Dl-
yorce Reform League, states that over 60O0 women
die yearly in the United States from attempts to
destroy unborn children.
BRoSsoN HOWARD, the playwright, is liv-
ing handsomely on his royalties in London. He
and his wife have double tricycle., on which
they stow some goods and start of on n twenty or
thirty mile trip.
QUEEN VICTORIA has recently had tele-
phone put in place at Balmoral. Her majesty
should talk into phonograph in order that the
be preserved for future generations.
'MARGERY DEANE" says in the Boston
Transcript that Freddie Gebhardt's winter cam
paign has not lowered himself in the eyes of the
ladies at Newport. This is q hearty Endorsement
of the Lily, or q loose view of Newport society.
Mrs. f. LYNN LINTON, the English story
writer, is a pleasant-faced lady Of sixty years,
with gray hair, and spectacles. She spends her
winters IN Rome and Is q general fayorite IN So
ere.
DURING the reign of Queen Victoria
81 100000 Hindoos have died of famine. conse-
host of sgGcters to confront her in the other
world! What an army of starved pc asants in
ireland will join the myriads from India
A PRETTY orphan girl, with over s, ,000,-
goo, has been adysrtisins yer in the German papers
one years old, orphan, Catholic, with fortune of
100000 francs. She wants to marry young
man with II very honorable name. She may be
addressed as n. o. o. N, Mt the postofice, Brus-
sells. No agents need apply.
A LITTLE love story of the stage was
brought to an end at Philadelphia on Wednesday
by a suit for divorce entered in Common Pleas
Court No. 2 by S. Gilbert Ely, actor. The
libelant is hardly twenty-five years of age, The
woman from whom he seeks to be separated was
well known in the West Anna La Nalee, an
actress of juvenile parts.
THE husband of Charlotte Bronte in
6eu
rial window to his famous first wife, in the
church where she lies buried, a cost ofs3O0. The
Z hand condae
and ingratitude smack of total depravity.
SOME persons commit suicide because
they crossed in love; others because they
can grow suddenly rich, and live without work,
and some through a feeling of mental depression
that good dose of physic would remove. But
the slightest motive in suicide that we have re-
Gently heard OF, the fear of a scolding suffered
by an Italian servant in Rome, who had broken a
teacup.
Lucy II. HOOPER wants Charlotte Bron-
te's American admirers to raise $500 to put a
| handsome memorial window in the church where
| she is buried. This would not only be a tribute
to her genius, but would be a quiet rebuke OF
English indifference, and especially of the ingrat-
itude of her widower, who kept the $50, 900 Char
lOtte Bronte had made, and married another
| woman.
Miss JENNIE You've recently delivered
| her lecture LOngfeIlow at an entertainment
| given by Mrs. Gladstone in London, and made
says The Queen, most favorable impression OF
/
! sonai recollections of her friend and eountryman
| as well as her remarks on and impressions Of hi
life and works, were listened to with deep inter
| est; and the pleasure of the lecture was greatl,
| enhanced by her rendering of several of his pO
ems. set to music by various composers, and In
troduced by her from time TO time in illustration
THE death of the Hova Queen, Ranavolo
| may be a welcome event in the opinion of France
| with whom the Queen of Madagascar has been q
| war. The world Rt large has every reason to re
| member the queen with gratitude. She was
| sincere and devout Christian, she helped to abol
, ish slavery, and she patriotic defender o
I Malagnsy independence. 1t is very difficult
see by what authority France invaded the right
of this excellent queen and her brave subjects
Judged on its merits, the bOmbardment of Tana
tive il public scandal, and the death of Queer
Rsnayolo is a public misfortune.
LIFE" journal printed in London, re
calls to the mind Of ''0uids," that bellicose an
horid English romancer, the remark Of Swift
that .'envy, hatred, malice and uncharitAble mes
are the finest indices of success and genius in III
worid,"a a remark which may be true or not
However, this must be infinitely consoling I
"0uida, who has, according TO LIFE, turned upo
her American detractors at last, and seems do
termined 10 stop in some way the torrent of abn:
they have never left of hurting at her since 81
wrote FrIeEdship. But where, oh where, - tina
torrent. 'Quida is really a much abused ",
Yet the yials of her wrath are poured int
her newspaper letters, and that should be sat
I Americans IS an exquisite privilege