Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-05-12
FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN.

MRs. FRANCES HopGsoN BURNETT, the
novelist, has been handsomely entertained during
her recent visit 10 Cincinnati.
The greatest feminine landowner in En-
gland is Baroness lin her own right Willoughby
d'Eyesby, who has an income OF f25OOOO from
land.
A CONTEMPORARY notes that Tennyson is
in jail in Baltimore, John Quincy Adams was shot
in q Deadwood dive, and Martha Washington and
daughter have been arrested in Savannah Tor
fraudulently obtaiGing sewing machine.
HER imperial majesty Of Austria is a poet
ess as wen as q fearless rider and hunter. And
now she has had printing office set up In her
palace, and learning 10 set type aud manage a
press in order that sue may print her own poems.
MRs LANGTRY is kind enough TO say,
speaking of American wouaFn, "One secs many
more pretty faces here than in England they
have beautiful hair aud very pretty feet. Their
manners she proDounces 'charmfngi SO Tree and
open"
A VIRGINIA pastor arcss in conferences the
other day aud said: Brethren, I wish you to pray
for me. Often stu IN being 100 anxious ana our
dened IS to what will become of my family when
l die, as my ,iary iorbids my making any proVis'
ion for the future"
DISCUSSING Suicide and HON eide under
Insidious Forms" Dr. Richard McSherry, OF Bal
timore, Classics the forms by which lives are
shortened ss the drinking OF fermented and dts
titled liquors, glu tony, the social vices, ana the
system of Examining" IN public and private
schools.
ABBEY's latest engagement for the new
operahouse is Nine. Sembricb, who has what is
called real cOlOrdtur soprano voice, and has been
brilliantly successful at COvent Garden in light
operas. The terms Of the contact are said TO be
very heavy. including deposit as large as that
demanded by Patti.
SENAroR AND Mrs. Dos CAMERON will
sail for EUROPE Ma 18Th. His daughter, Mrs.
Bradley, aud Ter child have been vita them lately
in Washington. Mr.. Bradley's health is feeble.
His lungs are thought to be affected and he has
been ordered 10 Mexico, whittier his wife will ao-
company him soon.
mother GOOSE" according to the lates!
authorities far from being Il myth, was the wife
OF Isaac Goose, and lived in Pudding Lane (now
Deyonsnile street,, Boston. she was born IN 1868
and died in l757 The first edition OF her nursery
rhymes published by her sOn-in-law, Thomas
Fleet, iu the year i7l9.
WE lrarn from the Acadian Recorder tn at
tina. Lady Maund rvilie sic and Mrs. Vanderbilt
received their guests seated at the great ball, ana
ilIat some OF Tic Old KHIckerOOeEers were dis-
but Tor the coeent reasons that they had taken so
much trouble to dress. and, moreover, wanted 10
see the house.
The. natural daughter of List married
Hans Won BuloW On wildcat divorce She mar
ried Wagner the composer. Now that Wagner is
dead only a few weeks ago Won Bulow is trying
to marry The wlcow who was his first wife. To
accomp lsh this he is endeavoring to divorce bis
second spouse who ike BsTkis, is willing" Nor
ebb.
QUEEN VICTORIA IL very far from being
fully recove' ed from her fall Many facts go to
SHOW that she herself looks upon her condition as
such makes the immediate presence of all the
royal children very desirable at least. Every ex-
cuse is made TO the public for any royal coucern
tho@n upon this subject. The Prince OF Wales de-
sired to attend the coronation OF the Gar. The
Queen would not listen to it,
EX-SENATOR TABOR's first vile, whom he
discarded as soon as he became millionaire, is
sail to remain faithful in her affection for him.
and though she is now rich, she declares that the
happiest days OF her life were when she kept his
grocery store at California Guleh. She prays that
he may soon lose his wealth, Ynen she believes.
his Oshkosh bride VIII desert him, and ne will be
glad TO return 10 his first ana true love.
TIE National Republican ssys: "Thirty-
nine divorces were granted by the Massachusetts,
Supreme Court in two days OF last week. In q
state where marriages are none too frequent and
families always small this whole ale cutting of
the knot has s1nething the look of social suicide
IL is the old story illustrated by the terrible pre-
diction Of MIS- EliZ ibeth Cady Stanton: The de-
scendants of the Celt will trsmple on the graves OF
the Purtan!'
A srIssrER Of Philadelphia, who has kept
a recOri OF 1000 Of her female acquaintance who
were led to the altar, finds that the chances Of
matrimony between the ages of II and 40 are as
fol ows; Thiriy-two at Is and l5 10i at IS ana IL
2i9 al Is and 3D. go at 20 and 81 iG5 p and 49,
at 90 and 81, IL at 81 and So "a and IS al So
and 81, srd2 at IS and SO. From is 10 % is the
flood tide of matrimony.
Mrs. HARRIET BEtcHER STOWE said TO
Savannah reporter, the other day, that in her
opinion, The South win, in the next few years
make rapid progress in internal development A
beler toe OF eigr6uts VIII soon seek the fertile
fields OF the South as the West has already re-
eeived more emigrants than it is at present posi-
bic to accommodate with al thatFthey desire in
establishing themselves for life IL future homes
A FEW DAYS since we noticed the fsct til at
several ladies officiating IS bank officers in
the south and elsewhere. since then the follow
ing have been announced: Mrs. n. II. Galloway
president Fond cu Lee Savings Bank, Fond du
Lac, Wis: sarah F. Dick, cashier First Natior al
Bank, Huntington, Ind; Annie NJ. King cashier
Of bank at White Cloud, KS; Jennie Combs
cashier Bowen x Combs Bank, hiddleville Mich /:
Miss NJ. W. Bond, treasurer Savings Bank, Flor-
ence, Ala.
MRS BELL, vile of Mr.. Bell, # telephone
fame, is a woman whose acquaintance is worth
eultivating. she can say with truth, MY face is
my fortune. sir and can also add that it is the
cause OF Oher peoples fortunes. She Is oeauti-
ful woman, and Mr.. Bell falling in love with her
pretty face, married hsr, although che was deaf
and dumb. 1t was while experimenting with sn
audiphone for his wile's use that he discovered
the principle of the telephone Bell is now worth
so,0O.GOO. The leading portrait painter in Wash
lngton owes his success 20 picture of MIS- Bell
\ portrait of the lady which ne had painted aud
placed Oh exhibition. attracted 50 much attention
that the unknown artist suddenly became promi-
nent, and orders poured in upon him until he now
has more than ne eau I'LL.