Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-02-11
FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN.

THE New York Graphic discredits the ru.
NOR that Mrs. Lydia E. Pinkham is going to
marry Samuel J. Tilden.
Pies date back 10 the time of the Romans,
and came originally from Picardy. Some OF
the original pies are still ON sale at railroad
restaurants.
BURKE says: "Bettsr to be despised for
too anxious apprehensions than ruined by
too confident a security" Burke wasn't a
banker evidently.
AT Memphis the Jersey Lily went up the
river in a boat, and had it land SO that she
could get out and pick some cotton. What
she wanted it for is not stated Philadelphia
Ne.rs.
A WOMAN in Brooklyn has collected a
board bill of forty years standing. The
mystery is not that the mistress trusted the
man, but how he msnaged to live at one
clearinghouse SO long.
MISS Lillian NORTON mile. Nordica, the
prima donna) and NJ. Frederick A len Cover
were married in Paris on January 22d,
among the witnesses being Mr.. Healy, the
artist, and Vice Consul Hooper. They are
spending their honeymoon in Itsly.
A GEORGIA couple waited over four years
for good opportunity to elope, and just as
it came the girls father took the young man
by the hand and said: Speak up 10 her,
Thomas! know she loves you, and I'll be
tickled 10 death to have you for a son-in-lawp'
MRS. WIN. WALLACE, who lives at Coble.
tkill, in Schoharie county, N. Y, remembers
when Gen. Washington patted her on the
head nearly a century ago. The father OF
his country was then stopping at The Schuy-
Ter mansion, in Cobleskill. Mrs. Wallace il
104 years old.
THE King and Queen OF the Netherlands
| intend paying a visit to Eoglsnd in April.
| They will not be the guests OF the Duke
and Duchess of Albany, Queen Emma's els
ter, but will occupy villa which has been
| taken for them between Richmond and
Hampton Court.
MRS. MARY B. YOUNG, OF Fall River,
Mass, a rich widow, who had but one child
by her fret marriage, who died shortly after
reaching manhood, has made a generous
| proposition 10 that city. She propose, TO
erect, at her own expense. in memory of
her SOD, building suitable for a high
school.
| THE Association for Promoting the Higher
| Education of Women has presented a petit
ton to Columbia College, asking one of the
most richly endowed educational institutions
10 the country to consider how best TO ex.
tend, with as little delay as possible, 10 such
properly qualified women as may desire it,
| the many and great benefits Of university
education, by admitting them to lectures
and examinations.
The Senate of Wisconsin has passed law
declaring that husbands shall not be respon.
sible for The debts of their wives, whereupor
an exchange sensibly observes that if it will
now go further and amend the law SO that
wives shall not be responsible for the debt,
L = L. - i. L.. u l.
restored, and the honors, such as legislator;
are willing 10 have left in married life in
Wisconsin, will be easy"
NJ. DU PAsQUIER, OF lie Figaro, describes
the wife of Prince Krapotkine as follows
"The princess is twenty.eight, short, dark
and has rather a worn-looking face. She
has nothing OF the Slav type, but bears q
close resemblance to the Tartar race. Her
features are angular, her eyelids thin, hei
forehead is low, her mouth fiat, and her
complexion yellow. There 10 something
furtive about her look"
| A WASHINGTON letter says: "Miss BaJsrd
is not only very pretty bat extremely bright
She was the young lady who 80 astonlshec
OJcar Wilde by her keen repsrtee 10 hi
pstronizing remark. Are you going TO the
german, Mr.. Wilder she askedIthe night O
bis lecture here. eYes,' drawled the estheiic
If my lecture don't fatigue me too much
Are you going, Miss BayaTd? Yes, If you
lecture don't fatigue me too much ADe
again, when he complained to her OF thu
lack of ruins and curiosilies 10 this country
she replied: oh, Mr.. Wilde, we import oul
curiosities"
The Princess OF Wales, in her gentl,
nature, looks with pain upon the so-caliec
sport of pigeon shooting, and spPesls TO tn
4 lad If Enolaud IN N with nor
these loving, cooling b rds from the marks
NJ ans cruel aim. As a Dane, the princes
has not The passion for field sports which
makes the true Eoglishwoman Indifferent Il
the fate Of the feaihered tribe or the terror
stricken shrek of The hare when he is Tur
down by the bsagles. So she does not se
why sportsmen should not be satisfied tC
shoot al terra Gotta pigeons, and let The pooi
q utterIpg birds 90 free.