Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-02-10

attached, asking the finder to correspond
with her. A Michigan girl tried it, and got
q letter from her brother in Indiana, who
found the balloon, and told her not to be
fool.
HE ladies have finally taken hold Of the
enterprise of raising money for the pedestal
OF BartholdTs statue of Liberty in New York
harbor, aud we may now look for results.
When the ladies make q combined assault on
a gentleman pocket they are irresistible,
likewise invincible.
A LADY writes to a Cincinnati paper TO
ind out how long person must reside in
Ohio before she can get married. We don't
know how it Is in Ohio, but if the yonng
lady be Of manageable age she can get
married ten minutes after her arrival il New
Mexico or Arizona.
WHITE satin, with brocaded rosebuds,
makes lovely dresses for young ladies, but
We suggest that young ladies should wear a
less expensive materisl for the entire dress
and leaving brocaded stuffs for married
women, use yelling, silk muslip, Grape and
tulle for evening wear, with accessories only
of satin, brocade or velvet.
A FAMILY of Madison, o., nineteea years
ago purch assd a paper of pins. When
piu was needed il was taken from the paper,
and after il had served its purpose it was
replaced. III pin was lost general search
was made until il was found. In this way
the one paper of pins has kept the family
supplied for nineteen years.
AT Wilson's farewell concert iu CiDcin-
natl, on Saturday night last, Mime. Patti
occupied a box and seemed to enjoy every
thing, especially Missions singing. Follow
ing Missions example Of applsuding her
Patti at the opera, a few nights before, she
almost got req in the face applsuding Nils
son. They bowed and smiled at each other,
and Nilsson sang TO Patti a great part Of
the evening.
TIE New Orleans Times Democrat, extol-
ling American over Englisb female beauty,
says that at the Carnival German given in
that city last Friday night, Mrs. Langiry
was "outstripped" by dozens of ladies pres
ent. 1t is well known that ladies wear but
little clothing on such occasions, but strip
ping In atches must be something new even in
that wicked, giddy place. The Lily would
have to personate mother Eve to get away
with some women at a ball.
LONDON Life says: "The first Jewish mar.
riage which has taken place in Madrid since
the expulsion OF the Jews from Spain, two
centuries ago, was celebrated few days
since. The bride, who was welded to her
first cousin, is daughter TO Mr.. Jones, a
foreign merchant long established in the
| Spanish capital. More than fifty persons,
including members of the very best society
in Madrid, were present at the ceremony,
and Rabbi Hermann Salz edo travelled ex.
pressly from France TO celebrate the mar.
| riage."
MARY CLEMMER says that when the total
abstinence women called on Garfield and
| asked him to exclude wine from the Whits
| House his manner was cold and upgracous
| Arthur, on the contrary, received them in
| the kindest way, and said: ladies, you
know l don't pretend 10 be a temperance
man in the sense that you understand it.
drins wine and give it TO my friends. Nc
| less, / feel the honor done me in the presencs
OF so many good and earnest women devoted
| 10 the cause OF temperance" He then spoke
10 each lady personally, and presented each
| one with b0utOaieTe, and sent them away
feeling happy.
| MRS. DAWSON DAMER, an English lady oil
rank, who travel very extensively some
years ago, made unique collection OF lock-
| OF hair of prime notabilities. At Ale sndris
she begged a lock from Mehemet Ali, who
said that in a collection containing Nelson's
Napoleon's and Wellington's, his was an
worthy TO be included, but that if she thought
otherwise he would leave a reqsest to libra
him Pasha 10 present her with his beard (ht
had no hair on his head, aud if che did moi
ouilive him il was TO descend to the son o.
| daughter who inherited her collection. Hi
\ secretary took the names Of her childrep
Mehemet was a grsniiose figure compared
TO the pigmy Khedive of o-dsy.
THE venerable poet, Whittier, has deepl,
| at heart the true advancement Of woman
and sympathizes with the steps that have re
Gently been taken to grant her the privileges
| OF higher education. In a recent letter te
a friend, which has never been published, b,
ssys, in speaking of Brown University: 81
hope the time is not far distant when Brown
| University will be op>n 10 women. Tn.
traditions of the noble old institution are al
in favor of broad liberality and equality oil
rights and privileges. Brown University
cannot sfford TO hesitate much longer in
natter like this OF simple justice. No one
who has felt the pulse Of public opinion car
doubt that the time has come when liberal
educational policy, irrespective OF sex, is moi
only duty but a necessity"
THERE is one woman in London who ha:
| her wits about her, and when you come 10
think about it the fact is highly creditabIe to
| London. On the Strand thief suddenl
| snatched her purse from her aud instantly
disappeared in the crowd. In the purse was
some small change aad check for el0
| The lady spent no time in fruitless at.
tempt to catch the thief or find policeman
| She went 10 the nesrest postof6ce, took a
telegraph blank and sent dispatch to the
bank saying: "When anyone presents a
| check signed by - for el0, arres, him and
detain him till come" She then got into
a cab and drove TO the bank. When che
| got there she found policeman explaining
10 an astonished young man that he would
have TO wait little, as they expected lady
visitor. The young man will have three
years to get over his aetopishment.
HERE is a pitiiul case with which per.
| haps, says the New York Tribune, some
one of cur readers may have 10 do. Fiji.
] teen yesrs ago a blind girl known az
Maggy Smith lived in Chaumont, Jefferson
county, in this Stale. The woman who had
raised her told her that her real name was
Helen McAyoy, that her father was in Ire.
land at the time of her birth and her moth
er's death, snd that she (the woman) had
taken her, having no children of her OVID
| and kept her hidden from her father. Find.
ing that the girl Was hopelessly blind she
turned her out of doors, bat it lie supposed
she Informed the father that Helen was 10
| the New York institute for the blind, to
| which some kind souls procured her admis.
| siou. The girl lately has discovered that
search was made several years sgo al
this institute for her by her father
who stated that he was farmer of meaus
living in Pennsylvania, and anxious to re-
gain his child. The girl, it is stated, twas
in the building at the lime, but owing 10 her
assumed name was not recognised" She il
now utterly homeless and dependent on her
old school friends. If this should meet the
eye of her father or any one who knows him,
her add resa will he oi YEN on annli afinn u