Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1884-02-15
FOR AND ABOUT W0MEN.

"OuIDA," writing from Florence, as
cribes the recent reports of her alleged change of
talth to q malicious individual who had abused
her hospitality.
ment VII be reached in the breach. of pf6misS
case of Miss FortesGue against Lord Garmoyle, By
WHICH the lady siltreeefse 10000 as a saiye for
Rer lacerated affections.
THERE is much talk at Washington about
the objection to Mr. Mcdonald as a Presidential
candidate. The drawback is not only because he
married a divorced woman, but that he was the
attorney who procured the divorce.
SRA BsRNHARDr's La Vie de Marie Pig
e9nnier has the adVahtage Of only covering half
the number of pages of Columbier's SardH Bar
ann but it has not had the same sale. This gutter
envy of the fish hays the world over.
ToURGENEFF, the late Russian. novelist,
Is thus quoted: 1T once occurred to the Supreme
the virtues were invited to it-none but the yir-
tues-so there were no men, only women That
rs pretty compliment to the women, but what
eVn male associates Tourgoneff must have hadl
Mr.. CHARLES LrwEs writes of George
Eliot that it is untrue. that the great novelist left
many notebooks behind her dealing. with nu-
which her husband, Mr.. Cross, is now engaged,
and the forthcoming volume of essays are pub
printed.
ONE Annie L., who lives near Vienna,
recently made certain remarks concerning a pet
dog that were not IN the nature of a compliment.
A lev days later one OF the NlcuncSe papers print
ed the following statement over her name II
hereby retract the insulting language used AGAINST
Agar, tie ret dog of Baroness Won r., and declare
said Agar to be awail sbehsved canine The Ser
IN EUrope.
Mrs. CATHERINE DIX, the lately deceased
widow of Gov. John A. Dix, was born in 1907. At
the age Of fifteen she was betrothed to the general,
the marriage taking place three years later. Of
her four sons, the Rev. Morgan Dix, rector of
Trinity church, New York, Is the sole survivor.
The funeral of Mrs. Dix took place In New York
Wednesday,, and was attended by many rrOmi-
nent people.
SENATOR MORGAN voucheS for a colored
family in Huntsville making a small fortune an
nually at silk-worm raising, but this is not the ex-
perience of a white lady, who writes to a Pennsyl-
vania paper that she found no profit in it. She
| prefers taking in washing for a livelihood, and
| recommends otker women to raise chickens,
| birds, bees or flowers, but not any silk-worms."
! 1t doesn't pay
"Now," said the irate mother to her fam
| lily of one boy and four girls, who had been mis-
| behaving themselves, Il am going to whip you
| all" and she seized on Jimmy to receive the first
| instalment Of the ch~astiscment. Mother > said
| so struck with the application of her own instruo-
| ton that she did not strike any of the children,
| but let them off that time.
A ERvANT girl in New Haven stole her
| MISTRESS false teeth. The woman told a police
| man that '.sheesh Gosh shwenshy shollarsh, anst
she shvash ,wcsh shusha wreSh ashdo. shteest
ter interrupted the policemani thinking thu
woman a newly-arrived hungarian; but she wal
! an American, and when her teeth were in she
| could :alk the head off him..