Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1885-06-28
ABOUT WOMEN.

Mrs BAYARD, the Secretary's wife, is
quite ill at Wilmington.
NEWPORT does not seem to be popular
with the new administration. President
Cleveland has declined to 90 there, and
now Miss Cleveland Will not accept an in
vitation to attend the convention of the
American Institute OF instruction to be
held there.
TIE proportion of illegitimscy in Chill
rodigious-exceeding tweDty-three per
cent. In the United States it is less than
seven per cent. In Austria, the European
country which approaches most nearly to
Chill in this particular, it is less than thir-
teen per cent.
Miss RosE G. KINGSLEY, a daughter Of
Charles Kingsley, contributes the article
on George Eliot's County," Warwick
shire, to the July Century. George Ban
croft has written for the same number a
brief paper on Henry Clay, with anecdotes
OF Clay and Ca houn.
Mrs. MACKAY, wife of the California
millionaire, has taken a house in Hamil-
ton place, Piccadilly, London. She docs
not propose to give any entertainments,
having come to England to be near her
boys, who are at Roman Catholic school
at Beaumont, Cd Windsor.
WHES Mgr. Goddard celebrated his sill
yer jubilee at st. Mary's church, Chisel-
hurst, the other day, poor Ex-Empress
Eugene, one of his parishioners, wrote
him note in which she said: 81 am left
alone, the sole remnant of shipwreck
which proves how fragile and vain are the
grandsuR Of this world
TEMPTED.
Yes, know what you say:
Since it cannot be sout to soul,
Be ii tiesh TO flesh, as it may;
But is Earth the whole?
Shall man betray the Past
For all Earth giYes2
but the Past is dead2" At last,
1t is all that lives.
Which were the nobler goal
To snatch at the moments bliss,
Or to swear l will keep my soul
Clean for her kiss2
ANDREW HorBRoOK, IN the Atlantic.
SEVERAL daily papers, says London
Truth, have announced lately, on the au-
thority OF their correspondents at Berlin,
that the Princess Dolgorouki, the widow OF
the late Gar, is now singing in public at
Berlin. 1t is true that there is a Princess
Dolgorouki who has been appearing before
Berlin audiences, but it is not the Cars
widow, bat the wife of her nephew, Prince
Dolgorouki, who has lately sus aimed Sc
we're financial reyeTses. This princess is a
spaniard, and was formerly on the stage.
SHE KNEW THE GAME.
''What is the similarity,
Miss Ethel, asked the beau,
Between n came of ball and me?
Yawned Ethel, Il don't know"
"Why, it's match, of eourse,'' grinned he
With idiotic bliss,
SIN which :. miss is caught. you see,
Because court n miss.
GLOW smart" said Ethel. who announced
She had riddle.
The ball you play with must be bounced;
Why like the ball are your
lie eyed the clock. Because sighed he.
Because I'm always 'roundl"
'Oh. always suppose said she,
For runs you are renowned"
Indeed am, and home runs, too
''Oh Z m so glad, She smiled, ''f5r you
Can make home run now.
II. O. DoDGE, IN Detroit Free Press.
A FOREIGN correspondent writes that
the Premiership of England has long been
the ambition of the wife of the Marquis of
Salisbury, the brilliant daughter of the
late Baron Anderson, who sways his every
thought and action. One afternoon in
1868, on his coming into the title, Mr..
Louis ]. Jennings, a London newspaper
correspondent, happening to call ON some
literary business upon Mr.. Cook, then ed
itor Of the Saturday ReCieig, at bis chambers
in the Albany, met lady coming out
dressed in deep mourning and in tears.
ado you know what that is?' said Mr.
Cook when he came in. THAT ig the new
Marchioness OF Salisbury, and she IS weep
ing because, she says. 'Bob's chances for
the Premiership are ruined by his being
taken from the House Of Commons and
transferred to the Lords" She contrib
uted, while Lady Robert Cecil, some re-
markable papers on women and their
ways to the Saturday ReUieio, and is noted
for her virile power and force as writer.