The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-02-21
ABOUT WOMEN.

A CLAIRvoYANT of Butte, Mont, has
brought $4,000 suit against the city be-
cause she twisted her ankle In n hole in the
sidewalk. The authorities reply that If she
is a professional seer she ought TO have seen
the hole, but that she will never see the
$4,000.
AN intelligent lady, whose residence
had been destroyed by FIRE, remarked that
the destruction of her home did not disturb
her so much as seeing the condition Of the
things that were saved. Some of the victims
of the food have doubtless undergone a
similar experience. -ProDidcRce Journal.
SOME Bronts relics we're recently
sold at Saltaire. water color by Charlotte
Of her dog Floss" fetched S27 so; orayon
landscape, S25; letter of Charlotte to Mar
tina Brown, s2b; II pair of Charlotte's worn
out shoes, 81; one Of her calico gowns, 81;
her wedding shawl" 81, and n worn-out
corset, 81. Talk of hero wOrshipl
PRoF. MARIA MITCHELL of Nassar
College is so much in favor OF outdoor en-
ployment for women that she advises them
TO take up land surveying for a business.
This would DO rough work enough In some
cases, but in such work as landscape garden
Jog, village improvement, the care Of public
parks, ETC., why might not the superior
esthetic taste of woman be employed TO adj
vantage ?-SpriRGtiold Union.
TIE will OF Commodore Hayward.
u. S. N, who died recently in Egypt, pre-
vidss for the cremation Of his body, and
adds; 81 desire that my ashes be placed in
suitable urn Of copper n her Chs Tifss
Should insist that they bo placed inside her
coffin, in which case | should not wish them
to be enclosed, but that they be strewn over
whatever may remain of her precious body"
Miss MARY THOMPSON. an English
authorizes, who came to America in Decem-
ber, 1884, with letters from Earl Granville,
Inh nRtr NJ a 20 oh
Justice Field, EN-Secretary Lincoln and the
British representatives, has begun suit for
$4,000 damages against n Catskill hotel
keeper. Miss Thompson alleges forcible
election from the hotel last summer and
defamatory talk by the defendant after she
had gone.
The Boston Transcript says that old
and shabby clothes are fashionable in GER
tain suburbs of Boston. And il tells Of a
nearby town which doesn't contain single
Worth gown, or mo G than one silk hat to
every nineteen adult males, I'm t. is aus
tere place." it adds, "no dude would be able
TO breathe, and any young woman who ap-
peared at all squeamish about her bonnets
would he set down at once as incapable of
appreciating the symphony concerts, if not
actually deficient in her Emerson.
| The studied shabbiness OF the modern B0s-
tonian Is little better than insolence."
THE uukindest cut Of all is not al
WAYS the cut Of the dressmaker. Il is the
cut after the garment has been fitted. why,
| Cicely, my dc,r, said her friend, VI tn all
| the eNuborlnce Of q breezy winter morning,
| Pm so glad TO sec, you, aud you have your
new costume, too
why, yes. How do you like it?"
The goods are real pretty, but what pos
sessed any dressmaker 20 put such a style as
| that on your peculiar form-2'
| Peculiar form2 You are not in good
| form TO speak Vt such things"
That ended that matinee. Hartford Post.
president CLEVELAND is one of the
most hashful men ever saw in the presence
! OF ladies. The other day | called upon him
! with lady friend. Oar visit was partially
! on business and partially TO be social.
| when the President received us he was very
| graceful and composed, but tho moment he
| discovered that We intended 60 delay aud
| talk, o, but how he blushed and how con-
/ fused he became was sorry for him and
/ we soon got away very handsome
| widow, vivacious and young, from one Of the
| best Southern families. spoke the above re
| Gently TO the Washington correspondent Of
| the Indianapolis journal. AT tirst the
| President didn't ask us 20 sit down." con-
| tinued the lady, and We began TO get red
behind the cara; but finally he recovered,
and he was as courteous as krenchmaL.
| Any one could have seen, though, that the
| President was all the time wishingw We would
leave. Ne doesn't seqm to know what "a
say e the ladies, ., but vhata lover h'
would maks,",