Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1895-01-17
OF GENERAL INTEREST.


An elderly man dressed in the garb
Of preacher got into a broadway.
New York ear the other day. carrying
a gold headed cane Around the gold
handle was a knitted cover The cane
itself was scratched and marked in
several places, but the handle evident
" was as new and bright As the day he
got IT,
One pcculiarity OF the girls foot
ball club formed in Denver j. that only
two or three girls Of either team have
ever seen game Of football played by
men The two clubs. the Denver and
the All America. wear the regular
padded football costume. and a. they
do not court observation. they play In
q large hall They are coached by men.
aud play an excellent game. although
II i less rough than those in which
men are the performers
The woman suffragists arr waging
vigorous war on the Pacific coast The
Women's Equal Rights league Of san
I Francisco seems 10 have captured
many - the prominent society people
there. and swell ~ncial events are being
made the mr,iium for missionary work
The league has secured. maybe import
ei. white man. and he j. telling san
Franci~Van~ 81 how lovely things ar.
in New zealand. where they have
women mayor>. and talk 81 having
women members % parliament
While lace making of the morr
delicate sort j. not a large industry in
New YORK lace men8ing rs done BY
few skilled mediterranean Really valu.
able lacs~ are intru~teri a. only we'll
accredited per~ouS. Scores of the
cheaper ~nrt arr made for pastime bv
women ami children of various foreign
uationaiitiss. notably the French. Ital-
isns. and above all the >yrians- One
seldom ~~~~ a syrian girl or woman
sitting IN the do"rvvays or windows of
their quarters without bit Of lace
work in hand
The text Il love them that Low.
Ne, and Those that SeelS NJ. early shall
fiud Ne, painted high up On the party
wall % church in Park avenue. New
York. which was pulled down some
months ago. has Just been erased. and
heneath has been painted the prosaic
warning. Post M bills under penalty
of the law The ragged remains of
some old thcater posters on the wall
suggest that the text was erased in
order that il might not be brought in
iuNtaPosition with the vuigaritie~ of
every day life
The rigid refusal - the pnst Office.
the elevated railroads and the surface
ruasi> of large cities % asrept mutiIats,i
coins seems 70 have somewhat ~
strictei their circulation. but il still
holds yot-t that almost anything bear
ing the STAMPS of the federal uints
VIII - in q saloon. The popular b.
lief that the saloon<eeper makes alb
normal profits probably has something
"a do with this. but perhaps the fact
that SINE u his customers are not
critical a. tn the sort of change they
get may aseount for his Indifference.
There = M law sitting apart a day
for Thanksgiving. NOR : the president
under any legal obligations 10 issue n
proclamation lie simply follow. an
old custom. both n u setting apart
this day. and a. tn il date Custom.
however. has established the festival
aud the last THURSDAY IN November
has been accepted a. the date on which
1t shall occur This custom dates hack
to issis. though Thanksgiving dav vas
celebrated at odd times as far back a.
the days Of the colonies. Among the
records preserved by congress i a
proclamation by the council Of aasSa-
ehusetts. dated November Il. t77s. rec
ommendinR acknowledgement for
mercies enjoved-- A form of Thanks
giving proclamation was reported 10
the Continental congress November I.
RI, By samuel Adams, of Massachu-