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Show FOR THE LADIES. A Chicago lady aged 72 years is the mother oi a baby aged ten days. San Francisco has a female confidence confi-dence operator only eleven years old. Kate F. eld's lecture on Diokens gives f-atist'actioo to English audiences. Boston intends to devote twelve Saturday Sat-urday alternoons of next Autumn to tree lectures for women. Tho Nevada ladies are dabbling in mining stock operations, and several are woith their "plum" accordingly B A woman's head, with the present fashion of wearing the hair, and hifih bonnets, Unsaid to be as largo as that of a horsc- Tbe Woman's Journal thinks that it is a blunder that Mr. Tiltou was not nominated instead of Fred Douglas on the Woodhull ticket. Mrs. Uookcr has established a ladies' la-dies' readiDg-room in New Haven, j which is much resorted to by the wo-! wo-! man-women politicians. Shirely Dare advises all women to learn lace making, furniture polishing, bread or bed-making enough to live by, beforo they practice with the peD. Mrs. EUiot, wife of tho black member mem-ber of congress from South Carolina, is a handsome, stylish woman, rot much darker thin the average brunette. Two Marlboro', Vl, girls having been offered $10 apiece for sawiog and splitting a cord of hard wood slab?, earned their money in four hours and a half. Grace Greenwood speaks in a highly enthusiastic manner, of Mrs. Crosby, wife of a former confederate colonel, who has shown remarkable talent in sculpture. A Boston woman claims to have read last year fifty metaphysical and scientific works, as many more of h'B tory and Belles-lettres, besides 5U0 novels, no-vels, plays and poems. The woman snffragiits of the Pacific slope have issued a call for a convention conven-tion to meet in San Francisco on Tuesday, Tues-day, the 18th, and to continue in session ses-sion three days. A lady occupied the pulpit, and six young ladies passed tho contribution boxes in the staid and sober old State Street Methodist church in Troy, on a late Sunday evening. The Woman Suffrage party having denounced Mr. Greeley and his platform, plat-form, appointed a committee of seven ladies to attend the Philadelphia convention. con-vention. What then? Tho university oollege in London has recently thrown open someot its clasfCB to women. The Hume and Kicardo scholarships in political; economy arc also open to tho fair ones. A young girl, at an examination in grammar, the other day, when asked why the noun "bachelor"was singular, blushingly answered, "Because it is very singular they don't get married." She went up head. Mrs. Bella Lookwood, lately admit-! admit-! ted to the District of Columbia bar, hangs out her shingle as a criminal lawyer, and scandal asserts that numerous nu-merous wile-beaters and pick -pockets owe their escape from punishment to her exertions. Some detroit women of the practical practi-cal missionary stamp, lately visited a sick and widowed neighbor, shingled her house, planked her side-walk, plukctcd Lui leuoc, painted oue room and papered two, and split and piled a load of slab wood. There is a woman in Boston who has stolen, in the course of a long and I eventful life, one thousand and one um brellas. The one thousand and oncth one was taken on the evening of her eightieth birthday, but unfortunately her uncomfortable practice was detected, detect-ed, and she is in one of the Boston moral prisons. |