| Show FOR AND ABOUT WO JIBS The colleges of this country contain ISOuu feualo students The capital of the Third National i bank of Cincinnati1OGOOOO is mostly I owcea by women I A man shook hands with Ida Baker at Decatur lit and shook so hard that he dislocated her shoulder Mrs Paulina T Merritt of Indianapolis Indianap-olis flea built it homo for helplev colored color-ed women in that city In 1351 there were only 1931 women employed ii the civil service of Great Britain and now there are more than 8000 Miss Stanwood editor of the Portland Christian Uirror associates herself with I the Bojtun Cbngregrationaliai in August Mrs Leland Stanford wno endowed the aged ladies nome tt Albany u personally per-sonally attending to the details of its construction Miss Amelia B Edwards of England n ted as an Kgviitoloptst has been honored by Smith collgo with the degree de-gree of LL D Miss Ora Deakin who last year was mained to Secretary Bavarda son is described as a tall and handsome blonde Mi a Hattie Dennison who na last year postmaster of Vancouver W TWits T-Wits the first woman to receive presidential presi-dential office in the Territory 4 Mrs Hayward on English woman has been engaged as professor of oratory ora-tory in tbe Cincinnati lav school The students like the innovation It is positively denied that Miss Josephine Jose-phine Medill daughter of the editor ot the Chicago Tribune is to be married to I a son ot James G Blaine I At Bay City Mich a lady in a somnambulistic som-nambulistic state the other night took a walk attired in nothing but a hat and a pair of stockings Out of 400 women who keep dram shops in New Yortc city only one is an American Tins is a statement of which our countrywomen may well fed proud Mrs Mark Hopkins the millionaire widow has for ner factotum a young colored man who manages much other ot-her business and conducts a part of her I correspondence A young lady in the west has given a wise hint to husbands viz that they I induce their wives to sign a pledge not to wear clothing that costs the life of animalssealskin sacques for example Miss Ronie McRoberts who died at Tuscola Ill last week was 31 years old and weighed but eighteen pounds She was29 inches high She had resided at Tucola for several years Mrs Lovejoy wife of Major Lovejov of Bethel Me while fishing recently in tbeKangeley lakes caught the largest trout ever hooked by a woman in those waters It weighed eight pounds nine ounces At a sixdays typesetting contest held in Boston lately between femae comp com-p > sitors three of the women beat the ocst record made in a similar contest the week before between the male com psitors from the leading newspaper oilices The Rev Dr Storrs of Brooklyn wants women appointed io the school board The pro ortion of female tom to-m teachers in Brooklyn is as thirty nine to one Dr Storrs pleads for a reasonable proportion of female superintendence super-intendence Sirs Clevelands little library whi h was sent to Wasnington from Buffalo a few days after her marriage is composed com-posed dalS a couple of hundred volumes varied in character but with the element ele-ment of liction largely predominating Archibald Forbes set the Washington gossips to talking by gallantly kissing his brides hand after the marriage service ser-vice But the same authorities look aghast st he bride formerly Miss Mcigs because she carried flowers instead in-stead of a prayerbook to the altar when clad in 11 traveling gown James H Moody the new postmaster at Pottsville Pa succeeds Miss Elizabeth Eliza-beth Slliruan in whose family the office of-fice has been for 21 years Her mother was the first woman appointed to office by President Lincoln and her various daughters have held the postoffice for i five uccessive terms Mrs Charles Smith who docs not lecture on female suffrage has secured he passage of a bill by Congress increasing in-creasing tne wages or charwomen 30 per cent and giving tnem 30 days boll day and in addition has succeeded in getting three 1400 positions on the committee of labor statistics for women Said a dude I just love pgs feet I couldJive upon pigs feet I Bald the modest girl to whbm the remark was addressed Are you right snre yon dontt |
