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Show FOR THE LADIES. Brooklyn's favorite poet is a blonde named Mary liujjkins. A brawny female Teuton does duty as a constable in a western village. Four-fifths of the 10,000 school teachers in Massachusetts arc women. The Illinois Industrial university has !o9 students, of whom 14 are women. Two leaders of Paris fashion recently had the temerity to appear at a ball without chignons. There is a woman in Washington Territory who has shot and killed eight Indians with her own hands. The prettiest pair of boota exhibited at a recent fair in Cincinnati were made by a lit tie Dutch girl, aged 16. The heavy weights of the woman'6 rights movement have established a paper in Chicago called the Balance. Twonty-five young ladiea of St. John'?, Midi., have resolved to prosecute prose-cute all persons engaged in the liquor traffic A Boston girl trii'd to commit suicide sui-cide by dosing hcrrclf with "Parson's llat Exterminator." The only effect it had was to deslroy her chignon. The women of Rome propose erecting erect-ing a statue of Garibaldi in that city this summer. A large amount of enthusiastic en-thusiastic resolutions has already been ' raised. The sympathizing friend of an Illinois Illi-nois couple who wanted to elope gave a concert in the district school-house for their benefit, the prolits of which were five dollar?, and with this the loving pair went off. A Presbyterian pastor in Muncie, nd., through the columns of the Cincinnati Cin-cinnati Herald and Presbyter givos Miss Smiley a standing invitation to occupy his pulpit morning and evening. A gir! at Council Iiluffs, persisting in permitting the attentions of a man against the wishes of her mother, was tarred and leathered by that lady for her until ial conduct. On 2 Madame Moore of Cincinnati challenges Weston or any other man to walk for $1,000 a side. She claims to havo walked 100 miles in 23 hours, 28 minutes; and 50 miles in 9 hours, 50 minutes. An Iowa woman lost her thimble last November, and on Palm Sunday found it in her stocking. She would not have found it then had she not mistaken the day, and, under the impression im-pression it was Easter, made her annual an-nual change of hose. A western woman, aged 20, has beeD sued for seducing a boy of 1G. The parents of the unhappy youth brought the suit, aud claimed $1,000 damages, but, as tho lady offered to repair the wrong by marrying the seduced one, they were non-suited. A patriotic matron of Maine has done her utmost to remove the re proach of New England by giving birth to thrco bouncing boys, and the admiring ad-miring residents in her vicinity have made up a purse to reward her. A Chicago widow has contrived to acquire no less than $1,700 dollars ol (he relief funds by dint of disguising herself adroitly and possessing several places of abode. The sacred number of seven stoves claim her as mistress in one locality and as many as half a thousand blankets in another. |
