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Show FOR THE LADIES. Troy proposes to institute a college for women at a cost of iOiAVxxj. Two Wbconsio women have earned $2mJ tho present season by the care of bees. Gail Hamilton is called by the Springfield K'-fublio.ni the Wendell fhillipd of her sex. Two Glenn's falb girta, Laving but one lover between them, drowned tbein--selves in a graceful but determined manner. Old maids thould always go to the theatre before the ric of the euriain, beeausc then there s a chance of an overture. The reason why so few marriages arc happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making mak-ing cages. A New Orleans paper hays that a young widow in that city, who writes well, "is training herself for an editor." Who is the editor she is training for? There is a girl in New Haven who has been engaged to a member of every class that has been graduated at Yale since 1857. The paintings which adorn the parlor par-lor walls f Mr. Justice Strong's house in Washington arc the work of the fair hands of his lour fair daughters. Anna Dickinsou is reported to he developing de-veloping her dramatic powers in the tragio line. Her debut at no distant day will probably be made on the Chicago Chi-cago stage. A Milwaukee woman brought to the station-house charged with drunken and violent conduct, proceeded to extract ex-tract from her chignon the requisite amount and bailed herself out. The woman suffragists of Pennsylvania Pennsylva-nia aro asking the State legislature to pass a law authorizing women to serve as delegates to the coming constitutional constitution-al convention of that State. Queen Victoria has presented Mrs, Scales, of Toronto, the mother of triplets, trip-lets, with i!3 sterling. This gift, common com-mon in Great Britain, has never before been given to a Canadian subject. The first woman voter of Wyoming was an old lady 70 years of ago, who voted on her way from tho baker's, and went to the polls with a yeast pitcher in one hand and the ballot in the other. Tho Rhode Island legislature aro again petitioned by the unmarried sisterhood sis-terhood of the little State to grant them permission to vote themselves husbands or anything else they may think 1'or their best good. An Indianapolis man took advantage of his wife having small-pox to send for his mother-in law. The result surpassed sur-passed his utmost expectations, and he had the satisfaction of paying her funeral fune-ral expenses a lew days alter her arri-; arri-; val. An old bachelor who sent a lock of his hair and his name (as Miss liettie Brown) to a Boston clairvoyant, received re-ceived tho following : "You will marry mar-ry a railroad conductor in less than a year, have five children, and die in childbed of the sixth!" The Kentucky court of appeals has declared that the mutuality of an engagement en-gagement may bo proved against a young lady "by showing that she demeaned de-meaned herself as if she concurred in or approved the young man's promises or offer. It is not necessary that there should be an express promise on either side." |