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Show THE LADIES. i Sixteen women were dismised from their positions in the California mint recently. What will the pull-back do on ice ? This question is in everybody's mouth just now. Senator Sharon's daughters arc not quoted so high by tho Washington "swells" since the California crash. Kate Field says if she were the Princess Louise she would emigrate to a country where her husband would be her social equal. The factory women of England havo inaugurated a movement in I favor of the appointment of female overseers in factories, and againBt legislative restriction upon tho labor of women. , A late letter from Cheyenne says : "The election here last week was exciting. The ladies all voted and swept everything clean." How natural na-tural that the woman should go to sweeping as soon as she had voted. MrB. Mary Baseett, M. D,, is said to have an annual income of $3,000 derived from ner pioiessionai worn in CooperLown, N. V. Sho has mot with prejudice and lived it down by faithful work, with bitter persecution, and has ignored it altogether. An Indianapolis man, whose wife had eloped, was asked by a lriend if be did not intend to Bhoofc tho destroyer de-stroyer of his happiness. "Not bo," replied tho husband. Do you think I would interfere with my own revenge? re-venge? I can trust him to my wife." "It has been decided," says an ex-change, ex-change, "that any railroad conductor who kiesos a passenger against her will lays the railroad company liable for damages." If the conductor should happen to be a handsome young man, and should submit his case to a jury of twelve girls, there would be little doubt that the amount of damages would bankrupt the road. The custom which the French women will not adopt, but which the Russian ladies allect, is that of taking communion in white dresses. Working Work-ing women in the empire of tho Czar attend the communion Bervico in black dresses and white veils, but for tho richer classes, the most magnificent magnifi-cent white toilets are prepared . for theso religious ceremonies. 8WKET SIN. I When Methor Eve tho tempting fruit I Plucked for her only kin, She then and there did insliluto A precedent for sin. Shi knew the apple tasted sweet, But thought not of its pric?, And said to Adam , " Let us oat; It's naughty, but iU nice." |