Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1869-12-02
Clippings for the Ladies
Minnie Warren is hopelessly i'll.

Ellen Wood is Rev. Henry Ward
Beecher's shorthand Secretary.
"A Detroit girl wears beaver and
carries cane, but doesn't kiss chamber
maids.
"A crusty old bachelor says be
thinks it is woman, and not her wrongs
that ought to be redressed.
"A New York paper says 'panniers
are growing larger and larger, and bon'
nets higher and higher"
Winnie Ream is looking forward to
q Remarkable success. She expects TO
capture Roman count.
The Fenian girls of San Francisco
have presented George Francis Train
with five hundred dollar emerald.
Women who live to be thirty, aud
over, without marrying in Russia, are
tabooed by fashionable society.
The Empress Eugene has purchas
ed the ground adjoining Mount David,
where it is supposed the Virgin Mary is
buried.
Mrs Beecher Stowe has book In
press on the woman question. Hel
friends pronounce it great, and expect
that it will revolutionize society.
Madame Anna Bishop has reappear'
ed in concerts, after an absence of -four
,eo,s She will settle in New York and
lead q choir.
An Indiana girl succeeded in com.
hitting a thousand Bible verses to mem
DRY, and then she laid Ill Of brain fever
for three months.
w endell phillips says the disparity
in the rights of the sexes before the law
is based on an "inconsequential differ.
ence."
Miss Mariana Thompson, student
in the Theological School at New York,
has been offered 81, $50 . year by two
congregations.
-Au English newspaper seriously in
forms its readers that year'sresdence in
Chicago entities all married couples to di
vorces upon application.
Anna Dickinson is in hen twenty
seventh year. There is no doubt about
it, for all the papers began saying SC
four years ago, and have kept it up ever
since.
The negresses of Nashville have
formed cooperative society TO do fam
lily sewing. They do the work and meet
once week to divide the proceeds pro
rata.
A lady at Willamsport, Pa, has
not been able to sleep wink in month.
Examination into the cause by eminent
physicians revealed the terrible truth that
her night-gown was out of fashion.
"A colored women of Rockford last
week gained suit against the Chicago
and Northwestern railway company for
having refused her seat in the ladies'
car. The Wiunebago Circuit Court
awarded her 5000 damages.
"A New York editor, if not now
married, never will be, for he says:-
1.-The good honest lasses we knew in
years agone seem like choice dreams
compared TO the walking shop-windows,
the hair peddling. ribbon flnging, toter-
tipping gew gaws of humanity now call
ed girls.
The wedding of MIR. Meredith How
land and Miss Ada Terrence, grand.
daughter of Commodore Vanderbilt, took
place in New York, Tuesday afternoon
There were no bridesmaids or grooms-
men upon the occasion. The bride was
richly attired in white satin, of slight
lavender tinge, long train, white lace
vail falling over her shoulders, pearls, a
dainty wreath of white flowers upon her
head and large bouquet in her band.
The groom was dressed in a black coat,
buttoned tight, and lavender pantaloons.
Mark Twain, in his lectures on the
Sandwich Islands, remarks, when he
comes to discuss cannibahsm: SAT this
point l usually illustrate cannibaIism be.
fore the audience; but an stranger
here, and feel diffident about asking ia.
vors, However. it there is any one pres
ent who is willing to contribute a baby
for the purposes of this lecture, should
be glad to know it now" This was a
good joke when Mark first got it of, two
or three years ago. lie now adds to it;
II am aware, though, that children have
become scarce and high Of late, having
been thinned out by neglect and ill-treat
ment since the woman movement be.
gam"
STILL AHEAD.--That uStar Spapoled