Weekly Trinity journal. [volume] (Weaverville, Calif.) 1857-1972, 1869-01-16
Chit-Chat for the Ladies'.

Eugenie's expression and disposition are said
to have lost their sweetness.
Colfax's weddng-gift to his bride was set of
pearls, brooch, necklace and bracelet, of the
finest and purest quality.
Miss Nellie Chase, of Topeka. Kansas, will be
the candidate before the next Legislature for
Enrolling Clerk of the House.
A fool of husband tried to kill his wife, in
Bath, Steuben county, New York, short time
ago, because she was baptised against his will.
Nobody is responsible for the Grecian bend
The idiot females who practice it do so on their
own hook; or, as the expression has been ethe-
realized, on their personal curve.
The two women nominated for School Com
mittee in Worcester, Massachusetts, by the Re
publicans were chosen by handsome majority
A woman was elected to the same office in Graf
ton, Massachusetts.
Mrs Mike McCoole is "only eighteen years of
age" is blonde of rare beauty and accom-
plishments paints with taste and SKILL sings
sweetly, and is an exquisite performer on the
piano" Influenced BY such powerful persua-
sives, it is to he hoped that Mr.. Mike will retire
permanently from the prize-ring, resisting the
facinations of the championship, with its Incl
dents of black eyes and bloody noses.
~ III L tulist, iliiHolS, recently III
exploring his sisters things, came across pack
age of letters duly tied up and laid away, being
correspondence which she was carrying on
with nice yonng man. He carried them down
on the street, and standing on the corner, gave
them away singly to the passers by. The young
lady didn't find it out until mutual friend
also nice young man, brought her one that her
brother had thus given him.
1t may be suggested to the people who are Just
now fashiOning laws to forbid marriages con-
sidered improper, that in l71O the King of Por-
tugal issued an edict forbidding widows more
than fifty years of age to marry. % Experience
says the King, @ has shown that women of that
age commonly marry young men Of no property,
who dissipatc the fortune such marriages put
them in possession of, to the prejudice of the
children and other near relatives of their wives.
Madame Retlig of the Frankfort Matrimonial
Bureau, advertises that she has plenty of Ameri-
can husbands for well educated German girls.
Fee five dollars. These matrimonial bureaus
are patroniZed extensively in Germany. In Ber-
lin there are half dozen institutions Of this
class which do a flourishng business. As the
police keep them under a very sharp surveillance,
few or no complaints preferred against them
They publish in the German papers many let
tiers written by parties that have found husbands
wives through their agency.
How working women are paid in Paris is
shown by the following list of prices Seam
stresses making summer corsets receive for each
twenty-five confines, and earn daily one and one
half francs, if they are quick and skilliul.
Seamstresscs. sewing and lining linen busters,
earn, at the most, one and one-tbrd francs
daily. Those who make and trim crinollnes, re-
ceive fifty confines for each and cannot make
more then tYo daily Seamstresses trimming
winter overco4ts, one and one-half francs daily
making winter corsets, two francs daily; sewing
button-holes in paper collars, one and one-half
francs daily, if they able to finish two hun
dred and sixty button-holes during the day.
There is now in Paris movement on foot for
the purpose of breaking down the constantly in-
creasing influence of the women of the demi-
monde. society of ladies. to he called "The
league of honest women, is to be organized
The members os this league pledge themselves
not to patronze any establishment where the
demi-naonde is known to deal not to rent any
boxes at theaters where the demi-monde is admit
ted not to ape the costumes introduced by the
demi-monde not to invite to their sotres any gen
tlemen who are known to keep mistresses, etc.
Old Dupin suggested something of the kind foul
years ago. Very influential authors, artists
politicians, etc., now favor the formation of sucf