The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-04-12
FENIININITY.

OF all the school teachers in the Uni.
ted States two.thirds are women.
There is a fine of SIS imposed in Chi
cago upon bar keepers who sell liquor
to young ladies under l6
Mr.. Greeley says that the solution of
the question whether woman is equal
to man depends upon who the woman is,
and who the man is.
A Boston girl who turned up her nose
at boiled cabbage, because 1t smelled
strong, was caught behind the pantry
door eating Limburger cheese and sauer
kraut. She's fraud.
A Boston lady was recently observed
trying to regulate her time-piece by q
marine compass in the window Of nau-
tical instrument store.
The newest style for dressing the hair
is called tho CLEOPATRA" The hair is
brushed high off the forehead and braid
ed low in the neck, surmounted by n
large imitation snake, which is coiled
around the head.
A writer in the Graphic says that a
woman will always love the nearest
man of suitable age, alter fashion, if
she has never seen any more attractive
specimens of masculine humanity.
A Boston writer comes to the defense
of women against the current notion
that they are peculiarly addicted to gos-
sip, alleging that in q country grocery
store, among barrels Of molasses and
piles of salt fish, more gossip is talked
| by men in one evening than is heard in
all the farm houses Of the town.
They say in Rome that Queen Victoria
is strongly leaning toward Catholicism,
and Archbishop Manning is reported to
have asserted that in case Her Britapic
Majesty should abdioate her crown, che
would at once embrace the Catholic
faith. . - -
The favor with which Mormonism is
reg sarded by the. resident female pOpu-
lation of Utah is fully accounted for by
the circumstance thaE any manageable
woman may propose to the man OF her
choice, and that heis not allowed under
any pretext to decline Ier offer.
Efforts are beng made in India to pnt
n stop to tho ancient custom of destroy
inc female infants, and bill for this
purpose is now before the Council of
Calcutta. So general had the practice
become that in one native community
of ten thousand net one girl was to be
found.
A physician riding in Boston street
car one day last week, gave up his seat
to an elderly lady, although che insisted
that she was not quite so old as he
thought. And on further inquiry he
foupd that she, Mrs. Hannah Clarke,
the only daughter of Lieutenant kol-
Inns, of Bunker Hill fame, is living fru-
gslly in Boston at the age of ninety SIX,
on an income of S43, the United States
Governments allowing her annual PEN
sion of $4s, which it costs So to collect
in Boston.
Through some strange freak Penn
sylvania woman, while away from home,
sent dispatch, signed with q fictitious
name, to her SOB, saying that she was
dead, and he must come for the body.
He made arrangements for the funeral,
went, found her alive, and brought her
back. Mourning was changed TO joy,
all present screaming, dancing, crying
and laughing in concert. The grave
was fillsd up aud the undertaken dis
missed, and there was flood of indig-
nation poured out against the perpe-
[trater Of the terrible joke, the woman
herself referring to tho heartless trans
action with tears In her eyes.