Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-09-07
ITEMS ABOUT WOMEN.

Mrs. George Vandenhoff will lectur,
on children's rights next autumn.
The Empress of Russia is about to or
ganize club similar to the Sorosis.
Fanny Fern has about made up he
mind to drop her pen after this year.
The Boston Post says Miss Kellogg il
going to raise notes by farming, instead
Of the vocal way.
They have a woman in Beloit, Wis,
who thinks nothing Of drinking gill o
laudnum at swallow.
The agricultural college at Amherst
Mass, will receive young women and
teach them horticulture.
Upward of twenty young women are
studying theology in the United States
with the view Of becoming preachers.
Two English ladies', Miss Stratton and
Miss Lewis Lloyd, have just made the
perilous ascent Of Monte Yiso.
The Dutch are in CONSERVATION over q
decree of Holland opening the examina
ton of apothecaries to women.
The New England Female Medical
College, at Boston, is progressing finely
and will be dedicated some time in DC
tober next.
A young lady in Madison, Wisconsin
advertises that she has good cowhidt
for the back of young scamp who in
suits her in the street
The women of Italy promise them
selves the right Of voting at municipal
elections within the next two years. The
movement is making remarkable head
way.
Foreigners say that American girls
are the only women in the world who
are unequal to the task Of entertaining
more than one man at a time.
For forty-six years a Boston lady
taught Sunday school class without
missing a single day, when the church
was open.
The regulation widow vail is now de
clared to be yard and a half in length
and Of English Grape Its only relief il
a deep hem, Of over an inch in depth
upon the edge.
As Tilton boosted that the new own
ers Of TIE Revolution represented s., 600
900 capital, the Chicago Advance ask,
why they can't be gallant enough to Civ,
Miss Anthony a check for the paltry
$4,000 she lost in establishing the paper
for them, and which debt she is working
herself almost to death TO pay.
A few days SINCE woman walking in
East Norwegian street, in Pottsville
Pa, was attracted by the beautiful
Scotch granite monument which stand,
in a marble yard. She asked, What is
it really?" The proprietor told her il
was a granite monument. Shure,
said she, q thought it was sausage mate
in a glass case.
They mix things considerably in China.
A man tailor may be seen working dill
gently at a lady dress for about sixty
ceuts day, and a washerman will wash
and iron your clothes at three dollars a
hundred; while a boatman's wife may
be seen Juggling al the oar or handling
the sails like a man, often, too, with a
baby on her shoulders
France has followed our example dur
ing the war, BY suspending specie pay
ments and issuing legal tender notes
Therr Il this difference, however: we had
little Or no gold on hand, while the Bank
of France has nearly S226, 600. 600. To
sullenly lock up so large an amount Of
gold naturally dis;urbs the financial re-
lations Of the country. Il Is estimated
that. In addition 10 the Bank reserve.
there Is 5000, 900. 600 Of c5ss 20 . s..- hands
Of the people An this Is AZ once de
monetized, and viii be made an article
Of export. at lartP nremium, while that
in the bank canact b touched. OF
course, BY payirelfhe, expenses Of the
war in derreciafed paper the sexual cost
viii b. largely increased. as was the case
Tith this country "a T. Tines.