Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-04-12
The World of Women.

inc Iemale Jury OF Laramie
City, il their labors were arduous
have at least their reward in fame
At the time of the drawing of the
jury, when it was ascertained that
their names would be furnished by
telegraph, tho operators threw
aside all other messages upon the
wires throughout the country. AT
ter the message was sent, ejaculatory
replies of establishment came back by
wire from every direction. The
whole message was transmitted
through tho cable, and printed in full
in the leading journals Of Europe
We pity the other ladies of Wvom.
ing Territory ; no future honors can
eAothe the envy with which they re.
gard the happy few whose names
were read, perhaps, by potentates
and princes in another hemisphere.
Tho Brooklyn Union makes q
very sensible suggestion. As Amer
lean women are now forcing their
way into various occupations which
have hitherto been monopolized by
men, why should not some of them
try their hand at bookkeeping? Nc
great amount of natural genius, math-
atical or other, is needed for success
ndthere is nothingunfeminine in bal.
ancing accounts In the best Paris.
ian cafes, and in q very large pro-
portion of the stores the books are
kept by women, and 50 are books Of
many English hotels
At the recent meeting il Edin-
burgh of the Govornesses' Benevolent
Society, Admirable Ramsay, in the
course OF speech, said that on the
coast Of Africa he once saw regi-
ment of rifle women-and, black as
they were, he must say he never saw
finer regiment. All the officers
were women /; there was not single
man in the whole regiment. They
were most courageous and fought
bravely in fact, friend told him
that when they went into action they
fought like so many tigresses.
The Cleveland Leader says of
the Ohio Woman Suffrage Conven
vention: "When the woman conven-
tions shall be purged of feminine men
who wear ringlets and part their hair
in the middle, and speak in half
falsetto voice, and of masculine wo-
men, who don trousers, crop their
hair short, and talk slang in deep
bass, they will command more re-
spect."
Theodore Tilton is out ID a card,
in which he proclaims himEelf COM
missioned to procure the name and
address of every person of the United
States who takes a. friendly interest
in woman's enfrancbisement He
Gays the purpose Of this registration
is to know to whom TO send import
ant documents. and friends of the
cause are requested to send in their
names at once.
AT temperance meeting in Buff
falo few nights ago a lady declared
il her firm belief that it was
grave sin for parents to allow
their children to use condiments,
and inveighed against the long cate
CORY of sin and crime which may be
traced back to the immoderate use of
stimulating mustard.
Madam De Stael said, 'If | were
mistress of fifty languages | would
think in deep German, converse in
the gay French, write in the copious
English sing in the majestic Spanish,
deliver in the noble Greek, and make
love in the soft Italian"
"A wealthy citizen of certain
town in Maine died recently, and his
last words to his heirs were "Plant
me as soon as | am cold, and don't
cart me around fol q side show
Remember Peabody" He was bur-
led according to his request.
AT Damascus there is dispen-
sary under the charge of the Sisters
of St. Vincent, which gives advice
and distributes medicine every day
gratuitously to the poor, whether
Christians, Mussulmans or Jews.
The Congregational church in
Thomastown, Maine, have amended
their bylaws so az to read: "And
every member, male and female, in
good standing. present at any meet
ing, shall be entitled 10 vote
Among the students at the New
York Medical College for Women is
a young colored woman, twenty-three
years of age, who has just completed
her course, and is about to graduate
with honor.
Over one hundred young women
are at present studying law in this
country-many in the universities.
but moro in lawyers offices, where
they pay their tuition fees by writ
ing.
Miss Emma Barkalow, who was
admitted to the bar at st. Louis q
few days ago was enrolled as an at
torney in the Missousi Supreme
Court.
The EliZabethan ruff is coming
into fashion. just now they are of
moderate width, but the tendency
to wear them wide will be almost ir-
resistible
Buffalo has increased the salaries
of the women school teachers to the
amount of s24 600; the men teachers
got not cent.
An independent woman's suffrage
organization, 10 opposition to Liver
more, Anthony 4 Co., is talked OF IN
Chicago.
Miss Anthony says won, will
never accomplish anything untli they
stop crying.
There are twenty-five local wo-
man suffrage associations in Ohio.
&c The Scientific American nredicts