The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-01-21
Women.

AN obscure Alabama paper wants to
know if Susan B. Anthony is the wife of
Mark Anthony.
THE Chinese in California recently
burned one of their women caught steal
ing.
THIRTY-THREE bachelors of Storm
Lake, Iowa, have formed cooperative
union with matrimonial intentions.
In Jasper county, Ind, an ancient
matron of Is desires to be released from
her husband aged rs years.
DIAMONDS in the London market have
fallen in value thirty per cent, owing
to the great quantity offered by refugees
from France
Mrs Justice-of-the- Peace Morris, of
Wyoming, for weighty personal reasons
has retired to private life. 1t weighed
about ten pounds.
AN old lady in Holland, whose sole
occupation was housewifery, scrubbed
her sitting-room floor until she fell
through into the cellar.
MADAME GARCIA, the wife of the
Argentine minister, gave reception i'll
Washington last Monday evening
Many members of the foreign lega-
tons, of Congress, and of the Cabinet,
were present.
CINCINNATI brings forward woman
who raises four feet of hair on her head
every three years, She has gathered
forty-eight feet of the article since she
came into the market.
An Ohio widow was requested by the
aristocratic relatives of the deceased to
give a false name when she went out
washing, SO not to disgrace the fam
lily Such thoughtfulness is touching.
A LADY was urged by her friends to
marry widower, and as an argument
they spoke of his two beautiful chill
dren. Children" replied the lady,"
are like toothpicks person wants her
own"
SPEAKING offemale lecturers, the New
York Globe calls Kate Field the g Rose
of the Rostrum :" Olive Logan the
''Lilly of the Lyceum :; and Lillian
Edgerton the ''Pearl of the Platform.
WOMEN writer's have multiplied in
Russia during the last five years in
ratio equalled by no other country, and
there are now 800 in the realm, whom
Prince Galitzin thinks worthy a place
in the second edition of his "List of
Russian Authoressess
THE eastern press is earnestly prot
estint against the draggle-tail idiocy
which is becoming too apparent on the
promenades Berlin is charged with
the crime of reintroducing the trailing
skirt, with its inevitable denominations,
and some fashionable American imbe-
Giles have been in haste to adopt if,
AT Effingham, Illinois, on the 10th OF
November, Judge Dean licensed to
practice in his court Mrs Ada H Keep
lev, who graduated at the Chicago law
school last winter. In making the or
der in favor of Mrs Kepley, the learn
ed Judge said that he did it because
/" he thought it was proper and in ac-
cord with the spirit of the age"
WEDDING presents are coming to be
counted as capital upon which the bu-
siness of married life is to be carried on.
Not long since, at the wedding of
daughter of exCollector Smythe, in
New York city, the presents were es-
timated to represent $50, 900. More re
pOned fortunates took place, at which
the presents were valued at 5000, 600.
A MAN was married; he lost his wife,
and had a stone erected over her grave.
He married a second wife, and when
she died he had the gravestone split,
and it thus served for the two depart
ed. He proposed to the third, and the
lady quantity remarked; 81 do not
believe the stone will split again
DowNHAM HALL, Norfolk, England,
the residence of the Duchess Dowager,
OF Cleveland, was lately sold at auc-
ton. The estste comprises about ), 200
acres, with excellent residence. The
bidding commenced at $40, 600, and was
rapidly advanced, till after most spi-
rited competition the estate was sold to
Mr.. Edward Mackenzie, of Henley-on-
Thames, for the sum of eS1, 500,
A DEPUTATIoN of Paris fish-wives re
Gently waited on NJ. Rochefort. They
did not, however, as is their custom,
ask to kiss him. In 1913, when the
DANES de La Halle desired to salute La
MARITIME, "Mes amies,n said the poor
poet, ait is women only who kiss, but
you are man by your patriotism like
iioh oiI"ii oiotbo .yOi--"c oildIl Slldh
hands"
A PAIR of unsophisticated twin sisters
in st. Joseph, Mo-, played game of
g old sledge g for the hand of neigh
boring farmer the other day At cri-
teal point in the proceeding one of the
artless young creatures ''turnedup Jack"
from his hiding place in her sleeve, won
the stakes, and married him in a week.
The loser cherishes prejudice against
"keerds" and all other tricks that are
vain now, and has set her cap for Sab
bath-school exhorter of the vicinage.
A PROVIDENCE girl of sixteen, who re-
Gently graduated with the highest hon
ors from the high school, Immediately
went into factory and earned there
500. On Monday she started alone,
armed with only her small fund, fiat
tering testimonial from the Superin-
tendent of Schools and her determined
spirit, for Oberlin, Ohio, to enter Ober-
lin College, where she can complete her
education in full collegiate course.
THEY have neck-tie sociables in Mon
tana. Every body, upon entering the
door, is required to give the door keep
er an envelope containing neck-tie
made of the same material as the dress
she wears that evening; to lie made III
any conceivable shape, and trimmed as
she chooses. Every gentleman pays Is
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