The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1872-09-06
FEsrryryrr1Es.

A pledge of love-Pawning the
engagement ring.
In Virginia old maids are called
debated sisters"
The German Government probib-
its the sale OF books on women's
rights.
A sco1ding wife in Milwaukee dis
cloated her jawbone while "giviDg"
! it to her husband.
| Griswold college, Iowa, will in the
future admit female students On an
equality with the males.
In a leading bank in Stockholm all
the clerkships have for some years
past been filed by women.
The women of Massachusetts are
to have a college of their own at
Northampton, endowed with $780,
600.
Jones says be always gives Mrs.
Jones her own way, because it's the
only thing he has 10 give her.
Two daughters of Eldridge Gerry,
who signed the declaration of Inde-
pendence, are alive and well in New
Haven.
In what way does a lady treat
man like telescope? When she
draws him out, looks him through,
and then shuts him up.
"Will you marry me, Miss? "Sir,
you know I have often declared 1
would never marry" "Oh, yes, or
l should never have asked you."
There is o. man in Detroit who
runs laundry from the proceeds of
which his wife rides about III her car
riase and dresses in the extreme of
fashion.
Ida Wilson, nee Lewis, the Grace
Darling of America, still makes New
port her home, and can often be seen
in the harbor, managing her beauti-
full boat.
The mother of tie WorrelI sisters
turned every diamond presented to
her daughters into hard cash. and
purchased property on Bay Ridge,
l.. l., which has quadrupled in value.
Copper-toed fans are sold for the
benefit of young ladies who have no
one to love. and who chew the stuff
ing out of any other kind in one
evening when hop is in progress
The word love, in the Indian Ian
guage, is "Schemlendamourtchwa-
ger" How nicely it would sound,
whispered softly in a lady's ear: II
Observation-Disclosures your
The Crown Princess Victoria of
Prussia, daughter of Green Victo-
ria, has offered a prize of 1000 on
the best essay on advancing the ma
terial prosperity of working women.
The pews of a Methodist church
on the boundary line between Penn
sylvania and Ohio, stand in the for
mer state and the pulpit in the latter.
Pennsylvania couples have to be mar
ried in the vestibule.
The countess of Blanchery, who
in one of the battles of the Franco
German war fought with a musket
in her hand as private soldier, has
Just had the cross of the Legion OF
Honor conferred upon her.
A Saratoga notabiIity. VINO has his
rooms at hotel draped in mourning
for his mother, remarked the other
day to some sympathizing f1iends
that he "would not have lost her tor
Eve hundred dollars"
A Greenfield, Mass, girl returning
home recently from a lecture on cleo
tricity, got caught in thunderstorm,
aud promptly pulled off her hoop
skirt, not caring to risk herself in
side that kind of a tightening conduc-
tor.
A western paper describes the
manner of love making practiced
among some of its readers in the fol-
lowing paragraph: THE young
people who were seen feeding each
other dove-fashion, over gate-post,
the other evening, had better be a
little more cautious in the future"
! A Connecticut lover, young and
enthusiastic, who sang and played
for nearly two hours before the house
of his lady love the other evening,
was lectri6ed-thatiss shocked-after
a short pause, by cordial ssThank
you," gracefully pronounced by the
"ether fellow" who appeared at the
window.
j This is from lady's diary: cat
last nights party there We're some
two or three women too much de-
colletee, and when the gentlemen
bent over to speak to them, they
used their fans to hide their necks.
True modesty ought not to be aware
of exposure, and this effort at con-
cealment excites mans Imagination
more than simple exposure. =