The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1872-09-27
ABOUT WOMEN.


ious papers for Sunday bustles.
ALI the prizes at the recent COM
mencement of the Chicago High
Schools were taken by girls.
West Point bellies have COM
menced to worry the buttons off
from the coats of the calf-headed
cadets.
The number of American ladies
who are studying for the opera at the
italian conseryatories Is now very
large.
A woman in Jacksonville, Florida,
has shipped fifteen hundred alligator
hides to Boston within the past five
months.
A recently welded pair in New
York received as presents four grand
pianos, and talk of renting out three
of them.
Marriages are most numerous in
the Autumn IN Massachusetts. So it
was n Elem; the first marriage was
in early fall.
A young lsdy of Lee Mass.) has
disposed of her hair, which reaches
to the groun /, to Pittsburg hair
dealer for $55.
Boston bellies are easily recognized
by the heavy boots they wear, and
their fondness for boiled onions and
corn on the cob.
A young lady went into a q usic
store aud asked the clerk II he had
"Loylng Eyes" He replied, I'm
told SO by the girls.
1t took four hundred skips with a
skipping rope to send a little girl at
Peila, Iowa, skipping into the king
dom come" last week.
A New York merchant absent-min-
dedly copied love letter to his
"nearts ilol'' In the letter-book oi
the firm before sending it.
A young lady at Long Branch re-
ceives new dress daily from New
York, and yet does not half cover
herself when in full dress.
The editress of Western journal
recently announced that the arrival
of an extra male" prevented the
prompt issue of her paper.
The Chicago woman who married
man in Jail brags that she is ''thf
only girl in town who know:
where her fellow stays of nights"
There are over 100 girls in the St.
Louis Normal Schools, and the,
are all required to dispense with
false hair aud wear calico dresses.
A Kentucky paper says: THE
famous Dr. Mary Walker. spent hel
youthful days in manufacturing com
pound cathartic pills in Breckinridge
county"
A stern parent in Maine is suine
his daughters lovers for ninety dol
lars-value of luncheons, horse feeds
lights, and rent of front room while
counting.
The Woman's Journal, after an.
nouncing that negro has been
elected Bishop of the Methodist
Church. vehemently asks; why
not q woman?'
Monogram wind-pushers are the
latest agony among young laaie:
whose fathers can raise sufficient
wind to buy them. French fans are
what they are termed by the owners.
The latest feminine wonder To-
Gated here is described BY an Eastern
paper as blackeyed girl, whe win,
81 600 nightly. and has broke;
several faro banks In San Francisco
Copper toed fans are sold for the
benefit of young ladie who have n.
one to love, and who chew the stuff
ing out of any other kind in one
evening when hop is in progress
A gallant youth at Bridgeport
Conn, has sued an old fame for q
gold chain which he gave her anc
now says he only lent. What &
termination for '.loves young
dream"
A Minnesota girl, while enjoying
the may dance, planted one of hel
feet against her partners near ear
with the explanatory remark, 81
don't boasi much on beauty, bu
I'm HI on style
a seventy. i've year old French bal
let girl manIpulates her unpadded
calves with spryness that makes
Der younger companions sea-sick ant
dsleariened. Age will tone the old
girl down, however.
An Idaho woman was orde ed hy 4
physician to take three ounces o
brandy day, aud knowing that six
teen drachns make AL ounce, ha.
patiently been taking fort; eigh
drinks day ever since.
A lively Hoosier maiden wep
when she read how Longfeiiow hae
etu his pastern so rs to ruin him fo
life. She was 50 fon of his poetry
she said, as she snnfaed the y. arl,
tear drops from her nose
A CoffeyviIle Kan. woman, bein.
refused q drink, proceeded to SD,
paving stones at the bar. The Mar
shal interfering, she shot him il
the hip. He Ia return put ball il
her knob, killing her instantly.
LAUGHING CHfLDREN. Give me th
boy or girl WHO smiles rs SOON as th