The Hickman courier., 1872-02-10
Misfeltanu.
Items Abont women

AtttnS ADOut women.
seven young women from Oregon are
.tudying in the Boston Conservatory of
Music
There is a girl in New Haven who has
been engaged to a member of every class
that has been graduated at Yale since
1857.
a Milwaukee woman broughtito the
station house charged with drunken and
violent conduct. proceeded TO extract
from her chiguon the requisite amount
and bailed herself out.
The woman suffragists of Pennsylya.
MIA are asking the State Legislature to
pass law authorizing" women to serve
as delegates to the coming constitutional
convention of that state
There is a girl in Boston who has been
engaged at different times to fifteen diff
ferent men, and calculates that the sum
total of the kisses she received from
them would amount to larger number
than there are dollars in the national
debt
A Georgia girl gently bit her gentle
lovers arm and was shot in the knee by
his revolver. His repentant efforts to
extract the ball came near being produc.
tive of more i'll consequences than the
injury itself.
The editor of the Wathena Reporter
IL in love with sweet, ETHEREAL creature
who. he says, is handsome, we'll educa-
ted, weighs $50 pounds, and can spring
over fence five boards high without
touching it. :
The story of the grand dukes "secret
marriage to a Russian lady in America
has all the appearance of q canard-of
the Muscoyite species.
From the official returns it appears
that over one hundred ladies are now ac-
ceptably filling the position of postmis-
tresses throughout the country, and re-
ceiving for their services the same COM
pensation hitherto awarded to their mas
culine predecessors. Four of these la
dies in the postal service receive salaries
of 81 1000 per aunum each.
Judging from the following advertise
ment, Mrs Kappa must belong to the
woman women Know all men who see
this, l, Mrs. Kappa, the married wife of
Kolomalo, Of Nralehu, Kau, Hawaii, do
hereby forbid the foreigners living in
Kau from again shipping my husband,
Inasmuch as | have ordered him TO come
back and live with me. in accordance
with the fundamental law of marriage
Marriage is a good thing for every body" "
A Michigan woman, whose husband
was sick and whose children we're con
sequeutly in danger of starvation, on a
day when the thermometer showed nine
degrees below zero, recently drove a dis
tance Of seventeen miles to the town of
Ovid with load of two hundred hoop
poles which she had cut the day before
The poles were soon sold, and having
made necessary purchases she return ed
the same night to her hungry offspring
A woman in Marysyille, California,
whose canary had left her, hung the
empty cage outside the window and soon
had the satisfaction of seeing it occupied
by beautiful brown stranger about the
size of her lost pet. A San Francisco
woman, whose husband had abandoned
her, took the hint and rendered her par
lor so attractive that soon she had, safe
in her arms, better, bigger, browner
fellow than he who ran away.
Miss ALA Blanche Perkins, late OF
the "Oread Institute, Worcester, Mas
sachusetts. has been elected professor Of
ancient and modern languages iu the
college for ladies, in Jacksonville, Hi
nois. Miss Perkins is the only child of
the late Major Perkins, whose fortune
was lost through the failure of the Rus
sian government to keep its contracts,
made for arms during the Crimean war,
but not needed as the war closed while
the arms were On ship board.
Margaret F. Buchanan is the name of
an editorial writer on the Chicago Post,
of whom the managing editor says that
he never knew of any one who could
write with equal ease upon so singular a
range of topics with information so ex
act in detail" She writes well on all
subjects-science, art, politics or love,
but her specialties are musical and dra-
matte criticisms When a reporter of the
Post she was once sent to write up local
street-car difhculity, and she not only
fully reported the case and limited at the
cause and the cure of the trouble, but
gave an elaborate history of street loco
motion, from that in vogue at Athens
two thousand years ago down to the first
great improvements IN London and Paris
in the fourteenth century, aud the inven
tion of tramways and the American
horse-cars. Miss Buchanan is young
and good looking, and holds numerouslY
attended receptions at the convent of the
Sacred Heart, which is her home, from
4 to every afternoon.