The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-03-15
LADIES' DEPARTMENT.

~ LADIES' DEPARTMENT. .
) Troy proposes to institute COLES
! for women alta cost of $5O0,O :
A woman lately died in Port
! mouth, n. H., who had been a Sc
want in one family for sixty-nin
years.
A Swansea, England, lady recent
eiOped, Notwithstanding she is th
mother of thirteen children and owe
go years of age. {
Miss Jessie McGregor has takel
the Royal academy prize for the bes
historical painting of the year.
! Several young woven have beel
admitted as associate" members o
| the Young Mems Christian Associa
ton of Colchester Mass. ft51 ai.
The number of women studying a
the University of Zurich has 80 great
ly increased of late that they now
form tenth of the matriculated stu
| dents. fr'fL
The first London edition of Mis-:
Kate Fields "Pen Photographs O
Dickens Readings" has been already
gobbled up by the appreciative Eng
lish public. . .-
There is a 27-year old woman in
viii county, Uls., who has shaved
for eighteen years, and now rejoices
in beautiful mustache and a coal
black imperial" -
Thackeray's daughter, though she
still preserves her maiden name in
literature, is the wife of Leslie
Stephens, editor of the Cornhill
Magazine.
The first woman voter of Wyom-
ing was an old lady 40 years of age,
who voted on her way from the
bakers, and went to the polls with a
yeast pitcher in one hand and the
ballot in the other. .t
Mrs. Nathaniel Weed of Connecti-
cut has gone to law because by the
will of her late husband she has only
the use of S., 900, while $500, 600 go to
the only son and at his death to his
heirs.
Queen Victoria has presented Mrs.
Scales of Toronto, the mother of trip
lets, with G3 sterling. This gift,
common in great Britain, has never
before been given to Canadian sub
ject. - -.-..
Mollie Morton is the name of the
fortunate fair one declared by the
grand duke to be the handsOmest
woman he had met in America. She
is a cheyenne of Little Rock, Arkan-
sas, and his highness escorted her to
the supper-room at the Louisville
ball.
A woman of Northampton, Mass,
gave birth to four children lately,
and at last accounts the mother and
all the children were doing well.
This makes seven children which
she has had in thirteen months.
Since the marriage, a short time
ago, of one of the female clerks in the
pOst-office department at Washing
ton, there have been over hundred
for the position thereby
made vacant, There are also more
than 500 other applications on hand
for vacancy. ~
An Iowa paper informs us "that
Miss Ella Noe of OscaloOsa, is the
Winnie Ream." The public
will be sincerely grieved to learn this
fact. They were in hopes that Winnie
was the only sheet in that Ream.
The Pennsylvania courts have de-
cided that a married woman can sue
i'm her own name to recover the loss |
Of her wearing apparel and jewelry,
and have granted one Derother Raw |
,On $4 900 damages for the loss of her |
baggage by the Pennsylvania rail
road company.
A new candidate for the honors of |
the rostrum appears in the person of
Miss Corinne II Estaing, a yeung lady |
who has occupied the position of a
and correspondent for |
several daily papers, and won distinc-
ion therein. Her themes are "Amuse-
and people" ...
In Scotland, recently, prize-fighs
between q woman and a man wat |
broken up by the police. The woman
mad just got the poor mans head i'll
,hancery and his nose was rapidly |
being demolished under her fierce
when the myrmidons
Of the law entered the ring.
An Omaha aschoolmistress, who was
afraid of getting her beauty spoiled
by smallpox, sent home a little girl
because she said her mother was sick
md had marks on her face. The
next day the girl appeared and to the
teacher said: Miss,
we've got little baby at our house,
put mamma told me to tell you it
s'nt catching -.. ... |
A Winona (Wis.) wedding degen.
,rated into pugilistic entertainment,
md the bridegroom was escorted to
all to spend the honeymoon, and the
bride had left to solace herself, for |
he absence of her husband, a black
,ye, which she received in the free
light. ..... ...
A young Illinois girl used sealing
wax as substitute for chewing gum. |
The Venetian red in the wax some !
now didn't agree with the girl, and
,he only fingered sufficient time in |
his vale of tears to see that her shrOud
was made according to the latest
node.
Lavinia Labiro of Erie, Pa, after
being poor but honest for threescOre
years and ten, at the advanced age of |
Of a century, endeav-
,red to ensconce herself in the lap of |
luxury by toying with the hand
writing of a rich old gentleman in
he neighborhOod and signing his
name to a check for 100000. She
.ook his name in vain, however, and
l check has been put to further pro-
,eedings of similar nature.
According to the California papers
here is a wOman's gambling-house
N San Francisco, the splendor OF
which is equal to that of the palaces
If Arabian story. Turkey carpets, in
which the foot sinks to the ankle at
every step, cover the floors, the CELL
ngs are frescoed after the old mas
ers, and huge mirrors line the entire
engsh of the walls. The sofas and
,hairs are of rosewood, satin covered,
md the ambling-tables are of mother
If pearl. Here many married women
If the city congregate and stake their
husbands money with free hand.
1t is to wine drinking, says an ex-
Iminer of musty records, that we owe
he origin of the kiss. After Micen-
Illus caught his wife sucking his fin
st wines through the bung hole of a
,arrel with a straw, the custom be-
anne general in Rome for the hus-
,ands to kiss the lips of their wives,
hat they might discover the quality
# their good ladies' stolen HbatiOns
md CafO tho aldar recommends fhia