The Hickman courier., 1872-06-01
Items About WOnen.


A class of one hundred students in a
Western university is led by woman.
In Old England there are 512,5 ,5S2
more women than there are men.
The future Empress of China is to
spend 100000 on her bridal trousseau
The Woman's Medical College of
Pennsylvania has 64 matriculants this
year.
A number of young ladies in Jackson
vile, Ills, have established an industrial
school for girls
1t is reported that the girls boa. club
of Michigan University to take part
in the college races this summer.
A lazy Murfreesboro woman, who en-
joys uninterrupted god health, has not
been outside of her house in eight years.
New Orleans has a pretty French wo
man who gives fencing lessons. Her
pupils are legion, and she will soon have
millions Cor defence.
Mrs. Kerney of New York showed
the warmth of her affection by thrust
ing red hot poker down her husbands s
throat.
a woman claiming to be lneal de-
sceudant of Johu the Baptist is spread
ing the gospel in the streets of Cairo,
Illinois.
A Western woman has got out patent
for new style of billiard table with a
combination cushion, which will make
various noted firms in the East look to
their laurels.
Mrs. Grant superintends her house
keeping, dresses fashionable, attends DR..
/ Newmans church believes in her hus-
band, and don't take any stock in woman
suffrage.
A Connecticut matron, past sixty years
of age, is defendant in divorce suit
brought by her liege lord on the ground
of encouraging improper attentions from
gay gallant of seventy.
Miss Francesca Porter of Lawrence,
/ Kansas, was made a member of the State
Medical Association at the late session.
The first experiment of the kind ever
tried in the United States.
An eccentric old lady of Portsmouth,
New Hampshire, 10 honor Of the agri-
cultural nominee for the Presidency, in
sists upon wearing an ancient white hat
of her husbands to church on Sundays.
Female blacksmiths abound in Stat
fordshire, England, aud the hammer, be
it never SO heavy, is welded by their
brawny arms with such force that an
anvil scarcely lasts the muscular Vulcan
ers a week.
Lowell, Mass, has a pretty feminine
druggist whose soda water fountain is
exhausted dozen times day by the
copious libations of the foaming fluid
INDUCED in by the young men doing
business in the vicinity.
Sucking wet cigars is not a good prac-
tice, it appears, for wet nurses. 4 mem
Der of that damp profession in Chicago
is addicted to the nice habit, and the
baby in her charge being forced to adopt
the same practice at second hand, died
of convulsions the other day.
Among the rights which women enjoy
in New Hampshire is that of working
out their taxes on the highway A
woman at Danvilie was recently notified
to appear aud work out on the road her
highway tax of four cents. She took up
her hoe and toiled vigorously for fifteen
minutes aud the tax was cancelled
The congregation of the Methodist
church at Geneva, H., is composed en-.
tirely of grass widows aud crossed in
love spiusters. The efforts of the latter
! to get male members into the fold are
persistent but unsuccessful, for the
widows, rendered wise by their varied
matrimonial experience, are anxious to
/ keen them out