The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1872-11-01
About Women.

ley. ''''l "''- STUMP ~ o''se
George Sand made 100000 by her
last works.
! Women are worked upon the chain
gain in Paducah, Ky.
An Englishwoman avows her inten-
ton of offering herself as a candidate for
Parliament.
Olive-eyed Celestial women are quoted
at 500 apiece in British Columbia, on a
falling market.
Somebody calls Miss Emily Faithful
the Mrs. LivermOre of England. James
/ Redpath is her lecture agent.
The ''Lamplighter," written by Maria
Cummings twenty years ago, has found
a French translator and Publisher.
The Arcadian Club of New York.
| formally welcomed Miss Louisa Kellogg
on her triumphant return from Europe.
! Julia HartIy has commenced an ae-
ton against the Guardian Life Insur-
ance Co. for $4,000 policy on the life of
her husband.
Young ladies will hereafter be admit
ted to the collegiate department of Girls
void College, Iowa, on the same terms
as the young men.
The Academy of Sciences at PhfIadeI-
phia has elected a woman to full fellow
ship; there is also lady on one of its
active committees.
Chicago has a shooting gallery for the
exclusive use of ladies, among whom
there is n growing recklessness. to be-
come proficient with rifle and pistol.
Harriet Martineau and five hundred
other English women have petitiOned
the House of Commons to dispense with
the ''cat' as means of punishment.
Fifty children in charge of Miss Rve
sailed from Liverpool for Quebec to-day
in the steamship Sarmath, homes haY-
ing been secured for them iu Canada.
Miss Foley, an American sculptor at
Rome, has been about the most success
full artist in the Holy City, during the
past season. Most of her work has gone
to England.
A woman was complained of in Dun
kirk, Chautauque county, n. Y, re-
Gently, as a common scold, and was ar
rested, convicted, and compelled to pay
a fine of SO.
In Florida young ladies' seminary
the thoughts of the inmates are taken
from dress, by putting the girls in a
uniform-dark green for Winter and
pink for Summer.
An old lady gave this as her idea of a
great man: zone who is keerful of his
clothes, don't drink sperets, ken reed
the Bible without spelling the words,
and eat cold dinner ON wash day with
out grumbling.n r
A Greenfield (Mass.) girl returning
home recently from a lecture on cleo
tricity, got caught in thunder storm,
not caring to risk herself inside that
kind of tightening conductor.
Signora Aurelia Cinimo Falliero De
Luna, well known Italian authoress,
has established in Florence a semi
monthly newspaper, entitled the Cor
neLiG, devoted to Woman's Rights and
she promotion of the education of Ital-
ian women.
Nilsson's husband is a Frenehman, so
to please him, she has refused to sing in
Germany. 1t would be strategy to sing
under the Kaiser's window and around
till she had recovered a few wagon-loads
of silver, taken not long since from the
unfortunate French people.
New England girls are sensible to do
such work as they can get Among the
table girls at the Ocean House, Oid
Orchard. are fifteen school teachers At
nearly all the great mountain and sea-
side resorts in New England there may
be found waiting on the tables accom-
plished young ladies, who thus employ
their vacations.