The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1872-04-11
About Women.

for libel.
10 balance Huxley's conversion to
orthodoxy George Sand has become
Catholic.
The engineer Of locomotive on one
of the western railroads is a gushing
blonde of the softer sex.
Widow Fay, of Oregon, has set up
cigar manufactory, aud her weeds are
said to be the best in the State.
a Boston gial has sued good looking
mulatto for breach of promise and re
covered thousand dollars damages.
Matilda Fletcher, of Iowa, the "queen
of the Western platform" has completed
brilliant course of lectures in Ohio.
\ lady belonging to one Of the best
families in the South, is keeper of toll
bridge over the Neuse river in North
Carolina.
One half of District Attorney Corbin s
audiences, when be was stnmpiug New
Hampshire, are said to have been com
posed Of women.
y Philadelphia lady of three score
and ten on receiving an offer of marriage
simperingly referred the octagenariaD
who made the offer to her father, and
that gentleman, aged ninety, graciously
gave his consent and danced at the wed
ding.
IN Illinois editor thus sarcastically
speaks Of the marriage of professional
brother in Indiana "He stepped upon
the hymeneal platform, adjusted the fatal
moose, aud was swung off into that un
silent bourne whence he can never return
save by the Tndianopilis connecting lines. y
The Methodist ladies of St. Louis re
Gently met in solemn conclave and ap
pointed committee to present a memo
rial to the General Conference which
meets shortly at Brooklyn, asking that
body to sanction and provide for the or
,lination Of women as ministers of the
Methodist Church.
At New Years, the Mormon Sisters OF
Ephraim, Utah, resolved to lay aside all
the eggs laid by their chickens during
the Sundays of 1872, towards subscrip-
ton for the benefit of the poor matrons
OF that prosecuted church. Unfortu-
nately for the scheme, the chickens are
50 pious that so far not an egg has been
laid or laid by.
The Duke of Somerset, in his "Chris
tian Theology and Modern Skepticism, -
thinks that this gender of works has a
great deal to do with our religions beliefs
lie ius;nuates that if the word spirit,
which IS feminine in Hebrew, he'd not
been changed to masculine in Latin, one
or more of the Trinity would be of a
different sex.
4 Kentucky paper gives an account Of
a $500 hog-pen built by woman far
mer 10 Scott county. 1t states that it is
painted and grained, furnished with hot
aud coli water. heated by steam and light,
cd with gas. The troughs are mahogany,
inlaid with ivory. Plans of the pen have
been forwarded to Greeley, and receive
his warm appreciation.
Heretofore 80 per cent. of the tele.
graph operators in the Grand Duchy Of
Badeu have been women. Hereafter the
workiag Of the wires is to be in the hands
OF the Imperial authorities, who think
that women's propensities to gossip has
too wide range with the telegraph in
their possession, and accordingly measures
are being taken to provide the dismissed
operators with husband and home
\ prepossessing and lady-like girl a
few days ago was detected in stealing a
pair Of silk hose in a Boston store. On
being approached and reproached by one
Of the porprietors she began to weep
pearly tears and offered him $40. He
magnauimously charged her only the
regular price of the hose and handed
back the change. Her artless guile was
remembered by him with tender smile
till it vas discovered that the bill she
gave was a counterfeit.
A correspondent of the Baltimore
Anaerjcan says the following is true
copy Of letter recently received at one
Of the Fulton street prayer meetings
Fulton street prayer meetiug-I write
because | am hopelessly wretched am
young, wealthy the world says happy
l live in the first circles here. [ am
married to a man | dislike. [ have two
children by man | love, and he lives
with his wife. [ have no faith, no hope
nothing. | am wretched and miserable