The Louisiana cotton-boll. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], Attakapas, La.) 1872-1883, 1873-05-07

A UTICA girl Of fourteen years is the
mother of two children.
A WESTERN jury recently brought in
verdict of "justihable breach Of pro-
mise"
IT Is not an uncommon sight in Russia
to see women working with men ct paw
ing the streets.
For midsummer, linen suits with
sleeveless vests of dark Napoleon blue
linen, will be worn
TWENTY thousand francs is said to
have been the cost of Miss Rothschild's
wedding robe.
THE women Of the United States use
more pins and needles than those of any
other country.
An indianapolis virago has had to pay
81 40 for spanking a neighbOr's child
with rubber shoe.
BLACK silk stockings, with low shoes,
are the latest chaussure for Young New
York in full Dress
FRENCH ladies continue the fashion of
CARRYING small cane or walking stick
when promenading,
THERE is only one woman in the
Minnesota Penitentia1y to grace the cir
Gle of ninety male convicts.
A WASHINGTON belle speaks five differ
ent languages, but cannot bake a loaf
of bread to save her life.
THE young man VINO boasted that he
could marry any girl he pleased, found
that he couldn't please any.
PARTISAN ladies wear white kid gloves
and dark costumes on the promenade.
This, we believe, is the latest.
HANNAH DUSTIN, the New Hampshire
heroine who killed nine Indians, is TO be
oommemorated by monument.
A PRETTY French woman won SOC, 900
francs from a German nobleman at
Baden, and contributed the entire
amount to the French debt.
FIGARO says that Helen Josephine
Mansfield is the best dressed woman in
Paris, and gives delightful receptions TO
her gentlemen friends.
The scientists have discovered that
the reason a woman can keep lover by
her tears is because love, like beef or
pork, is best preserved by brine.
THE German Parliament has rejected
a motion for the Liberation Of the Re-
publican Deputy Bebel, who is now
serving out his second or third sentence
of imprisonment for high treason.
TIE first female graduate of Michigan
University has been offered $1,000 a
year and her expenses to tell what she
knows In Japan school-house.
A SENECA Falls man, who died the
other day, left will saying: "To that
old liar and tattler, the widow Jones, /
bequeath two cents" Didn't she hop,
though!
TIE lady to whom Henri Rochefort
was married just before she received
the last sacraments of the church, has
recovered her health and walks about
Versailles
An experienced old stager says, if you
make love to a widow who has a daugh-
ter twenty years younger than herself,
begin by declaring that you thought
they were sisters.
THE Rev. Henry Morgan of Boston is
lecturing on cold bonnets." )" The wo-
men are mere interested in new ones.
"SrovE-prPEs" are going ont of fashion
for ladies' riding hats, and the cavalier
beaver, with a long ostrich plume, is
NOV the correct thing.
| THE University Of Zurich has 1lO
female students this session-31 in medi-
cine, in jurisprudence, and 2S In
philosophy.
KATE GRAY, of Kansas City, married
her lover half an hour before he left hel
for the penitentiary to serve out long
sentence.
MISS ELLA LAWSON having passed tht
required examination has been made
Bachelor of Science and Letters in Paris
A BEAU of much experience says that
"the time for fellow to leave is whe1
a Young lady asks him how the walking
is"
A PHILADELPHIA woman who, fert.
wears ago, at the age of sweet sixtee1
married a rich old fellow of three-seor'
for his money, expecting soon to be
CAV and festive widow, has recent.
: died aged ffty-six, leaving husband o
: one hundred, and four children +
mourn her loss.
. IT Is proposed to assemble an interns
q tional Congress at Vienna during tn
= time of the exhibition to devise genera
/ principles for an international codeupo
the right Of patentees. Mr.. Jay, ou
Minister at Vienna, has taken the initii
n tive in this movement.
= A CURIOUS letter has found its way il
. to print, and which showsthat Garibal
p di has not always been the victim of Il
! papaphobia which now afiicts him. II
+ letter is dated at Montevideo, Octob
4 %. 1s47, and is addressed to the Eunc
of the Pope in that city. In it he ofe
his services to the Church and Pops Pil
~tTX, In his own name and that Of }
Il friends, and speaks about shedding t
last drop of his bleed in their ssxviss