The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-01-31
THE PAIR SEX.


by women
"A lady is preparing to occupy the
pulpit in one of the Orthodox churches
of Salt Lake City.
Mrs. johnson has beaten a one-leg-
ged soldier and two other females In a
lively contest for the postoffice at Anoka,
Minnesota.
The latest love of bonnet is called
the I" Clarissa Harlowe ;" a singularly
inappropriate title when women wear
their char" high at present.
Mrs. Winans' ballot dropped like a
snowflake into ballot-box at Topeka
was only that of railroad corporation.
Mrs. Elizabeth K. Churchill, of
Providence, r. l., is now "stumping F"
Massachusetts in behalf of the "total
prohibition cause, generally cheered
by fair audiences.
-Catharine Hanlon, at Liverpool,
stabbed boy who stole an apple from
her stand, and he has since died. As
she is poor and does not live in New
York, she is very likely to be held re-
sponsible.
"A young lady declined taking part
in private theatricals inferior to the part
offered to another young lady, because
the father of the former was q Colonel
in the war, while the latter's was only q
Major.
Mrs. Ex-Governor Clafin, of Mas
sachusetts, has paid the board of twelve
women since the Boston fire. Rememb-
ring that Gov. Clafin was sufferer by
the fire, such charity seems to deserve
special mention.
Marie Antoinette's workable has
been placed in the Louvre. The EN-
press Eugene bought it at sale some
years ago for eight thousand six hun
bred dollars, and it was fortunately
saved from the Tuileries before the fire
Mrs. Bishop, who has been offered
the crown of King Kamehameha, is re-
ported to have refused the honor, az she
is about opening millinery store in
Honolulu, and is afraid the queen bust
ness would knock her trade flat.
1t is reliably stated that the num-
Der of female employees in the San Fran
cisco Mint will soon be increased to
forty. This will necessitate the ap-
pointment of sixteen others, there be-
ing only twenty-four females in the es-
tablishment at present.
"A monument to the intrepid Han
nah Austin, who killed nine Indians and
thus effected her escape from savage
captivity, is to be erected at the scene
of her exploit, at the junction of the
Contoocook and Pemigewassett Rivers,
in New Hampshire.
The way actresses put in the
amount of their losses when a theatre
burns down, creates a smile among the
initiated and those who are behind the
scenes. How some of them ever be-
came possessed of the amount claimed
to have been lost, by the exercise of
their profession, is a conundrum diff
cult to answer.
One of the late disgusting sights of
Salem, Indiana, was woman wheeling
her drunkea husband home on a wheel
barrow. In answer to a sympathing re-
mark, she said he happened to be
drunken than she was, and she was
thankful to be able to take care of
him, for she knew he would do the same
for her.
1T is estimated that in England
more than 5000 infants are every year
suffocated by their mothers, who have
them with them in bed. In Bavaria
there is a law which prohibits parents
having children under two years in bed
with them, the result being that in
stances of suffocation of infants are very
rare there.
Victory has been gained by the lady
students in another stage of their con-
test with the grim authorities of the
Edinburgh medical scholastic mana
gers of the noble infrmary in the city
having decided to grant tickets of adj
mission for clinical instruction to ladies
whose names are enrolled on the medi-
cal register of Scotland.
1t is very hard to get ahead of the
ladies. In Strasburg, wearing the
French tri-cOlor having been forbidden
by the Germans, the French ladies walk
the streets by threes, one dressed in
red, the next in white, and the third in
blue. Engravings of these groups of
fair promenaders, passing puzzled and
angry Prussians, are conspicuous in the
windows of French print shops.
In his recent message, Gov. Per-
ham, of Maine, says: 81 am here re-
1LAA4NlCA VI huGAb appears W 1A1S W ne I'LL
injustice to female teachers. The wages
of male teachers in this State averages
$3317 per month, exclusive of board,
the average wages of female teachers
exclusive OF board is $1440 per month.
This is wrong. A given amount of la
Dor, equally well performed, is worth
the same, whether done by male OF
female.
Madison, Conn, has a very indus
triOus old lady-Mrs. Sophrona Graves
who is eighty-three years old, and fol
the past fifty years has lived alone and
supported herself by spinning, weaving,
&c, and she has woven over 10000
yards of carpeting during the last TWEEN
ty years. She walks a mile and a hall
to church on pleasant Sundays. The
women of the neighborhood who are
over eighty years old gave her surprise
party the other day, sixteen being pres
ent. The supper was spread upon 8
table over 200 years old.
The courage of Boston woman
during the small pox scare, is worthy OF
special note. Walking along the street
one day she felt that she had received
the infection from n passing person, and
wrote a note to her family stating the
trouble, and that she was going to reside
in an unoccupied house until the danger
was over. She received two attendants,
took possession of the house, III ten
days was taken down with the disease,
passed through the various stages, re.
covered, and is now at home, happy
that her family have escaped the dis,
ease through her brave devotion.
There is nothing more charming
than a tender consideration for the feel
ings of others. When this is observed
in the household, domestic bliss OF the
very finest sort is assured. The French
husband is not specially celebrated for
devotedly loving his wife. but that he
can do so is proved by the following
personal advertisement which appeared
in a Partisan newspaper: ELIZA, you
can return to the house; the boil on my
nose is gone" Did this show love or
personal vanity in the husband? Did
it wound his self-respect that his Eliza
should see him less beautiful than he
was when he won her maiden affections
OF course, we take it for granted that
no man ever declared his love when he
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