The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-10-13
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Clara Louise Kellogg is thirty-two.
A pretty German saying is, "Would'st
thou clearly learn what the becoming is, in
quire OF noble minded women"
Miss Mary ID. Brown, who died recently
in PHILADELPHIA, left $4,000 in charitable
requests to institutions in that city.
Mrs. Romualdo PachecO, wife of the lieu
tenant governor of California, has translated
a French nlay for production on the stage.
Mrs. Jennie F. Willing. the prohibition
candidate in Illinois, unlike Barkis, is not
willing and has withdrawn from the can
vass.
Mrs. Mary f. Grant Cramer, sister of
the president, describes a. visit to Hans
Christian Anderson, in pleasant letter TO
the Cincinnati GaZette.
Mrs. Imogene Morrell, a Chicago artist
now in Paris, has painted picture called
"The First Battle of the PurItans." which
will soon be exhibited.
1t is reported that the empress of Russia
will go to England shortly, on account of
The occurrence of an important event in the
family of the duke of Edinburgh.
Mrs. George North, who is STATE librarian
of Iowa, has been taking a short vacation.
During her absence the library affairs were
ably managed by Miss Matte f. Hill.
"Uncle," said Matthew Vassar's diving
niece. "do something for women" This
was the seed from which sprung one OF the
mobiles: benevolent enterprises in the world.
A new edition of Mrs. Mary Cowden
Clarke's Girlhoo6 of Shakspeare's Heroines
has been issued by G.. p. Putnam's Sons in
aform worthy of the merits oftbat admirable
work.
According to the report of the State Board
of Health of Massachusetts, 1874, large
part OF the $50 analysis there given were per-
formed by a lady in the laboratory of the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Mrs. Dion Boucicault agnes Robertson)
lives in Regent street, London, where she
gives freduent literary reunions She is the
mother OF five children, of which the two
eldest are son and daughter, named Dion
and Eve respectively.
Annie Dodd is a British damsel who re-
fused to pay her taxes. They came fer her
COW, when unlike some American ladies in
a similar case, she brandished a knife and
charged upon the collector. Now she pines
in the bastils OF an effete despotism.
Says the Bedford Pa Gazette: There are
in Pennsylvania $50 postmistresses. 1t has
been common for many years to appoint
women to that position, and they are always
efficient officers We believe not one has
ever proved defaulter TO the government.
The press of Mahoning county, Ohio, has
been lately augmented by the addition of
magazine. which is published at Garfield,
called the Golden Mean. It is entirely in the
hands of ladies' who edit and perform all the
mechanical labor on it. It's prospects are
said to be hsttering.
Over four thousand women in Salt Lake
City petitioned the municipal council to
grant no licenses for the sale of intoxicating
liquors. Grants representative, Judge Nc
Kean. decided, however, that gambling dens
and concert saloons should be open whether
the people wished it or not.
Miss Thompson, the artist, has been pre-
scented with magnificent bracelet by the
queen What is quite good, her "Roll
Calln is proving great success as an exhi-
bition throughout England, and she has
enough orders for pictures to keep her pen
Gil busy for dozen years to come.
Some OF the smartest canal boat captains
to be seen at Alexandria, Va, are women.
They can blow the horn as loudly and steer
the boat as well as any he captain on the
canal, and in the fights incident to their vo-
cation, especially the verbal ones, they al
ways come off cOnquerors.
Madame Christine Nilsson visited Nor
witch, England, recently, to fulfill promise
she made six years ago, to sing for the bene-
fit Of the House of Mercy, established there
by Jenny Lind in 1853. She gave two con-
certs. and was publicly thanked by the
mayor and common council of the city.
Mrs. John Morrissey promenades the
streets of Saratoga in black drap d'ete pol
ononaise, embroidered in silk, with true
lovers knots and with flowers in all their
natural and strong colors. yellow. red,
white, etc. 1t was imported from Paris at a
cost of 81 600 gold. Nobody uassos the ladv
without turning to look at her gorgeous