The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-01-19
ABOUT WOMEN.

Eight hundred thousand more women
than men in England.
Queen Charlotte, wife of the king of the
Friendly Islands, is a Methodist minister.
Ann Eliza says that thirteen of Brigham's
daughters SAT 10 the front seats and made
faces at her the first time she lectured.
There are $50 students in the Philadelphia
School of Design for Women. The general
average Of the work done is said to DO very
good.
Fanny" in a note from Brooklyn, says
the one great wish other heart is that she
may live to see what will be the fashions in
bOnnets in 1900.
Mr.. and Mrs. Feltmann, of Chicago, after
living in wedlock 80 years and in divorce
two months, have just been reunited in the
presence of their children and grandchil-
dren.
A country girl coming from a morning
walk was told that she looked as fresh as a
daisy kissed by the dew, to which she inno-
Gently replied: you've got my name right,
Daisy; but his isn't Dew."
A lady in Terre Haute has solitaire dia-
mOnd fnger-ring which has been in her
family $50 years, She being the seventh rep
resenIative of the family upon whose finger
IL has glowed and glittered.
Miss Braddcn looks like the principal of a
girls school or a spinster aunt She is tall
and rather angular, past 40, wears her dark
and gray streaked hair cut short, and has
coarse lines about the mouth and deep fur
row between the eyes.
Lady Wentworth, wife of the son of Lady
LOvelsce, Byron's Ada, is fair woman with
brown hair and girlish contour of face.
She was very Psyche of girls, and she is
yet SO beautiful that her appearance in pub
lie is the signal for rush.
Abiding to the announcement that Miss
Adelaide Phillips is about to retire from the
lyric stage, the Boston Transcript approves
of the suggestion that series of farewell
operate testimonials be extended her in
that city some time in the spring, the finan-
ciai success OF these complimentary perfor-
mences to be secured in advance by sub
scriptiOn.
Mrs. Grant, though not the hanGsomest
woman in America, is, perhaps, one of the
best managers. The fact of his having such
wife is only another illustration of Grants !
rare luck. Ii he knows how TO fight a |
battle and drive horse she understands all !
about housekeeping, marketing, shopping, !
and how to keep the buttons on the chill |
dren's clothes.-Washingtdf Letter
A female justice OF Wyoming was mar
ried last week, and true to her professional |
training, she previously notified her friends |
TO be present by printed form, as follows:
81 am about to marry Mr.. J. D. of |
this county, and he will be qualified and /
sworn in at my Office Wednesday MORN
ing next at 10 A. N. You are invited to at
tend"
Nellie Collins, variety girl" at Dallas.
Tex, was the only person among the large |
population with sufficient heather charity
to take in and care for ten women and chill
dren, immigrants from South Carolina, who
arrived there starving, shelterless and pen
niless. She gave up her room to them
before the public authorities, who provided
for them.
An actress of one of the prominent Paris
theaters approached the physician of the
establishment the other day, and said:
doctor. you can do me a great favor"
''Nams it," said the doctor, who was enam-
ored of the actress. "Ohr, was the res
ponse, "it is not a very difficult thing You
sre the physician of Mdlle. u. She is NV
rival. / want you to give her fever which
will keep her from the stage for a fortnight"
In Springfield recently a young married /.
woman became possessed with the idea that
her proper vocation was that of novelist.
So she secretly began thrilling story in
which the hero was to be strangIed by bis
Jealous wife. INFO the murder scene she de-
pour Eer whole soul, and in Or
der to properly describe it she went to the 1