The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-11-11
ABOUT WOMEN.


It L. said even the most crusty men
are like dough in the hands of their wives
The Greek journals announce the death OF
Mrs. Black, Byron's maid OF Athens" she
was 20 years Of age.
81 don's see what she has to be proad Of"
saws one Cinsinnsti girl OF another. "Her
father packs only one hundred hogs every
year."
Ifladies Of the period are as jest as they
are beautiful they will contribute some
thin. toward monument for King Csnute.
He was the person who originally ordered
the tide back.
she gets out her furs and winter adore
ments now, and though she's member of
the charch and dotes on the clergyman,
her remarks on moths are frequent ana
painful aud free.
A fearless Auburn woman, when her
kerosene lamp "blazsd up" simply sat
down on 1t, and the gloom that is usually
cast lover the entire community" when
Providence Hampers with coal oil was pre-
vented.
Miss Helen Wharton has presented the
Michigan Agricultural College with two
bushels of Smyrna wheat, raised at TIL 8,
an American province in Asia. The grain is
nearly twice the Sis of the common berry,
very white, and Is said to make the best OF
-four.
There Ia but one entirely happy woman
In the world. She rules a little nation in
India and is called the begun OF Bhopal.
Her every day title is Nuzeer-ool-do wlsh
Omrow Doolsh Baku Mabomed Khan Sahib
Bahadoor, and all other women turn around
to lock at her after she has passed -Courler-
Journal.
Miss Anna Dickinson Is very much en-
ragged at the New York Graphic, and writes
an angry letter because that journal con-
tanned An Illustration OF her in psntalOOns.
The trouble with Anna probably Is that,
though she wants pantslOons, she doesn't
want the Graphic to put them on Der, pre-
ferring to do IL herself. Anna has her NC
manly fee ings.
Keokuk man remarked in our hearing
on last light that be had eaten four dozen
herring for supper. "N)w mark the dis
tinction. - seid friend, turning to US, "Ii
he did eat them he is Internal hog; and
n he didn't" "Well, what IL he didnt?"
"Why, he's ID liar" TGer9 were two
horns of dilemma, and the herring man
nreierYed the one which left Tim hog
Keokuk Constitution.
AMI now Brigham says be is not, and
never was married 10 Ann Eliza. She sued for
divorce ana etTuok lOI oAltuOhys ch0
monv decided bv the court probed the merits
of the Mormon polygsmy question, and Brig
ham Young is now driven &C plead that A nm
Eliza never was his wife and leaves 1t for
her to guess what she was. The pleading
has been entertained by tie court IN The
question OF alimony. The court has divorced
q woman who never was WIG, IL IL true
but it reconsiders the decree oil allmOny
under the pleading.
Iufo in
The state now has three regularly admit
ted to practice in the Supreme Court of the
state-Mrs. ]. Ellen Foster, of Clinton; Mrs.
Annie C. Slavery, Of Des Moines, and Mrs.
Emma Hsddock, of Iowa City. Mrs. Eos
ter has made her maiden speecn In behalf
of a woman aud against liquor seller.
Mrs Haddock is the wife of Judge Had
dock, and she ought to get along we'll with
the Judge. A few days ago shs was sd-
mittsd to practice in the United States Cir
cult and District courts of Iowa, the FIRST
ease OF the kind in any state in the Union.
A japanese journal warns its countryInen
against giving too great latitude 10 women,
as Is the practice among Europeans and
Americans. 1t observes: I'm going through
a door the wife passes first, the husband toll
lowing her; the wife takes the best seat and
the hus band the next best. In visiting, the
vile il hrst saluted aud hrst mentioned.
Moreover, men are expected 10 Departlculsr
in their conversation while IN company OF
ladies, and are not permitted to smoke with
out their permission. 1t is well TO take these
things into consideration, or the power ofthe
sex Will bs beyond mans control"
There il woman in Wisconsin whose
head ia level, who should have been put
through an experience to which gentlemen
candidates are sometimes subjected, and not
allowed te Withdraw. Miss Mary e. Van
Waters, Of Hamilton, was unanimously
nominated for county superintendent OF
schools but declined to run, on the ground
that she did not feel capable OF filling the
position, did not desire II, and should not
have permitted the use OF her name before
the convention had she been consulted
Nevertheless, she should have been made
to accept. The Office should seek the wo
man. not the woman the once. we De-
lieye Miss Van Waters Is the hrst woman
ever known to decline an ofice-
One of Mrs.. Livermore's stories: "a wo
man In Boston, between 80 and 10 years o
age. bright, capable, with a common schoo
education, but possessing larger develop
ment and culture than this implies. such al
comes frein careful reading and studyini
and attendance upon courses or sclentln'
and medical lectures, has been gradually
working her way toward three years
course or study In a. medical school. rhi
fall she reached the goal of her ambition
She had passed an examination creditsoly
had enrolled herself as one of the students
and last Saturday week drew from the Dani
the hard-earned savings OF long months G
labor, $40, with which to pay the requires
fees on the ensuing Monday. On Sunday
with her portmonnsie IN her pocket
she went to Music Hall to hear Nj
Murray. In the dense crowd OF push
inc people her pocket was picked. She di
not discover her loss till her return home
All search tor the money by aid of the polio
and the advertising columns OF city pape
has proved unsyailing. The money is hope
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