The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-04-23
Items for the Ladies.
Jean Ingelow is As years old.

Jean Ingelow is 45 years old.
Nilsson and Patti are both in their thirty
second year.
Queen Victoria writes for the London Times.
Wages not stated
Ten young ladies OF Niles have perfected a
secret organization to be known as the U. l. c.
society.
Miss Edith Fish, the secretary's daughter,
has been distinguishing herself as an amateur
actress.
Mrs. Mary 4. Llvermore Is lecturing in Ohio
and Kentucky and is booked for California in
the summer.
Ralph Waldo Emerson's daughter teaches
Bible class in the the [ nitarian Sunday school
Of Concord
The women Of Boston pad more taxes last
year than all the men who voted for and elect
ed Governor CASTOR.
NJ. Alice Shamliffer, formerly Miss Alice
True, OF Cooper, Kalamazoo county, is now en-
rolling clerk OF the Kansas State Senate.
A law which makes women eligible to several
responsible offices in connection with the public
schools, has gone into operation in Wisconsin.
The Duchess OF Edinburgh can converse
with every foreign minister at the English
Court (the Turkish excepted) IN his own
language.
The female justices OF the peace in Colorado
charge 50 for marrying couple, and even then
threaten the bridegroom and make hlm promise
to do the churning and bring the wash water.
Detroit Free Press.
Miss Mary L. Vincent, formerly employed IN
the Lapeer postoftce, has just graduated as an
NJ. ID. at the Michigan University, and now
goes to Chicago to practice with her brother
DIR. Wesley Vincent.
large number of women have been elected
to school boards and library committees in
Massachusetts,. This is the latest illustration
Of the law of natural selection, and it will1be
! followed by the survival OF the tittest.
Mrs j. Ellen Foster, Of Clinton, appears be-
fore the Davenport term Of the Iowa Supreme
Court as Attorney in the case OF Oswald va.
Hays. This is the first instance OF woman
appearing as an advocate in a cause before the
Iowa Supreme Court.
town i'll Name has school board COM
posed entirely Of women. The first resolution
off cred when they assembled all by themselves
was very liberal in its terms, emDodyiDg the
idea that the male sex is entitled 10 equal priv
! ieges wich the female sex, and should receive
equal educational advantages. 1t Is due to tue
board to say however that the resolution did
not pass.
Did you ever see that picture grandma;
asked Young lady as they took view OF the
family portrait gallery "See 1t Why. its q
portrait OF myself when 1 was seventeen
II thought you had forgouenit. or you wouldn't
always be lecturing us girls about modesty in
dress" Grandma looked over her spectacles
and declared that the girl- nowadays we're very
impairment TO their elders
Mrs. Watson, wife Of Professor Watson Of
the Michigan University, was the only woman
who enjoyed the privilege o! going on the
transit expedition from the I nlted States. She
had long journey-frst an overland trip to
san Francisco, then a voyage lasting twenty
six days to Yokohama, four days sail to
Nagasaki, and another SIX days TO Tien-tsin
Then followed voyage up the river on small
house-boats to Tuug-Chang, and finally don
key ride Of sixteen miles to Pekin.
II is really remarkable how many cases OF
longevity occur among women who make au-
thorship their occupation IN life. Miss Mar
tineau, Miss Bremen. Mrs. Hewitt, Mrs. Strick-
land. and Mrs. Brownlng-all either living or
not very long deceased-were born almost at
the beginning OF the century. Madame de
stael lived to be ffty-one. Mrs Bradstreet
fifty-nine, Ida P:erffer sixty-one, Miss Milford
sixty-nine, Lady Wortley Montague seventy
two, MISS Edgeworth eighty-two, Mrs. Ople
eighty-four, Madame d Arblay eighty-fve, Mrs.
Somervllle pinety-one and Madame de Gents
ninety Sly. He arth and Home.