The Portland daily press., 1876-02-17
AhOut Women.


can never love as fsndly as those with blue
eyes. So don't give your wife black eye
"Would Miss Cushman have achieved the
eminence she has if she had started out as
Lottie Cushman? Would we be giving tea
parties TO Matte Washington? Would there
be much hair-starting effect in Lu Borgia?
Would mems stout hearts quail at the name of
Susie An!hony?'
Mrs. Sarah Mallatt, of Tuscarora township,
Perry County, Pa, is in her 1O5th year She
can thread the finest needle and read almost
any kind of print without the aid of specta-
cles She is also able TO do any kind of work
about the house. e..
Women members Of the Congregational
churches of Iowa propose to raise an endow-
ment of $4,000 for the feminine department.
of Iowa college, by contributing each one cent
day for the next five years.
London magazine has lately published an
analysis of lyrical drama which was conceived
in 1041 by Miss Barrett, afterwards Mrs.
Browning. She had been promised the assist.
ance OF Mr.. R. H. Horne. The work was to
be entitled "Psyche Apocalypte," and was in
tended 10 deal with abstruse psychological
questions.
Miss Hattie FL. Ames, former enthusiastic
Latin pupil OF Mr.. r. L. Perkins of this city,
finds constant employment in catsloguisg large
public libraries, having catalogued the city
libraries of Cincinnati and Chicago, and is now
at work upon one at Burlington, VI. Her first
experience in this direction was in working up
on the Boston Athen8um library, some years
ago, with Mr.. Poole.-Congregdti
Among othor devices to obtain the "ways
and maanso Of life 10 a noval annaal IN natr;nf-
ism and vanity introduced by lady of dashing
appearance. She has installed herself in
committee room at the Capitol, with q large
and elegantly hound blank-book, each page of
which is ruled into small portions, each ons
large enough to contain an autograph sigma.
ture. The book, when filled, is to be nailed up
in box, and deposited in the Capitol, with an
inscription stating that it is not to be opened
until 1876. For the privilege of thus transmit
ting his name to posterity each signer is to pay
the sum of ten dollars. How many will thus
embalm their autograph, remains to be seen.
Miss Sarah NJ Logan, who is said to be the
first colored female student who has been
graduated from any medical college in New
York has just received diploma from the Col
lege of Medicine of the Syracuse University,
Belle Boyd, who during the civil war gained
reputation as Union spy, is living a retired
and quiet life in st. Louis. Since the war she
has been married and is now the mother of
family. A number of impostors who assumed
her name are still travelling in various parts of
the country.
Miss Matilda Phillips, Adelaide's sister, is
said to possess ''the finest contralto voice since
Albani." She is now singing in her sisters
Italian opera troupe, New York.
The New York girls cleaye to English pugs
as their particular pets. These hideous, PAM
pered beasts, who are kept so fat that they can
not waddle, have got to be the rage. When
young lady has an intimate friend she considers
that she is comforting upon her the crowning
distinction of friendship by sending over her
pug or puss to spend the day with her. There
is dread significance, too, in the disappear
ance of pug from a family where it was the
gift of gentleman. When Murray Hill
mother, in answer to ones inquiries concern
ing the Whereabouts of the dear pet whom one
has been accustomed to see fondled and extoled,
| replies with severity that sit has been thought
best to return him to Mr.. Augustus de Pey-
ster," one feels instinctively that Mr.. de P.'s
chances for the pug's late mistress affections
are nowhere, and that he might better consigu
the beast to fancier than present him again.
Mrs. Williamson lives in Canada, keeps q
dog and gun, and can shoot. She took it into
her head in 1873 that it would pay to capture
young moose and rear them until they became
of salable age. Her frst hunt gave her two.
the next five. At five months old they were
sold. The Indians have saying respecting
moose calves that illustrates their rapid devel-
opment of the powers of locomotion: "One
day old it takes man to catch them; two
days old, it takes a dog to catch them; three
days old, the devil can't catch them" As an
illustration of the stuff Mrs. w. is made Of, il
is said that last season, as she was travelling
through the forest unarmed, she saw an inn
mense wildcat which her dog drove to the top
branches of a high tree, where he apparently
felt safe. Mrs. W., after vainly endeavoring
to dislodge him with stones AMI sticks, pro-
ceeded to climb the tree after him. Resting on
a branch below him she tried for some time to
cudgel him, which only served to make him
growl and make movements as if intending to
spring on her. However, she at last got fair
blow at his head, which stunned and brouRht
him to the ground, where the dog speedily put
an end to him, 4.
The mere appearance of woman in public
arguing against Suffrage, is full answer to all
her arguments. She thereby takes part in
politics. and assumes that her opinion on pub
lie questions deserves to be counted. t.
Mrs Beard, mother of the artists j. II. and
w. ii. Beard, died on the 10th of February at
Painesville, Ohio, at the age of eighty nina
years. She was the first white woman ever to
visit Chicago. She was there in 1910 at the
fort with her husband. who was 'sea cap.
tain on the lakes. Mrs. Beard has lived ae
Painesvile for more than fifty years.