The Portland daily press., 1876-02-08
AhOut Women.

requests every woman to make herself owner
of a good revolver, learn how to use it pru-
IDENTIFY but effectively, place it under her pill
low at night, and carryit concealed in her pull
back during the day."
Miss Martha Wyatt, pupil in the Ohio Nor
NAL School at Medina, has the largest head of
any known sane female. 1t measures twenty
four inches in circumference, and is three inches
larger than the average male head. She is
good scholar, with marked literary tastes.
Iowa furnishes female Winslow in the per-
son of Mrs. Ellen S. Upper, the famous bee
culturist, who has been arrested for forging the
names of her friends in various parts of the
state to notes, drafts, etc. Her family claim
that she is insane, but she doesn't coincide with
the opinion, and says she has carried on the
business successfully for some time.
The prediction that the marriage of Matte
Strickland, daughter of ex Congressman Strick-
land of Michican, to one Leo Miller, a few
weeks ago, would turn out badly, both parties
having such advanced ideas that they dis
pensed with the usual formalities, and simply
agreed to live together as long as they loved
each other, has already been verified, Miller
having turned out q bigamist and scoundrel
Alas, women are so far the inferior sex in
Germany that special efforts must be made in
their behalf. They do not manage their hus-
bands with much success. Do you know what
reputation we Americans are getting on the
continent? heard sprightly Viennese say
recently that the American husbands are the
best trained in the word!-Berlin COrrespon.
dent
Mrs Dali, who is writing a series of very en-.
tertaining letters to The New Age, says in
one of them, that she wishes Boston were as
we'll supplied with theatres as New York, and
in the same connection she reminds the liberal
Christians of one omission of theirs in sum-
ming up the merits and demerits of John CAL
vim; they have forgotten to record the fact that
this father of orthodoxy changed the hour of
evening prayer in Geneva to accommodate the
opera! This is something to be noted by those
who are discussing the amusement question in
the pulpit and outside of it.
The King and Queen of Greece are about to
take holiday. They have had hard time of
it-he for twelve years, she for eight-attempt-
ing to rule the restve Greeks, and more than
once have been tempted to throw up the task,
throw down their crowns and run away. They
are going to st. Petersburg, the capital of
Queen Olga's native country; to Copenhagen,
the capital of King Georges, and to London,
where the Kings sister, the Princess of Wales
and the Queens cousin, the Duchess of Edin-
burgh, will entertain them.
The Providence Press says: "When Mrs.
Whttesey, the Northampton cashiers wife,
saw the burglars take her husbands gold
watch she kicked hers under the bureau, and
so saved it. And when her new cloak was in
the robbers hands she said, Give me that old
thing; Pm cold,' and saved that likewise. If
this keen witted woman could have been at the
bank when the vault was opened she would
have persuaded the robbers that those papers
were nothing but family milk bills"
young lady in Providence has recently
been astonishing the natives by her remarkable
extravaganza. 1t appears that the attention of
the detectives was called to the fact that very
young girl, apparently not more than ten
years of age, and of very bright appearance and
richly dressed, had engaged private box at
the theatre for four successive nights i'll a
single week, which she paid for herself and
occupied with young companions. She was
''shadowed' and her ways of life ascertained
They revealed an extravaganza and independ-
ence unparalleled in one so young. She en-.
gagged hacks continually, sometimes paying as
much as SIS and 500 per day for their hire
alone, purchased furs, dress goods, diamonds
and other jewelry with lavish hand, and was
equally extravagart in other ways. There is
an absolute knowledge that within few
months she has squandered upward of $27OO.
She is an heiress in her own right, and the
money she obtained from her mother, who was
her guardian, on various pretences, one that
she was the favorite of well-known wealthy
gentleman who invested 1t for her. and others
that she needed it for books at school, con-
tributions at Sunday.school and the like. She
accounted for the articles of her purchase by
saying that they were given to.her by the gen.
tleman above alluded to. The precocity of her
powers of deceit and the plausibity of her rep
RESERVATIONS were very wonderful for one so
young, and her mother and grandfather were
completely deceived. When the facts were
made known by the confession of the girl in
the presence of the detectives they were utterly
astounded, as well they might be.