The true northerner., 1877-08-17
Men and Women.

men ana women.
When Sam Bowles was introduced to Ken
tucky lady he innocently seked if she was Blue
Grass widow.
female suffrsgst in California says
" What we want is fewer ballet-girls and more
ballot women"
So long ago ss 1776, Abigail Adams bade
women remember this All men would be ty-
rants il they could
There are 10000 more women than men in
Denmark, and Mormonism makes good many
converts In the little kingdom.
Dio Lewis is camping out in California. build
ing up with pie and sponge cake the constitu.
ton that he shattered with oat meal and beans.
William Carr, q barber. died recently in De-
troit. He had been a personal friend Of Sew
ard, and was scholar. He left one Of the
best Libraries in the west.
"shall woman be denied the right to vote
because she cannot fight, when a darkey, who
cuts of bis right little toe with a hatchet too
keep from being drafted. enjoys the inestma-
bic privilege OF the ballot ?" asks Mrs. Gage.
Mrs. Van Lew, the recent post-mistress ei
Richmond, Va, paid her taxes with check
endorsed, "Taxes paid under protest, having
bitterly realized the need of the ballot, and
being, as woman, denied that right.
We hear good deal nowadays about the
need of carrying sanctiied hearts into the tenn
perance cause. 1t will do US no harm il, in
addition, We take along sanctifed common
sense.-Mary A. Lvermore, in Living Issue.
Four years since Miss Raymond was elected
Superintendent Of the Public Schools OF Bloom
ingtop, Ill. In marked contrast to the preju-
dice and opposition which characterized her
first election was her unanimous election to
fourth term.
Jennie June says that Annie Beasant, the
English radical, Is young, handsome, and a
natural orator. Her lectures to working-peo-
pie are densely crowded, and we have no wom-
an in America equal to her in force, genius,
and culture combined.
young lady named Mile. Anna Dahms has
just passed medical examination before the
Paris faculty with all the honors. This is a
very rare occurrence in France where the doc
trine of female participation IN the medical
profession has never made much headway.
Mrs. Ellen Foster, a woman lawyer OF Clin-
ton, Iowa, has been appointed by the district
court one Of the committee to examine candi-
dates for admission to the bar. 1t is safe to
say that no woman ever held such an office az
that before.
Don't put too much confidence in lovers
vows and sighs,' said Mrs. Partington to her
niece; let him tell you that you have hps
like Strawberries and cream, cheeks like tar
nation, and eyes like an asterisk; for such
things oftener come from tender head than
tender heart"
lady reared In affluence, an excellent musi-
clan, and q more than excellent linguist, sp-
Piled the other day to the Superintendent of
the Government Printing Office at Washington
for work-any sort OF work-scrubbing floors
even, so long as thereby she could earn q salary
sufficient to enable her to live decently and
honestly.
Mile. Dodu, directress Of the telegraph at
Enghien, France, and who occupied similar
post at Pithiviers, in 1870. has received the
military medal for an act OF courage during the
invasion. The Prussians having arrived In the
place and seized on her Office, she carried her
apparatus into her private room on the fret
floor. As the wire passed through this apart
ment, she attached to 1t another wire, ond
being thus able to read the message received
by the enemy, she saved French corps from
destruction by getting timely warning to the
French authorities.
y recent raveler says "I have always re-
marked that women in all countries are civil.
obliging, tender and humane. To a woman.
whether civilized or savage, never addressed
myself in the language of decency and friend
ship without receiving a decent and friendly
answer. With man IL has often been other
wise. In wandering over the barren plains of
inhospitable Denmark, through honest Swee-
den and frozen Laplsnd, rude and churlish Fin
land, unprincipled Russia, and the widespread
regions Of the wandering Tartar, il hungry,
dry, cold, wet or sick the women have uever
been friendly to me, and uniformorly SO and
to add to this virtue ESQ worthy the appellation
Of benevolence). these actions have been per-
formed in 30 free and kind q manner but il 1
was dry, drank the sweetest draught, and II
hungry, 1 ate the coarsest morsel with double
relish"