The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-10-11
wonAN's KINGDOM.

A trainswrecker--the man with oig
feet. s 81
u They systhe smallest newsboy ia New
York is really a newsglrl.
American women are said to spend
more money Tor their hose than any
other women in the world.
Sewing, as branch of education, has
been introduced into one OF the puohc
schools at Campidge, Mass.
Devoutness OF posture among women
has declined with the rise of the present
fashion OF pinbscks. They cant get
down to pray. '-........ ...
MOTHERS of families, whether married
or widows, vote at municipal elections ID
Italy, and their votes are sent In sealed
envelope the day before election.
The Sultan of Turkey lately, for the
| first time in his life, sat down to dine
with European lady at his own table
ill., WAS Mrs. Lsyard, wife OF the Eng'lsh
ambassador.
The Liepsic police are making war on
ladies trans III the street. Tine women
have been given notice, through the
ne wspapers, that all persons whose dress
is found trailing on the sidewalk will be
fined.
There are twelve female pOstmasters in
Schuylkill county, Pa, and the postal
cards that are received in that section
come to the consigned thum-msrked and
dogs-esred, like boys first reader at the
end of the term.
AS near as can be ascertained, there
are IN the states of Maryland d, Virginia,
North and South Carolina, and Georgia,
1000 more females than males, In to
tai native population of three millions,
aud in New England like overplus OF
10000 in native population OF two and
a-halt millions.
All babies born IN the Oneida commu-
niLv are ~ once taken from their moth.
ers and given to some other woman TO
nurse, and the babies are changed around
50 that no mother ever ress, or even
knows her own child The object is 10
destroy all family feeling, and tc keep
woman from loving her own child better
than anybody's else children. 90.
neer on the Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy road, was accompanied by his
wife, who wsgere6 that she could fire the
engine from Burlington to Galesburg.
Ben took her up and wsgered So she
couldn't. Mrs. Horton promptly ac-
C pied the challenge and buckled 10 work
with the shovel snd-won the bet. She
shoveled one and quarter tons of coal,
| and kept steam up "hke little man."
The mode of courtship of the z4poral
| o Ecudor presents some suggestive fea-
lures The enamored swain goes TO the
Gods and hunts game; when he has
procured it he presents it TO the maiden
| 1l his choice. This constitutes the pro-
| possl; if she accepts, she cooks the meat.
D ence before entering upon the bonds OF
n.atrimony the Zapors sutton has the
| great advantage over civilized wooers o.
| being assured as to the lady S capacity for
preparing a square meal, and doubtless
| there is diminished probability that
s.terward Il lat will be in the fire. On
the other hand the Zaporiness Is favored
with some foreknowledge as TO the
spouses ability to keep the lsrder sup
piled.
In the memoirs of st Simon is to be
found the following regarding the way
the women of Paris dressed their hair in
tho year 17l3: "At the commencement
o. the new year the Duke and Duchess o.
Shrewsbury arrived from London. The
duchess declared the women's- dress
ridiculous, as indeed they were. They
we're edlfces of brass wire, ribbons, hail
I'd ali sorts of tawdry rubbish, more
than two feet high, making women
heads seem IN the middle of their bodies
l they moved ever so lightly the editc,
trembled, and the inconvenience was ex
treme. The king, Louis XIV, coulc
Of endure them, but, master rs be was
o. everything, was unable to Danish them
Iley lasted ten years and more, despite
all be could do or say"