The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-08-13
ABOUT WOMEN.

WARLIKE nations Cypress their wo.
men.
AMERICAN ladies are said to be grow
ing plump.
The man guestion-Isa mother-ln.lsw
part of the family?
AN Iowa young lady lately applied for
the position OF sOlierlno In a Burlington
choir.
WINNIE REAM is engaged to be mar.
RED to Lieu .enant Hoxie, OF the Engl-
neer Corps.
MISS MATTE MARBLE, of Blooming
ton, Illinois, has become wealthy Iii the
furniture business.
a YOUNG woman compositor on the
Green Bay Wis., Aarocate can set up
$1,000 ems 10 seven hours.
THE New York independent tells Its
lady readers, editorialiy, where to buy
cheap dress goods.
FIVE thousand copies of Mrs. Hodg-
sons That Lass o Lewrie's' have
been sold, and 1t still keeps on selling.
MRS ANN s. STEPHENS has written
tweuty-three novels, and her last one
"Norton's Rest" is said to be better than
all the rest
EX-QUEEN Isabella, OF Spain, has the
most valuaJ., collection o: lsccs IN the
world, one OF her shawls along being
worth S20,0GO.
PKESIDEhT SEELYE, OF Amherst Col
iCge, asserts that Queen Elizabeth had but
two equals and no superior Us a states
man in the annusis o. English royalty.
a GERMAN woman at Opperlin made
the discovery that dynamite Is n deadly
poison, besides its explosive properties.
She tried 1t on two people, and is under
sentence of death in consequence.
A CAPTAIN WILLIAMS died in the
work-house, in England. recently, and
the sympathetic English people were so
glsd of it that they immediately sub
scr,bed $1,000 for his widow.
Mrs. E. > Carr is Deputy Superln-
tendent OF Public Instruction IN CaIltor-
MIA. The farther West women go the
more substantially their abilities are rec
oguized.
DURING the war sLabbily dressed
Young woman applied TO Lincoln, the
Good, for pardon for her brother. Pre-
.iderl Lincoln said that she didn't wear
hoops, aad she should have the pardon
IN England, it is n lady's place to bow
first to q gentleman. Everywhere else
IN Europe the nan bows first. In
America it Is just AS 1t happens, and
very properly so, too, says hlg0 su-
lnority on etiquette.
why is il that ladies almost invaria-
hlv find themselves destitute OF money
when any small sum is suddenly requlr-
pd2' asks London paper. It's because
women haven't any convenient pockets
to carry things in, stupid.
HERE is an advertisement from the
Liverpool Morning Post: "Will any
one kindly lend lady a Colorado
beetle for few days2 Great care shall
b, taken of it. Payment if desired
There is no accounting for the tastes Of
the fair sex.
In Fitchburg, Massachusetts, there
are three grammar schools. In one OF
them lady was Principal, at the head OF
the other two there were gentlemen. A
salary of 81 200 was paid to all three
%. these Principals, but recently the
mems salaries were cut down 500,
while the woman's WAS left the same on
.ccount of her superior excellence as u
teacher. 1t is the first instance o! the
Kind on record.
4 VERY remarkable woman detective
died recently in London. Few even OF
LONDON detectives where bold and as
eXpert rs she was. Sometimes she dis
guised herself as boy, and thus penetra-
tel n thieves den, and once she te'Sned
violent illness IN the street, and thus rot
into house full OF counter'elLerS. the
cniet of the gang recognized her and
threw a lsdletull of not lead on her,
which burnt her hair all OF, but the po-
lice secured eighteen counterteiters. An
other time she was recognized and got
her skull fractured; bnt nothing
dsunted, she recovered and followed
her daring. perilous occupation till she
died
Mas. C.. j. II. NICHOLS, in the WO-
mans journal, pours some red-not shot
into the camp OF those reverend gentle
meg who are in habit OF quoting 81
Paul. Once on New York canal-bost
she SAW big, brawny Methodist preach
er spanking his two months odd baby
VIGOROUSLY, and scolding is mother, has
wife because she had ''dlsO6eyed' him IN
some trivial matter pertaining to the care
nf her own two-months'- old baby. lie
quoted ST. Paul and spanked the baby
| both at once, till the poor mother went
/ of CRYING 10 her berth, and her reverned
husband held the field triumphant In his
/ RIGHT TO command his wife and spank his
two months old baby according to st
4 Paul. In Dayton, Ohio, she saw d Bsp
list preacher send his wife on. otthe room
twice for fear that she would hear discus
/ sion that was going on and get dIsobedlent
notions IN her head In Vermont, she
/ heard a Congregational preacher say
/ that q wife must obey her hus band
strictly. even when the husband was n
gambler, a drunkard or a protgate, be-
cause 1t WAS presumably the fault Of the
/ rife if her husband WAS a bad man, and
-, Paul said, sc. st. Paul is pertec;
godsend to preachers of conservative
turn. They would be in bad row If
thew hadn't him. 1t would be impossible
20 preserve proper domestic discipline
without st. Paul.
Hayes' Surrender Equal 10 Buchan
/ ans.
Rem Wade's Interview in \. Y. Tribune.
think Hayes made great mistake II
surrenderinc Louisiana and South Caro-