The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1879-05-22
FOR THE FAIR sen.
News and Notes for Women,

A woman in London has paid 200 fines
for drunkenness.
English children Wear pinaforcs OF
pink, blue and white washing silk.
Women's unierclothes are cheaper in
New York than anywhere in Europe.
One hundred and seventy-four of the
632 students of Boston University are
women.
A grand ecmenical council of women
who believe in woman'S rights is to hc
held in st. Louis in May.
Mr.. GladStonc's constant assistant is
his daughter, who knows every book in
his library and the contents of it.
Young women are almost universally
employed rs typesctters in the printing
establishments of San Francisco, Cal.
Mrs. Ann Simpson. of Yorkshire,
Eng land, has been appointed surveyor of
roads for the parish of Kirby Grindalyth.
Twenty ladies have been authorized to
write NJ. D.. after their names by the
Women's Medical College in Phila-
delphia.
There are real walking hats for
those who like them this season-hats
totally unlike the bonncts, and intended
TO droop over the eyes.
Miss Hovey, of Boston, has offered
$4,000 at once and more in the future
to Harvard University, on condition that
it opens the door of its medical school to
women.
The Princess Louise has taken the
trouble to deny in emphatic terms the
report of a London society Journal that
she was being greatly bored by her
Canadian experience.
1t is related of the late Nine. BonapartC
that she never adopted the new-fangled
notion of gas, but always used candles,
and she would not allow q carpet to be
laid on her bedroom floor.
The first women employed in the
National Treasury were appointed in
1862. There are now 100 in the depart
ries varying from $500 to Sl,S00 yearly.
The chapel belonging to Craze church.
New York, was the gift of Miss Catha-
rine Woolf, and cost $4,000. 1t was
occupied for the first time ut the celebra-
ton feast of the conversion of st. Paul.
A Minnesota man found a beautiful
young squaw almost frozen to death.
He took her to his campfire and tried to
thaw her out. When she had melted q
little he proposed marriage and was
accepted.
1t is said that Queen Victoria, in her
favorite books, uses paper-marks upon
of Holy Writ: Their hope is full oi
Immortality, and he lives even though
he be dead"
The eldest daughter of Bishop Hunting.
ton not only writes newspaper articles
and provides for charities, but walks fire.
quently twenty miles q day, taking ar
umbrella in her hand, q la DR.. Franklin
for storm or sunshine.
An intelligent schoolgirl, by name Eva
Schelemmer, of Memphis, Tenn, has re-
ceived gold medal from the Howard
Association for meritorious services per-
formed in the midst Of the pestienct
which ragged last summer, and which
were unremitting from the beginning tc
the close.
Some of the insurance companies o.
New York have written letters of con,
graduation to an uptown lady on hel
bravery when she discovered that :
room in the third story of her magnifi
cent house was on fire. Calmly wrap.
ping rug about her shoulders, she en-.
tered, and closing an open window and
the doors kept the flames from spread
ing. and then telegraphing to the nearest
station for aid, the flames were quickly
put out, but not until every article in the
room was reduced to cinder.