The Newtown bee., 1879-04-08
FOR THE FAIR SEX.

The Iowa courts have decided that cook-stoye is wife's personal property
 Janesville, Wis, has three women lawyers. The place is properly named.
 The empress of Brazil has presented to Queen Victoria dress woven of spider webs.
 Cleveland clalms to contain the only female Gr9co-Roman wrestler in the land.'
 Mime. Grevy, wife of the French presi- dent, is landscape painter of rare ex- cellence.
 A young lady in Hartford, Conn, has been badly poisoned in the face by the aniline dye in a new blue vail.
 Mrs. M. C.. Williams has succeeded her husband as president of the State National bank, of Raleigh, N. c.
 Mrs. Oliphant's handwriting is the smallest of that of any literary person. Printers refuse to strain their eyes with it, and it has to be copied for them.
 The San Francisco Post says the female property owners of Alameda and Santa Clara counties pay taxes on S6,OO0,OO0 of their possessions. Many of these ladies are young and handsome.
 The principal centers for the manufac- ture of coral ornaments are Naples, Leg horn and Marseilles. In the former, more than 1000 women are employed in making coral beads for necklaces, etc.
 Dr. Mary F. Thomas has been physi- elan of the Home for Friendless Women at Richmond, Ind. which is also used as hospital for the city occasionally, for the last seven years, and was unani- mously reelected another year at the recent annual meeting of the board of managers.
 A fan which made breeze in Paris was ordered and paid for by the wife of q New York millionaire. It was painted by Edward de Beaumont, at cost of $500, and has the monogram of the owner set in diamonds on one of the ivory sticks. Two large diamonds head the ends of the rivets. Price, $l,40O. | New York shoppers eat their lunch at the Exchange for Woman's w ork, where delicious cake is always to be found. One of the women who sends her work to the exchange has had an order from Liver pool for Sl00 worth of preserves, and or ders for stationery, dinner cards, pickles and jellies are constantly received.
 A New York bridegroom recently sent pair of diamond earrings to his bride, inclosing the box containing them in jewel-casket fourteen by sixteen inches and nineteen inches high. T he sides o the box were of solid selected Marechal Neil buds, bound by a rim of tea rose buds. A ring of violets was the lid-lifter. The inside of the box was lined with white satin.
 The latest novelty is a barometer 1 handkerchief" The design printed on 1 1t represents man with an umbrella. In fine weather the umbrella is blue, ill changeable weather gray and in rainy | weather white. The secret lies in printing this design in chloride of | cobalt, but the first washing removes this sensitive chemical and destroys the barometric properties Yoasng Scientist. There may be seen in the window of a well-known Paris jeweler, whose estab lishment is situated on the boulevard de Ia Madeleine, beautiful parasol, which was finished too late to be shown at the exhibition. This o6jet q art has blue silk ground covered with the richest lace. The handle and stick are black, studded with splendid brilliants, and the elastic ring which serves for keeping the parasol closed is composed entirely O. brilliants. The price is 25,OoO francs. or just S5,000.
 A New York lady who was passing the winter in Florence, recently gave great ball, which was attended by a very large and distinguished company. A surprise figure in the cotillon excited much sensation by its novelty. A large tree was brought in, from which were hung paper baskets, that on being pulled divided into halves and gave escape to numbers of little birds that flew about the ballroom until let out 1.-the window or rescued by some fair hand to be taken home and cared for.
 The chief Methodist school of theology in the Northwest, the Garrett institute, of Evanston, H., will graduate the first lady student. Miss Mary A.Phillips, of Olney, H., and the professors say that she is the first lady applicant in the coun- try for a degree in Methodist theology. When she entered the school the profes- sors looked with disfavor upon her pres ence, but years reflection and acquaint- ance have converted them. She is the daughter of clergyman; has learned more than the best man in her class, and intends to do gospel pulpit work.