Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1880-01-29
CONCERNING WOMEN.

lately deceased, bequeaths $1,000 to vari
GUS religious societies.
Mrs Garfield is said to be devoting her
self to the education of her sons, herself
in great measure, carrying forward thei
studies and fitting them for college.
The female prodigy who has outstrippet
all competitors in Greek and Latin at th'
Oxford university examinations is Miss
Rogers, cousin of Richard Golden.
Caroline Laura Rice has just taken prizes
in the Wesleyan university, Middletown
Conn.-one the J. d. Weeks prize for ex
cellence in logic, and another the DAME
Wise prize for excellence in moral philoso
ply.
The Empress of Austria will visit Ire
land next month for another seasons hunt
ing. She has engaged Lord Longford'!
seat at 81 900 per month and has already
caused $1,000 to he spent on the improve
ments of the staOing and her own private
apartments.
Nine. Erard has presented to the Mozart
museum at Salzburg a ring Of curious
workmanship set with diamonds, which
was gisen to the MAESTRO by the Empress
Marie Therese on the occasion Of his first
grand concert, held before the court a
SchOnbrunn.
Governor Cornell, of New York, has in
creased the representation of women in
the State board OF charities, by nominal
ing Miss Sarah NJ. Carpenter, lady who
has distinguished herself in humane work,
as a member. The nomination was unani'
mously confirmed by the senate.
Statistics given in a recent French pub
licaton shows that there are now living in
France l,750 women who are writers IN
different departments of literature. Two
thirds of them were born in the Provinces
1000 are known to be writers of fiction,
POO are poets, $50 compile educational
works, There are also 2,l50 women
artists in France.
Miss Lane, who, in the days of James
Buchanan, was mistress Of the White
House, and who is now the wife of Robert
johnson, a wealthy banker Of Baltimore,
has recently purchased Wheatlands, the
place where her uncle was born, in Pennsyl-
vania, and will there erect memorial
worthy of him.
Signora Borsa, a young lady of the
Swiss Canton OF the Ticino, has just at
tended to the dignity ofthe degree of Lau-
reata in bclleslettres, bestowed by the
University of Pavia. The degree had the
always higIy priced appendix Of 'cum
SWBlUd laHdc." Her examination extend
ed over seven days, and must, therefore,
have been tolerably severe.
Mrs. Henry Fawcett has offered a plize
of two guineas to the members Of the Uni
versity College Women Debating Society,
London, for the best essay in answer to
the question, "llavc the greatest things
in art and literature ever been accomplish
ed by people Contented with subservi-
ence2' Mrs. Fawcett is President Of the
club.
Nine. O'Connell, once the most famous
woman painter of Paris, and regarded as
an admirable colorist, is now an inmate
of Vel.e- Eyard, lunatic asylum. She is
a German, who married an lrishmnn, and
was a naturalized p tristan. Her most re-
marl;abIe work, "Rachel, After Death"
is owned by NJ. Emile de Giradin.
At Stockholm iecently the Countess Fer,
sen GlydenstoIpe, the last survivor Of the
Ferscn Family, whose grandfather, dis
guised as a coachman, drove Louis WI.
and Mane Antoinette TO Varennes, was
examining on New Years Eve ther-
mometer hung outside her room, when
her lamp set fire to the curtains. Her
clothes were caught by the flames, and
despite prompt assistance she was SO seri-
ously burned that she shortly afterwards
died.
The death is announced of the wife of
Frederick Penn, Il niece of the Dowager
Countess OF Essex, formerly Miss Steph-
ems. She will be remembered chiefly as
the soprano Of the celebrated duet sing
Frs, The Misses Smith, whose popu.
Iarity some years since, especially in
Scotland and Ireland, was remarkably
great, Her rendering Of "Savourneen
Deelsh" and of Bonnie Prince Charlie"
usually secured a double encore.
Queen Victoria Is said to have long
for persons and faces. Her whole
thoughts now seem centered in her SOL
liers, especially in those who have been
wounded in her service, and in looking
,ver paintings of subjects in the recent
war she knows and remembers the names
If all those soldiers-even privates-on
whom she has conferred the Victoria Cross
" other honors, at once picking them out
n the paintings and asking after them by
lame.
Nine. Wykerslooth de Weerdestein,
jOrn Princess Charlotte de la Tremvllle,
las Just died. She was the daughter of
he Due de la Tremville, the only French
noble who has the right to remain covered
n the presence of the sovereign. Nine.
lie Wykerslooth, who had been a widow
or some years, could not become used to
he pronunciation of her husbands queer
Dutch name. 1t used to sbs related of
Ter that when on one occasion she arrived
It hotel in Turin, she wrote down her
lame as "De la Tremville," and turning
o the landlord, quietly remarked: "As
or the name Of my husband, you must
lsk his valet. have never been able to
or pronounce it"
The Duchess of Marlborough, in en-
the development of Irish indus
.ries, has given orders that Dublin Castle
be dlaped with curtains of silk figured
terry poplin. The design selected is ex-
,eedlngly beautiful, the chief feature be-
ing the royal crown worked over an ar
of shamrocks. The drawing
rooms at Blenheim's Palace, the English
seat of the vice-regal family, are also
being embelished with the same fabric.
Here the design on the poplin will consist
1f an arrangement of the ducal ooronets
and monograms, surrounded by the star
,t the Order of St. Patrick. The object of
his movement is to bring the Irish pop
in generally into use as fabric for up
lolstery and decoration.
On the subject of co-education, Presi-
lent Angel OF Michigan University says:
After our nine years experience in CO.
,ducation, we have become so accustomed
o see women take up any kind of Univer-
ity work, carry it on successfully, grad
late in good health, cause no embarass-
nent in the administration Of the institu-.
ion, and awaken no special solicitude in
he minds of their friends or of their
eache1s, that many of the theoretical
discussions of co-education by those who
AVE not had opportunities to examine it
arefully read strangely to US here on the
round. 1t is cause Of sincere copgrat-
Ilation, that both in this country and in
europe the opportunities for women to
btain as thorough and extended an edu-
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