River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-03-25
Concerning Women.

Miss Ida Talbot, Of indianapolis, is
achieving marked success as a reader.
The university of Brussels has for the
first time admitted lady as a science
student.
Miss Harriet E. Stanton Ia ely lee
tured III Omaha, to the delight of a large
audience.
Miss Fanny Davenport, the actress,
has sent 800 to the New York Herald
Irish relief fund.
Mrs. Amanda Smith, d colored evan
gelist, is doing much good in Bombay
aud Paoii, India.
Two young ladies have been appoint
ed census enumerator5 for Ashland and
Catlettsburg, Ky.
Another lady lawyer, Mrs. Laura
Maxwell. has been admitted to the prdc-
tice of law in Keokuk
Mrs. W. II. I'll. Murray, wife Of the
absent minister. is employed as ply
stefan in New York hospital.
Miss Bryant, daughter OF the poet,
and her cousin, Miss Fairchild, were at
last accounts among the Americans in
Rome.
Dora D'Istria. Princess and author,
has written to Miss Kate Slnborn to say
that she is coming to visit America ne2'
summer.
Countess Massens, the daughtsr-in-
law of the First Napoleon's field mar
shall of that name, is now reported do
mestic in a Salt Lake family.
The Empress Elizabeth of Austria,
who has great fondness for Enelish
literature, has sent to Mrs. Isabel Bur-
ton, the wife of Captain Burton, hand
some gold locket with her monogram
and an imperial crown in diamonds to
mark her appreciation of that lady's
book on the Inner Life of Syria"
Miss Mary Allen West is Superinten-
dent of Schools in Knox county, H.,
and her schools have taken six of the
eight premiums offered in the Educa-
tional Department of the Illinois State
Fair The Superintendent of the edu-
cational exhibit recommended the
State Board Of Agriculture to grant
medal to Miss West.
Madame Li-fu-jeu, wife of the Chi
nese Minister in Berlin, has just been
formally presented to the Emperor and
Empress, who received her very gra-
ciously. The Chinese lady wore SUI
perb native costume looked very pic
turesque, and behaved with tact and
grace. Lady Odo Russell, as doyenne
of the diplomatic corps, made the pre-
sentatlOn.
If Queen Victoria would send one of
her personal, effective and inimitable
letters to the president of the United
States, thanking the Americans, through
him, for what they have done to help
the sufferers in Ireland, the Whitehall
Rtview thinks there would be an end of
the anti-English agitation III this coun-
try for another quarter of a century.
The United States consul at the FIJI
Islands says that on the largest OF the
group there are two splendid rivers, on
the banks of which are more than 1000
acres planted with sug.r caues. The
dried meat of the cocoanut-copra-is
the chief article of export; it is sent to
England and Germany; and there are
more peanuts raised there than can
find market.
The London Examiner contains the
following statement in regard to the
number of women who vote in England:
"In sixty-six municipal elections, out
of every 1000 women who enjoy equal
rights with men on the register, sic
went to the polls, which Is fortry-eight
less than the proportionate number of
men; and, out of 27949 women regist-
cred, where a contest occurred, ii 416
voted.
The names of twenty nine ladies APP
pear in the list of candidates who passed
the articulation examination of the
London University in January. Two
of them are in the Honors Division,
and of these, Alice Elizabeth Lee, of
Bedford College. London, is at the top
of the list, but is disqualified by age for
the first exhibition. Seventeen ladies
passed in the first division and five in
the second division.