The Newtown bee., 1880-08-25
FOR THE FAIR SEX.
News and Notes fo= Women

NeWB ana " Notco koS W SAnGns Mrs. G. Leasure died near Chillicothe, O., recently, aged 100. She has been counted in every census. Her widow hood has tasted sixty years and she leaves son aged eighty.
 They have a sleeping girl at Tarville. Bucks, England, She has been in a and milk. A local physician thinks sbe is paralyzed and unconscious. Sukey Hart, colored woman. aged 40 years, recently died in Kinney. Texas. As proof of her great age it is stated that she nursed her mistress, now seventy-eight years old, after her own sixteenth child was born.
 Poker playing is favorite feminine accomplishment at Epperson Springs, a Tennessee wat sring-place. One young lady boasted to correspondent of hav- ing won a fine horse at the card table.
 Eugenie derives her revenue from three sources-the product of savings and speculations, the insurances on the emperor's life, and the real estate which the empress bought in her own name when she was on the throne.
 The stories about the outrageous bathing suits worn at Newport grow bigger and bigger daily. The last tale ofhorror is of white marine costume with shirring of scarlet silk and bor- der of gold fringe. The chemisette and stockings are of oiled silk.
 In Hungary ones official age dates from his baptism. A woman of forty only recently baptized into the church was arrested for stealing and pleaded that she was an infant, being legally only six months old. The court con- silprQd tho dofancp U00d and aconsftad her.
 A recent German paper gives an in- stance of arsenical poisoning caused by a dress A gentleman brought from Paris for his daughter m elegant dark green dress, trimmed with light green leaves. She had worn it several times, when numerous pustules broke out on her neck and arms, which grew so pain tul that she was forced to call a physi- elan. He at once recognized the effects of arsenical poisoning, and chemical ex- animation revealed large percentage of arsenic in the dress.
 The female population figures promi- nently in the census returns of Colorado, the youngest in the sisterhood of States, and ranges all the way from more than third in a comparatively aged town like Denver to 3,704 among Leadville's Is, lo5 people, and 686 to the 1, 674 in the newer mining town, Silver Cliff. The Princess of Wales, when she takes her little daughters into society, has quaint fashion of dressing them in toilets harmonizing with her own. For instance, at Q garden party the other day, she wore costume ot light blue and celadon green, and the young prin- cesses followed her about in gowns ol the blue.
 A young lady ia Covington, Ga., who is worth S90,000 broke an engagement with a young man during commence. ment because he paid S7 for horse and buggy to give her & ride. She argued tniip .. -.--a Irho would be so foolish as 10 pay that much TOT o-f.--h<..vu pleasure was not the kind she wanted for husband.
 The new French slipper with its low heel, which displays so we'll the fanciful stockings of the period, is easily lost of, and when the loser at ball is the belle the slipper is seized by the gallants and cut into a number of trophies. Your slipper was so tiny and you are so ad- mired that it wouldn't half go round. ' was the compliment that lately brought the blushes to the face of a young New port dancer.