The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1881-09-06
EOR WOMEN.

EOR WOMEN.
Mrs. Catharine J. Lafitc, q daughter OF
Commodore Vanderbilt, died in France
lev days ago.
The Empress oil Russia is described q.
looking like a corpse rather than living
being, sitting sPerchless and unmoved as
though seeing nor hearing nothing.
Mrs. Burdette, the invalid wife OF the
Burlington Hawk-Ey humOrist, has fall.
en- heir tn $4,000 bequeathel her by her
grandfather, the late Capt. Hall, OF Peo-
rix, Ill.
Miss Abbey +. Good>ell, oi Chambers
burg, Pa. has been appointed principal Of
Vassar College. She is the first graduate
OF the college Who has attained to place
in the faculty.
The original OF "Mary Had Little
Lamb" was written BY Mr.. John Roul-
stone, proprietor OF popular riding
school, sixty years ago. "Marv," the own
er OF the lamb. is now Mrs. Tyler, OF Som
ersville, Mass.
When Mrs. Garfield was informed
that her husband must die, and that moth
ing but miracle would save him, she is
reported to have said: Then that miracle
will be performed. Ny husband will re-
cover-he must.
Mrs. 4. &. Goodell, Of Salem, Mass,
has forwarded to the wife of President
Garfield set Of seven pillows for the sick
bed. They are Of different sizes, filled
with live seese feathers and covered with
fine white kid. Each has the initial SC. -
embroidered thereon.
Everybody, women As wei! as men,
should learn to swim, for nowadays the
larger portion Of our population spend
weeks every year ut the watering places,
and travel By river, lake and ocean is of
frequent occurrence. At least all the chill
dren may be learned; the boys will learn
themselves, and the girls need but little
instruction.
Mrs. Francis Z. Willard. talking to q
Chicago reporter about the frame for the
portrait Of Mrs. Hayes, said: at was
carved entirely By women. The oak rep
resents strength OF character in Mrs.
Hayes; the punches Of grapes denote the
true use OF Gods goodness; thelilies along
the sides indicate purity; the Egyptian
sun-Aowers ere expressive Of her christian
faith: the laurel, victory: water lilies,
beauty, and the hawthorn, poetry"
--Thompson's Bank Nste Reporter saws :
In our list Of banks We find the following
named ladies holding positions - bank
officers: Mrs. N. c. Williams is presi-
dent Of the State National bank, Raleigh.
\. c.: Miss Jennie Coonbs is cashier Of
Brown i Coombs' bank at Vaudeville,
Mich; Miss Sarah F. Dick fills the same
Office in the First National bank Of Hunt
ington. Indiana, and Miss Annie VI. King
signs - cashie. OF the banking house of
Springer 4 Noyes, Of White Cloud,
Kansas: Mrs. ". H. Cowden carries on q
banking business at Forest Hill, Cal.
An old lady kept private bottle from
which she occasionally refreshed herself,
though none OF the family knew it. One
evening her daughter, looking through the
pantry for some doughnuts for her beau,
spiea the bottle. and had the curiosity to
extract the cork and apply her nose to the
aperature, ut which moment the old lady
came in sight and angrily demanded
We'll, are you any wiser than you were!
What do YOU suppose 1t Isl" IL dom,
know what it is. mamma" answered the
caught maiden; "but it smells just like
Charley's mustache."