Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-08-06
rsnrrrsE NOTES.

Mary Steadman Adds writes to the Lon
don Nesrs that as women are able to pay
the usual fees for college education, and
as their fees would be as valuable to col
lege as those of men, there seems to be no
reasonable ground for refusing them the
collegiate advantages which are open to
men.
The London Society for the Protection
of Women and Children owes It's origin,
according to its President, to the increase
of aggravated assaultseupon women and
children. The society aims at the pre-
vention and punishment of snch crimes.
Now that public prosecutors are being ap-
pointed, it might be thought that the
necessity for such society as this would
cease So far as his experience goes, there
certainly still exists necessity for such a
society, nor can he see when that necessity
will cease.
Persistent obstruction having been Of
fered for many years to the introduction
into the British Parliament of bill legal
izing marriage with dead wife's sister, in
regard to which Mr.. Bright has written
that the case is one of very great hard
ship and scandal to our legislative sys-
tenn" a memorial on the subject has been
presented to Mr.. Gladstone, asking his as
sistance in bringing the question before the
House of Commons This memorial is
signed by 253 members of Parliament, Con-
sentative and Liberal, representing one
half of the entire electoral body of the
United Kingdom.
Miss Annie Hampton Brewster writes
from Rome that when the famous ballet
dancer, Mile. Zucchi, had her benefit in
that city, Roman Prince sent her a
superb bouquet, In the center of which was
a blank check, signed by his own princely
name. A Partisan light-o'. toes would have
ruined the confding venerable admirer.
Zucchi, however, is an Italian, and pru-
dent She filled up a check for only 20,-
600 francs S4,000), and drew her money
without dispute. Had she written l00,
600 francs instead, the family of her aged ad-
mirer would probably have prosecuted her,
which can be done in Rome.
Conductor Miles train, on the Ohio and
Mississippi Railroad, says the Cincinnati
Enquirer, brought to this city for medi-
cal treatment A. J. Van Buskirk, of Scots
burg, Scott county, Ind. MIR. Van Bus
kirk was taken to the station at Scottsburg
on a stretcher, and there, meeting Mrs.
Eliza Carr, prepossessing widow OF 80
years, proposition of marriage was made,
accepted, the license obtained and, just as
the train hove in sight, the Rev. s.. q.
Wade appeared, was requested to marry
them, and, while the conductor kindly
held up the train, the ceremony was pro-
nounced, and the invalid, accompanied by
a wife nurse, was carried on the train, and
the devotion of bride of few hours to
the almost dying husband was one of the
pleasing features of the long, hot and dusty
ride to the city"
The Marquis of Salisbury, at recent
public meeting in London, said that it
seemed 20 him that the great difficulty is
to find arguments against the extension OF
higher education to women rather than to
find arguments in favor of it. If such edu-
cation were valuable to those who had to
make their way in the world and to win
their bread, it was as valuable to women
as to men if it gave robustness to the char.
acter and refined the intellect, surely these
qualities were as admirable in the female
sex as in the male. Those who were in
terested in the promotion of religious edu-
cation must be deeply sensible that in
every generation the religious convictions
Of women were the mainstay of the Chris
tian religion, because it was they who pro-
duced the earliest impressions on the minds
of those who would be the men and women
of the next generation, and therefore it was
matter of no slight importance that the
higher education of women should be per-
vaded by religious spirit.
About three weeks ago in Naples Is, 600
women operatives, finding the Royal To-
bacco Mandatory closed for the purpose
of repairing the damages wrought during
the recent disturbances, formed in process
sion, with banners at their head, some
bearing the inscription, " Long Live the
Qaeen," and marched to the Palace of the
Project. Here they were with difficulty
prevented from entering in body. The
questor and police force restored some
order, and deputation of five were elected
and received by the Project, who promised
to bring their complaints before the proper
quarter. Meanwhile the banners had been
confscated by the police, and the excite
ment consequently greatly increased. A
cry was raised of Let us go to the Queen
at Capodimonte, but on the road thither,
at the Plaza Dante, the procession was
without further ceremony dispersed by the
police.