The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1881-04-20

Twenty-Five of the forty-eight students in
the Nevada State University are girls.
The Female Suffrage amendment was
killed in the Wisconsin Senate by tie
vote.
Miss Abby w. May was recently re-
elected a member of the Massachusetts, State
Board Of Education, for a term of eight
years.
Give US more mothers prepared to instruct
the world in the true philosophy Of life, and
we will have more sons to be numbered
with philosophers.
Miss Harrison, who is now Lady Arthur
Hill, receives a royalty of 81. 600 a year on
her ballad, ain the Cleaning" She was
formerly governess.
The Chicago Eclectic Medical Society is
struggling to determine whether female
physician should be called DIR. Mrs, or Mrs
Dr., or Mrs. NJ. D., or doctress.
A Troy lawyer asked a woman on the
witness stand her age, and she promptly re-
piled: Il sold milk for you to drink when q
baby, and l haven't got my pay YET
Hon. John A. Coulter, of the House OF
Representatives in Colorado, offered bill
to pay bounty for scslps of Ute Indians,
and he voted, as such a man would, against
woman suffrage.
Mrs. Mary n. Bliss. of Columbus, Ohio
has given $4,000 to Kenyon College for the
erection of new hall in the College Park
to be called Hubbard Hall, in memory OF
her dead brother, George Hubbard.
Mrs. Matilda Fletcher, whose proposition
to teach patience, cleanliness, and the whole
list of virtues and grsces in the public schools
has been given national prominence by the
advocacy of Senator Burnside, is on tour
Of the State Capitals to address State Legis-
lstures on the subject.
The decision of the Senate Of Cambridge
University to admit women students OF
Girton and Newman to be formally exam
ined and classified among the candidates for
honors is a great event in the history of the
struggle for equal educational privileges for
women. The recommendation of the Syndi-
cate was affirmed by the immense majority
of sos against 32.-Woman's Eng Suffrage
Journal.
An Egyptian mother, under the influence
OF a widely-prevalent superstition, does not
wash her child's eyes until eight days after
birth. By that time the organ is frequently
ruined. The teachers of the American and
British mission schools Of Cairo say that
Egyptian mothers become invariably angry
when urged to wash the eyes of their newly
born infants, and can rarely be persuaded to
comply with request of the kind.
Mrs. Parnell, her daughters and Anna
Ford, have added much strength to the Irish
Land League. But Archbishop McCsbe, Of
Dublin, in a Lenten pastoral, denounced
women who so far forgot the modesty OF
their sex as to appear in public. To this Mr..
A. NJ. Sullivan replies. He rejects the i'm.
putation that the ladies have put aside their
modesty, and accuses the Archbishop of in
sulting some of the most exemplary devo-
tees of the Church. Mrs. Sullivan main
tains that the objects of the Ladies' Land
League are purely charitable, Archbishop
Croke, of Csshel, has written to Mr.. A. NJ.
Sullivan, congratulating him on his reply to
the Lenten pastoral of Archbishop McCabe,
of Dublin. Archbishop Croke says he un-
deservedly adopts Mr.. Sullivan's sentiments
against Archbishop McCabe's monstrous inn
Putations. The Archbishop will find the
open door for women can not bes hut.