St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-09-15
Concerning women.

Miss Emma Abbott is said to have
made 100000 in stock speculation re-
Gently.
Patti employs French servants. She
loves to sit all day long, and day after
day, in a conservatory.
The Newport correspondent of the
Boston Times is said to be one of Mrs.
Julia Ward HOwe's daughters.
Queen Victoria's wedding present to
the Duke of Westminster was very
handsome thoroughbred riding horse.
Queen Victoria is one of the heaviest
sovereigns in Europe. She is short
but she weighs about two hundred
pounds.
Mrs. Langtry tells an interviewer
that she never set up for beauty,
never thought she was one, and isn't a
bit surprised when she hears people
say that they are disappointed in her.
Mrs. Garfield has been appointed
one of the trustees of Hiram College i'll
Ohio, the institution where her hus-
band was student and president, and
in which he always manifested great
interest.
President Elliot of Harvard is Il pro-
nounced supporter of the medical edu-
cation of women, and Huxley in Eng
land firmly endorses woman suffrage
in the modified form in which it pre-
walls there.
Gail Hamilton says: "A woman may
have been originally one step i'll ad-
vance of men in evil-dOing, but he very
soon caught up with her and has never
suffered himself to labor under similar
disadvantages
Anna Dickinson, it is said, made &
pat remark when somebody deprecated
her playing the mans part-Of Hamlet
Yes said she, "but there are moi
! three men in the country who can play
| it and it's time the women tried"
The youngest bride ever heard of il
the United States is Miss Catoe, who
though only eleven years and sever
months of age, was recently married tC
/ Thomas Payne by regularly -ordaineC
minister in South Carolina. Her hus
band is twenty years old.
Mrs. Caroline Brown, mother of Ar
/ temas Ward, living at Waterford, Me.
/ has ii book in which her visitors regis
/ ter their names. In turn she will give
strangers her own autograph, writer
/ in IL clear, firm hand by this smart ole
/ lady of seventy-twO years.
The Connecticut supreme court o
errors has decided that sex is no ba
to admission to practice as attorneys
Miss Mary Hall has passed ii satisfac
tory examination in the knowledge o
law, and the court below reserved TIN
question of her eligibility for the opin
ion of the higher court.
Pennsylvania is now the only stat
which has persistently refused wOmel
admittance to the bar. A lady i'll tina
state has been trying for seven o
eight years to gain admittance, but tn
court refuses to allow her to enter un
der the existing statutes, and the legis
lature refuses to pass new law.
When Miss Todd became engaged t.
Abraham Lincoln, she wrote to
daughter of Gov. Wicklitfe of Ken
lucky Il mean to make him presi
dent of the United States as Away
told you, | will yet he the president
wife" This letter is now the propert
of Gen. Preston of Lexington, Ky.
Mary Agnes Colbert, who died re
Gently, was one of the most note
teachers of vocal music in this country
Parepa Rosa once heard "Sister Agnes
sing 'Alpine Bell" and declared, it
said. that she was one of the creates
singers in the world. Shortly after
ward Max StrakOsch offered "SistC
Agnes" S5O,OOO for season of 81
months in concerts, but Bishop Whale
o declined to permit her to accept til
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