Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1882-09-26
CONCERNINa WOMEN.

ne dttenuhnCe VI youiik iouies o. 'hS
Harvard Annex promises to be greatly
increased this year.
Mrs. Harriet Bushnell has bequeathed
eight thousand dollars, her whole estate,
to the poor widows Of Lincoln, Ill.
The Society Of Arts at Geneva, at its
annual meeting, has resolved that, in
future, ladies may be admitted as MEM
bers Of the society.
A pretty girl of Is, neat in dress and
polite in manner, is bootblack in Gal
weston. She has chair at a street cor
ner, and makes 50 to 90 day.
Mile. Louise Michel, who is much
talked at Paris, proposes to found a
feminine academy" to which only wom-
en- shall be admitted.
Miss Louise S. Baker has supplied the
pulpit of the Congregational Church at
Nantucket for two seasons. She left a
lucrative position as teacher to engage in
this work.
A national society for woman suffrage
has been established in Paris. 1t will be
independent of any political or religious
party. The Office is at 81, Rue de Chaz-
ellie (Parc Monceau), Paris.
The lady newspaper-c correspondents
who make Washington their fruitful field
of operations have organized Press Club
and will endeavor to have galleries in the
Senate and House set apart for their spec
ial use.
Mesdames Clotilde II. Wendell and
Nancy d. Taylor, of Atchison, have just
received letters patent for valuable i'm
provement in tag fasteners. 1t is con-
sidered by merchants and Others the best
they have seen.
Governor Baker recently said to the
graduating class of the indianapolis Fe-
male College: Young ladies, pepare
yourselves for the duties Of full citizen
ship, because it is the inevitable, whether
you desire it or not"
New Orleans is to have the honor Of
being the first city in the Union to erect
a monument TO a woman. The person
to be thus honored is Margaret Houghery
the recently deceased benefactress of the
orphan sylums of that city.
Mrs. Richards, who has been in Wis.
consin organizing woman suffrage clubs,
says that her greatest opposition comes
from young unmarried women who i'm
agine that men will not like them so
well if they advocate the woman suffrage
cause.
The Municipal Council of Nantes in
France has resolved to establish lyceum
for girls. The Municipal Council Of
Blois has also taken this subject under
consideration, and has sent deputation
to confer with the Minister of Public In
struction.
Bishop Hurst, of Desmoines, Iowa,
says there were almost as many women
as men at the polls there during the re-
cent vote on the amendment. One
young lady-Miss Pearson-told him at
one o'clock. that she had given out some
six hundred ballots, and not an unclvil
word had been spoken TO her.
Queen Elizabeth of Roumania, known
in literature under the pseudonym OF
Carmen Sylvia, has been elected a men,
Der of the Academy of science at Buchar.
est, and will be formally installed next
November. She is the first lady to
whom this compliment has been paid.
Miss Emma l.. Crabtree Of Lynn,
Mass, has been devoting herself for a
series of years to the study Of electricity
and kindred subjects and, has as an cleo
trician. already shown superior knowledge
and ability. She has devised and per-
fected various pieces of scientific appara-
tus and has manifested great mechanical
in this direction. She is a
graduate of Salem Normal school.
The New York Tribune has suggested, !
and other papers have endorsed the idea,
that, if neither Congress nor New York
will move in the matter of purchasing
for a park the land adjacent to Niagara