The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1882-09-28
Wonan's Work.

WHAT THE WOMEN ARE DOING IN TIE FIELDS
OF INDUSTRY, LITERATURE, SCIENCE, AND
ART.
The attendance of young ladies at the
Harvard Annex promises to be greatly in
creased 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. ut its annual
meeting, has resolved that, in future ladies
may be admitted as members of the society.
pretty girl Of Is. neat in dress and polite
III manner. is bootblack in Galveston. She
has Il chair at a street corner and makes IS to
81 Il day.
Mile Louise Michel. who is much talked
about at Paris, proposes to found Il feminine
academy" to which only women shall be ad-
mitted
Miss Louise 5. Baker has supplied the pulpit
of the COngregatoraSt Church ut Nantucket
for two seasons. She left lucrative position
a> teacher TO engage in this work.
A national society for women suffrage has
been established in Paris. 1t will be independ-
ent of any political or religious party. The
office i at "a. Rue dc Chazelc Parc Monceau,) }
Paris.
make Washington their fruitful field of oper-
alton have organized Press Club and will
endcayor to have galleries in the Senate and
House set apart for their special use.
Mesdames Clotilde H. Wendell and Nancy ID.
Taylor, VI Atcllisoii. have Just received letters
patent for Il valuable Improvement in tag
fasteners. 1t is considered by merchants and
others the best they have seen.
Governor Baker recently said to the gradtl-
atng class of the indianapolis Female College
Young ladies prepare yourselves for the
duties of full citizenship. because it is the in
evitablt. whether you desire it or not
New Orleans is to have tie honor of being
the first city in the Union to erect Il monument
to woman. The person to Dc thus honOred is
Margaret lIaughery, the recently deceased
benefactrc>> of the orphan asylums of that
city.
Mrs. Richards, who has been in Wisconsin
organizing woman suffrage clubs, says that
her greatest opposition comes from Young un-
married women who imagine that men will
not like them well if they advocate the
woman suffrage cause.
The Municipal Council of Nantes in France
has resolved to establish Il Iyccum for girls
The Municipal Council Of Blois has also taken
this subject under consideration, and has sent d
deputation to confer With the Minister OF
Public Instruction.
Bishop Hurst, of Des Moincs. Iowa, says there
We're almost as many women us men at The
polls there during the recent vote on the amend
ment. One young lady-Miss pearson-tod
him at one O'Clock. that She had given out some
six hundred ballots. and not an untivil word
had been spoken to her.
literature under the pseudonym of Carmen
SYLVIA has been elected member of the
Academy Of Science ut Bucharest, and vii
be formerly installed next November. She i,
the first lady to whom this compliment has
been paid.
Miss Emma l.. Crabtrec Of Lynn, Mass h;t.
been dcvoting herself for a series of years tc
the study of electricity and kindred subjects
and, It an electrician, has already ShoWl
superior knowledge and ability. She has de-
yiscd and perfected various pieces of scientific
apparatus and has manifested great mechnica
ingenuity III this direction She is a gradual,
of Salem Normal school.
The New York Tribune has suggested, an,
other papers have endorsed the idea. that
if neither Congress nor New York will move
in the matter of purchasing for Il park tho
land adjacent to Niagara Fails and 50 saving
the further destruction Of that spot, the Womer
of America should take ii up and save that. a
they saved Mt. Vernon. ito be IL sacred pos
session for u through all time
Fashion now thoroughly admits the violin It
an instrument for women. At the late com
petition at the Paris Conservatory of Music
seven female pupils We're admitted to compel,
with the men on the violin, and one Of them
Mile llillcmachcr-W fortunate enough tt
carry oil one Of The three first prizes. while an
other Young lady took first ucccs>t Il sort o1
honorable mention There are a number Of
women in both violin classes ut the Conserve
tory.