Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-05-24
FACTS ABOUT WOMEN.

FACTS ABOUT WOMEN.
MARY ANDERSON and Rhea are te-
ported to be of the same age, "a
Mrs. MARY E. STEWART, n niece OF
Gen. Rosecrans, has been received into
the Catholic Church by the Benedictines
at Gervais, Ore.
ACCORDING to the report last pub
lished the fund left by Sonora Josefo
Vergara, of chihuahua, Mexico, to the
poor, amounted to the sum of $l85, ,974.-
Mrs. S. W. DORSEY and her sister,
Mrs. Peck, widow of the ex-Senator's
partner, are in daily attendance at the
Star.route trials, and are much admired
for their beauty.
Mrs. RICHARD ROCKINGHAM, Jr,
has presented to the Massachusetts
Historical Society $4,000, together with
the stereotype plates of her late hus-
bands siege of Boston," "Life and
Times OF Joseph WARREN" and "Rise
of the Republic"
A YOUNG miss of IA, named Lille
Pomeroy, jumped into boat at Sagi-
nav, Mich, and rowed out into the
river, rescued boy of II years who had
been upset in the stream and would
have been drowned but for her courage
Gus action. Meanwhile, fifty stalwart
men looked on and did nothing.
Miss ANNA DICKINSON is now in New
York, the guest of Mrs. Croly. Miss
Dickinson Is in unusually good health,
and is about entering on course of
readings from her drama, Aurelian, and
from a dramatic lecture on Joanne
Dare. She will be heard in number
of the eastern cities during the spring.
MISS ALICE MARGUERITE KING, of
Alabama, grand-niece of the late Vice
President William Hutus King, has
brought suit against the Nashville
American for the publication of the let
ters of its New Orleans and Mobile cor.
respondents criticising her recitations as
a dramatic reader in those cities. She
lays her damages at $25, 900.
SIGNoRiNA TREMEnIt, who is to be
member of Mr.. Mapleson's company
next season, appeared in Lucrecia Borgia
in Vienna few weeks ago. DR.. Han
slicks says that "sirce her Italian con-
version her vocalism and her action have
gained i'll freedom and artistic polish:
phlegmatic and superficial she has re-
mained, as in her best Tlemel period"
The empress of Austria, who has
lately been known as an accomplished
horsewoman and the fame of whose
hunting exploits has reached around the
world, is now said to be poet as well.
She has ordered..a printing press, it is re-
ported, not too great to warrant its work
Ing by one-empress power, and is learn
ing to set type in order to print her own
poems.
THE domestic arrangements of Wag-
ner and Bnlow, the pianist, have always
been regarded as very curious. Divorce
IN Meluingen seems to be easier than iii
even Indiana, and Herr Won Bulow now
desires to marry his former wife, Wag-
ners widow, who is understood to he as
w.llin' as Barkis, and the present Frau
Won Bulow is quite as ready to be di-
vorced and 80 free both her husband and
herself from existing ties.
LADIES of rank in the last century did
not know how to spell very well. Lady
Strafford wrote OF the death-struggle of
her favorite dog, "poor charming Fubs,
as follows: Gas 1t leved soc it dyed,
full of lov leening It's head iu my bosom,
never otercd to snap at anybody in its
horrid torter but nussle its head to us
and loock earnestly upon me and Sue,
whoe cryed for thre days as if it had been
for childe or husband"
The Countess Mastai- Ferretti recent
II sold at public auction in Rome, after
liberal advertising by means of pacards,
number OF relics of her uncle, the late
Pope Plus TX. Tho collection com.
prised many pairs of slippers cmbroid-
cred with crosses, watches snuff.iroxes
and other articles Of use and ornamental
ton, some OF which were gifts from
kings and mobiles. The genulneness of
every article was guaranteed by the Car
dinal-Yicar Raphael Monaco La Val
letta.
Aida JOHNSON, who at the age of l2
years married man of 81, employed on
her mothers farm, in Southbury, Conn.,,
was granted divorce at New Haven
last week, johnson not opposing, he
having been placed in Jail on the charge
of seduction, and having been promised
his liberty, as is asserted, on condition
that he would not oppose the appl1ca-
ton for divorce. The child wife ap.
peared in court daintily dressed, aud
looking to be about II years of age.
Mrs. ANNA ELIZA BRAY, IN her will,
leaves the sum of e3 900 for the purpose
OF publishing her autobiography and
certain of her works, under tue editor
ship of her great nephew, John Arrow
kempe. An edition OF l, 900 copies is to
be published. Messrs. Chapn an & Hall
have been entrusted with the bringing
out of these works. Mrs. Bray has be.
queathed to the British Museum the
original drawings by Chas. Alfred Stoth-
ard tor the engravlngs published in the
Monumental Efligies of Great Britain. -
The difficulty of obtaining education
for girls in Hong Kong is shown by the
following paragraph from an official re-
port: "As a curious illustration of the
continued prevalence OF kidnapping
practices in Hong Kong, 1 may mention
that [ noticed in 1882, several cases in
which Chinese girls, living at great
distance from school and having to
traverse on their way to and from school
the mosv crowded portion Of the town,
were dressed like boys aud attended, ali
through the year, the girls schools in
boys dresses.
Diamond Cut Diamond.
From the n. Y. SUM-