Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-09-28
Female Freaks

Mrs. Bonanza Mackey and the
ders for Porter Rhodes $50 carat dia-
mond.
The Princess of Wales has set the
fashion of wearing natural flowers
artificially dyed to produce novel eff
fects
Louisiana colored girls make
dresses out of corn husks. Their
beaus make overcoats of corn, and
as they wear them inside it makes
their voices husky.-Oil City Biz
Zard
The number of country girls anX-
ious to learn dressmaking from a
sharper. who gathers in SIG head
and then decamps, is almost equal to
the number of girls who light fire:
with kerosene.
An Arkansas man found out
after he had married a woman
that she was widow and he had
helped to hang her first husband.
1t is presumed she married him
out of revenge-Oil City Blizzard.
The reassuring news reaches us
from st. Louis that seventeen
young women have just taken the
veil in that city. Theirs would seem
to be no other ark of safety for the
average st. Louis girl.-Clevsland
Herald
A Boston girl lost her copy of Emer-
son from the Suspension Bridge at Nj
agara last week and she cried as if
her cultured heart would break. Come
to find out, it was borrowed volume,
and she cried because she's got to pay
for it.
A lady who asserted that no one
should ever have her hand in mar
rage, except the one who should
rescue her from death, was placed
in predicament on falling into the
river and being brought to shore by a
large Newfoundland dog.-Gilhooly' S
Etchings.
There is an old lady named Brown
living in Hinton, Mich, whose hair
is turning from gray to its original
color, and she is now cutting her
third set of teeth For several years
she has had her second eyesight, and
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body.
Miss Henderson went to Pierre,
Dakota, to be married to ]. B. Scott
but Scott died before the time set.
At the funeral Miss Henderson told
the sympathizing friends that Scott
was the fourth man to whom she
had been engaged, and that all had
died before the time fixed for the
nuptials.
There lives in North Haven, Conn,
within distance of threequarters
of mile, six widows whose combined
ages amount to 542 years, an average
of 904 years apiece They are all ma
tives of the neighborhood, in indepen,
dent pecuniary circumstances, and
retain their mental faculties, to-
| together with remarkable strength
and health for their advanced
years.
1t is said that American girls who
90 abroad to study at German pen,
sions are always subjected by their
schoolmates there to a catechism in
regard to their position in America.
If their father is only kaufman,
that is, merchant who stands behind
his counter and sells goods, the daugh-
ter belongs to the second class IN so
ciety; but if he is gross kaufman,
Wholesale merchant, then she is re-
ceived into the upper stratum of Ger
man society and can associate with
the impecunious countesses and
baronesses in which that society
ahounds.
They are talking at Newport about
a we'll known and fashionable woman
who went to dinner party recently
in very decollete dress without
sleeves. The hostess, very kind SEN
sible woman, demonstrated with her,
and then she cried and went home
in towering rage. This is pretty
story, What would society do If a
man should enter dining or ball
room with his arms bare to the shoul-
der, and his shirt open from where
his suspenders cross at the back to
the third button of his vest in front!
Will some rash society woman like
the one above please answer?