Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-10-06

TIE WOMEN WORLD.

A female member of the South London
tricycle. Ciuo has ridden 1l3 miles II l53
hours.
Miss Agnes Allyn has been elected by
the city government of Holyoke as Com
missioner OF the Whiting Street Fund, to
succeed Mrs. Scebbins.
Mrs. Gladstone, whom Disraeli once de-
scribed as 1.-the woman without single
redeeming vice" devotes her life to the
suffering and the poor, who are her special
charge.
Miss Ollie Ashbaugh, of Columbus, Neb.,
is dentist; and Ann J. Norris, late Of
ate of the Unitarian Church at North
Platte, Neb.
The first woman to arrive in Carbonate,
Col, received an ovation, marked by such
substantial tokens of welcome as town
lot, mining claim, aud the money with
which to buy silk dress and yet women
think they are not appreciated.
The Oldest woman in the country has
just died-sgain; Mrs, Mary Lynch, of
Scranton, Pa, who was 10, having been
born in IVA She was married in 1900,
hsd eight children, retained her faculties
to the last, never used glasses, etc.
At a recent wedding in Canton, Mo-, the
parson closed the ceremony with the sen.
tence, ''Waom God hath joined together
let no man put asunder, when an aged
woman exclaimed, with great earnestness,
"Or no woman either, for they re just as
bad as the men,"
One of the ladies who petitioned the
New Hampshire Legislature in favor of
woman suffrage lives in Concord and pays
a tax of over 50 000 Women in Dover
pay taxes on property worth over a mill
ion of dollars, but of course they are not
entitled to have anything to say about
methods of taxation.
Miss Susan E. Dickinson, a sister of
Anna Dickinson, is one of the best journal
istic contri butors of the day. Miss Dick
inson furnishes large amount of editorial
work, and by means of this impersonal style
her name is not connected. with much OF
her best work that is appearing in the
leading newspapers in New Y ork and else.
where.
Brave Mary Trainer was a Pittsburg
servant girl who saw little child belong
ing to the family for which she worked
playing on the track in front of an express
train, ran and picked it up, was herself
struck by the engine, but at the instant
threw it so that it was picked up unhurt
The girl was frightfully mangled, and died
after two hours of agony.
Ellen Baker, the accomplished daughter
of Sir Samuel Baker, the explorer, COM
mitted suicide afew days ago, at her fathers
residence at Newton Abbey, Devonshire.
The young lady had Joined the Order of
Sisters of Mercy, and so overtaxed her
strength in ministering to the poor in Lon
don that her health broke down and her
mind gave way. A tendency to suicidal
mania has existed in the family, an uncle
of the unfortunate Ellen having not long
ago taken his own life.
Signorina Lidia Poet, an italian lady.
has been admitted to the dignity of Doctor
Of Laws, and has asked to be called to the
bar in Turin. The application has been
acceded to by thsOrder of Advocates with
great courtesy and appreciation, but not
without dissent, two eminent Advocates,
Chiaves and Spantigati, having withdrawn
from the Council in consequence of the in
novation. Their friend and brother Advo-
cate, D Arcais, has, however, attempted to
convert them, and has addressed long
letter on the subject to a leading Italian
Journal.
A lady entered ticket Office in Toledo
and bought ticket for Milwaukee She
told the ticket seller she had never trav-
eled alone, and that her husband had al
ways told her that she could not without
trouble. She desired to disprove this. Ac-
cordingly she asked for all the information
as to the departure of her train, the change
of cars in Chicago checking baggage, etc,
and went from the ticket office smiling at
the manner in which she would surprise
her husband. A few minutes later the
ticket seller found on the counter the
ticket he had sold her, with the change.