The Osceola times., 1883-05-26
FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN.

| Alabama mas f,fZf more women thaE
men.
Fanny Davenport will summer on her
| farm at Canton, Pa.
| The widow ofBeniamin Watkins Leigh
/ formerly United States Senator from Nir-
ginia, died in New York, aged 81 years.
The Queen has intimated that she
will opeL the Universal Fisheries Exhi-
bition, even If unable TO walk at the
time of the opening.
Chepeta, the widow of the famous
chief, Ouray, has married White River
Ute, who is said TO wear the extraordi-
nary name of Toomuchag1t.
The Princess Louise, finding some
children playing marbles in the hallway
of the Brunswick, the other day, stopped
down and taught them a new game.
A Tallahassee lady of uncommon
nerve appeared at an evening party re-
Gently wearing live spiders, chameleons,
beetles and fire-ilies in her hair and on
her dress.
Mrs. Helen NJ. Cougar will at once re-
enter the lecture field. She will speak
at Decatur, Mich. April "a Subject
The Liquor League vs. the Women of
the Nation"
Grace Greenwood writes from Paris
that the average American dressmaker
is more clever than the women of that
calling in France, which no doubt is
true, as the best dressmakers of Paris
are men.
At Sarah Bernhardt's tea the other
day, a certain Count y appeared with
his arm in sling, having wounded him
self while out shooting. Really ?"
quoth the sympathetic Sarah, $50 there
was no other game ?"
"What is lady's sphere?" asked the
principal of a public school on examina-
ton day. And a little red-headed ur-
chin in the corner squeaked, mice p
In the dreadful confusion that followed
the freckle-faced fiend escaped.
The Rev. Miss Anna Oliver, who re-
signed from the Willoughby Avenue
Methodist Episcopal Church, Brooklyn,
l.. l., has sold the church edifce, which
was held in her name, to the First Re
formed Presbyterian Church for $4,000.
At the grand fete to be given at the
Opera House, Paris, on the 9th of April,
it is announced that Nine Jude will
lead the orchestra. The leading operate
and dramatic artists Of the day will as
sist. AT the same benefit live zebra is
to be raflled for.
Miss Ellen II. Bailey, formerly Sccre-
tary of the "Longiellow Memorial Fund"
has been appointed Secretary of the
Country Week" Committee of the Bos-
ton Young mems Christian Union, in
place of Miss II. G. Putnam, who was
Obliged by ill-health to resign the posi-
ton.
II is said that MdlIe. Etelka Borry,
who will soon appear in this country as
n star, eats but one meal a day, walks
ten miles each day, swings Indian clubs,
toys with hundred pound dumb bells,
and boxes like prize-fighter. We
should think that Mdlle. Borry might be
quite capable of managing her manager.
The death of the Duchess de Gambia
ceres, widow and sole heiress of Napo-
leon Ills master of ceremonies, is an
nounced. The duchess, who was rs
years old, was noted for her liberality,
and only six months ago presented 500
600 francs to the School of Fine Arrs for
a second Grand Prix de Rome" for
sculpture and architecture.
Talking about the suppressed sex, we
were informed that there were $4,000
women who might have voted at the
school meetings in New Hampshire this
spring if they had seen fit, but they did
not, and the Manchester Mirror, which
knows, says that probably not more than
seventy-fve went near the polls. If
only one woman in thousand wants to
vote, why should there be any commo-
ton about female suffrage?
The richest woman in Colorado is not
bonanza princess, nor did the smallest
portion of her wealth come in any way,
either directly or indirectly, through
mining She is Mrs. John w. llilf wild
ow of the late John w. Iliff. popularity
spoken of as "the cattle king" of the
State, a man who died owning, perhaps,
twice as many herds n any other stock
man in Colorado. Considerable over
100000 was the number of cattle possess
cd by Mr.. llitf when he died.
The Douglas family, to which Lady
Florence Dixie belongs, are people OF
very sensitive organization. Her moth
er Lady Queensbury, when some years
ago her son fell down crevasse among
the Alps, where he pcrished miserably,
had n vision while walking in her gar
den at Nentnor, in which she saw him
in a deep place with an injured foot, tax
ing OIL his spring sideboot and throwing
il upward with all his strength, in order
that he might attract some one to the
hole at the bottom of which he lay. II
afterwards appeared that the day and
hour coincided with the hour at which
he was lost, and it was the finding of
such a boot that ultimately led to the
discovery of his remains.