The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-18
General News Notes.


INDIAEA.-A patent has been Issued to
Margaret Chilcot, Auburn, for combined
ironing table and clothes holder.-Clara
Badgeley of Terre Haute has been commls-
stoned Notary Public.
GEoReIA.-With reference to the work of
women clerks in the Legislature, Gov. Nc.
an equal number of bills 30 free from errors
and defects"
NKw YoRK.-A catalogue received an
nounces that Mary l.. Benson, bookseller
and literary agent, Knickerbocke- Building,
New York, sells books, stationary, ETC., at
low rates, and furnishes translations, com.
pilations and original articles by competent
writers upon short notice.-It has been de-
cided by Chief Justice McAdam that veri-
hcation certified by woman notary public,
properly appointed and confirmed, is valid.
The claim was made that woman is ineligi.
bic to public Office.
ILLINoIs.-Mrs. Elizabeth Boynton Har-
bert, Mrs Helen E. Starrett and others have
organized society ca led The Silent Mn
istry." Its purpose is t. find, encourage and
aid the sensitive, refined poor, whose suffer
ing is not reached by the ordinary forms of
charity.-At the last meeting OF the Cook
County Woman Suffrage Society, on Jan. 8,
Mrs. Harbert read her excellent paper on
THE Craftsmanship OF Women" and Mrs.
three selections. The Society pledged itself
to support Mrs. Harbeyts, monthly the New
Era" formerly "Our Herald"
OHIo-Mrs. Sarah M. Kimball started the
Western Reserve School of Design, in Cleve-
lsnd. Monthly receptions are given by the
hundred or more founders who gave 800
each. 1t was originally intended for women
only, but several young men have bsen ad-
mitted, and there are now over fifty pupils.
Mrs. Harriet ]. Kestoe, of the Philadelphia
School Of Design, is the princir al.-Mrs. w.
A. Ingham. of Cleveland, o.. one of the
founders OF the National w. @. 7. o., and of
the Western Reserve School of Design for
Women, has been appinted secretary of the
North Ohio Branch of the Woman's National
Indian Association, using her influence with
the press of the State in their behalf. She
has also been made journalistic secretary OF
the Woman's Home Mission Society of the
Methodist Church, Mrs. Z. B. Hayes presi-
dent, bringing it before ten papers. She is
an efficient, cultivated, and earnest woman.
w. G. T. U.-Not less than 1000 OF the
1900 papers published in the United States,
had last year some form of Temperance De-
partment, conducted by the w. c. T. u
Two papers are published by the w. G. 7. u.
women in Canada The Telephone by Mrs. j.
S. Cowis, Moncton, N. B., and The Woman's
Journal, by Mrs. Chisholm, Ottawa, Ontario
HEDUcATIoNAL.-It is expected that the
Presidency of Girton College will be offered
10 Mrs. Fawcett, the widow of tbs Post
master-General OF Great Britain.-Tne Board
OF Trustees OF the Columbian University OF
Washington has decided to admit women TO
the study Of medicine in that institution
with all the privileges of instruction &C
corded male studeuts.-Lasseii Seminary.
which teaches the use of the hands, having
Lessons in cooking, dressmaking, millinery,
ETC., is now to have large gymnasium added
to its other sdvantages.-Tne young women
carry off nearly all the FIRST honors in this
years art examinations st McGill University
10 Montreal.-The Association of Collegiate
Alumni has 35s members representing