The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1886-11-07
WOMEN OF THE WORLD.

Ellen Terry wears an Indian hick
stone" whenever she facesa new audience.
A native of India presented it some years
ago to the Prince of Wales, who in turn
gave it to its present owner.
Little May Csdman, Mrs. Cleveland's
cousin, makes the White House glad with
childish laughter If Dame Rumor is to
be believed, the President will not long
have to depend on outsiders for that kind
of music,
Queen Christina of Spain has won for
herself the enthusiasm of the people by
pardoning Villa Campo and his comrades
and wipiug out Cuban slavery SNe is no
longer the Austrian woman to. them, but
their monarch's mother.
The poor little children of Madagascar
have no songs. "Old Mother Hubbard
is tabooed. and the kind hearted American
who translated the lingo for them was
ground that no such person ever existed
To,cn Topics is authority for the report
that Msdame Nilsson has broken her MARI
riage engagement to Count Miranda on
account of his gambling proclivities. The
description of FER nuptials weeks ago APP
pears to, have been little premature.
Of the !, 1000 students from the Liverpool
region examined in science and art at
South Kensington more than 200 were
women. Two young girls passed in mag
.netism and electricity, twelve in inorganic
chemistry and two in agriculture. One
woman who passed the elementary exam
ina ion in machine construction and draw
ing last year was again successful In
more advanced stage of the same subject.
Among the speakers announced to adj
dress lie Woman Suffrage Association of
Indiana, which holds its twenty-sixth
meeting at Richmond this month, are
Lucy Sion9, Mary E, Haggart. Henry b.
Blackwell and Others. Important work
viii be planned for tbe coming year and
systematic methods mapped out Tor pre-
seni9g womau's claims to the next Legs
latuye.
Mrs Elizabeth Cady Stanton, having
completed her. labOrs as joint edtress Of
tne Woman Suffrage Hisioly viii now,
1og4ther with her daughter, devote her
attention 10 me Womeas Bible. IL is ex
pecied thai this work viii be ready forlhe
pub &c nexl summer Tnen the women of
the world viii know whether or not their
sex has been fairy dealt with by male
readers translators and Interpreters.
z The perseverance OF woman, one woman
at least is exemplied by Mrs. Sarah E.
Howe the founder of the notorious Wo
M ms Bank in Boston. She has jast been
released, after serving her three years
term OF Imprisonment, has revived the de-
funct.a bank and, according TO Boston pa
pers, is dong larger business tdan ever.
Depositoss are promised elgnt p recent
per month interest on deposits, payable in
advance every three months What is to
become OF the principal is not so clear.
The English Women's Suffrage Society
had lis annual meeting in London the
other day, aud everybody was in high
spirits. Since the last great extension of
the suffrage in England, it is argued, the
ground has been cut away from under The
feet of their opponents; it is absurd to
talk about The unfitness of women for
political privileges when an act of Parlia-
ment has made capable citizen of every
adult male person The English women
showed that they understa and aud are in
teTested in politics at the last and the
present general elections, and more than
all that, majority of the Conservatives
and Gladston,an Liberals elected to the
new House are said to be in favor of the
suffrage of women. Affairs are brighten
ing.
DR.. NORM, French physician, in his
new work on the hygienics of beauty,
makes a dead set against earrings. In
numbers of cases he has known erysipelas
to proceed from their use. The idea that
they are good for weak eyes he quite dis
poses of. 1t is possible, he says, that in
cases of inflamed eyes they might act as a
counter irritant, buff they didthey would
make The lobe of the ear, which, not being
rich in blood vessels, has little recupera-
tive vitality, in state of permanent ulcer
alton. There is no surer test of good or
bad constitution than the state of an ear
which has been pierced and exposed TO
the irritation of heavy earrings. If the
lobes keep red and swollen, they proclaim
bad blood and scrofulous tendencies.