The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-04-22
Interesting Items for the Ladies'.


THE colleges of the country contain
eighteen thousand female students.
JENNIE JUNE says that slow necks are as
full dress for ladies as swallow-tails are foi
gents"
MISS EDITH INGALLS,, niece of the
eloquent Kansas Senator, is teacher in
the public schools of Louisville.
In 1850, it is asserted by court prophets,
the entire House of Lords will be bossed by
American heiresses, provided it lives as
long.
A LADY once said she could always know
when she had taken too much wine at din
ner-her husbands jokes began to seem
funny.
Mrs. JENNY LIND GoLDsCHMIDT con-
fesses that she has kept her vocal organs in
tune for twenty five years by yelling at her
children.
A PAPER has been started in Henderson,
North Carolina, with n woman at its head,
and TO which the contributors are Southern
women only.
ONE of the wives OF King Thebaw was
presented by some British officers with a
bottle Of gin, which she used to perfume
her clothing, refusing to drink it.
A RUSSIAN woman, professor OF phys
ical science, has been appointed to take
charge of that department. in the College
for Women at ST. Petersburg.
The strike in Boston factory was caused
by comic valentine. One of the girls en-
ployed sent comic valentine to the propri-
etor and was discharged for impudence.
Mrs. ANN MASON, of Patchogue, New
York, who celebrated her one hundredth
birthday anniversary few days ago, walks
daily to the postotfice, three miles from her
home.
THE women of Mexico have such beauti-
fully long and thick hair that real Ameri-
can switch is looked upon as wonderful
curiosity, A bald-headed girl was never
known in Mexico.
BLANCA DoNATIo, who short time ago
enchanted the Berlin public with her beau
tiful voice and fine foraturas, after meeting
her last engagement ut Florence has en-
tered n convent at Turin.
A YOUNG woman in San Francisco has
not spoken for seven years, although i'll full
possession of her vocal powers. The
cause of the singular freak was quarrel
with her family concerning lover.
A WOMAN named Kuenze had been sup
ported by public charity in n Silesian vii
lage for thirty years. The other day. hav-
ing fallen heir to $4,000 she gave 81, 200 TO
the village with which to build a gravel road
to a neighboring town.
WOMEN have the right TO pre-empt free
claim or homestead II quarter section of
Government land in any of the Territories,
just the same rs males have. The girl
must be II and unmarried to exercise the
privilege of taking up land.
IT is said that Mrs. G.. l.. Lorilard in
tends to follow the example of the Duchess
of Montrose in England and keep racing
stable. She has permitted the trainer to
make engagements for her hCrses under
the name of THE Locusts Stables"
A TEACHER, when trying to define the
woId SLOWLY" to her pupils, walked across
the room so slowly that she wabbled in her
gait, and then asked. How did | Walk" A
big boy in the back part of the room par
alyzed her by hurting out, "Bow-legged,
ma am"
Eco sociables" are now prevalent in
Kingston, n Y. Every young lady brings
an egg along, writing her name on it. Each
young man draws one of these eggs out of
a bag. and must act as an escort for the
young lady whose name is inscribed on the
egg he draws.
Mrs. ]. r. SHoFFEEER, of Greensboro,
n. c., having recently given birth to twin
boys, making eleven boys, In all, in her fam
lily, the North state has put her on It's free
list, and offers the same premium to every
daughter of Guilford County who presents
her husband with male twins"
The late Mrs. George Bancroft, who
died at the age of eighty-two, was the
daughter of John Davis, first Judge of the
United States Court for the District of Mass
achuset;s, appointed by President Wash
ington. Her first husband was Mr.. Bliss,
the law partner of Daniel Webster.
LADY ANNE BLUNT, the granddaughter
of Byron, is one of the cleyerest women in
England. She is an author, an adept in
music and painting, a student of Oriental
politics, a scholar capable of writing to
her Ceylon friends in their own language,
the capable manager of her beautiful home,
Crabbet Park, and the teacher of her only
daughter.
Mrs. ELLA OFFUL KEAN, whom JOAQUIN
Miller pronounced the most beautiful
woman he had seen in any cline, is de-
scribed as tall and stylish, and bright and
agreeable in manner. Her eyes are dark
brown, and her hair golden tint. Her
complexion is clear cream, and her feat
ures are classic and slightly aquiline.
Mrs. GEORGE II. PENDLEToN is cred
tied with leveling at Oscar Wilde one of
the keenest shafts of wit of which he was
the target when visiting this country. He
had remarked, disparagingly, that Amer
lea has no ruins and noted curiosities. you
know" She is said to have retorted: THE
ruins will come in time, and as for the GU
riosties we import them"
THE fame of Nine. lie Bruins famous
Greek supper spread all over Paris. The
King was told that the supper cost twenty
thousand francs. The sum was swelled to
forty thousand by the time the story reach
ed Rome. Nine. lie Brun writes: AT
Vienna the Baroness de Strogonoff told me
that / had spent sixty thousand francs Tor
my Greek supper; at st. Petersburg the
price was fixed at eighty thousand francs,
and the truth is that supper cost me about
fifteen francs.
THE famous diamond, the Kohinoor,
which Queen Victoria wears on great occa-
sions, belonged TO an Indian Prince, but
was appropriated by the English during
the Indian mutiny of 1857. Mr.. Dhuleep
Singh, whose property the Kohinoor was
before the English seized it, now demands
its restoration. He wrote to Lord Sails
bury on the matter shortly before the lat
ters resignation from office, and received
in reply note in which Salisbury refused
10 discuss such chimerical nonsense"
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