Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1888-07-28
THIS AND THAT.


to Europe to pursue her literary studies.
Why is button fastening like an old maids
wedding? Because it never comes off, FIX.
Queen Victoria has given f70 600, the remain
der of the women's jubilee offering, to st. Cathe-
rines training hospital for nurses for the London
poor.
The King of Sweden, who has been visiting
London of late has but two subjects upon which he
cares to talk. One is music, the other is his
dyspepsia.
Mrs. Cleveland wears new Gainsborough hat
in her afternoon drives trimmed with white
ostrich tips and with white curled brim. 1t is
extremely becoming. With it she wears simple
dress of white muslin.
Mrs. Livermore has been appointed by Gov
Ames as one of the representatives of the Com
monwealth of Massachusetts, at the annual meet
ing of the National Prison association the sessions
of which are to be held in Boston, from July 18th
to July 10Th.
Mr.. Gladstone recently sed wish that
life and strength might long be spared to him in
order that he might first settle the Irish question,
and, second, convince his countrymen of the sub
stantial identity between the theology of Homer
and that of the Old Testament.
The Washington Critic chronicles the marriage
of Miss Lizzie Brown, of the Nautical Almanac
office, to Mr.. Arthur P. Davis. Miss Brown is
known as one of the most expert mathematcians
IN this country AS such the proof of Prof. How
ard Cores "Geodesy' and Professor Newcombs
''Calculuso were submitted for her examination.
: Woman's Tribune.
Mrs. c. A. Durham, the superintendent of
scientific instruction for the Iowa w. G. 7. IT,,
writes to the Iowa Messenger that the publishers
of the text book in physiology, which was most
disapproved by the W. c. T. T., have asked Mrs.
Mary H. Hunt, as other publishers have done, to
revise their work and make it satisfactory to the
union [Woman's Tribune.
Said little one ''Mamma only ordered one
new baby but when the doctor came he brought
two, and they were so much alike, and so pretty
and sweet, that mamma didn't know which to
choose, so she kept them both. When papa saw
them he called them by George and Lord
Harry but when they were christened, the minis
ter left off BY and Lord, which was much nicer.
Don't you think sop
Women are learning the value of the "still
hunt in politics. The W. G. L. T., of Osgood,
Indiana, nominated town ticket for the recent
election of town officers, and had it printed.
The tickets were distributed election day without
the voters knowing their origin. 1t suited the
moral element exactly, the opposition ticket being
headed by two saloon keepers. The race for the
most part, was to secure a law and order marshal.
The women's ticket was the winner, but the ladies
were so quiet over their victory that the county
did not know anything about it for several weeks.
: Woman's Journal.
Mrs. Livermore is engaged usually year in
advance to deliver an address at some one of the
Fourth of July celebrations in Massachusetts.
This year she went to Lake Pleasant, three or four
miles from Greenfield. The letter of invitation
ran like this: "The ladies desire you to tell them
about the Women's international Suffrage Coun-
Gil, recently held in Washington, D. G. They
wish also to hear you on thesubect of the gains of
women during the last fftV wears in education, re-