Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1888-08-04
THIS AND THAT.

MIS- OdlHolu Has given 9lO,OOU 10 UdFHelu
university, Wichita, Kan.
Lucy Stone objects to hanging women until they
are condemned by a jury of their peeresses
President Cleveland is said to be very great
lover of terrapin, but Mrs. Cleveland has not been
successful in learning to eat them.
1t is observed that the widow of Kaiser William
is named Augusta, the widow of the Kaiser Fred
erck is named Victoria, and the wife of the present
Kaiser is known as Augusta Victoria.
Divorces are even easier in Germany than here
At Frankford- n-the-Main last week married
woman was pronounced the person at fault and
legally divorced because she did not know how to
cook.
The members of the National w. c. I. U. are
preparing to celebrate, in a most enthusiastic
manner the birthday of Miss Frances E. Willard,
which is near at hand, and at which time she will
be fifty years of age.
Alice French is the name of the lady who writes
SO extensively for the magazines over the sigma
ture of Octave Thanet. This writer boasts Of
Mayfower blood in her veins, and is a daughter
of Judge French Of Iowa.
A Philadelphia oculist declares that the use of
opera glasses strains the optic nerves and Injuries
the eyesight. This accounts for the near-sghted-
ness of SO many old gentlemen who go to see the
ballet Philadelphia Ledger
Collector (some years hence )-Twenty five dol
lars, please" Widow-'Why, what for?'' "Was
not your husband struck by lightning last week."
eyes, he was" II am collector for the Ameri-
can electric trust. y Omaha World
Samuel Wheelock, of Providence, advertises
that he 'wants to sell his wife for cash or exchange
her for good work horse and further warrants
her to be forty-one years old, and las good as.
the majority of church-going people,"
'sWho was the wisest man?' asked the Sunday
school teacher. "Solomon,' promptly replied
little girl. "And who was the holiest?' Moses
"Moses? What makes you think So" "Be
cause often heard papa speak of Holy Moses"
II Boston Courier.
Miss Adelaide Thompson, of Philadelphia, is
sixty or more years of age, is worth three million
dollars, and this is her twenty second season at
Long Branch, where she occupies the same rooms
at the hotel that she has had every season before,
and attracts as much attention as she did a score
of years ago.
At the Chautauqua assembly at birmingham,
Mass, Prof. Townsend few days ago warmly
advocated woman suffrage, and spoke in high
terms of the valuable service rendered by the
women of the Boston school board. His words
were received with enthusiastic applause and
general waving of handkerchiefs by the assembly.
Mrs. Matte Mcclellan Brown, vice-president of
the Cincinnati Women's College, was one of the
secretaries of the indianapolis convention, and as
such did credit to the women. Mrs. Brown is one
of the founders of the Prohibition party, and as
leader among the Good Templars, helped SOW the
seed of the present movement when most Of those
now engaged in the W. c. I. U. were not tenn
perance workers. "Gunethics," by Rev. DR..
Brown, is one of the strongest utterances on the
woman question, and shows that the doctor and
his gifted wife see eye to eye on this greatest Of
reforms.
Harriet Beecher Stowe was seventy-six years of
age on the 14th of June last. Although she has
been in delicate health for two years past, Mrs.
j.