Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1888-02-23
ITEMS BOUT womsn

Mks MACEAV distributed more than
81. O0O at Christmas among the poor
ofLondon and Paris.
Miss LouDIE HEUsrIs. AZ Alabama
girl now studying art in Paris. ranks
first in q class Of three hundred stu
dents.
MRs HENRY WARD BEECHER has
given the Soldiers Home at Leayen-
worth 1000 books from her husbands
library.
Mas HARRIET BEEcHER STOWE. in
spite q her advanced agp. j. fond Of
outdoor exercise. anl walks from five
to seven miles daily.
QUEEN VICTORIA will use the
Jubilee Fund to found and MAIN
tain a training-school for nurses OF the
sick poor in their own homes.
Miss EMILY ; BoUroS. in the To-
ledo Biate. advocates. undeg the title
Of Health and Beauty. ths establish
ment of gymnasiums for girls
Mrs VIRGINIA Hanson has bten re-
elected State Librarian by the Ken
lucky Legislature. This is her third
term. and e Is said the State never
had a better librarian.
MRs. ZERELDA G.. WALLACE will
make a lecture tour in Maine next
May. by invitation Of the ". C. I. L.
Of that State. She may also visit YER
mont aud Massachusetts,.
Miss VARrNA 4 DAVIS. jefferson
Davis daughter. writes Of serpent
Myths in the February North Am-
ericaH ReuteC. showing incidentally
how the remains Of the ancestral SER
pent worship still persist among the
negroes Of the South
Mrs FRANCES HonGsoS BURNETT is
installed with her two boys at the Villa
Trollope, in Florence. This villa was
built by Mrs. Trollope. Anthony Troll
lope's mother. with money earned by
her pen. 1t is now 4 clearinghouse
kept by an American lady.
Mis- ELIZA CHAPFELL PORTER. who
died the o~therddy at the age Of eighty.
is sincerely mourne,i in Chicago. She
taught the first school in that city.
and her husband. DR.. Jeremiah Porter.
prea,h d the first Both
rendered heroic service during the
war. be a. chaplain aud she n nurse.
II was said Of her that she closed tho
eyes of more than 1900 soldiers Of
both armies.
Miss MARY GRANT. the English
sculptor. is now visiting this country.
and at the exhibition Of drawings by
the Architectural L. CUE in New York
a portfolio of her wor was exhibited.
II consists of statues for Litchlield Ca
thedral. the retcdos for Edinburgh Ca
thredal. anil other ecclesiastical work.
MS Grants portrait busts include
tho's of the QIsar Pr Il, ,ranrry aid
other distinguished people.
ERNENfE SMITH. who Is to be com
memorated 10y a scholarship at VAS
sar. was, perhaps. the foremost author
lty in this country in regard TO the
aborigines. She lived for wears among
the Indians. was adopted into an In-
dian tribe. and became a thorough
iRlianologist. She received a Gov
eminent pension for service rendered
IN her Investigations and researches
h money for the memorial scholar
ship has been raised partly by a wom-
ans club founded by Ermiuie Smith
in Jersey City. and partly by Sorosis.
PROF. MARIA MITCHELL ranks with
Caroline H~erseheil. these two being
the most distinguished Of women as
tronomers. Miss Hersehell announced
the last Of the eight comet discovered
BY her in 1895. and the next comet
discovered by a woman was seen by
Maria Mitchell in 1917. Prof. Mitch
ellis original observations and in
designations have included valuable
examinations of the nebu,ie. and much
work connected with the coast survey
and the compilation Of the Nautical
Almanac.
Mrs ELIZA GARFIELD. the late Presi-
dents mother. who has recently died
at Mentor. o.. aged eighty-six, was
born in New Hampshire. and moved to
Ohio with her husb1u in 1880 A loo
cabin was built aud i farm partly
cleared; but her husband soon died
and Mrs. Garfield was left to struggle
with many difficulties. she faced them
h~eroically. refused to send her elder
children out to work among the neigh
boring settlers. tailed with her own
hands to keep them together under her
W eye, and from her they received
the b st rudiments of an education