The Osceola times., 1888-02-25
ITEMS ABOUT WOMEN.

Mrs. MACE ~ distributed more than
$2o.O 900 at Christmas among the poor
Of London ahd Paris.
Miss LoUDrE HEUsrIs. an Alabama
girl now studying art in Paris, ranks
first in . class of three hundred stu-
| dents.
Mrs HENRY WARD BEEcHER has
given the Soldiers Home at Leaven-
worth 1000 books from her husbands
library.
Mrs HARRIET PFECHER STOWE, in
spite OF her advanced age, is fond of
outdoor exercise. and walks from five
to seven miles daily.
QUEEN VICTORIA will use the
Jubilee Fund TO found and main.
tain training-school for muses. ~ the
sick poor In their own homes.
Mss EMILY S BouToN. in the To-
iedo Blade advocates, under the title
of Health and Beauty" thu establish
ment of gymnasiums for girh
Mrs VIRGINIA HANSON has been re-
elected State Librarian by the Ken
lucky Legislature. This is her third
term. and it is said the State never
had a better librarian
Mrs. zERELDA Il. WALLACE will
make lecture tour in Maine next
May, by invitation OF the W. c. I. u.
of that State. She may also visit Ver-
mont and Massachusetts.
Miss VARINA A. DAVIS, Jefferson
Davis daughter. writes of "serpent
Myths" in the February North am
erican Recfcw. showing incidentally
how the remains of the ancestral SER
pent worship still persist among the
negroes of the South.
MRS. FRANCES HonGsoN BURNETT 10
installed with her two boys at the Villa
Trollope, in Florence. This villa was
built by Mrs. Trollope, Anthony Trol.
lope's mother with money earned by
her pen. 1t Is now boarding. house
kept by an American lady
Mrs ELIZA CHArrELL PORTER who
died the otherday ut the age of eighty,
IS sincerely monrncd in Chicago, She
taught the first school IN that city,
and her husband, DR.. Jeremiah Porter,
, preach 1 the first sermon. Both
rendered heroic service during the
war, he as chaplain aud she as nurse
1t was said of her that she closed the
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 lie; gle in New York
a portfolio of her WORK was exhibited.
1t consists Of statues for Litchfeld Ca
thedral. the rercdos for Edinburgh Ca
| thredal, and other ecclesiastical work,
Miss Grants portrait busts include
those of the Gu zen, Dean Stanley and
other distinguished people. H
ERMINIE SMITH. who is to be COM
meMcrated by scholarship at Vas.
sar. was, perhaps. the foremost author.
ity in this country in regard to the
aborigines. She lived for years among
the Indians. was adopted into an 1n.
dian tribe, and became thorough
lndianologist sbe received a Gov
ernment pension for service rendered
| In kef Investigations and researches
The money for the memorial scholar
ship has been raised partly by n wom-
ans club founded by Ermiuie Smith
in Jersey City. and partly by Sorosis.
PRor. MARIA MITCHELL ranks with
| Caroline Herschell these two being
the most distinguished Of women as
tronomers. Miss Herschell announced
the last of the eight comets discovered
by her in 1895, and the next comet
discovered by woman wts seen by
Maria Mitchell ia lSi7. Prof. Mitch.
ell's original observations and in
vestigations have included valuable
examinations of the nebue, 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 eghty-six. was
born in New Hampshire, and moved to
Ohio with her husband in 1880 A log
cabin was built and Il farm partly
cleared; but her husband soon died.
and Mrs. Garfield was left TO struggle
with many difficulties she faced them
hcroically, refused to send her elder
children out to work among the neigh
boring settlers, toiled with her own
hands to keep them together under her
own eye, and from her they received
the Fl st rudiments of an education