Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1888-03-15
ITEMS ABOUT WOMEN.

Mrs. MACKAY distributed more than
$40, 900 at Christmas among the poor
of London and Paris.e
MISS LouDIE HEUsTIs, ali 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 BEECHER 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 y to found and main
tain training-school for nurses OF the
sick poor in their own homes.
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 better librarian.
MRS ZERELDA e. WALLACE will
make a lecture tour in Maine next
May, by invitation of the W. c. L. U.
of that State. She may also visit YER
mont and Massachusetts,.
Miss VARINA A. DAVIS, Jefferson
Davis daughter, writes of "Serpent
Myths" in the February North am
erican ReUieao. showing incidentally
how the remains of the ancestral SER
pent worship still persist among the
negroes of the South.
Mrs. FRANCES HoDGsoN BURNETT is
installed with her two boys at the Villa
Trollope, in Florence. This villawas
built by Mrs. Trollope, Anthony Troll
lope's mother, with money earned by
her pen. 1t is now clearinghouse
kept by an American lady.
Mrs. ELIZA CHAPPELL PORTER, who
died the otherday at the age of eighty,
is sincerely mourned in Chicago. She
taught the first school in that city,
and her husband, DR.. jeremiah Porter,
preached the first. sermon. ~ Both
rendered heroic service during the
war, he as chaplain ndashe as nurse.
1t was said of her that she closed the
eyes of more than 1890 soldiers Of
both armies.
ERMINIE SMITH, who is to be COM
memorated by a scholarship at Vas
sar, was, perhaps, the foremost author
ity in this country in regard to tho
aborigines. She lived for years among
the Indians, was adopted into an In
dian tribe, and became thorough
Indianologist. She received a Gov
eminent pension for service rendered
in her Investigations and researches.
The money for the memorial scholar
ship has been raised partly by wom-
ans club founded by Ermiuie Smith
in Jersey City, and p artly by Sorosis.
PRoF. 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 a woman was seen by
Maria Mitchell in 1S47. Prot. Mitch
ellis original observations and in
yestigations have included valuable
examinations of the nebul@, 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 husband in 1880 A log
cabin was built and farm partly
cleared; but her husband soon died,
and Mrs. Garfield was left to struggle
with many difficulties. She faced them
heroically. 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 first rudiments of an education.