Connecticut western news., 1889-08-07

pupils, and O complexion of milk and roses. A London writer says; Is it not sweet and nice of her to let 8 country dressmaker make her wedding gown because she had promised her, long ago, that she should? Perhaps neither of them dreamed that it would be the bridal dress of duchess.
 Mrs. Napier Higgins, author of a "History of the Women of Europe of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centur- ies,v has just been elected a member of the English Royal Society of Litera- ture. She is the first Lady Fellow of the society since the days of Miss Han nah More.
 Vassar, Wellesley, Smith, Holyoke, the Harvard Annex and Bryn Mawr have each had their commencement, and their intelligent graduates are all placed by the State among those who are unfit to be trusted with political rights; namely, children, idiots, luna tics, and felons in the prisons.
 Mrs. Harriet Prescott Spofford is a strong advocate of daily exercise for girls. She does not care so much about its nature, so long as it is taken regu- larly. She believes that it is as much the duty of parents to insist upon a certain amount of exercise for their girls, as to insist upon proper clothing.
 General Neal Dow, has daughter in Nashua, New Hampshire, who has not been able to move from her chair for years, but has been an indefatiga- ble student, and has mastered French, German, Spanish, Russian and Greek. She recently performed the feat of re- beating long passage from the Greek Testament, rerbatim, from memory, a month after she had read it. Miss Dow loses sight of her misfortunes in her love of study.
 The ''Churchman," speaking of the death of Father Damien, the leper priest, says that outside of the walls of Jerusalem is leper hospital tended by deaconesses from the German re- ligious houses. Year after year these heroic women, without pretentious- ness, without any trumpeting of their oln fn hn have waited upon lepcrs, while them selves literally dying by inches. Their courage has only came to light by the chabce notice of travellers.
 The Queen of Corea is no figure head. She belongs to one of the greatest families of the country, and it is an open secret that she has al times her voice ill councils of the king She has an establishment of her own inside the palace grounds, and the king, the crown prince, and the queen have each their separate household The queen dresses, of course, in the Corean costume. She wears fine silks and has beautiful diamonds. She car- cries chatelaine watch, which is studded with diamonds, and smokes American cigarettes by the thousand.
 The will of Hannah Lightfoot, q colorei woman, was admitted to pro- bate in Memphis, short time ago, and rcv:ves the memory of an ante-bellum incident. She was born free, and had some little property. She loved and was beloved by colored man, a slave. With great industry she added to hel savings sufficient money to enable hel 10 purchase her lovers freedom, and married him, receiving bill of sale with him, which she carefully pre- served. It is pleasant to know tha sine prospcred in the worldly way, a; she deserved, and left considerable property to her children.
 A singing competition took place recently between some hundreds o1 London working girls, representing some nine clubs. The Pall Mall Gag ette says: The evident anxiety of the gills to acluit themselves we'll in the performance of their part-songs was touching. The members of the young est of the clubs-it had only beer formed few months, and all its mem bers learned their songs after twelve hours work in sweets factory-ha( been quite sure that they would win th' prize as long as they were down a Camberwell, where their own musica performances were the only 'sswee sounds" they heard; but when they heard the members of other clubs ol Saturday Q great fear fell upon '"m and they whispered to the lady-presi dent that they would rather not sing i they might withdraw. They sang however, and professor Thomas, wht acted as judge, encouraged them greatly by kindly telling them that they prom ised very we'll.
 While in Canton I visited prisons temples, pagodas, mills, shops. duck hatchings, and everything of interest To sec the ducks I hired a boat, man
 aged by three women, and spent owe three hours on the river. I have Ina
 occasion to remark everywhere in m
 travels the decent behavior of women
 One hardly expects much in a countr