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the Business W0mdR's Journal, Is about
10 start business college for women.
Mrs u. s Grant is rarely seen ont.
side the family circle Her eyesight
has become very poor and her health is
somewhat broken.
Miss Jane Bancroft, Ph D., has been
elected to the chair of history in the
Wesleyan University, at Delaware.
Ohio, with salary equal to that Of the
male professors.
Miss Matilda Mclaughlin, of st Louis,
has been appointed a notary public by
Governor Francis. Her business is de-
scribed in the application as that of
conveyancer and stenographer.
Margaret Fuller possessed the power
Of so magnetizing others by her power
of mind that they would lay open TO
her all the secrets of their nature She
longed 10 understand the inward springs
of thought and action in their souls
The inhabitants of the little town Of
Kniazeff, in Russia, have elected
woman to the post of starosta, or mayor,
on the sensible ground that she was the
person most fitted to be intrusted with
the interests of the community.
A committee of six women of the
Boston Browning Society has been ap-
pointed TO compile book of quotations
from Browning's poetry. It is intended
TO be more than the usual phrase hook
indeed, il will be more like an abridged
concordance.
Mrs Theodore Irving, the founder of
Al - A..
Daughters, is the widow of nephew
of Washington Irving. The order was
instituted IL years ago in ID ctor Irv-
ing's school in Canada, the badge being
a little silver cross and tie motto In
His Name The present membership
Is reckoned l,y hundreds of thousands.
The Supreme Court of Minnesota has
made a decision FOR which ii deserves
the thanks of women 1t il that photo
graphs are the property OF the persons
who sat for them This decision was
reached after years litigation growing
out of suits against tobacconists and
others who have procured pictures Of
well known women without permission,
and use them as trade marks
Miss + NJ. Meyrick, the student and
medalst Of tie Royal Academy, who
was Commissioned to paint the portrait
of Stanley for the Royal Geographical
Society. complains that The African ex.
p.orer proved the worst of si.terS He
could not keep still, and when she was
at work on specially difficult feature,
he would da.h about the room with his
hands in his poe .ets. debating to tine
mir some recollection which he feared 10
forget
Mrs. Mars CIeary Duncreaux Is not
only president of the New York Screw
Manu- actory, but a practical working
mechanic. who inspocts all the output Of
her establishment, and Who can turn
out FIRST class cabinet crews, gun screws,
watch screws. aud machine screws She
has been in the business for IL years, and
maintains, as the result OF her own ex-
perience, that girls have quite as much
ingenuity and manual dexterity as boys,
and lack training only. and not capacity.
TO become as good mechanics.
When Mrs Henry Ward Beecher went
out as bride to her husbands first par-
sh in I.awrenceburg Ind, the young
couple began housekeeping in small
domicile Of two rooms over a stable.
costing them $40 a year, and she sold
some of her wedding fineries to he lp fur
nish this bare abode. One cold room Of
barn like buildingseryed as the church.
and on Saturday afternoon il was Mrs,
Beechers part to sweep and dust il, and
| fill the lard oil lamps, While tie minister
chopped the wood. cut the kindlings,
and laid the fires
Not all society girls eat the bread OF
idleness Miss Mildred Conway, only
daughter of that favorite writer, Mon
cure ID. Conway. assists her father in his
literary work. plays the piano like q
professional performer, has so much
dramatic ability as to have procured her
good offers from theatrical managers,
and is one Of the most faithful and zeal
Gus workersin the successful College Set
Element" in Rivington street. while. in
addition to her gift of cleverness, her
fairy godmother gave her gyspy like
beauty and a charming voice.
Miss Grace Howard. daughter Of Jo-
seph Howard. Jr.. has gone back to her
work among the Indians at Crow Greek
Agency, in South Dakota. Miss Howard
has grant Of eighty acres Of land from
the government, aud has ten Indian girls
living in the house with her. Her idea
seems to be in the line OF industrial
work. She says. The girls who return
from Hampton Institute have learned
some of the ways of civilization, bub
there is absolutely no incentive for them
to go on with the new life they have be-
gun. For the Indian boy there ID
always the farm. bat for the girl there Is
nothing. Housekeeping in Sioux cabin
is too simple TO furnish much occupar
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