The Arizona champion., 1891-02-14

 grapes are mounted as sleeve links, with a gold chain connecting the fruit, or set in diamond hoop, or with diamond ten drils for brooches.-New York Commer- cial Advertiser.
 A woman at Jonesboro. Me, goes on record as the champion "home body" She has just visited the home of her childhood for the first time since her marriage, thirty years ago. although she has lived during this time only one mile distant, and has always been in perfect harmony with the families there. She says she never had time to go before without neglecting her duties.
 Two ladies of Santa Clara are given the credit of putting up some of the handsomest packages of canned fruit in the California market. Their ranch comprises 200 acres, planted to fruits of the choicest varieties. They employ only women. This is their first season, and their output of 6,OO0 cases of two dozen two and half pound cans each found quick market.
 Mrs. Lease, the woman orator for the Kansas farmers, did not come down from the stump when the election was over. She is still making speeches for the embattled farmers, and says she will not let up until the senatorial question is settled. During the recent campaign Mrs. Lease made as many as four speeches a day, and one day she made two before breakfast.
 The first Indian woman who has taken a doctors degree is Susan La Fjetche, who has received her diploma from the Woman's Medical college, in Philadel- phia. Her parents reside in Nebraska. Having passed through the Indian school, in Hampton, she received the as- sistance of the Indian association, in Connecticut, to continue her medical studies.
 Mrs. N. E. Bragg, president of the Ladies' Auxiliary, recently laid the cor nerstone of the new Y. NJ. c. A. build ing at Bangor, Me. Of the $40,0 900 so far paid in on the building fund the women of Bangor have given SIS, 500, and it is to be hoped that young women will share with young men the advan- tages of the building when completed.
 Mrs. Olive Washburn, of San Fran cisco, is about to devote the bulk of her fortune to founding a Nationalist col ony in California. Belamy's Looking Backward theories are to be followed, and all people of good moral character will be admitted, irrespective of religious belief. Over $100,00O will be spent in buildings and improvements.
 Instead of wintering at Corfu, as was her original intention, it is very likely that the empress of Austria will go to the West Indies in few weeks, in which case she will probably cruise on this side of the Atlantic during the greater DOT tion of next year. The empress has con- ceived wish to visit Cuba, Jamaica and Mexico.
 One of the three daughters of John D. Rockefeller, while student at Vassar, had handsome allowance in the way of money from home. Instead of spending this on rich gowns and apartments she paid for two years the tuition and ex- penses of a girl from the country who was not able to pay them herself.
 For lovers of condiments and highly spiced dishes it is simple thing to work up French dressing into an entirely different article by adding pinch of celery sauce, dish of curry, or horse radish, few drops of caper or Worces- tershire sauce and spoonful of French mustard.
 Story for Newspaper Men.
 Newspaper men everywhere will appre- ciate the point of a stOryithat is told by Chicago people about W. E. Curtis, the well known correspondent, who was sec retary and afterward a member of the South American commission. It seems that Curtis we.il to Europe some time ago for The Chicago News, with the special mission of investigating and writing up Anarchy. Nihilism and other kindred af- fiictions of the Old World mOnarchies. When he came back his material was put Al