The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-09-30
WonAN,s WORK AND AIMS.

Tho Queen Of Italy is organizing q
superb show of native Italian lace for
the Worlds Fair.
The Duchess of Abercorn and tho
Countess of Aberdeen have collected
70. 600 to be used in making suitable
displav ut Chicago Of the womcn's in
dlustries of Ireland.
Mira. Osborne, q widow, has cleared
5000 to So, coo yoar from her ranch
near Salt Lake City. She raises vege-
tablos. Lately she added chicken
ranch and two incubators and expects
10 clear SIC, 900 year.
Madame Jeanne Charvin has pre-
eentei herself before the faculty of the
University OF Paris as u candidate for
the degree of doctor OF laws. Her
thesis will treat of the professions open
to womoa, rad the historic evolution OF
tho position of women in society.
Mrs. Rosa Holuh, who shared tho
tiri!.inC experiences of her husbands
expedition TO Central Africa during four
years. bAsin ing in 1888, has been hon.
cred Ivy the Emperor Of Austria with a
sperial melal in recognition OF her
bravery and services on that memorable
journsy.
The most interesting person present
at the meeting OF Black Hawk survivors
n. Froaport, H., WAS Mrs. William Lew
horn. OF Lena, Ill She was in the fort
et Apple i:iyer at tine time of Black
:laMks murdcrous attack, and dealt out
power and shot to the defending sol.
Cier3.
The latest work OF Miss Mary Tilling-
hast, OF New York, is the stained glass
window designed for the new Alumnm
Hall Of the Western Female Seminary,
1T Oxford, Ohio. Ii is to be presented
to the seminary by the class OF 1866,
rnd viii be sent first to the Worlds
l..ir for exhibition.
The German Empress has written to
the Minister for Education to bring in
bill forbidding young girls to enter
any museum or other show except il
the company of their teachers or parents,
as Her Majesty has noticed that the wax
work shows in Berlin often contain
things very uniting for young girls to
see.
Miss Elliot, the daughter of the late
Dean of Bristol, has given valuable
present to the Bodleian Library at Ok
ford, in the shape of twenty-five vol
umes of collections made by her father
for photography of all books on re-
hgious subjects from the fifteenth GEN.
tury down to 1925, arranged chrono-
logically.
Marianne North, who spent her time
and talent in painting fora Of the tropi-
cal regions of the earth, was one of the
busiest of women. In fifteen years of
travel she visited North and South Am
erica, Africa, Hindostsn, Japan, the
West Indies, and Australasia Her first
introduction to the public was through
the loan of her pictures to the South
Kensington Museum.
Miss Eliza Gordon Browning, who
belongs to family identified with tho
literary and poetical history Of Indiana,
has been elected librarian Of the Public
Library of indianapolis. She became
an employe of the library twelve years
ago, and for years was the assistant
librarian. The institution-a large cir
culating library with full corps Of as
sistants-is soon to be removed to fine
new building now being erected.
Mrs. Phebe Taber Willets, Of Roslyn,
Long Island, has been for some years a
practical stockraiser. She has fine
herd of Guernsey cattle, and some eX-
cellent trotting stock, bred under her
own supervision. Starting at first with
butter making, she turned her attention
to the breeding and raising of cows.
The result of her lsbors is one Of the
finest herds on Long Island, and first
class butter, bringing fifty cents per
pound.