Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1892-06-18
NEWS NOTES


vices to the Salvation Army.
Hiss Nina Picton, of New York
CITY, is one Of the few successful
women composers of orchestrations.
When two rings are used at a
Wedding, the bride pays for the
groom ring and the groom Tor the
brides.
In Finland the women consider a
kiss on the lips as the greatest IN
salt even from their own husbands.
Open work scrim with ribbons
run through it max, pretty strip
for the centre OF The dinner table
With her income of 100000 a
year Mrs. William Astor ought to be
able to struggle along comfortably.
Lexington, Mo, boasts a woman
express agent, a woman manager oil
telegraph office and apostmistress.
A new dormitory for yassar ia to
be built with the $4,000 that is that
colleges share of the Fayerweather
byquest.
Rubbers of white leather are
among the old things bought by
fashionable women to wear over their
party slippers.
Give your best young man but
tonniere of nine violets if you would
have him fashionably attired as to
his button hole.
The Duchess of Marlborough now
buys her clGthes in New York. She
says the American modistes are bet
ter tan the English.
Queen Victoria has decided to
send to the Worlds Fair some speci-
mems OF her knitting and spinning,
done when size was a girl.
The late Amelia b Edwards was
woman of letters She was EMIT
led to wear Phi. NJ, l.. II D. and l..
L. d. sitter her name.
DR.. Mary p. Jacob, in New York
City, and DR.. Mary Hoxon, in Wash
in2ton, are each rcputed to earn $780,
0)O year at their protest. n
Mrs. Ingalls, is quite unlike her
distinguished hu haLd in physical
appearance, f,r she is as short and
plump as the Kansas ex Senator is
tall aud thin.
Miss A C. Ridcout, whose de
signs for sculpture at the Worlds
Fair were eyed, has just taken
the 'nLract FIR their execution, the
sum berg $4,000.
The Cos on Signals the col
ored light system of signallin. both
on land an / sea-was the invention
of Mrs. Martha j. C"ston. of Wash
ington, d. G.
More THAI 40h married women
have app led t. the Bureau ofChaii-
ties and Corrections in New York
City since the lst Of January for RS
lief for themselves and their chill
dren.
The women Of Toronto, Canada.
MT only took an active part in the
late local elections but they COM
PEELED the men to work as we'll, and
50 robbie the rims of much of their
power.
Miss Lalla Harrison. of Leesburg,
Loudon county, Va, has been Sc
lected as the most beautiful woman
in that State to represent itas rne of
the original thirteen States at the
Columbian Exposition.
The women of Cincinnati, Ohio,
have asked for separate room ia
the Woman's Building of the World
Fair, which they wish to furnish
and decorate throughout as illustra.
tive of the culture and art of that
city.
Hermann, Lane County. Oregon,
can boast of quite brave young lady
who has recently taken Up a claim
on the east Fork of Indian Greek.
Her claim is above all other settlers
and it is said she stays weeks by
herself.
1t is said that enterprising Lon
don shop-keepers employ well-dress-
ed women to stand in front of their
windows and by "ohs" and "ahs 4"
of delight attract peoples attention
to the glory of the goods inside the
windows
The jewels OF Mrs. Astor, widow
OF the multi-millionaire, who died
recently, in Paris, are probably the
finest in America. AZ times she has
appeared in public wearing precious
stones valued at between $50 900
and 100000.
The money order department of
the Pittsburg (Penn.) Postoffice is
exclusively in charge of Miss Mary
Steele, and the receipts, almost So.
100000 last year, mark it as proba-
bly, the largest business handled by
any woman in America.
Miss Howe, the woman who won
the second prize in the competition
for designs for the Woman's Build
ing in the Columbian Exposition,
was cIassmate of Miss Hayden.
who won the first prize in the Bos-
ton Institute of Technology.
EX-EmDress Fu0ania of Eronoo