Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1892-12-02

The Puritan is a quaint little bonnet.
Passementerie trimming are more than
ever in vogue.
There are 1000 men to every 700 NO.
men in Greece.
Queen Victoria's new dining room at
Osborne cost 100000
There are seven women in the phar-
macy department of the Kansas UnlVer-
sity.
Free drawing schools for girls were
first organized in France by Rosa Bon
heur.
The costliest dresses IN the world are
said to be worn by the women OF Su-
matra.
Miss Braddon, the English novelist,
has one hobby-the collection of old
china.
Bret Hartes young daughter, Jessamy,
is taking after her father in the literary
calling.
Mrs. c. p. Huntington, of San Fran
cisco. CAL, has the costliest ruby IN this
country.
At forty-eight, the Princess of Wales
is said to look like a woman of half
those years.
OF the public school teachers IN the
United States more than sixty-hve per
cent. are women.
A beautiful bare foot is almost un-
known. We have to thank the fashion
able boot for this.
The women of to-day average two
inches more in height than they did
twenty five years ago.
Some rich new silks are woven with
steel or other metals glittering through
out, and wonderfully effective.
Mrs. E. Burd Grub has been electe d
ensign of her husbands old regiment,
the Twenty third New Jersey.
Miss Maude Stone, of Cincinnati, is to
be married. This is the young lady
after whom Maud S. was named.
The Car of Russia has granted $780,
600 for the establishment Of 2 medical
school fer women near st. Petersburg.
An American physician, Mrs. Darr, is
named as having ''buiFt up large and
profitable practice" in Dresden, Germany.
The Western Michigan Diocese has
decided that hereafter, at all vestry
meetings, women may vote for vestry-
men.
Miss Elizabeth Deering Hanscom was
among the first women to enter 7ale's
open door. she is going to study for
the Phi. D. degree.
Miss Anna Haydn Webster, the advo-
cate of Greek art in modern dress and
manner, will 60 abroad t.4is month to
spend year in Greece.
The legacies left by the late Mrs.
Emily t. Eckert, Of Philadelphia, to
charitable and religious organizations of
that city amount to $614, 900.
Rose-colored wells are suggested as be-
coming for winter wear, adding one
more to the long list Of colors permissi-
BILE nowadays in face coverings.
The most highly valued gilt at the
Queen of Denmark's golden wedding
was a crown of golden wheat ears AMI
clover, bought with the pennies of 1O,-
600 school children.
Mahala BuckwaIter, Ella n. Dealing,
Clara M. Hicks, Sarah E. Pike and Gen.
evieve Bates were recently ordained
deaconessess Of the Methodist Church at
Calvary Church, New York City.
Mrs Elizabeth Preston Brown DAWN
is a young Southern woman who has
won distinction at Washington as an
accomplished mathematician. She Is
reckoned among the first in this coun-
try.
The Brooklyn IN. " Hospital fo>
Women and Children has board of sixty
women managers and hospital staff of
twenty-five women physicians. 1t is the
only hospital in Brooklyn where women
are permitted to practise. 1t has in con.
nection training school for nurses.
In honor Of Queen Isabella appear
hats. wraps, slippers, and jewels ar
ranged in antique patterns, and among
the most elegant of autumn bonnets of
black velvet are those called the queen,
trimmed with the sofest and most deli
cate of yellow Isabella roses and jet al
grettes.
Miss Ruth Gentry, who won the fel.
lowship in higher mathematics of the
Associated Colleges, is pursuing her
chosen study at the University of Berlin,
which no German women has ever sue
ceeded in entering. Miss Gentry is a
pretty Western girl, pale and quiet, and
of the most unassumlng presence.