Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-09-28
INTERESTING PARAGRAPHS.

hiss BLANCHE A. WRIGHT, of Lewis.
ton, Me-. has been ordained pastor OF
the Newport (N. " Universal church.
Mrs. NJ. T. VANRENssELAEB, of New
York, distinguished a as writer upon
agricultural subjects, is tall, slender
blonde, with a bright face and engaging
manners
Miss LYNDE CRAIG, for ten years
teacher in the Girls High school of
San Francisco, has been admitted to
practice before the supreme court OF
California.
AN English woman living near Ok
ford has large lake in the grounds of
her residence, and, as she is an expert
swimmer, she practices every day. At
the end of the season she gives series
of competitions lasting week.
Mrs. HARRIET RUTH TRAcY's inven.
tions in the liberal arts building at the
Worlds fair include fire escape, mod.
els of safety passenger elevator with
automatic platforms, and a rotary shut
tie for the lock and chain stitch.
Miss KITTY G. WILKINS, Idaho's horse
queen, has range containing 5000
horses of high grade, bronchos being
carefully excluded. Miss Wilkins, who
is about 30 years old does the buying
and selling, while her father and broth.
ers do the harder, practical work about
the place.
THE only women lawyers invited to
read papers at the Law Reform con-
gress held in Chicago in August were
DIR. Emily Kempin, of Zurich, Switzer-
land, and Miss Mary A. Greene, of
Providence, r. l. The women lawyers
of all English speaking countries are
represented by Miss Greene.
Mrs. FRANCES II. LYBRAND, of Ohio,
has been on the examiners corps in the
civil engineering department of the
patent Office at Washington for about
ten years. Railways are her specially,
and she has the annual task of passing
upon about 5000 inventions, of which
a dozen may perhaps be practicable.
Mrs. HENRY G.. NEWTON, of New
Haven, is the first woman in Connect.
cut to register for voting at the coming
school election The last Legislature
passed law giving to women the right
of ballot in school elections. Mrs New
ton is the wife of lawyer in New
Haven, and is herself a practical physi-
clan.
Miss NINA r. HOBBS bears the honor
of being the first woman delegate to a
political state convention in Maryland,
having served in that capacity at the
prohibition convention last Wednesday.
She is past grand vice templar of the
Good Templars of Maryland, and, hav-
ing good soprano voice, has been very
popular as singer at temperance meet
ings in that state.
Miss IRENE w. Corr, the brillian,
young woman of Norwich, Ct, who
successfully passed the classical exam
nations at Yale last summer, but was
forbidden the privilege of entering the
university because of her sex, has ac.
cepted place as teacher in the girls
seminary at Geneva n. Y. Miss Colt
is daughter of Gen. James b. Colt,
who was wounded at Gettysburg Dur
ing the last year she has studied in the
normal department of the Norwich
academy, and graduates with her class
this month.
1T being statutory that the garb OF
DR.. Mary Walker shall be described
whenever that bizarre but worthy
woman collides with a reporter, DR.
Mary took occasion to remark to one
, of the guild in Boston who asked If she
, ever wore sack coat: II did at one
time, but I've worn Prince Albert fol
good many years, except that weal
| sack for an oyercoat But don't yor
, think it's about time that the news
: papers let up on talking about my
: clothes? They always have to say thu
| same things right over and over again
I Just think how many thousand time
q they have said, she had FRINGE Al
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