The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-09-22
INTERESTING PARAGRAPHS.

Miss BLANCHE A. WRIGHT, Of Lewis
ton, Me-, has been ordained pastor OF
the Newport On. " Universal church
Mrs. VI. T. vASRESssELAEB, of New
York, distinguished as writer upon
agricultural subjects, is tall, slender
blonde, with bright face and engaging
manners
Miss LYSDE 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. AZ
the end of the season she gives series
of competitions lasting week.
Mrs. HARRIET RUTH TRACTS inven-
tons in the liberal arts building at the
Worlds fair include a fire escape, mod
els of safety passenger elevator with
automatic platforms, and a rotary shut
tie for the lock and chain stitch
Miss KITTY C. WILKINS, Idaho's horse
Ids q AdASC cfN~~
horses of high grade, bronchos being
carefully excluded Miss Wilkins, who
is about 80 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
DR. Emily Kempin, of Zurich, Switzer-
land, and Miss Mary A Greene, OF
Providence, P /. The women lawyers
of all English speaking countries ara
represented by Miss Greene
MRS FRANCES r LTBRASD, 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 speciality,
and she has the annual task OF passing
upon about 5000 inventions, of which
dozen may perhaps be practicable
Mrs. HENRY G. NEWTON. of New
Haven is the first woman IN Connecti-
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 P 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 a good soprano voice, has been very
popular as singer at temperance meet
ings in that state
Miss IRENE ". Con-, the brilliant
young woman of Norwich Ct, who
successfully passed the classical exam
nations at Yale last summer, but wal
forbidden the privilege Of entering the
university because of her sex. has ae-
cepted place as teacher in the girls
seminary at Geneva, y. Y Miss Colt
IS a daughter of Gen James & 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
IT 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 10 remark to one
I of the guild in Boston who asked il she
ever wore a sack coat: i did at Ons
time, but I've worn Prince Albert for
good many years, except that l wear
a sack for an overcoat But don't You
/ think it's about time that the news
papers let up on talking about my
clothes9 They always have to say tha
same things right over and over again
Just think how many thousand timeA
they have said, She lad Prince Al
bert, etc" The interviewer changed
the subject