Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-08-17
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the United States.
The number of women engaged in
farming in the United States is 81, 1000.
Queen Victoria has taken 447 prizes
at English cattle shows for products of
her stock farm.
Jean Ingelow spends great part of
the year In the south of France, where
she has cottage.
Air tight trunks, it is we'll to re-
member, are best for seaside stopping
and jaunting about.
One of the brightest students of
Smith College is Winnebago Indian
girl from Nebraska.
The management of the Austrian
prisons for women is in the hands of
female religious orders.
Mrs. Alice Freeman Palmer has
been reappointed ON the Massachusetts,
State Board of Education.
Miss Mary A. Hanson was elected in
Marblehead, Mass, on the School
Board at the town meeting.
Rosa Bonheur, the great French
painter, was dressmaker' apprentice
when she girl of fifteen years.
At West Brookfield, Ohio, fourteen
women voted at the recent school cleo
tion, in spite of pouring rain.
Nothing is so destructive to the com.
plexion as bad temper. One must
feel pleasant and kind to look so
Queen Victoria rules IL, Ats, O57
square miles of the earth's territory
and 37s, 725, S57 of its population.
One of the best authorities on or
chids in the world is Miss Helen
Gould, daughter of the late Jay Gould.
In the time of Henry H., of France,
it was forbidden for any woman not a
member of court circles to wear vel
vet.
Mrs. Helen d. Hartford has been
nominated for Superintendent of Pub.
lie Instruction ON the Oregon Pro-
hibition ticket.
The Woman's Suffragist Association
of Colorado met in Denver yesterday
and Mrs. Routt, wife of Ex-Governor
Routt, presided.
Mrs. Martha Strickland, a lawyer of
Detroit, Mich, lectures on parlia-
mentary law 20 parlor classes Of
women in Chicago.
Chicago has Domestic Science AS
sociation, which proposes to build an
institution where women will be in.
structed in home duties.
Miss Sibyl Sanderson, the American
cantatice, lately appeared as Juliet in
Paris, in splendid violet gown en-
broidered with turquoises.
The pensions of the Spanish royal
family having been reduced, the In
fanta Eulalia has been living most
economically at Versailles, Paris.
Mrs Amanda Smith. IN American
colored woman, is delivering temper
ance lectures in En gland. under the
auspices of Lady Henry Somerset.
In 1864 the pointed hoods worn by
the ladies' often reached four feet
above the hetd, making the lady's
face appear about the center of the
body.
Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett, the
novelist, is frequently out of doors
before six, returning to breakfast at
eight. BY nine she is at work with
her pen.
Marietta Holley maintains her popu-
larity. Her last book, Samantha at
the Worlds Fair, sold forty thousand
copies the first three weeks after its
publication.
Rev. Eliza Upper Wilkes, formerly
pastor at Sioux Falls, South Dakota,
has gone to Oakland, Cal, to become
the assistant pastor of the First Uni
tartan Church.
Miss Louisa Smith is one OF the
tellers in the Merchants National
Bank of Middletown, Ohio. She has
the reputation of being one of the
best bank officers in the State
The we'll known traveller, Mrs.
Bishop Miss Isabella Bird sailed re-
Gently for Korea, where she will coll
lect material for new book. Mrs.
Bishop is over sixty years of age.
Miss Abby Leach, A. NJ, Professor
of Greek at Vassar College, has lately
been elected a member of the Arche-
logical institute of America. 1t was
under Miss Leach's direction that the
Greek play Antigone was produced
last spring by Vassar students.
Miss Julia Kemp West, of Rich.
mond, Staten Island, N. Y, has Just
entered upon her duties as school
commissioner. She has male Miss
Nellie Nj. Ford her private secretary.
They have long been associated in ex-
ecutive capacities in charitable organ
izations.
Mrs Mary Ida Phares, of Trenton,
n. J., has been appointed notary pub
lie By Governor Werts. She is q
clerk in the office OF Adjutant- General
Gt,,.lyap and IL the frat unmau to ra.