Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-08-17
MEMsGNoIEsJ
T'& AEgj1NIIEN
There are TO- 900 more women than
men in the District of Columbia.

There are 10000 more women than
men in the District of Columbia.
Fully third of the female popu-
lation of France are laborers on farms.
Rich Americans buy more cost
trousseaux than royal mamas provide
for their daughters.
A Winnebago Indian girl from
Nebraska is one of the brightest
pupils at Smith College, Northampton,
Mass.
At Red Cliff, Col, a woman candi-
date for Mayor was defeated at re-
cent election largely by the votes Of
women.
The bicycling fashion has reachel
Rome, and many Of the Italian ladies
may be seen flying about on their
wheels.
Bicycling is fashionable fancy at
present at Newport, r. [. There are
several clubs, with both men and
women as members.
The young women employed i'll
dairy farming at Ebling, Germany,
have adopted mems attire, as they
find that it facilitates their work.
Miss Samantha King, pretty school.
teacher at Inland, Ohio, with wagon
and team recently worked out the poll
tax which had been levied upon her.
In the forthcoming Han lei festival
in England the only vocalist not IN
English-bOrn subject is Miss Ella
Russell, who is clever AN 9rican
girl.
Mrs. Julia f. Baker and the Misses
Baker, of Cincinnati, Ohio, have pre-
scented to that city q statue Of Gin
cinnatus, which has been placed III
the City Hall.
Mrs. Lynn Linton, the novelist,
claims to be the first English woman
writer for the daily press. She began
newspaper work in London more than
thirty years ago.
A Society Of Women Journalists
has just been formed with an Office
near tho Strand, London. A register
of women journalists seeking EN- ploY-
ment will be kept there.
Miss Maria Gonzales HermOsilla has
just been appointed n postnistress in
the State of Jalisco, Mexico. The an
pointmont is regarded as marking en
epoch in the history of Mexico.
Miss Angles, daughter of the late
Dean of Peterborough England, has
been elected one of the Poor Law
Guardians of the city, and IS the first
woman ever chosen to that Office.
The Empress Elizabeth, of Austria,
by a severe system of fasting and exer-
else, massage and training like sport
ing man, succeeds i'll keeping her waist
measure to twenty inches, in spite of
her tifty-six years.
There is a report that Miss Wander
bilt, daughter of Cornelius Wander
bilt, the New York millionaire, who is
gagged to the eldest son of an Irish
nobleman and diplomat.
The Infanta EulaEie must sigh ut
times for the royal hospitality of her
American visit. Her pension has been
reduced, and she gone to London,
where she will live economically and
bereft of much of her state
Mrs. Tunis Bergen, who is one OF
the original Brooklyn anti-sutfragists,
is tall, handsome blonde woman,
about thirty years of age. She looks
prominent part last year in collecting
colonial relics for the Worlds Fair.
Wellesley girls found skirts much
Gin the way" when boating on the
lake, and finally discarded them alto
gether in their rowing shells, their
substitute being very mo lest AMI
tasteful adaptation Of gymnasium
suit.
Sorosis is probably the most expen-
sive club in New York City-that is, of
women's clubs. 1t costs SO to get in,
S. for badge, So yearly dues, and
then there are extras land extras by
the score) for the breakfasts, luncheons
and dinners, which this hospitable
club delights in giving 50 frequently.
One of the best known figures in
Paris is Nine Yoer, who upon the
death of her hus and, a reporter foI
the French press, took up his work and
has conducted it with marked enter
prise. In her rounds she is accom-.
panied by great white poodle called
"The Doctor" who permits no one to
trife with his mistress.
Many society people keep all the
newspaper paragraphs about them
selves. One we'll known lady has -four
large scrapbooks filled with items about
herself and her family. What she
wears, the jewels i'll her casket, the
horses in her stable, the bric-a-brac in
her drawing room-all these furnish
topics for the photographers.
Great regret is felt in Sweden ut the
death of Marie Sophie Schwarz, one OF
the most popular writer's i'll a country
in which popularity is not easily
gained. She was seventv-fve years
old. Nine. Schwarz was an enemy of
all class distinctions, and one of her
most successful novels bears the title,
1.-The Man of Birth and the Woman Of
the People.
1t has been discovered that the nrs
of engraving gems flourished anon
the Chaldcans as early as u. 9. 1000.