Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-02-16
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California has many women farmers.

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cats and kittens in Paris.
Dental inspection has been intro
duced into the public schools of De-
troit, Mich, by woman.
Queen Margherita of Italy and the
Empress of Russia are probably the
best dressed royal women in Europe.
The veil used by Turkish ladies is no
longer what it was Its transparency
admits of pretty face being outlined.
In some of the countries of Southern
riageable age when she is twelve years
old.
A Boston lady has invented spoon
for measuring medicine, by which a
dose can be administered without
spilling.
A Mrs. Bush, who died in England
recently, was a direct descendant, in
the eighth generation, of Oliver
Cromwell.
There are fifteen thousand working
women in Albany, N. Y, out of a
total population of one hundred thou
sand souls.
Mrs. Amelia E. Barr has taken the
place formerly occupied by Mrs.
Burnett as the best paid female author
in America.
Mrs. Lease, the Kansas politician,
has been made member of the Inter
national Peace Society of Berne,
Switzerland.
Mrs. Martha J. Coston, the inventor
of the signals for the use of ships by
night at sea, is living at an advanced
age in Washington.
woman's corsets, worn with only
the average degree of tightness, exert
a pressure of forty pounds on the or
gans they compress.
Mrs. Harriet Strong, of California,
raised no less than 1000, 900 plumes
of pampas grass last year, and sold
them all for decorations.
DR.. Mary Glenton, who is a gradu-
ate of the Woman's Medical College
of Chicago, has been appointed mis-
sionary at Anvik, Alaska.
Mrs. s. V. White, wife of the bank
er, is President of the Brooklyn Home
for Consumptives, noble philanthro-
py, absolutely unsectarian.
When Mrs. Edward Cooper, of New
York, gives a dinner party for the
regulation finger bows are substituted
cut glass globes containing rosewater.
Miss Gertrude Vanderbilt, the New
York heiress, was to ''come out" this
year, but on account of the death of
her brother her debut has been post
poned.
Queen Victoria has already reached
and passed the biblical limit of mans
age she is in the seventy-fourth year
year of her age and the tifty-sixth year
of her reign.
Mrs. Henry L. Abbey, wife of the
great manager, possesses the largest
collection OF photographs of celebrities
with autograph inscription to be found
in this country.
The handsomest thing said recently
of the American woman is by Mrs. Or
miston Chant: ''Her good humor un.
der difficulties is surpassed by nothing
| have ever seen"
Mrs. Mary Cowden Clarke, compiler
of the "Shakesperean Concordance, +"
is living i'll Italy. She is eighty-five
years old, and was lately described as
prosperous, gentle woman"
a tool for killing noxious weeds in
garden has been invented by Mrs
Grafton Ross, an English woman. The
implement is n hollow piereer, through
which poison is conveyed to the root
of the weed.
Miss Charlotte Robinson, of Lon
don, who bears the title of Decorator
to the Queen, designed and applied
the decorations of the ceilings and
panels IN the cabins of the steamships
Lucania and Campania.
IL is said that when Mrs. Peter
Cooper first went to housekeeping
every piece of her furniture was made
by her husband with his own hands
Even the bedroom and parlor "sets' -
were the handiwork of her ingenious
husband.
Nellie Dean, organist, Charlestown,
Mass. has been awarded gold medal
for the most finished rendering of
three classical compositions selected
10y the director Of the New England
Conservatory, Boston. There were
three competitors Miss Dean played
from memory.
An interesting fact in connection
with the life of Maria Mitchell the
Nassar astronomer of beloved memory,
Is that she was never able Ca overcome
her fear and dread OF lightning. The
heavens were g. her as an open book,
yet this of their maryels was always
awful aud mysterious 10 her
British laiy artists are fairly nu.
merous in rsris, nov that 80 many
English girls go over o. study tn
French studios. ~ thrY have formed
au Association at British Women Az
I tists. aud opened their fret cXhibi
| tiun with great auccaHs The exhibit
tiou Is uuier tAiy Duherm'- patron
aru, and muHtefs aYsr seventy works