Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-05-11
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The Infanta Eulalie is in Paris with


her children.
A woman's glee club of sixteen has
been organized at Chicago University.
OF total of 1881 students in the
universities of Switzerland 242 are
women.
Antoine Guizot, of Paris, has per-
fected an electrical apparatus to make
dimples i'll fiat cheeks.
Viscountess Aoki, the wife of the
newly appointed Japanese Envoy to
the Court of st. James, is German
lady of noble birth.
Mrs. Potter Palmer has written n
letter to Nine. Carnot, thanking
French women for their cooperation
at the Worlds Fair.
Women have used muffs since about
1540. They were first used by doc
tors to keep their hands warm when
they rode from house to house.
Wives of Siamese noblemen cut
their hair SO that it sticks straight up
from their heads. The average length
of their hair is about an inch and
half.
'Severine," who is called in Europe
the ''queen of interviewers, and is
one of the brightest women journal
lists in the world, is to visit this coun-
try shortly.
In France, the Senate by ia votes
to 70 has agreed to the bill admitting
women who are carrying on business to
vote in the elections for the Tribunals
of Commerce.
Pueblo, Colorado, women are hold
ing weekly meetings to discuss local
political issues A law giving women
the right to vote has been passed by
the Legislature.
Women are steadily making their
way into church offices. At Redhill
the Wesleyan Methodist Quarterly
Meeting has appointed two ladies as
circuit stewards.
In Kentucky there is only one wo-
man who has authority to officiate ut
a wedding in clerical capacity. Her
name is Munns, and she is licensed
Baptist preacher.
Lord Houghton has. accepted the
Presidency of the Bronte Society,
formed for the purpose of collecting
Bronte relics and establishing
museum at Hsworth.
The Empress Frederick, of Ger
many, possesses unique tea-service.
The tea-tray has been beaten out OF
an old Prussian halfpenny. The tea
pot is made out of German farthing
and the tiny cups are made from coins
of different German Principalities.
The Harvard Annex (Radcliffe Col
lege) now has in productive yielding
funds from $210, 900 to 1920, 900. Ten
years ago Wellesley College had less
than half that amount; to-day it has
fund of not more than 5000, 900.
Mount Holyoke Seminary mas about
$270,000.
Laselle Seminary, Auburndale,
Mass, is forming boat club on
unique conditions Every young
woman joining must be able to swim,
to tread water while she removes heavy
clothing and shoes, and to bring
mate from the bottom of the tank to
its edge.
spotted veil broke an engagement
of marriage in Sedalia, Mo. The
young man thought the spots were
facial blemishes and took a trip to st.
Louis, from whence he wrote letter
suggesting that times were hard and
that the contemplated marriage might
better be postponed for year or two.
He got his release by return mail.
There is an old lady of Glenlyon,
near Grief, in Scotland, Mrs. Kippen
by name, who is in the position of be-
ing able to say: "Rise, daughter, and
go to your daughter, and ask her to go
to her daughters daughter 9th
er words, she is great-great- grand
mother, and what is more remarkable,
all the five generations are alive.
A movement is IN progress to erect
statue to Miss Palestrello, of Lisbon,
Portugal. She WAS the daughter of a
famous navigator and part of her
marriage dowry was valuable collec-
tion of charts and memoranda of her
fathers trips. She wae, besides, an
intrepid and enthusiastic traveller. In
1470 she became Mrs. Christopher
Columbus.