Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-08-09

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experts at over $3.50, 900.
Portugal has 1880, 900 women more
than seventeen years old.
Holland, though small in size, has
1,07O. 900 women, young and old.
There is q fourishing Young Wo-
mems Christian Association in Calcuts
to, India.
All over Washington State the
ladies are organizing cooperative
home industrial associations.
"Ouida" is small, with scanned and
wrinkled face, overhung with gray
ringlets. and is afflicted with dis
tinctly bad temper.
Unless Chinese father happens to
be schoolmaster, and at homo with
nothing to do, he never thinks of
teaching his daughter to read.
Durham (England) University has
been authorized to bestow degrees
upon women. Oxford and Cambridge
Universities, however, still refuse.
The widow of John Brown, of slav-
ery-day fame. lives in pretty cabin
in the Sierra Azure Mountains, about
fifty miles from San Francisco, Cal.
Over 0,000 women are attending
colleges in America, yet it has only
been twenty-five years since the first
college in the land was opened to wo-
men.
Tho furniture revival next year for
the drawing room will be the rose wood
and red velvet of over fifty years ago,
when there was less style, but more
solidity.
The glove manufacturer who will
make "black kids of kind that will
not "rub off on everything" may not
be knighted, but he will be blessed by
everybody.
The first woman admitted to prac.
tice law before the courts of California
was Mrs. Clara s. Foltz, who was nd
mitted to the bar of that State on Sep.
tember 5, 1873.
The first woman to act the part OF
woman character on the stage was
Margaret Swartz, who made her first
appearance in London on the night of
November 8, 1856.
A few courageous women have ap-
peared carrying canes on the promen-
ade. OF course, it is generally under
stood that these articles are more orna-
mental than useful.
The first woman elected Mayor of
an American city was Mrs. Susanna
Mado:a Salter (nee Kinsey), Of An.
gonia, Kan. Mrs. Salter wes elected
in the spring of 1887.
Dickerson County, Virginia, has a
woman mail carrier. She is a widow,
sixty years old, and covers her route
regularly and punctually in all wealth
ers, rendering the best of servics.
Mrs. Frances Klock introduced
bill in the Colorado Legislature pro-
viding for an industrial school for
girls, and the general feeling seems to
be that she hos struck in good time.
Mrs. Langtry declares herself 50
much pleased with the United States
that she has determined to put her
daughter Jeanne, who is now thirteen
years old, at school in New York City.
1t is now reported that since the
presentation of copy Of the New
Testament to the Dowager Empress of
China, Christian Chinese woman has
been called to the royal palace to fill
the position of nurse.
Ex.Empress Eugenic, who is now In
Paris and is showing herself moro than
Mt any time since the death of the
Prince Imperial, was present ut the
dinner given by Princess Mathilde on
her seventy-fifth birthday.
Women have worn corsets from the
earliest times. The mummy of the
Egyptian Princess. who lived 1000
years b. O., was discovered in 1872,
md around the waist was contrivance
closely resembling the modern corset.
The quiet Swedes, who make capa.
BILE servants, ore now in such numbers
in Boston that an attempt is being
mado to raise funds to finish the struc-
ture, partly completed, designed for
Methodist Episcopal Swedes' Church.
Miss Mary NJ Haskell, OF Minneap-
oils, is about to exhibit her courage
and endurance by venturing alone on
horseback, in her capacity us census.
tnker, into the wilds of Cass County,
Minnesota, which is largely inhabited
by Indians.
Princess Nasle, of Egypt. ono Of the
most intelligent and progressive wo.
mon in Europe, is n constant laborer
for the advancement of her sex. She
is now arranging an exhibit Of the
work of Egyptian women at the At.
lanta Exposition.
Miss Maria NJ. Love, of the Buffalo
IN. W w. G. L. u, told the local
conference of charities and correc.
tions, few days ngo. that if girls
would learn to coook, sew and keep
house tidily, there would be much less
drinking by men.
A gift of life insurance policies ag.
gregating $500, 900 was ono OF the feat
ures Of the wedding of Anthony J.
Drexel Biddle, of Philadelphia, to
Miss Bradley, of Pittsburg. The poll.
cies were on the lifo Of tho groom and
the newly-mado wife is tho bene.
ficiary.
Miss Emily Bigley, trained nurse,
whose marriage to Lord Arthur Hep.
burn, of England, is announced to
take place at Los Angeles, CAL, is oi
great personal beauty, highly cul.
tured, and OF English birth. She is O
oiace of Jean Jnoelow tho Eno1iab