Catoctin clarion., 1895-12-19
NEWS AND NOTES
FOR WOMEN.


Again in Berlin bride, tight lacing
hearty dinner, dance, sudden death.
Count Herbert Bismarck's wife is
twenty-five years younger than her
husband.
Woman suffrage is being pushed
vigorously in Idaho. There is club
in each county.
At the Atlanta Exposition several
fruit exhibits were entered by women i;
they were very fine.
A firm at Americus, Ga., has ordered
a carload of baby carriages, to be de
livered in the spring.
Flogging as punishment for girls
is what the London School Board wants
to introduce into the industrial schools.
Miss Kate o. Wilkins, of Idaho, is
tall, blond, striking and thirty, and
knows more about horses than any man
in Idaho.
Queen Margherita, of Italy, is about
to publish her experiences as an Alpine
climber, illustrated with her own pencil
sketches.
In a recent number Of q London pa
per the statement is made that English
women have begun wearing pyjamas
instead of night dresses.
Only one woman in ten in Msssachu
setts availed themselves of the privilege
of registering to vote at the last election
about 10000 in all.
Annie Besant was religious enthus-
last in her early years and was inclined
to become a nun, but compromised BY
marrying clergyman.
The Eaglish governess to the King
of Spain, recently appointed, who is. of
course, to teach him her language, is to
receive salary of $3.50 year.
The Scandinavian Woman's Exhibl
ton has closed. The exhibit was yer
table exposition Of womens work and
the whole affair Was managed BY WON
en-
Mrs. Leland Stanford, who has the
most costly collection of jewels in this
country, perhaps. refused to look upon
them after the death of her son and
only child.
An old gentleman Of Odessa has left
a million roubles apiece to four neices
on condition that they work for fifteen
months as cham 5ermaids, cooks or farm
servants.
By the provisions Of the new Illinois
teachers pension law, any woman
teacher has the right to retire on half
pay, if it does not exceed $500, after
twenty years Of service.
A sixteen year-old Diana, Miss Lulu
Daniels, of Big Elk, Oregon, shot and
killed big buck with fve-p point antlers
at 200 Yards range. while out hunting
with party recently.
Miss Mary Jackson. Of Louisville,
Ky, has just completed her l03rd yr.
She remembers when the site Of the
present city was a great stockade to pro
tect residents from murderous Indians
Nearly 400 women in the United
States are graduates Of schools Of phar-
macy, and a majority Of them have
charge Of hospital drug rooms or are
engaged as dispensing clerks in large
drug stores,
Three women preachers hold minis
terisl charges in Belfast. Me. Miss
Kingsbury is pastor of the Universalist
Church, Miss King Of the Church Of the
Advent, and Miss Mcintyre Of the
Church Of God.
One of the most promising politicians
in the new state of Utah is Mrs Lille
Pardee, Republican candidate for State
Senator, thirty years old, teacher of
Latin and Greek. and wife Of Salt
Lake lawyer.
Women can no longer ride the bi
cycle in St. Petersburg { (Russia) streets.
The only woman to whom permission
was granted by the police few weeks
ago has fallen off her machine, hurting
herself so badly that she had to be taken
to the hospital, and the police will issue
no more permits.
What is done cannot be undOne, es-