Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-07-26
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There are $3.50, 900 grown women
in France, while Austria has $780,
600.
A lady athlete is preparing to make
on attempt to swim across the English
Channel.
Queen Victoria's continental trip
last spring only cost $50, 900, as against
$40, 900 last year.
Blue serge suits are m ade with box
plated bodices. the plaits edged with
detachable needlework frills.
Lady Wilde is said to be dying OF q
broken heart. and her friends say that
she see will never see her son again.
Senator Brice's daughters are plan
ming tour through France mounted
on bicycles and provided with kodaks.
The best bicycle shoe for women is
q broad-soled, low-heeled affair having
seam along the middle of the front.
A woman's column writer advises
the girls to pick out q husband by the
condition of his linen and his finger
nails.
Rev. Anna Shaw, of Boston, is out
with declaration in favor Of the ap-
pointment of women as Police Com
missioners.
The Woman's Club as an organ of
womanhood, nonpartisau, nonpoli-
tical, nonproscriptive in civil affairs,
is Chicago idea.
w. g. Stivers, of Lancaster, KY, is
suing Miss Catherine West, a hand.
some school teacher, for $500 for
breach of promise.
Lady Mary WORTHY Montague was
large and masculine, both in appear
ance and demeanor. She could not
be termed beauty.
Mrs. Nancy Rider, Of Albion, Me-.
recently celebrated ner ninety-fifth
birthday by spinning two knots of
yarn and piecing some patchwork.
1t is estimated that of the total sum
raised for the support OF the Protest
ant churches of this country over one
third is now procured by the efforts
or labors of women.
Miss Myra Reynolds and Miss w. @.
France received the degree of Phi. D.
ut the commencement of Chicago Uni
versity. They are the first ladies to
take the degreee there.
Miss Mary Gary Thomas was nomi-
mated for one OF the alumnae trus-
tees of Cornell University. She is the
first woman to be go honored in any
of the great universities.
DIR. Mary Harris Thompson, who
died suddenly in Chicago q few days
since, was surgeon of remarkable
ability, and was the founder of the
Chicago hospital for women and chill
dren.
A Brooklyn woman fell out of q
fourthstory window the other day.
She was not much hurt, and her first
question when she recovered her
breath was whether her bonnet was
on straight.
Mrs. Harlan is said to be almost as
large physically as her husband, the
Supreme Court Justice, who is six
feet two inches tall, and when together
in public they naturally attract a
great deal of attention.
Miss Nellie Temple, who graduated
at Vassar in 1892, has been engaged
by the University of Leipsig to assist
DR.. Ralzel, its American professor OF
history, in the preparation of his
tory of the United States.
A memorial to the late Christin q
Rossett is to be sot up in Christ
Church, Woburn Square, London,
which she attended for nearly twenty
years. The form of the memorial has
not been determined on.
Mrs. Sarah Stephan, an aged widow,
of Kingston, N. Y, has fallen heir to
$2S, 100000 by the death of her brother
Michael Haven, in England. He ran
away from home at the age of sixteen,
went to Australia and amassed this i'm
mense fortune.
Girls employed in the crepe manu-
facture are under a curious contract
not to engage in any housework after
their hours of labor. The reason is
least their hands become coarse and
untitled for the delicate nature OF
their employment.
Julia Ward Howe thinks the woman s
club is the distinctive feature OF con-
temporary intellectual development.
She says: "Once it was the eccentric
woman who belonged to club. now
it is the eccentric woman who does
not belong to club"
Frau Marie Harder. Danish lady,
has published volume called "Yule
STAR In this there is nothing won
derful, but the publication becomes
somewhat interesting when one hears
that it is her debut, and that Fru
Harder IS seventy years old.
Nine. Rowstowska. of Lille, France,
is 112 yeurs old. She served as the
cantiniere of Polish regiment dur
ing the Russian campaign, was twelve
times under fire, received three
wounds and was decorated with the
silver cross. She has survived her IF
teen children.
General Spinner, when Treasurer of
the United States, was the first to
nominate women to positions in q
Government Department. He ap-
pointed seven women to clerkships in
1862. It is proposed to erect q monu-
ment to him with the contributions of
the women clerks in the departments
at Washington.
On her way back from Cape Martin
to Marlborough the ex-Empress
Eugene, of France, stayed for time