Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-08-07


pointment of women as Police Com
missioners.
The Woman's Club as IN organ OF
Swomanhood, nonpartisan, 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 a beauty.
Mrs. Nancy Rider, of Albion, Me-.
recently celebrated ner ninety-hfth
birthday by spinning two knots OF
yarn and piecing some patchwork.
It 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. G..
France received the degree of Ph. D.
ut the commencement of Chicago Uni
versity. They are the first ladies to
take the degreee there.
Miss Mary Cary 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.
DR.. Mary Harris Thompson, who
died suddenly in Chicago q few days
since, was surgeon of remarkable
ability, and was the founder OF the
-Ghieasa-haspiataLlL Lfar omen and chill
dren.
A Brooklyn woman fell out of a
fourth-story window the other day.
She was not much hurt, and her first
question when she recovered her
breath was whother 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 o
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, It's American professor OF
history, in the preparation OF a his
tory Of the United States.
A memorial to the late Christin
Rossett is to bo 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
S2s, 900, ,OOOb the death other brother
Michael Haven, in England. He ran
away from home at the age Of sixteen,
went to Australia and amassed this im-
mense fortune.
Girls employed in the crepe manu-.
facture are under O 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 a 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 ff-
teen children.
General Spinner, when Treasurer OF
the United States, was the first to
nominate women to positions in Il
Government Department. He ap'
pointed seven women to clerkships III
1852. 1t is proposed to erect 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-EmDresa
Eugene, of France, stayed for q time
in Paris and drove through the Tul-
laries Gardens. No one recognized
the pale.faced lady dressing in mourn
ing as she drove by the site of what
was once the royal abode where sha
entertained nearly every sovereign in
Europe.
Miss Francis Willard's example IN
learning to ride the bicycle bids fair
TO be initiated by many other women
of mature years The Rev. Phoebe A.
Hanaford, of New York, who has left
her first youth some distance behind
her, is praclicinG with the wheel, AMI
Nine. Hanna Korany, Of Syria. has
become so fnr infected with Occiden-
tai ideas that she, too, is taking bi"
cycle lessons,