Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-03-02
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women.
They have fined two young women
two dollars for holding up a man on
the street in New York City and kiss
ing him.
The Queen has granted an am ended
charter to the University of Durham,
England, whereby all degrees except
ID. ID. are open to women.
As result of the fight for twenty
five years of DR.. Blake and his friends,
women henceforth may take medical
degrees in the Scotch universities.
The Plttsburg PENN Bar Associa.
ton has voted down by big majority
resolution that no more women
should be admitted to practice law.
In the Welsh University, for the first
time, women are placed on an abso-
lutte equality with men, both as to de-
grees and as to the governing body.
Holland admits women as students
to all its universities, but the largest
number of women students is to be
found in the Swiss universities, where
they number over 400.
Miss Sophie Carpenter, a Philadel-
phia heiress, is about to marry an
Italian gentleman, but she gives him
to understand that she is an American
and means to live in America
Nobody knew who Herbert d. Ward,
the new Massachusetts Prison Commits
sioner, was until the Boston Globe let
the cat out of the bag. He is the hus-
band OF Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.
Women will henceforth be permitted
to become regular students at the
Hungarian universities, and special
facilities will be granted to those who
wish to become doctors or pharnia-
cists.
The Misses Sutro, nieces of Adolph
Sutro, of Sutro tunnel fame, are ex-
cellent musicians, and at recent in
strumental concert in Berlin per-
formed to the great admiration of the
audience.
Bicycling has risen to such favor at
Vassar College that the halls of the
entire lower floor of the main build
ing are fanked with bicycle racks.
Most of the faculty, as we'll as the
students, ride.
Grace Carew Sheldon, the first
American woman delegate to the In.
ternational Press Convention, and who
made charming speech at Bordeaux
last summer, is the creator of the Wo.
mans Exchange IN Buffalo, N. Y.
Mrs. Harriet Coffin, while cycling
in Orange, N. j., was pursued by a
big st. Bernard dog, which had gone
mad. She was terribly frightened,
but managed to control herself and
make speed, till she was out of harm s
way.
The Dowager Duchess of Athol, who
has served Queen Victoria as lady-in-
waiting for torty-two years, is about
to resign. She was Mistress of the
Robes in the Earl Derby's first admin
istration in 1852, and also under Lord
Rosebery.
One of the Mails OF honor to tho
young Empress of Russia was married
not long since. On bidding her
good-by the Empress congratulated
her warmly, adding: 81 shall indeed
be sorry 10 lose you, but | am so
happy myself that [ wish everyone to
be married, too"
At Gottingen University just now
thirty-one ladies are matriculatel us
full-fedged students. With one ex-
ception they belong to the philo-
sophical faculty, studying history,
mathematics, modern languages,
natural sciences. The one exception
is studying medicine.
Mrs. Levi p. Morton, wife of the
Governor of New York, is said to have
weakness for slippers, shoes and
boots, of which she has SO many that
she could wear different pair each
day of the year. They are of kid,
suede, silk, satin some embroidered
in silver, others in gold.
Notwithstanding her advanced age,
Queen Victoria drives out in an open
carriage, even when the weather is
cold or wet. But she is wrapped
about with rugs, and when it rains,
one of the Highland ser wants sitting
behind the carriage holds an enormous
umbrella above her head.