Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-05-18

| Nhan. 1lBn ScnOol nave TWO eXcellent
baseball teams.
President Cleveand's wife selects all
his clothes and gives orders how they
are to be made.
George Eliot is to be commemorated
by memorial library in her native
town, Nuneaton, England.
An Alliance (Ohio) typewriter had
almost all her hair burned off by the
explosion of n celluloid comb.
In st. Petersburg, Russia, women
are obliged to procure a police permit
before they may ride the bicycle in
the public streets
The big insane asylum in Zehler-
dorf, suburb of Berlin, has now u
female physician, DR.. Siegluede Stier,
as assistant director.
Two young women have been ap-
pointed gardners at Kew Gardens, Lon
don, on condition that they wear
trousers when at work.
A society paper in London says that
"tho American beauty is u thing of
the past" there. 1t is also a thing of
the present wherever it goes.
Mrs. Percy Fleming, NJ. D., and
Miss Aldrich Blake have been ap-
pointed registrars OF the Royal Free
Hospital, OF London, offices hitherto
filled by men.
A woman has just been appointed
assistant professor of English in the
University of Michigan. She is Miss
Gertrude Buck, daughter of Judge
Buck of Michigan.
The Queen of Madagascar is said to
take the transfer OF power to the
French protectorate very gracefully,
and is very much interested in seeing
it properly done.
During the absence, for three
months, of the Rev. Mr.. Cochrane of
the Unitarian Church at Bar Harbor,
Me-, his wife will attend to all his
ministerial duties.
The coming general conference of
the Methodist Church will have to face
n very strong demand from the women
to be admitted to its privileges Oh
equal terms with the men.
A temperance society at Danbury,
Conn, which is composed of young
women who have pledged themselves
not to marry any mau who touches
liquor, has u membership of 400.
Two West Virginia girls decided to
go hunting, and finding themselves
pursued by bear, they were forced
to take refuge in the branches of u
tree, where they remained until morn
ing.
Mississippi woman caught burg
lar in her room, knocked him down,
tied him to the bedpost and then
calmly awaited the return of her hus-
band, who was spending the evening
at the lodge.
Kingston, Mass, is believed to be
the first town in that State to have u
woman superintendent OF schools.
Miss Helen Holes was elected to the
uperintendency 10y the school com
mittee few days ago.
The attempt OF European ladies to
form a league of native girls for the
suppression OF foot binding in China
has fallen through. One native girl
is said to have put the case thus; "We
squeezy foot! You squeezy waist
Same object both-Set husband"
The authorities of the University of
Buda Pesth, Hungary, have decided
to admit women to tho privileges of
their institution. The departments of
Medicine and Pharmacy have been
thrown open to them, and they can be
matriculated in the faculty of phil
osophy.
Women bicyclists rode in a race at
a tournament in San Francisco re.
Gently. The race lasted two hours,
and the four leaders in the race aver
aged nineteen miles an hour. The
affair was not a big success, very gen.
eral disapprovel of women riding races
being expressed.
Miss Winifred Warren. of Cam
bridge, Mass, daughter of President
Warren, of Boston University, is the
winner of the Mary E. Garrett Euro
pean fellowship for next year. The
decision OF the Bryn Mawr penn Col.
lege faculty was made public recently
She will study for n year in Europe.