The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-05-20

Oxford, Cambridge and Dublin
alone of all the British universities
refuse to grant degrees to women.
The Duchess of Fife is said to have
n knowledge of cooking such as would
astonish a good many middle class
housekeepers.
An order has been issued in Austria
allowing women, who hold foreign
medical diplomas, to practice modi-
cine in the empire.
Women are so scarce in the north
western provinces of Canada that many
of the young men there cannot find
wives for themselves.
A grandniece of General Israel Put
nam, Mrs. Lucy l.. Decker, died in
Bangor, Me-, few days ago, at the
age of eighty-nine years
Liverpool, having discovered that it
once gave birth to a poet IN Mrs.
Felicia Hemans, proposes to erect o
monument to commemorate the fact.
Mrs. d. J. Davis, of San Francisco,
claims the distinction of having the
longest hair in the world. She is five
feet nine inches in height and her hair
is six feet eight inches long.
The oldest twins in Name are Mrs.
Mary Wood of Belfast and Mrs. Almira
Belden of Palermo. They we're eighty
two years old on March II last, and
both are in excellent health.
Miss Francis E. Willard, President
of the w. @. 7. u, has left Chicago
on her way TO London. She expects
to remain until fall, and bring Lady
Henry Somerset back with her.
Copenhagen is to have q woman's
theatre, with women to manage it,
women to act all the parts, and women
to write the play. A beginning will be
made with play by Margaret Thor
son.
Queen Sophia of Sweden is one of
the richest women in the world. She
was Princess of Nassau, and her
brothers, from whom she inherited
her money, owned the gambling tables
at Wiesbaden.
Miss Alice Luce, graduate of We'll
lesley, has just received the degree of
Ph. d. from the University of Coffin
gen, "multa cum Laude." She is the
fourth woman who has received de-
gree from the university.
The annual report OF the Countess
of Dufierin's Indian fund shows that
1000, 900 women have been treated in
the hospitals, and that the value of the
buildings administered by the fund Is
over twenty lakhs of rupees.
Mrs. Alice E. Cram, a Boston con-
tractor, has secured the contract for
supplying 40,0 900 tons of stone to be
used in elevating the tracks OF the
New York, New Haven and Hartford
Railroad in Boston. There were doz.
ems of other bidders.
The inmates of a female orphan asylum
in Naples, Italy, when over eighteen
years of age, are sent to a neighbor-
ing church, to be chosen in marriage.
Attired in black, they kneel before the
altar, and the suItors pass before them,
each selecting the girl he thinks will
make the best wife.
In Kansas the law demands that in q
trial for investigation for insanity,
the jury shall consist of six persons,
of whom at least one must be a prac.
ticing physician. In Fostoria, there
being no male physician, DR.. Martha
Hall-Smith was called to serve on such
case and was made foreman of the
jury.
South Africa has given a name to
the Duke of Abercorn's little grand
daughter, who has been christened
Rhodesia, the Duke being Chairman
of Mr.. Rhodes's Chartered Company.
This opens up the prospect CT names
like Mashona, Bechuana, Delagoa,
Matabele and Mpwapwa for the new
generation of English girls.