Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-07-15

list has been holding meetings in To-
peka, Kan.
There were only 563 women among
the 10, 740 physicians in the Russian
empire on July l, 1895.
Connecticut has fifty-four women
who are daughters of soldiers who
fought in the revolutionary war.
A few women have served as letter
carriers in England for several years
and have given general satisfaction.
Methodist conferences in New
Hampshire and Maryland have voted
in favor of the admission of women as
lay delegates.
Mrs. Charles Howard, of Baltimore,
Md, is the only surviving child of
Francis Scott Key, the author of "The
Star-SpaDgled Banner
An amiable English woman is ex-
pending her energies on the formation
of society for the encouragement of
cycling among domestic servants.
In New York City the other day a
young woman while bending over
washtub was killed by corset steel
which broke and pierced her heart.
Mrs. John Sherman is exceedingly
well-read and deeply interested in cur
rent events. Next year she and Sec
retary Sherman will be able to cele-
brate their golden wedding.
Ellie Scarlet, the elder sister of
young Lord Abinger and daughter of
the former Miss Magruder, of the
United States, has begun the study of
surgery at the London Hospital.
Mrs. Georgia A. Stebbin has been
keeper of the North Point Lighthouse,
Milwaukee, Wis, twenty-three years,
and is one of the oldest women in
point of such service in the world.
Miss Mary A. Ingleton, of Newark,
recently deceased, bequeathed $4,000
to the New Jersey Historical Society,
the income to be expended in indexing
and cataloguing its books and records.
A Philadelphia woman suffragist has
prepared flag which she calls the
"woman's flag" 1t is a blue field,
each State where woman suffrage pre-
walls.
The will of Mrs Maria Grout Moen,
widow of Philip l.. Moen, of Worces-
ter, Mass, bequeathed $40, 900 to the
Hartford Theological Seminary and
numerous smaller sums to other insti-
tutions.
A marble bust of Frances L. Will
ard is to be presented to the North
western University, at Evanstown,
ILL.,, by Mrs. j. G. Shaffer, of Chicago.
Miss Willard is an alumna of that in
stitution.
Lady Foley, the last of Queen Vic
toria's bridesmaids, save Lord Rose
bery's mother, the Duchess of Cleve-
land, has just died. She was a How
ard, the daughter of the thirteenth
Duke of Norfolk.
Mrs. Jessie Benton Fremont, widow
of the once famous Pathfinder, is
living at Long Beach, Cal, and still
keeps up an active interest in the phi
lanthropic work to which much of her
life has been devoted
Only three ladies of the royal rank
survive who lived in the Tuileries.
They are the Empress Eugene, the
Princess de Joinville, and the aged
daughter of Louis Philippe, the Prin-
cess Clementine of Sake Coburg.
Nowadays, when women are Just
venturing to ride horseback astride, it
is interesting to know that Queen
Anne, consort of Richard II. of Eng
land, was the first woman to ride a
side-saddle, previous to that women
riding as did the men.
The Empress Frederick is rapidly
completing her plans for making the
old Schloss at Kronberg a historical
museum, which she will present as a
gift to the town of Kronberg. 1t is
being restored at great expense under
her supervision, and art treasures will
be added.