Woman's Rights

The followmg are the opening sentences of an address on this subject by Mrs. Skinner: Miss President, fellow wimmen, and male trash generally : I am here to-day for the purpose of discussing woman's rights, re-cussing her wrongs, and cussing the men. I believe aexes were created perfectly equal, with the wimmen a little more equal than men. I also believe that the world would to-day be happier if man had never existed. As a failure, man is a success, and I blesa my stars that my mother was a woman. [Applause.] I not only maintain thesu principies, but I maiutain a shiítless husbaud beides. They say man was created firat. Well, 'spose he was. Ain't first experimenta always failures ? If I was a betting man, I would bet $2 50 they are. The only decent thing about him was a rib, and that went to make sotnething better. (Applause.] And then they throw into our face about taking an apple. . I'll but $3 that Adam boosted her up the tree and only gave her the core. And what did he do when he was found out? True to his masculine instiucts, he sneaked behind Eve's Grecian bend, and said, " 'Twasn't me ; 'twas her;" and woman had to father everything, and mother it too. What we want is the ballot, and the ballot we're bound to have, if we have to let down our back hair, and swim in a sea of sanguinary gore. [Sensation.] Mi I I -- -■