Of Interest To Women

(Jocuucation prevails througlumt the l'uiversity of Texas. Many fashionable French ladiee, it is said, are taking to the study of nstronomy, and are havingobservatories built iu secluded parts of their gardens. Mra. Emma P. Ewing writcs to the Woman's Journal that she believes 50,000 womcn could earn a good living in this country by the manufacturo and sale of home-made bread. The public schools in Leadville, Colo., have been olosed for a year for lack of funds, although the town supports elevea huudrod saloons. Leadville is a place where woinan uiïrage is badly needed. Francés Power Cobbe, in additiqn to a great atnouut of time spent in philanthropio work, hns, duriug the J;it twenty five years, writteu flfteen books and about twenty-flve pamphletp, besides many articles for newspaper and magazines. Of the $300,000 given by Miss Caldwell to found a Roman Catholic University, $30,000 have been expended for a plot of ground half a mile outside of Washington, D. C, anl 8170,000 will be spent on the building, the remaining $100,000 being reserved for the professors' salaries. Vittoria Colonna was buried in a small and obscure church in Eome, now beiug demolished, Sant' Anna dei Falegnami; and the archieologists and literary people of that city are anxiougfy expecting the discovery of her "cypresswood coffin, lined with einbroidered velvet." Jenny Lind's singing teacher, Professor Bergh, is still living in Stockholm, at the age of eighty-four. The one subject he most enjoys speaking upon is that of his famous pupil and her successes. The very mention of her name brings tears of enthusiasm and aff.ction to his eyes. Somebody saya few women would vote if enfranchised. Well, it o'ten happens in an election that more than half the men refuse to vote. But if one man or woman wants to exercise the right to vote, what reason is there for denying it, because other men and women do not wish to exercise it. The Women's educational and industrial unión of Buffalo, N. Y., is oirculating a petition asking the governor to appoint two women as trusteea to fill the existing vacancies in the board of trustees of the Buffalo state insane asyium. Other states have taken similar action, with gratifying results. Governor Hill will do well to grant the ladies' petition. A private letter f rom a friend in Eau Claire, Wis., says : "Mrs. Li vermore was here last week, and gave us two mot excellent lectures. Our people who heard her were more thaa delighled, tbey were charmed and instructed beyond what of ten falls to their lot. She is having a most successful trip in Wisconsin, and will do our cause a world of good by giving it a genuine uplift in every town and city where she speaks." Miss Marión Osgood, of Chelsea. Mass., the gifted young violinist, is the founder and conductor of the first and only regularly-organized Ladies' Orchestra in the country. It consista of twentyfour pieces: four first and tour second violins, two violas, a violincello, double-bass, flute, piccolo, clarinet, two cornet0, trombone, baritone, two bonus, a snare and bass drum, zitUer and harp. These instrumenta are played by oarefully-selected lady artista, many of them akilled soloista. The orchestra, now in its fourth season, receives well-deserved te-timonials from the press and musical people generally, as it meets its many engagementa all over New England. Miss Dorothea L. Dix, after she had labored for years among the city poor and the criminal classes, was once travelling by night in a etage-coach in Tennessee, when the coach was atopped and the passengers robbed by a highwayman. After giving up her purse, she addressed the robber: "My friend," she began, "is not this a bad business for you to be engaged in?' The man interrupted her: "That voice! I know that voice! I have seen you eomewhere." It proved that he had been a convict in an Indiana penitentiary, where she had ialked with the prisoners. He was greatly uffected by the meeting, restored his plunder, and vanished in the darkness, juat in time to avoid arrest. "Are you a home ruler?" was asked of one of the candidates at the late English election. A voice from the back seats answered, "No, but bis wife is."