Of Interest To Women

At the ammnl meeting of tho Rhode sland VV. C. T. U., held at Nowport, hey voted to put a very strong and nequivocal plank for wotnan suffrage n their platform. Mrs. Williain Mister, of llardwiok, lase., has purchased a site for the high chool building and giren it to the town. 'bus the Soripture ia fulfilled whioh ays of tbe good woman, "She conïderoth u field and buyeth it." Mrs. Maria M. Hastings bas left Üvo lousand dollars to the New England ospital for women and children. This was botter than leaving it to some rich niversity that does not admit girls, as wealtby and conservativo woraen are too pt to do. Mrs. Dr. Burnside üas been uorninated ov superintendent of Education by tho rolnbitionists of Buffalo, N. Y. She s tho first woman ever nominatod for a oliticnl office in Buffslo, and the EvenK Nows says she would fill the posiion as well as half tbe men in tho city. At a W. C. T. U. conventiou, just held at San Diego for southern California, the oonvention resolved, by a unanimous volé, that Representativo General Williani Vandever be waited upon by a committee to request his influence and vote in favor of equal sufïrage, if the question comes np in congress during his term. Women are daily recciving rccognition in Iowa, several having been nominated for County Superintendents of Schools duriug the past month. The uniou labor party of Polk County has placed Mrs. Harriett Balldngee, a prominent snffrage worker, upon their ticket ns candidate for superintendent of public schools. Miss Belle Burroughs and Miss Virginia Springer each carried out a keg of gunpowder from a burning store during tbe recent fire at New Martinsville, W. Va. The exploit was hazardous, as the kegs were so hot that tboy could only be handled when enveloped in wet cluths; but the brave girls prevented a disastrous explosión. Miss Florence Macnaghton, of Bushmills, in the north of Ireland, lately tried to persuade a úsherman to sign the pledge. He said he would do so if she would swim scross the bay from Blackrock to Port Ballantree, a distance of about a mile. The young lady accepted the challenge, and aocomplished tbe swim in thirty-nine minutes. The flsherman now wears the bine ribbon. One juror in Chicago's latost trial for criminal assault on a cbild voted steadily, save on the last ballot, íor twenty years' imprisonment. The verdict was tor eight years, and that is a verdict gratefully accepted by the public, but in the person of the tweDty-year jurymaa stood the mothers of Chicago. ÍL'hey are not yet in the jury box, but they are (jetting moro and more ïuto the hearts of jurymen.- Intcr-Ocean. Signora Crispi, the wife of the Itiiliai Minister to Epgland, is much interestet in the eduoation of her country women Feeling how useful n friondly inter course wiU foreign ladics would be ghe meuns to cstnbliBh in Kome an International ludies' club, where womei of all nations cun meet. A reading room will be opened and lectures given and disciiBsiona held as to the bes moans for establishing industrial school snd schools of tecboioal instruction fo woraon.