Or Interest To Women

Sarah W. Trabrue, of Illinois, has invented a baling presa for hay. Mrs. Harriet Bond has been appointed pólice matron at Oswego, N. Y. Woman may be tbe weaker vessel, but she's not juggod as often as man. Twenty-four women have graduated as lawyers in Michigan. There are thirteen women phyiciana now practiomg medicine in Paris. Emily Faituful descries the "shabby genteel" idea that work is degarding for women. Miss Harriet P. llaine, 70 years of age, is a clerk in the treasury departruent at Washington. Mrs . Ira McLane has taken a contract to run twenty-three Montana máil routes for foux years.J A Kansas fcirl of 18 bas broken the ground and plantod forty-five aerea of corn tuis year. Miss Helen Martin, of l'rovidence, K. I., not yet 20, rich and highly connected, is a rising literary star. Mrs. Delphine Baker, un American lady, is about to establish a christian newspaper in Jerusalem. Mrs. Hogors, a Texas oattle queen, now at Atlantio City, rides a horse as woll as any cowboy in her employ. Miss E. T. Wragg of Charleston, ö. C, is gaining a reputation as the leading woman engraver of America. Mrs. Raymond (Annie Louise Cary) bas given $'50 for a f ree bed in the Maine átate general hospital. Miss Mary E. Lopham and two other ladïes have for seven years done the entire work in Lepham's bank of Martinsville, Mieh. Miss Cora E. Shobor has been elected superintendeut of Beadie Co., Dakota, receiving twice as many votos as the male oandidato. George M. Pullman, paliice car buildcr, has a high opinión of women 's executive ability and pays them men's wages for men 's work. Mrs. Nolan, of Mississippi, bas sold more than 81,000 worth of pecana from a single tree in tho course of the last twenty years. The highewt classical honor iu the London university has this year for the first time fallen to a lady, Miss Mary Louise Worley. Miss Harriot Ilosmer is payiug a visit to this country from Italy. Thirty-five years ago sho sought iu vain for an opportunity to study anatomy here. Miss Alice Louisa Pond, the daughter of a New York editor, is the nrst woman gradúate of Columbia college. She studied at home, but pasaed her examination with the other students. The professor of mathematica at C'ornell doubted the possibility of a woman comprehending mathematica until Miss Mary M. AYardell, of Buffalo, who took a fellowsbip, oonvinced him to the contrary. The widow of Emory A. Storrs left property valued at about 840,000. At lier husband's death she was said to have been left penniless, and her accumulation of money since speaks well for her business ability. The printer girls of Topeka, Kan., aave organized "Tho Leslic club," named jfter Mrs. Frank Leslie. They will soon issue the first number of the "Printer Girl," whioh will be the organ of the printer girls of the United States. The Methodist general conference camo out 820,000 short of paying its expenses, and now the women who were not admitted as delegates will probably x asked to get up fairs, festivals, sociajlos, etc, and raise the money to make up the deficiency. - Springüeld Union. The annual, and monthly meeting of ;he Ann Arbor business men's meeting wasadjourned to Friday evening, August 3d, at 8 o'clock, p, m. An important communication is to bc road, also report of committees. A full attendance of members is requested.