Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1891 — Gossip Abbott Women. [ARTICLE]

Gossip Abbott Women.

The question of higher schools for girls in London has recently been attracting much attention. Thebe are now women students at the universities of St. Petersburg, Moscow, Kiew, Charkow and Odessa. Tiie Queen of the Belgians is an excellent linguist and has just accomplished the task of learning the Walloon language. Princess Beatrice is engaged upon a birthday book, which will soon be published, but it is only to be privately circulated. Some fond mothers are holding off the christening until they hear the full returns, after which some baby boy will bear the name of the winner. . Miss Grace Hakbiman, an English woman who has started a, scheme for employing women as market gardeners, has subscribed all tho capital for starting the work. Miss Henrietta Vinton Davis, of Baltimore, is the name of a colored aotiess who made her debut in Washington in 1883 and has played Juliet, Desdemona, and Leah with success. The Silver Cross Circle of King’s Daughters proposes soon to open a house where apartments of one, two or three rooms will be rented at the lowest possible rate to widows with children to support. “Well, here is a photograph of the lady whom I have described to you.” “But, my dear sir, according to this picture the lady is much older than you gave me any reason to believe. ” "O, I assure you ' that is a very old photograph. ” —Flieijende Bladder . The accumulation of wealth, estimated at 14 per cent of the gross earnings of mankind, now agg.egates 85,000,000,000 per annum, and is increasing, relatively as well as absolutely, from year to year. Little ones for a scent— Vial ata.