Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1882 — Facts About the Gentle Sex. [ARTICLE]

Facts About the Gentle Sex.

Young English ladies walk about London alone now, a fashion unknown 20 years ago. Mrs. Betsy G. Truell was buried at Candia, N. H., Wednesday, her daughters acting as I*ll bearers. A girl at Coviniton, Ky., has sued her own mother for SIO,OOO damages for imputations against her chastity. A Dubuque man, who found a wallet containing S3OO in cash, refused to give his wife $5 to buy a hat, and she peached on him and mado him restore the whole sum to the loser. A lovely young lady, a member of a mutual aid union, advertises in the Yazoo, Miss., Sentinel that she is ready to receive proposals of marriage from nice young men. An Illinois woman of 80 has brought suit for divorce against her husband of 25. She thinks he married her for money. It will be difficult for him to convince a jury that it was her blooming youth that attracted him. Up in Boone county, a few days ago, Mrs. Maggie Miller procured a divorce from her husband ou the ground of cruel and inhuman treatment. She proved the bad treatment by her own sister. A few days after the sister and divorced husband were married. One hundred years ago small-pox was spreading its terrors through Europe, and Madame Elizabeth,sister of Louis XVI offered her fair arm for inoculation to convince th«* people of its virtue. The people manifested their gratitude a few years later by choppin. off her head. Of the 262 women who have been inmates of the Massachusetts home for intemperate women, 46 have been discharged as hopeless cases. Yet when the kind matron selects the objects of her benevolence from the courts, she chooses only those who appear as if they might be reclaimed. A great scandal was caused in Cornwall few months ago by the elopement of a young lady, the duughter of a gentleman well known in the county, with her father’s groom. They fled to South Africa, and recently letters were received announcing that the damsel was on her way home, having left her companion in a hotel at Natal, where he has been engaged as waiter. Geegory Lltherman, member of the barracks band, at Columbus, and connected with the army since 1861, was fatally injured by a fall from a window.