Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1889 — Gossip About Women. [ARTICLE]

Gossip About Women.

Women interviewers are said to be far more successful than men of London newspapers. Miss Juliet Carson has become so much of an invalid that she is not able to leave her room. There are eight ladies of title in England who carry on the business of dress snd mantel making. Four of Archdeacon Farrar’s daughters have married clergymen, and three out of the four haVe chosen curates in their father’s church. A gold bangle watch with blue face surrounded with diamonds was the gift of the duke of Portland to each of the nine bridemaids who took part at bis wedding. The woman’s exchange at Kansas City is to build a home for working women. The home is to cost $30,000, and a $14,000 lot has already been bought to put it upon. There are over 3,000,000 women in this country who are engaged in work which is not domestic. Whatever are her “rights” a woman’s right to work is evidently unlimited. At the literary ladies’ dinner given in London a short time sgo seven gentlemen novelists offered to come as waiters, but they were not admitted. The second daughter of Gen. Boulanger is to marry the son of the sister-in-law of the ex-king of Naples. Her title if a long way off from royal, however, as she will only be a plain little countess. The Closing of an Important Outlet. The blockade of a port 1« not more injnrlons to its commerce than is even the temporary obstruction of the bowels to the health of the system. Constipation neosssarily arrests the secretion of bile, impedes and disorders digestion, and poisons the circulation. The safest and most effective, as it is also the most genial, laxative and anti-bilious medicine in existence is HostetteFs Stomach Bitters, and it is more than probable that its sovereign efficacy os a preventative and remedy for intermittent and remittent fever is largely due to its reformatory action upon the liver, an organ prejudicially involved in all malarial complaints. Persons with a tendency also to rheumatic, neuralgic and kidney trouble cannot do better than to antagouize it with Hostler’s Stomach Bitters, which invariably checks it at the outset. The weak, moreover, are invested with strength by this fine invigorant. The English Princess who is to marry Fife need not be a musician in order to blow her husband.

Two ot Mr. Barn urn’s Stories. Mr. Barnum’s breezy conversation was interspersed at frequent intervals with witty anecdotes and quaint sayings. He spoke of an old lady who was so deaf that, when some playful chaps fired a small cannon near the old lady’s door, she merely said “come in.” “That was a pretty fair story when I heard it some time ago,” said the veteran, “hut I heard a good one a day or two since that beats it. Two gentleman were walking along a highway near a railroad. One of the pedestrians was somewhat hard of hearing. Along came a train, and the engine emitted a frightful shriek. ‘H’m,’ said the deaf one, that’s; the first robin I’ve heard this spring.’”