Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1894 — THE FAIR SEX. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE FAIR SEX.

Lucy Platt Mitchell, whose engagement to Rutherford Platt Hayes, a son of the late Hayes, is announced, is a half sistei of the-wife of Gen. John M.Mitehell, of Columbus, Ohio, and of the wife of General Russell Hastings, of Minneapolis. Lady Henry Somers, during a recent trip of nine days, addressed over 22,000 people on intemperance, and had presented to her twenty-two public addresses.

An interesting bon mot by Mrs. Fred Grant was told by Fred Douglass the other day. At the Republican convention in Chicago in 1888 some delegate cast a solitary ballot for the negro politician. Mrs. Grant, who sat near him, turned and said: “You must be the dark horse of this convention, Mr. Douglass.” At Lommatzsch, Saxony, a woman of sixty-four has received ten blows with a stick by ordgr of the burgomaster, and in the presence of a doctor, for habitual drunkenness. An American colored woman, Mrs. Amanda Smith, is a temperance evangelist in England now, lecturing under the auspices of Lady Somerset.

The proprietors of the Dundee Courier and the Dundee Weekly News, who last year sent twelve working men on a tour through America, are sending two young ladies on a tour round thb-world. The travelers—Miss F. Marie Imandt and Miss Bessie Maxwell —left Dundee last —week, and will across the continent to Brindisi. In addition to European countries, they will visit Egypt, Arabia, India, China, Japan, Canada and the United States. The object of their journey is to obtain full and accurate information as to woman's position in the world. The conditions of female labor will engage special attention, but all social or religious matters in which the sex are interested will come within the scope ol inquiry.

Mrs. Tyndall would be much indebted to any American correspondents of the late Professor Tyndall who may have preserved his letters and will place them at her service. The request is made “that such letters would be kindly lent her for use in the preparation of her husband’s biography.” Any letters loaned are tc be a ’.dressed to Mrs. Tyndall, Hind Head House, Haslemere, England. They will be returned safely to their owners. Professor Tyndall had many American corresondents.