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BLACKSHEAR. GA., THURSDAY, AUG. 1879.
FOR THE FAIR SEX.
News nmlflVotes for Women.
The Duke Alexis says the American
women are the most beautiful in exist¬
ence.
Miss Harriet Ilosmer, the American
sculptress, so long resident at Rome, is in
her fiftieth year. She was born in Water
town, Mass.
Mrs. Mary Howitt hits received from
the English government a pension of
$600, in consideration of her literary
services.
Af N V omiT .Republic, vn U ,?lr 0r °I is t an le P excellent rcsi( ., ]ent .
i accompanies her
father Mrs. in Gladstone his shooting lull excursion*. opened home
a
for business girls ” in London. The cs
tablishment will accommodate twenty
five young women, who will be expected
to pay according to their means.
Fifteen years before the Revolution the
wife of Washington kept sixteen spin
ning wheels running, and saw the fabrics
made in her own house, under her own
direction.
A disconsolate wife tells the Detroit
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Louisiana Maryland, Delaware, Virginia how and
are the only States left in
which the male teachers outnumber the
female. In New Hampshire there are
five women teachers to one man, and in
Massachusetts eight to one.
A , deputation , , .. representing ,. the ., young
nuwdens of Great Britain recently waited
Upon the Duchess of Connaught, at Ruck
someiy Illuminated Bible as a gift of “, a the
maidens of Great Britain. !
France, Croquet it has never and become the popular giver] in
seems, reasons
are that French girls wear high-heeled aj
boots even in the country, and that,
thirty and that or forty house families lias nothing live in one house,
but a stone
required paved courtyard, lawn it is difficult to find, the
accommodations.
The Pacific coast has just had its firs
wedding performed where the marriage ceremon
was by a woman. Rev. Ada
C. Bowles of the First UniversstlisJ
church at San Francisco was the official
ting clergyman, Dr. Jennie Bearby, cf
Oakland, was one of the high contracting
parties, no mention being made of th?
man in the case.
The last English census gives the folloW
ing figures with regard to the women cm
ployed in the metal trade: Pattern do
signers, 137; finishers, surgical instrument makers
230; gun cartridge 366; percussion caj
makers, 660; makers, 1,497
machines maker, 243; file makers, l,021j
cutlers, 837; scissors makers, 376; needle^
2,110; pins, 403; steel pens, 1,577; third
bles, tiades, 144; goldsmiths’ plated and jewelers
manufacture, 3,022; tin wares, trade, 704; copp<r
160; 932; tii
plate workers, 1,883; brass trades, 1,883;
wire workers, 497; lacquerers, 698; buj
nishers, 1,320; iron manufactories, 2,093;
blacksmiths. 436; nail makers, 10,86 j ;
anchor makers, 910; press workers, 85
screw cutters, 1,479.
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Paris Millinery. -i
Directed to the fourth story by the cop
cierge, I ascended and found myself i
regal frescoes apartments, and sparkling in gilt, mil
l’ors, laces. An infinity an<j rf
confections were upon exhibition,
though their construction justified tli
prices, No they bonnet exceeded what less I was able
pay. for than twelp
dollars, and many for twenty-five, and
should have turned away had it not bee
for the courtesy of the accomplished sales
ladies—I may apply the word “ ladies ” i
its every acceptation—in manner, in ap
pearance and in education. Both hand*
some, the younger past youth, the eldef
had crossed the meridian of life, and yef
either of them would have “ shaken the
saintship and of an anchorite” by subtle
grace and they liquid succeeded voice and in talking eyes;
bonnet. so selling me a
How could I resist the influence
two such seductive flatterers and
They compelled and me bonnet to be seated before a
mirror, one after
adorned my pate; for she was quite sure
she could suit madame. If one was too
the costly, there was another hanging upon
teen next francs peg, less. just If as madame Beautiful,"for eight
the did not like
rouge, madame should see herself in
the but ceiQ)leu; then it was just niadame’s color,
madame was so easily coiffed;
madame was—ah,a belle in anything; and
then these two handsome, crafty females
indulged in a dissertation in their own
tongue, largely interlarded with English,
upon my constructive attractions. This
last coup d'etat clinched the bargain.
Tne next “madame” who purchased
a more beautiful, expensive article would be still
more and would undoubtedly
hear her charms extolled in still more
winning philosophy tones. Still, l admire the rude
of these people; it made us
all happy • they sold their merchandise;
I wont away in a state of beatitude, in
being and compared to “flowers and angels
^ sunbeams, ^ sparkle the calmness of moonlight
an< ie of champagne.” And as
^ passed away toward the book shop my
meditations were upon the cruel fascina
tions of these French women. With me
their influence had been potential; what
woukl 8Uch sway 1)0 with the opposite
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A Pigmy Fiflnter.
In a recent exhibition of old anti eu
rious paintings in Holland was a por¬
trait of Oliver Cromwell. It was by no
means somewhat a masterpiece feeble imitation of art, being a
Sir Peter Lely, the in style of
Charles 1. of England. court But it painter of
was a real
curiosity It9 in its wav. Hiclmm
P“B>“r known the “dwarf Uibson, other
wise as artist,”
Gibson was three feet two inches high.
He was born in 1615. While serving its
a page for a lady at Mortlake, she no¬
ticed his talent tor drawing, and caused
him to be instructed by De Keeyn, the
superintendent of the famous Mortlake
tapestry works. The little artist became
very skillful as a copier of Sir Peter
Lely’s tion of pictures, and attracted the atten¬
Queen Henrietta Maria. She
made him her husband’s page, and mar¬
ried him to a dwarf young lady of ex
actly his own height, who waited on
her. Tlte wedding of the dainty little
pair was honored by the presence of the
the king and queen, and Edmund Waller,
poet, commemorated it by a poem.
When Charles lost his scepter and his
head, and passed with his queen out oi
English throve. lines, He had his little protege lived and
trait, and painted called the king’s por¬
now was upon to limn
that of the protector. Cromwell re¬
garded him with particular and kindly
favor. On the restoration he again
changed coats, and entered the service of
Charles II. He was drawing master to
the Princesses Mary and Anne. But the
wild court of the son of his old master
did not suit the tastes of the pigmy
painter, private life, now grown old. He retired to
and died in 1690. His wife,
after giving birth to nine children, all of
whom attained ordinary size, died in
1709, at the age of ninety.
Tricks of London Booksellers.
A seller of old books in London lias
written for the Pall Mall Gazette, a con¬
fession of a few of his sins, which would
gladden if the heart of many an American
buyer the writer gave any evidence of
repentance. “ A number of us,” lie says,
“crowd into an aucticn-room, where a
library is brought article. to the hammer, and
buy every Here all know one
another, and each one bids for the rest.
There is, therefore, no advance on the
first bid, unless an outsider interferes, beyond
when we soon run the price up
what he cares to give. This trick, re¬
peated as often as necessary, disgusts the
outsiders and secures the whole stock for
ourselves at far less than its real value.”
When the auction is over they “retire
to a neighboring themselves. tavern There and the repeat volumes it ”
3mong
»o at fair prices, which allows the buyer
brty per cent, for profit on his private
msiness. “ All being sold, we cast up
tie totals of the two sales, subtract the
snaller from the greater, and divide the
jemainder equally among rt hose present.”
NO. 24.
This is not all; nor is it the most
ling confession “One have of the Craft ” has
to make. “ \Ye a good many ways
of enhancing the value of our wares,
Celebrities of all sorts, whoaijpasser
viceable to us in a way about to l>e
described as those merely literary, are
dying disposed off of. every In day, these and their libraries lookup
eases we
from our stock all likely books, furnish
them with sham plates and .utographs
and soon get rid or them at fancy prices,
It is a fact that after Lord Macaulay’s
death thousands of volumes which he
never saw were sold in this way as com
ing irom his library ”
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RUSSIA’S MISFORTUNE .
-
° fc ,n ThRt Country a veritable *• *«•« ot
Trouble
Russia „ ., s complicated misfortunes
are
P ossl,ll Y unparalleled in the history of
any (, °u n try. Just before the latest
A urk(>-Russian . the wretched
war condi
t,on the people in many of the Czar s
. had brought about extensive
P rovl nces
eruptions, . rhenative tribes^of the Can
casus could not stand the levies imposed
on them in different shapes by Uu* Hus
one-half died in the first year. There
are single now 770 families, besides
300 persons, of these 1 )aghcstan and
Tcrsk rebels on their way to exile, and
still more have been doomed to
transportation. The war with Turkey
was resorted to in the hope that It would
raise the old patriotic sentiments and
turn the minds of discontented Russians
from their domestic troubles. This no¬
tion proved a mistake, and the results of
the war, so far as Russia is concerned,
perished were unsatisfactory. in it, whom Over 200,000 men
of 18,000 are re T
ported to have frozen to death, and the
wai expenses amounted to 1,500,000,000
roubles. The Russian Nihilists have
watched each step of their enemy—the
Russian government. Thus the two
hostile powers—the Revolutionists and
Imperialists—have been carrying on
their desperate struggle, each trying to
deal the death blow to the other. In no
of agricultural the fields—the country is the chief product
sailed in Russia. grain—so The much as¬
as forces of na¬
ture itself often turn against the public
welfare. One year the crops are de¬
stroyed by extensive drought; the next
year and by by hail, excessive Then rain, by inundations
it dry again every year, be
vastated too by or clouds too rainy, of locusts the fields and beetles, are de¬
and by swarms of Siberian marmots.
For the last five years the middle and
southern provinces—the very granary of
Russia—have been one vast nest oi de¬
structive insects. The Russian millions
have a foe yet more terrifying than fam¬
ine. Epidemic diseases make havoc
every year in many parts of the empire.
The fatality last year from the plague
was small in comparison with that which
occurs every year from other less heard
of epidemics. Several varieties of ty¬
phoid typhus, fever, especially the so-called hun¬
ger and cholera are epidemic in
Russia. The young generation is de¬
stroyed such by diphtheria and small-pox to
an extent that it has been necessary
to call for the aid of the Red Cross socie¬
ties in dealing with them. The ever-re¬
curring and extensive fires, of which we
have lately heard so much from Russia,
should not be overlooked. Statistics
show that every year no less than one
twelfth part of ail the houses of Russia
are consumed in flame. Russia will
doubtless go on burning, for the present
Russia is but a huge agglomeration of
combustible material, with hardly any
"fire extinguishing engineg. In conse¬
quence of the appalling poverty of the
masses oft he Czar’s subjects, it has for
many years been impossible to enforce
the payment of taxes upon any regular or
orderly the system. The tax collectors re¬
sort linquent to severest measures They against flogged de¬
and imprisoned, taxpayers. their are horses, igs
and cattle, TTtS
auction, poultry are seized and put at
and finally the house of
linquent is unroofed. These are some of
the points which, for the common peo¬
ple at least, make Russia a' veritable
“sea of troubles .”—Philadelphia Tele.