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same as in England, except that they vote in- 

 directly for members of the House of Lords. 

 In Russia women (heads of households) vote 

 for all elective officers and on all local questions. 

 In Austria-Hungary they vote (by proxy) at 

 all elections. In Italy widows vote for mem- 

 bers of Parliament. In all the, countries of 

 Russian Asia women vote wherever a Russian 

 colony settles. Municipal woman suffrage ex- 

 ists in New Zealand, Victoria, New South Wales, 

 Queensland, and South America. Iceland, the 

 Isle of Man, and Pitcairn Island have full 

 woman suffrage. Tasmania, Sicily, Sardinia, 

 and a host of islands elsewhere, have partial 

 woman suffrage. 



Consumption. Of the total number of 

 deaths, the percentage traceable to consumption 

 in the several states and territories is as fol- 

 lows : Alabama, 9.6 ; Arizona, 6.1 ; Arkansas, 



6.4 ; California, 15.6 ; Colorado, 8.2 ; Connec- 

 ticut, 15.1 ; Dakota, 8.8 ; Delaware, 16.1 ; Dis- 

 trict of Columbia, 18.9 ; Florida, 8.3 ; Georgia, 

 7.9 ; Idaho, 6.8 ; Illinois, 10.3 ; Indiana, 12.6 ; 

 Iowa, 9.9 ; Kansas, 7.3 ; Kentucky, 15.7 ; 

 Louisiana, 10.4 ; Maine, 19.2 ; Maryland, 14.0 ; 

 Massachusetts, 15.7 ; Michigan, 13.02 ; Min- 

 nesota, 9.3 ; Mississippi, 8.8 ; Missouri, 9.8 ; 

 Montana, 5.6 ; Nebraska, 8.8 ; Nevada, 6.3 ; 

 New Hampshire, 5.6 ; New Jersey, 8.9 ; New 

 Mexico, 2.4 ; New York, 8.1 ; North Carolina, 



9.5 ; Ohio, 13.8 ; Oregon, 12.1 ; Pennsylvania, 

 12.6 ; Rhode Island, 14.6 ; South Carolina, 

 9.8 ; Tennessee, 14.5 ; Texas, 6.5 ; Utah, 2.8 ; 

 Vermont, 16.1 ; Virginia, 12.2 ; Washington, 

 13.2; West Virginia, 13.0; Wisconsin, 10.4; 

 Wyoming, 2.6. Average, 12.0. 



Presidents Inaugurated Irregularly. 

 George Washington, April 30, 1789 ; James 

 Monroe, second term, March 5, 1821 ; John 

 Tyler, April 6, 1841 ; Zachary Taylor, March 

 5, 1849; Millard Fillmore, July 10, 1850; 

 Andrew Johnson, April 15, 1865 ; R. B. Hayes, 

 March 5, 1877. 



Women, Myths of the Origin of. 

 Woman's first appearance has been a fruitful 

 subject of legends. The Phoenician myth of 

 creation is found in the story of Pygmalion 

 and Galatea. There the first woman was 

 carved by the first man out of ivory, and then 

 endowed with life by Aphrodite. The Greek 

 theory of the creation of woman, according to 

 Hesiod, was that Zeus, as a cruel jest, ordered 

 Vulcan to make woman out of clay, and then 

 induced the various gods and goddesses to in- 

 vest the clay doll with all their worst qualities, 

 the result being a lovely thing, with a witchery 

 of mien, refined craft, eager passion, love of 

 dress, treacherous manners, and shameless 

 mind. The Scandinavians say that as Odin, 

 Vill, and Ve, the three sons of Bor, were walk- 



ing along the sea beach, they found two sticks 

 of wood, one of ash, and one of elm. Sitting 

 down, the gods shaped man and woman out of 

 these sticks, whittling the woman from the 

 elm, and calling her Ernia. One of the strang- 

 est stories touching the origin of woman is 

 told by the Madagascarenes. In so far as the 

 creation of man goes, the legend is not unlike 

 that related by Moses, only that the fall came 

 before Eve arrived. After the man had eaten 

 the forbidden fruit, he became affected with a 

 boil on the leg, out of which, when it burst, 

 came a beautiful girl. The man's first thought 

 was to throw her to the pigs ; but he was com- 

 manded by a messenger from heaven to let her 

 play among the grass and flowers until she 

 was of marriageable age, then to make her his 

 wife. He did so, called her Baboura, and she 

 became the mother of all races of men. The 

 American Indian myths relative to Adam and 

 Eve are numerous and entertaining. Some 

 traditions trace back our first parents to white 

 and red maize ; another is that man, searching 

 for a wife, was given the daughter of the king 

 of muskrats, who, on being dipped into the 

 waters of a neighboring lake, became a woman. 



Gotham. The origin of the name 

 " Gotham, " as applied to the city of New York, 

 is contained in a humorous book called ' ' Salma- 

 gundi," written by Washington Irving, his 

 brother William, and James K. Paulding, and 

 is used to signify that the inhabitants were given 

 to undue pretensions to wisdom. This defini- 

 tion of the word is taken from a story regarding 

 the inhabitants of Gotham, a parish in Not- 

 tinghamshire, England, who were as remark- 

 able for their stupidity as their conceit. The 

 story relates that when King John was about 

 to pass through Gotham toward Nottingham, 

 he was prevented by the inhabitants, who 

 thought that the ground over which a king 

 passed became forever a public road. When 

 the king sent to punish them they 1'esorted to 

 an expedient to avert their sovereign's wrath. 

 According to this, when the messengers arrived 

 they found the people, each engaged in some 

 foolish occupation or other, so they returned 

 to court and reported that Gotham was a vil- 

 lage of fools. In time a book appeared entitled 

 "Certain Merry Tales of the Mad Men of 

 Gotham, "compiled in the reign of Henry VIII. 

 by Andrew Borde, a sort of traveling quack, 

 from whom the occupation of the "Merry 

 Andrew " is said to be derived. Among these 

 tales is the story of " The Three Wise Men 

 of Gotham," who went to sea in a bowl. 



Hallows Eve, or Halloween, is the night 

 of October 31st, the eve of All Saints', or All- 

 hallows Day, which is November 1st, and is 

 probably a relic of pagan times or of mediaeval 



