rest in the other's real estate.

In Kansas, women can vote in city and town affairs, and hold municipal
and town offices. In one town they have a female mayor. The supreme
court of Kansas has decided that when a woman marries she need not
take her husband's name unless she chooses.

CO-EDUCATION is successful, nearly every prominent college is
beginning to admit women, and they often carry off the prizes from the
men. Exclusive masculine colleges will soon rank among the barbarisms
of the past.

Female education is advancing in Russia. The universities had 779
female students in 1886, 437 of whom were daughters of noblemen and
official personages. On the other hand the Prussian Minister of
Education refuses to admit women as regular students at any university
or medical school.

Several Italian ladies have distinguished themselves in legal
knowledge, and the propriety of their admission to the bar is
extensively discussed. About nine-tenths of the newspapers favor their
admission.

The practical question, which is most important to the welfare of
women, is profitable employment. Miss Simcox says that there are about
three millions of women in England engaged in industrial employments,
while a large proportion of them, especially in London, have such poor
wages as to produce continual suffering. INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION, alike
for boys and girls, is the true remedy, worth more than all the
nostrums of politicians and demagogues.

SPIRIT WRITING.--Our handsome young friend, Dr. D. J. Stansbury, a
graduate of the Eclectic Medical College of New York, is giving
astonishing demonstrations on the Pacific coast. When a pair of closed
slates is brought, he barely touches them, and the spirit writing
begins. Sometimes the slates are held on the head or shoulders of the
visitor. At one of his seances at Oakland, it is said that he held the
slates for thirty-five persons within two hours, and obtained for each
a slate full of writing in answers to questions placed between the
slates. At a public seance in Santa Cruz, following a lecture, folded
ballots were sent up by the audience and the answers were sometimes
written on closed slates and sometimes by the doctor's hands. Dr. S.
has also succeeded in repeating the famous performance of Charles
Foster--the names of spirits appearing on his arm in blood-red
letters.

PROGRESS OF THE MARVELLOUS.--The _Boston Herald_ of Aug. 7 has a long
account of the marvellous fires wh