ogy and microscopy. Mrs. D. N.
Marble, professor of general and pharmaceutical chemistry, and
Mrs. Fountaine Miller, professor of botany, were graduates of the
first class.

Mrs. Kate Trimble de Roode, in a recent letter says:

Kentucky has had school suffrage for thirty years, but as
the right is not generally known or understood, few women
have ever availed themselves of the privilege. The State
librarian has for many years been a woman, and there are
several post-mistresses also in this State. The State
University has recently admitted women on equal terms to all
its departments. As a general thing the young women of
Kentucky are better educated than the men, the latter being
early put to business, while most parents desire above all
things to secure to their daughters a liberal education. We
have a number of women practicing medicine in the larger
cities, one architect, but as yet no lawyers, although
several women have taken a full course of study for that
profession. The question of woman suffrage has been but
little agitated in this State, although the last
legislature gave a respectful hearing to several ladies on
the question. The property rights of married women are in a
crude state; the wife's personal property vests in the
husband; the profits and rents that accrue from her real
estate belong to him also. She can make no will without the
assent of her husband, and if given, he can revoke it at any
time before the will is probated. The wife's wages belong to
her husband. She cannot sue or be sued without he joins her
in the suit. The wife's dower is a life interest in a third
of the husband's real estate, whereas the husband's curtesy,
where there is issue of the marriage, born alive, is a life
interest in all the real estate belonging to the wife at the
time of her death. This is the statutory law, but the wife
by obtaining a decree in chancery may possess all the rights
of a _femme sole_. A bill securing more equal rights to
women passed the House of the last legislature, but failed
in the Senate. The courtesy of Kentucky men to women in
general, has kept them f