The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1885-08-05
FEMININE BREvITIES.

Kate Field will lecture before the Chau-
tauqua Assembly in August.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox lives at Meriden,
: Connecticut, where she has delightful
home.
Gail Hamilton is scorching the prohibi
tionists. They would like to put her out
/, with the aqueous element.
Miss Julia Jackson, daughter of General
Stonewall jackson, will be married this
month to a Richmond banker.
A Southern editor has discovered that
that there is nothing more exuuisitely
lovely than a woman in white in the moon.
light.
Mrs. Hendricks is woman OF great de-
cision and frmness of character. The Vice
President humbly acknowledges her superb
ority.
The Princess of Wales is said to be an en-
thusiastic angler. She is likewise a success
full one. Several years ago she caught
Wales.
Baroness Burdett Coutts is about to es-
tablish q British honey company. The
Baroness wants to sweeten the existence OF
her dear husband.
The average life of man is three-score
and-ten-but the ladies, bless 'em never
grow old! enthusiastically exLlaims sensi-
BILE editor.
Princess Beatrice looks like an American
girl, says one of her countrymen. That is
the finest compliment that could be paid
the fair lady.
Miss Addie kurtz OF Franklin county,
Pa, is the only female deputy sheriff in the
State She is not afraid of the most fero-
cious prisoner.
The Arab women are said to be the home
liest women on earth. What then must be
the Queen of the Cannibal islands and her
chief orgresses'
Ella Wheeler Wilcox's recent attack of
agua came after she had written that poem
on Malaria" and unpoetic souls look on
it as retribution.
Miss Cleveland used to write very grace
full verses a few years ago. The fact Of her
giving up poetry for prose shows she is a
sensible woman.
It is said French woman who is beauti-
ful always avoids being seen near other
beautiful women, preferring the propin-
.quity OF her less favored sisters.
When a very mad woman begins prac-
ticing with a revolver, the wise man always
dodges in front of her, says a man who
has watched his wife trying to shoot cats
The Baroness de Struve. wife OF the Rus
rian Minister at Washington, calls French
a frivolous language. The Russian tongue
is too ponderous to be lightly spoken of.
1t takes but thirteen minutes to lead an
elephant On d train, while it takes twenty
for any sort of woman to bid her friends
good-by and lose the check for her trunk,
observes an eyewitness.
Miss Warden, author OF "The House on
the Marsh," says she is indebted to Ed
mund Yates for the kind words which gave
her literary reputation start. Literary
men are nothing if not generous.
At Palestine, Tex. Mrs. Mary Orman.
for the third time has obtained a verdict
against the Missouri Pacific for $4,000
for the killing OF her husband, from which
decision the defendant once again appeals.
The young ladies carried off all the prizes
awarded in the University Of Mississippi
this year. The dark-eyed daughters of the
sunny South bid fair to rival the spectacle
orbed bellies OF Boston. so far az the higher
education is concerned.
Nine. Scalchi travels accompanied by
pug dog and a husband. The Norristown
Herald thinks it must be very expensive, as
she would probably leave one of the bipeds
at home, but a pug dog is not success in
looking after trunks and things.
concerning the English court Count Va
sail says in his new book: THE very air
about the royal residences is filled with
envy, hatred, malice. The 931 persons at
tached to the courts are in Il terrestrial
purgatory. Those Immediately attached
TO the Queen are the greatest sufferers. |
othing can be compared to the bondage |
of the C hief lady-n-waiting. She must sac
'ifice her habits, personal tastes and even
Ter opinions. Alas! for her if she happens
20 be a better musician or d more skillful |
than the Queen"