Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-09-19
ABOUT WOMEN.

Ma. Langtry will be with us again about the
end of the month.
Miss Mary Anderson will spend the autumn
season travelling in Ireland.
Mrs. Mackay is going to celebrate her Lon
don triumphs by a tour in Switzerland
The wife of Sir William Vernon Harcourt
is a daughter Of Motley, the eminent histo-
rian.
Tbs wife of President Diaz, Of Mexico, Is
not ret % years old, she is a devout Roman
Catholic.
Mrs. James Brown Potter says that the
Princess of Wales is the ~lovelieSt woman she
ever met
Mrs. Gladstone is a woman of infinite re-
source. 1t is said she darns her husbands
stockings.
Kate Field SAYS she always takes a state
ROOM on railroad trains when travelling, so
she can "lock out snores."
George Washington Childs says that the
two ableSt writers on his paper, TIL Philadel-
phia Ledger, are women.
PATHS husband will accompany her during
her next American tour, but only as a COM
panion. He will not sing.
The PruSsian minister of education has de.
cided against the admission of women into
the universities as students.
Mrs. Cleveland looks a person straight in
the eyes before she offers her hand, and then
shakes as though she meant it.
The ladies of San Diego, Cal, are said to
enjoy themselves immensely by smoking
cigarettes while they battle i'll the bay.
One of the brightest weekly newspapers OF
Washington, The News, is edited AMI pub
lished by a woman-Miss Alice r. Neale.
Mrs. Adeline Robinson, of Knox, Me-, who
is II years old, recently, with the aid of her
daughter, went down her well and cleaned 1t
out.
The name Of Elk Mound, Wis, has been
changed to Amy, in honor of Miss Amy hel-
logg, president of the Women's Christian
Temperance umlon
Mrs. Mary II. Villars, of Lake Bluff, Ills,
the newest ~rcvivaliSt i'll the west, is hC.dlng
meetings in Jerseyville, speaking in the
streets and i'll the churches.
The Misses Beard, four sisters, run a farm
in Floy county, Indiana. They manage every
thing on the place, and have one of the best
herds of Jerseys i'll the state.
Etelka GerSter, having recovered from a
somewhat alarming illness, recently appeared
at a Lcnefit concert in Paris, and sang with
all her old brilliamce and power.
Harriet Goodwin, a niece of the late Maj.
Gen. "Stoncwall" Jackson, of Virginia, is one
of the leading and most efficient members OF
the Shaker society at Alfred, Me.
Sarah Bernhardt does not spare the re-
porterS. She says: These fellows state hat
/ am as thin as n whipping post, yet there are
thousands of them waxing corpulent on the
fat of my boncS!'
Nine. de LesSeps takes her morning ablu-
ton in n bath room which cost 10000 francs.
The exposed faucets and pipes are all gold
plated, and the decorations of the room are
the work of the best artists in France.
Queen Margaret of Italy, if Figaro tells
truly, dresses at Worth'S, paints exquisite
luuarellcS, dances like a sylph and plays the
piano like an angel. Her rooms are treasures
Of raro porcelain, gems and pictures.
Ouida saysthat she breads "the day which
shall see this further development of that
crude and restless character of the Nineteenth
century, which with sublime Self-content-
ment and self-conceit, it has presumed to call
Progress
Nine. Vialarl, upon whom tho French mill
tary medal has been bestowed for distin-
guished services upon the field of battle, is a
widow ~ years old, and has been for thirty
five years the cantinicrc of the One Hundred
and Thirty-fiISt regiment.
Mrs. Laura c. Holloway denies tho report
that she is to he associate editor of Literary
Life with Miss Cleveland. She is too busy as
an author TO wish to become All editor again.
She is finishing the second volume of her
book, Ladies of the White House." which
has been entirely rewritten and brought down
20 date.