The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1886-10-22
ABOUT WOMEN.

Mrs Langtry will be with us again about the
end OF the month.
Mis- Mary Anderson will spend the autumn
season travelling in Ireland.
Mrs Maclay is going to celebrate her Lon
don triurnphs by a tour in Switzerland.
The wife of Sir William Vernon Harcourt
is daughter of Motley, the eminent histo-
rian.
The wife Of President Diaz, of Mexico, is
not yet 20 years old, she is n 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. IL Is said she darns her husbands
stockings
Kate Field says she always takes "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, The Phiadel-
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 in the bay.
Ono of the brightest weekly newspapers Of
Washington, The News is edited AMI pub
lishcd by woman-NIiss Alice r. Neale.
Mrs. Adeline Robinson, of Knox, Me-, who
is n years old, recently, with the aid of her
daughter went down her well and cleaned it
out.
The name Of Elk Mound, Wis, has been
changed to Amy, in honor of Miss Amy Kel-
logg, president of the Women's Christian
Temperance union.
Mrs Mary H. Villars, of Lake Bluff Ills,
the newest revivalist in the west, is holding
meetings in Jerseyville, speaking in tho
streets and in 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 in the state.
Etelka Gerster, having recovered from a
somewhat alarming illness, recently appeared
at a benefit concert in Paris and sang with
all her old brilliance and power.
Harriet Goodwin n niece Of the late Maj.
Gen. "Stonewall" 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 that
am as thin as a whipping post, yet there are
thousands of them waxing corpulent on the
fat of my bonesn
Nine. de Lesseps takes her morning ablu-
ton in q 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
aquarelles, dances like a sylph and plays the
piano like an angel Her rooms are treasures
OF rare porcelain, gems and pictures
Ouida says that 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"
Mime. Vialard. upon whom the French mill
tary medal has been bestowed for distin-
| guished services upon the field Of battle, is a
widow 55 years old, and has been for thirty
| five years the cantiniere of the One Hundred
and Thirty first regiment.
| Mrs. Laura G. Holloway denies the report
| that she is to be associate editor of Literary
Life with Miss Cleveland. She is too busy as
an author TO wish to become an editor again.
| She is finishing the second volume of her
| book, ladies Of the White House," which
has been entirely rewritten and brought down
| to date