Daily Yellowstone journal., 1888-09-02
MORE on LESS FAMOUS.
Press Paragraphs Concerning the Daugh'

4Nthr NiAbNS hbohuiAN IN
inch through the death of his brother.
The leading fortune teller of Paris,
Nine. Moreau, left a fortune of 600, 900
francs.
The empress of Brazil made a pilgrim
age 10 Lourdes because of the emperor's
recovery.
Miss Annie Lippincott, the daughter of
Grace Greenwood, has gone on the stage.
Harriet Beecher Stowe continues to re-
ceive 81, 500 a year from royalties on
''Uncle Toms Cabin"
Princess Waldemar, of Denmark. is
under the instruction of the Danish
painter, Franz Henningsen.
A club of society women in London is
going TO start a large poultry farm lea
London. Bee culture is also included in
the scheme.
Nine. Boulanger is said to be very
pious and melancholy, and does not enjoy
her husbands popularity or the female
admiration which he commands.
There is a prospect that Mrs. Kate
Chase may enjoy great prosperity again,
as her property in Washington is rapidly
rising in value owing to local improve
ments.
The queen of Portugal has been hav-
ing a great time in Paris. She has done
an immense amount of shopping" and
her royal spouse will have a lively time
in settling the bills.
Mrs. Cain, of Tyler, Tex, seeing a
burglar break into the cabin occupied by
her absent cook, telephoned her husband
TO com home, and when he got there it
was TO find the robber helpless and COW
ering at the mu -zle Of a pistol in the
hands of his intrepid wife.
Typhena, thir.y-fourth queen of the
Zut family of gypsies, is encamped at
Saybrook Point Conn. She will 60 TO
Bristol, England, in November to attend
a world gypsy encampment to be held
theres
The mother of the present German
empress is confined in a mad house. She
wanted 10 become the wife of Louis Ma
poleon, when he was president, and
would have done so but for the opposition
of Queen Victoria.
Anna Dickinson is authority for the as
sertion that Fred Douglass has that rare
beauty, an absolutely perfect hand. 1t
is small and exquIsitely shaped. The
tinge Of yellow natural to the skin gives
it the appearance Of a finely sculptured
bit of ivory tinted by time, but preserved
with infinite care.
Miss Mary Anderson is much annoyed
by 1.-THE pestilential nuisances who write
for autographs" but has now hit upon
an effective plan for dealing with them.
She has had a specimen of her writing
autographed, and her manager sends
each applicant a copy thereof, with a
printed card saying: Miss Anderson de-
sires me to inclose you her autograph as
you request, with her compliments, and
TO say how sorry she is that the matter
has not had her attention ere this"
Oliver Thorne Miller is now 80 wears of
age, gray haired, stout and jolly. She
first began writing for the amusement of
her children, then for their instruction
in natural history. Five years she has
devoted exclusively TO the study Of birds,
of which she keeps a room full. her
writing desk standing in the middle. 1t
is with a bobolink on her shoulder, a
bluebird taking his bath in her tea cup,
and an oriole cribbing from her back
hair for its nest, that Mrs. Miller pens
the studies from bird life introduced to
us in BIRD Ways and in her new work,
I'm Nesting Time"
A Mrs. Pratt, in Louisville, the widow
of a well known Presbyterian divine, is
making quite a little fortune out Of
beaten biscuit, such as she used to regale
her guests On in happier and more pros
perous days. They are ''hcme made'
under her personal supervision, white as
snow as 10 crumb and golden brown as
10 crust, just such as you may have
eaten in many a Tennessee and Kentucky
house where the divine art Of making
them is still possessed by the negro cooks.
Mrs. Pratt sells her biscuit at fifteen
7cenIs a dozen, and the demand for them
for luncheons, parties, picnics, etc, has
grown so that she employs several people
besides the original .'aunty" who helped
her make the first batch she sent on trial
to the Woman's Exchange.
Vernon Lee isthe young English woman
upon whom the mantle of George Eliot is
supposed TO have descended. II her
future fulGls the promise Of her present
she will leave George Eliot behind in tho
race. Probably no literary woman Of
any time has or has had an early record
10 compare with that Of Vernon Lee
She is only %, and she has written sew
eral large volumes on medieval lit
erature, involving years Of research; sh'
has contributed for at least eight year
to the leading English reviews; she hal
published three or four volumes o
ESSAYS, several short stories, and q re
markable novel called miss Brown
which was the literary sensation Of TIN
day. Vernon Lee-her real name i
Violet Paget-lives in Florence with
lame and musical brother. She Is very
plain, decidedly masculine in appear
ance, and is fond of sitting with her leg
crossed and Of smoking cigarettes. TIL,
reading world has been waiting PATENT.
for new work from her pen.
The President Of MeNioo.
A correspondent writing from the Cit
Of Mexico saws: Il saw Don Porfirio,
- Hid I'll Al. -..ai