The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-08-30
MORE OR LESS FAMOUS.


MORE OR LESS FAMOUS.
ters oa Eve-Bits of Gossip.
Modjeska, the actress, is society Ia
vorite in California.
Nelly Grants husband has become
rich through the death of his brother.
The leading fortune teller of Paris.
Mime. Moreau, left fortune of 600,00
francs.
The empress Of Brazil made a pilgrim
recovery.
Miss Annie Uppincott, the daughter of
Grace Greenwood. has gone ON the stage.
Harriet Beecher Stowe continues to re-
ceive 81. 500 year from royalties on
"Unc1e Toms Cabin"
Princess Waldemar, Of Denmark, il
under the instruction Of the Danish
painter, Franz Henningsen.
A club of society women In London is
going to start a large poultry farm near
London. Bee culture is also included in
the scheme
Mime. 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 great time in Paris. She has done
an immense amount Of shopping" and
her royal spouse will have q 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
was to find the robber helpless and cow
ering at the muzzie of q pistol in the
hands of his intrepid wife.
Typhena, thirty fourth queen of the
Zut family Of gypsies, is encamped at
Saybrook Point, Conn. She will go to
Bristol, England, in November to attend
world gypsy. encampment to be held
there.
The mother of the present German
empress is confined in mad house. She
wanted to become the wife of Louis Ma
poleon, when he was president, and
would have done 80 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. It
Is small and exquisitely shaped. The
tinge Of yellow natural to the skin gives
it the appearance Of finely sculptured
bit of ivory tinted by time, but preserved
with infinite care.
Miss Mary Anderson is much annoyed
by ''the pestilential nuisances who write
for autographs" but has now hit upon
an effective plan fer 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 years 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 room full, her
writing desk standing in the middle. 1t
is with bobolink ON her shoulder, a
bluebird taking his bath In her tea cup,
and an oriole crihbing 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 well known Presbyterian divine, is
making quite little fortune out of
beaten biscuit, such as she used to regais
her guests on In happier aud more pros
porous days. They are ''home made"
under her personal supervision, white as
snow as to crumb and golden brown as
to crust, just such as you may have
eaten in many 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
cents dozen, and the demand for them
for luncheons, parties, picnics, ETC., has
grown so that abe 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 is the young English woman
upon whom the mantle of George Eliot is
supposed to have descended. If her
future fulfils the promise of her present
she will leave George Eliot behind in the
race. Probably no literary woman of
any time has OF has had an early record
to compare with that Of Vernon Lee,
She is only 25, and she has written sew
eral large volumes ON medieval lit
erature. involving years Of research; she
has contributed for at least eight years
to the leading English reviews; she has
published three or four volumes Of
essays, several short stories, and re-
markab,s novel called '.Miss Brown, T"
which was the literary sensation of the
day. Vernon Iee-her real name is
Violet Paget-lives in Florence with a
lame and musical brother. She is very
plain, decidedly masculine in appear
ance, and is fond of sitting with her legs
crossed and of smoking cigarettes. The
reading world has been waiting patiently
for new work from her pen,