The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1888-10-12
THE FAIR SEX.
Newspaper Gossip Concerning the Daugh'
teis of Eve--Personal Mention.

Newspaper Gossip Concerning the Daugh'
tens of Eve-Personal Mention.
Rose Elizabeth Cleveland will 60 to
Europe next year to pursue her literary
studies.
The fastest typesetter in California is
said to be young woman who is EN-
ployed in a newspaper Office at Santa
Barbara.
Miss Daisy Hampton, Gen. Wade
Hampton's daughter, is famous Pc
destrian. She recently walked from her
home to Charleston, a distance OF 145
miles, and made in one day record Of
twenty miles.
The Dowager Duchesse de Fitzjames
sent recently to Paris fashionable bride
as her wedding present copy OF the
funeral grafton delivered over James II
of England, recovered and preserved by
the Baron de Maynard at Lisbon.
The number of tall ladies now in Wash.
ington society is noteworthy. A niece Of
Secretary Bayard, Miss Bayard, of Balti-
more, is six feet tall; Speaker Carlisle's
wife is five feet nine inches, and Gen.
Greeley's wife, Mrs. Wilkinson, wife Of
Representative Wilkinson, of New Or
leans, and Miss Ginter, of Kentucky. are
about the same height.
Amelie Rives' sister, about whose beauty
so much is being said, is small, very slight
and girlish. She has golden hair. large
dark blue eyes of weird expression, and
a complexion of the most dazzling pink
and white. She has long lashes, fine
nose, and full red lips. She dresses with
school girl simplicity.
Nine. Vincent. a French woman, has
saved twelve persons from drowning.
A short time ago she jumped into the
waves entirely dressed and rescued the
twelfth, a 6-year-old boy. She has seven
children Of her own, the youngest q
baby.
Now that the queen and the Princess
of Wales have set the fashion of wearing
opals, it will be very widely followed, in
spite of the reputation for ill luck which
clouds the beauty Of these prismatic
gems.
Miss Frances Wetmore has been ap-
pointed government physician for the
island of Hilo. CDR. Fanny" as she is
called, has large practice, and is very
popular among all classes. She makes
her visits on horseback, and is ready to
answer any call, night or day, in fair
weather or foul.
Mrs. Richie, the daughter of Thack-
cray, seems to write her stories by
similar method to that which Emerson
pursued in the preparation of his essays.
When anything strikes Mrs. Richie she
writes it down at the moment, and then
patches the little scraps together. It ap-
pears that before the publication of Mr..
Louis Stevenson's "Dr. Jekyn and Mr..
Hyde, F." the very same story had been
thought out by Mrs. Richie. It had
come to her with fash-the very best,
most delightful story she had ever
thought of; and bitter was her disap-
pointment when she picked up Mr.. Louis
little book and found her idea
had been anticipated.
Col. Ingersoll's daughters are brilliant
girls. Not in the sense that society terms
ts girls brilliant; for they are not shall
ow, and frivolity does not babble when
'Hcy speak, AHcy are DIdluy. 1uey
have read and studied deeply. They
have fine scientific knowledge, and
they talk thoughtfully on all topics of
the time. Still, these two young ladies
have by no means neglected themselves
in the lighter accomplishments. They
are fine musicians, and they possess in a
degree the gift Of entertain
ment. One of them, Miss Maud, is the
possessor Of remarkable memory. She
has stored up in her mind vast amount |
Of knowledge which she recalls in the
most minute manner and with the great
est apparent ease. Without the slightest |
hesitation she can tell, for instance, the
date of birth or death Of any important |
composer, and can recall any event Of
moment in his career. This quite un-
usual gift she carries into. other fields,
and her information is so widespread and
70 accurate that but for her singularly
winsome manner ordinary folks would
be quite afraid to talk to her.