The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-06-14
NEWSPAPER NoToRlErY.

What the Press Says of Women Whom
the World Is Acquainted with.
Patti continues her great success in
Buenos Ayres.
Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt spent $685.
600 for the fittings of one ROOM
Nine. Wilson, the daughter of ex-
President Grevy, is coming TO New York
to live.
Queen Victoria has sent to the Glas-
gov exhibition two table napkins manu-
factured from yarn spun by her own
| hands.
Princess Isabella of Brazil summarily
| dismissed one ministry that was not in
| sympathy with her views on emancipa-
ton.
The empress Of Japan is taking les
sons on the piano. The mikado's fifty
seven physicians are giving him every at
| tention.
One of the nlgnesU prices ever pald an
author for a manuscript was that of
| $4,000, which Mrs. Augusta Evans Will
son received from her publishers for her
'Infelice" before the book went TO press.
The total amount received by Mrs.
Grant up to the present time rs her share
of the profits from the sale of Gen.
| Grants Memoirs has been $4i1, 900,
and $4,000 sets Of the work have been
sold.
Miss Linda Gilbert, who has done SO
much toward prison reform, says that
during her fifteen years experience as a
philanthropist she has found employment
for 6, 600 discharged prisoners.
The empress of Japan, Haruka, will
visit America next winter. She travels
in state with dozen maids of honor and
numberless officials, and dresses in tho
richest silks, gauzes. crepes and tinseled
stuffs.
Nikita, the young American singer who
has been scoring a series of triumphs in
European concert halls, lately sang ''The
Last Rose of Summer at n London con-
cert, and through her performance
plucked a rose to pieces.
Mrs. John p. Newman, wife of the
new Methodist bishop, is said to be an
enthusiastic advocate of the Faith Cure.
She devotes much of her time to visiting
her sick friends, and tries TO persuade
them that they will become well if they
pray fervently and endeavor to think that
they are not i'll.
Mrs. Maria E. Beasley, of Philadelphia,
has made fortune from the most re-
markable invention which the mind of "A
woman ever conceived. In 1884 Mrs.
Beasley took out patent for a machine
for the construction of barrels. Up to
that time barrels had been made almost
all together by hand. The machine is
worked by three men and turns out moro
than 600 completed barrels a day. Mrs.
Beasley was born in North Carolina Of
wealthy parents. She possesses wonder
full mechanical genius. Her first inven-
ton was machine for hopping barrels.
1t will hoop ZOO barrels day, and il
used by the Standard Oil company.
Il write pretty rapidly" says John
Strange Winter, 'when once get hold
of an idea which l want to carry out.
But then, always think out my whole
story before put pen to paper. Once j
get my idea | write at racing pace for ss
many days as the mood lasts. l stop at
the first feeling of fatigue or effort, and
sometimes have to wait for weeks before
l can go on. Then l have dreadful
time, l can assure you," says Mrs. STAN
nard, smiling. II wander about the
house like lost spirit, or sit for hours
in front of piece of blank paper, filled
with crude idea and yet unable to give
1t form. l can t rest or enjoy myself in
any way at such periods of mental tor
ture. l, who am SO devoted to society at
other times Then the mist clears sud-
denly, apparently without cause, and L
am thoroughly happy and hard at work
again on the instant. But dislike talk
ing about myself and my books. Why,
| never mention the topic unless some
one begins about it. l would far rather
talk about anything else.'
1t is told that Mrs. Wilson Barrett
once had the honor of receiving one of
the India shawls which Queen Victoria
gives away SO freely. While she was
Miss Heath she was appointed reader to
the queens DIARY of Season in Scot
land" Poor Miss Heath read away day
after day until the august audience must
have heard the whole book for the twen-
tieth time at least. One day the gifted
actress had been at the castle, and came
home completely exhausted. She had
been standing beside tall reading desk,
| stiff as q poker, backing round in tho
royal presence here and there (for it is
not etiquette to show the small of ones
back to the queen) for four hours. II
had seemed as though her majesty would
never get tired Of the Diary of Victoria
l. During Miss Heaths absence rather
bulky box had been brought to her house
by special messenger in royal livery.
With anxious haste she opened tho par
Gel, and found it contained an India
shawl of about as gloomy pattern as
ever was seen. "I'll keep it," said poor
Miss Heath, 'but ] could never wear it.
1t would drape a catafalque with pretty
effect Z