Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-05-23
DAUGHTERS OF EVE.

Adelina Patti turns 45 this year.
 Bismarck's wife is tall and very gray.
 This will be Queen victoria's 69th summer.
 The queen of Portugal is an accomplished potter.
 Mrs. Marie Jensen is the editor of a daily paper in Denmark.
 Miss Olin Longfellow is a and noted for her resemblance to her father.
 Miss Delphine Baker Is about to establish Christian newspaper in Jerusalem.
 Mrs. Candace Wheeler is endeavoring to build a new woman,s hotel in New York.
 Amelie Rives nevcr went to school, but had povernesses who guided rather than taught her.
 Mrs. Richard Watson Glider both paints and writes under the name of Helene de Kay.
 a contingent of Salvationists under her pa tronage.
 Ann O'Delia Diss Debar has announced her intention of entering journalism as soon as she gets out of jail
 Rosa Bonheur, the famous French artist, goes about on sketching tours clad in trousers and a cutaway coat.
 Miss Louie Royce, the Nebraska blizzard heroine, although a cripple for life, looks with cheerfulness into the future. Kin Yamei, the Chinese girl who recently graduated from the Women's medical college in New York, speaks and writes in five lam guages
 Mrs. Senator Hawley says that no woman should adopt the profession of a nurse unless she feels that she is specially fitted for the oc- cupation.
 Miss Shoemaker, of Muscle Fork, Mo-, al- though perfectly well and enjoying life, has 1 not been away from home for twenty-five years, not even to run in and talk with a neighbor.
 | Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, who was pre- sented to the queen, received several lessons from professional teacher of department in | regard to backing from ''the presence" and lowing to majesty. Joseph Davis, of Wayne county, West vir- ginia, has a daughter aged years who weighs 230 pounds. This is believed to be | the largest child of its age in the world The father weighs but 130 and tne mother 12O pounds Mrs. Leonora M Barry, who has made herself famous as an organizer of assemblies of Knights of Labor, is woman of fine presence, and her speeches are noted for their | fervid eloquence. She makes her home in Philadelphia. She has two young sons at school near Albany.
 Miss Jane Dutton, who died in Oakland, Cal, few days ago, at the age of s3 years, was a Forty-niner. She went around the Horn in that year and established . board ing house in San Francisco; and when she died she was worth $100, 0,0O0. Sine was New Hampshire srinster. and her property will 1 go to some relatives there.
 Mrs. Burnett has won a complete victory over MT. Seebohm, who against her protest iramatized her charming novel, "Li5tle Lord Fauntleroy," into much less charm. ing play. MT. Seebohm is ordered to cancel all passages copied or colorably altered from the novel and submit them for the plaintiffs examination when !canceled and pay the costs of the action.
 Two young ladies of South Chester, Pa., went into store where there was galvanic battery, and the proprietor asked them tc try it. Each grasped pole of the battery and wondered why no shock was felt. The proprietor suggested that they kiss each other. They did so, and then there was 6 shock indeed One of the young womer shrieked and fell over backward. The othe, made no sound, but u-fudntera.--oeaa--rute. brought them both around, none the worse 1 for the kiss.