Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-03-09
DAUGHTERS OF EVE.

The Princess of Wales is compelled to use an ear trumpet
 A New Yorx girl gives as her reason for smoking cigarettes that lit makes her tnlnK there is man around.n
 The first woman doctor in Mexico has lately been honored with complimentary bull fight for her entertainment.
 An Albany girl has had the skin of her de ceased pug dog tanned and uses it as rug to stand on when she is out on the ice.
 More than 5000 has, it is stated, been already collected for present to Alexandra, princess of Wales, for her silver wedding. Mrs Sally Summers, of Jones county, Ga, has 365 grandchildren, 142 great-grand- children, and 42 great-great-grandchild
 Professor Simon Newcomb's daughter en- joys the distinction of having been the only female student at Johns Hopkins university.
 Mrs. c. H. Moore. of Philadelphia, wears the most costly diamonds C. all the society women of tn Quaker City Her jewels are said to be worth about S60,OOO.
 Ouida has at last consented to write q novel with a typical American family in it," and "all the sprightly freedom of GUS tomary American love making"
 One of the best lady shots in the world is the Marchioness de Mores, formerly Miss Won Hofmann, of New York. She is in India bringing down tigers and elephants on the wing.
 Mme Barrios, relict of the late dictator of Guatemala, denies that she is engaged to an English nobleman, and adds that she has so far seen no inducement to re-enter the marriage state.
 A woman in Tennessee found a bombshell the other day and decided to use it as an and- iron. She put it on the stove to heat and went about her cooking. The funeral was l largely attended.
 l Princess Marie Dolgorouki, sister of the l widow of CZar Alexander II, has been made lady of honor to the czarina. Like all the Dolgoroukis, she is noted for her beauty and | charming manner.
 Mrs. Flora Schlamm, of New York, has celebrated her 1O2d birthday She saw Ma. poleon Bonaparte at Posen in 1895, and has a distinct recollection of the battle of Water loo. Her grandfather lived to be 12O Rosa Bonheur dresses in male attire only when at work, because it gives her more freedom in her studies at the menageries and stock yards On the street she dresses as dc other women, and attracts no more atten. l tion
 A number of New York ladies have sub. scribed Q fund of S6,000 whose interest shall be used to pay the college expenses of the New York woman who each year shall pass the best examination for entrance to Har yard.
 | Mrs. Cleveland has most delicate appre- citation of 'tthe fitness of things" as the ex. pression goes. When asked by druggist at Jacksonville, Fla, what favoring she would have in her soda water, she said: Orange 1 please"
 The duchess of Hamilton, wife of the pre- mier peer of Scotland, and sster-in-law te Lady Vaudeville, has opened retail butter shop at Ipswich, in the neighborhood of the White Horse Inn inlinortalized by Pickwick and is, according to latest reports, crowded with orders.
 l Miss Blanche Willis Howard, of Bangor who has made some fame story writer is now engaged in compiling novel ill Stutt gart and at the same time in keeping house educating family of nieces and nephews nursing several cases of diphtheria and scar let fever, supervising the translation of one of her novels into German, Italian and French, improving her memory and learning to use typewriter.