The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-04-12
THE FAIR SEX.

A granddaughter of Charles Dickens
Is now typewriter and copies manu-
script for living.
Emma Abbott believes firmly that she
will die in carriage accidentally. She
says that the quietest horses become un-
manageable when drawing her carriage,
and she has frequently been thrown out,
but hes DO far never been seriously in
jured.
Mrs. Hall, the wife Of Professor Asaph
Hall, Of the naval observatory Of WASH
ington, teaches her boys Greek and Latin,
keeps pace with her husbands wander
ings among the stars, is an expert house.
keeper, fine historical scholar, and is
said to write delightful poetry.
Christina, the young queen regent Of
Spain, is very fond of music, but does
not care to go to public places Of enter
tainment, SO she has large speaking
telephone, connecting her palace with
the Madrid opera house, and listens to
all the great singers without leaving her
room.
Susan King is said to be the most sue
cessful woman engaged in the real estate
speculation in New York, il she is not
the only one engaged in that line. Like
many . successful man, she came to the
metropolis with little or no money in her
pocket, but by strict attention to business
and some lucky investments she accumu-
lated A-sesEzana------------- ------ srs-'s
Mrs. Phillips, . white lady, some 30
years old, made last year thirty odd bales
of cotton and plenty of corn, peas and
potatoes ON Capt. G. o. Riley's place,
in Great Cypress township, Barnwell
county, s. c. She plowed with an OK,
and did all the work of repairing, plant
ing, cultivating and gathering. This
year she has bought mule and is all
ready to plant.
Miss Dora Wheeler Is making portrait
gallery Of American men of letters, all of
her own painting. She has Mr.. Lowell,
Mr.. G. d. Warner, T. B. Aldrich and
Frank R. Stockton completed, and John
Burroughs and Walt Whitman in the
early stages. For the Whitman she has
only had one short sitting, but she has
made very strong sketch Of the poet's 3
patriarchal head.
The romance of the London season,
social and financial, is the story of Miss
Cornwell, ''the gold queen of Australia, :"
OF princess Midas" as they familiarly
call her in the city. She is Q mining ex-
pert; she brought over the prospectus Of
her mine, which she called Midas, situ-
ated at Ballarat, and sold it in London,
stocking 1t for 9100, 900, and the capital
was subscribed twice over. The famous
nugget LADY Brassy" and other great
Jumps of gold were taken out of this
mine. They say in Australia that Miss
Cornwell has second sight in the matter
of gold discovery. Miss Cornwell is a
womanly, gentle, colonial lady of 35,
dresses very plainly, has no social ambi-
ton, but is as charming In society as she
is powerful among the great money men
of London.
Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett is
showing herself keen controversialist in
her case against the pirate Seebohm, who
cribbed her most charming story for a
third rate play. 'sIn describing to me, "
she says, ''the enormous success Of his
play, and the universal rapture with
which it was received, Mr.. Seebohm
writes, THE greatest fault found by
captious critics is that have rendered
your conceptions too literally Natur-
ally felt regret on realizing that it was
my conceptions alone which had spoiled
Mr.. Seebohm's play: but the one thing I
had not taken into consideration in writ
ing 'Fauntleroy' was that must make
my work worthy of being ranked with
Mr.. Seebohm when he thought proper to
use it! As for my own play,
it will be presented as soon as possible.
Who knows but that the public, which
has already been kind to me, may like it
little better than Mr.. Seebohm'sa That
might simplify matters"