Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1889-02-17
oAuoArERs OF EvE

Ma Margaret J Mitchell. Of Cleveland.
has Just celebrated Der iUuth birthday
MIA ouphnnt the novelist who . nov %
years ole. h great favorite Of Queen Vie
TORN.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox q. now descrhod a.
small woman with a mouth like Anna Dick
lnson'a
Miss Chamberlain. tho American beauty.
Is still the center Of III admiring circle in
England
Mile. Ponclin. who passed the law xamtn
tion OF the University OF brussels aud 70
ceived her diploma was denied admission to
the bar.
Miss Davenport, an Irish lady. In the gov
crncSs Of the king of SIain. HE get- $500
4 yrar salary und will have a life pensioa
when her task is done Of $3.50.
Victoria Woodruff Is said TO havctaken up
her abole At Paris. where she hus bought a
hod~e FOR 2.oOO,uO frnics. In which she hopes
TO fund an Institution for tho FREQ education
OF wUtnci.
Mn Reagan Is her husbands private sec-
rotary. ui,d by virtue VI that fact Is entitled
on oil ovnsions to the privilege OF the floor
OF the senate, q circumstances enjoyed by no
other woman.
The granddaughter Of Abraham Lincoln,
who will mnke her entrance into society this
winter, has "a bright, Giriish fuco I'm which
there Is no trace Of tho rugged features Of
her great ancestor.
Jano HIDING almost had nervous prostrn-
ton in Kansas City She was accuste.l by
ono OF tho citizens who spoke very good
French With Parisiun politeness he invitei
her to buy a corner lot
Queen Victoria, It Is now authoritativcly
stated. hns really ~eIrcctctl retrenchinent in
her household involving u saving OF Sl5O,UO0
q year. OF which, It Is said. tho Prince OF
Wales Is to huvo tho lcuefit
Kate Douglas Virgins, the writer OF chill!
drens stories, avows that her highest conccp-
lion OF fame Is to write a hook that she SINH
SEQ tucked under n chilL's arm. and which
looks to have been read three or four tlmea-
Princes Maria Theresa, OF Bavaria, Il 40
companied In oil her travels bJ q chamber
lain whose duty it Is to lcJk after her pcs
animals, OF which there Gro fourteen. includ-
Ing several dogs, two n,aSpies, an enormous
rat and a diminutivo bear.
Philadelphia has a large training school for
colored teachers, and at its head Is Miss Fanny
J. Coffin, one Of tho most notahle colorel We
men In the country. She Is a graduate OF
the Rhode Island State Normal school aud
Oberlin college. and has taught since 1865.
Tho pope's jubilee gift to tho empress Of
Austria was tho only ono which Ter majesty
would accept II was q large, splendid mo-
snic representing tho Virgin nnd Child sur
rounded by flowers. The mosaic Is Two feet
In height and it hn5 taken several years to
complete it 1t has cost upward OF 10000.
The Princess OF Wales boudoir In her Lon.
don house is an octagon room, furnished IN a
light and delicate style. The walls are plain
except hero and there where plaster cast
give them artistic severity. They are hunS
with hand painted silk pamela The door
nre OF satin wood and mahogany and camet
panels
Mile. Dumas Is the president Of an associa
ton OF Protestant ladies who visit system
aticnlly tho womcn's prison Of ST. Lazare, II
PnriS Some idea Of Mile. Dumas devotion
in this good work may he gathered from th,
circumstance that when she was 81 years .
ago (sho is now 0O) she learned Spanish, thu
shc might speak words OF comfort to a younI
Andnlusian who did not understand French
Tho young women who attend the ncS
college in Baltimore ought to become robus
: and well developed, for the facilities offers
for physical training are said to be supcrio
to those offered by any other woman's colleg
q i'll the world. The gymnasium is a three
story structure, covering 1000 square feet
. 1t has n large swimming pool, bowling alley
0 walking truck, bath rooms and considerable
: apparatus designed especially for women.