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Is still the center OF an admiring circle IN
England.
Mile. Popelin, who passed the law examina-
ton Of the University OF Brussels and re-
ceived her diploma, was denied admission to
the bar.
Miss Davenport, an Irish lady. is the gov
erness of the king of Spain. She gets $500
a year salary and viii have a life pension
when her task is done of s., 500.
Victoria Woodruff is said to havetaken up
her abode at Paris, where she has bought q
house for 2. 600, 900 francs in which she hopes
to found an institution for the free education
of women
Mrs. Reagan is her husbands private Sec
rotary, and by virtue of that fact is entitled
on all occasions to the privilege of the floor
of the senate; circumstance enjoyed by no
other woman.
The granddaughter Of Abraham Lincoln,
who will make her entrance into society this
winter has bright, girlish face in which
there is no trace Of the rugged features Of
her great ancestor.
Jane Hading almost had nervous proStra-
ton in Kansas City. She was accosted by
one of the citizens who spoke very good
French. With Partisan politeness he invited
her to buy a corner lot
Queen Victoria, it is now authoritativsly
stated, has really effected retrenchment in
her household involving a saving of $4,000
a year, of which, it is said, the Prince of
Wales is to have the benefit.
Kate Douglas Virgins, the writer Of chill
dren's stories, avows that her highest concep-
ton Of fame is to write a book that she shall
see tucked under child's arm, and which
looks TO have been read three or four times.
Princess Maria Theresa, of Bavaria, is &C.
companied in all her travels by a chamber
lain whose duty it is to look after her pet
animals, Of which there are fourteen, includ-
ing several dogs, two magpies, an enormous
rat and diminutive bear.
Philadelphia has a large training school for
colored teachers, and at its head is Miss Fanny
j. Coffin, one of the most notable colored wo-
men i'll the country. She is a graduate Of
the Rhode Island State Normal school and
Oberlin college, and has taught since 1865.
The pope's jubilee gift to the empress of
Austria was the only one which her majesty
would accept. 1t was large, splendid mo-
sale representing the Virgin and Child sur
rounded by flowers The mosaic is five feet
in height and it has taken several years to
complete it. 1t has cost upward Of $4,000.
The Princess of Wales boudoir in her Lon
don house is an octaeon room, furnished IN
light and dslicate style. The walls are plain
except here and there where plaster casts
give them artistic severity. They are hung
with hand painted silk panels. The doors
are Of satin wood and mahogany and cameo
panels
Mile Dumas is the president Of On associa-
ton Of Protestant ladies who visit system
atically the women's prison Of St Lazare, in
Paris. Some idea of Nile. Dumas devotion
in this good work may be gathered from the
circumstance that when she was 81 years of
age tshe is now go she learned Spanish, that
she might speak words Of comfort to a young
Andalusian who did not understand French.
The young women who attend the new
college in Baltimore ought to become robust
and well developed, for the facilities offered
for physical training are said to be superior
to those offered by any other woman's college
in tho world. The gymnasium is a three
story structure, covering 1000 square feet.
1t has large swimming pool, bowling alley,
walking track, bath rooms and considerable
apparatus designed especially for women.