Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-01-30
DAUGHTERS OF EVE.

Miss Mary Garrett is building prepara- tory school for girls in Baltimore at cost of over s2OO, 900.
 A bust of Mime. de Stael, by Canova him self, has just been discovered in second hand shop in Paris.
 Miss Candy, who is to become the Duchess of Newcastle, is just r, and one of the most expert horsewomen ill England.
 It is proposed to raise s100,000 for Mrs. Sheridan and her children of which Senator Stanford has written himself down for g., 900.
 Mrs. Mary A. Livermore spends all her leisure hours in making tatting and crazy patchwork, of which feminine occupation she is very fond.
 The negro washerwolnen of Albany, Ga., have warned away several Chinamen who sought to compete with them for the washing of that good town.
 London society is agog over the reported betrothal of Princess Louise of Wales to the son and heir of the Earl of Fife, who claims descent from Macduff.
 Belva Ann Lockwood has been appointed representative of the Universal Peace society of America at the Paris exhibition. She will start for France about the 1st of May.
 The Indian princess, Sarah Winnemucca
 
 written stories under the nom de plume of Bright Eyes," is now teaching an Indian school.
 The poor of Windsor have good reason to bless the generosity of Princess Christian Twice a week, during the winter months, they are made happy by the dinners which she provides for them at the town hall.
 A rumor is current in London society to the effect that the Princess Louise of Wales will contract marriage with a very popular and wealthy Scottish noble, a Liberal Union ist, and the worthy bearer of a historic name.
 It is said that there is, in an old Boston family, a carved oaken chest, which by will of its first owner descends only to the bride of the race who will fill it with house linen hemmed and embroidered wholly by her own fingers.
 Mme Kowalewska, to whom the French Institute recently awarded the grand prize in mathematics, is descendant of the illus trious Matthias Corvinus, king of Hungary. She is a professor in a Swedish university, and is about 40 years old.
 Kentucky, famous for its bellies, has its buds this season, too. In Louisville Miss Mamie Grifliths is the prettiest dancer; Miss Nellie Wilder, blonde who plays the banjo, the greatest heueSS, and MISS Mar1e Evans the brightest conversationalist.
 The Princess of Wales, it is said, rarely ever pays more than 30 shillings for bonnet for either herself or her daughters. Lately she disgusted her milliner still further by taking to that long suffering woman her own material to be made over just like com moner.
 Mime. De Barrios, the widow of the Gaute- o,.o1 inl off frcr, vent by her husband at the age of l6, and, though she has seven children, is still young | and handsome. She divides her time between New York and Europe, and her wealth runs up into the millions.
 Countess Mary Taafc, daughter to the prime minister of Austria, has a soprano voice so perfect and we'll cultivated that Patti is said to have exclaimed when hearing it: ''You are more than my equal" Court ess Mary, however sings only at court and at mass. She is of Irish descent. Mrs. Griffin, the maternal parent of Mary Anderson, is tall, heavy, black haired, dar1 complexioned woman. There is but little trace of her daughters beauty i'll her face, although the shape and form of the features, | separately taken, are identical with Mary Anderson, particularly the nose. There is to be no dancing at the Prussian l court this season. The only palace festivities will be two state concerts, at which ladies are to appear in black, white, gray or mauve. The empress has issued an order that the i'm mense court trains which have been worn at all state functions during the last few years | arc to be discontinued.
 The Boston Transcript says that while Mary Anderson was passing through a store there she overheard a cash boy lamenting | that he had nOt known who she was in time to take look at her, since he was too poor to see her elsewhere. Thereupon she turned and dropping a kiss on the boys forehead said: "There, my lad; you can say not only that you have seen Mary Anderson, but that | she has kissed you"