Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-09-16
DAUGHTERS OF EVE.

Mn Harriet Beecher Stowe's favorite diet
Is bread and butter and pineapple.
Lucy Stone is IL She began lecturing on
womans rights and wrongs In ls47
Mrs. Henry S. Kimball. Of West Philadel-
phia, is receiving the credit OF originating
Memorial day
Poughkeepsie, N. Y, possesses musical
prodigy She is the 5year-old daughter Of
Mr. Peter Deyo
II Sarah Althea Hill looks like ali her pic
lures, she has more variety than kaledio-
scopic chameleon
Mrs. Harrison has decided not to indulge
in promiscuous Misunderstanding at public recep
tons or on state occasions.
Among the petitioners for clemency for
Mrs Maybrick were several women who
offered to he hanged in her place.
Mrs Emily Crawford, the Paris CORE
spondent. is about TO receive a testimonial
from English and French women Journal
lists.
The Baroness Cantoni is to start In Novem
Der on a years journey in the interior OF
Africa She is 10, and is celebrated for her
beauty
The widow Of Richard A. Proctor, the dis
tinguished astronomer, is to deliver a series
Of lectures next winter and will use the same
outfit her husband did
Miss Morosini and Miss Wilson, guests at
the United States hotel, at Saratoga, have
introduced there the fashion Of wearing
~reaths about their heads
Three Polish sisters, the Miles Welt, of
Czernovicg have recently graduated from
the Vienna Medical university and two Of
them will practice in the United States
Miss Elizabeth Balch, authoress OF 'Zora,n
IAN Authors Love" and Mustard Leaves"
has adapted play from the French, which
will he brought out in London during the
autumn.
At a Catholic church dedication near Lon
don Mary Anderson wore gray costume,
with crimson silk vest, q small black velvet
mantle. trimmed with jet, and hat Of black
velvet, trimmed with birds
DR. Maria NJ Dean homeopathic physi
clan who took an Office in Helena, NJ. T.,
three years ago, after studying medicine in
the United States and Berlin, now has a
practice that yields her an income stated at
$1,000 year
The recent appointment of Miss Joanna
Baker to the chair of Greek at Simpson Col
lege, indianola. Ia, is significant fact, as
showing the progress of woman since 1t was
first permitted to her to acquire the alphabet
Miss Baker succeeds to the position filed by
her father, Professor o. II. Baker. seventeen
years ago in the same institution.
Mrs Mackay, the wife of the bonanza
king of California, is the owner Of the SD
perb robe presented to the Empress Eugenie
by the municipality Of Paris in the time OF
the second empire. The robe is of lace. en-
tirely covered with flowers II was made at
Chantilly. md took five of the first hands OF
that celebrated fabric fourteen years to make
it, at a cost Of 100000 francs
Seventy-three years ago Mrs, Sally 3.
Weeks Buckham. then blushing bride. went
to housekeeping in snug farm house on the
west SLOPE of Mount Prospect, n. H. In this
same house. where she has lived ever since,
she recently celebrated her oue-hundredth
birthday, and was strong enough To- receive
not only her children, grandchildren aud
great grandchildren. but also a large number
Of her friends and acquaintance,