Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-09-12
DAUGHTERS OF EVE.

Mary L. Farmland, of New Orleans, has
| been grant4sd a patent for a car starter.
a wonderful dressing case, costing S25, 600,
| was among Princess LouiSe's Wedding pres
entS.
Mrs. Benjamin Harrison weighs 157 pounds.
Baby Mckee tips the beam at nineteen
pounds.
Mrs. PIatt, wife of ex-senator Platt, issaid
! to be an interchangeable and enthusiastic pho
| tographer.
Miss Mary Redmond, the sculptress, who is
| TO execute a portrait bust of Gladstone, is a
| native of Dublin.
1t has been proposed to erect a memorial to
Nine. Roland which should be placed in the
Pantheon III Paris.
Deborah Powers, the senior partner in the
bank Of L. Powers g. Sons, Lansingburg, n.
Y, is 80 years old.
A California letter tells of widow in
southern California who recently sold her
| orange crop Tor $4,000
A Miss Dahl has passed the pharmaceutical
| examination and VIII be the first woman
pharmacist in Railway.
The Duchess Of Marlborough performed
i the ceremony Of GROWING the Rose Queen
at the Alexandria palace recently.
Miss Ella Byron, niece Of the late John
| Roach, the Chester shipbuilder, Is employed
| in the census Office in Washington.
A gypsy fortune teller informed a Penn
| gylvania girl that if she wasn't married by
| the time she was 81 it -wculdn'Jsb her fault
| -Four girl students have taken hcncrs in
! the nlatriculatiCn examination of the Uni
! versicy Of London this year, and one of them,
Blanche Hewitt heads the list of candidates
| Of both sexes.
A dispensary has recently been opened in
! Paris. 1t was built and endowed by Nine.
| Edouard Andre, who gave her jewels TO the
| Philauthropic society for this purpose. The
| sale Of the jewels brought $4,000.
| At her new summer home on the Island of
| Corfu the empress of Austria viii have a
| large building devoted to sea baths of all
| kinds, in the construction Of which the most
/ luxurious notions Of the ancient Romans
+ have been carried out.
| A casual visitor at Gloucester writes that
| Mrs. Herbert Ward Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
| is much beloved by the townsnen and women
! Of Gloucester proper on account Of her efforts
/ IN JnS cause Oh tenn )StdAce. one mas eSUdD-
| lished 'fishermen's reading room"
| st. Petersburg women are generally max
| ing pilgrimage to a certain shop, where
! three dressing gowns are TO he seen, which
| win be the gift az the czarina to the Princess
Alexandra Of Greece, who is about to be
/ married to the Grand Duke Paul of Russia
A woman's proper figure on the modern
! plan is said by the English authorities to be
! OF twenty-thTee inches about the waist and
thirty-six about the bust. There is q Mrs
/ Mcdonald in England, though, who has a
waist OF eighteen and a bust of thirty-eght.
| A lady pedestrian club is q novelty at Paw
! Paw, Mich. When at work they carry
canes, ornamented with yellow bows. Each
member is bound by an oath rs solemn as
can be to report ready for a dozen mile
! jaunt each Wednesday and Saturday morn
ing.
Hiss Isabella Bird, the enterprising, daunt-
less little Englishwordan who has Travelled
alone in so many out of the way countries of
the world, and written fascinating accounts
of her adventures and o6serva atoms, is mar
yied to a bishop The KING of Siam has
awarded ner the order of 'Kapolani" in rec
ognition of her literary work.