Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-12-06
DAUGHTERS OF EVE.

Mrs Oliphant, the authore@, d 81 Year, Of
ago.
Mile. Rosa Bonheur has tiny pet monkey,
which Is her almost constant companion
Amelia Edwards says tho earliest Egyptian
paintings antedate tho Christian era BY loo
years
The Grand Duchess Sergius Of Russia IL
now writing the lives Of the empre8es Of
Russia
Louise Chandler Moulton was an only child,
and amused herself in making up stories and
telling them to herself.
Isabella of Alcantara, until lately princess
imperial OF Brazil, is very devout, charita-
bic, self willed. eccentric and unpopular
Rose Hartwick Thorne wrote the poem
that made her famous Curfew Must Not
Ring To-night"-wheu only II years old
Maria Mayo. the lending belle Of Rich
mond, Va had 100 suitors and refused ninety.
nine of them befor. accepting Gen. Winfield
Scott
Nine Modjeska takes a cold bath in the
morning and a hot one before going to bed
one to make her bright, the other to make
her sleep-and both for health
Dora Wiley says that Miss Todd. of Ban
gor, one Of her pupils, has the longest voice
in the world" her compass being from r he
low the staff TO natural above top c.
Mrs Leland Stanford has given 500 TO-
ward the purchase and restoration Of the his
toria Suffers Fort which the city authori-
ties of SacramentSAthreatened to destroy
Mrs Gen Booth, of the Salvation Army,
whom Frances Power Cobbe pronounced one
of the best preachers in England is suffering
from cancer. and has had to give up preach
ing.
Mrs Pembertnn- Hlns, is one of the few
professional singers who prefer TO go before
an audience emily handed She hangs her
arms ut her side with her palms and her ell
bows out,
Clara Morris owns a very pretty piece of
property on the line which divides the city
Of New York from Yonkers. The boundary
divides her bed, and when she is asleep her
head rests in New York while her feet are in
YonkerS
The Duchess OF Sparta received a. . wed
ding present from her brother, the Emperor
William, a diadem and necklace Of large
turquoises, all selected stones, set in magni6-
cent diamonds
Mrs Kendall believes that soap and warm
Wobrt urouitAtS tuc AWlCB = We0k
her hair Is washed in clear, cold, soft water.
After the washing q crash towel 10 used to
rub the hair partially dry
The late Mrs, violetta Lamb, Of New Yorh,
aged 81, was the wife of revolutionary SOL
dieY. She vas one of the girls who threw
flowers before Lafayette when he last visited
America She also presented him with .
bouquet and received kiss from him in re
turn
Mrs Mary A. Livermore, the advocate OF
female suffrage and prohibition, claims Boz
ton as her home, but she spends nine months
out Of twelve on the lecture platform 10
every state in the United States Although
she can ill any auditorium with her voice
she speaks softly and slowly in ordinary con
verxation.
MrA Mary Spear TiernAn, author OF
''Homoseile" and other popular stories, has
become so disheartened by the present favor
itism practiced by some American magazines
that she has been heard to say she thought Of
giving up literature and taking TO plain ssv-
ing. Mrs Herman is very popular In socissy;
her charming I'D cultured couvermtsoo :
makes her the center of attraction at all %
eial and literary assamblAga in Baltimore
and Washington