Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1889-05-17
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DAUGHTERS OF EVE.

rallTOQQ In Florida tS Tor
, ported to have a lady conductor
Mrs. George Quintard Is worth some S.
100000, left her by her father, the late
Charles Morgan
Miss Harriet Hosmer advises art students
going abroad to study sculpture at Rome and
painting at Paris
Nine. Mutsu, wife Of the Japanese minister,
has already learned to speak English. She
does not wear native costume.
A German specialist asserts that Patti has
two extra valves in her windpipe She may
be considered, therefore, kind of bivalve-
veritable oyster Patti.
Sarah Bernhardt is conducting things with
high hand in Egypt. Her bills at tho Gus
tom house for articles purchased already
amount to over $4,000.
Mrs August Belmont has tho finest col
lection or sapphires in this country, though
Mrs. William Astor is credited with possess
ing the finest single one.
Nine. Boulanger is singularly sour tenn
pered and disagrccablo woman Her temper
ut dinner was so nagging that the husband
got into the way Of dining at u cafe
poet is allowed n heap Of license: but
when Mrs. kershan, Of Cairo, threw hot
water on neighbor who made fun of her
beyond the limit
Some days after the imperial railroad acct
Gent, the cZarina wrote to her mother of
herself and her husband, 1--WE still have big
black and blue bruises all over us, but they
arc of no Significance"
The Philadelphia woman who died Of tight
iacing was all old maid, homely and angular.
and never had beau, and yet she said sho
laced to please tho men. All men should
CHIP IN for monument to her.
The richest child In America Is little Mnv
Sharpless, now but years Of age She is
the daughter of late member Of tho great
dry goods house of Arnold, Constable g. Co,
and she is worth $1,000, 700 in her own name
and right.
Mrs. William Gammel lives In Providence.
but is almost as we'll known in New York as
in her own home. She is tho richest woman
In New England, her assets footing up somo
Sl4,OOO,OOO, made by her late husband in the
East India trade
Miss Ellen Terry has herself designed the
wonderful dresses in which she appears as
Lady Macbeth. One clinging seamless gar
ment OF dark blue wool, woven with cold
thread, to be worn under a blue velvet and
gold worked mantle, is peculiarly effective.
Mrs. Elliott F. Shepherd, Mrs. William
Sloane and Mrs. H. W. Twombly were all
left large fortunes by their father, the late
Commodore Vanderbilt, and these were in
creased by generous gifts from their brother,
William H. Vanderbilt.
Mrs. Newton, one of the four women who
wero given the Crimean medal, which Queen
Victoria personally pinned on her, is still liv-
ing III Toronto. She was q nurse in the Crimean
war and was shot through the knee in q
trench before tho Redan.
Lady Randolph Churchill danced twice
with her host, Col North, at the latter,s
wonderful ball in London. Pages in Seven
teenth century costume presented each guest
with dance card printed on tinted silk hand
kerchiefs edged with ecru lace
Mrs. Bradley Martin is said to have an in
come OF 81 ,OOO day, derived from the estate
OF her father, the late Isaac Sherman. She
is one of the most princely entertainers in
New York, and with her husband owns an
estate In Scotland, where they 20 each wear
TO spend the summer months.
There are 5000 women in the government
departments ut Washington. Before the war
there were none Gen Francis e. Spinner.
formerly United States treasurer, first sup.
geSted tho employment OF women, and Secre-
tary Chase authorized it to be done. There
are good many women getting salaries over
$1,000
A French woman who is cndeavoring to
found schools for girls in Algiers divides tie
proposed studies into two classes, "ueutrnln
ana active" The neutral includes reading
writing, orthoSraphy, arithmetic, history
and moral philosophy. That Is Just where
the modern Frenchman is most likely to nut
moral philosophy
Miss Candy, who Is to marry the D;1ke of
Newcastle-wh by the way, Is no relation
To tho Duke Of Nocastle who comes to the
United States so ofton-is tho daughter Of an
officer who once served with the khediye's
troops in Egypt Capt Candy was familiar
~ known rs Sugar" and his magnificent
uniforms made sensation six years ago i'm
Cairo, city which Is not easily astonishcd
FoOr IOunG IoIstoi povu old opL sookio