Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-05-31
DAUGHTERS OF EVE.

A close friend of Mrs. Tangtry says she is
worth 100000 in money, hcnds and real es-
tate.
Lady Mount Temple has succeeded her late
husband rs presid mt of the Band of Mercy in
England.
A young lady at Portland, Me-. has worked
up new business in which she is said to be
doing well-that of reading to old or disabled
people.
Princess Christian and Princess Louise i
is said, delight to drive about London in han
som cabs, greatly to the disgust of their super
royal mother.
Miss Laura White, of kentucky, took the
honors in architecture at the Michigan uni
versity, and has now gone to Paris to com
plete the study of it.
Mrs. Hannah Chard, of Millville N. j., has
just celebrated her Tooth birthday but,
strange to relate, does not read without
glasses nor dance jigs after the manner of the
average centenarian.
Miss Eugenia Washington, great-grand
niece of Gen. George, and wonderfully like
him in features is now employed in one of
the departments at Washington.
Rose Elizabeth Cleveland is going to Europe
this summer, and 1t is rumored that she will
lecture on American literature in young
ladies' boarding school in London.
A lady who got off train at the Meadville
depot few days ago fell in front of passing
Nypano train, but rolled from tho track in
the nick of time to save her life The wheels
of the locomotive passed over the skirts of her
dress.
Upon one street in Elizabeth, N. j., there
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and three great-grandnieces of Wilson Cary,
father to the beautiful Mary Cary, who is
said to have been the great generals first
love.
Miss Susanna NJ. Dunklee, Of Newton,
Mass, the first woman to be bank treasurer
in the United States, with the help of clerk
now handles about S500000 in money each
year In the fifteen years of her experience
she has but twice taken in a counterfeit bill
in each case a $40 one.
Mrs. Mercy Chase, of North Woodstock,
Me-, aged IS years, has spun nine pounds of
rolls and doubled and twisted the same, has
knit seven pairs of double mittens, eight pairs
of stockings, is now drawing in a large rug,
and has patched two quilts since the wool
was carded in the summer of 1888.
Queen Victoria was disposed to bestow the
Order of the Garter upon the queen regent of
Spain, who would, no doubt. have returned
the compliment by comforting the Golden
Fleece upon her majesty; but it was discov-
cred by the authorities that there is no prece-
dent for giving the Garter to a female SOW
ereign, so the idea was abandoned.
The women of Chicago have established the
first College of Practical Arts for women in
this country 1t is designed to give women
a practical insight into the avenues of bust
ness life, such as law, railroads, life insu-
rance, general Office work. etc, The incorpo-
rators of the college are Mines. Helen NJ. Mott
Charles B. Smith and Miss Katharine G. Todd.
Miss Helen Gladstone, the daughter of the
'Grand Old Man." who has been at the head
of the movement for the higher education of
women for many years and is the president
of Wennham college, Cambridge, says that
she is convinced that the full cultivation of
women's intellectual powers has no tendency
to prevent them from properly discharging
domestic duties"