Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-09-05
DAUGHTERS OF EVE.

Fanny Davenport is saidto have brought
two asps home with her.
Miss Annie A. de Barr has received IL
cense as a mechanical engineer from the
Chicago board Of engineers.
Miss Charlotte Mary Yonge IS 67 years
old, and is busily engaged in writing her
one hundred and first book.
Mrs Morilla M. Kicker, the first woman
admitted to the New Hampshire bar, never
receives a retainer or accepts Fee
Bertha Won Hillern, the German artistic,
is said to have made a lot of money by
speculations in Virginia real estate.
Mrs. U. S. Grant is rarely seen outside
the family circle. Her eyesight has become
very poor and her health is somewhat
broken.
Mrs. Jacob Brenton, of Lancaster, n. H.,
has learned five languages while hopeless
invalid these seven years past, including
Volapuk.
Mrs. Robert G. Ingersoll is the recipient
of countless tracts, church prints, leaflets
and religious publications, embracing
every modern creed.
Miss Alice Wood, OF Queechee, VT, re-
Gently moved field Of grass fifty acres in
extent. She did the work alone, using a
mower drawn by two horses.
Mrs. Mary S. Howell, of Albany, is the
first woman to make an address to a col
lege graduating class. She did it recently
to the class Of Dakota college.
Ella Chamberlain, Swampscott, Mass,
beauty, has developed talent for whis-
Ting, and will go abroad to contend for
court honors with Mrs Shaw.
Miss Fanny Gary, young lady of wealth
and position in Chicago, recently acted as
substitute for girl who works in tailor
shop while the latter took a much needed
holiday.
DR.. Emma E. Chase, of st. Louis, has
been elected full member of the Ameri-
can Dental association, the first woman, it
seems, upon whom this honor has been
conferred.
Mrs. Green Morrison, of East Gaines
vile, Tex, recently dug well in her back
yard with pick and shovel. She did the
work entirely alone with the thermometer
at 105 in the shade.
Mrs Henry M. Stanleys early life was
spent in Paris, where she studied her art
under Bonnat and Duran. She and all
her family speak French with absolutely
the same ease as English.
Miss Jennie Williams, whose marriage
to Lord Petrie is announced, is New AL
bany (Ind.) girl with whom the peer be-
came smitten at the London Alhambra,
where she was engaged as a soubrette.
Miss H. R. eraser is a custom house
broker in Cincinnati, and is believed to be
the only woman in America engaged in
that business. She is said to have the
patronage of some Of the largest houses in
Cincinnati.
A young Russian noble, the Baroness
Loubanowski, is going to ride from St. Pc
tersburg to Odessa, 1900 miles, to win a
bet and TO break the record which was set
some years ago by the Austrian Arch
duchess Maria Theresa.
Miss Minerva Parker, a Philadelphia
architect, has been picked out by the exec
utve committee of the women's depart
ment of the Worlds fair to draw plans for
the Queen Isabella pavilion to be erected
on the grounds of the women's department.
Mrs. Hannah Armstrong Wilcox who
died in Winterset, Ia, and was buried at
Petersburg, Ills, recently, was the mother
of the man whom Abraham Lincoln cleared
of the charge of murder by the introduc-
ton of an old almanac to disprove the tes-
timony of the states witness.