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Miss Louise lawson. Of New York, has
been awarded the commission for the
statue of the late s s. Cox.
The experiment Of eiecting woman
president of synagogue is being tried
by congregation near Paris
One New York Woman makes her liv-
ing by writing obituary poetry, and per-
haps this is the most unique line of verse
writing yet attempted.
MIRA Horne Payne. a well known Lon
don journalist, has succeeded in plac.
ing her Cottage Industries, ia Knights
bridge, on a self supporting foundation
Miss Minerva Parker, whose plans for
the Queen Isabella pavilion. at the Chi
cago Worlds Fair. were preferred to all
others by the committee on the building,
is native of Chicago, but is settled in
Philadelphia.
Mrs. Bruce, of Seaton, Scotland. re-
Gently delivered an address to large
audience of farmers aud stock raisers in
Arbroath on administering chloroform
TO animals when ol erations We're to be
performed upon them.
Mrs Reginald De Koven, daughter OF
poser of Robin Hood, is the president
of the Friday Club, sort of ethical
@sthetical organization composed OF
about 100 Chicago young women.
Mrs s. c. Waer, who controlled the
Columbus (MississippD Dispatch very
successfully for many years, and brought
it to the front rank of Mississippi jour
nails, has resumed the ownership aud
management of the paper, the man to
pended publication.
Miss Lydia Emmet. sister of Mrs
Arthur Sherwood, formerly Miss Rosina
Emmett, has shown much talent in
stained glass work. She has just finished
a memorial window for the late Doctor
Mercer, for many years the rector of
Trinity Church. Newark, New Jersey,
which is TO be placed in that church.
Miss Flora Grace. of Iowa, whose
name suggests rather the aesthetic than
the practical. is the inventor of cook
ing thermometer. which, instead of
registering summer heat, blood heat
and freezing poiit, marks the boiling
point for meat, the gently simmering
altitude, and the varying baking points
for meats, bread, cake, and pies.
Miss Mary b. Bole. who graduated at
the last commencement Of the New York
Normal College, received the French
prize, a gold watch; the Kelley prize. a
bronze medal, for her paper on the best
methods in teaching; the Kane gold
medal for proficiency in physiology; and
the honor of the valedictory, as well as
honorable mention in her competition for
the Selgman prize in English literature.
Few princesses in the royal and semi
royal houses of Europe are so sensible as
the Princess Maria Anna of Portugal,
who is about to marry an untitled doc
tor Of medicine. In reply TO an inti-
mate friend who asked her recently how
she could marry man Of such low rank.
when so many princely suitors were &C
her disposal, she said: "Iprefer to marry
a man without name, rather than a
name without man.
A Whatsoever" circle of Kings
Daughters, at Newport. numbers among
its members Mrs. Frederick w. Wander
biIt and other fashionable women, and
it is supposed that the terms of their
league are found ia the injunction.
Whatsoever We would that men should
do unto you, do We even so to them.
They have devotional reunions. fine
themselves when they break any of their
self made vows, and are said to do a
great deal of good.
Miss Ella l. Knowles graduate OF
I'll
lawyer in Montana. Miss Knowles has
had phenomenal success for an eight
months la~ yer. having cleared $500
since the first of January. Before being
admitted to the bar. she solicited bills to
be collected, and was given bal ones,
but succeeded la collecting all of them.
One man laughingly gave her four bor-
rowed umbrellas to collect at s. apiece,
md on her succeeding placed all his
legal business in her hands