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Mrs Stonewall jackson. now at Staun-
ton. Va, is great sufferer from neu-
ralgia
Mrs ex-senator Platt, of New York,
has 10000 photographs, taken with her
Kodak.
Queen Victoria's name is Victim, an
unromantic appeIlation. but known TO
history as the family name Of the house
of Saxopy.
Mrs Elliot +. Shepard is building, at
her own expense, home for self sup
porting women in New York. Money
seems grateful thing when il Is turned
to good purposes
Mrs Emily Pfeiffer, the English trav-
eler. who died recently. bequeathed al
most her entire estate of $3.50, 600 TO
charitable and educational establish
ments for women.
The poet Queen of Roumania. who II
soiourning in Wales for her health. h
character, which will figure i'm q new
novel on which she is at work
The young Duchess Of Leinstsr, who
has been called the prettiest woman IN
England. is tall aud slender, stately. and
calm, with perfectly ehiseled features
She Is an aristocrat from crown 90 toe
When the stenographer OF Mira Mary
Mapes Dodge. editor Of ST. Nicholas, i
absent. MrA Dodge ats aud talks her
letters into phonograph. aud when the
stenographer returns her work is all
waiting for her
Somebody has requested Mrs. Stanton,
the Pennsylvania lady who has reached
the age Of 1l5 years without having
used tobacco or whisky, 10 ~let the
world know what stimulant she did
use. It is pretty safe to guess tea.
Mrs Elizabeth Merchant, who died
lately at Rockford, ILL.,, in the S4th year
Of her age. gave husband and II sons
TO the Union army during the rebellion.
Ii is not necessary to go to the ancients
for examples of exalted patriotism.
The aged Grand Duchess Alexandrine
is the only living sister of the late EN-
peror William. Although 50 years old,
she is active and strong. She is very
democratic in her tastes and frequently
drives about among the people in plain
little donkey cart
Mrs. Miller. wife of the Governor of
North Dakota, dropped into the Office
of newspaper at Dryden, N. Y, re-
Gently, and set couple of stickfuls of
matter. as reminder of the old days
when she was a compositor i'm that Office
and the governor was making up" to
her.
Mrs. Jane Bumgardner, who is of the
reputed age of 104 years, but still makes
trips personally three times a year to
Parkersburg, Va, several miles from
her home, to draw a Government PEN
sion, was present at the Army of West
Virginia reunion and proved as big an
attraction as ex President Hayes
We have in this city lady, Mrs II.
K. Chadwick, who is one of family of
seven children, the names of every one
of whom, as we'll as that Of the mother,
ends with the letter a. The mothers
name was Anna, and the names of the
children are Martha, Amelia, Maria,
Julia. Georgiana. Henrietta. and Ella. -
[Gardiner (Me Home Journal.
A grove meeting was recently con-
Quoted on a Sunday afternoon by Miss
| Gabrielle Greeley in the beautiful pine
grove which her father planted 40 years
ago on his farm at Chappaqua. A num-
Der of Mr.. Greeley's old personal friends
were present. and Miss Greeley was as
sisted by o. G. Gilmore, former slave.
and quartette Of colored jubilee sing
eTs
Miss Helen Furniss, of Cheyenne,
| Wyo., is first lieutenant of the only fem
mime company of regular state militia
| in the United States. The company was
organized to celebrate the date of Wy
oming's Statehood, and met with such
great approval that it was decided to
make the organization permanent, and
the young ladies were mustered into the
regular service of the State
Madame Carnot, wife of the French
president, is said to have done more to
strengthen the republic than all the pol
iticians have accomplished. The French
| like democracy tempered with splen-
dor and associated with fine manners,
which the plebian and commonplace
administration of the Grevys omitted.
Madame Carnofs personal grace. eie-
gance and charm, and the good taste of
the entertainments at the Elyses are
now reconciling the irreconcilables 20
president in place of king
Shall We Have Warming Pans Again
There Is an old time institution that