The Jersey City news., 1891-02-27
SKETCHES OF WOMEN.
NOtabilitles in the Professions
The Princess OF Wales
Youthful Appearance.

Their faces were radiant with the
springtime of life as they strolled
down one of the paths past the Capt.
tol, says the Washington Post. u
think IL is real mean the way Eng
land is acting about sealskin sacques, y
said Maud. 80 do ], v replied Mamie.
'Humphl suppose you know a great
deal about itY' "Well, | know that
Mr.. Blaine wants England to stop
fishing for seals in Behring Sea; he's
threatened 10 build fence or some
thing around IL so as to make II a
closed sea, and England is going To
get an injunction from the Supreme
Court to stop the fence. It's wonder
full how much trouble fences make
when they get into court, said Mamie,
thoughtfully. And Maud looked at
her IN wonderful admiration and ex-
claimed:-"H Honestly, Mamie, l don't
see how you manage to get so well
posted
The Princess OF Wales is said to be
the youngest looking woman of her
age in England, and to owe the won
derful preservation of her youth and
beauty TO her ability to sleep at her
will, a power which she is able TO call
to her assistance even for a five or ten
minute interval in the rush OF her
many duties. She seems like a sister
TO her three tall daughters, and a Sis
ter but slightly in advance of them
by years. - PittSburg Dispatch.
Mrs. Grants eyesight is very poor.
Her maid reads aloud to her.
Adelina Patti will sing fourteen
times in Russia and get 1000 guineas
for each time.
Comparatively few people know
that the largest woman in Georgia
lives in Houston county, yet such is a
doubtless fact That Is. we haven't
heard of larger one. She is a neg
ress, is forty-seven years old, the
mother of eight children, and lives on
the Dick johnson plantation, near
Grovania. Her name is Anroe Brown.
From actual test of weights and
measures the following figures We're
obtained by a party of gentlemen,
who saw her recently:-Herw weight is
800 pounds. She is 8 feet inches in
height; feet inches is her circum-
ference around the bust, 9 feet 4 in
ches around the waist, and so inches
around the arm near the shoulder.
One man was unequal TO the task of
measuring her. She came remark
ably near being as broad as she is
long. 1t is said she fills completely
the body of one-horse wagon, and is
a full load for one horse 10 pull.
Within the past twelve months she
has gained about 100 pounds in
weight.
The Duchess Vera Won Wuertem-
berg has published a volume of
patriotic verses which she has dedi-
Gated TO the Suabian army. They
have received favorable criticism
The Duchess, who was Grand Ouch
ess, OF Russia by birth, is the widow
of Duke William of Wuertemburg,
who died in 1871. She is considered
one OF the eleverest princesses in Ger
many.
A wealthy Atchison Kan, woman
made her will recently, and she says
in it that at the end of five years all
her fortune is to be given to her hus-
band il he can prove that he has
visited her grave ten times in that
length OF time.
The Countess Foistoi, who is a beau
tiful andsaecomplished woman, is un-
usually fond of gay society, but, TO
please her eccentric husband she
bravely denies herself social pleasure,
and acts as private secretary to the
novelist.
y gentleman in a horse ear gave his
seat TO a lady with small handbag,
saws the Boston Times After seating
herself she opened the bag and grace
fully gave TO the gentlemen whose
seat she occupied a cigar,
Three Chicago Cinnamon have mar
ried white women, and il gossip be
true, the white wife in Chinatown has
an easy time of il. The husband
does the cooking and looks after the
household work, and treats the fe-
male head Of the family with marked
consideration. The children are mis-
fits. They have yellowish- white,
chubby faces, light eyes and dark
hair. There are a dozen of them in
Chicago, each one a compromise be-
tween am All Sin and an American
toddler.
Mrs. Worth, wife of the great
Partisan dreSsmaker, dresses as plain
~ as Bible class reader at a
Marthas Vineyard camp meeting and
looks as quietly innocent as II she
never saw a fashion book or read the
dry goods advertisement in the
papers.
Emma Jueh has a truly nriina
donna like appetite. if story told OF
her in Cincinnati is true It is averred
that after a performance of William
Tell, in that city, she devoured three
wlenerwusts aud three beef sand.
wiches, drank three glasses OF beer,
and-looked for more.
A singular duel recently took place
in Paris, the home of duelists, be
tween two old ladies, one sixty years
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