The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-10-10
FEMININE FANCiEs.

FEMININE FANciEs.
Hrs. Mackey now owns the famous ball
dsess made for the Empress Eugene. II
cost $4,000.
Lizzie Arnold. Of Fenton. Mich, weighs
only eighteen pounds and Ii twenty-sevsn
years of age
A Polish lady, the Countess Branicha,
owns what are said to be the finest sap
phires in the world.
By the death of Mrs Polk. Mrs. Gran,
and Mrs. Garfield become the only surviv
ing widows Of presidents Mrs. Tyler, the
second wife of President Tyler. died In
Richmond in July, 1889.
Mrs Douglas, wife of the once famous
physician. who attended General Grant on
his deathbed, has just received an appoint
ment to a subordinate position In the treas
ury department at Washington.
Nine. Gautlereau, the reigning beauty
of Paris, has a large nose and prominent
chin, while her eyes are too small to be
really beautiful. But her figure Is mag.
nificent and her complexion lovely.
Secretary Bayard's daughter, the Count
ess Lewenhaupt, intends TO pass the fall
and possibly the winter in Sweden. 1t Is
not improbable that she will make her
permanent home in King Oscars kingdom.
Miss Lincoln. the eldest daughter of the
Hon. Robert T. Lincoln, United States
minister to England, IL one of tie most
popular girls in London society. She IL a
blond. having very fair hair, and dresses in
perfect taste.
Mrs. Tom Thumb, who il one of the
most popular freaks" in America IL paid
$500 week by her managers. She has
a handsome home in Bridgeport, Conn.,,
and when not under an engagement lives
there in luxury and ease.
Clara Barton, 20 widely known for her
labors in extending the Red Cross society
and the Women's Relief corps, is the only
woman who ever sat In the Swiss national
council; no other woman ever received, az
she did from the old Kaiser William, the
iron cross Of Prussia.
The Countess Of Caithness, the new high
priestess of theosophy. is the exact antith
esis Of her predecessor, Blavatsky. Her
figure is slender. her manners elegant and
and her tastes refined. She dresses in great
taste. Her only resemblance to Blavatsky
lies In her fondness for diamonds.
A clever English woman. Miss Clara
Willard. Of Teddington. Middlesex. has
made new departure in woman's work,
starting shop for the sale of rare old
books She calls it 1.-THE Book Seekers
Haven" and she publishes an occasional
catalogue Of her wares. entitled Eureka"
The oldest woman minister in the United
States is the Rev. Lydia Sexton, who is
now in her ninety-third year. She has
been in the ministry between forty and
fifty years, and held the position of chap
lain in the Kansas state penitentiary dur
ing 1870 and 1871. Her denomination Ia
that Of the Unity Brethren.
The wife of the late Edward Burgess,
the yacht designer, was Miss Caroline L.
Sullivant, Of Columbus. O. She was de-
scended from an old and aristocratic Vir-
GINA family, and was so beautiful blond
that Fagnani. the Italian painter. chose
her for the model of Erato. the muse of
lyric and amorous poetry, in his well
known picture Of the Mine Muses."
The Duchess Dues has the reputation
Of being one of the best shots in Europe.
Mrs. jefferson Davis has heart disease
and has made all her preparations for sud,
den death.
Mrs. General Grant has an intense love
for diamonds. The stones in her ears are
as large as gooseberries and very fiery.
The oldest banker in the world is a lady
Deborah Powers, aged ninety nine, Sc
nior partner of D. Powers & Son, Lausen-
berg.
Mrs. Waite, widow of Chief Justice
Waite, though seventy-one years of age.
has dark hair and u comparatively unwrin
killed. face
Mrs. l-oqua, who breaches in Chicago,
believes that the time is coming when man
will be frozen out of the pulpit aud women
be the only ministers.
Miss Susan Nj. Dunklee has Just resigned
the treasurership of the Newton (Mass.)
bank, position which she has filled for
seventeen years without once having to
justify herself before the board for errors.
Princess Milena, wife Of the reigning
prince of Montenegro, il now only forty
five years old, but she has been married
thirty-one years. AS Milena Petrownu
Bukotitisch she was called the loveliest
and most beautiful woman in Europe.
George Washington's nearest living kin
Is Mrs. Fanny Washington Finch, of
Washington, great-grandniece of the Fa-
Their Of his Country. She is a tall, males
tic woman, and In features resembles the
portraits of her distinguished relative.
Miss Mabel Cahill, the champion woman
lawn tennis player Of America, Is of Irish
parentage, her father being a country gen.
tleman in Kilkenny. She Is rather pretty,
the beauty Of her eyes being particularly
noticeable, and her figure Ia slender and
supple
Miss Mary Edith Rusk is the only living
daughter Of the secretary Of agriculture.
Miss Rusk is the light Of her mothers
household. She IL about twenty, Of pretty
figure. with clearly nodded features and
quiet demeanor, yet when walked up she IL
very vivacious and alert for repartee.
Belva Lockwood was the first woman to
ride bicycle in Washington. and she was
ridiculed and jeered by the multitude, and
the regulation anathema Of "unsexed
woman" was hurled after her. Now Mrs.
Lockwood can ride the length of Pennsyl.
vania avenue and not q masculine head
will be turned.
A process for pnotoRraphing in colors
has been patented in London, and the
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