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sBIack Beauty has been translated
into the Italian by Mrs. Elizabeth Cav
azza, OF Portland. BE.
Two hundred women are employed by
Edison in working at the more delicate
details of his electrical inventions.
Miss Enid Yandall, OF Louisville. Ky.
is at work in the modelling department
OF the Worlds Fair. making the mode,
forthe eight caryatides for the women''
building
The Princess Of Monaco is devoted {,
literature and music, and number
Blanche Roosevelt among her congeuis
friends. She always has a coterie Of blu
stockings about her.
Miss Bayly { Edna Lyall , the English
novelist, is interesting herself TO raise
fund 20 redeem the late Dir. Bradaugh''
property, which is burdened with debit
incurred in his parliamentary struggles
Mrs. Kinney, widow Of the late Major
Kinney. Of Hartfort.-is president Of IN,
Connecticut Indian Association. She in
tends shortly 10 visit several lndiar
reservations in the West. among then
that OF the Omahas, where her hostes,
will be Government physician, Doctoi
Susan La Flesche.
Miss Betham Edwards. the author, In.
just received signal honor at the hands
Of the French government In recogni.
ton of her numerous works on rural
France, size has been named "Onicier de
INSTRUCTION publique, a distinction moi
often conferred upon foreigners, espe
cially of her sex.
Miss Alice G. Fletcher has her head.
quarters at Fort Iapuai, Idaho, where
she is making the allotment of lands to
the Nez Perces Indians. Much of her
time she is going over mountains. AMI
through canyons. living in tent
night. She is daily surrounded by liz
dams. and is ably filling one of the mos
difficult aud laborious positions under tlt
Government.
Nine. Bianchi, great granddaughter Of
David, the illustrious painter of the Grs'
empire, has just received from the mia,s.
ter Of instruction i'm Paris the badge a.
officer of the academy. This high dis
tinction is awarded only to artists Of ev
ceptional merit. Nine. Blanchi is
sculptor; her works have been twice hon
orably mentioned by the jury of tES
salon and of the great exhibition.
Lady Aberdeen, wife of the WI Tom
viceroy of Ireland, who is now travelin,
in this country with her husband and lit
tie daughter, is an enthusiastic patroneS
of Irish women and their industries, es
pecially those of lacemaking, embroid
cry, and hand weaving. About five years
ago Lady Aberdeen founded the Ir.h In.
dustries Association. This body tiles :,
regulate the production and supply q,
lace, etc, and to introduce new design,
TO the workers. 1t is entirely non poii.i
cal and non-sectarian.
Miss Florence Hartley, now court re
porter at Wichita, Kan, is the frs
woman in the State to hold such 20
sition. Being left an orphan she Learned
stenography without a teacher FROM
manual, studying seven hours day. IL
1885 she was in Wichita, where an i'm
portant trial was in progress. It was be
ing reported in a very lame manner by
man, who finally gave it up. and Mie
Hartley was asked TO undertake it, SIZE
did the work so we'll that she has heli
the Office ever since. She now has a
beautiful office i'm the fine new cour,
house Of Sedgwick county. with flower.
and pictures and other feminine sur
roundings
Miss Aida p. Lansing has been APP
pointed 90 make collection of the native
fora of Colorado, for exhibition at tbs
Columbian Exposition. There are aboW
1900 varieties in the State. and it is ex.
pected that atleast . 500 will be exhibited
at the Worlds Fair. Miss Lansing aud
a corps Of assistant flower girls are grad
ually working their way up the eastern
slope of the continental range. The
flowers are to be pressed by process.
which preserves them for years, and 10y
which the colors are perfectly kept.