Omaha daily bee., 1891-03-07
IvEN AVID WOMEN.

Senator Itylo was thirty seven years td
February -,
John russell Young declined the prorcrod
mission to China for purely domestic reasons.
Lieutenant SchwatlSa has II collection OF
moro than fifteen hundred obituaries oihim
self. -
Leo MIL Is no advocate for ventilation,
and will mover allow an open window where
hCis.
Gossip In philadelphia places Rev DIR wv
NicSar's fec for the AstOr willing wodd q
at $4,000.
An annex to cost sls5OOO is to I've added to
the Pratt institute OF Brooklyn, n, Y, Tor
tho benefit of women students,
senator Ostrom, the present leader Of the
democratic party In California, Is Il Hue Npo
of the unconventional lawmakcr,
Lady Helen Vincent, an t'uglis n lady, has
received from the sultan of Turkey tho high
est order ever bestowed on woman.
Mrs Burnett is still too much prostratCd
by the death Of her son to take up the pen.
Not yct,' she wrote recently. "Wait
Bit
Townsend, the Georgia brakeman who
backcd John l.. Sullivau'S eyes, has already
received tempting offers from the museum
managers.
Germany has $500, 900 working women,
England 4,OOOO0O, France 3, 60,OOO, Austria
3,0W,0OO and America 2,iOO,OOO, including all
occupations.
Joel Chandler Harris (Unclc Rcmus), now
sixty years OF age, Is great pedestrian, and
is said to havo walked thirty-Six miles in ono
day recently.
Sam Jones, the Georgia evangelist de-
clurcs in n letter to I Cxas frcnd that his
health has failed, aud he is on the verge of
physical collapse
The marquis of Lornc's new book "From
Shadow to Sunlight is said to have for it's
heroine young American girl whom hce:,,o
met and greatly admired,
The youngest school marin in the world Is
Clara Grecnnwald Of BcmvillC Pa. She has
forty public school scholars, bcgau'work five
months ago and is only thirteen years ofagc.
Nine Won Tcudel, nee Blanche Willis
Howard, Is still living in Stuttgart writing
busily, in the hope of producing some work
that wall second the famous little "Onc Sum
mcr.n
New York woman is earning salary of
5000 n year teaching fashion how To play "A
scientific game of whist. Two or three other
teachers have all they can do instructing
classes in the Ladies' New York CLUB,
Secretary Blaine Is out for a constitutions
! all every fine afternoon. His favOrite walk
| is one OF the many rOadwayS intcrscCting the
reservation back of the white house and fire.
| quently the walk Is extended around the
| monument
| There is a movement started by some phil
| anthropic New York ladies' to form a 'sum
| brigade of 400 ladies who will individually
| dsSlSJ III TtdCNluP, TclltNluB anu ItClulllnG
| poor children, poor shop girls and broken
| down women.
! Scnotar Ingalls, desires il to be undcrstoo
! that he has not been offered the Washington
| correspondence of New York paper, hat he
has not been asked to take editorial charge
| of magazine, and that he has not been SO
| HCtcd to lecture.
This remark is imputed to Governor Jones
of Alabama when he heard that the people of
| Athens in that state, had hung him in enigy
They should have notified me that they iu-
| tended to hang me, and would have issued
| pardon to myself"
Stuart Robson, the actor, will be married
! in April Hs bride Will be Miss May Wal
| dron, MS leading lady This information
! comes from an intimate friend of the brides
| family and may be relied upon. Robson >
| first wife died about year ago
Mrs. Potter Palmer and the rest of the
| lady managers of the worlds fair have re
quested that the Isabella building be a
wOman's building archltecturally artists
| ally and in every other sense The women
| architects, designers and decorators all over
| the country have been in yited to send in
| plans
, Susan Helen Holman of New York is learn
| ing TO be a locksmith. She amusCs herself
picking the locks of her neighbOrs' front
| doors, trunks and chests. She wears suit
OF brown homespun copiously pocke.ed for
! the reception of her tools and from an old
| Dutch glrdlc of wrought iron studded with
green stones hangs cnatelain and keys of
| all sizes.
Miss Virginia Reid was the mother of
| American newspaper women In lST2 she
purchased and edited weekly called the
Virginia Gazette, paper devoted TO the
colonial cause. In 1874 Mrs II. Boyle es-
tabiished a rival Journal, which she called
the Royal News, and the two ladies pulled
hair, threw stones and called each other
names in the most approved style of CONT
mental journalism.
DIR. 5, 5. Laws. eX-presdent of the Mis-
souri, state university, is living with Rev. Nj
| v Payne, near Hamburg, Ia, and is writing
a book, the subject of which has not been
made known. DR.. Laws a few years ago deliv-
cred an address before the State Editorial as
Sociation In this city that created sensation
e. throughout the state only exceeded 10y the
noise of the killing of Jesse James II was "a
| red hot states rights plea