The Forrest City times., 1892-11-18
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 The bust of Mrs. Lucy Stone, recently completed by Miss Anne Whitney, has been sent to Italy to be done in marble. A niche is reserved for it in tho wo- mans Department of the Worlds Fair.
 Mrs. Macbeth, an English woman and wife of d member or the Royal Academy. practices riding after fox hounds astrida of her horse, clad Tn knee brooches, gaiters and divided skirt.
 Mile. Marguerite Gombert lately passed the examination for a doctors degree in philosophy and letters at Brussels with marked success. It IS the first time lady has attained such distinction in Belgium.
 Mrs. Croly has consented to teach woman the alphabet of journalism in the chair recently established for this branch in Rutgers Female College, New York. Mrs. Croly is herself vet eran in newspaper work.
 Mrs. Langtry is having doll 3 feet high specially modelled to resemble her self in the face, and to be dressed ex- actly as she was in Cleopatra. Mrs. Langtry sends the doll as coutribu- ton to the Chicago Exhibition.
 Miss Chaplin. the well-known sculp- tor, has been commissioned to model the two Spanish bullocks Queen Victo- ria keeps in the park at Osborns. They have enormous horns, and are consid- cred remarkably beautiful creatures.
 Mrs Frances Hodgson Burnett says that she has made up stories ever since she can remember anything, and that since she was years old she has writ ten them. Nearly every person. scene and incident suggests to her story connected with them.
 Aunt Anne," the peculiarly clever novel by Mrs w. K. Clifford, about which all London is talking, is what may be called emphatically woman s book. It is the sort of bright realistic story which makes people laugh and cry as they read it, and which sets the ball of conversation rolling briskly.
 A prominent tobacco firm has offered $500 per month to the Directors of the Temperance Temple at Chicago for the use of the marble corridor of the rotunda during the Worlds Fair but the ladies who have the matter in charge decline to rent it for that pur- pose.
 An ex-mayor of Philadelphia loaned his umbrella to an old woman who was hobbling through the rain on crutches, and lately received from the woman. who has received a heavy award from the Spoiation Claims Com mittee. a magnificent gold-headed silk umbrella,
 The first woman in this country to receive a Government contract for en- graving is Miss $. F.. Fuller, of New York. She was pupil of tue School of Design. which preceded the Cooper Union, and became a practical wood engraver at time when women were unknown in the field.
 Miss Sarah Pollard owns and works a half section of land in Polk county, Minnesota. She blows, plants, and harrows, clad in suitable costume, and has no assistance except during har- vest time. She is highly accom- plished young lady and left comfort able home in the East to become Western farmer.
 X young swedish woman travels for a Scandinavian firm of machinists. She recently arrived in London direct from Moscow, and was then expecting to start for Melbourne, all in the line of her business. One London manu- featuring firm employs several women commercial travellers, and several makers of dress goods have at least one each.
 Miss Lilly E. Benn has for the past three years lived in the East End of London, and has interested herself greatly in the welfare of the children and young girls in that quarter. Per haps her best work has been in her sew ing classes, where she teaches girls from 9 to If to cut and make the gar ments for which their instructor pro vides the material.
 During recent riot in Morocco the mob threatened the house of the Brit ish envoy. Sir Charles Euan-Smith, in order to show their disapproval of the treaty brought by hIm for the Sultan's acceptance. In the thick of the tur- moil, Lady Euan-Smith, who is, by the way, soldiers daughter, displayed her coolness by calmly photographing the rioters with her kodak. Mrs. Rundall-C Charles, author of the "Schonberg- Gotta Family" lives in a pretty cottage near Hampstead Heath, London. She is very pleasant and cheerful in manner. and is the posses sor of a good fund of shrewd humor. At present there is a prospect that she may return to her writing of fiction. She has just finished compiling se- ries of small devotional works. The benevolent work begun among the Zulus by the late Bishop Colenso. renowned alike for his heterodoxy and his arithmetic, is continued by his daughter She has translated much of the Bible into the Zulu tongue, and has taught a number of the chiefs to speak Cetewayo and his people with the Queen and MT. Gladstone that the for mer owe many concessions.
 Among the Sierras there is woman stage driver, Mrs. II. J. Langdon, who owns line that extends several hun dred miles through the mountains. She can manage four or siX-in-hand as skillfully as any man and she employs scores of horses and vehicles and car ries the United States mail, as we'll as merchandise and passengers. She con l duets two or three branches of business as we'll as her stage liue.
 The dress reform club of Chicago has | grown from membership of l5 to 250. | It's chief prophet. Mrs Parker, who has | been featuring at Cbautauqua, sets forth l these three rules as her guiding princi | ples in color: For street wear, gowns 1