St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-12-17
SOME NOTABLE WOMEN.

Mrs. Emmons Blaine has given TO the city
of Augusta, Me-. S1.030 for public library
in memory of her husband. l
Nine. Diaz, wife of the president of Mex
leo, has become much interested in the
womans department of the worlds fair.
She is now collecting for exhibition there
the literary works of Mexican women.
During the reign of cholera in TabriZ. Per-
STA DR.. Mary Bradford an American Presby-
terrain missionary, was the only physician i'll
the city. She treated nearly all the Chris
tians who were sick. even the men.
Florence Nightingale, the famous nurse of
the Crimea and whose deeds of simple mercy
and charity were enbalmed In song and
story until she became Englands favorite
heroine, is now seventy-two years old, and
lives in perfect seclusion.
Lucy Booth. Gen. Booths Youngest daugh-
ter. is about to go to India TO be at the head
OF the work among the women of that dark
land. Like all the women of the Salvation
Army in India, she will go among the native
women in their own costume and live in the
same manner that they do.
The admission of Miss Ruth Gentry. an
American girl, to that fortress of learning,
the University of Berlin, which has hitherto
been impregnable to the assaults of women,
is most significant. Although Miss Gentry
goes into the grim pile as nearer only, it
is the thin edge of tho wedge, and may
prove all important opening.
Qneen Olga, of Wurtemburg. who. recently
died at FrIedrichshafen, was the most beau
tiful of the beautiful daughters Of Car Mich
olas , and the only one whom her father
forced into q marriage de CONVEYANCE when,
nearly half a century ago. she was married tC
tn present king of Nurtemburg.
Mrs. John A. Logan is quoted as saying
that Wallace Bruce, American consul at Ed
, inburgh, has suggested that Miss Jean Ar
mour Burns Brown, great grand. daughter OF
the poet. should occupy the Burns cottage al
and adding
Logan shall ask the board to set aside fund
for her transportation 10 and from the expo
siton and her ex penses while there.
Mrs. AmeEe Rives Chandler is much dis
tressed over the removal OF several rather
famous old buildings in Richmond to make
room for new and mole commodious ones.
Especial regret seems TO have been excited
by the destruction of the Allan house. This
building, which was located on the lot at the
corner of Fifth and Main streets, was the
home of the adopted parents of the poet,
Edgar Allan Lee. Had she known the old
landmark was to be sold, Mrs. Chandler says,
she would have purchased 1t and had the
house removed.
One of the smartest business women IN
this country is Miss Mary f. Seymour. who
edits the American Woman's journal. is
presi dent of a woman's publishing company
and principal of the union school OF stem
ography and typewriting. Graduates or this
school are employed in some of the most
their success being the best proof of the
practical knowledge taught. Miss Seymour
is interested in occupations for women,.
ways of increasing their knowledge and
proficiency, and, above all. i'll their rights and
progress. Connected with her on the board
OF officers of the publishing company are
Lady Henry Somerset, Mrs. isabella Beecher
Hooker, Miss Francls E. Willard. Mrs. May
Mrs Gen. Custer devotes the greater part
of her time now to reading i'll public paper
Plains.
this paper she describes hunt out of a West
erd camp or post Mrs. Custer is good
hunter and has often accompanied her
husband on these expeditions. She says that
when reading the description, she practi-
caliy goes through the whole thing. She
hears the horn, the dogs. the calls of the
men, the elatter of hoofs. She feels the
motion of her horse. sees the stretch of
prairie and is thrilled by the excitement of
the chase. At the end she is as. tired as II
she had really spent hours in the saddle. ana
can scarcely bring herself back to the realE
ties of her surroundings.