Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1893-01-25
PERSONAL.

Mrs. WILLIAM Fl. VANDERBILT pays
the expenses of the free night dispen.
sary for the poor aud needy, opened at
st. Bartholomew Mission under the
management of members of the con-
gregation OF st. Bartholomew Church.
FIFTY DOLLARS is charged in London
for the first edition of Longfellow's
Hyperion" and the frs edition of
his "Kavanagh" commands nearly as
high a price.
A GERMAN woman, Frau DIR. Won
Wettstein Adels, spent three months
as q common factory hand at Chem
nitz and in the neighborhood, working
in FIVE different factories, gathering
material for O work on the subject OF
women textile workers.
THE new member of Parliament
from india is Mr.. Naoriji. He is the
son of Psrsee priest, and was the first
native professor in any leading college
IN India. He held the chair of Math-
ematics and Philosophy in the Elphin-
stone College School, and has been
prime factor in many progressive
movements for reform in India. He
has now lived in England for thirty
years.
The Wonlen's Century is the name
of a new weekly paper to be issued IN
Weimar, Germany, in recognition
and furtberance of the progress of
women in that country.
A PROJECT is on foot to erect mem
orial statue to Mrs. Felicia Hemans in
Liverpool, where she was born IN 1893.
THE public clan or in England over
the sale by the Admiralty of Nelson's
flag ship, the FoudrOyaHt, to a Ger
man junk dealer for 5000 has resulted
in its repurchase by private English
syndicate, who will preserve it as a
relic. This is the ship in which Nell
son said, 81 love her as father loves
a darling child"
JEANNE EUGENE MoREAU. the child
wonder of Paris, whose phenomenal
memory has made her highly educa-
ted person at the age of five years, is a
granddaughter of the Philippe MOreau
who led the assault on the Basiile in
1889, and who was decorated therefor
by Lafayette.
DURING the recent cholera epidemic
in Hamburg, two young English wo-
men, the Misses Klnealey, especi lily
distinguished themselves. They are
nnrses by profession, and on this occa-
sion they rendered double service, not
only caring for the sick, but writing
letters to medical journals in England,
giving their experience for the benefit
of the profession st large.
The illumination of Whittier's Cen
tennlal Hymn, done in 1876 by Miss
Annie Lewis Wriley, of Pennsylvania,
will hold a place in the Woman's
Building at the Worlds Fair. An au-
tograph letter from Whittier in regard
to the hymn will probably be placed
with it.
KATE GREENAwAY is q quiet, unas-
suming little woman who lives in
charming Queen Anne cottage on
Bamp tead Heath. Inside of the house
one may see the style of furnishing
familiar to students of her pictures,
The furniture is quaint, there are seats
in the long, curtsined windows, and
odd bowls and jars of flowers abound,
Every one who handles the silver
dollar may not know that the original
of the Goddess of Liberty on that coin
is Miss Anna Willess Williams, OF Phil
adelphia, She posed 10 Mr.. GEORGE
Morgan, the draughtsman and en-
graver, to whom had been committed
the task of designing the coin, For
some time after the issue of the dollar
the models identity was kent q secret.