Omaha daily bee., 1893-08-20

suspended from the ceiling OF the ball
room with excellent effect
The place OF Maria Mitchell as pro-
lessor of anatomy at Vassar college has
been filled by Miss Mary T., Whitney.
Miss bod, the best of Englishwomen
tennis players, won the West of Eng land
championship when she was only 10
years old.
Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett is es-
tablished in little country nook near
London, where she is at work on play
which she hopes to finish by Christmas.
The ex-Empress Eugenie of France is
godmother to 3,S34 French children who
were born on March l6, 1856, the dav OF
the birth of her son, the prince inn
perial.
Mrs. Harriet Ruth Tracys inventions
in the Liberal Arts building at the
Worlds fair include fire escape, models
of safety passenger elevator with auto
matte platforms, and q rotary shuttle for
the lock and chain stitch.
| Hostesses who have been puzzled to
| find some new form of entertainment
might try the plan of a London woman
who engaged silhouette expert. All
the men and maidens hung around in an
unusual fever of impatience to be cut
| out.
Some time ago. in India, large
tigress killed the beloved husband of the
eccentric Lady Dormer. Then the
tigress, in her turn, was also killed
Now the bereaved widow is bringing the
head and tail of the defunct animal
home with her.
For the first time in the history OF
public dinners woman has responded
to the toast "The Army The occasion
was a dinner in honor of the British
| frainnI nd hn h,,
Miss Loeb, superintendent Of the Indian
Army Nursing service.
Mrs Rachael Foster Avery, who was
the secretary of the recent woman's con-
gress at Chicago, says that she sent out
| 5000 personal letters in preparation for
the meetings She employed as many
as twelve stenographers and often
worked seventeen hours day.
Nine Lebondy, widow of the great
French sugar refiner, who left her a for
tune of $50, 600, 600, lives in small house
at st. Cloud and spends about $1,000
year. Her son, however. is compensating
for this maternal economy by squander-
ing the fortune with prodigal hand
AT one of the grand balls in Paris the
presents distributed at the cotillion were
rustic hats in coarse straw trimmed with
ribbon and flowers, and filled with fresh
flowers. Each bore the name of
famous milliner inside, and doubtless a
corner lot deed in some places would
have been less costly gift.
The German empress rides daily on
her gentle saddle horse accompanied
by her husband and the little crown
prince, Occasionally the party is joined
by Prince Eitel Fritz, but he is too ven
turesome rider to be pleasant com
panion for his royal mother, whose
nerves are no longer so steady us in the
days of her girlhood, when she was one
of the most fearless riders in Germany.
j. Nj. Barrie recently presented the
prizes at the Dumfries academy. where
he was formerly a pupil Among other
things he said: 81 remember one prize l
got which had rather disastrous results.
1t was awarded by the girls of the school
by plebiscite, to the boy who had the
sweetest smile in the school. The tragic
thing was that my smile disappeared
that day. and has never been seen since"
This is from Oskaloosa, Ia: A grad
uate of the Normal school applied for a
teachers certificate at the Mahaska in
stitute. Among the subjects on which
she was examined was physiology, and
the care of the teeth came under this
head. The would-be teacher handed in
her paper with confident cheerfulness,
but the examiner was dumfOunded to
read therein this piece Of advice: '.The
teeth should be wrenched off after each
meal"
An English woman has employed
thirty-tive poor Irish women since 1885
in making copy of an old piece of
Bayeux tapestry. The linen and silk
1t is 227 inches long and 20 inches wide,
containing 623 men, 2O2 horses, sos other
animals, besides innumerable birds,
trees and flowers. The original was
also made by women, Matilda of Flan-
ders and her court having worked a long
time on it.
Having discounted the effect with the
statement that "Americanisms count for
little in the scale of credulity," a London
exchange goes on to relate that over
here we are using electricity "to
straightcn crooked noses, minimize pro-
nounced nasal developments" and in
many ways reform and perfect that try
ing feature of the face. If the most
startling accounts of Americas progress
is desired one should read carefully the
London newspapers and periodicals.
About forty French women have been
decorated at different times by the gov
ernment. The first was Sergeant Vir-
| ginie Ghesquiere, who fought in the
wars of the empire until she received a
wound which led to the betray al of her
sex. Rosa Bonheur also wears the cross
of the Legion of Honor, and Nine.
Dieulafoy, the traveller, who affects
masculine attire, wears her rosette in
the buttonhole of her coat. Snur
Rosalie was decorated by Napolean III.
in 1852.
AT Copenhagen young woman who
seized thief and held him until the
police came was presented with g
diamond brooch and hattering letter
of thanks from the director of police
and received an offer of marriage from
a we'll known journalist. Women thiet
catchers are 80 numerous in this country
that it has been suggested that it would
bankrupt the police department to at
} tempt to reward them all not to mention
exhausting the supply of marriageable
Journalists.
} Miss Charlotte M. Yonge, whose
"Heir of Redclyffe" has been the favoritt
! of every young woman's book shelf foi
, years, completes her 10th year mex
: month and her English friends are
| planning unique souvenir of the occa
sion. Her admirers throughout the
world are being asked to send theil
signatures under brief statement o
their pleasure and appreciation of hel
writings. These sheets of signature