The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1894-09-06
PERSONAL ANo LITERARY.

lord Forester, canon OF York
cathedral, who recently died, inherited
one privilege of wearing his hat in tho
presence of royalty, a privilege con-
ferred by grant TO an ancestor in the
reign OF Henry VIII.
Among the useful accomplishments
OF Queen Victoria and Princess Beatrice
is to be included straw-plaiting, and
William of Germany and others are
said to wear and prize straw hats made
Tor them by the fingers of royalty.
Among the house boats on tho st.
Lawrence one of the. most charming Ia
the Idler, owned Ivy two New York
girls, the Misses May and Ella Depey
.Eepo they give luncheons. teas ana
sanees, and lead an Aycaafan social life.
-yhc fact is not very we'll known
that Rudyard Kipling is not of pure
Caucasian extraction. One of his pap
ents was Eurasian, or half-caste, and
the fractional proportion Of native
blood that flows through his veins is
Just onc-fourth.
Thomas +. breckenridge, who
crossed the plains with Fremont's ex-
peditaon in ls43, is living at Telluride,
Col, in destitute circumstances. Peti-
Sons praying the federal government
70 grant him pension arc circulating
IN Colorado and California.
The only woman in the world en-
&Ied to wear the Russian cross Of ST.
&c No o<>fN No \
upon whom it was bestowed by the
Tote ozar, in recognition of the bravery
with which she defended Gaeta, the
last stronghold Of the Bourbon dynasty
In Italy.
1t is noted that A. Conan Doyle is
paving the way for this country by
saying hattering things about the
United States. 1t is, however, only
fair to add that there are many com
plinentary illusions to this country
and It's institutions in his books which
were written before he expected to pny
II visit.
"A heroic little life ended nobly r
few days ago In London, in the death
OF John Clinton, the ten-year-son of a
eobman. 1t is only few months since
Che lnd showed his bravery and pres
ence of mind by saving his little broth
CT from death by fire. The childs
clothing was in blaze, and John not
only distinguished this, bat tore down
Ahe window curtains, which had also
oasght frc He met his death By sprtpg-
1uQ in the Thames TO rescue q younger
boy, who had fallen 10. He sBvod tho
child, bat was himself drowned.
Cardinal Gibbons Is the owner Of o
berry-tree at St. Mary's, under which
the hxst mass in Maryland is sold te
have been celebrated in 1894. The tree,
which was blown down about ten
years ago, was supposed to be fully
four hundred years old, and from its
wood was made chanccl furniture and
other fittings for the Protestant Epis-
eopal church at ST. Mary's. Cardinal
Gibbons box was presented to him by
Gen. Bradley L. Johnson, who had it
made from piece of the root OF the
tree.
There is but ono woman lawyer in
India, and that is Miss Sorabji, q
Parsce, who, after winning academic
honors in India, wont to England, and
was a successful student at Oxford,
where she was a protegee OF the late
Prof Jowett, the master of Balliol
She worked in solicitors office in Lin
coin Inn after quitting Oxford, and
thus familiarized herself with law
yer's practical work. Miss Sorabji
took up the study of law from the de-
sire to help her oountrywonsen, whom
religion and custom alike forbid to re-
ceive legal advice from men; but, after
all, she has not yet been able to prac-
tlce law in India. She still believes 1t
Z her mission in life, however, and, pend
ing tho opportunity, SHE has post s$
Dayoda as DIRECTOR of wOman's educas
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