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\ Minnesota girl has started a
school Of agriculture to teach girls
farming.
Worth once told Mrs. Lsngtry that
the Americans we're the best dressed
women in the world.
Eos1 Booheur at se7enty-three is
painting large picture representing
3 Eight between two stations.
The widow Of Ex-Governor Chase, OF
Indiana, has been presented with
handsome residence in Wabash.
The: say that the Queen OF England
has been painting Emperor Will1an's
portrait, and is going to present 1t to
him.
An American photographer paid
Mrs. Langtry $500 for the privilege
Of taking her photograph. Nine.
Patti received $1,000.
lIrs. Lamont: wife Of ths Secretary
Of War. is az expert landscape photog-
rapLer, and has taken many fine views
o. american scenery,
According to the Lewiston Journal,
Annie Louise Cary-Raymond has sung
$500 into the treasures of poor little
Maine churches during the past sum-
mcr.
Mss Laura Clay, daughter Of Cas-
sins N. Clay, Of Kentucky, addressed
the South Carolina Constitutional
Convention in favor Of women's suf-
rage.
Theo Alice Ruggles Kitson, of Bos-
tor, IS one Of the few prominent wo-
man sculptors OF America. Her work
WIS well known in Paris before she was
twenty.
A number of Baltimore ladies' have
organized themselves ipto q society
for the erection Of monument to
Henry Bergh, the apostle OF gentle
ness to arimsls.
Mrs. Theodore Thomas, wife Of the
musician. is tall and slight. with fair
complexion. gray eyes and brown hair.
Sne is Vcrmonier by birth and is
quite musical critic.
The servants in O school for girls in
Connecticut, while cleaning up the
rooms after the school closed, dis
covered 367s wads Of chewing gum
stuck about in various places.
Lady Haherton, inventor Of the di-
viaed skirt, is said to have new fad.
She contends that female servants
should wear knickerbockers, es such
costumes facilitate movements.
Princess de Polignac, daughter Of
the late Isaac Singer, the sewing ma
chino inventor, is named as among the
several bright writers Oh s>cial and
political topics in the Paris Figaro.
The Frankfurter Zeituug says that
Finlnnl, n dependency Of Russia,
boasts several fire engine companies
composed entirely Of women, and that
these have already won glory at sew
eral great confagrations.
4 farmers wife in Delaware has 80
cunning fashion Of her own for can
njay whole tomatoes chat Philsdel-
PIMA concern contracted With her for
ali she could put up this season, pay
ing her $1,000 for the job.
The Bishop o. Carlisle boasts that
he ''caD sew button on better than
any voman." The late Bishop OF
Worcester learned to knit, so as to be
able to take up his wife's dropped
stitches when she grew old.
LAZY Spencer Clifford, OF England,
has passed with first honors the ex-
aniuation for sea captains license
nor purpose being to qualify as cap
tain Of her own Yacht. However, if
she so desires, she cun now serve as
master of any ship Oh the high sea.
The Velo makes announcement of
an Important tricycle. race shortly to
be hell in the velodrome at Lyons,
France, between Baronesse Emma Won
Satiender and Miss Amy Ever. The
victorious maiden will win the hand
OF German millionaire, Albert
Meller.
Mrs. Julia J. Irvine, who is the sue
cessor OF the widely mourned Helen
Snafer as President Of Wellesley Col
lese, is graduate OF Cornell, took 4
special course at Leipsic and at an in
tercolIeeiate contest in Greek, in her
student days. took the prize over sixty
students.