Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-11-22
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GOSSIP.

GOSSIP.
Nine. Casimer- Perier, wife OF the
ex-President of France, is an enthusi-
astic bicycler.
The Turkish Sultan's mother, who
conducts the harem, is alone allowed
to go about unveiled.
Mrs. Lanier, widow OF Sidney Lam
icr, the poet, is lecturing on her hus-
bands works in the South.
Nine. Sarah Grand, the English
novelist, is one OF the latest converts
among literary women to the joys of
the bicycle.
It is said that DR.. Jennie Taylor,
the daughter of an American Metho-
dist minister, has gone out to Africa
as a SCIENTIST missionary
Mrs. DR.. Runyan, NJ. D., has been
elected member of the Virginia State
Medical Association by big vote.
She is the first woman member.
The woman with the longest hair is
Miss Asenath Philpot, OF GAINESVILLE.
Texas, whose browning glory" meas
ures ten feet and seven inches.
One OF the most enthusiastic Of
women horticulturists Is Miss Alice
Rothschild, whose collection of roses
alone is said to be worth $50, 200.
Mrs. Humphry Ward is one of the
most thrifty of women. The author
of ''Robert Elsmere" has saved 800,
900 from her receipts from her nov
els.
The Countess of Dudley is the only
Countess in England who can claim
the distinction of having been bora
tide shop.girl before she assumed the
title.
Miss Douglass, the champion anna.
teur markswoman of England, recent
ly scored fifty-seven bullseyes in sue
cession with revolver at twenty
yards range.
The Empress of Germany's private
wedding present to her relations al
ways consists of a very plain travelling
clock, for she values, among all other
virtues, that of punctuality.
Miss Mary Meredith Reed, daughter
of the former United States Consul
General at Paris, is engaged to Count
Max de Foras, whose father is Grand
Marshal of the Bulgarian Court at
Sofia.
Miss Mary Pence, of Anderson, Ind. /,
was chloroformed the other night and
her luxuriant golden hair cut off and
carried away. The thief left note
saying that he could get $50 for the
hair.
Mrs. Lizzie NJ. Frost, of Monmouth,
Me-. has full charge of a gristmill.
She adjusts the power and sees that
the machinery does its work properly,
while her husband follows his literary
bent and writes poems.
Mrs. Lamont, wife of the Secretary
of War, and her three daughters have
become experts in amateur photog-
raphy. They have hundreds of pic
lures made by themselves of interest
ing scenes they visited on their recent
tour in the West.
Makboule Hannoum is the name of
clever Turkish woman living in Con-
stantinople. A journal for women has
just been started in that city and the
above named writer has advised her
sisters in Turkey to stop writing
poetry and try prose.
The Dowager Queen of Hanover has
undergone an operation of the left
eye, which was SO far satisfactory that
the pain ceased, but the sight of the
affected eye has been completely lost.
The right eye is not affected, and the
Queen is otherwise in good health.
No authoress is more widely read
than Miss Charlotte Yonge. Always
interested in philanthropic enter
prises, she devoted the profits derived
from ''The Heir of Radclyffe" to fit
ting out the mission schooner, the
Southern Cross, for the use of Bishop
Selwyn.
Mrs. John P. st. John. wife of the
famous Prohibition Ex-Governor, is al
present and has been for some time
experimenting the engineering and
other work of constructing tunnel in
a gold mine at Cripple Creek, COL. in
which her husband has q controlling
interest.
A woman preacher, the Rev. Miss
L. NJ. Shaw, was appointed pastor of
the First UniversaIist Church in Oak
land, CAL, few months ago, and her
ministry has been increasingly sue.
cessful. She breaches to crowds that
grow larger every Sunday, and her
sermons are said to be highly enter.
tanning and instructive.
The Princess OF Wales was pers1ad-
ed, at the time when "Books of Con
fession" lay upon every other drawing
room table in the County OF Norfolk,
to give her mental photograph. And
she confessed her favorite dish was
yorkshire pudding" her favorite art
millinery" and her favorite occupa.
tion "mindlng my own business"
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