The free press., 1895-12-12
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Tucson, Arizona, has woman
butcher
Ada Rehan's salary is said to be
5000 week.
Mrs. w. K. Vanderbilt owns l26
diamond rings.
Two women photographers are do
inc a big business in Harbine, Neb.
Caroline Hook Haas is new South
ern novelist, who has made quite hit
in Atlanta.
A new and pleasing writer on Hell
lenic art and antiquities IS Mary
Burnside, of Dorchester.
Miss Vanderbilt bought forty.fi five
pairs of shoes as part OF her wedding
outfit as Duchess.
The latest atyle Of entertainment IN
Boston is girl chlld-reader. She Is
said to be quite successful.
A somewhat remarkable feature con-
nected with the recent railway race to
Scotland was the number of ladies in
fhe trains.
The Queen of Hawaii, the Queen of
Madagascar and the Queen of Korea
have come to grief this year. 1t is
bad year for queens.
Mrs. Lille Pardee was a candidate
for State Senator in Utah. She is
thirty years old, a teacher OF Latin
and Greek, and theswife of,a Salt Lake
lawyer.
A woman drummer for cigar fac
tory appeared,i in Valdosta, Ga, few
days ago, and surprised the merchants.
She further surprised them later by
proving that she was an expert IN
handling cigars and understood her
business thoroughly.
Baron Won Thoemmel, who has just
retired from the post of Austrian En-
voy at Belgrade with the rank of field
marshal, is indebted for his diplomatic
success to sewing machine which he
presented to the Princess of Monte
negro, teaching her to sew himself.
A Kelley cured woman of Fargo,
North Dakota, has been appointed
National Lecturer of the Kelley
League, her presentaassignmemt being
to Virginia and North Carolina. She
is morphine graduate" and is said
to berthe first womm Kelley lecturer.
Mrs. J. r. Green, widow of the his
toriar and herself writer of high
standing, has thorough knowledge
of Greek, Latin, higher mathematics
and the Roman languages, which she
obtained entirely by self-culture, hav-
ing never even had governess as a
girl.
Glover mending sets are sold now,
and no more useful present for well
eroomed girl could be thought of.
The apparatus comes IN a neat wooden
box. and consists ofdifferent sizes and
kinds of buttons, all shades of silk and
sizes and qualities of needles, a thin
BILE and little stretcher and "mend-
ing stick.
Mrs. Mary jackson, of Louisville,
KY, has just passed her 103d birth
day. She lived in Louisville when all
the houses were stockaded to guard
against Indian surprises and the red
men made considerable trouble for
the farmers thereabout. She was a
crown. woman SWn6u IhIhyeUIo VlSlUeu
Louisville IN ES20 andwell remembers
him.
Miss Nellie Adams, a pupil of the
institution at the Royal Normal Col.
lege for the Blind of England, passed
the second-class figure skating test OF
the National Skating Association with
great success. She IS only sixteen
years. old, and has the distinction OF
being the first woman blind or other
wise) who has passed this test on roll
er skates.
Theiroll of Southern poets has been
increased by Miss Mary Louise Hunt
ley, of Atlanta. She is tall, slender,
dark girl. reserved, dignified and stu
dious. Her last poem, 'The Sobbine
Rain, twas an exquisite idyl, and was
quoted and requoted by the press OF
the country. She is the third talented
singer in her city, the other two being
Lollie Belle Wylie and Arelia Bell
Key.