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Mrs. John G. Carlisle believes in
bicycle riding as part of the educa-
tion of every healthy girl.
Florence Nightingale, who is now
an Invalid, recently completed the
sixty-seventh year of her life.
A daughter OF the poet Longfellow
lives in Washington. Her name is
Marion Longfellow O'Donohue.
After every member of woman's
club in Spokane, Wash, had been
President the organization went to
pieces.
Brown University has conferred the
degree OF Doctor of Letters upon Mrs
Julia J. Irvine, President of Wellesley
College
Mrs. Cleveland's fad is amateur pho
Biography, and she has in her posses
sion many snapshots at the members
of her household.
Mrs. Stanford devotes all her timo
and energies 10 the management OF
the California university bearing her
deceased sons name.
Among the fellowships most valued
at Cornell are those in literature, and
one of them this year falls to Miss
Louise Robbins of the class of 81.
Miss Agnes Irwin, Dean of Radcliffe
College, Harvard University, has been
honored with the degree OF Doctor of
Laws by the Western University of
Pittsburg.
DE Brazza'S bride is a plucky girl.
She will accompany the great explor-
er when he returns to the Congo next
month, and will share the privation5
us well as the honors of his work
there.
Miss Gertrude Pearson, OF Boston,
has received the prize for the best
written work in general chemistry out
of class of tiftytwo or more students
of the College OF physicians and Sur.
geons.
Miss Nellie Temple, who graduated
at Vassar in 1892, has been engaged
by the University of Leipsic to assist
DR.. Raisel, its American professor OF
history, in preparing history OF the
United States.
Eastport, Me-, has genuine new
woman, but of type not likely to be-
come fashionable. She regularly does
n mans work on q woodpile, handling
the bucksaw and axe with all the skill
of the hardest male expert.
The Queen of Italy is said to be an
enthusiastic collector of boots and
shoes. Her collection includes shoes
OF Marie Antoinette, OF the Empress
Josephine, Mary Stuart, Queen Anne,
and the Empress Catherine of Russia.
An article on the elegancies of the
toilets of fair Parisiuns, in Figaro,
contains the information that "baths
qualified by fresh strawberries are said
to be very refreshing; twenty pounds
nre rubbed through sieve Tor each
bath.
When Emma Willard began the
higher education of her sex by found
ing the Troy Seminary, she was told
that she would be wanting to send the
cows to school next, and tho State of
New York refused to spend dollar in
aiding her experiment.
The tn-de-siecle "dudess" carries
her watch anywhere except in pock-
et-pendant, for instance. from her
belt or waist. European papers as.
sert that, as consequence, many
more ladies watches are nowadays lost
or stolen-but not stolen by pickpock-
cts.
The first women graduates of Glas-
gov University, Miss Sarah Logan
Blair and Miss Isabelle Blackjack, were
loudly cheered by the young men at
their attendance upon the "capping"
ceremony to obtain their NJ. A. de.
grees The boys made the old hall
ring with the strains of "She's Jolly
Good Fellow. "
Sonora Maria dc Burton died in Chi
cago recently. She was the wife
of the late General II. S. Burton,
United States Army, and was claim
ant for an enormous tract of land in
Mexico, under IL grant made by the
King of Spain to her grandfather, Don
JOSo Ihuulel ItillH. ~ SllCUDO hYIlii-
cate was negotiating to buy the claim,
which is valued at So, 900, 900.
Lady Irving, wife of the newly
kniGhted actor, is described as ga
slender, sweet-facod woman with
weary-looking eyes aud n pathetic
droop at the corners of he mouth -
charming woman, looking much too
youthful and fragile to be the mother
OF two tall sons" Lady Irving lives
III strictest privacy, apart from her
husband, but her boys visit her very
often.
Tho Empress of Austria has not yet
followed the example of the court
ladies around her and taken to the
bicycle. She is confirmed pedes.
trian, however, and daily takes walk
of from four to seven miles. She
wears short black dress that does
not reach the ankles. She walks
straight on wherever she wishes aud