The Washington bee. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1884-1922, 1895-12-07
PEOPLE AND EVENTS.

Four Bangor (Me.) women succeeded
in swimming across Menai Straits, q
distance of a mile and half.
c. j. Jones, a negro lawyer of Green
Vile, Miss. has been admitted to prac-
tice in the Supreme Court Of the Unlteo
States.
Friends Of Mrs. Agassiz have founded
a Sc, 900 scholarship at Radcliffe College
to be called the Elizabeth Carey Agassi
scholarship.
J. Edwin Stone, the man who once
walked from San Francisco to New
York city in 1923 days, says that he wore
out ten pairs of stout shoes and three
suits of clothes in making the trip.
The Princess of Wales, who is very
far from being wealthy, has received
pleasant windfall of $4,000 from the
late Emperor Of Russia He was very
fond of his sister-in-law, and this leg
acy was formally set down in his will
Highwaymen held up the Duke di
Castelluccia as he was walking home
one evening lately at Portici, near Ma
pies, and after taking his watch and
money made him strip and hand over
his shirt.
Beaver Falls, Pa, claims to have
champion of the world. He is G. S
Schweinsberg. His profession is coor
hunting. When seen he had good
sized one in a box, and claimed that
it made S24 that he had captured since
1874.
A London pauper picked up an apple
on the workhouse grounds last summer
and ate it. He was committed for lar
ceny, and, after an imprisonment OF
two months, was released by the grand
jurys refusing to find an indictment
against him.
Queen Christmas decision to confer
the order Of the Golden Fleece on Presi-
dent Faure entities him to wear one
of the choicest decorations in Europe
The only living French members of the
order are the Dukes of Talleyrand, Ne
mours and Aumale, and the Prince de
Joinyille.
The japanese silk nightgown made
by the "unskilled gentlewomen" Of New
York and presented to Mrs. Stanton on
her eightieth birthday isn't going to be
hid from public view after all, it
seems. At least Mrs. Stanton says: 'It
is too pretty for nightgown and j
shall use it for a teagown. It's fine
enough to cross Jordan in"
In Eastern Europe female editor is
still such rarity that the Vienna
Presse calls special attention, as curl
osity, to the fact that the editor-in-c chief
of the Bosnian Post is young woman,
Miss Milena Mrazovic, who has also
written some successful books, and
whose charms of noble femininity
have not been marred by her journals
tic work."
Hall Game said in Philadelphia that
it was not so many years ago since his
tea table service consisted of one china
cup and one silver spoon. He was able |
afterward to add other cups, but his !,
single spoon had to suffice for several
guests. The novelist spoke some COM
mendable words of praise for the Amer
lean girl, who he thinks has attained |
a higher intellectual standing than her |
English sisters.
A country doctor named Sauria, who |
died recently, aged eighty-four, in the
department Of the Jura, France, in
vented sixty years ago matches made
with chlorate Of potassium, phosphor-
us. and sulphur, but was too poor to
pay for a patent and his invention was
made use of In Germany. He applied
ten years ago for some reward from.
the French Government, but only got
the right to keep a tobacco stand.
Isabella Bird Bishop is regarded as
one of the most valuable members Of
the Royal Geographical Society. Being
skilful both as a photographer and a
descriptive writer, she has sent home
to England from the Orient much novel
and interesting material from remote
regions Of China, Thibet and Persia.
She was one Of the first women to see
the Coreans face to face. and several
times she narrowly escaped death
among savage Asian tribes; but, as She
is physician, with some knowledge
of the occult and an understanding Of
how to deal with the superstitious. she
has always avoided serious disaster.