Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-11-08
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GOSSIP.
Hoops and bustles are imminenti
Mrs. X. B. Henry, of Boston, has
been o commercial traveller for nine
years.
Prussia has just decided to throw
open medical colleges and degrees to
women.
Countess Castellane (nee Anna
Gould) has joined the ranks Of Paris
women cyclers.
It is against the law in Norway for
girls to marry until they can knit,
bake and spin.
Professor Huxley's wife has been
granted pensien on ths British civil
list of $1,000 a year.
Mrs. Hearst, of California, has q
collection of laces which rivals that OF
the Queen of Italy.
Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett, au-
thor of "Little Lord FauntleroY,"
makes all OF her own dreeses.
Lady Londonderry gives an annual
prize to the one OF her tenants who
has the neatest and best kept garden.
Nine. Casimir-P PeriAr has organize ]
crusade against the use of birds
breasts and wings for decorative pur-
poses.
During the past year the Empress
of Austria has shown decided signs of
recovery from her long fits of melan-
choly.
Queen Victoria spends most of her
time at Osborne in tent on the lawn.
although she takes q six-mile drive
each day.
The German Methodist Conference
at Milwaukee, Wis, voted unani-
mously against admitting women to
conferences.
Mrs. Margaret Custer Calhoun, Gen.
eral Clusters daughter. read poem
at the Atlanta fair on Blue and Gray
Day. September 81.
A priest of prominent church in
Paris says that he will give commun-
ion to no woman who presents herself
at the altar in bloomers.
Mrs. Lizzie NJ. Frost, of Monmouth,
Me-, runs grist mill. She turns on
power and watches the machinery
while her husband writes poems.
A mother, whose daughter stopped,
made her carry book on her head
several hours day. This gives re-
markably erect and graceful carriage.
The alumna of Wellesley College
are planning to endow chair of
mathematics, as memorial in honor
of their former President, Miss Helen
Shafer.
Miss Douglas, who is the champion
amateur markswoman OF England, re-
Gently scored fifty.seven bulls eyes in
succession with q revolver at twenty
yards range.
The Princess Eulalie. who made
such an impression at the Worlds
Fair, broke one of the bones of her
ankle while playing tennis the other
day and is going on crutches.
Rhoda Broughton, the English nov
elist, is lover Of roses, and her little
old house in a little old street in Ok.
ford has walled garden overrun with
rose bushes and latticed vines.
Nine. Dieulafoy, of Paris, has worn
mems clothes since 1870. She goes
to balls in a swallowtail coat, with
her hair clipped close to her head,
yet she is called "exquisitely woman
ly."
When putting gloves on always be-
gin by buttoning the second button.
Then when the glove has been but
toned to the top the first one can be
easily buttoned without tearing the
kid.
Teresa Brambilla, the original Gilda
in "Rigoletto, died recently in Milan
at the age of eighty-two. She was one
of FIVE sisters, all noted singers, Of
whom she and her sister Marietta
were the most celebrated.
A Sister OF Charity is the first wo-
man to receive decoration in Hol.
land. She was made Knight of the
Order of Nassau Orange by the, two
Queens of Holland during their re-
cent visit to Overyssel.
The Catholic University at Wash
ington has decided to admit women as
pupils in all the higher studies, in
cluding science. philosophy and art.
They will also be admitted to all the
lectures in the regular and special
courses, but they will not be matricu-
lated or awarded degrees.