Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-11
Feminine Notes.

| Miss Clara Barton has announced that she
Is willing to return to Armenia whenever
| the situation may demand her services.
Miss Campbell won the ladies prize In
the recent fancy cycling costume compctl-
tion the other day at Bray, near Dublin.
| during the inauguration OF electric light
| cycle racing In Ireland. Miss Campbell was
| attircd as granny-up- to-date
| Camilla Selden." the woman who nursed
! lIcine, the poet, during the last months OF
his final Illness, has just died The poet,
who gave her the name Of "Mouche," ad-
dressed to her his last poem, and the let
ters he wrote to her are most pathetic.
Miss Shepard, daughter of Ex-Governor
| Shepaid. residing at Batopilas Wash, situ-
| ated in the Sierra Madre mountains has a
piano which was carried In sections over
| 100 miles on he backs OF men and burros,
being transported to her mountain home at
cost of 5000
Mrs, f. II. Kearney of Pendleton. Ore.
! has recently returned from Pendleton hav-
| ing won the distinction OF being the first
woman TO ride across the sand wastes be-
tween Pendleton and The Dallcs on BIZ
cycle. Her husband was with her and they
rode with fiat tires.
Nine. Martha Bcsson OF the Belle Vue
Champion symphony Contest" at Manches-
ier, England, was presented with a tcstl-
monial In acknowledgment OF the services
she has rendered to musical art by her
numerous valuable inventions and improve
AlNuAo III MUSICAL lUStTuHtntSs
Mrs. Emma Forsythc an American lady
who owns $50 600 acres OF land In the South
Sea Islands. Is most energetic business
woman, employing several hundred natives
IS well as many Europeans on her planta-
tion. She was left widow at 49, with
scarcely enough money to exist. but she has
since amassed a large fortune. She has
Just contracted to build four vessels for
island trade and the natives call her the
white Queen"
Nine. Christine Nilsson now lives at
Madrid, where she has a most charming
house. two rooms OF which are uniquely
decorated. Some cynic christened them tho
| Records of Din and Dinner" and this is the
reason why: The walls of her bedroom arc
| papered with leaves OF music from the
| operas In which Nine. Nilsson has sung
and the dining room is papered with hotel
| bills she has collected land paid during her
| journeys around the world.
| Mrs. Marion Mcbride. the president and
manager OF the American Woman's Sound
Money league, says that the league has ac-
complshed so much good in Colorado that a
prominent silver man OF that state has writ
ten to her, sharply calling her to account
for the mischief she has done with her
sound money literature" The league has
branches In many places, fourishing one
being in Boston, where Mrs. Mcbride now
has headquarters.
Mrs John Sargent Wise. who has been
| elected treasurer OF the New York chapter
1 OF the Daughters OF the Revolution. was
! a charter member of that society, and also
OF the National Daughters. She belongs to
| fine old southern family and entertains
| handsomely, among her guests being dis
| tinguished artists, musicians and political
| and social lights. She is an excellent par
| liamentarian, an active member of the
| Society for Political Study and OF the Post
Parliamentary club. also n director OF sew
| eral charitable institutions.
Upon the occasion of the queen OF Den
mark celebrating her seventy ninth birth
day short time ago she received numerous
beautiful pieces Of jewelry, the most cX-
qusite being from the Empress Dowager OF
Russia and the Princess of Wales The
Crown Princess of Denmark gave her an an
tique cabinet, inlaid with tortoise shell, also
a large basket OF Jaqueminot roses. The
Princess Vladimir sent her most expensive
bonnet from Paris, also handsomely framed
photographs of her children. As the royal
party were promenading in the private gar
dens the Princess OF Wales took their pho
tographs.