Omaha daily bee., 1897-07-18

| had an eNacting season and overwork ma.
| told upon her. She expects to recover hei
| strength during her vacation abroad.
Ada Rehan's health is not good. She hat
Miss Gordon Cumming is raising money il
| all the principal cities Of England for the
| purpose of teaching the blind in China. She
will found large blind asylum at Peking.
Mrs Elizabeth Garrett Anderson. NJ. d..
| who recently presided at Ipswich at a meet
| ing OF the medical association, has just been
| made the first woman president OF that or
gani2atiOn.
Mis-. Clara Fisher Meader. the once IA
NOUS actress now S6 years old, has pub
lished her memoirs. She went on the stag,
when 6 years old and followed the profession
| continuously for - yeats.
Mime Wilhelme Wartha. who was for.
merly Countess Hugonay. has been made
a doctor of medicine at the University OF
Budapest, She is the first woman who has
gained a degree at Budapest.
Two of the richest and most successful
farmers in Illinois are two young women,
Misses Nina and Amy Gillett They reside
near Elkhart, and own over 1000 acres
apiece OF magnificent corn land.
Miss Winifred Warren, daughter of Presi-
dent Warren of Boston university. has been
elected to the chair of Latin at Nassar col
lege. She is now in Europe pursuing her
studies
Mrs. Sarah j. Lippncott, the pioneer
known to thousands of readers as Grace
Greenwood although ~ years of age, is
about to commence a new book.
Mrs. Claus Spreckels, wife OF the sugar
king has just given $1,000 to the managers
of the San Francisco ginger bread fete.
the proceeds of which are devoted to charity.
This amount is just double that earned by
the festival
Mrs. Frank Proctor. who recently died in
Detroit. used to relate that when she first
moved there from New York. sXty-iv
years ago, her father bought the land from
the Indians who had settled there. and that
it was no unusual thing to shoot deer from
the back door of their little log cabin.
Mrs Lewis. who discovered manuscripts
of the gospel in a Syriac convent on Mount
Sinai, has been exploring the convent again
in company with her sister, Mrs. Gibson,
and has examined two 'Paicstinan Syrac
service books of the twelfth century, writ
ten in the dialect supposed to have been
spoken by Christ. Their text will soon be
published.
Tho will of the late Mrs J. II. French
OF Beloit, Wis, bequeaths $4,000 to the
American Humane Educational society. a
large sum is also given to Beloit college on
| tho condition that vivisection shall not be
practiced in the college or in any depart
ment connected with it. If this is violated
| the money Is to be paid to the American
| Humane Education society.
Mrs. OrmistOn Chant has smoked a
cigarette She did it under stress Of circum,
! stances. within the Turkish lines. when she
| was given nothing to eat, in order to prove
| whether it really could allay the pangs OF
hunger She seems to concede that it did
and comedies outright that she can nov
understand the charm of tobacco Never
| theless. she thaks women ought not to use
| the weed.
Tho statement that the faculty of the col
| lego of fine arts at Syracuse university will
| be likely 10 appoint woman to succeed
| thu late Dean Leroy NJ. Vernon has caused