The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-07-06
THIS AND THAT.

The following formula, to preserve and clean Panama hats, was given to a gentleman during his recent visit to Cuba, by a dealer in this expensive headgear:
 Of equal portions of precipitated sul- phur and oxalic acid mixture, take half a teaspoonful and dissolve in half q tumbler of cold water. Then dip a clean spc nge (not too wet) and pass over the hat until perfectly clean, then place in the sun to dry. after which the hat will look like new. Any drug gist will supply this mixture for a few cents. and 1t will be found very use full in restoring soiled leghorns and other straw hats for the feminine mem- bers of the family. It might also be tried on wicker ware. cane chairs, Tn fact anything made of straw and such like material.
 Edward Townsend Flynn, we'll known New York newspaper man. died recently, claimed to have been the first newspaper reporter to refer to Dr. Street as the Little Church Around the Corner"
 After living in retirement twenty years, Mrs. Amelia Folsom Young, fa- vorite wife of Brigham Young, is about to begin to entertain again on a large scale. The first affair was a high tea given last week at her home in Salt Lake. She was the eighteenth wife of Brigham Young. Is a cousin of Mrs. Grover Cleveland, and still retains a great share of the beauty of the Folsom family.
 The Silhouette writer in The New Or leans Times Democrat says:
 Next to the snares of the Evil One, pray heaven to deliver me from the man who calls me aside and tells me some commonplace with the exagger- ated secrecy of a conspirator commu- nicating a "Gunpowder Plot"
 There is living at Tifisky Listok Russian aged 122 years, who fought in many battles against Napoleon l. Andreas- Nicholjewitch Schmidt was born in the year 17s2 at Scaulen, in the government of Kowno. and entered the army when 14 years of age. He Is In possession of numerous orders. and also a gold medal for saving life. In 1858 he was ordered to escort a political offender to Siberia. The prisoner es- capped, and Andveas was In consequence banished to Siberia himself, where he remained for ten years. In 1868 he was pardoned by Alexander II and returned to his home. He has still his sight and hearing and can walk without assist ance.
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 There is to be Helen kellar Day at the St Louis Fair in the early Fall, and by invitation of the management. the gifted deaf, dumb and blind girl of Tuscumbia. Ala. will be there The occasion will be a congress of princi- pals of schools for the blind. Helen Kellar was one of ninety-six young wcmen who. at Radcliffe College. re- ceived. on June 2S. their degrees of bachelor of arts. She thus refers to her college life:
 q have groped my way through col lege, reaching out in the dark pathway for wisdom for friendship and for work. have found much work. abundant friendship and a little wis- dom, and I ask for no other blessed ness"
 Miss Keller henceforward will live at wrentham, Mass, where a large. roomy, old-fashioned house awaits her.
 &RI It Is said that Mrs. Maybrick. the unfortunate Alabama woman who has spent so many dreary years in an Eng fish prison. will be freed at the end of this month. Mrs. Maybrick is at present staying in a Church of England home at Lost withiel, in Cornwall. under an assumed name. It is officially announced that. after her release, she will sail for America.
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 A Geneva special says:
 The medical colleges of the five Swiss universities have more women than men. The reports for the year show ss1 women to 763 men. At Berne alone there are BIT women students. at Lausanne I'll and at Geneva 151. At Geneva women have just been permit ted to practice law. Miss Nelly Favre is the pioneer woman attorney"
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 The most extraordinary pearl-or rather cluster of pearls-known as The Southern Cross" is owned by a syndicate of Australian gentlemen. who value 1t at s500.00O. So far as is known 1t occupies an absolutely unique