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Show 1A1K 1EMINIMTV. The mother of Rider Haggard, the novelist, Mrs. Ella Haggard, was a writer of considerable talent. Mrs. John A, Lbgan is an accomplished accomplish-ed carpenter, and fills her homo with skillful conveniences of her own contriving.. contriv-ing.. The late Mary Elliott Holroyd, of Cincinnati, Cin-cinnati, made a provision in her will of $10,000 to establish a flower market in that city. Miss Susie Rhodes Cutter, who has accepted ac-cepted a professorship in Biddle college, Charlotte, N. C, took all of the honors before graduation and studied modern languages for two years in Europe. Mrs. Langtry's favorite relics of America Amer-ica are the hunting and Indian trophies that she picked np in Denver and other western cities. Her most valued article of this nature is an Indian medicine sash. Mrs. Garfield is now 58 years of age. She is somewhat stouter than of old, and her hair is whiter than in the days of her Washington life. She is said to look prettier in her mourning costumes than in tho brighter colors that she used to wear. Charles Egbert Craddock, who through her brilliant characterization and rich descriptive powers has won a lasting fame, now resides with her mother and Bister at the old homestead in Tenneesee, occupied with literary work, and deaf to all overtures on the part of her many admirers looking to marriage. The duchess of Aosta enjoys the distinction dis-tinction which attaches to the possession of the most elaborate mourning cloak that the genius of Paris could devise. It is made of very heavy lusterless silk, trimmed with flat bands of the richest ostrich plumes, and finished at the edges with 6oft fringes of these plumes, headed by bands of costly dull jet. Three Chicago belles have dailv foot races at Atlantic City. They are Mary Carlton Cooke, daughter of a grain operator; op-erator; Eloise Vane, heiress to a million, who wears a gold trophy won in a running run-ning match at school, and Roberta A. Brown, who reads Latin, understands horse racing, discusses Ibsen and can outswing any other Western Browning-jte Browning-jte with the Indian clubs. Mrs. Greu. Grant has a girl's fondness for candy, and she always has a box on her writing desk while engaged in writing. writ-ing. She is at her desk three or four hours daily uow, being engaged iu the preparation of memoirs and correspondence, correspond-ence, in which she is hving assisted by i her son Jesse, who came back from Cali- j forma, where he was engaged in mining I nd fanning, for tlutt especial purpose, j |