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Show ' THE GENTLER SEX. Sarah Cowell-Lemoyne, the interpreter of Browning, is an ashen blonde and a quaintly original talker. Mrs. M. A. Schaefer, of Monroe, Ga., has held the postofflce at that place for twenty-three years, and has never lost a day on account of illness. Miss Joanna Baker, who was a tutor of Greek in an Iowa college at the age of 16, now occupies the chair her father filled seventeen vears aeo. Grace Greenwood is described as a woman with large features and very dark hair, which she combs down over her ears in an old fashioned way, Sarah Bernhardt expects to make enough money out of hep autobiography to build a little rock play house with a crypt under the stage for her remains." Miss Alice McGee has been admitted to the bar at Warren, Pa. She is only 21 years old, and passed a better examination exami-nation than any of the young men who were candidates. One of the prettiest of Canadian belles is Mrs. R. Mackray. of Ottowa. She is described as a "lovely, petite blonde, with curly golden hair, dark blue eyes and a Dresden china complexion." Miss Nellie Arthur, daughter of the lato President Arthur, has become a picturesque young lady, with a brilliant complexion, large, . soft brown eyes, a graceful figure and an original and effective ef-fective taste in dress. Miss Minnie Hauk, the American prima donna, has purchased the Villa Friebschen, near Lucerne, where Richard Rich-ard Wngner lived for several years, and where ho wrote " Uutterdamuierung,'' the "Moistersinger" aj "Siegfried." Leslie Stephen is visiting Prof. James Russell Lowell at Cambridge. "I have come to America," he saws, "to see my friend Mr. Lowell. I shall stuv alioiil threeVeeks, and shall speud mv whole lime hero in Cambridge. I do not intend in-tend lo travel. 1 eame merely to visit a few of my friends who live here in Cambridge, several Hartford professors I among them. 1 have been in America twice before in 18(13 and 1808. Both times 1 visited Mr. Lowell, snd did not travel much. I rume to look at American Amer-ican life iu the war time, and to get an idea of the feeling here in the north " |