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Show j THE GENTLER SEX. Miss Harriet Blaine's ambition is to become her father's private secretary and counselor. Helen Mathers, author of "Cherry Ripe," wrote two novels in six months, for which she received $10,000. Mrs. Stanley, nee Miss Tennant, has a peculiar fad. Her hobby is parasols, of which she has a wonderf ul collection. I Miss Amelia E. Barr, the novelist, 'lives very quietly on the summit of Btorm King Mountain, on the Hudson. At the recent marriage of Miss Kilmer to Mr. Butler at Rock City Falls the arriving ar-riving guests drove through nine miles of Chinese lanterns. j The richest young lady in Chicago i I said to be Miss Bessie Ross, granddaughter grand-daughter of Tithill King, whose vast fortuneshe inherited through her mother. Ida Lewis is not the only woman light house keeper in America. The light at Watch hill is in charge of Mrs. Schuyler, appointed during the Cleveland administration. admin-istration. i Mrs. Garfield lately bold a farm near Prestonburg, Ky., to spectators for 7 000, which Gen. Garfield bought during dur-ing the early days of the war for less than $700. Mrs. C. Mibn has won the prize of 150 offered by Dr. Oatison of Ccago, for the best biography of a dtinguiahed woman. Mrs. Milon is a Swede, and chose for her subject her countrywoman, Predrika Bremer. The Countess de Gubernatia, wife of the famous oriental prrfessor, now resident resi-dent in Florence, Italy, is a Russian, the has made some excellent transla-into transla-into Italianfromher native tongue, chiefly novels by Tourgenieff. PearlRiversUthe pen neofMnu E. J. Nicholson, publisher of The xNew Orleans Picayune. She n ,pSriver, Miasi-ippi. and thus she EtntlT associates the acenes of her 'cMoCdwith all her Hterary produc- tiona. A, . . David Dudley Field aaya that he re-Daviu re-Daviu l"' vr. Fannie Kemble I7 Zn Si Maasachusetta that, StyJSSJStaJn. sie thought they XZxnc 1.200,000 people lmng ft.erin thaworitLa. - |