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Show THE GENTLER SEX. Mr. Parnell, tho mother of Charles Stewart Parnell, is noy a pensioner of tho United States government. Ida Lewis, the heroine of Lime Kock lighthouse, who has saved the lives of so many persons, roseives from the government govern-ment a salary of 750 a year. Miss Nannie Williams, a Philadelphia school teacher, wears on her shoulders the original of the head which appears on the standard silver dollar. Mrs. Jennie Turner Powers was the first woman to be made a notary public in the state of New York. She was appointed ap-pointed by Governor Cornell. The Countess Tolstoi is said to be one of the most beautiful women in Russia. She is quite tall, with a figure that is beautifully molded. She is very fond of society. At the last London "drawing room" Mrs. Rider Haggard attracted mnch attention at-tention by her beautiful dress of gray and white satin, trimmed with butterflies butter-flies of gold. Miss Susie Bate, daughter of the Tennessee Ten-nessee senator, is one of the belles of Washington. She is a vivacious blonde, aud rides well, dances well and performs cleverly on the banjo. It is said of Constance Fenimore Wool-son Wool-son that she has a decision of speech, a downrightness, a charming way of going to the root of a matter that makes her a delightful companion. Mrs. Maria Beers, 102 years old, of Cheshire, Conn., can repeat without u break, it is said, lines of poetry she learned 75 years ago, and she can write her name without the aid of spectacles. The Baroness Julie de Fontenilliat, who lias decided to go upon the stage, is a pretty blonde of slight but well rounded round-ed figure, and is of medium height. Her eyes are gray and her face most attractive. attract-ive. Madame Demorest lias an intenso love for fine diamonds, which she wears in her ears and on her hands constantly, but otherwise her taotes aro modest and her dress as simple . as a district school teacher's, Mrs, Delamater, the wife of the Republican Re-publican candidate for governor of Pennsylvania, is a young matron of many accomplishments. She has a taste for books and her reading has been wide and accurate. Mrs. William G. Choate, of New York, established the first woman's exchange ex-change twelve years ago. During the first year the exchange paid out $3,000 as remunerations to women for their handiwork sold by it. Madeline Lemaire, who is one of the most successful and distinguished of modorn French artists, has beauty as well as talent. She is a tall brunette with charming manners, soft dark eyes and a sweet and intellectual face. Mrs. Sheridan has withdrawn almost utterly from tho world. Within the walls of her beautiful home in Washington Washing-ton she lives in a quiet, unostentatious grief for her loved husband, and in beautiful beau-tiful motherly devotion to her four children. Misses Catharine Alicia Renwick and Elizabeth Whyte were recently admitted to tho degree of M. A. at the University of Melbourne, and received a boisterous boister-ous reception from the undergraduates as they ascended the platform to take their honors. |