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Show THE GENTLER SEX. Mrs. Senator Cushmnn K. Davis, of Minnesota, is a strong advocate of the practical in tho education of girls. Miss Lillian Marion Brown, dar.ghter ' of the lato B. Gratis Brown, has been appointed ap-pointed a lady commis,ioner to repreeent i Missouri at the World's fair. Frau Embden, of Hamburg, the only fister of Heinrich Heine, celebrated her KOth birthday recently. She is in the j enjoyment of the best of health. Miss Emmit S. Trapper made afi iTcoe-tigution iTcoe-tigution aiuVfound that outof fifty. (Kifemale Irervaifc eiepwetPto I leep in rooms undi the ground. v -The mother of Marie Bashkirteeff, the ; artist, whose grief is morbid, spends i much of her time in the cemetery of i Passy, near the entrance of which she has placed the monument erectod to her i memory. j Lady Annie Blunt, granddaughter of Lord Byron, with her husband and little daughter is located on the border of the Egyptian desert near Cairo. Her bonne ; is a tent, and she has adopted the dress I and customs of the Arab. I Miss Irene Hoyt is said to have the ' finest collection of corner lota of any ! person in tlie United States. For years I she has made it a business to buy a cor- ner lot in every town she visited, and in : pome towns she has several. ! Mies Ellen Terry "achieved her first stage success by screaming." In a play, "Alter Geel," she had to take a snake ' round her neck and scream, and so real- ! istio was her simulated horror that the i ecroain electrified the house, ! Mrs. M. Edith Howcott, of New Or- I JeanB, probably owns more real estate I than any other southern woman. She I has in her own right over 50,000 acres of i selected timber lands in Louisiana and i Mississippi, and is still buying. Miss Agues Rcpplier, the essayist, belongs be-longs to one of Philadelphia's old families. fam-ilies. Her dark eyes, hair and complexion complex-ion and her vivacious manner betray her French extraction. While studious in her habits, the is a brilliant conversationalist conversa-tionalist j i |