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Show ( stalely presence, witli ronnd, full lips, I boHiitiftil gray-blue eyes and a rosy com. , ploxion. j A new and remarkably clover AmeH-l AmeH-l can novelist bus, it is reported, been discovered dis-covered In the person of Miss Lily A. j Long, of 8t. Paul, Minn. ! Miss NordhoiT, u daughter of Charles ' Nordhoff, of Washington, D. C, having hav-ing a strong taste for bookbinding, in t studying tho art from its beginning to I its finest results. Miss Emily Hudson, a belle of New Uochelle, X. Y., bus opened u free hos-pi'.al hos-pi'.al for invalid pigeons, which flock to it instinctively whenever they feel under un-der tho weather. Miss Harriet McEwen Kimball, of Portsmouth, N. II., has received tho first prize of $100 for a hymn to bo sung on hospital days in tho churches end syna-gogik-s of New York. Matilda Fromboy, a deaf mute, was i admitted to tho St. Lawrence county, ;X. Y.) poorhousn in IN1'.-!, and lias prolj- : ably never been absent from the house day or night since. She is now !)3 years ! old. Mi.'R Anna Whitney, of Rustoti, is one of the best do? judges in the world. Slie ' notes at u glance nil the defects and beauties of a dot;. Sbo is vice president of the Ht. Bernard club, of Jiassaclm- j Betts, Kenor Emilia Prirdo-B.-izau has lately : delivered before the Spanish Atlieii:ium ' lit Madrid a course of lectures on lius-sia, lius-sia, The Athciueuiu is tho most (lis- : tiniruished literary snd scieutitiu society j in M- id rid. Miss Virginia Penny, who published : in 1W!;1 "Tlie Employments of Women." I was tho firpt to brint forward (ho needs of American working women in book i form. In her old njee she now finds her- j self with very straitened means. I Miss MntHe Thomiison, daughter of ex-t 'ongresman Phil Thompson, whs selected se-lected as the queen of beauty at tho ' celebration of tho Satellites of Mercury, held recently at Louisville, but choi-a rather to bo ono of tho maids of honor. Miss Clara Barton, tho famous lied Cross nurse, lives quietly in Washingion, D. C, shunning notoriety. She has an income of $S,000 a year from an estate 1 she inherited, but tlio spends only $3,000 i of this sum, devoting the rest to charity. ! Mrs. Mon.i Caird, whose theories on ! matrimony have made her famous, is a slender woman of pretty figure, Her , hair is brown and wavy. Sho is very I restless in manner, and is said to bo an 1 occasional victim of nervous prostration. j Era ulein Mario Essipolf received as a I wedding present from her father, a wealthy Viennese merchant, a book which is said to be tho costliest volume in existence. The binding is of tho richest rich-est tooled morocco, and each of tho hundred hun-dred leaves is a bond for 1,000 gulden. THE GENTLER SEX. During a recent journey Baroness Al-phonso Al-phonso Rothschild was robbed of jewelry valued at 00,000 fraucs. Kate Chase Spragne has a diary of her father that sho esteems one of the ipoh; important historical papers in existence, Miss Mary Gxipor, a daughter of tho governor of Colorado, is a wm" |