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Show Brilliant English Woman. . Lady Muggins, now that Miss Agnes Clerke is dead, says a Iiondon writer, may be regarded an our only lady astronomer of real eminence. When about ten years old Miss Margaret Murray, as she then was, wenf to work at astronomy systematically, and by tho ilme she married Dr. Muggins she knew enough to bo of the greatest assistance to him.. They established themselves nt the Tulse Mill, then a mce lane In the midst of fields, and carried out the "new" astronomy, the principle of which was to Investigate not only the motions of the heavenly bodies, but nlso what they nre made of. UJy Muggins is, indeed, a many-Bided many-Bided woman, for she has managed to And time (o cultivate music, painting, wood-curving and botany, and she Is devoted to her beautiful garden. Sho Is n great Judge of bric-a-brac, and posresses some wonderful examples of medieval craftsmanship. She plays tho piano, tho organ and the concertina. con-certina. 1 , , J 'Camllle," "Sapho," and other olays of the osculatory and sensational order are being eclipsed by the much:. . heralded tragedy of Oscar Wilde, 'Salome," which will be at the Thatcher opera house on Monday, June 10th, with the original dramatic cast. It Is said that In no work of the author does his peculiar genius show to better advantage than In "Salome." The play is contemporaneous contempora-neous with Christ, and the well known characters of King Herod and John Hie Uapllst figure mainly in the plot. The remarkable run of four weeks in San Francisco speaks well for its drawing qualities, and J.he many distinctive dis-tinctive notices given It throughout the country will doubtless make It a drawing card wherever.lt goes. ' |
