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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3541, 1 July 1905, Page 4

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A street in IJrooldyn laid out. durng the hoopskirfc era has'a 17-foot ■> sidewalk and a 26-foot driveway. I The latter is to be- widened by per--1 mission of Dame Fashion.

ij! Mrs. Florence May brick is alleged to have been the first person who : actually sang “The Holy City,” as it ;• is now known. The song was writ1’ ten by her brother-in-law, Michael r. Maybrick, better known as Stephen ‘ Adams. I Miss Estelle Reel, superintendent of Indian schools, has compiled a uniform course of study for the goyeminent Indians who attend. It is ' printed in a convenient and serviceable volume by the government .. printing office. Mies Dorothea Klurapke, who for » number of years has been an as- ; aistant at the Paris observatory, is t going to Leland Stanford (Jr.) uni- >, venity, as chief assistant to Prof. Isaac Roberts. Her special work will be astral photography. With the possible exception of Baroness Burdett-Coutts, Miss Alice De Rothschild is the weal thiest wornsn In England. She owns several r country estates and much urban ’ property, including a house in Pici« cadilly .and a villa at Grasse. J The newest thing in boas is reported from Morde Carlo, where a Mrs. f >, Richard Do Cromsley Richards, an ~ English woman, appears for her ■ promenade with a live black and || white ouistiti sitting on her shoulder, with its long and bushy tail i : turned snugly around her throat. An |il ouistiti is a small monkey, the princijpal part of which is the tail. I 1 Prima Donna Calve’s father, a hale and hearty peasant nearly 80 years old, resides in the south of France. He is immensely proud of his famous daughter. Pointing to the rose trees in his garden he said to a visitor: “Look at those. Most of them are covered with blooms, but here is one tree which has borne only one rose. It has spent all its strength in I producing one perfect blossom. That la the history of my daughter and her ancestors. She is the supreme flower of a hundred forgotten generations.”