Society Small Talk

One of the incidents at a huge charity bazaar, held at the Winter Palace at St. Petersburg, was the winning of a valuable prize in a gigantic raffle. The children of all the schools in the capital were presented with a ticket, and one of the poorest amongst them drew a valuable picture by a French artist, Bertier. The Czar himself bought the little one's possession for 20,000 francs; so that she is now a lucky heiress, and has good reason to remember with pleasure the "Good Czarina's" Bazaar.
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Miss Lillian Hamilton, an Englishwoman, has been appointed chief physician of the Emir of Afghanistan.
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Collectors of Napoleonic relics will soon have a unique opportunity of adding to their treasures, provided their purses be sufficiently long to enable them to bid successfully. Amongst the selection of furniture belonging to the late Cardinal Bonaparte, which is to be put up to auction by his executor, the throne of Napoleon I. will be under the hammer, together with the writing table which he used at St. Helena, and a very beautiful miniature of the Empress Josephine. There will be other pictures also belonging to the Bonaparte family.
Home Chat May 2, 1896.