Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1883 — Queen Elizabeth’s Gloves. [ARTICLE]

Queen Elizabeth’s Gloves.

A pair of gloves once worn by Queen Elizabeth have been preserved in a British museum. They are of very fine white leather, worked with gold thread, but of a size at which our fashionable beauties would stand aghast. Good Queen Bess, however, had a hand that was fit to wield a scepter. The thumb of her glove was five inches long, and the palm measure three and one-half inches across. Another royal glove has been preserved in Henry Y Ill’s “hawkes glove,” in which, if the original bears any likeness to the illustration, a goodly number of “hawkes” could find a comfortable resting-place A law applicable to seven counties in Washington Territory provides a penalty against throwing sawdust into streams, as large numbers of fish are killed by the sawdust entering their throats and gills. They are making wrapping-paper out of rice straw and palm leaves in Georgia.