People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1895 — HONOR A HEROINE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HONOR A HEROINE.

Famous Crimean War Nurse Celebrates Her 75th Birthday. London, May 15.—Florence Nightingale, the famous Crimean war nurse, was showered with congratulations today on having reached her seventy-fifth birthday. There were a number of call-

ers at her residence, all of whom were received and welcomed, although the health of the venerable heroine is not of the best. Queen Victoria's congratulations, in the form of an autograph letter, were delivered to Miss Nightingale by special messenger. Dispatches couched in felicitous phrases were also received from the F.mpress of Germany and the Czar of Russia.

FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE.