in this
country. She can tell the weight of a beef on foot at a glance, and
reports the cattle market for the New York _Times_. A correspondent
says:

Her father was a cattle-dealer, and taught her to handle
fearlessly the animals he delighted in. She learned to tell at a
glance the finest points of live-stock, and to doctor bovine and
equine ailments with the utmost skill. With all this, she became
a proficient in Italian and French, and a terse and rapid writer.
A few years ago, after her father's death, she traveled in Italy
with an invalid sister, having an eye to her pet passion--the
horse. While there she met Prince Poniatowsky, also an ardent
admirer of that animal. He mentioned her zooelogical
accomplishments to Victor Emanuel, and the consequence was Miss
Middie was deputed by His Majesty to purchase a hundred or so of
fine horses. She had charge of the blood-horses of King Victor
Emanuel, who owns the finest stud in Europe, and breeds horses of
a superior shape, vigor and fire. He beats Grant in his
admiration for that noble animal. When she decided to come to
this country, she made known the fact to Hon. George P. Marsh,
our minister to Italy; and he gave her a letter of recommendation
to Mr. Bigelow, of the _Times_, who employed her. She is an
expert among all kinds of animals. Her judgment about the
different breeds is sought after and much quoted. She can discuss
the nice points about cattle as easily as Rosa Bonheur can paint
them.[212]

From the Woman's Journal, Oct. 1, 1870:

Miss Barkaloo, the lady just admitted to the St. Louis bar as a
lawyer, and who has received a license to practice as
attorney-at-law from the Supreme Court of that State, is a native
of Brooklyn, N. Y., and is a woman of more than ordinary ability.
Two years ago, after having read Blackstone and other elementary
law-books, she made application for admission as a student at
Columbia College, New York, and was promptly refused. Nothing
daunted, she went to St. Louis, where she was admitted to the Law
School. For eighteen months she assiduously devoted her energies
to the study of the science, and her fellow-students all agreed
in declaring her by far the brightest member of the class. That
there was no question of her ability was clearly shown at her
exami