BEARDED WOMEN. Of these there have been several remarkable instances. In the cabinet of curiosities of Stuttgart in Germany, there is the portrait of a woman called Bartel Grætie, whose chin is covered with a very large beard. Her portrait was painted in 1587, at which time she was only twenty-five years of age. It is said that the Duke of Saxony had the portrait taken of a poor Swiss woman, remarkable for her long bushy beard; and those who attended the carnival at Venice in 1726 saw a female dancer astonish the spectators not more by her talents than by her chin covered with a black bushy beard. Charles XII. had in his army a female grenadier, who had both the beard and courage of a man. She was taken prisoner at the battle of Pultowa, and carried to Petersburg, where she was presented to the Czar in 1724; her beard measured a yard and a half. A woman was once seen at Paris who had not only a bushy beard on her face, but her body likewise covered all over with hair. Amongst a number of examples of this nature, that of Margaret, the Governess of the Netherlands, is very remarkable. She had a very long stiff beard, on which she prided herself; and being persuaded that it contributed to give her an air of majesty, she took care not to lose a single hair of it. The Lombard women, it is said, when they went to war, made themselves beards with the hair of their heads, which they ingeniously arranged on their cheeks, in order that the enemy might take them for men.