The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-03-17
PERSONALS ABOUT LADIES.

Mrs. Colt, widow of Colonel Holt, of
Hartford, is assessed Tor taxes on the
sum Of $2O6, ,0S2.
The Empress Dowager OF Japan has
contributed the sum of 10000 yen to-
wards founding school i'll Toxic tor
young mobiles.
Mrs. Ames (sEleanor Kirk"), whose
play of "Flirtation" was so successful
in Philadelphia, is dangerously ill at her
residence in Pacific street, Brooklyn.
Kate Fields new comedy, entitled
|"EXtremes Meet" in which the author
is cast for the principal role, will be
produced at the ST. James Theater, Lon
don.
Jane Hartman, aged fourteen, of Stony
Run, near Reading, Pa, predicted that
she would surely die on the morning OF
last Saturday, and her prophecy came
true.
Madame Gounod, the wife of the com
poser, is a daughter of the late NJ. Zim-
norman, professor OF the piano at the
{ onserVatoire. Her sister is the wife Of
Edward Dubufe, the artist.
Mrs, Ztna Fay Peirce, the daughter
in-laW OF Prof. Peirce, of Harvard, is the
young lady who wrote several years ago
d very HuldUIe Selleo VI III UlClGS loI me
Atlantic on "C0-operative uousekeep-
ing"
Mile. Albani has just received from
the American artists i'll Paris a superb
sketch-b0ok, containing drawing from
each one OF them. 1t is offered as IL
testimonial OF admiration for her char
acIer and talent.
Nine. Castellani says, much as she ad-
mires American gentlemen, she shall
remember with even more pleasure
American ladies, because they are not
only intellectually active, but foremost
in every good thing.
Miss Helen Richardson, a Good Tenn.
plar, and sister TO Mr.. Richardson a
member of the London School Board for
the Greenwich division, has been elected
a member OF the School Board for Bris-
tol, being second on the poll.
Ezra Griesmer, OF Berks County, Pa !,
is enjoying local lame, because with
four assistants he recently performed
the feat Of thrashing one thousand
sheaVes OF oats i'll ninety-fve minutes,
including two stoppages. The machine
used was built about Iorty years ago.
The Duchess of Marlborough, wife of
tuS fICGlOy III 1lCldnu, ID dilll d.
bly, endeavorlng to cultivate Irish man
ufacuures. She is about to give ball,
at which all the guests will be required
to wear articles exclusively made in
Ireland. The ladies' dresses are to be
of Irish poplin.
Mrs. Samuel Allen, of Hamden, Con-
necticut, celebrated The anniversary of
her eighty-fourth birthday last Tuesday
h 3 if,iYNA firrr
consisting OF her children, grandchil-
dren, and her youngest great-grand-
child, she and the latter little one Slid
ing down the hill size by side.
Mrs. Millicent Fawcett, a lady of
strong mind and wife OF Member of
Parliament, not content with writing a
novel and treatise on political econ
omy, is preparing pamphlet ON the dis
tress ex sting in the European provinces
of Turkey. She is doing this at the re-
quest of the Eastern Question Associa-
LlOn.
The Marquis of Conyngham has just
received 500, 900 for his historical bu-
reau, inlaid with celebrated Sevres
plaques. He had previ ousIy refused
SS0,UO0 offered by Baron Lionel de
RoLhschild. The bureau was a present
llOlu NGOISe LII GO ulS LOTuSulpS grand
mother, and is considered unique and
priceless.
Mary Bowles, great granddaughter OF
John Eliot, young lady who was mar
ried in 1871 10 Chief Justice Lynde, of
Salem, put her cipher upon her napkin,
which including hers, bears the cipher
OF five successive generations. One of
these goes back to 1860, and denotes the
possessors OF this ancient rag as being
William and Henry Brown.
Harriet Martineau's biography shows
that she had the highest Veneration Tor
Carlyle. "It l am warranted in beiey-
ing,' she wrote, ''that the society am
bidding farewell TO is vast improve
ment upon that which 1 was born into,
l am confident that the blessed change
is attributable to Carlyle more than to
any single influence besides. What
Wordsworth dld for poetry, in bringing
us out of conventional idea and met thod
to true ana simple one, Carlyle has
done Tor morality"