The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-05-18
PERSONALS ABOUT LADIES.


slippers Tor Thurlow Weed.
Miss Emma Abbotps mother Is dan
gerously ill at Waukesha, Wis.
Lydia Maria Ohilds and others, OF
Boston, have started a children's pro-
tectiye society.
Mrs. Brooks, the butter modeler, is
making a figure of "Tne Marchioness"
a. her game of cribbage.
The Empress Dowager of japan has
contributed $4,000 toward founding a
school for young MOBILES in Toxic.
Mrs. s.Dr.J. J.C.Ayer and children petition
for guardian for the Doctor. Remon-
STRANGE is made by his brother and othe +
relatives.
Mrs. Belle Boyd Hammond, former
rebel, is living In Baltimore and giving
dramatic readings. She is described as
being very graceful on the stage.
Miss Sweet, late the renowned PEN
| sion Agent in Chicago, is trying TO Sc
cure the office OF Pension Agent of Hi
nois. The Chicago magnates have given
her letters Of recommendation.
Her Royal Highness the Princess
Louise, VINO is a sculptor as well as a
painter, will probably send a marble
bust OF Her Majesty the Queen to this
years Royal Academy Exhibition.
Mrs. Priscilla Cooper Goodwin, a
granddaughter Of Ex-PresldenL Tyler,
and also OF the famous tragedian, Thos.
A. Cooper, is to give reading at Chick.
ering Hall, N. Y, on Friday evening,
May Is.
Mrs. Eveline Hertord, Of Canton Cen
tire, Conn.,, who recently died at tue age
| of titty-seVen years, did not have a very
Jolly time in celebrating birthdays, Of
| which she saw only fourteen. The
reason why2 Because she was born OIL
the 29th oil February.
Mrs. Ralston, widow OF the California
banker, has written from Paris 10
friends in San Francisco that the gem
tleman she has married is named Can
dor; that he is an American by birth,
but has lived long abroad; and that
their future home Will probably be Lon
don or Paris.
The Dowager Lady Rodney is not the
only member Of the Eugiisn aristocracy
who believes that the claimant is the
"true Sir Roger;" thus opinion Is also
neld by the Duke Of Rutland, and His
Grace does not hesitate to defend his
opinion with arguments which are some
times vigorous.
The Duchess Marie of Edinburgh has
been attending special service held for
the success OF The Russian army now in
the field against Turkey. 1tis said that
in the event of any unforeseen contin-
gency arising out of the present hostiii-
lies the Duchess will remain in Eug-
land-whlch ls excessively vague and
diplomatic.
The Q .een Of Belgium and her daugh-
ter, lllncess Stepnanie, were nearly
run over by an American horse-car the
other uay. One OF their ponies slipped
on the rail ana fell, and the driver OF
the Car managed to stop just in time to
avoid serious accident. All the
passengers got out in great hurry and
neiped up the Qleeps pony, and got a
very gracious Thank you" for their
pains.
Lady Abercromby has just painted q
picture of 'Sheila," the heroine in Mr.
William Blacks novel ga Princess Of
Thule" She Is represented standing on a
II rock, hat i'll hand, gazing out to sea. The
Queen has expressed SO much aumira-
tion OF the plcture that sue has asked
Lady Abercromby to paint her replica.
Her Majesty does not approve 81 much
oil "Madcap VioleW as OF Mr.. Blaek's
other fctions, because the scene 10 not
laid in Scotland.
Lucy Stone objects to the announce
ment of widows death as that OF a
''relicp of somebody-"a piece that is
lett of the man she belongs to-" How
would IL look, inquiries Lucy, to have a
man alluded to as the "relict' OF his late
wife! 10 this the Springfield Repub-
ncan, with malicious gee, retorts
"Lucy will have The pleasure, II she dies
before Mr.. Blackwell, anu then comes
back in the spirit to read his obituary
notice, OF noticing something very mucn
TO that effect said OF nIm."
| The Misses Smith promise to become
mere famous for their translation oil the
Scriptures than for their resistance to
! the tax-collectors. 1t is noticed as a
curious coincidence that De Quincy, in
his Literary "Reminiscences, tells Of u
Miss Smith, daughter OF all English
Colonel, who lived In the lake district,
was mistress oil French, Italian, Span
ish, Latin, German, Greek, and Hebrew,
and made a translation OF the Book oil
Job, which was, by Biblical critics, pro-
nouhced TO be OF the first rank.
Cecilia Bohl de Faber, known to fame
as Fernan Caballero, died lately in
Seville, Spain. She il described as hay-
ing been ~ once the Dickens, the Hugn
Miller, and the George Borrow of her
country. Her vivid pen painted peasant
and gypsy life, MIDDLE class life, ana
scenery with rare power. The literary
and fashionable residents OF the city
attended ner funeral to the cemetery in
large numbers, and among those often
at her bedside during her last illness
were the Ex-QIeen Isabella and the
Duke and DUCHESS Of MontpeLs er.
Mary Clemmer does not think well Of
"Ah sin"-the new play OF Mark
Twain's and Bret Harte's. The life in
1T is not only vulgar, but brutal, and the
dialogue is chiefly remarkable tor the
weak puns that distigure it. "Of all
cheap things," she writes, s'what il
mentally 30 cheap as cheap pun, far.
fetched and lugged into dialogue? 1t is
an awful test, one that no mortal can
survive more than half a dozen years al
longest to have the reputation of being
very funny. Up to that time ii sufi.
ciently perennial he may give us fresh
flowers of humor ana wit; atterward II
seems one endless effort to resuscitate
the old"
Princess Nathalie, OF servia. has tive
sisters, both younger than herself, and
till within two weeks. had an only
| brother aged seventeen His parenlf