The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-08-02
PERSONALS ABOUT LADIES.

Lotta's toilettes are the biggest eyeful
| at Cape May.
Jenny Lind and her family are going |
to live in England.
Mrs. j. S. G. Abbott is writing me-
molr OF her late husband.
Mrs. General Custer is stopping with |
some friends in Newark, N. j.
Kate Field has discovered that some
English ladies have small leet.
Mile. Marie Sass has been engaged to |
come to the United States for five |
months.
Anna Louisa Carey's concert at Port
land, Me-, netted $1,000 lor the ST. John
sufferers.
Miss Johanna Pritchard will play "De-
borah" and "Auramania" through the
country this season.
Kate Field says Gen. Grant doesn't
know one tune from another, but all his
| children are musicians.
FMiss Nelson will visit Trouyllle and
Vchy previous to reappearng in Eng
land in November next.
Mrs. L. B. Calvert, of Winooski, VT,
has iucnsia bearing four hundred and
seVenty-nine blossoms.
| MIR. Gladstone is going to read a paper
at the coming conference on domestic
Economy" at Birmingham, England,
Kate Claxton says there are very few
gentlemen among the newspaper men
of the country. We know it, Kate; we
! know it.
Patti is living in retirement in Eng
lana. The London Figaro says that
nothing is definitely known concerning
her future movements.
Ottilie Wildermuth, well known
German authoress, whose books mainly
portrayed domestic lite, died on the
18th OF July ut Tubingen, at the age OF
sixty years.
Mrs. Gaines has won her big lawsuit,
but she has no offers OF marriage, cah't
ride horse like Anna Dickins on, talk
like Lucy Stone, nor enjoy suul like
Susan Il.
Mile. Sarah Bernhardt, the great
T french actress, is making statue OF
"Medea" tor the next salon. She will
,qortly appear as "Medea"at the Iheater
Franchise.
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stoves hous e
, at Mandarin, Florida, was struck by
lightning July %, during a terrific
sto, IN. No serious damage was done to
the building.
, Grace Greenwood and daughter, en-
, route tor Colorado, were detained in
Chicago several days by the strike.
Iney are the guests Of Dr.. Clark, at All
; West Monroe sLleet.
Christine Nilsson has recently de-
I clined tlttSeling ntier to come 10
America and slng III C0nCert. Ii Dr hus-
Oahd writes that ner contracts have al
: reaOy beeu Signed a. long way auead.
Miss De Roths schId, the daughter and
heiress vi Barnn Meyer De Rotuscn id,
Z 1T is said, is causing u small revo.uti0n
. in the family by Insisting ON mauagin &
her own greaI fortune in her own way,
The Comtesse de Gasparin, WHO will
be best known to American read, rs as
the author OF "Near HORIZONS" has de.
t voted herself to the TASK Of redee ming
= the unlortunates Of PARIS, ner apueal tu
t1em-a very pathetlc and natural piece
u ol Nrltlug-appearlns i'll all the papers
e oi the French metropolis.
= Jane McCrea's memory was honorod
!, ny Ghe residents OF Fort L ward, N. i.
O on Friday. The church beHs were rung
q a1 od' preak, business was suspended
there was long procession and a longer
T ofaIloh, ana toward dusk there was
b LII emeh>s tournament. Not one OF The
, young laales VI the place WAS willing to
oe scalped lor the occasion, and it was
aImcuIt TO celebrate the one huudretn
l. anniversary OF the death of Jane NJ
# Crea with any degree of appropriate
ness. In the lot overlooking the spring
Where the tair-hairel lassie was mul-
3 dere"' there was an arch OF eyergreens
t auo ilhLnortelles bearing her name. That
e was Detter than playing away with the
machine.
e Anne Brewster says, in letter from
Rome to the Boston Advertiser: "rhe
piIgrimages have ended, and it is jus
J, as well they are over, for they have
e nearly killed the Pope; If lney mad CON-
O tinued much longer he could not have
! survived. The sudden and unusual hea
OF the season, added to the fatigue OF
J receiving such crowds Of people, has
, made the Pope unusually feeble. One
day His Holiness mad long iii Of falnt-
ing. When ne revived, his attendants
D and doctors, seeing that he was deeply
e affected by his situation, said encOur.
, aging words. Tue Pope shook his head
and replied, DO not tAtter. l know
!, well that am near my end.'"
= Minnie Hauck, who has been singing
/ IN Germany Tor several years, has mel
E with greater success in that country
q than any other artist, with the possible
exception OF Lucca. After six months
t time sue was made court singer, fact
C without a parallel in the musical his
b. tory of Berlin, because this honorary
title has only been granted heretofore
q after many years. success. Iu Septem
ber next Miss Hauck will begin star
. engagement at Brussels, when she will
e- create the role OF "Virginie" III Masses
r opera, "Paul ct Virglnie," ami sing in
French the elisa" Oh "Lohengrin." Du
i ring the summer vacation The young
y cantatrice will study Italian and French
@ operas, and after her Brussels engage
a ment she may sing in Paris.
QUEER GIRL.