The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-09-22
PERSONALS ABOUT LADIES.


Lulu, the female gymnast, has twins.
Mrs. Hickm IN, of Hickman, KY, has |
five pairs of tW MS.
Nilsson is going to St. Petersburg.
ST., 400 night is the inducement.
Anna Raymond announces that the
Bloomer costume will not be revived.
Genevieve Rogers is giving "Maud
Muller" at the New Park Iheater,
Brooklyn.
Ann Eliza Young is at Hartford, ar
ranging for the publication Of her book
on Mormonism.
Bertha V Il HllIern will soon attempt
the task Of walking eighty-nlne miles IN
twenty.siX hours.
Fred. Douglas has accepted an invita-
tion to deliver an address AT the Emil
nence Cotored Fair, 20yh.
Clara Morris will play "AIiss Moulton"
at the Brooklyn Academy of Music,
commencing Monlay neXl.
Mrs. jackson, "StonewalW Jackson's
widow, ls visiting ner sister, Mrs. Mar
garet j. Preston, the poete5s, at LeXlug-
ION, Va.
Rose Eytinge is playing cleopatra"
at the San Francisco Iheater, and tue
performance is spoken OF i'll the hIghest
terms.
The Empress OF Russia is on her way
to Bucharest, the capital OF Roumania,
where she Will be joined by Ner hus-
band, the Gar.
Mrs. Bullen, sister OF Hugh S. Legare,
once Secretary Of Sta e, is about to pub
llsh volume on her brotner's Lille and
Times" Mrs. Bullen is an elderly au-
Thor She is in her eIgntiet th year.
Miss Mary B. Odenhelmer, daughter Of
the Bishop OF Northern New Jersey, a
young artist who has won place on me
Academy walls, Will study art in Paris
this winter. Sue takes with her several
orders ior pictures-forLunaIe artist that
she is.
Mrs. Zelda Seguin is the most accom-
pllshed actress of the English opera
ranks; and Miss Melville, who will be
prima donna in the Hess English opera
Company this season, was renowned
last year in Australia for her pc sonal
beauty and sparkling, dashing style.
Widow Van Cott, the woman preacher,
| is described as "a pretty plump little
| woman; dresses richly in black Six, lets
her hair stray IN the taintest t9ndrils Of
curls about her forehead, carries fine
camUric handkerchiets perIumed by
haunting white Rose SPEAKS eloquent
| ly, terVently, and charmlngly."
Grace Greenwood complains because
| the Intelligent composltor Transformed
the words "plcklng oakum," IN one ol
her letters, into 'milklng cow" 1t is
is easy, OF course, to see how the suDsti.
tuition arose; and there have been phi.
lolOgists WHO could show not only that
the phrases were derived from the same
source, but that they were, until quite
recently, Identical in meaning.
Miss McM ahon, of Stoire, VT, who il
one hundred and one years OF age, was
discovered the other day at the Tub do
ing her weekly washing. This comes OF
living life OF single blessedness.
Miss MacMahon had married some kind
loving heart when She was in her TWEEN
ties, she might have worked herself u
death before reaching the age Of fit!
years, and thus escaped hard labor a
the wasn-tuD IN her Id age.
Lydia Maria Child, though one of th
oldest OF living Writers-sue will be seV
/. enty-sIx next February-IS SAID to De il
vigorous health, and her mind to be a
clear and strong as that OF most person
twenty years younger. Her taLner, Da
yid Francis, was a baker, and the orig
Inal manufacturer Of the once iamou
biscuit known as the Boston cracker
When she was tWenty-iOur she puDlisAe e.
) "Ine Rebels, a Tale OF the Revolution,
some Of the characters being the histori
cal men of The period.
Lucy Hooper thinks that Sardou'
"DOra" is the best play he has ever writ
ten since his "Famllle BeHoltOn," aud a
! to the state Of affairs depicted IN I'll
= play-the existence of political LAD
spies of the highest social standing-lt
q well understood TACT that odrduu drew
and colored the groundwork OF his pie
2 ture from The very lie. Indeed, 50 thi
| was the disguise that i've cast arOun
some OF his personag4s that every crit
IN Paris knew NAat celebrated lOreIg
: lady had sat Tor the pOrLratt 0! III
= princess Bariatine" before The piec
. mad twice seen the lO0tlishGs.
Myra Clark Gaines makes the follow
ing proposition: "NOw, to save the city
3 anu to 10 all l can 70 relieve me partie
( against whom ! have Obtained JUDI
ments, propose 10 tue city That she pa
me Ine amount Of ~ 400 900, the amo un
to be paid within ten years, in yearly II
I stallments, without interest. TAe city
: am aware, g at this moment uuab. |
LAY; but it can be met by applying
the Legislature TO allow them tie UUul
: cll) w levy \ special tax Sufficient
( meet the !early amounts 10 be paid"
J, Mrs. julia Ward Howe says that sh
e met at an English gardaH-parLy, Two {
e six noble SISTERS, all unmarried an
- wing together, the daughters IF IA
o Earn, now deceased, WAC retuseu |
$ allow any o. MS younger daug Aters
- marry befO G the eluest shuuiu md Il hu,
Oand. For some uuknO .. II reason sl
y never did iAG one, aud one at lea t
l. he ouhget sters, VINO was ,Oulht
d marriage by u Gentleman cf suitable u,
Lion, was ubised 10 submit to tn.
cruel prescription, and renamed sling
unh' her iHthers death, when she Il
t LcIarel herSeli too old TO enter ne
g Condition"