The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-07-20
PERSONALS ABOUT LADIES.


Nelson has the heart disease.
Mrs Belknap is passing the summer at
Byrn Mawr, near Philadelphia.
Miss Sweetapple is the last heircss to ar
rive at Saratoga Petite and pretty.
Mrs Nat Goodwin, nee Miss Eliza Weth-
ersby, the actress, and husband, are at Sara
tOga.
Nine. Janauschcb is at Kissengen. 1t be-
hooves married women and widows to be
careful.
Miss May Fower, of Edinburgh, Ind, lost
her speech several months ago, and has just
recovered it Through the accidental swallow
ing of piece of ice,
The Empress of Germany sent an auto
graph letter to General Grant, expressing
he Emperors regret that he had been un-
able TO receive the Ex President during his
stay at Berlin.
The Duchess of GaTIiera has resolved to
bequeath to the Municipality of Paris her
collection of paintings and sculptures. with
site for a museum and square between
Rue Morny and Avenue Trocadero,
Mrs. Mary A. Livermore receives about
$4,000 a year as the proceeds of her lee
lures. Her lectures are prepared with
the greatest care, and are never delivered
until they are perfectly finished in every
point.
Miss Mary Anderson, the actress, has
gone abroad, and if she doesn't bring home
a name so fearfully twisted out OF shape
that her own mother will fail to recognize
her, she will beay vast lack of expe-
rience, but a huge amount of good taste
IL NorrisioWn Herald.
Hattie Mosler, an orphan, thirteen years
of age, being accused OF sealing 80 cents,
committed suicide by drowning in the Os
wego and Syracuse canal. Part of the
money has since been found on the floor of
the store kept by man who made le accu-
saIon, and the real thief has confessed.
Mrs. Sarah NJ. Peale the artist who has
resided for over thirty years in ST. Louis
will make her future home in Philadelphia.
She has painted portraits of many dis
tingushed men, including Caleb Gushing,
Thomas Ii. Benton, Daniel Webster, Dixon
II. Lewis, "the fat member from Alabama"
General RoseCranz and others.
Nine. Adelina Patti has had great success
in London in Faust" aud "Ada" this
season, and ii is now rumored that she will
undertake Beethoven's "Fidelo" and
Meyerbeer's "Africane" Her voice has
gained greatly in power in the middle and
lower regis er, and it seems likely that
she will essay the Grisi-Tietjens repertory.
Mrs. Hoyt of Tilton, N. H., killed a crow
few days since by throwing a stone al it.
-[Exchange. Mrs. Hoyt never threw that
stone al crow. We don't want to get ex-
cited over this, and we certainly desire to
avoid all show of undue feeling but we can
not help protesting in all earnes ness against
This nrOnnSitinn Mrs Hn,rt
that stone at the crow. We will, take our
dying oath of this Danbury News.
Mrs. Vannovus, q dashing Quebec widow,
got two men into a fight about her, and
then stole off to Europe with the favored
suitor, Mr.. Grifliths, a young merchant,
just as his name was called in Court to an
swer for an assault on his rival, John Jones,
bachelor Of forty-fve Jones claimed
that because the widow did not return his
photograph in 1870 she was engaged to hiu
and Gritliths whipped him with cane for
protesting to the Bishop against Gritiith's
marriage.
Mrs. Clara Lucas Balfour, who died early
this month at Croydon, England, was lee
turer in The cause of temperance when The
movement was ignored by a large section
of society. No Cardinals or Bishops or
canons appeared on its platforms; but few
eminent medical men wrote and ieetured
on lis behalf; no great associations of ladies
had banded themselves together for its pro-
motion. Mrs. Rnlfour, with her gentle
grace, in which earnestness of purpose was
blended with moderation of tone, attracted
numbers who had either been Indifferent
or hostile, and diSarmed their opposi lion.
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How IT LIS DoNE-An Indiana paper says
fat man mopping the perspiraion from
his glabrOuS crown entered q drug store