Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-07-16
Refgning Beauties orIon,


heignfng Beauties OF London.
LONDON IS busy with the friyolities Of TN,
season, and more particularly with roSSiD , tlIo
MT Ms me reigning beauty" Her name is
| SnSr LTahEIrN Her portrait is i'm every win
S Somi Journalistic gossip In society nanerx
%n SnS upon how she dresses ana where She
| EptS: Al Mayfair Teceptions ..fba mnh nS
iSsnlon crowds about her With "rGSe S,,raS =.
this ioo ROYALTY OF its due. Both the beauties
Wallis S WsSi are married women. Mrs Corn
~" va. MeSt AZ hrSt threatened to De a foTmi5
ME rival to Mrs langtry. Buf her b iuI bHiid,
do moi see it,. He not only sold m biS Sp'nd
in io~ G ed he parted with his is6 estates 3GSo
WSare 70 hear what they saw in cimSs S II0,s
incidents az IN Kind is ike rsai ding \ cbaDtIts:
out OF Count ca. Nmmont Memoirs" Beautv
was ALWAYS tat1l dover. To have beSr,y
full wife in modern sacr, " is almost as unpleaS-
ant, IL would seem. as X was IN the DAVIS oF
" The Merry Monarch" Mrs, CORVALLIS West
Is s. as c cha as she is htag!:nI Her hqs
say so. he did not want her 10 be the toast
oi The day" and the belle of photo
Graphers, windows. Sensible man, he will
IlaNSl abroad and wait until society finds 4
lew Venus, which il is sure 10 DO next year.
heahM nile Mrs. Langtry is left i'm possession
OF The field, anu, a. she elects ts De a Sor, OF
puHilc parsonage, there can De no harm i'm
.alhIlE ana writing about her. She q cures i'm
ne academy as " The Jersey Lily also az
Mrs. LanEtry Every ART shop has study
oil her. a IL the photographers fight about her
You near her name wherever you 20 in soci-
Ely Syr' Or S she present or absent You rarely seq
her husband. She has one His income ia
only shNo year. They live very quietly in
l ARK lane or lhtreabOutS. next door Ia An inn
where MIS-. Langiry is, of course, the one
topic of the hour. The Prince of Wales ridrS
with her often, and his carriage frequently
stands al The door. One man said this rather
SSIthllnSlS IN har the other night, aud was
khI cked down Tor his pains | don't know
MIS- Langtry; but am TOLD she is quiet un-
assuming lady, though one Of her recent
toilets cost $500 | don't thiuk her yety
pretty. She a liSi inprliS nod l,,,l. l.
Her hair Is dark her eyes are blue, an I'M
usual combination, which is effective Her
lips are thick. denOtng kindness and Lows
oil ll1e' they say London Cor. ". Y. Times.
MAN AND WIFE. The validity Of wed
lock, under certain circumstances, without 4
marriage ceremony, has been affirmed anew
hH Judge AShman of Philadelphia. The suit
was aLout the $4,000 that John Simon, dying
interstate: had left. For thirty four years be.
fore his death he had cohabited with woman
without having been married 10 her. but She
Eau alM3Ss PASSED as his wife, and she and
her chiIdren demanded share of the prop
erty The children Ivy former wife con-
tested the claim, but have lost their case Wis
conSln has Just passed a law legaliZinC fbs
marriage of any man and woman who simpIy
agree 10 live together as husband and wife.
STRUGGLING WITH KNIFE IN HIS Boor.-
While the Rev. {. 4. FeSSenden was dressing
he dropped his penknife, with the blade open'
mo g., ms poot and when he pulled on his boot
ne ielt something cutting him severely on the
hall OF the foot The knife fell with the handle
TO the heel and the point of the blade TO the toe
With the sharp edge of the blade up and ths
more he pulled to get the boot on the more the
knife cut his foot How to get the knife with
out cutting The boot was a sumner, and, with
the knife cutting deeper at every movement of
hlS foot, was no pleasant situation. Not being
able to devise way by which to get the knife.
Mr. FeSSenden, after about an hours work.
cut the boot TO pleceS-l The CutGriSSG NeirS
ItCn.
COUNTERFEITER BALLARD's ATTEMPT AZ
SJlIlDE.-'' pStprllV Morning Mr.
run OF the bententiary said, "one of the
Keepers told me that Tom Ballard wasn't feel
ing well, and he thought he wanted to see me.
went TO his cell and found him lying down.
He said, Don't punish me [ inquired.
what 90 you mean, Ballard? What is the
been reported, but il is no use. YOU WON'T
punish NE: have taken my own life lie
then pulled down the clothes and showed ms,
his abdomen, ripped from the naval upward.
10 make sure he had also severed one of tho
intestines. This wound had not bled much.
and asked him whence the pool Of blood
came that was on the floor, and which he had
attempted TO screen from observation hy
throwing overit his red shirt and drawers He
then showed me deep cash cut in his left
He has been melancholy for two or three
weeks past, and in letters sent to his wife ba
has lntlmated that he would make way with
himself" He is about 81 years of age. His
whole family, it is said, were engaged In coum-
telfeItlDg. just previous TO his arrest and
confinement CONNIE IN Ludlow street jail he married
IA
knew nothing OF his hiStOry.-I Albany Times
THE GOLDEN WHEAT is falling in graceful
SWathS before the swinging cradles of the
farmers. The quail in the StUbble whistles his
cheery note: The farmer himself occasionally
walks wearily 10 the blackberry bush near th,
fence and takes long pun at the Jug: and
that's SWaths the matter.-IN y: Herald.
f6-The hand that rocks the cradle is the
hand that SpankS the world Pack.
BE-" Look out, Miss, your lids coming off,
said kind -hearted San Francisco boy TO 4
young woman, who, having an uncOmmonly
big mouth, opened ii to smile at a friend in the
street.
Eh-loung mother deeply interested i'm a
novel. but preserving some idea of her duties
as mother TO her eldest bOrn-Henrietta
where is your little sister? Henrietta-In the
next room, ma. Young mother turning over
Iagc-GO and see what she's doing and tell
her to stop il this minute.
DIED.