The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-07-06
PERSONALS ABOUT LADIES,
'oper reward

Widow Van Cott is in Omaha.
Nine. Bonaparte is ninety-six.
Mrs jerks will have to lecture.
Mrs Scott Siddons visits this country in
August.
Mrs. jerks says the chief end of man is to
lie about her.
Mrs. Senator Pendleton is fifty, and spark
ling as diamond.
Nine. Modjeska is said to contemplate
playing cleopatra"
Fanny Ellsler, the once famous dancer, is
now eighty-four years old.
Miss Mary Anderson will open the fall
season at the Fiflh-avenue Theater.
Mrs. Dixson of Leeds, England, fell dead
Of Joy at a sons return from America.
Mrs. Hayes may take back seat Queen
Vic. has caught a thirty pound salmon.
Miss Sallie Adams is lying i'll at Boston
with rheumatism and congestion of the
lungs.
Miss Jef1reys Lewis sailed from Liver
pool on the Cunard steamer Scythla on
June ODD.
Mrs. Ray, the new President of Vassar
College, was once one Of the editors OF the
Chicago Post.
"Pearl Rivers" the Mississippi poetess,
has connubialized with Picayune Nicholson
of New Orleans.
Mrs. Myra Clark Gaine has won an
other case in the courts and got title
to the whole town OF Kennerville in Louis
lana.
Mrs. D. A. Dodd of Humboldt, Iowa,
last week gave birth to her twenty-seCond
child boy. She has had seven pairs OF
twins.
Queen Victoria has reigned forty-one
years. The length of the reign OF the
famous Queen Elizabeth was forty-toul
years.
Ristori has retired from the stage per,
manently. 1t is not known when she will re-
turn again but probably not until after the
weather gets cooler.
| Miss Mary Brown, of Boston, is to make
her debut in London as Mile. Stella Corva
Faustana" This is probably the poorest
way of pronouncing Brown in existence.
Miss Mary Anderson has been warmly re
ceived and entertained in England, not only
by members of her profession, but by prom
inent citizens who have read and heard o
her American success. AT the present date
she is in Paris.
Mile. Gemna Luziani is a little Italiar
pianste not yet ten years old, who is al
ready an honorary member of the Roya
Philharmonic Society in Rome, and wht
has been playing with great success in Parl
the works of Bach, Beethoven, Mozart
Haydn, etc.
Miss Emily Faithful, in recent addres
! ~, e
that outward luxury was becoming perfec
passion among English men and women
who had lost the taste for simple pleasures
and in their pursuit of gold were losini
sight OF higher characteristics.
Mrs. Sarah Helen Whitman shortly be
fore her last illness had prepared her poem
for the press, intending to publish them i'm
mediately. She appointed literary execu
tor, and it is probable that the book vii
soon appear, as well as another one contain
ing selections from her prose writings
among which will be "Poe and his Critics.
Meta Schmidt, who was betrothed to til
brother of Modelling, King William assail
ant. was missed on the 4th of June, and sui
seuuently discovered at the bottom of
! mine near Eisleben. She was recovered
dreadfully mangled. After fearful fall, sh
had remained five days at the bottom with
out help or food. A crime is suspected
and not suicide.
Mrs. Langtrey, the reigning Londol
beauty, did a spirited thing the other day
In the midst of an admiring circle she aske'
her husband to introduce to her certail
well-known gentleman, He did, The gen
tleman fattered, smiled, and bowed g
want you" said the beauty, giving him he
handkerchief II want you to wipe OF
: paint from my face, as hear you say at tn
, clubs that am painted.
J Anne Brewster says that at one time ev
cry one thought that Salvini and Mstor
were lovers, but Salvini was fickle and ligh
of heart while Ristori was honest and am
bitioMs. Ristori married poor young Re
man noble She has made gold enough +
regild the worn-out coronet. Salvini roame'
; about until he met a pretty young Engisl
r girl, whose sad story appealed to his sympa
thies. She was left without means. He ol
fered to marry her, and he is now happ
: husband.