The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-27
PERSONALS ABOUT LADIES.

blue eyes and flashing teeth.
Countess Ariosto, the last descendant of
the great Italian poet has just died at
Ravenna, at the age Of ninety.
Jennie June says that Miss Cavendish
is not handsome. On the subject of beauty
Jennie June ought certainly to be dlsin-
terested critic.
Mrs. Julia c. R. Dorr of Rutland, Vt,
has received the personal thanks of King
Alfonso of Spain for sonnet on the late
Queen Mercedes.
Miss Lendale, aged twenty, has just mar
ried VIM. Gilmore of Poland, Pa, aged
eighty.two. Consideration, $4,000 cash
and a homestead.
Ristori has formed a new company to
play with her on another tour of Europe.
She is wealthy, titled and faded, but likes
the excitement of the stage.
Edmonia Lewis is frequently insulted in
Chicago, where she is exhibiting her statu-
ary, because of her color. Her mother was
an Indian, her father negro, and she is
dark and short
Mrs. Fanny Washington Smith, Wash
ington's great-grandnece, is keeping q
boarding house in Washington, and recent
ly had her furniture attached by land
lord for rent
Mile Marguerite Gidel, daughter Of the
Principal of Henri " College in Paris, has
just passed with success the first part of her
examination as Bachelor of Arts in the
Paris Faculty of Letters. The young lady
is only sixteen years of age.
Mrs. Augusta Evans Wilson lives in a
pretty country house near Mobile, sur
rounded by books pictures and flowers.
| IIa &c IoScri bod tho mn n ha ia X
in the South, and as the possessor of a
broad, open brow, straight brown hair,
earnest eyes, and expressive mouth.
Sarah Bernhardt has made the discoy-
cry of new cure for delicate lungs and
health. She passes hours now daily in sue.
cessive ascensions in the ballon captif of
the Tuileries gardens, finding more and
more healing for her shattered health and
delicate lungs, as well as general reinyigor-
alton, the higher she rises.
Madame Alice Fleury Durand, the nov
elist, takes her pseudonym of Henri Gre
ville' from a hamlet in Normandy, the
province from which the Fleurys originally
came. Her father, M. Jean Fleury, has
been for many years Professor of French in
the University of st. Petersburg, and he is
the author of successful work on Rabelais
| hOlln lN0 Is Il Literary lduy WIZ
eXtemporizeS Sansiirt verses with the great
est ease. She is mentioned as a walking
annotated edition of the Srimat Vagabat, '"
| for it is said she has learnt all the eighteen
thousand verses of that book, and can re-
| cite or explain any verse from any OF its
chapters, as may be desired. Where is the
blue-stocking of a cziized race who can do
that?
Misses Roxana and Elizabeth Lowd, sis
ters, and Miss Elizabeth WhitComb, are
farmers in Warner, N. H., who own and
work profitably farm Of one hundred and
sixty acres. They superintend personally
the farm work, and d. not hesitate even to
take hold of scythe, hoe and plough, and
are seen almost every day in the field hard
at work.
Princess Marie of Germany had very
beautiful wedding-"it was like scene Out
of the Middle Ages" said one distinguished
guest. In order to test the strength of the
ballroom before the day ofceremony came
a battalion of soldiers were marched in ane
given the unexpected command to dance
Their surprise soon yielded to exceeding
enjoyment of improvised figures.
Mrs Agassiz and the Misses Agassiz, the
widow and daughters of the late Loui
Agassiz. Mrs Horace Mann, Miss e. P Pea
DOuy anu OllltIS, nave Dc6ll lIlttuO u 'o
company at Boston to receive donations fo
the publication of standard library of thu
works of Froebel and his chosen apostle
= Baroness Marenholz Bulow. Over $1,000
has been received and spent thus far.
, Mary f. TilIotson is a dress-reformer
fifty years old, from Vineland, N. J. She
wears light-colored pantaloons, and Ions
' sacque or tunic, with a belt at the waist
, She has been arrested in Albany and, she
saws, never before has she been so treated
although she has been at various times il
5 Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and othe
| large cities. The Journal wants to know i
the police are to control the fashions
+ Mrs Thayer, of Concord, Mich, had a lit
tie encounter with tramp recently. AT
I ter she had retired she heard some one II
= another room, and upon investigation she
a found it to be Mr.. Tramp. The cosmopoli
tan idler informed her that he did not pro
\ pose to leave until he "got ready" bu
when she let off one barrel of a double-bar
q relied shotgun he got ready" before thu
next one could be fired. Mrs. Thayer'
1 grit is excellent, but unfortunately she is
S poor shot.
s Princess Beatrice of Britain, is the sub
a iect of an amusingly worded sympathetic
paragraph in The London World: "Wha
a happy fate is that of the Princess Beat
9 ricef' it says. "This young lady, said to b
e very spirituelle, full of life and the capacit,
q of enjoyment, is now twenty-one years o
= age, and 1 do not think for one singl
I autumn season has been deprived of par
e taking of the bright festivities of Balmoral
of the opportunity of visiting the Glassal
Shiel, the Linn Of Quoich, the Linn of Dee
and other novelties, in company with he
+ mother and a lady-in-waiting.
IT Miss Julia Corson, of New York. who's
q efforts to instruct poor people in the meth
l. ods of making paatable dishes from chea
:. materials of food have been persistent an
1t untrng, proposes 10 extend her field so a
& to include the whole country, and has ad
e dressed petition to the National Commi'
- sioner of Education asking him to issue
u circular to his agents in the South an
e West, directing them to give informatio
d concerning the local style of cooking an
- the ingredients and receipts in any loca
- dishes. The request has been compile
q with
q Mrs. Van Cott, the preacher, was born i
le New York city, and she is nearly fifty year
o of age. Her father was Major Newtor
manager of John Jacob Astor's estate. Id
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