The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-04-15
PERSONALS ABOUT LADIES.

Modjeska is not bad shot with re-
volver.
Mary Anderson is playing to fine houses
in Michigan.
Harriet Beecher Stowe has cleared over
$4,000 by her pen.
Gail Hamilton, aged forty-fve years, is
fond of jesting on her celibacy.
Mrs. Congressman Willis, of New York,
has a face Of pure poetic beauty
Jennie June endorses practical under
wear, comprising several garments in one.
Miss Hattie Rayburn is Clerk of the Iowa
Senate, and reads documents better than
most men.
Nine. de Lussan, the New York soprano
has daughter OF siXteen--a very fine meZ-
zo-sopranO.
Mrs. Martha Frizzell Morey, of Strafford,
VT, died the other day at the mature age of
one hundred and one years.
Mile. PATHS last performance in Naples
brought a thirty-one-t thousand -franc-house.
twenty-three calls before the curtain, more
than a thousand bouquets and crown of gold
on cushion of flowers.
Mrs. Senator Conover, of Florida, wears
! lovely hats and bonnets. She has a tall,
slender figure, fluffy light hair gray eyes,
fine teeth and a beautiful smile. Her hand,
wrist and arm are most perfectly modelled
and in the management of fan she is q
graceful adept
| Miss Georgina Hogarth, sister-in-law Of
| the late Charles Dickens and eXecutrix OF
his estate, proposes, with the help of his
eldest daughter, to edit collection of his
letters. Mr. J. T. Fields asks that Ameri,
cans possessing any letters from Dickens
likely to be of public interest will send
them to Miss Hogarth, who will copy and
carefully return them.
Madame Litvinow is a Russian lady who
has just received the degree Of Doctor OF
Philosophy from the Philosophical Faculty
of the University of Bern. She passed hel
examination with such brilliancy, especially
in the mathematical branch, that the fac
ulty unanimously agreed to attach the
highest mark (cum sumna laude) to hel
diploma. This item is commended to the
attention of those who do not consider the
feminine brain competent for deep study.
Mile Jeanne Donste is a little pianiste
only seven years old, who has lately per
formed before Queen Victoria. When at
Buckingham Palace the little lady wore a
white artificial camelia. "Who gave you
that?' asked the Queen. "Oh that's my
talisman, Your Majesty; Mile Albani gave
it to me for good luck" Her Majesty went
over to corbeile took out red camelia,
and gave it to the child, saying, Wear that
beside it, my dear and may both bring you
a two-fold share of good lucl'
Mrs Katherine Chase Sprague's taxes on
the estate of "Edgewood" will be lessened
$50, 900 by the bill which has just passed the
senate. This bill reduces the valuation of
Edgewood to $4,000, and abates the taxes
levied in excess Of that sum for the last foul
years. 1t has yet to pass the House. The
taxes were enormous in consequence OF
street improvements on the most reckless
| Tweed pattern, carried miles out into the
country 50 as to strike on both sides of the
little property, with grades up on one side
! and down on the other, until they had near
| ly graded the whole value of the property
down into big bill on the books at the Tax
Office. A more effective resistance to the
Spoliation might have been made at the
time, but Mrs Sprague was in Europe, her
| father had recently died, and the estate was
in the hands of an embarrassed executor.
Every paragrapher in the land has had
| his jest about Charlie Ross, and the public
has been utterly and irretrievably bored by
the whole matter, and yet there is pathos, real
and unaffected, in the closing passages of
the fathers lecture when he compares his
quest to search in deep dark abyss by
the light of taper, where he hears now
and then little voice in the darkness cry
ing, This way, papa; here l am" but when
he goes in the direction of the sound he
finds that it is only the voice of his own
hopes and the whispering of his own heart.
The Chattanooga Tenn Dispatch says
The coal mines that employ convict labor
are puzzled to furnish employment during
the warm weather. The Dade mines have
about three hundred convicts, and the
probabilities are that not more than one
hundred and fifty of them will be profita-
bly, employed between the months OF April
and November.