The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-08-16
PERSONALS ABOUT LADIES.

Jane Swisshelm's bathing suit hatters her.
Queen Isabella's jewels brought $120 900.
Miss Lizzie Fairbanks caught a shark
seven feet long at Nantucket last week.
Miss Emma Thursby is at present in
Paris resting after her London season.
Mrs. Kelley, the veteran actress is still
alive and frisky at the age of seventy-three
DR.. Mary Walker would be appreciated
in Cyprus. The ladies there wear trowsers.
Kate Field and Ristori are travelling to-
gether for pleasure in Switzerland. Kate
Field loves the mountains and RiStori loves
the green Field.
Miss Emily Soldene, whose mouth en-
ables her to kiss three people at once, Civ
ing satisfaction to each, is to return to
America in September
Miss Florence Nightingale will contribute
to the next number Of the Nineteenth
Century, an article on "rhe State and Con-
dltion Of the People in India"
Sophie Cruvelli, the once famous singer
! out now the Vicomtesse Vigler, is to be
decorated with the cross of the Legion of
Honor for her charity TO the poor
Mary Anderson was at Stratford ON
Avon, about The 20th of July, and wrote
from that place to a friend here, saying:
This is the happiest time we have spent in
Europe.
Madame Pauline Lucca has again an
peared on the stage, Vienna being cheered
by her presence this time. AS Donna Anna
in Don iOyanni' she recently created
great enthusiasm.
| Miss Anna V. Raper, Of Ann Arbor,
Mich, is young lady who never had a
headache in her life. She has completed a
classical and law course and been admitted
as an torney to practice in the Supreme
Court of Michigan.
Miss Mary Mosby, daughter of the Con
| federate Mosby a graceful and sylph-like
| blonde has been crowned Queen Of Love
and Beauty by the successful knight at
the Orkney Springs tournament.
Mrs. Morris, the wife of the poet, is said
to be considered the possessOr OF the class
ical type of beauty by the pre-Raphaelite
party in England. She is tall and graceful
resembling in so far The ladies whom tAt
artists of that party delight to paint.
Princess Louise, now Vice Queen of Can
ada, is described as a woman Of strong char
actcr and decided will. She has an ntelli
gent and determined face, which suggest
her mothers She is very cultivated in lit
erature and art, and pleasant in her man
ners.
Mile. Litta, the young prima donna VIII,
made so great a success at the Theater tai
len, Paris and Later at the Imperial Opera
house, Vienna, has just been engaged b.
Mr.. Max SirakOsch for his season Of oper
in the United States at a salary Of 10000
, francs
Mrs. Thorneycraft, the English sculptor
is a woman of great talent and industry. |
is she who instructs the royal princesse
and other titled yOung women in sculptur
an art in which many of them do excel
2 lent work. Mrs. Thorneycraft, ulrhoug
past middle age, is hard worker. She ha
a gentle, bright face, and a graceful, W
right figure.
, Frances Alice Flintoff, well know
throughout this county as the Californi
pantess died at the County Inhrmary, Sa
5 Jose, California, few days ago. She was
q native of New York, though of Germa
parentage, and at the time of her death wa
S fortyfour years of age. She stood six fee
S six inches high, and in early days travele
l. through the country with Lee q Marshall
Circus Company.
Mrs. Adelaide Butler, for twenty five yea
y the matron of the Colored Orphan Asylum
v in New York, recently died, and her nan
IS deserves to be remembered. She was Dor
. in Virginia, and came to the North qua
e ter of a century ago. Widowed and chil'
Il less, her care of the children in her chars
was most tender and maternal, and Rev. M
Garnett says that, during the twenty-hN
= years of her service as matron OF the AS
lum, it had never once been necessary
n suggest to her the performance Of any dut
V deyOlying upon her.