The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-04-26

enue system, they have not shown them
selves able to make the most of it.
PERSONALS ABOUT LADIES.
Mrs, Vanderbilt's trip to Mobile was to
see sick relative.
Nine. Nilsson has achieved a triumph at
Vienna as "Ophelia"
Dr. Mary Walker is still seriously i'll of
pneumonia in Washington.
Mrs Rousby was about to act at the
Queens Theater in London.
Nine. Walther, of Vienna, is, perhaps,
the greatest German actress now living.
Miss Susan B. Anthony is about to give a
series of lectures for the benefit of the Kan
sas German immigration Society.
Mrs. Hayes on her fathers side is of good
old North Carolina stock, he having been
born in Granville County, of that State.
Rev. Julia A. Potter has been engaged to
preach for the United Brethren at Gibson,
ILL.,, for the balance of the conference year
| Miss Ream's statue of Farragut is nearly
| finished, and will probably occupy its
pedestal in Farragut Square before next
winter.
Mrs, Hume, of Portland, Me- drapes her
house inside and out with Grape and dis
| plays the American flag on each anniversary
of the death of Lincoln.
Miss Thursby will give a concert at the
New York Academy of Music on Friday
evening, May Sd, as a farewell benefit on
| the eve of her departure for Europe.
Mrs Charles Lintner, living five miles
northeast of Virginia, Cass County, ILL.,, a
few days ago gave birth to triplet boys,
weighing seven and one-fourth pounds each.
At last accounts the little Lintners were
well and doing fine.
Miss Britain, who is widely known for
her missionary work in Calcutta, has ar
rived in this country to remain here for
rest. She may occasionally deliver ad-
| dresses if her strength will admit Of it. She
is an exceedingly popular speaker.
Mrs. De Graft is lady living in Ulster
County, who has attained to the venerable
age of one hundred and four. She looks
WE'LL does her own sewing and housework,
and distinctly remembers shaking hands
with General, the Marquis de Lafayette.
Viscountess Kingsland is one of the bene.
ficiaries of London charity to which Lord
Beaconsteld has lately granted $500, from
the Royal Bounty Fund, to be applied tc
her benefit. She is the widow of a needy
Irish peer, deceased, whose title expireC
with him.
Mile. Stella Faustina, Mr. Mapleson'
new star, is, despite her ambitious nom dt
theatre, young lady of Boston. She ha
been educated at the Brussels Conserva
toire at the expense of the King of Holland
and in Brussels she was engaged by Mr.
Maurice Strakosch.
The late Countess Duchatel left an i'm
portant legacy to the Louvre, in the shap
of the five most important pictures of he
collection, as follows: LA Source" ant
Il Gdipe," by Ingres; ga Virgin ant
Saints, with Donor" by Memling, and tw
/ finely painted exterior wings of an alta
, piece, by Antonio Moro.
Widow Van Cott is regular screamel
She is described as large, portiy woman
with q roaring voice, square Jaws, ster
countenance, tragic earnestness of manner
and withering contempt for newspaper re
=, porters. She "swells with oratorical rag
and scorn" as she describes the stars an
stripes floating over a bar-room, with il
staff stuck in the bung-hole of beer barre
: Miss Frances Power Cobbe contributes t
D the April number of the Contemporary RI
view an article on the interesting subject c
,, wife-tortufe in England. She thinks tha
'the genuine and self-sacrihcing kindnes
: of English and American gentlemen towar
women affords almost ludcrous contras
to the forid politeness, compatible wit
every degree of selfishness, usually exhib
e ed by men of other European nations;" an
n she asks how does it come to pass ths
! while the better sort of Englishmen al
thus exceptionally humane and considerat
e to women, the men of the lower class of tn
= same nation are proverbial for their III
! paralleled brutality, till wife-beating, wife
y torture and wife-murder have become th
r opprobrium of the land"'
e The Grand Duchess of Baden, the onl
daughter of the Emperor of Germany is
woman of admirable good sense. She hd
y placed her young daughter in the exceller
y girls school in the Schloss at Carlsruht
i where she is proceeding step for step wit
a her young companions and teachers an
= playfellows have been alike charged not
distinguish her by any of the high and e1
+ ceptional titles she may bear in after-lif'
It She is to work and play run and wrestlt
: give and take on perfectly equal terms wit
all her companions and to receive eXactl
v the same punishments if she is remiss i
IS study, sewing, knitting or any other occl
q patton of an ordinary scholar. The Gran
Duchess is credited with expressing a wis
: that the child may be made as thorough
e seamstress as if she were expecting to ear
n livelihood by her needle.
d North CARoLINA's FISHERIES. The fishe
q men state as reason for the comparatiy
y scarcity of shad brought to this market til
's season that the sturgeon cut up their ne
l. so badly that only about one out of ever
l. twenty-five is taken, the remainder passin
through the holes made by these finn
II monsters" The river seems to be almo
b literally full of sturgeon, many of them e.
# tremely large ones, notwithstanding tn
;. fact that so many are daily taken at tb
$ sturgeon fishery near Hilton and elsewhere
a A sturgeon generally makes three separat
I. holes in net when he passes through i
= some of which are described as being 6
J large as the head of good-sized barrel.
is Wilmington Star.