The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-12-19
PERSONALS ABOUT LADIES.

Miss May Forney conducts the society |
department of the Philadelphia Sunday
Press.
Mrs Julia Ward Howe has gone on a
Journey to the Holy Land, accompanied by
her daughter.
Olive Logan weighs one hundred and
ninety pounds, has gray hair, a double chin
and the asthma.
Mrs. Holmes, Of Lebanon, H., it is al
legged, slept from the Oath of November to
the 12th Of December.
Mrs. Cornelia Gardner, recently or
dained minister, married her first couple III
Rochester on the 9th inst.
Magdalene Bergheimer of Knox County
| is said to be the oldest woman in Indiana
She is one hundred and two years old.
Mrs. Annie Brooks, with the aid of her
dogs and butcher knife, killed deer i'll
the woods of Douglas County, Minn., few
days ago.
| Miss Matte Todd, niece of Mrs. Presi-
dent Lincoln, has been appointed Postmis-
tress at Cynthiana, Ky. She is represented
as a beauty and belle.
Rev. H. A. Hanaford, formerly of the
Universalist denomination, has received
unanimous and earnest call to the North
Congregational Church, Nantucket. He will
accept.
Mrs. Pierre Lorrillard's father, DR.. Tay
lor, is soon to be married to Mrs. Kort-
wright, of New York, and naturally, fash
ionables are looking forward to the event
with much interest and pleasure.
Miss Estella French of East Tawas Mich,
is perhaps the first woman who ever held a
position in the United States Signal Service.
, She is telegraph operator at East Tawas,
, and attends to the Signal Service work
/ there.
Miss Nina Kohl, a pretty young lady o1
seventeen summers. heiress to fortune ol
$45, 900, has eloped from Plainfield, 1nu
. with her cousin, George Hatton, who wa
: employed on a farm near that town at $li
per month. It's all in the family.
Miss Minnie Hauk is said to have got tn,
best of the gentleman who belongs to He
Maiesty's army, who, if all reports are true
= came very near losing the prima donna
: an this bloody country, you know, the.
= get up beastly row about nothing, don
2 yer know?"
n Countess Shouveroff whose visit to thi
Il country few months ago is well remem
bered as is the alleged attempt to black
e mail her while at the Windsor Hotel, ha
v written IL UOOk blIlCc ll6l lCtuiil w huoSid
# in which she praises that hotel, as the Chi
+, dren say, up to the 'ninety-nines."
d Miss Taylor, daughter of VIM. Taylor
d one of the imprisoned directors of the Cit
|, of Glasgow Bank, recently waited on tn
. Lord Advocate and begged 10 be alowe
IS to take her fathers place in prison until tn
S trial OF course her request, though kline
1t y listened to, could not he entertained.
y Madame Christine Nilsson is soon to b
. g installed as the Grand Mistress of the Al
- cient Charitable Masonic Order of til
'e Eastern Star" The order is compose
chiefly of English ladies of rank and di
/" tinction, whose male relatives belong
y the fraternity.
rs Mrs. Daniel Deshon Of Portland, Me-, wi
re celebrate her one hundredth birthday o
ID Thursday. She was born in Portland j
le 1878, and married, at nineteen years of ag
r. Thomas Akers, who was a soldier in I'll
,e war of 1912. BY him she had nine children
h four of whom are now living.
r Mrs. John Jacob Astor is probably one
o. the most generous and charitable ladies
d. New York, but her gifts are always priva
,e and unosten atious, she having q gfe
aversion to the notoriety or publicity th
n is based on riches. She gives thousands 4
~ the worthy poor annually, and many pr
m va,e charities are almost entirely dependel
s- upon her generosity.