The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-01-31
PERSONALS ABOUT LADIES.

Nine. Anderson is now styled peram-
bulatrix.
Miss Kellogg denies emphatically that she
eats onions.
Mrs jameson calls Lady Byron 1.-The
sphinx woman"
Mrs Brown who was for many years the
inseparable companion
Mrs Robinson, of Rushville, Ind, who
mistook aconite tor paregoric, barely sur
wives.
Mrs Lew. Wallace is to leave Crawfords-
vile, Indiana, to join the General III New
Mexico.
Miss Beddenger was elected engrossing
clerk of the Arkansas Assembly by vote
of AZ to 10.
Miss Farran, of Kentucky, is visiting
Mrs. Carlisle, wife of Representative Car
Isle, i'll Washington.
The Ex-Empress Eugenie is leading
very monotonous life at Chlselhurt. One
days duings forms an exact model OF The
next.
Mrs. Elizabeth Hancock, mother of
Major-General w. s. Hancock, died at
Norristown, Penn. She was born i'll
Montgomery County, that State, in 1900.
The Misses Sherman daughters of the
Genera) will soon leave for Florida and
New Orleans TO spend the winter. They
| will be accompanied by General Van Vllet.
Mrs Elizabeth Cady Stanton has been de-
lighted by the discovery that the State OF
Indiana exempts widows and spinsters pos
sessing 81 900 OF property from taxation ON
one-halt that sum.
Miss Josie Baker, daughter of Prof. 0. H.
Baker, of lndianola, Ind, has recently been
appointed a tutor OF the Greek language at
Simpson College. She is only sixteen years
old, but reads and writes Greek tuently.
Miss Schenck, whose marriage to Mr.
Corning has made recently such tlutter in
the fashionable society OF Brooklyn, Is a
niece of Senator PeEdleton OF Ohio. Mr..
Corning is OF the well-known Corning family
Of Albany.
Anna Dickinson has received a large
number of applications for the delivery of
her new lecture, entitled The Stage con-
sequentIy she has decided to employ the
time between now and April i'll speaking
throughout the country.
Queen Victoria according to London
correspondent, invariably presents royal
or aristocralic bride with an India shawl, q
gift that costs her nothing. The Prince of
| Wales, the same cnrOnlcler AYERS, Is elan-
ored of poker, and plays that pleasing game
with more enthusiasm Than success.
Miss Morgan, of New York; Miss Bur-
lingame, daughter of the former Minister
to China, and Miss Neal, daughter of the
artist, are said to be the possessors of three
of the charming faces to be seen in Mr..
Rosen halls picture of ''rhe Seminary
Alarmed "a picture which is becoming
familiar through photographs and engray-
ings.
There was an exhibition of tableaux in
Fond du Lac Wis, and the small boy was
present. A scene was presented-''The Ex-
ecution of Mary, Queen of Scots"-Mary
kneeling, with her head on the block, the
executioner standing with uplifted ak
poised for the death-blow, amid breathless
silence. Suddenly, in a loud whisper, the
small boy exclaimed: "Pa, why don't he
chopY
The Duchess of Edinburgh, while she
has been very frigid in manner on all cere-
monious occasions in England, was very
agreeable when among her own friends,
serving them with her own hands as unos
tentatiouslv as though she were an English
Princess. Hergreat stateliness has hitherto
made her unpopular, but now, it appears
she has altered her ways, is entering into
the local interests about her English home
and is said to like it and to be liked very
much better than before.