The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-30
PERSONALS ABOUT LADIES.


: Queen Isabella is delighted with her
t future daughter-in-law.
Laura Fair, the lecturess, is said to be
mortally afraid of mouse.
A prince or princess of Edinburg is
expected early i'll December.
Mrs. Charles Henry, the actress, is
dead. She was formerly the wife of Nc
Kee Rankin.
Mrs. Thompson, near Claiborne, Ga,
: has a mule which, she says, has been
piowing fifty-two years.
Mrs. Gladstone is meeting with great
success in connection with her "home"
for business girls in London.
Miss Kate Field, who is spending a
short time at Malvern, will sail for
America about October 10th.
The Empress Eugene will 60 to Aber-
geldie next week, the Queen having
placed that seat at her disposal for the
time.
Sally Swan is heroine at Granite,
New, because she seized buck by the
hind legs and held him until her father
arrived.
The Duchess of Cumberland princess
Thyra of Denmark) has been Joined in
Austria by her mother. 1t is hoped it
will be boy.
The Princess Louise presented gold and
silver medals to the successful competi-
tors at the Dominion Exhibition at Otta-
wa yesterday.
Nine. Ristori, the great italian trage-
dienne, will appear at the court theatres
of Berlin and various other German
towns during the coming autumn.
The Princess of Wales was received at
Copenhagen recently with great warmth.
The King and Queen of Denmark aud
the Czarowitz of Russia We're present.
Mrs. Campbell, widow of Alexander
Campbell, the founder of the Campbellite
or Christian Church, is living with her
son-in-law, Col. Barely, near Hillsboro, in
Alabama.
Mrs. Charles Henri, nee Chalders, a
well known actress 20 years ago, died in
Philadelphia last Saturday. She was
originally a singing soubrette and later
played cold woman" parts.
Mrs. Dahigren, the widow of the late
Admiral Dahlgren, owns and lives in a
fine mansion on South Mountain almost
within stones throw of the spot where
Gen. Reno was killed in 1902.
Miss Helen Magill, Ph.D., daughter
of President Magill, of Swarthmore
College, Pennsylvania, has recently won
scholarship at Girton College, Cam
bridge, England, of the value of $175
annually.
Rose Massey, the actress, well known
in connection with her breach-of-promise
suit against the late H. J. Montague, is
lying at the point of death in London.
Her disease is inhammatory rheumatism
and paralysis.
Annie Louise Cary. according to
Durham (Maine) farmer, is "jest The girl
she used to be. She don't wear none of
her fine dresses when she comes back, nor
her fashin' diamonds either. She's Jest
as natral as natur and don't put on no
airs"
Lucy Hooper describes Madame Fech
ter as peculiarly intellectual-looking,
dignifed lady, showing traces Of beauty
that must once have been very striking
and of very elevated type, despite the
disfguring influence of her grief and her
deep mourning.
Mile. Rosa Bonheur has just presented
picture Of life-size lion to the Spanish
Government, on condition that it shall
be hung in the Museum Of Madrid. The
rule being that the work of living artists
shall not be exhibited there, an exception
has been made in favor of this picture.
Mrs. Frances B. Hitler addressed the
concourse at the Farmers & Mechanics
Fair at Wilmington, Mass, the other
day, her topic being agriculture She
is believed to be the first Of her sex who
in this or any other country has ad-
dressed an audience Oh a similar occa-
sion.
Mrs. Thankful Taylor is remarkable
Vermont lady, seventy years old. In her
younger days she thirsted for knowledge,
but being poor she earned her books and
then studied them as she stood at her
spinning wheel. In this way she not
only educated herself in the languages,
but learned history, medicine, science
and general literature.
Carlotta Patti, who recently returned
to this country with new husband gave
a concert in New York on Thursday
night. The Tribune says that no great
change has taken place either in her
voice or in her style of singing. The
voice is much the same, metallic, sharp,
clear and not altogether sympathetic;
perhaps showing the effect of wear and
tear little both in its quality and in
the care with which she makes use of her
upper tones, but still it is in the main
about what it always was
SATURDAY NIGHT.