The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-23
PERSONALS ABOUT LADIES.

Adelina Patti is at her country home
in Wales.
Mrs. Spurgeon, of Pennington, Ia, is
hundred and ten days old.
Mrs. General Belknap is a favorite in
her travels in Europe, where her beauty
attracts much attention.
Maria Christina, future Queen of
Spain, is to receive civil list and dover
amounting altogether to $4,000 year.
Fanny Davenport is on a dramatic
tour, and the women of the country are
anxiously asking: "Whose husband is
safe?'
The late Countess Waldegrave has left
by will the portrait of Maria, Duchess of
Gloucester, painted by Sir Joshua Rey-
nolds, to the Due d'Aumale.
Mrs. VIM. w. Astor, who is acknowl-
ed to be the most richly dressed lady of
the present season at Newport, is credit
ed with designing her own costumes.
But we bet some poor dress-maker's brain
has had to ache during the process.
Mrs. Cornell, the wife of the Republi-
can candidate for Governor of New York,
is mentioned by The Auburn Advertiser
as the daughter of Mr.. George Covert, an
Ithacan, who formerly lived in Auburn,
and was there engaged in the business of
manufacturing morocco.
Mrs. jesse Grant says of her son, the
Ex-President; "I don't know as he was
any different from the rest of them, but
people seem to think I'll say so now. He
was always steady, serious sort of boy,
who took everything in earnest. Even
when he played he made business of il"
Mrs. Ann Glanvile, an Englishwoman
near ninety years old, is said to to be the
best female rover in the world. On one
occasion she won a race at French re-
gatta in presence of Queen Victoria, and
afterward was presented on board the
royal yacht, and danced honpipe for
the Queens amusement.
Her Majesty Queen Victoria has init
mated that the sale of the photographs of
the so-called fashionable beauties has her
severe displeasure, and an earnest attempt
is to be made to limit the abuse. The
principal sinners, says an English week
ly, are ladies of the aristocracy, and the
remedy lies in Her Majesty's own hands.
Miss Louisa M. Alcott will have
short story in the October St. Nicholas,
in which she will tell the fortunes of
boy who not only saw and enjoyed the
famous "Pinafore," but actually took
passage in that remarkable ship. This is
the only original thing, in connection
with "Pinafore," of which we have late
ly heard.
The handsome young Grand Duchess
Vladimir, of Russia, is the first princess
of Teuton race who, in marrying into the
imperial family of Russia, did not abjure
the creed in which she WAS brought up,
to enter the Greek Church. This young
lady is first cousin Of the Comte de
Paris and a great-niece of the German
Emperor.
Mrs. Mary F. Lamothe, the "Sylph,"
has commenced suit in Milwaukee to re-
cover 81, 500 from the United States Mar
shall and his deputies. She claims she
had chattel mortgage of General John
F. Mcdonald on the furniture of his
Green Lake County home, and that the
marshals seized the outfit just as she had
foreclosed the mortgage.
The Empress Eugene, who at first 80
sympathized with Captain Carey that she
addressed letter to the Queen in his be-
half, has been greatly irritated by Ca
rey's persistent attempts in the newspa-
pers to excuse himself at the expense of
the young Prince. The poor woman is
reported as saying the other day of the
plous Captain: "Why can not he leave
my poor dead boy alone? He left him
alone once"
The Archduchess Maria Christine, in
addition to her other accomplishments,
occupies herself with wood carving.
Every year she has been in the habit of
sending garments made by herself to the
poor children of the town near which she
lived. She is much attached to her
teachers and very kind to them. She
yields without any contradiction to any
wish expressed by them, and rejoices like
a child when praised.
"Queenie," the wife of Mr.. Ralph
Waldo Emerson, is described by CORE
spondent of the Louisville Courier-Jour-
nal, who has been visiting Concord, Mass,
as 'tall and slender, with a thoughtful,
refined face and silver hair. Her dress
was black silk, severely simple and
elegant, in harmony with her seventy
years, and heightened the fairness OF her
very fair complexion. She reminds one
of stately lady abbess and fascinates
the eye of q stranger until the gaze seems
almost rude in its persistence. She is
full of kindness and courtesy and respon-
5 We to the sympathies of those about her.
During a recent supper Western lady,
sitting between her and distinguished
visitor, remarked that she had never be-
fore been so delightfully."- sandwiched, to
which Mr.. Emerson replied, "The best
part Of sandwich is always in the mid
de-"
New Fangs in the Rattlesnake.
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