The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-24
PERSONALS ABOUT LADIES.

Eugenic will winter amid the blan d air
of Italy.
Queen Victoria has twenty-five grand
children.
Mrs. Grant never talks politics with
the general.
Mrs. Sddons will open the elocntion.
ary ball in Boston shortly.
Miss Travis, relative of Mr.. John
Bright, has Just reached the venerable
age o. 100 years.
Lady Scabright, leading amateur 40
tress of f g'and has been thrown from
her horse and badly hurt
Madame Annette Essipoff is about to
be married to her early master and ad-
wiser, the pianlst-composer, Leschetitsky.
Madame Ristori has been the means of
saving two lives during her career. How
much better this is than having her jew
elry stolen.
Madame Gerster did not sail for Amer
lea last Saturday as she was expected to
do at one time. She will probably arrive
about the end of this month.
Nine. Alwina Valleria, the prima-
donna, is an American-a Philadelphian
and her name is Lohman. She is a
slender young lady with an amiable face.
Mrs. Tiburtius. wife of the Surgeon
General of Germany, is leading dentist
of Berlin, and attends the Royal family.
Her sistcr-in-law, DR.. Franziska Thur
thus, is an eminent physician.
Miss Helen Taylor, stepdaughter of
John Stuart Mil, has been for three
years a member Of the London School
Board, and the Radicals propose to re-
elect her with Mrs. Lucas, sister of John
Bright.
Elizboth Thompson's will, which was
probated in Phil delphia last Saturday,
contains Il Request of $500 for schol-
arship in Princeton Theological Sem
mary, to be called the Robert Thomp-
son Scholarship and to be paid upon the
death of the tcstator's niece.
Thvra, Duchess of Cumberland, has
received wedding gift from the Danish
people of bcautif oaken bookcase in
the Gothic style, richly ornamented with
sculptures of the old Danish authors and
poets. 1t is filled with six hundred
volumes of Danish literature, art and
music.
Mrs. William H. Beers ("Ethel Lynn") J,
whose new volume, "All Quiet Along the
Potomac, and Other Poems," was no
ticed in the Tribune of Friday last, died
the same day in Orange, N. j., of a pain
ful internal disease. She is represented
TO have possessed an uncommonly cheer
full aud sunny nature, but even in her
cheerfulness she was subject to strange
premonitions, one of which was that as
soon as she printed her poems she should
die. The first volumes were received
from the press only few days before
that event, and they were bound in Grape
and placed upon her coffin.
The Ex-Empress Carlotta's health has
much improved in her new home, but her
mind is still dimmed. She has one re-
markable pcculiariiy-that of never
speaking in the first person, always using
the abstract substantive "on." "On de-
sire, on vent, on exige." She is kindly
and gracious to all who surround her, and
take, great interest in the families of
the farmers and cottagers on the estate;
when inquiring about them she says: at
is wish~d to know if they are well and
happy" or, she will mention to the gar
dener that ''it is remarked" there are
leaves in certain alley that should be
swept away, or that some alteration has
been nicely done. Her meals are served
with the same ceremony as at court, and
she always dresses specially for them.
When her dinner is announced she enters
the room, makes ceremonial courtesy
to her suite and takes her seat, eating
with excellent appetite and talking sen
sibly enough.