The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-05-28
PERSONALS ABOUT LADIES.

Princess Louise has been visited by a
genteel attack of scarlet fever.
Laura Fair is going to lecture in New
Orleans for the benefit of the poor.
Laura Mitchell, formerly the slave of
Mrs Elizabeth Rogers, has supported her
old mistress for fourteen years, and paid
her funeral expenses when she died, in
Columbus, GA, last week, at the age of
seventy-three.
Teresa Bartalozzi has just died at
Turin at the advanced age of ninety-four.
She knew AIferi, Napoleon, Nine. de
Stael, Lord Byron, Uge Foscola and 9th
ers, and was in the habit of telling the
most interesting anecdotes about the men
of her time.
Alice Mcdonald had the heaviest, silk
lest, yellowcst hair in Portland, Oregon.
One day she was missing. A searching
party soon found her in the woods near
the city, but ali her hair was gone. Two
men had carried her there and cut of
her valuable locks.
Miss Mary Greene, who lives in the
family of Mr.. w. H. Owen, at 20 Brown
street, Providence, r. l., was born on the
22d of May, 1873, in Old Warwick. Her
hearing is somewhat impaired, though il
is not very difficult to converse with her,
and her eyesight is failing, owing to cata-
racts. Her general health is good, and
she bids fair to live some years yet.
Mrs. Grace Anna Lewis the Philadel-
phia naturalist, has written an independ-
ent note showing politely that she is un-
willing to accept an offered honorary
membership in the Rochester Microscop-
ical Society-the reason being that she
doesn't want the gallant attention of ar
honorary membership, but practical re-
cognition according to merit and achieve
ment-in short, full membership which
will permit her to communicate and re-
ceive the results of study.
George Eliot, abusing burlesque in her
last work, says: "The English people in
the present generation are falsely reputed
to know Shakespeare, but there seems q
clear prospect that in the coming genera
ton he will be known to them through
buresques, and that his plays will find
new life as pantomimes. A bottle-nosed
Lear will come on with monstrous cor,
pulence, from which he will frantically
dance himself free during the midnight
storm, and Rosalind and Celia will dance
a grotesque ballet with shepherds and
shepherdesses."
Miss Irish is a young lady only twenty
years old, who has been employed as AS
sistant Librarian in the Department o
the Interior, and has been doing the for
eign correspondence in that Department
She knows German, Spanish and Italian
and is credited with uncommon tact ant
discretion in conducting the correspon
dence. When her father, now Chief o
the Bureau of Printing and Engraving
| was connected with legation abroad
Miss Irish, then a child, was much pette'
by Auerbach, the novelist, and, since sh
has grown up, she has made translation
of one of his novels, which pleased hin
! so greatly that he wishes her to translat
all his later works.
Mrs Butler Miss Elizabeth Thompson
has in the Royal Academy this year
: pathetic picture of the arrival at Jelals
: bad of the one faint and worn survive
= of an army of 10000 men sent out t
r fight the Afghans in 1912. The arts
told the London correspondent of Th
Hartford Courant that she had this tragl
incident in her mind for many year
! When she was little child she heard he
). father say: "There is a subject for
j painter, one of the most tragic inciden