The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-02-07
PERSONALS ABOUT LADIES.

MIS- ADrdnam LlncOln Is living al tdu,
at the foot of The Pyrenees.
Little ANNA Beeson, of Miles, Mich, aged
eight years, is heiress to $500,000.
Mrs. Woodhulls parents lately celebrated
their tifty-tifth wedding anniversary.
Wade Hampton's daugh er, the belle of
Carolina, has lustrous eyes and marble
skin.
Mrs. Taylor has given to the Corcoran
Gallery, Washington, the art collection
made by her late husband, benjamin Ogle
Taylor.
The Duchess of Edinburg is becoming
popular at Eastwall Park, having since her
return from Russia dropped The frigid man
ners she had previously used toward all
but her intimate acquaintances.
Mrs. Abby Sage Richardson is one of the
many who have dramatized Gaborian S
novel, within an Inch of His Life.'' She
calls her version Two Women" and it is
being acted this week in McVickers.
Queen Victoria s favorite authors are said
to be Charles Dickens George Eliot, Wilkie
Collins, William Black and Walter Scott
the last two being more read on account
of their descriptions of Scotch scenery and
life.
Miss Lisetta Rist has left considerable
sum in the hands of trustees to be applied
forever to the distribution of gravel Oh
steep and slippery London roadways a
work which she personally superintended
and paid for during her lifetime.
Miss Waite, the daughter of the Chief
Justice, is described as having marked per
sonal beauty of The Portia type, intellect
and vivacity; and withal an undertone oil
serious purpose that dignifes her young
life into something beLter than a mere
conformity to the eyanescent pomp Of higt
official station"
Mrs. Sarah Crockett, who died at eighty
five, the other day, in Baltimore, show
that longevity runs in families. She be
longed to one of the longesl-lived families
i'll the city. She was daughter of Henry
Luter, who died recently at near ninety
a sister OF James Luter, who Went to hi
grave aged eighty odd; also of Henry Luter
sill living at eishty-six.
Miss Gail Hamilton received" with Mrs
Blaine, the other day, in brocaded gown
of seal brown and old gold," and was, says
an admiring correspondent, "the same un
assuming, rosy and girlsh, witty and wise
and gentle and friendly lady she ever is
found to be. George Bancroft, greeting hel
for the first time since the injury that near
ly put an end to his useful life, quietly
said i have been to the other worldp and
graphically described the disaster, and his
impressions and sutierings."
! Mrs. Sartoris Mrs Hooper writes is il
Paris, "looking extremely well, and il
even pretter than she was as Nellie Grant
She is accompanied by her husband an(
child, the latter a most lovely boy, no
quite two years old. He is a fair, golden
haired little creature, with large blue eyes
and is not in the least shy or spoiled, mani
Testing very natural but rather un
} English devotion to General Grant. Grand
papa is evidently an institution of great i'm
portance in the young gentleman's eyes.
J The Princess of Tanjore, who has no
only made her appearance in public, bu
permitted the Governor of Madras to inves
her with the insignia of the Star of India
, is the most highly educated Princess in tn
, Orient. She owes her intellectual culur
to the aid of an accomplished young Gel
man lady and has made tconsiGe able prog
ress in English. An eyewitness of the Gel
! emony says that her slight figure an
charming face al once gained the sympath
of all. Over plain and straight dress c
: cloth ofgold, with girdle of the same stuf
p she wore an emerald green silk fichu mos
beautifully ornamented with jewels an
: embroidery, and her head dress seemed /
4 be sort of turban. A female attendal
carried splendid sword.