The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-08
PERSONALS ABOUT LADIES.

Mrs. Nellie Grant Sartoris spends her
winters in Rome.
The Princess Louise will return to
Canada before the opening of Parliament.
Mrs. James Russell Lowell, whs is a
niece of Elk Governor Dunlap, of Maine,
is said to have much artistic capacity.
The Ex-Empress Eugene is going to
Scotland, where Queen Victoria has
placed Abergeldie Castle at her disposal.
Miss Jane Stuart, daughter of Gilbert
Stuart. is living at Newport. She is very
genial and intelligent, while her conver-
sation is delightful.
George Eliot's health is so seriously
declining that she is unable to finish sew
,eral MSS. One of these is an essay on
Mr.. Herbert Spencer.
Miss Ellen Sherman, the third daugh-
ter of the General, is engaged to marry,
it is currently reported, young naval
officer named Thackeray-a relative OF
the late great Englishman.
Mrs. Lockyer, the wife of the Editor
OF Nature, has just died, at the age of
forty-two. Like her husband, she was
fond of serious study, aud translated ex-
ceedingly we'll several scientific works
into English.
The Princess of Wales, although she
left Denmark nearly twenty wears ago, is
still as great a favorite with the Danes as
in her girlhood; they always welcome
her visits with immense enthusiasm.
The Copenhagens used to call her by
the pet name "Oiestenen''- 1.-THE appleof
our eye"
Margaret Robertson, or Duncan, the
Oldest woman in Scotland, died at Coupar
Angus few days ago. She was born in
l773, and her husband, a weaver, died
fifty years ago and left her with daugh-
ter, who is still alive and over sixty.
Mrs. Duncan was a heavy smoker, and
until recently, when she became blind,
was in possession Of all her faculties.
Her last illness was only of a weeks
duration.
Baroness Ziegler is beautiful Berlin
lady who has wonderful resemblance to
the late Queen Louisa of Prussia. The
artist Gustav Richter was so struck by
this likeness, which he traced in the few
existing portraits of the Queen, that he
requested the young Baroness to grant
him few sittings. The aged Emperor
when he first saw this portrait, that
seemed to bring his beautiful young
mother before him, was deeply moved.
The Danish Queen is very kind
hearted lady. After the carriage in which
she was seated had nearly Come in coll
lision with that driven by MIR. P, pop
ular actor, she pleasantly inquired after
the health Of Mr. P..'s children. On being
told that one little boy was suffering from
a tedious eruption on one Of his legs, the
Queen the next day called at the house
of Mr.. P. with some ointment which Hel
Majesty had prepared after an old fam,
lily receipt, and in few days the child
was cured.
The Ex-Empress Eugene has, it is as
serted, declared her intention to live in
absolute retirement, so that settlement
of her fortune will be necessary. Her
sons will is not exactly valid, according
to English law, and having been signed
by the testator in the presence of two
witnesses; but as the Empress could
alone test the validity of it, no opposi-
ton will be raised on this point. The
property to be sold to pay the legacies
not having been indicated, the executors
will have to choose those portions which
can be sold to the best advantage.
The Empress Augusta's birthday is
soon to be celebrated, as usual, in Baden
Baden, in the midst of the strictest fam
lily seclusion. The celebration always
consists Of either an excursion to one Oh
the surrounding villages in the Black
Forest, or little fete given at the Villa
Messmer, the plain house which the
German Imperial pair rent every season.
Their life at Baden-Baden is simple as
possible; without any exclusiveness they
freely mingle among the many guests
attracted thither from all parts OF the
world. and are fond of the society of art
lists.
Miss Christine Ladd, the young lady
to whom the trustees of Johns Hopkins
University voted an honorary stipend and
an invitation to continue her mathemati-
cal studies at that institution, has just
left her Connecticut home to begin her
work at the University. Her great
mathematical ability has been partictl-
larly shown in an original solution Of a
famous geometrical problem, which soIu-
ton, published in a journal of mathe.
matics, has attracted earnest attention
both here and abroad. Miss Ladd has
been invited to take special course at
Harvard, under the teaching of Professor
Peirce, and she has also received marks
of appreciation from Europe. She was
graduated by Vassar, and is accomplished
in Greek and Latin, as well as in mathe-
matics.
Miss Tylney-Long, whose personality
was lately sworn in England under$900,-
900, was half sister of the greatest heiress
of her day, Mrs. Wellesly-Pole, who
owned Wanstead Hall, in Essex, which
up to 1922, was one of the finest houses
in England. The Queens uncle, the
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