The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-07-17
PERSONALS ABOUT LADIES.

Ex-Empress Eugene has received two
letters from the late Prince written two
days before his death.
Mrs. Lydia Maria Child, the authoress
and anti-slavery agitator, is now seventy
seven years old, and lives at her old home
in Wayland, Mass.
Mrs. DR.. Newman recently gave a
japanese tea party at Orange, N. }. The
hostesses sat on the floor with trays OF
cups and saucers before them, and poured
tea from japanese teapots.
Miss Alice J. S. Ker, having passed the
required examinations at Dublin, Is now
licentate of the King and Queens
College of Physicians, Ireland.
Della White invited her friends in
Greensburg, Ind, to what she called
surprise party, and surprised them by
getting married in their presence.
Mrs Elizabeth Collins, widow of Brig
adler General James A. Collins, vet
eran of the Mexican war; died at Sacra-
mento, recently, aged ninety years.
Bette kidwell went to meet the young
man with whom she had arranged an
elopement at Maysvlle, Ky, but he was
not there, and the disappointment drove
her to suicide.
The Countess de Montijo the mother
of the Ex-Empress Eugenic, is now
cighty-three years old, and is bed-ridden
and almost blind. The late Prince In
pcrial was her favorite grandson.
Grace Greenwood says that New Eng
land produces the best educated girls, the
truest wives, the nobest mothers, and
the most glorious old maids in the world,
but she doesn't say anything about their
chewing gum propensities.
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe is on the ocean,
returning to this country after Il two
years absence. Mrs. Howe, Mrs. Brad
don-Maxwell and Miss Field were the
ladies who attended most constantly the
sessions of the Literary Congress in Lon
don.
Miss Gardner, of Boston, has obtained
= an honorable mention for her picture
"At the Fountain" exhibited in the
Paris Salon this year. Miss Gardner il
! believed to be the only American lady
who has ever been granted this distinc
ton or a prize of any kind at a French
exhibition of fine arts.
= Rosa Bonheur is nova little stout lad,
4 of masculine appearance; her hair is gra.
, in places and parted on the side; and sh
> has bright black eyes, strongly marked
: features, and a wonderfully resolut
mouth. She wears a plain black sill
i i skirt, with a vest and jacket of black vel
! vet, and white linen collar and cuffs.
n Mile. Jeanne Samary, of the Comedi
S Francaise, is one of the reigning beau
ties of London, and her favorite relaxa
n tion Of cracking nuts with her teeth is be
d ing adopted in high society. The youn
g swells of the day have invented a ne'
/ expression. A lady with beautiful teet
is described as having: CLAW! haw! fin
= nut-crackers; haw!"
l. Lady Hardy, a good-natured, middle
y aged Englishwoman, and a writer {
reasonably good novels, is about to travt
:. in this country and write an account {
/. her experiences. 1t is to be hoped, ft
her own sake, that she will not take to
4 rose-cOlored a view Of the United State
If for doing that Sir George Campbell
o Just now suffering at the hands of Il
;, unprejudiced British reviewer.
y Mrs. Hooper says in her Paris letter
J. the Philadelphia Telegraph: "Mast'
If Isaac Bell, Jr., the young nephew of NJ
James Gordon Bennett, of the New Yol
Herald, is Just five days old. The da
after the young gentleman's advent h
al uncle called to see him, and laid on h
O. cradle one hundred United States bonf
Of $1,000 each as christening gift, (
e. rather gift of Joyous arrival, accor
10 ing to the old medieval custom at tt
y accession of king"
p. Charlotte Bronte took her nom {
~ plume from Miss Currer, lady of lite
st ary tastes, who was patroness of Il
school at Casterton, described in "Jal
TO Eyre" Here is a curious extract fro
M the report of this school for 1887: ''Tl
" pupils all appear in the same dre'
it. They wear plain straw cottage bonne
in summer, white frocks on Sundays, al
to nankeen on other days; in winter, purf
he stuff frocks and purple cloth cloak. +
Isl tho sake of uniformity, therefore, tn
rv are required to bring SO in lieu of frocl
OF pelisse, tippet and frills."
NJ Mol Pitcher, the famous fortune-tel
= of Lynn, Mass, and the much-feared o
of Gle of the sailor world, is remembered
" person now living. He visited he
. few days before her death in compa
is. with her grandson, Mr.. Benjamin 1nga
nd She was sitting up in bed, eating be
'th of broth. The visitor was then but eie
'm years of age, yet he distinctly rememb
To- her looks. She was very much ems
1m ated, and her keen black eyes blazed W
Ter new luster as the two timid boys
tered. She put aside her broth and So
on down on her pillow, but said nothi
DIN olh They left the room, and few days at
'9, to ward they heard that she was dead.
lalf
,es; Sam. Talfay was shot and killed by 4
I 90 Of I'd Point Mo Ia