The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-01-02
PERSONALS ABOUT LADIES.

land again shortly.
Mrs. Hayes favorite cat is dead. Curl.
ously enough it was not an Ohio cat.
Mrs. John r. Alleys dinner parties
are much sought after by the elite Of
Washington.
Mrs. Christiancy, the young wife of the
Minister to Peru, does not fancy residing
at Lima, and is coming home.
Queen Victoria's gift to Mrs. Nellie
Grant Sartoris was miniature of her
royal self sell i'll precious stones.
Miss Lizzie M. Gutherie, who has been
hboring in Japan as missionary for the
hast six years, is visiting friends in Spar.
Ia, Ill. '-
Miss Mary Anderson is reported to be
most devout; and while in Cleveland re.
Gently went to early mass at the Cathe-
dral nearly every morning.
Miss Mary E. Bailey, Sunday-school
scholar at Dallas, Texas, working for a
prize, brought eighty-fve new scholars
into her school during the year.
Mile. Rosa Bonheur has Just bought
for 81, 900 a magnificent lion from the
Geological Garden at Marseilles and she
intends to paint its portrait for next
years Salon.
Mile. Marie Van Zandt has made an
engagement with the Paris Opera
Comique, and is studying the part of
"Mignon" with the composer, M. Am
broise Thomas.
Miss Sara G. Jewett, the au thor of
"Deephsven," is not only a successful
writer; the Boston correspondent of the
Courant, Of Hartford, credits the clever
young lady with "real beauty"
Miss PAYNE, of st. Paul, became a
secret smoker. When two gentlemen
called she hurriedly thrust lighted ci-
garette into her pocket and was soon
ablaze, receiving burns that were almost
fatal.
Mrs. Susan Dodge Appleton, widow of
the late John Appleton, of Portland,
died Wednesday at Georgetown, D. G.
Mr.. John Appleton, the husband, was
United States Minister to Russia during
Buchanan's Administration.
The ex-Empress Eugene intends so to
time her visit to Zu uland that she may
be on the spot where her son met his
death on the anniversary of that event,
the 1st Of June. Sir Evelyn Wood will
be,the escort of the poor woman.
Mrs. Chaplin Ayrton, wife of the Pro-
fessor of Applied Physics at the City
and Guilds of London Institute, has just
received the degree of Doctor of Medi-
cine from the the Faculty of Medicine at
Paris, Mrs. Ayrton is one of the ladies
who after pursuing medical studies at
Edinburg University were denied degrees.
She afterward began her studies de novo
in Paris, going in the interval to Japan
with her husband. The title of the
thesis she presented to the Faculty be-
fore obtaining her degree was "Recher-
ches sur les Dimensions Generates ct sur
HDevelopement du Corps chez les Jap
onais."
Mary Anderson is thus painted in
Louisville colors: "Can you imagine
some driftingeloud of evening crystal
lized in mystic limpidness INTO that
image of themaker that we call human
pellucid, lit within with azure fire!
1t may suggest dream of that vision of
loveliness which have seen, and which
shattered ones soul to pieces. Tall,
slender-bat slender like one of those
threads of steel that carry trains across
Niagara---a step as graceful as the Wild
eats; and that neck! aspiring as the
Alexandrian shaft that lifted Pharos TO
light up the sea--commanding as the
tower Of ivory that looketh towards
Damascus" .o