The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-03-10
PERSONALS ABOUT LADIES.
Nine. Christine Nillsen learned to play
the guitar while in Spain.

J the guitar while in Spain.
Mrs. Ralston, of Nashville, Mich,
owns cat which is 26 years old.
Princess Louise has bounced the coach.
man that drove her into snowbank.
The Empress of Austria, with auburn
locks, takes retinue of ninety attend
ants on her visit to Ireland.
Queen Victoria will 90 to Germany
next summer and visit the tomb of the
Princess Alice, who died in 1878.
Queen Margherita of Italy is reported
to be in a state of permanent depression,
but the name of the mother-in-law is not
given. s-.
Lady Mary Hamilton, sister of the
Duke of Hamilton, who has just had her
marriage with the Prince of Monaco an
nulled, will marry in few days Count
Festetics.
i Mrs. James Barrow, the "Aunt Fanny"
of all the juveniles in the land. is a Di-
rector in Kate Fields new Women's Co
operative Millinery and Dressmaking
Association.
The Miss Frances Power Cobbe who
died recently, the London World states,
was distant relative of the lady of the
same name so well known for her social
and political writings.
| Mrs. Betsey Henderson. of Boston,
celebrated her one hundredth birthday
on Sunday. The Rev. DR.. Miner, of
whose church she is member, preached
a memorial discourse in the morning.
Miss Genevieve Ward sends several de-
signs to an exhibition of paintings, draw
ings and sculpture by members of the
dramatic profession in London; one is a
marvelously adroit copy of a popular
master.
/ Mrs. Schweintz came from Germany
several years ago, leaving Kaethchen be-
hind; but Kaethchen recently arrived,
and the meeting at a Pittsburg railroad
station was deeply affecting. Kaethchen
is cat.
| The Duchess of Marlborough is an in
defatigable worker. The immense cor
respondence from innumerabe appli-
cants for aid all passes through her own
hands, and she writes most of the an
swers herself.
Mrs. Meadows White, nee Miss Alice
Mary Smith, has set Mr.. Longfellow's
"Masque of Pandora" to music. The
overture, which is just finished, has been
successfully performed in London at the
Crystal Palace concerts and the new
Philharmonic.
Mrs. Clark, Of Indiana, was thought
less enough to present her husband
with a petition signed by herself and
her seven children praying for new
calico dress. Mr. Clark thereupon threw
the petition under the table and his wife
out of the window, and now she is
cripple for life.
Lady Hewitt, the wife of Admiral Sir
William Hewitt, K. G. B., has just met
with an unfortunate accident She was
feeding a favorite parrot, when her atten-
tion being momentarily diverted, the
bird bit the forefnger of her right hand,
and, blood poisoning having supervened,
the finger has been amputated.
The Empress of Austria is the hunting
sensation again this year in Ireland. Her
strength is, herculean; she not only is
hours in the saddle, but rides hard. She
narrowly missed a bad fall recently
when out with the Meaths. Her horse
stumbled and partially fell, but she kept
her seat in splendid style, and the ami
NAL recovered itself.
Miss Nellie, daughter of Ex-Governor
Hubbard, of Connecticut, who eloped
with her fathers coachman several
months ago, has learned the dressmaking
business, and is living happily with her
horsey husband. The old man doesn't
relent enough to speak of, but has told
Nellie that any time she will separate
from the ex-coachman she will be re-
ceived into the family again.
Collette and Jeannine, Alexandra Du-
mas daughters, respectively fifteen and
twelve years of age, were talking with a
lady visitor about marriage. Whom do
you wish to marry" asked the lady of
the elder of the girls. II wish to marry
an IDIOT" she replied; "and the trouble
is, am sure one day or other to meet
greater idiot than he, and perceive that
l have been too hasty in my choice"
Don't be alarmed, sister," rejoined jean
nine; "you will never meet greater i'm
beetle than the man who will marry
you"
Mrs. Hayes is thus described by
writer in the Congregationalist: "Soon
lady of perhaps fifty entered the room,
IN dress of garnet silk and velvet, the
lace at the neck fastened by an emerald
brooch, and took us each by the hand in
the most cordial way, as though she had
known us for years. l have never seen
face light up more beautifully, or eyes
more full Of expression. And this was
the first lady in the land;' woman as
full of vivacity and cheer as a school
girl, who laughs as joyously as though
life had been one long day of pleas
ure."
An AstOmf q h i.U Waman.