The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-01-23
PERSONALS ABOUT LADIES.

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The Empress of Russia is better.
Mrs. Grants health is not good.
Queen Margaret of Italy, is suffering
from hysteria.
A Zulu Princess, Amazulu, has arrived
\ in London with her suite.
The Princess Louise will embark at
Liverpool on Thursday for Canada.
Eugene inherited $3.50, 900 a year from
her mother, the late Countess Montilo.
Mrs. Laura Chedill Williams, Of
Auburn, lately deceased, bequeaths S.
900 to various religious societies.
Mrs. Tom Winninaham, of Harrison
vile, Miss, gave birth to triplets whose
combined weight was twenty-one pounds.
| Mrs. Katharine Chase Sprague is re-
ported to be assisting Mr.. E. s. Hamlin
in preparing biography Of her father,
the late Chief Justice.
| Miss Nancy Smith, who was lately ad.
mitted to the bar at Keokuk, was enter
tained at banquet upon the occasion by
her brothers in the law.
Mrs Garfield is said &c be devoting her.
self to the education of her sons, herself
in great measure carrying forward
their studies and fitting them for College.
Mrs. Elizabeth Comstock, a Quaker
Missionary Of Michigan, says that of the
145, 900 prisoners whom she has visited
l06,0oo were brought 10 prison by strong
drink. r 1..t .a- e..
Princess Helen, Of Waldeck, is nine.
teen years old, and is the sister Of Queen
Emma, of Holland. 1t is believed she
win be married to Prince Oscar, OF
Sweden.
Mrs. Mary Wetmore, Of Holland
Patent, Oneida County, who died on
Tuesday, bequeathed 5000 to the House
of the Good Shepherd, in Utica, and $3,-
900 to st. Paul's Church, Holland
Patent.
Mrs. W. W. Case, the Monterey,
Wisconsin weaver, will be sixty-two
years old in February next, and during
the year 1879, she weaved $40 yards OF
carpeting besides doing her own house.
work. Who can beat it7 .....
Nine. Erard has presented to the Mo
zart Museum at Salzbnrg, ring Of
curious workmanship set with diamonds,
which was given to the maestro by the
Empress Marie Theresa, on the occasion
of his first grand concert, held before the
Court at Schonbrunn.
The Empress of Austria will visit Ire
land next month for another seasons
hunting. She has engaged Lord Lang
ford's seat at $4,000 per month, and has
already caused $4,000 to be spent on the
Improvements on the stabling and her
own private apartments.
The Princess Winnemuoca is lecturing
in the Pacific States on the sorrows of
the Indians After telling an audience
at Winnemucca, New, near tho home of
her tribe, of the wrong that the white
man had done by introducing fre-water
among her people, she got hilariously
drunk. -
Nine. Adelina Patti, writing of her
experiences In singing, says that when
her name il on the poster for appearance
she Is all the morning preoccupied, ner-
vous and agitated; as the hour OF the
representation approaches she grows
more and more fevered; and at the last
moment, when leaving her dressing room
| for the, stage, one feeling dominates
her-a terrible fear. aly.m ..-,
Mrs. Schreiber was assured by a San
Francisco fortune teller that great
trouble would come TO her in conse-
quence Of speculation in stock, If she did
not quickly get out of that sort
of business. II happened that Mrs.
Schreiber and her husband had just
risked all their savings in stock opera
tion, and the words Of the fortune teller
frightened and worried them 90 much
that they committed suicide.
Queen Victoria is said to have long
memory for persons and faces Her
whole thoughts now seem centered in
her soldiers, especially in those who
have been wounded in her service, and
in looking over paintings Of subjects in
the recent wars she knows and remem-
bers the names of all those soldiers
even privates-on whom she has con-
feared the Victoria Cross or other hon
ors, at once picking them out In the
painting and asking after them by name.
Mrs, Mary A. Livermore, the lecturer,
says that the big fires which cook our
breakfasts cook the women who stand
over the stoves, and that there is a waste
of wood and waste Of women. In the
same lecture she speaks of advances
made in science, and tells how, being in
the house of friend, she heard through
the telephone message from the lady's
daughter, who wanted her mother to
look out Of the window while her darling
was driving past the house with beau
4 tiful new bonnet.