The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-03-17
PERSONALS ABOUT LADIES.

Lotta is admiringly called the 'bound-
ing blonde" and the rampant risiblist"
Mrs. Asaph Hall, the mother of Pro-
fessor Asaph Hall, the astronomer, died
recently at her home in Goshen, Ct
Mrs. Anne Thackeray Richie is in
such Indifferent health that she is un-
able to undertake at present any literary
work.
Miss Fanny Parnell, one of the sisters
of the agitator, is quick as chain light
ming and a capital business manager.
She makes friends everywhere.
The Austrian Empress has one curious
and unusual appendage on her saddle
tree when she goes hunting. This is a
biaeksand yellow fan which she carries
to protect her weak eyes from the sun
shine. a'
Queen Margaret of Italy is said to
look apathetic, dull, and ill; her violent
attacks of hysteria are over, but her
cheeffulness has not returned. At the
recent opening of the Italian Parliament
the pale Queen was dressed entirely in
white-eveA her mantle was of white sat
in richly embroidered in gold.
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe says of Miss
Kate Fields recent entertainment in
Boston that she carried it through with
astonishing freshness and vigor, and that
it gave great amusement to these present.
Miss Fields voice." Mrs. Howe adds,
'is agreeable in quality, and her use Of it
bears evidence of careful study and
training"
Mrs. Elizabeth Thompson, the philan-
thropist, in curious tract compares the
relative cost of religion, living, educa-
ton, rum and tobacco. Rum costs the
country yearly 1861, ,69S,5O2 religion,
$47 ,636, ,450, and education, $95, ,406, 727.
Rum, she says, costs each person $l7 a
year, whether they drink it or not. The
question naturally arises, Why not
drink it then?
Mrs. Elizabeth Bell Manning, who died
in Cambridge, Mass, on the 4th inst, at
the age of ninety-four years, had lived
for seventy-seven years in the old home
stead in Harvard square, opposite the
college. The house was built in the
same style as Prof. Longfellow's, was
erected in 1761 by Dr: East Apthorp, and
was known in early times as the ''Bish'
ops Palace"
Lady urdett-Coutts has had scheme
placed before her by some Bloomsbury
brewers, an Irish M. p, an astute firm Of
solicitors, an energetic agent and gov.
ernment official to purchase an extensive
tract of land in Connemara, in Ireland.
The price asked is 1850, ,O00-the whole
"Martin" kingdom there sold for f140, 600
but her ladyship is not doing more
Just now than looking over the details SO
kindly supplied by the benevolent syndi-
cate. ,...
Amelia Radcliffe, otherwise known as
the Countess of Derwentwater, has just
died in England. She spent nearly all
her life in eccentric endeavors to main
tain her claim to that title and the es-
tates. The claim when carefully investi-
gated was found to be wholly groundless.
She took up her quarters several years
ago in the ruins of the old castle at Dis
ton, whence she was forcibly elected.
Then she entered dstraint for rent on
one of the farms of the estate, and sold
the live stock at auction, for which the
Admiralty, who had possession, recovered
$1,000 damages. She was at last adjudi-
Gated a bankrupt and was committed fol
a time to Newcastle Jail.
Mrs. Brassey, Of yachting adventures
gave a fancy-dress ball lately at the grea,
house in Oxfordshire, which will b.
memorable in the annals Of the County
The hostess wore an incroyable dress, thu
host a dress of blue velvet and powdered
periwig. Two Joans of Arc rivaled eacl
other in white satin cuirasses, glitteriny
with plates of polished steel, white satil
petticoats under which the mailed fee
moved with a martial clang, gloves o
mail and steel helmets with curlin,
ostrich feathers, completing costume
which could have no conceivable recon
mendation except that of notoriety. 4
, French marquise was prettier, in a dres
of palest blue green silk brocaded witt
butterflies and ferns, hair in powde
sprinkled with small roses, and big dia
mond pins, and a mantle of rose-colore'
, gauze floating from the shoulders.
The Countess Panine, lady-in-waitin
to the Empress of Russia, has been re
quested to resign and to travel abroao
She is of romantic turn, and sometime
received guests of whose character sh
was not fully aware. Among these wa
young student, who, warned that tn
police were about to search his rooms
fled to her house with his papers, anc
being pursued to her room, hid the paI
ers under her pillow. The police disco'
cred them and arrested him. That til
Nihilists, however have friends in mig
, quarters is shown, not only by the ciphe
! documents found on Deutseh, killed /
the secret press affair, but by letters an
papers found on Russian doctor an
refugee at Paris, who either threw hin
self or was thrown into the Seine. Thes
documents were sewn In his trousers lii
ing and were handed over to the Russia
Embassy, who forwarded them to the S
Petersburg detectives.