The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-03-04
PERSONALS ABOUT LADIES.

PERSONALS ABOUT LADIES.
The Queen of Belgium works in the
garden.
Miss Nelson dined with Longfellow
the other day.
Kate Fields latest idea is ooopera-
tive millinery store.
Miss Frances Power Cobbe's death is
reported from London.
Sara Bernhardts ewes are reputed to
have blue lustrous depths.
Queen Isabella wears gorgeous Worth
| dress of white satin, for best
Lizzie Price, the American widow of
Fechter, has returned to the-stage.
Dora D'Istria, Princess and author, is
coming to America next summer.
Mrs. Kirby Pope, of Concord, N. c.,
has been badly bruised up by vicious
buck.
Lady Randolph Spencer Churchill,
formerly Miss Jerome, of New York, has
an infant son.
The raven-haired Empress of Austria
was in her hunting-saddle in half ali hour
after she landed from her disagreeable
passage to Ireland.
George Eliot, it is declared, has given
permission for the dramatization of one
of her novels She is about to travel for
the benefit of her health.
Queen Victoria's income is $500 a
day. The Gar has more than any other
European sovereign-$25, 900 Elay-but
Herewith "gets he not peace and COM
fort"
Sarah Winnemucca, the educated
princess of the Piutes, has been sent to
jah at Winnemucca, New. for challeng-
ing the editor of the Sister State to fight
duel.
Clarinda Moore, a temperance revival
list of note in Iowa, has closed bargain
with her husband by which,. in consid-
Grafton of $4,000, she permits formal
separation.
Mile. Colette Dumas, the pretty and
piquant daughter of the novelist, has
just entered society. She is very much
admired at the entertainments to which
her proud father escorts her.
Nine. Christine Nilsson was the recipi-
ent of many honors during her recent
visit to Madrid. On her departure Tor
Paris, the other day, the young Queen
presented her with magnificent pearl
set in diamonds
The Duchess Of Galliera, lady dis
tinguished by her repeated munifcent
donations to the cause of charity, has
given her Genoese palace of La Salita
di San Bartolomeo degli Armeni for
child's hospital.
Mary Anderson, while acting "Juliet"
in Boston, took wad of chewing gum
out of her mouth in the garden scene,
put it carefully on the railing of the bal
cony, and picked it up again after her
last "good night" scene.
Mrs. Martha P. Graves, of South Kill
lingly, Conn.,, who had been deaf tor
thirty years, dreamed, on the night Of
January Both, that her hearing was re-
stored. The next night she went to bed
deaf, as usual, but awoke in the morning
with perfect hearing, which as yet is un-
impaired.
Mrs. John Bonnie, of East Dubuque,
accidentally cut her throat last week.
She was going from her kitchen into the
woodshed to cut some meat when she
slipped and fell, the knife blade enter
ing her throat and severing the jugular
vein. The unfortunate lady was about
forty years Of age.
Mrs, Fanny Cobb, of Farmville, N. c.,
while at dinner at her house, was langh-
ing and talking with some lady friends
who were dining with her, when sudden
ly becoming quiet her guests looked up
and say that she had, as they thought,
tainted. Upon going to her she was
found cold in death.
The Belgian Queen still so fondly cher
ishes the memory of her only son, the
Duke of Brabant, who died in January,
1869, that she has never since permitted
any Court festivities to be held during
that month. Prince Baudouin, the son
of her brother-in-law, Philip, Count of
Flanders, is the heir to the Belgian
throne. The boy is now eleven years
old.
Madame Li-fu-jeu, wife of the Chinese
Minister in Berlin, has just been for
mally presented to the Emperor and EN-
press, who received her very graciously.
The Chinese lady wore superb native
costume, looked very picturesque, and
behaved with tact and grace. Lady Odo
Russell, as "doyenne," of the Diplomatic
Corps, made the presentation.
Mrs. Abraham S. Mylin, of Lancaster,
Pa, used to hang crock Of butter in the
we'll to keep it cool. The plan worked
we'll until one day the rope broke, and
the crock disappeared under water. This
was thirty-four years ago. The other
day the well was cleaned and the butter
again brought to light, and it was found