The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-03-25
PERSONAL.


= Wybert Reeve has sailed for Europes
Lotta intends visiting Europe in June.
Mr.. Creswell and family will not go to
Europe this spring.
The Pope is born preacher, ready flu
ent and eloquent.
Max Muller has gone to Italy for the
benefit of his health.
Beecher figures in Q new novel as Rev.
Progressive Bungie.
De Koven is supposed to be sitting on
the Jaggared edge Of despair.
The Emperor of Russia has presented
Patti with $10, 900 worth of furs.
Col. Dunning r. McNair died at Wash
ington, Tuesday, in his 18th year.
Senior Potestad will soon visit Spain
with his family ON leave Of absence.
General John q. Breckinridge 10 better
again, and is now able to walk about.
Mr.. Samuel Drake is writing d book on
"The Nooks and Corners Of New Eng
land."
The yokes family will return in Au-
gust to this country for a tour OF eleven
weeks.
Clark Mills is to make marble bust of
Bishop Ames, of the Methodist Episcopal
Church.
Professor +. W. August Argelander,
the eminent astronomer, died at Bonn on
the 17th ult.
Senator Andrew Johnson's wife is 1y-
ing at the point of death, with no hope
OF recovery.
Joe Jefferson raised twenty bushels Of
oranges this year on his plantation in
Louisiana.
Mile. Bslocca, the Russian prima dom
ma, will visit this country in company
with DR.. Hans Won Bulow.
Senator Eaton, of Connecticut, is said
by some one to have look Of perpetual
anger ON his countenance.
NJ. Wastmann, Prince Gortschakoff's
alter ego in the Russian Foreign Office,
has had stroke OF apoplexy.
Rose Hersee, the pretty little singer,
Arthur Howell, afnusician.
Mr.. De We're, the famous chess-player,
died at Torquay on the 9th OF February,
aged thirty years less i've days.
M. Ledru Rollin leaves a work behind
him on Atheism, which will, it is said,
present TO the world the creed Of the au-
thor.
Alfred Ross Wallace is soon to publish
an elaborate work, in Two volumes, on
the Biographical Distribution Of AMI
mafs."
Raymond Brucker, very popular nov
elist about 1880, and Tor the last twenty
years Jealous Catholic writer, died re-
Gently.
Mr. James Dowland, of Chicago, an
amateur reader of considerable merit,
proposes to adopt the readfng-desk as a
profession.
Ellsworth, of Unsworth and Eugene,
the male prima donna and stump speech
maker OF the variety line, died In London
last week.
Mr.. Gladstone is writing new book
on marriage, with special reference to
the alleged sacramental character of that
institution.
MIR. Fred Marsden, one of the most
successful of American playwrights, is
at work upon romantic aud powerful
play for MIR. Frederick Robinson.
General Butler is said by Mr.. Pugh.
the lecture manager, to receive more ap-
plicattons to lecture than any other man
who is not a professional lecturer.
Secretary Bristow, who has been COM
planning tor solie time of i'll health. left
Washington for New York yesterday to
consult eminent medical practitioners
there.
Mr.. Atwood, of England, il. now ap-
pears, gave away anonymously EATS, 900
instead OF 1850, 600, as previously stated,
in addition to f400, 900 to poor relatives
and dependents.
Nine. Bonaparte has been seriously ill
in Baltimore, but there are hopes of her
entire restoration to health. She seems
confident that she will celebrate her one-
hundredth birthday.
President Potter Of Union College has
been promised, by friend of the insti-
tuition, yearly gift of $4,000 to test the
practicability of establishing school of
art, in connection with the college.
A nd INb D. 4
to have rallied again during the past
week. She has consumption, and the
dangerous condition reported last week
was caused by violent hemorrhage.
Romualdo Pacheco, who succeeds Mr..
Booth as Governor of California, is the
first native of that State who has reach
ed the gubernatorial chair. He was born
Iat Santa Barbara, OF Spanish parents.
"Mademoiselle De Granville, the woman
with the iron jaw" has been lifting too
much in San Francisco. 1t was a feat
in shoplifting that got her into trouble,
and her real name is Maggie McMurray.
NJ. Seguin, who constructed the first
important Frenchi railway, the line from
Lyons to st. Etienne, and introduced in
to France express trains and chain sus.
pension bridges, died recently in Paris,
aged SO.
Mr.. George Clarke, after one week at
Chicago, where he was engaged to play
at, the Museum for five hundred dollars
y week in advance, was SO badly sup
ported that the theater was closed after
one week.
Mr.. H. X. Browne, a sculptor, ha 8
signed contract to furnish q colossal
equestrian statue OF General Nathan iel
Greene, for fairgrounds OF the State cap.
ital at Providence, r. l.. receiving there
for 0,00O.
Eli 0rozier, an ancient citizen of Della.
ware, swore thirty-one years ago to
wear the hat he then wore until Henry
Clay should sit in the Presidential chair
The venerable beaver still crowns his
wrinkled brow.
Ben De Bar gained lawsuit in Men,
phis the other day. 1t was against e
A. Benson, tor the value of some tickets
that had been wrongfully appropriated
in Memphis, and judgment was given in
favor of the plaintiff for $776.
Baron Rothchiid gave louis to, char.
ity fund, and the person receiving ii
said, "Ah, Monsieur Baron, you only
gave a louis and your son gave fyep'
sand reason enough said the Baron;
"his father is millionaire and Pm only
. Y,onr ornhan