The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-02-24
PERSONAL.

Miss Kate Field has taken rooms at
Barmum's Hotel, New York, for the sea-
son.
Stanley is said to be under contra
with the New York Herald not to marry
while in Africa.
Miss Louisa NJ. Alcott addressed the
young ladies of Vassar College on Sat
urday evening last.
Miss Britton of Lewisburg, Pa, skat-
ed thirty-two miles on the ice in three
hours and thirty-tve minutes the other
day.
Offenbach gave away his daughter as
the bride of NJ. Journal, at the Church of
Notre Dame de Lorrette, Paris, January
30.
'Dear Father" was perhaps not "the
happiest man in Brooklyn" when he
heard the testimony of Mrs. Carey, the
wet nurse.
Canon Kingsley was buried at Evers-
ley, a village in Hampshire, in the south
of England, of which he had been rector
for 81 years.
Mustafa, the celebrated soprano of the
Sistine Chapel, sings for the Pope alone.
Leon is to be his successor, if the old
gentleman survives the young one.
Professor Florentino has discovered,
in a library at Rome, manuscript
work on the "Reformation," of about 200
pages, by the philosopher Campanell a.
Mr.. Thurlow Weed has offered the
Mt. Lebanon Shakers the use Of $4,000
without interest, to aid them in repairing
the damages of the recent disastrous
fire.
The late Rev. Charles Kingsley, Can
on of Westminster, was buried in the
parish churchyard of the village which
had been the scene of his labors for thlr-
ty-one years.
Mrs. Mary LeFevre said in her lecture
in Washington that mans inhumanity to
man to can not compare in severity to
woman's "InLumanity" to woman. This
is nice distinction.
Mr.. Tilton has three or four hundred
unanswered applications for locks of his
hair. The fair solicitors are requested to
exercise patience until he can lind time
to start a jute factory.
Mrs. Pollard, of ritusville, Pa, sued
that city for $4,000 damages because of
q sprained ankle received by her in III,
from an uneven sidewalk. The jury rem
dered verdict for $4,000.
Dan Rice is again and Overwhelmingly
a bankrupt. He has over 200 creditors,
scattered over the United State, and his
Indebtedness amounts to 100000. AS.
sets, one suit Of clothes, $75.
Mr.. Murray, the great London publish
er, son of Byron's publisher, immortal
and is the first OF the trade whose name
was ever ennobled with handle.
Henry w. LongfelloW is to deliver the
poem and Rev. DR.. Cheever the Grafton
before the Alumni of Bowdoin College
at the next Commencement. The semi
centennial of their class will then be eel
ebrated.
Count de Launehefoucauld, recently
attached to the French legation at Ma
drid, is now in Paris on his way to
W ashington, where he succeeds the
Marquis de ClermOnt Tormeneas as
First Secretary.
Mrs. Proctor will publish the autobi
ography LETT by Mr.. Proctor Barry Corn
wall in the course OF the year. As Mrs
Proctor knew many of the distinguished
men OF the present century, the book is
likely to be of interest.
George Francis Train writes: "I am
an island, or perhaps continent--I am
not sure that the people will ever un-
derstand me-and why should theyp'
Why, indeed2 The man who doesn't
know whether he is an island or a con-
tinent isn't worth understanding.
Kalakaua lett as his last wOras the
following piece of his mind; GAN your
country women think lovely and spir-
ituelle, but give my preference to those
Of Washington, Boston and st. Louis"
Had he visited Cincinnati, his verdict
would have been different.
The German Emperor has presented
to the public library at Geneva, SWitzer-
land, q splendidly bound copy OF the
works of Frederick the Great in thirty
three volumes. The edition is that pub
lished by the Prussian Government,
which is not ON sale to the public.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, in recent
medical article, maintains that rythmi-
cal instincts have.a physiological origin
in respiration, and thinks tone can hard
ly doubt that Spenser breathed habitu-
ally more slowly than Prior, and that
Anacreon had quicker respiration than
Homer"
Thomas Carlyle has just completed
his seventy-ninth year, and still retains
the full use of his faculties. He is one
of those marvellous old men in which
this age is so prolific ON both sides of the
water. He has been spending most OF
his time lately in arranging his books
and papers in proper shape to turn over
to the historian Froude, whom he has
designated as hisAliterary executor and
biographer.
The Queen Dowager of Bavaria, who
recently joined the Roman Catholic
Church, has ordered the construction, at
her own expense, Of a new Catholic
church at Munich, which will cost 340,-
600 marks (9l7,000). The Municipal
Council of Munich, had refused previ-
ously to construct the church, as the
town has already quite sufficient church
accommodation.
Emily Faithful states:that among the
novel forms of social and industrial
life which vividly strike stranger on
his arrival in Paris is the perfect equal
ity in business matters which seems to
exist between the sexes. Women keep
books, govern hotels, large shops, and
even factories, and are often the bust
ness partners Of their husbands, and
most efficient ones too.
Captain Alexander West, retired
naval officer, has been found lying dead
on the roadside, not far from his own
residence, at st. Heliers, Eng, having
shot himselfin the head with q revolver.
Five chambers of the weapon had been
discharged, and the barrel had been
placed i'll his right ear. Unsuccessful
stock speculations was the cause.
Mr.. Horatio King, of Washington, who
for brief period filled the office OF Post
master General, and who knew more
about the duties of the office and how to
discharge them than any OF his preqeces-
sors, has for some years past had Sattr-
ryrts linn nylT has