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

Baronness C0uttS hands an English
man two shillings every time she sees
him patting mule.
Mrs. Holmes, of Katie King infamy,
according to her own statement, Is "cick
of the hoal bisness."
#Andrew johnson was hooted when he
attempted to make public address in
Pittsburgh, while "swinging around the
circle"
Beecher paying for Bessie Turner's
tuition is said to be the initiatory of the
compulsory education system in New
York. 1t worked we'll for Bessie.
Andrew johnson will banquet the
Tennessee Legislature this week. Take
care, Andy. You know drop too much
spoils you. Let your banquet be held
without the cup that is red.
Mrs. Nellie Sartoris has arrived at
home, and now society will talk itself
wretched until it is known if that is SO
about the White House going to have a
new master before the winter is over.
Beecher's advice to Moulton, "When
you lie at all, lie sublimely." Gen. Ira
cy's advice to Beecher and Moulton, 81
do not advise lying as a rule, but this
is case in which L think lying advisa-
ble"
Marie Caroline Archambault, Count
ess du Chatel, has been condemned in
Paris for the vulgar offense of sh0plift-
ing. She stole various fancy articles
from the counters to use them as New
Year gifts.
M. CASTOR Tissandier has taken ad-
vantage OF the opportunity presented by
the heavy snow storms which have fallen
this winter in France, to make a series
Of experiments on the dust which snow
appropriates on its passage through the
atmosphere.
Moulton was asked in court if he did
not say to a certain person that "Reecher
is D. perjurer and libertine." Moul-
ton replied, IL did not say d.; l may
have said he was perjurer and iber-
tine, for he is.'
Laura d. Fair appeared as witness
In the San Francisco Police Court, the
other day, and testified that she owned
G666 shares in the Silver Column Mining
Company. The Chronicle says that she
mounted the witness stand with the
gleetul skip of light-hearted school
girl.
Henry Nicoll, OF New York, year after
year gained better name for honesty,
and when confidence in him had grown
to be perfect he began to get trusted
when he busted, busted, busted, and
half million has blown out of sight.
M. Muller, a member of the Russian
expedition TO Northern Siberia, has
stated to the st. Petersburg Geographic
Cal Society that the North Pole is not an
isolated point, but a territory of a Ger.
tain extent, toward the whole of which
the inclination of the needle is the same,
and Of this territory he hopes to make
the tour.
The Empress Eugenie, when she fed
from Paris intrusted the crown jewels
to the Minister of Finance. He sent
them to the Bank of France, and before
the siege they were forwarded to a dis
tant French port, and have just now
been returned to Paris. They are wortl
looking after, as one stone alone is valued
at $1GO,000.
Baron Nathaniel Rothschild has giver
to the Jewish Hospital in Vienna the
furniture of the room in which Anselm
Rothschild, his father, died. lie will
also give 5000 tforins as fund, from the
interest OF which the persons Shall be
supported who are placed in the apart
ment furnished with the relics.
Mrs. Grant Sartoris spent the first
evening OF her return to the land of hel
birth at Wallack's theater. Her husband
and Fred Grant and wife went along
AS they pretend to be good Methodists q
prayer meeting in which they could have
given thanks TO the Lord for a sale v0y.
age over the briny deep would have
seemed nearer the props thing.
Charles Warren Stoadard sees NJ
pleasing picturesqueness in the flower
girls of Venice, whom he describes as i'm
Fortunate to the last degree. He says
that if you take one by the nape of the
neck and dangle her over the canal for {
few moments, she merely selects new
bouquet when she returns to earth ant
stabs you with it in the buttonhole.'
Earl Russelps "Recollections" are
published. The work appears to be o.
comparatively small interest or value
and adds little or nothing to the politi
cal history of the past half century. Mr
Gladstone is accused with some violence
of having sought to degrade the country
from its rank as a great and glorious EN-
pire to be manufacturer OF cottoI
cloth and a market Of chean ~""as:
Alfonso is reported to have asked of .
distinguished politician, as he was leay
ing Paris Tor Spain, il he had any advice
to give him. And the politician said
"Yes-beware OF pithy phrases" go
what sort?' said Alfonso. swell, sucl
as, 'The Empire is peace,' and Ital,
shall be free from the Apennines to the
Adriatic,' and Not a stone OF our torti
nor an inch OF our territory sc. For i
you give out any of these you will try tt
adhere to what they express or yor
won't. Ifyou try to adhere you will fal
into error after error from a foolish fan
cy Of consistency, and if you don't you
will be written down as charlatan and
hypocrite."
Frank Moulton is man under forty
but appearing by his buoyancy and vari
able temperament to be nearer thirty
bright red hair; a forehead broad but DO,
high; eyes OF blue, small and piercing
we'll defined expressive nose, inclined
to be aquiline; very large red mus
tache, in which there is. great deal o.
character--it is an added feature; the
chin is cleanly cut, the throat and chaps
are nearly fat with good living; altogeth
er, a shrewd, good, alert head on a. pail
of fair Shoulders; the body is of the best
specimens of medium height; The hands
and feet are neither large nor delicate
and the clothing is of the best, without
disclosing its newness. He has conf
dence, spontaneity, resource, reflection
and has come to the witness box with g
disposition agreed upon, an infiexiblt
determination not to be enraged by any
thing, but to Irrate by courtesy.-N. Y
Herald.