The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-02-12
ERSONAL.


Glendenning, of New Jersey, is with
out ~ vineyard.
Miss Ida Greeley and her sister, Ca
brielle, are going to Europe in the spring.
Lord Duferin will not leave the Gov
ernor-Generalship of the Canadian Do
minion.
Clara Louise is making $4,000 week.
She ought to be happy, even If she has
no beaux.
Vasquez perpetrated only 81 murders
and yet the Calil0rnians seriously talk
of hanging himi
Anna Dickinson is writing about WASH
ington beauties. Poor Anna is herself
homelier than ever.
Prince Torlonia of Rome is about to
sell his splendid collection of pictures
and other objects Of art.
Uncle Daniel Drew has made million
this winter IN stock speculations, and
Jay Gould two millions,
And his name it is Tsae Tien--the new
boy-Empercr OF China, who has been
formally proclaimed.
Joseph Campazzi, late chief cook to
the Emperor OF Brazil, is now in the SER
vice OF Gov. Tilden, OF New York.
Charles Reade, the English novelist,
is an irreclaimable old bachelor, but q
nice fatherly-looking man, Tor all.
Theodore Tilton says that he received
from W, 900 to $1,000 a year for lecturing,
and $1,000 year for editing the Indepen-
dent at the same time.
Carl Schurz is going to Europe soon
after Congress adjourns, accompanied
by his family. Mr.. Schurz has young
daughter at school abroad.
Buiwer calls newspaper "the COM
mon reservoir into whicn every stream
pours its living waters, and at which ev-
cry man may come and drink"
TIItVn wrote in 1866 that he did not
think Beecher as morally great as he
had thought him once, and now his
opinion is doubtless still more emphatic.
Ranoyalomanjaka, Queen OF Madagas-
Minister and COmnander-in-Chi has
declared the abolition OF slavery IN her
Kingdom.
The Governor General OF Canada has
added new laureis 10 his crown. He was
the winner in p recent curling match On
the ice for cup presented by the Count
ess Of Duferin.
Miss Emily Soldene is disgusting Bos-
tonians with indecent opera bouffe. Ev-
erybody hisses but the harvard stu
dents, who give ''satyr-like grins,
chuckles, and outlaws"
DeLesseps, OF Suez Canal fame, has
written letter favoring the Nicaraguan
route for an inter-oceanic canal, in case
it Is found impossible to construct ca
nal through the Isthmus.
Rabelais had written some sensible
pieces, which the world did not regard
at all. II will write something" says
he, ''that they shall take notice or" And
SO he sat down TO writing nonsense.
Miss Annie Gilmore, the sister of the
great baton swinger and jubilee singer,
who was few days since married to
Captain John OROuke, in Milwaukee,
has settled down with her husband in
Plattsmouth, Nebraska.
.Bergh, day or two ago, had laboring
man sent to the penitentiary for three
months for killing a cat, although the
man, who had no counsel, urged tnat he
hud q wife and three children dependent
upon his daily work for support. On
which side IL the cruelty in this case,
prayW
Sir Samuel Baker having expressed
the opinion that IAN 0rgan-grinder could
march through Central Africa, followed
by an admirlng crowd OF the natives"
many cities are generously Offering to
help tit out All African expedition OF Or
gan-grinders.
The King OF Siam has invited the Royal
Society and the Royal Astronomical So
ciety to appoint some men of science 10
70 there as his guests, with view to OBJ
next. The object, according to Mr.. de la
Rue, ,is to make such observations as
have never yet been attempted.
Mr.. George Harris is an adventurous
New Yorker, and has recently tax a
long ride, muleback, having Travelled
over 4OOO miles in this manner during
the past twelve or fourteen months.
During that time he traversed and re-
traversed Colorado, New Mexico, part
OF Texas. California and Utah.
Mrs. General Hawley writes that Mrs.
Grant has suffered Tor years from se-
we're Inflammation of the eyes, which |
affects her sight SO much that she can
not recognize laces unless very near in
deed, and this affects her manner in pub |
lie, as she often can not tell to whom she
Is speaking. She can not see to write,
even to her own children, when they are
separated from her.
Mrs. Maggie Van Cott, the prima
donna Of Methodist revivalists, while in
Chicago, does not "board round," as did
the carrier disciples, but "puts up" ut
one OF the magnificent "a per day cara
yansaries. How changed are the times.
Imagine the following personal: Rev. |
John Wesley, d. D., the celebrated re-
liglous reiormer, registered this morning |
at the Sherman Housed"
Miss Matte Briley, of Battle Greek, |
Michigan, by her presence of mind re- |
Gently prevented what would have been |
u serious accident. A load of wood was /
last on crossing of the Michigan Gen.
trail Railroad, and the driver was too
much occupied to hear the approach OF |
an express train, when the young lady |
ran up the track and by signals brought |
the train to standstill but few ieet
from the team.
Rev. Mr.. Ravlin, Of the Temple Baptist
Church, Chicago, is a remarkable pas
tor. He has put $4,000 into the church;
has m0rtgaged his two houses for their |
benefit; gives the church a receipt for I
his salary every month, although he does
not draw any; paid Tor several months I
an assistant 500 per month out OF his
own pocket, and gave him his house-rent
free. He now wants to devise some plan
by which the church can get on.
Robert and Margaret Clark, husband
and wife, aged respectively S6 and 81
years, who died'of old age within d few
hours Of each other In Newark, N. D.,
ast week, were buried last Monday.
rhey came from England forty-two years
ago, and lived together sixty-one years.
They had nine children, were grand pa
rents, to thirty-seyen children, and great
grand parents 10 five children, the Oldest