The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-02-05
PERSONAL.

CeTb.
Robert Browning will shortly publish
volume.
The Gear of Russia is in his fifty
seventh year.
Mr.. and Mrs. Seguin have left the KEEL
logg English Opera Company.
The wife OF Canon Kingsley Is pros
trated by severe attack of heart dis
ease,
Ranoyalom anjama is the euphonious
name of her Royal Aighness, Queen OF
Madagascar.
Mrs. Grants receptions are held on
Saturdays, commencing at and lasting
until O'clock r. NJ.
Napoleon lV wants to marry Princess
Beatrice of England. The Queen is con-
sidering the question.
Charles Sprague, the banker poet who
recently died in Boston, had only been
on railroad train once in his life.
General Frank Blair is improving In
health, and his physicians think that in
q tew weeks he will be able 10 walk out.
Col. de Trobriand is Frenchman, and
a native of Brittany, and has been cit
izen of the United States about twenty
years.
Mr.. johnson owes his Senatorship to
Republican votes, but they were volun-
tarily given. There was no bargaining
Ill Iue business.
William Hewitt is now eighty-two
years Of age, yethe is well and vigorous,
and walks daily from his house i'll Rome
to the Pincian Hill and back again, u con-
siderable distance.
Sir Edward Creasey, the historian, Is
about to resign the appointment OF Chief
Justice OF Ceylon, which he has held tor
more than fourteen years. 1t is said
that the precariOus state of his health
would render a return to Ceylon in all
likelihood fatal.
Postmaster General Jewell has earned
the turther alteration of the feminine
clerks. He gives the lady employees half
an hour at noon to browse around, either
in the building or outside. Ihe privi-
lege has heretofore only been accorded
to male employees.
kalakaua lett San Francisco for his
island kingdom Feb. 1st. Our people
have made II spread over him, and our
Government has made treaty with him,
and yet, as New York Alderman said
OF him, to his aristocratic cOnst4uenLs-
HES only nagur after ALL"
Donaldson, the aerOnaut, is construct
ing new balloon, with which he will
make All ascension from Brooklyn, Wash
ington's birthday. 1t is to be thirty-slx
feet in diameter, with capacity Of twen-
ty-four thousand cubic feet, and is in
tended TO carry three persons.
Ben. Butler surprised the House, re-
Gently, by a quotation from Tennyson.
When the great Essex statesman gets to
spouting poetry before II listening land,
it's about time for the Muse to call her
carriage, gather her garments about her,
and leave the national halls forever.
Brigadier General Benjamin $. Roberts
died at Washington, d. o., on Friday
the 10Th, OF fpleuro-pneumonia,ag aged Sixty
iour years. He was bornat Manchester,
VT, in 1911, and was graduated from the
Military Academy ut West Point in 1855.
General Grant has been dubbed an
L, l.. b., LII. d., D. G. 4. Some naughty
person construes the meaning as follows !:
l.. l.. b., as denoting Lover of Long
ations. D. G. H., as Destroyer OF Civil
Liberty. us. g., Unprincipled Salary
Grabber.
Rev. DR.. DeKoven, who has been prom
inent OF late as II candidate for the epis-
copate in the Protestant Episcopal
Church, when he preacnes folds his
hands on his breast and intones his SER
mon from beginning to end. HIS voice
is singularly fascinating with tones as
clear as flute.
The late Canon Kingsley leaves wife,
a son, Maurice, who has lived i'll Ameri-
ca several years, has married an Ameri-
can wife, and who is now living in Chat-
tanooga, and two daughters, the eldest
OF whom published, last year, an inter.
esting volume ON American travel, par
ticularly in Colorado anu Mexico. !.
Mr.. Beecher read at the morning serv-
ice last Sunday the 18th chapter OF Le-
viticus. A few persons near The plat
form chuckled when he read the verse,
"Turn ye not unto Idols, nor make to
yourselves molten gods; | am the Lord
your God" There was slight emphasis
on the word s'molten," and tnat probably
provoked the merriment.
: Joseph Preston, a Iaborer, died in Liy,
erpool, the other day, OF ina ginary hy-
On December 26 last, he was
taken with a tit and loaned at the
mouth. When admitted to the hospital
he was barking like a dog, but post
examination revealed the fact
that he had died from disease of the
brain and spinal chord, the result Of
natural causes. One OF the house sur
geons of the hospital saidhe could only
account for the noise made like the bark
ing of dog and the deceased's refer.
ence to dog by his highly nervous and
deliriOuS state.
The Earl OF Roseberry is on his way
across the ocean to marry the eldest
daughter of William Butler Duncan, OF
the house of Duncan, Sherman Il Co., of
New York. She is described as the |
''prettiest and best girl in the metropo-
lisa young lady OF surprising beauty, |
Of the utmost amiabiiity of character, a |
great favorite in society, and one of such |
gentle and winning manners that all who |
meet her are enfaptured. The wedding
IS expected to be one Of the most brill
amt that has ever taken place in New
York. The prospective husband is gen.
.leman of great wealth and excellent
character.
Jules Verne, one of the most popular
writer's OF the day, is now 46 years OF
sge. He is of middle height-say five |
eet nine-and wears full beard. He |
ooks like the portrait of Alfred De Mus
'et, but without the sickly, melancholy
ook of the poet. Verne is bronzed by |
he air of many sea-yoyage, and is the
picture of health. His movements are
luick and nervous, his words crisp and |
hort in conversation, and his eyes row.
ng and obseryant. His HAIR is white and
lis beard gray. He is the owner OF
mall skitf, and spends hours IN pulling
bout on the river and on the sea in
ummer, lie has yacht, With ten sail
rs on board, and makes voyages every
eason about the coast of France.