The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-01-06
PERSONAL.

| Mrs. Czar-was very handsomely treated
in Paris.
Kalakaua objects to card-playing since
he lost 5000 on hand.
Bancroft writes on his history two
hours before breakfast.
| Prince Leleoh0ku rules Hawaii while
Kalakaua is here visiting.
Katie King was cease" when she
crawled into the covering Of q bed boil
ster.
Brigham Young is obliged to deter
several of his marriages on account of
his serious illness.
Prince George of Russia Is writing a
| from the Old Testament.
Miss Kellogg's favorite beau is the one
held by the leading violinist in the Or
chestra. Fiddlesticksl
Parson Brownlow will give the whole
of his mind to editing the Knoxville
Whig after the 1st of March.
Judge Walsh, of Brooklyn, has decided
that woman has no right to open her
husbands letters. How about the vice
versa?
| Mrs. Arthur Orton is in trouble be-
which are not addressed to "Lady Itch
borne."
James Gordon Bennett sailed for Eu-
rope last week, The ''boys" in the Of
flee held little jubilee after once being
assured there was no mistake about it.
MIR. Gladstone is engaged on two new
Homeric studies, namely: A volume Of
essays on the writings of the Greek poets
and dictionary Of Homer. The latter
4 will be very important book.
Winnie Ream is reported as engaged
to marry Courier-Journal man. II ever
we have written an unkind or thought
less paragraph about that woman, we
are sorry we can not recall it.-Leader.
DR.. Lobgott Friedrich Constantin
Tischendorf, the well-known theological
and biblical student, is dead. He was
in his siXtieth year. He was born at
Lengenfeld, Saxony, and educated at
Leipsic.
Lord Lytton, son of the author of sMy
Novel," and himself known to literature
under the nom de plume of Owen Mere.
dith, has been appointed British Minister
to Portugal, an ornamental position
worth $4,000 year.
Mr.. James Gall, man quite noted In
his way, has just died in Edinburgh. He
was q publisher, and had attained the
age of nlnety-one years. He was emf
nent particularly as printer for the
blind and of books for Sunday-schools.
Charles Summers sister, Mrs. Hast
ings, has sent from San Francisco to
T Wendell Phillips one of her brothers.
, large Hungarian glass pitchers. 1t is O.
very peculiar form, bears Dutch coa1
, of arms, and is probably more than
t century old.
Rev. Henry Boehm now lacks only
about five months of being an hundred
years old. He is said to be in good
, health, cheerful in spirits, loving the
, Bible as much as ever. He was the close
/, friend and companion of Bishop Asbury
more than sixty years ago.-Christiai
fAdvocate.
: Rev. George McCloskie, LII. D., wht
: was elected last fall to the Chair of Natu
| raj History in Princeton College, has &C
cepted, and will sail next week for his
: future field of labors. He is a graduate
of Queens College, Belfast, Ireland, anC
| is Il leader and independent thinker il
the studies OF natural history, geology
mineralogy and physical geography, tc
| which he has devoted himself. He il
J forty years of age.
Mrs. Caroline Socha publicly embraced
| Judaism in New Orleans on Saturday
Dec. ..12th. She had been Christian wo
man, and married an Israelite six years
ago. In concluding the ceremonies the
Rabbi said: judaism does not insure
heavenly blessings only for its followers
but holds the humanitarian doctrine
! that all men who will lead life of per.
feet morality can enter the kingdom oil
heaven, it matters not to what denomina.
tiOn they may belong"
The Emperor of Russia has Just con.
terred ON the Marshal President OF the
/ French republic the highest rank in the
Order OF st. Andrew. The insignia
, were accompanied by a letter, in which
the Emperor says he had long desired
to give the Marshal this special mark OF
| aota 4 ha
of the Empress through France and the
touching attentions lavished on her on
its soil have given him happy opportu.
nifty OF realizing that desire.
MdHe. CarIotta Patti recently refused
to sing at concert at Birmingham be.
cause she had been described in the ad.
: vertisments and programmes as the isis
/ ter to Adelina Patti" In letter to the
Birmingham Gazette Mdlle. Patti says
"Though but a twinkling star by the side
, of the brilliant planet called Marchion
Iess de Caux, am, nevertheless, toe
| proud of the humble reputation which
Europe and America have confirmed tt
!, allow any one to try to eclipse my name
by the dangerous approximation of that
of my dear sister. to whom l am bound
by the tenderest Affection" She adds
that as she is ''gMeved' that the public
of Birmingham should have been "the
undeserving victims OF an incident which
should have been confined to the artist
and managers only" she will shortly ap.
pear in Birmingham, and devote the pro,
ceeds of the concert to the relief of the
most necessitous among the poor of the
town.
The Countess of Dudley's jewel case
was stolen at the Great Western Rail-
way station in London on the evening oil
December II, under circumstances which
leave little doubt that the thiet was a
practised hand, and had laid his plans
with great ingenuity. Lord and Lady
Dudley arrived at the railway station in
his lordship's brougham, and were i'm.
mediately followed by four-wheeled
cab conveying two of the Countess
waiting women, each in charge of pom.
derous jewel box and other articles.
Scott, one OF the women, who first alight.
ed, and having placed upon the pave
ment the box.under her care, while turn.
7 ing round to assist her companion placed
one foot upon the Jewel case. Her atten.
tion was, however, diverted by the othel
maid, and she removed her foot from
the box. Her companion having alight.
ed, Scott stopped to recover the box
when she found it had been removed
An instant search was made by the