The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-03-09
PERSONAL.

Emile de Girardin is great dinner
giver.
Lucy Hooper says the Paris bellies are
dowdy.
Lucoa is to warble at the London Crys.
tai Palace.
Cough gives about one hundred lee
lures a year.
Victor Emanuel has holy horror OF
speech making.
Gladstone IS going to write book
about marriage.
Bryant began writing poems when JEFF
ferson was President.
Philadelphia, is dead.
III. Berthold, the French Minister, will
visit France next summer.
John Il. Raymond commences an en-
gagement In Boston on May 18th.
Prince Bismarck's health Is said to be
still In an unsatisfactory state.
General Butler cOntemplates taking a
look around the Old World next summer,
Gen. Schenck's celebrated treatise on
poker has been published in pamphlet
form in Boston.
W. W. Durand Is engaged In the COM
ing tenting season with Barnum's Ro-
man Hippodrome.
Dion Boucicault, jr., son of Dion the
oramatlst, Is going 10 West Point, next
summer, as cadet.
pliea for divorce with modest ali.
mony of $1,000,00O.
Mad. MacMahon is very proud Of her
son Patrick, fine youth Of sixteen,
with a very Irish look.
Earl Russell, in his Recollections,"
expresses his thorough satisfaction with
himself and his career.
Alfonso writes amiably both to the
Pope and to Victor Emanuel, and this is
not liked at the Vatican.
John u. SAKE, the poet and lecturer,
was among the injured In the recent
Panhandle Railroad disaster.
Count Max Ugarte, an Austrian noble
OF the Paris monde, died at San Reno of
scarlet fever, aged tWenty-four,
Capt. Mayne Reid, the Irish American
author, ID getting over his severe illness.
and has new story under way.
ODonovan Rosa lectures in Norwich,
New York, on st. Patrick's Day, for the
Irish Catholic Benevolent Union,
MI. Disraeli has taken his usual place
In the House of Commons, but his health
appears still to inspire uneasiness,
Mile. Nilsson has been engaged at
$l,W0 night toigive twelve concerts in
France during the month of March.
General Adrien Wolf, aged eighty -four,
has just died at Montauban, France. He
was on Maximilian's staff in Mexico.
Brother Hammond has speculated so
successfully in California mining stocks
ing.l
Mr.. Arthur Matthison has written a
new tragic drama, called ssNorma.n
which will shortly be produced in Lon.
don.
Sickles lives In Paris now. He has
grown very fat and CORES pondingly
saucy, and his turnout is the finest on tne
Bois.
Baron de Schaefer, Austrian Minis
ter, has sailed for Siam, to which coun-
try, as well as China and japan, he is
accredited.
Max Adeler is already discouraged,
and he says the average Phlladelp6ian
cant tell the difference between a joke
and sermon.
Emperor Williams grandchildren 20
regularly to Sunday school, and put their
little mite into the box for the poor mis-
sionaries in Africa.
Mr.. u. NJ. Chamberlin, a well known
labor reformer, Is delivering a series OF
Lectures in Boston ON topics connected
with labor reform.
Clement A. Griscom has been appoint
ed Chiefof Bureau OF Transportation, tor
goods coming from Europe Tor the Gem
tennial Exhibition.
Mr.. RainitairioOny is about to visit
London from Madagascar, in which
country he is prime minister and COM
mander OF the forces.
Tom Thumb lately advertised himself
In new way in Pittsburg, by engaging
a Well-knOwn champion in public game
Of billiards at his hotel.
Leroy Hubert escaped from the VIII.
lard Asylum at OWL, N. Y, and walked
nome, distance Of 80 miles. He died
from exposure Friday.
Canon Ivers, Catholic English priest,
protests against allowing Hyacinthe and
Dollinger 10 call themselves Old Catho-
Lies, or Catholics OF any sort.
DR.. Harriet Hunt was one of the first
women in America who practised medi-
cine, and the frst to protest against pay
ing a tax until permitted to vote.
Mrs. Walworth is working in right
good earnest at Washington for sigma
lures that will influence Governor Til
den TO pardon her poor boy Frank.
MALCOLM Reade (brother Of Mr.. Win
wood Reade), young and very promis-
ing member of the Civil Service. has
been murdered by one Of his servants.
Mary Ann Boxer, the rich mans
daughter who years ago married her
John Dean, is one of the ex-
aminers at the New York Custom house,
Miss Mary Il. Dewey, daughter of the
venerable DR.. Dewey, believes that in
telligent women ought to have the PRIV
ilege OF voting if they wish to do so, but
rather hopes they will not wish to.
Rev. Robinson DuckwOrth, NJ. A., Eel
low Of Trinity college, Oxford, and Chap.
to the Queen, has been
appointed Canon OF Westminster Abbey,
IN place OF the late Canon Kingsley.
Carolus Duran, the French artist, who
has become famous as a painter of full
length portraits, is charged to execute at
the Palace of the Luxembourg a grand
ceiling piece representing Marie de Med.
icis and her court.
Pierre Pachoud, OF Xenia, Ohio, aged
ninety-six. served under Napoleon 10 his
Russian campaign. He was present at
the burning OF Moscow, and marched In
snow, waist deep, during the famous re-
treat from that city.
William Orton, President of the West
ern Union Telegraph Company, has re-
signed his trusteesnip of the New York
tribune Association, and Bayard Taylor
mas been elected in his place.
Dion Boucicault has taken initiatory
in q suit to recover dam
ages against Josh Hart, for alleged in
uDOn the cODyriCht of the