The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-01-30
PERSONAL.

Father Trask, the great anti-tobacco
apostle, is dead.
Delmonico the lion tanner, has been de-
voured at Berlin by one Of his ewn lions.
Giuseppe Ricci, an italian, recently
accomplished the remarkable feat OF
walking from Constantinople to Alexan-
dria, Egypt, in 1853 days.
John q. Sake, the poet and humorist,.
has taken up his abode in the city OF
Brooklyn, where his tall form and genial
face are often noticed by those who know
him.
Rev. Miss Haines, of Hallowell, ofici-
ated as chaplain in the Maine Senate on
Saturday, being the first woman that
ever acted in that capacity in the Legls-
lature.
Serrano, on his way out of Spain, re-
ceived from the new government long
telegram thanking him in the name or
the whole nation for having avoided all
bloodshed by his generous self-sacrifice.
Miss Ella Foster, daughter of the well
known Stephen and Abby Foster, who
made a national reputation as anti
slavery speakers, has been engaged to
fill a high position in the Cincinnati
schools.
Thomas Jeferson's own copy of his
"Notes on the State Of Virginia, London,
1884," which was annotated by his own
hands, and contained other manuscript
additions, was recently sold at Chicago
Tor $l60.
Miss Abbott is the coming prima dom
ma. Every body says so, and what every
body says must be true. She sings di-
yinely, better than any prima donna now
before the public, and has grand future
before her.
The Empress of Russia sent ten
pound note as a donation to the poor Of
one OF the districts of London. The par
| ish guardians gave an entertainment at
| the parish work-house. providing each OF
| the inmates with piece OF cake and a
glass of wine. They honored the, donor
with three hearty. cheers.
Richard Grant Whites appetite is said
| to be very seriously affected whenever he
| dimes in company where the English Ian
guage is incorrectly spoken. Seated at
table in New York restaurant, Rich
4 ard heard man bawling at the waiter,
"Say, amt you ever agoim to fetch them
dumpln's % and he Immediately gather
1 ed himself up and left.
| King Kalakaua is claimed by North
1 Carolina as the defendant of the chief OF
one of its Indian tribes. His father,
| Pautauk, according to the statements in
a Carolina paper, was thesson OF Kala-
kaua, a Tuscarora chief, and emigrated
a number of years ago to the Sandwich
Islands, where he married the daughter
OF the then reigning monarch.
NJ. Ledru Rollin had long suffered from
the malady Of which he died-heart dis
ease. 1t appears that the deceased, ap-
parently in his usual health, was sitting
in his arm char, when he suddenly
| sprung up, stretched out his hands to-
ward mis- wife, and fell forward. Mad
anne Ledru Rollin at first supposed that
| he was in a iainting lit, but he was quite
| dead. ... ...e.z-.-.,q,sg =
4 President Eliot of Harvard College, in
his recent annual report to the Board OF
lOverseers, mentions the decided i'm
proyement in the physique of the stu
dents during the last twenty years.
This Improvement, he says, is more con-
spicuous in city boys than in country
boys, among the well to-do than among
| the poor; and among New England boys
than among those from without New
England.
Mr.. Gladstone was called upon to re-
new his subscription OF one guinea to the
Phmstead Soup and Bread Society. He
wrote in response that he left that sort oil
| benevolence Gas one rather for those ON
the spot than at distance, and said
81 don't propose, unless under special
circumstances, to renew my contribu-
tion." He forgot, it seems, that Plum
stead is in Greenwich and that he repre-
sents Greenwich in Parliament, and is
therefore supposed to be very near.
Canon Kingsley was born at Hilne VIC
arage, On the borders of Dartmore, De-
Won, June 12, 1919, thus having reached
the age of nearly 56 years at the time OF
his death. After a thorough home edu-
cation, he entered Kings College, Lon
don, and afterwards Magdalen College,
| Cambridge University. He graduated
with the highest honors, and immediate
ly began fitting himself for the legal pro-
fession. After u brief study with this in
tent, he decided to'enter the church, and
| soon began to be marked man iii his
holy office. He was, in 1874, presented
with the living at Eversley in Hampshire.
He was made, some time afJerward,
Canon of Westminster Abbey, and was
Chaplain in Ordinary to the Queen. He
also received, in 1883, the appointment
OF Professor Of Modern History at Cam
bridge. Mr.. Kingsley was thoroughly
| devoted to the interests OF the working
men, and was always among the fore
| most in philanthropic undertakings, and
in the carrying out plans for the amelio-
ration of the condition Of the poor and
| distressed.
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