The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-02-20
PERSONAL.

Gilmore is drawing crowds Of Pits
burgers.
Mrs. Scott Siddons has Cancelled her
engagement for Wheeling.
| MISS Lorenzo Hayes has Just been or.
damned as pastor OF the Uniyersplist
| Church in Hallowell, Me.
Anna Dickinson Will try tragedy, conf
edy, and perhaps burlesque; but she
viii never, no never, essay the ballet.
| Edith O'Gorman, the "escaped' nun, Is
| lecturng in the Hudson river towns.
| The people are pretty generally sorry
she escaped.
Miss Annie Rose, of New York, is said
| to be a rising young vocalist. Wonder
II "A. Rose with any other name would
| sing as sweet!
Ex.Gov. johnson, of Kentucky, has a
watch ill his possession whion was pre-
scented 10 Patrick Henry by Charles Car
| roll OF Carrollton.
Talmage rolls up his eyes until they
look like two goose eggs in coal wagon
| If you mention "tueater," but he goes to
| the Beecher-Tilton trial and stands it
| like man.
MISS Kellogg is making $4,000 week,
and doesn't care tor men. She didn't
come OF very romantic family, and
never could see any pOYtry in sklrmish-
ing with thread anu needle around the
| A"ooNN S".sOo VA u huppdhu ouItU pubtOh-
| holes.
Cifenbach is tifty-tour years old; Is q
| slightly built. refined looking gentleman,
WIN a general aspect Of i'll health and
melancholy. He has written eighty ope-
ras, comprising 250 acts and has origi-
mated new scnoOl OF music.
Mr.. Mcknight, who has but twelve
| acres OF iand ON Tomales Bay, sold
$1,000 worth Of ducks and eggs in one
year. Capt. Page in the vicinity, did
equally well. There are some twenty
persons engaged in this business on
| Tomales Bay.
| The Duchesse Of Medina Coli posses
ses pearl necklace which is family
he'll loom. 1t is composed OF twelve or
| fourteen strings of large and beautiful
pearls, and is valued AT $4O0,0G0. When
she wears it the upper string tits around
her throat, While the lowest falls below
her waist.
Disraeli, who knew Mr.. Grevile, the
author of the journals that have lately
appeared, and which show up the royal
fanny or England i'll an unenviable light
| says that he was the VaineSt man he
ever knew, "and," he added, II have
read Cicero, and was intimately acquain
ted with Buiwer Lytton."
Bishop Bedell, OF Ohio, while at Jaffia
Syria, tell through Il trap.door, and was
seriously injured. AS there is not q
good physician AZ JANA, the bishop was
put on board Il vessel and taken thence
70 Cairo, Egypt, where it was found that
one OF his riDs was broken. At tue de-
parture OF the last mail he was compara-
| lively comfortable.
MI John Bennett, the lessee OF the Vic.
toria Theater at sydney, New South
| Wales has just had the bronze medal
lion of the Royal Humane Society con,
terred on him Tor leaping overheard and
| saving a man VINO fell INTO the sea. MIR
Bennett had previously been instrument t
al in saving. no less than twenty leigh
lives.
John FL. Mellor, late editor OF til,
Lance Of Bridgeport, Conn, threatenet
TO print statement that Barnum's sec
ond vile Was already the wife of Will
lam Eagle Of Lancashire, England, and
demanded $1,000 as the price Of silence
A sister ot Mrs. Barnum is really the
wife OF thls man, and so Barnum didu'l
| scare at all, but got out a warrant fol
| Mellor, who has abSconded.
| William Butler is u negro Justice o.
the Peace in Nashville, Tenn. In a case
recently tried before him Fanny TAYLOR
got verdict Of six dollars lor a washing
uill. Justice Butler took the money
from the defendant, and refused to give
1T to the plaintiff. His judicial opinion
is reported to have been, Fanny, dis
money jes squares de count dat you
owed me. III freeze to it, honey" Fan.
ny entered an exception to his Honors
ruling, on the ground that he was IAN old
thief" and then he knocked in hel
front teeth and kicked her into the
street. His decision will be reviewed
in criminal court.
Rev. Mr. Hawels, of Marylebone, Lon.
don, believes in the dignity OF labor. He
said i'll a recent sermon:-"If aughl
should happen TO prevent me from re.
tanning charge Of this congregation !
should take TO literature. If / found
myself unnt for literature should trade
Ii had not sufficient capital to trade |
should black boots" AS His Majesty
Louis Philippe once blacked boots, the
rector would have a royal example.
MIR. Kent, q resident of Rochester
heard his door bell ring, and going oul
quickly found baby on the steps and q
man running around the corner. He
chased the man, collared him after q
long race, und discovered him to be DR.
EliJah l.. Wood, u wel-known young
! hysician of that city. Wood had beef
| paid $50 by the mother of the baby to rid
her of it in this way, she choosing Mr.
kent's house because he had just LOST O
| iiItAO Sihs', "hA oN ShO hOpGu uC
welcome this one in its stead.
| Santa Anna is now living in absolute
retirement. A correspondent writes
IL perceived. instead of a gray-haired
old man, a man of martial mien. Il
spite of his wooden leg he walks without
crutches or cane. His eyes are coal
black; his hair has not vet turned gray,
ana he has the hand of woman. The
expression of his cOuntenance bespeaks
such kindness that it was difficult for me
to believe had q man before me who
had figured in SO many bloody scenes
He is deaf and his conversation always
turns upon subjects of the past. He
loves to speak Of his exploits, and the
precision with which he quotes the
dates of events which form the history of
fifty years past is really remarkable"
The Earl of Dudley likes a bottle of
champagne before dinner to sharpen his
appetite and another after dinner to set.
tie his stomach. When the beverage is
abundant he requires neither knife, fork
nor spoon, as he then remembers that
fingers were made first. The London
Standard informs us that Dudley shas
disgraced the noble family to which he
belongs.1 At public banquet in Ken
sington. London, his lordshIp, who was
one of the invited guests, staggered into
the kitchen, gazed wistfully Tor a while
On the smok kinu~ Yianls with n wide and