The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-01-23
PERSONAL.

PERSONAL.
Ex.Queen Isabella has been reduced to
1874 nigntgowns.
Brig ham Young is still able to sit up
and be married occasionally.
Dio Lewis thinks that a good old-fash-
| ioned straw bed is the sanItariest thing
out.
Mrs. Attorney-General Williams is
| wearing the best clothes of anybody in
Washington this winter.
Cannon, the Mormon delegate, has
| taken his chair in Congress, aud, "backed
| by all the SAINTS" proposes to hold it..
| Miss Annie Dickinson is studying for
the stage, and it is probable viii soon
make her debut in Boston as Joan OF
Arc.
Gladstone has published another es-
say against the Pope, this time taxing
for his theme the personal utterances OF
Plus Xxi
| Mr.. Beecher says he doesn't want to
be post for the morning glories to
twine about any longer. Probably he
would prefer to be a night-blooming cer-
eus on his own account.
| Spurgeon thinks anything legitimate to
| shake q congregation into attention. lie
advocates q game of battledore and shut
tlecock in the pulpit, ana says he knew
a clergymen VINO tried the experiment.
Miss Alice Vickery, the first and only
registered lady pharmaceutlsJ in Eng
land, has just passed honoraDly, in COM
pany With Mrs. Algernon Kingstord, the
nrst years examination i'll the Scnool OF
Medicine in the University OF Paris.
General NJ. G. Cobb, of San Francisco,
who was shot by the woman Hannah
Smyth, is rapidly recovering. The bail,
which struck in The muscles of the back,
glanced and passed down along the hip
Into the thigh. 1t has not yet been taken
out.
robert Ofley Ashburton Mines, only
son Of Loru Hougnton, has obtained the
gold medal annually offered to compeLi-
tion among the Harrow boys by Lord
OF the study OF "Shakespeare." Mr..
Mines is not quite seventeen years OF
4 age.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sartoris sailed in the
steamship Republic from Liverpool
Il Thursday. the l4th INST, Tor New York
The Preside and Mrs. Grant will meet
them on their arrival in New York. Ii
lis probable Mr.. and Mrs. Sarturis will
spend the winter in Washington, and re-
!. turn TO Europe in the spring.
+, Sarah Yates, of Arlington, has always
, been strong-minded girl and opposed
TO matrimony. Recently, however, she
and compromised with her principles in
this style: "Mr. Bates, L have reflected
upon your proposition, and have con
Guided to submit to the Illuminating sac
, rifice you demand"
Alclbiades had shrewd way of divert.
/ ing attention from his vices. He once
paid 10 mina (about $l,4Oo) lor dog o.
: remarkable size and beauty and gener-
ally admired tor its tail. He cut the tail
, oil, and when his friends scolded him and
said that everybody was yexed about the
dog and abusing him, he answered, vita
= a laugh: "Ihat is what / want; l wist
them to talk about this, that they ma,
say nothing worse Of me-"
t Allen, the Vermont burglar, made 6
: shrewd attempt to escape from the Chel
: sea Jail, the other night, by rigging up
"duInmy" in Il sitting posture upon hi
bed ana apparently reading q newspaper
: and fixing its leg so tnat il logged quiet
lly up and down. The officer who came
Il to lock the prisoners up at night asked
: if everything was right, and voice sait
it was. He locked the door and wen
into the cell above, when he saw some
= one going along the walk, and running
out caught Alien, whom he supposed ht
J had locked in his cell. The leg of the
dummy was operated by a string which
: passed into the cell above, the occupant
: of winch worked to aid Allen in his es
, cape, while the answer TO the officers
: question was made through the Venti
, latOr.
, The Alfonsos who have occupied tht
, throne Of Spain, OF whom the young MAJ
lately installed is the twelfth, have, as {
| general thing, lett lair record. The,
/ were largely occupied in battling witt
: the Moors, who had overrun Andulasis
| and the coasts of SPAN adjacent to Alri
ca. The first OF the name fell in battle
in the year 1134. having prevsously
} fought and won thirty-nine pitched bat
ties. From merit or fancy most of then
are remembered by some honorable title
the first bong appropriately named ''rht
: Battler," "The Catholic," ""rhe Chaste,''
: "Ihe Great" ''rhe Magnanimous,'
| 'rhe Good" "The Wise," were titles
| given to or appropriated by others of tnt
, race. The king who reigned as Alfonso
/ XI, was known as "Tne Avenger," and
his king!y power was exercised iron
: 1924 till his death in 1850.
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