The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-11-09
PERSONAL.

Slade Is said to look like Mark Twain.
Joaquin Miller will 60 West in De-
cember.
DR.. Fraser says that great men come
in groups.
Senator Henderson's wife is getting
out cookery book.
perance" this evening.
Lord Beaconsfeld will resign the Pre-
mership before The meeting of Parlia-
ment.
Prof Max. Muller will pass the winter
| in Switzerland on the borders of Lake
Geneva.
Mr.. Joseph Proctor, the eminent tra-
gedian, enters the lecture field for the
first time this season.
j. NJ. Bailey, "the Danbury News
. Man." is to deliver a new lecture, en-
titled England from a Back Window"
Hon. Carl Schurz will take his family,
consisting of four children, two of them
grown daughters, TO reside in st. Louis.
Gounod has just written a new comic
opera. Its title is GA Year at London"
and the third act is said to be something
exquisite.
The Hon. Caleb Gushing will remain
in this country until early in December,
when he will return to his post at Mad
rid, Spain.
Miss Lizzie Price is the devoted wife
of Mr.. Fechter. The great actor often
finds himself without money, but never
without Price.
Kalakaua is thrifty potentate. He
was dead-headed all over this country,
and then charged the Sandwich Islands
$50, 600 Tor making the trip.
Silas Hatch, of Brewer, Maine, fore
man IN shipyard, is building center
board yacht, thirty-six leet long, IN
which he proposes to take his vile and
four children across the Atlantic and
back.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps began on
Friday course of lectures upon "Rep-
| resentative M odern Fiction" before the
| College of'Liberal Arts of Boston Uni
versity. George Eliot was The first rep
| resentatiye taken up.
"Marion Harland" has gone abroad,
we believe. Hence it is that the Hart
| ford Courant in reviewing her latest
book dares TO say, Zone good pudding
would be worth more TO the world than
all OF 'My Little Love-"
Father Hyaclnthe has had yet another
|
just been published between Guy Dom
inIque Innocent Palmieri, cure of Tivoli,
| and Marie Clemeuce de Caseneuve,
school teacher at Venilly-sur-Seine,
| Paris.
Mr.. A. H. Stephens walked three or
four miles the oUher day. He no longer
uses morphine, and has sound, natural
sleep. While getting we'll he has been
| writing for one Of the cyclOpR lias, biog-
raphies Of prominent SOuLherners, and
articles on Southern subjects.
| NJ. Theirs, the other day, got off a sly
dig at his successor, Marshal MacM lhon.
''W hen L was Presldent," he said, II did
| not 20 hunting. l wrote sixteen hours
day." Said the Marshal, when the
| mot was reported to him: "He loved
| books and " as a historian by trade.
! War is my profession and make war on
| what can-I hunt"
The Crown Prince of Germany has
| recently distinguished himsen in the
world of letters by a well-written little
narrative of his trip to Egypt to attend
| the opening OF the Suez canal. The book
| is entitled My Journey to the Land of
| the East in 1862" and only forty COPIES
have been printed and distributed
among those persons who We're the
Crown Princes travelling companions
on the occasion.
| Major General Giles A. Smith, dis
| tinguIshed soldier in the late war, and
more recently Second Assistant Post
master General, died recently at Bloom.
| ingtOn, lii. He was a native of New
York, and was born in 1879. He entered
| the service during the war under his
brother, Morgan l.. Smith, in the Eighth
Missouri Infantry, served with disGinc-
tion at the captures Of Forts Henry and
Donelson and at shilon, Corinth, and
other fields under Sheridan, and was
wounded three times. His disease was
consumption.
| Mrs. Susan Ellis Laura Smith, an.
American lady, believing "that it is the
| duty OF every member Of the human,
| family to devote their bodies after death
| to scientific examination until the prin-
ciples Of ply siological science are
Thoroughly established," has willed her.
body 10 the Royal College OF Surgeons of
England, to he dISsected Immediately
alter death. She winds up her testa-
lnent with the clumsy but cheerful per-
mission: ~ should also wish that if
any OF my friends should desire to have
a remnant of nay said body, they should
be at liberty to do So"
| Gen. Lew Wallace has carefully re-
vlsed and completed his tragedy Of
l"Commddus," 1t is founded on the
story OF Maternus, as related In the first
volume of GibbOn's s'Decline and Fall of
The Roman Empire" Mr.. Lawrence
Barrett, TO whom the manuscript has
been submitted, is said to have pro-
LnOunced it equal to the best of modern
English plays in acting quality. Dra.
matte litera ure Of a higher order is sore
Iy needed at tnis time, and The success
OF Gen. Wallace's work is therefore as
much to be desired in The interest of the
| theater.yninc nuhIlc as hia OWN