The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-11-15
PERSONAL.


Mrs. Julia Ward Howe proved to the
Chicago people that conversation ~ hoI
yet a lost ART.
Fitzhugh, who was ga bigger man than
old Grant" has turned his giant mind to
the real estate business in Washington.
Dan. Rice is making his usual farewell
tour this year, and has just been SOLO OUT
by Kentucky Sherf-which is also as
usual.
Susan B. Anthony says she will die
content when she has been allowed 10
vote. 1t might be good thing to give
ner trial.
VIM. Hendrick, of Henderson County,
Tenn, is said to be one hundred ana ten
years old, and can now make as good
barrel as any one.
Senator Maxey, Of Texas, engaged In
a brown study in a street car, walked
up to the conductors box and asked Ior
a quarters worth OF chips.
Sir Henry Thompson, the eminent
English physician, thinks that even the
moderate use OF fermented beverages
dIminishes the mental power.
Mrs, Mary Matthews, OF San Francis
| CO, who has consented to accept S73,000
for herself and SIC, 900 for each of her five
children from the Singer estate, is in the
| East.
DR.. Camaro Cabral, Portuguese doc
| tor, has extracted eighty needles from a
| girl OF sixteen who had contrlyed at
different times to swallow them, and al
| length found Them highly inconVenle
companions.
| Rev. Joseph Cook, in his Boston lec-
tute on evolution, declared that the law
| nj hAin mn a. h
parents is not universal, and instanced
the fact that drone bees have only one
parent, the mother.
Adelina Patti is afraid to go to st. Pc
tersburg because her husband lives
there So it is not the temperature of
the Russian weather that interferes
with her engagement, but the in-com
Patti-bility Of her husbands tempera-
lure.
Mr.. Thomas Burt N. p, for Morpeth,
describes himself ia DOd's Parliamen-
tary Companion as the son of Il coal
miner, by Rebecca, the daughter of an
engineman and personally as commenc-
ing life at an early age by working i'll q
coal pit.
1 The Due d'Aumale, son of King Louis
| Philippe, and now commander OF the
Eighteenth Corps of the French army,
hau his shoulder bone dislocated recent
ly by fall from his horse, The animal
sned at a COW, and the Duke was jerked
into the road.
Seth Kinman proposes to present to
the next President a chair made out Of
elk horns and hoois. The ierocious nea(
of grizzly is cunningly concealed un
derneath the seat. BY touching u spring
in the rear the head is thrown forward
and tho q ws snnu .VipiulSlV.
King Coffee Calcali, of Ashanti, ha;
made brief temperance, but his ligh
will soon be eXtinguished forever, ii the
late reports can be trusted. He hal
been tomentiug fresh disturbances, and
has been taken prisoner by his success
: sor, and correspondent of the London
Standard expresses the hope tina
measures will be taken to prevent til,
Royal prisoner from ever again rails
ling the standard OF rebellion" ]
. King Coffee could read English h
would understand tolerably what thi
: means.
Won Bulow has been staying in Hanc
yer at the house OF Hans Won Bronforl
: the manager of the Royal Theater i
that city. He received slight shock
paralysis while in London, which d.
prived him Tor. a time OF the use of h
# house to recuperate. There is no four
a dation for the reports that his mind
:" affected. LiszJ visited him in Hanove
10 and says that Won BuloW, though take
te down with paralysis, is nevertheless
~ much more in his senses than any 9TH
p pianist.
" Earl Derby. in his reply to the memor
al Of the Antl-Slavery and AborigIne
> Protection Societies respecting Nj
Stanley's course in furnishing the nativ
Al OF Bamhirch Island in, Lake Nyanz
" expresses the hope that the explorer W
le be able to explain and justify his pr
y ceedlngs, but declines TO take al
a direct action. He takes pains to a.
- that Mr. Stanley has no authority
hoist the British flag, and that FL
= Majesty's cOnsuls will be instructed
Intimate as much to him, if any opport
nifty O! communicating with him be ope
-, to them.
Mr.. MachadO, a.rich Portuguese, w
10 died some time ago IN Paris, had fl,
OF pet ravens, and was also in The habit
w DAILY feeding number of others W
,d came punctually to his balcony. He
=" sired in his will that at his funt
ng al his body should be laid in the sp
a cious and handsome groom occupied
a his pets. At his death his oraer W
=. ODGJ6u anu dS uSlLuSt bu0 OOlhOs IlSttU
's ravens nor the outsiders had receV
1. any food that day, they gave vent to
constant and most dismal series
y croaking, which gave a most grotesq
character to the scene.
~ Lord Houghton gets criticism frc
en The Examiner. 1t says OF his poem
en- 'rhey are all far too much the careful
or executed works Of a cultivated Engli
gentleman-Lord Houghton is, Of couri
ly highly cultivated in, some things pc
lie haps hyper-cultiyated-are all 100 mn
ct the Lines to Lady Of Quality kind
80 thing. The suggestion or culture is Ike
~ too palpably prominent-it lur
be is allusion, it peeps up p
d, petually from foot-notes. Aps
h from this, many Of the poems conv
~ little or no impression of any sOrl
y Edmond About calls Lord Houghton
ke philosopher OF the eighteenth centu
who through some lucky caprice OF ia
has strayed into the nineteenth.
to A Snake Fight.
,re On sunday last hen belonging to
-, MIR. Green, Of the Wabash Rolling Mil
PIE was seen in fight with a garter snal