The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-10-26
PERSONAL.


| Fechter's daughter has made her de
but In Paris.
Mrs. A. 7. Stewart returned to New
York on the Russia, Friday.
Mr. Hemming is the appropriate name
OF the great English needlemaker.
Bayard Taylor says that reform is as
necessary in literature as in politics.
| Luigi Monti, Esq, has begun a course
OF SIX lectures on i"Modern Italian Lii
erature' be. ore the Lowell Institute in
Boston. -
Baron Krupp is the only man who
can comfortably lean back and laugh at
all this row in Europe. He supplies the
cannon, you know.
Mr. Earl Shinn has been Iecturing in
Philadeipnia on "The history of
iii 'thetics." The subject is too deep for
ordinary Shinn music.
Slgnor Padilla, who is to sing the title
role In AMBROSE Thomas, .Hamletv IN
MOSCOW this winter, has been in Paris
studying ii with the composer.
Catarina Marco, daughter of the late
MARX smith, is great tayorite at Lem
Defg, where she has been re-engaged for
the lall and winter season OF opera.
Mrs. Jane M. Walker, President
Folks sister, who died at Columbia
tennessee, u few days ago, left Just one
hundred grand and great-grand-chil-
dren.
George William Curtis intimates that,
IN mis- opinion, there is no man more
ioollsh than the one who commits his
indignation to paper and sends it to an
editor.
John Conway, of st. Louis, wrote to
his family that he was about to kin
hlmselt Ill consequence Of bad luck. and
that night he Was found in the street
dead-druuk.
Gen. Enrique Cerruti, who killed him.
self lately III California, had been en-
ployed by the historian Bancroft as A
translator. He had Impoverished him
sell by speculating in stocks.
Mr.. Lawrence, author of .sGuy Living
stone.' is accorded by an English critic
the dubious honor OF being "the founder |
OF that school OF fiction of which sOuida, |
ls now the most notable represe esenta-
tiye."
Gen. Hugo, father of the poet, cap. |
Lured the brigand Fra Diavolo, who was |
= real person and not merely prancing |
lyrical villain. The incident of Zerli. |
las detecting the brigands was founded |
IN fact.
Donna Isabel, the Ex-QAeen OF Spain,
las nad her cartes de vislte distributed |
'mong the principal officers of the army.
SUI WnaC she cares for above all is the I
estltutIon of her civil list. She de-
nands 3G,OoO.0O0 pesetas ($7,200, ,0O0) for
rrears.
Inc Duchess of Edinburgh (Mrs.
'rlnce Altred) wears imitation lace ON
er Worth dressing-go gowns. They are
herefore worth less than they would
ave been did Alfred do his duty. But
what slde Is she going to take in tine Il
vent oil war?
Mayor stokely has been informed by
he Duke of Richmond, head of the Brit
sh Commission, that Her Maiesty's |
government intends 10 present the st, |
Ieorge House at th centennial grounds
the City of Philadelphia after the close ,
the exhibition.
John Bright, in his recent speech at !
lanchester, England, renal ked that II
the fact is that the nation looks one | :
'ay and the government looks an :
ther;" that the opinion OF the people is |
that the blood and treasure of England | !
l0uld never again be wasted ON behalf | :
l.
Mrs. Anna Rhodes, a resident of
outh Bay, Washington County, N. Y. IL
ele9rated the anniversary of her one lie
lndredth birthday recently. She is in t
omparatvely good health. Her hus- II
and, Nathan Rhodes, lived to the age v
one hundred and eight years. ID
Thomas Mast, the noted caricaturIst
New York, is by birth Bavarian, and
only thirty-five years OF age. His first a
'0duct1on to attract attention was a 1T
to HarpeYs Weekly repre- "
'nting "Skating i'll the Central Park.v IT.
e skaters being New York editors in n
&c at least, each bearing comical ex- 8
ession. Bennett had slipped and law III
on his back, while GreeIey IT.
as ready to fall. q
Bott, the Philadelphia clerical scan %
Il man, is about five ieet ten inches in I
ignt, of slight build, weighs about u
10 hundred and fifty pounds, and an
ars to be tnirty-tive years old. lie il I
lick and nervous in speech and action
ID has pleasing, intellectual face. a
. is great favorite with the ladies. -
It we have received no statistics as to u
e number Of his teeth, or the particu. "
parallel of latitude upon which he | "
rts his hair. ST
lane Grey Swishelm writes from Leip.
s: "The double floors, which are uni. de
rsal here, ought to be so with us. tor In
3 space between ia filed with ashes. Llel
with thick partition walls, 1t is next qu
impossible to burn house down. SC