The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-12-26
PERSONAL.

| teacher IN the Hartford High SchOOls 20
was the Rev. 7. X. Beecher.
Jane Goldsmith, grand niece OF tho
clever oliver, has just died at the Home
for the Aged in Halifax, N. s.
Senator Barnum has taken the fur
nished house in Washington lately va
Gated by Ex.Postmaster General Jew
ell.
Gen. Burnsides' reticence and mod
esty are among the noticeable features
OF the present situation. The General
is man who shuns fame and cultiYateS
side-whiskers.
Albert Grant explains that he does
not intend to practice as barrister ia
London, but merely to qualify himself
tor the position of Justice of the Peace.
Ex-Governor Letcher, OF Virginia, whS
suffered dangerous stroke Of paralysis
last spring, has almost recovered, aud
has taken his seat in the Virginia Legis-
lature.
George W. Bruce met grizzly bexe
near Santa Cruz, California, and fight
began promptly. The man stabbed aRa
shot the bear, the bear broke the maH'A
ribs by squeezing him, and then both re-
treated, apparently satisfied to escape
without victory.
Madame Rudersdorf, the singer, has q
beautiful model farm at Lakeside, Mass-
1t is cultivated under her own eyes to a
charm, anu she owns quantities of tho
most valuable live stock. She makes re-
marGable butter, so good that is is sold
i'll Boston Tor 80 cents pound.
Dlr. Campbell, M. p, of the famous
porcelain firm Of MintOD, was presented
ON his return from our Centennial with
an address, and his daughter with n
hpa aOAl of frnn IN ofE EI,n
Ihe united period OF service Of the four
men who put tho former into his hands
. was two hundred and seven years. {
Walt. Whitman does not believe in
cremation. He said the other day thak
"it makes fellow tremble to think OF
. the lron-hearted progress of the age.
| when the life has gone out of the body I
! rather respect the old shell for all 1t has
been as well as for all it has contained.v -
: Carlyle smokes a pipe, and is as gruM
-, as ever. When distinguished modern
. novelist called on him recently, he saiat
II have read your books with great
pleasure. They are amusing. You are
just amusing. But when are you gOi1g
TO do something-to write real book
eh, manW
Frederick Lemaitre was one day
walking with his manager, Harel, and
explainlng 10 MIN his views ON dramatic
art. "As tor managers" he said, '.wty
-" 81 understand" replied 'HareI.
'most OF them are iools." "Most III
themW answered Lemaitre; ''all OF
them arc-witnout exception"
Senator Cameron said laughingly 10
Mr.. Blaine, 81 have just recommended
tor appointment as Postmaster in n
large city in my State an enthusiastic
Blaine man." "Why," replied the Saas.
ator from Maine, quick as flash, 'yeu
could not do otherwise in Pennsylvania
unless you appointed a Democrat"
1 Prof. James Russell Lowell was so
pleased by Gen. BartleJHs suggestisn
that even dime novel reading was 20 be
encouraged as leader toward better
reading that he thanked its author, and
said he meant to expand it in an essay
and dedicate book on reading, OF
which this should be a part, to Gen.
Bartlett.
Miss Frances Power Cobbe is a writer
of good English and stout editorial; siIe
is also mlddlC-aged woman of the most
liberal proportions. Complaining one
day that she had "pain III the small OF
her back" u spoiled infant of a youngar
brother cried rather to her disgust.
swell, Fanny, where is the small u
your backW ~
DR.. Nohl, Professor of Music at Hold
elberg, and worshiper of Wagner.
SAID, III one OF his late lectures, thxt
Bayreuth Will be the iuture Olympia az
Germany, that Wagner is one Of tha
foremost poets Of Germany, and that. in
the Ring of the NibeIungen," the be-
ginning OF the day is to be recognized Of
which Goethe dreamt.
Sir Richard Steele was buried in St.
Peters Church, Carmarthen. A brass
tablet has lately been placed in Dositi0a
there with the following inscrip lion:
"Sir Richard Steele, Knight, author, e.
sayisf, first chief promoter of the peri
| odcal press OF England; born in DubllR
March IL, 1911; buried in this church
and below this tablet"
General McClallan's criticism On thu
Khedive's army had It's eject. He AHA
that the army needed to learn reading-
writing and arithmetic. The KhedfTs.
after rejecting moment, issued an or
der that no promotions should be grant
ed to amy soldier or officer who had NOS
acquired the rudiments. The consR-
quence was that the whole army imne.
diately became a school.
| George William Curtis was by when n
young woman i0unced into a railway
car, and, with great din, exclaimed.
| "DIu you ever know anything so hot3
Pm sitting. WheH! Open the window.
Isn't it awful" etc. "Yes'm," respond
| ed solemn voice from the end Of thu
car, sit is awful. But faint nothing To
| the suferin's of the early Christians.N
Everything is comparative, you see.
Miss Helen Taylor-John Stuart MilIsp
| aughter-signalized her canvass
\ for election to the Loudon School Board
by violent speech against the clergy.
She declared the contest 10 be one of
School Boards against clerical despo:-
| tsm. The clergymen, she said, were
merely anxious to get the schoolinassat
to do the clergyman's work, but in that
case they should give up the clergT-
6 .s>!
Prof. Johnstrup, the naturalist who
mas Deen engaged IN periIous and difi-
cult explorations in the desolate vol
canic regions of Iceland, comforts tho
lcelanders with the assurance that thN
activity OF the volcanoes has undouNt.
edly ceased for long time to come. HA
reports also that the belief that thsra IN
gold, silver, and iron ore in the isianG
Is entirely unfouGded. Iceland has nos
even coal seams. The conditions for the
presence OF these ores are all wanting.