The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-10-13
PERSONAL.

Spotted Tail is the boss Indian In
point OF education.
Leon Y. Escosura, the Spanish paint
er, is coming to see US.
General Schenck is writing book on
''London Experiences"
Ex-Congressman Fay died at Chelsea,
Mass, on Friday last, aged eIghty-three.
Gov. Hayes has been gathering a
collection of historical books relating to
Vermont.
Nine. Nilsson will sing in AMBROSE
Thomas "Hamle" at the Grand Opera,
Vienna, this Winter.
Miss Rose Eytinge, who has been
brilliantly successful in California, has
returned to New York.
Mrs. Carnoyle, of Breckinrldge coun. ..
tY, KY, has a child five years old, whose
body appears to be absolutely boneless.
Max. Adeler (Charles Heber Clark,
of the Philadelphia Bulletin) has writ
ten another book, which Will be pub
lished early in November.
David Knitted, an old man of Fond du
Lac, Wis.,, was found dead in the rear
end OF his shop, a few days since. He
was miser OF the worst type, not buy
ing sufficient food and clothing for him.
self. He leaves $4,000.
Bayard Taylor says the cross-pur-
pose arguments of the evolutionists
and their opponents impress him very
much as ii one should ask. "Do YOU
ike peaches or mansard root?" and
another should answer, II prefer rail-
road stock"
Madame Adelina Patti is now in Paris,
For the first time in the course of her
triumphant career she has been reported
in delicate health, and consultation of
physicians was, at last accounts, to de-
eide whether she could fulfill her oper-
attic engagement at st. Petersburg this
winter.
Prof. Peters, of Hamilton College, in
letter to the New York World, gives his
reasons for not believing in the eXis-
tence of the mythical planet Vulcan. He
has been skeptical about it from the
start, and was only induced to pay at.
tention to it out of regard for the wishes
of LeVerrier.
Alphonse Karr proposes that the
French Government fine every bachelor
over twenty-five as means Of prevent
ing the decline OF population. But un-
less the Government will agree to sup.
port the families alter marriage, SO sim
pie remedy as this would not have per.
manent value.
DR.. Bennet, OF San Francisco, stood
beside the bedside of James Lick when
the latter was dying, and described to
the inquisltiVe crowd how the man was;
told the number of pulsations to the ear
Of the poor old man, and. before the
light was out Of the eyes Of the patient,
turned coolly and asked whether an un-
dertaker mad been engaged!
Colonel Boudinot, one of the most lib
eral and influential citizens of the In-
dian Territory, told a reporter in st.
Louis last Friday that the civilized In-
dians of the Territory are bitterly op-
posed to the colonization of Sitting Bull
and his braves on their land and that
they intend to urge, the Western Repre-
sentatiyes in Congress to oppose the
new treaty.
Marquis Taleyrand-Perigard in his
new book on America says: at is
people whose morality is that OF a ma
tion in decadence. 1t is people which
produces things, but no longer produces
men-no men oil letters, no orators, no
men versed in political science, no
S atesmen, no works of art, or at least
very few, to attest the existence of
The Marquis was with us
three months, and, to judge from his
book, he was seldom in good company.
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe lectured in
Milwaukee this week, and the Sentinel
thus describes her appearance: "She is
of ripe middle age, with squarish coun-
tenance of the benevolent type. Her
grayish blonde hair was brushed back
with the seyerest simplicity, and sur
with the white Grape of wild
owls mourning. Her dress was plain, of
some dark stuff that almost looked black
in the gas-light, covered with a Quaker
like black shawl. She wore specGacles,
and bouquet relieved the simplicity of
her attire"