The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-12-01
PERSONAL.

| NJ
Holman Hunt, the English painter. is
hard at work in his new studio IN Jeru-
salem.
Morrissey's commissions on election
pools are set at between $4) O00 and
$50 90.
Gail Hamilton lives in little Massa-
chusetts home Of her own, all 'lone and
unloved except by her cats.
James Chapman, who fought at Ira
| falgar and was present when the great
Admiral was mortally wounded, has
just died.
| Bayard Taylor says there are more
than two hundred artists in New York
City, and hardly more than fifty lit
| terateurS.
| NJ. Capoul, the celebrated tenor, was
recently thrown from his carriage in
Paris, and The first performance OF "Paul
ct Virginie" was postponed in conse-
quence.
| General Schenck was allowed apen-
sion by the Department OF The Interior,
on the 1ltn OF October last, in conse-
qnence of disabling injuries which he
received at the second battle of Bull
Run.
John Habburton, the author Of
| hOiChS DuUlSS, Vi WuICu lOFby
thousand copies have been sold,
| is surprised at the sue
cess of the work, which he wrote to
| amuse sick wife,
Mr.. Riviere, the promising young art
lst whose "Circe" at the Centennial EX-
| position excited so much attention, is
| an Englls1man, in spite OF his name
| He married a sister OF Mr.. Sydney Do
bell, the poet, and began life very poor.
George Cook, of Ansouia, Conn, be.
fore going out to play, put some parior
matches aud powder IN his trousers
| pocket. Then he Tell down, the matches
| ignited, the powder flashed, his clothes
Dlazed, and his life was saved with diff
Guilty.
Nine. Clemence Roger, at the last
meeting OF the Anthropological Society,
| advanced the remarkable theory that
| our idea OF reverence Tor the dead was
| originally inspired by observing the ter
ror that animals display at the sight Of
a corpse!
Gen. Il. E. Spinner will spend the
winter in that sunny, beautiful cline
where the orange blossom vies with the
| Cherokee rose, where the alligator snaps
off the youthful negroes toes, where the
Atchatalaya sparklingly flows-by the
| way, Florida.
Mrs. PAMELA Brown, wife of Gen.
Jacob Brown, the victor with Scott at
Lundy's Lane, is still living. She is
| now ninety-eight years of age, and re-
sides with her daughter, Mrs. Evarls, at
place called Rye, tWeuty-six miles
from New York City.
aDr. Mary Walker is a little more con-
| serVat1ve In The style of her dress since
the dog biz her. She now wears a row
OF knife pleatings all around the tails of
| her coat, and the waist-baind and the
ends of tue legs Of her trousers are
trimmed with ball fringe.
Rhoda Broughton's new novel, s'Joan,"
Is we'll spoken OF by the London Athen-
aum, which judges that the author NAV
yet give TO the world a book that will be
an addition to literature. "Her future
isln her own hands," adds the critic
sagaciously. Miss BroughCon ought to
be grateiu for the information.
| Capt. Willard Glazier, a sort of Ser
geant Bates on horseback, has not been
| heard from since he left Chew
since, on his iecturing tour
from the Atlantic TO the Paeitic, and il
is hoped he has Undertaken TO find and
lecture Sitting Bull and his band.
Sir John Lubbock, NJ. p, the eminent
London banker, suggests that England
should purchase from Turkey the west
ern part OF Asia Minor, as "that would
secure The route to- India" He thinks
this can be done without great expense,
ana that IL would open up that .'rich.
populous and once happy country"
NJ. Tell, the celebrated Paris glass
worker, has just finished casting the
| crown glass lens for the great Vienna
lretractor. 1t is twenty-eigut inches in
diameter aud weighs one hundred and
twelve pounds. IL is to be sent to Mr.,
Howard Grubb, in Dublin, VINO has tn G
flint lens with which il is TO be COM
| Dined.
George Essex MontifeX, Lord Drum.
| mond, heir to enormous wealth, is said
TO be now a voluntary exile on Long
Island, inhabiting worn-ouj cottage al
| Brook Haven. He will NOT attain his
Gia jority Till September 1877. Five years
ago he eloped from his grandfatheps
house with woman VINO served there
Ill u menial capacity.
Bergeret, the famous Communist Gen.
| eral, is phoLUgraphei--on Wheels-at
| Georgetown, suburb OF 81. Heiiers,
| Jersey. After the capture OF Paris he
| q,
| working in the factory of u large dealer
in Photographic materials, his presence
bein. entirely unsuspecLed. But alter
the executions at SaUory began ne fed
| to Jersey.
Henry Phillips recently died at Dali
| ton, England, at the age Of seventy-six
years. lAr. Phillips began his career as
| vocalist When GWenty-Lhree years OF
age. He played several successive
seasons at the London Lyceum Theater,
| then under the management OF MI.
Arnold. He filled prominent position
at Covent Garden and Drury Lane thea
ters from 1929 TO 1913. Alter retiring
| from the stage he chiefly devoted himself f
| 10 musical tuition.
Mr. William'Cullen Bryant, pleasant
| ly talking in st. Nicholas about the boys
OF his boyhood, describes the sevel ity OF
| the parenis Of the last century, and
says of his grandfather that he can
hardly find words 10 express the awe in
which he stood Of him-awe 50 great as
almost to prevent anything like atfec-
ton. A little bundle OF blrchen rods
suspended Oh q nail in the Kitchen was
esteemed in those days as much part
of the necessary furniture as the shovel
and tongS,