The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-11-20
PERSONAL.

Tom Thumb is going West-tO grow up
| with the country.
Capt. Cameron will not return to the
land OF ivory tusks and ebony bellies.
The Marquis of iorne is said to be
| "threalened"wlth softening of the brain.
George Eliots "Daniel Deronda" re-
ceives cool treatment from the Edin-
burg Review.
Minor A. Strong, Republican, of Con-
nectlcut, gets telegraphed "Minor, a
strong Republican"
Wagner is not happy. He is out OF
pocket $4,000 by the Bayreuth whirl-
wind OF hurricane music.
j. r. Randall, editor of the Atlanta
| Conslitutionalist, is the author o.
"Maryland, My Maryland"
Tennyson, &c; Whittier, 6S; Longtel.
low, SO; Lowell, 5L This is age, mind
| you, and not election returns.
Gov. Bagley, of Michigan, subsidies
the newspapers of Detroit by sending
the editors barrels OF apples.
Colonel Baker has fine residence in
| Constantinople, and rides out frequent
| ly, always accompanied by his wife.
Miss Lee, of London, contests Richard
share in the earlier historical plays.
Liebig is to have monument shortly.
The subscriptions are closed, and there
Is enough money for two monuments.
Aimee's $4,000 worth of diamonds
troubled her repose o. nights, ana she
has finally sold them and rests in peace.
Spurgeon says a man who will do
nothing to keep alive a fellow creatures s
body can do very little to save his soul.
Major General and Mrs. =. Heintzel-
man and family, recently from Europe,
have settled III Washington for the WIN
ter.
Tupper says ''there is not a better ed.
ucated people OH the face of the earth"
tnan the Americans. Now let his legs
alone.
Mrs. Julia F. Smith, author of
"WidoW Goldsmith's Daughter," has a
new novel in press called "His Young
Wife,"
Peter Cooper says he was defeated by
the Temperance party; and Green Clay
Smith attributes Ills deleat to the Greel-
back party.
DR.. Legge, the professor of Chinese at
Oxford, holds what may be called
a sinecure. Not student has yet Oh
fered himself.
Mr.. Franklin Steltz, of Pottstown, Pa,
has a double-barreled ioWlin g-piece
that has been i'll The Steltz family for one
hundred ana ten years. Now for the
next piece!
Senior CASTELAR, won't devote his whole
time during the present session TO pOlit-
icaI warfare, but will take part in the
purely Literary discussions Of the AGe-
neo, for which no man is more compe.
tent.
John Stevenson writes to the Glasgow
News that his grand uncle, Robert Full
ton, instead OF being born in PennsylYa-
MIA of Irish parentage, as his American
blographers say, was Scotch, and was
born in Beth in Ayrshire.
''Jenkins," says that many New York
bellies will tshimmer" in cardinal red
silk boots at balls this winter. That's
all right, but there are lots of bellies all
over The country who won't "shimmer"
much il their fathers candidates don t
get in.
Lord Dudley was shrewd wag. A
Vienna lady once impudently said to
him, "Wh hat wretchedly bad French you
all speak in London" and he answered
promptly: cit is true, Madame, we have
not enjoyed the advantage of having the
French twice in our capital"
DR.. Eliot wants the Boston schools rid
of "two classes OF teachers, the step
ping-stones and the rolling-stones. The
former teach till they find husband or
some more profitable business, and the
latter change from one school TO another
Whenever more pay Can be obtained"
Lord Stratford de Redclitfe was re-
Gently charged by the Pail Mall Gazette
with responsibility 1or the ''untoWard
event" of Navarino. The old diplomat
at once addressed note to the paper
disclaiming the responsibility, and clos
ing with Lne remark: II aspire to no
share in whatever merit may attach to
the adoption of 80 triumphant but unex-
pected u measure" which is precisely
the feeling on the strength Of which the
great Eltchi has been held responsible
for the batt'~