The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-12-08
PERSONAL.

Sitting Bull is too wide-awake to be
classed as bulI-dozer.
Jean IugeIow, who writes about but
tercups, is fat and forty.
Prof. Swing says that hat won on
bet "comes uoWn over the eyes OF the
winners SOUL"
George Rignold has sailed for Eng
land. lie appears at Booths Theater in
the spring, however.
Mrs. Bayard Taylor is making the
| tran stations for her husbands "BOok
for Boys" which Will be published in
Germany.
Mrs. Stillians, the wife of a physician
| living in Clarindd, Iowa. has fallen
heress to property worth SO 600, left by
family in England.
AntOnia Tamburini. the great baritone
and last Of the famed quartet consisting
of Grisi, Rlbini, LaDlache and Tam
burlnl, died at Nice III The early part OF
the pastmonth.
Mr.. j. f. Banks, son of Gen. Banks,
approached death very closely the other
day when an immense fly-Wheel of the
SuTro Tunnel, near Virginia Guy, burst
into small pieces.
Aime Millet, the French sculptor, is
untlrlng in his industry. He has already
completed eighty works, and is very
anxious to undertake colossal Lafay-
! cite tor the United States.
| President Grant has bought house in
Washington. 1t is one which has Just
been erected at The intersection of Ner-
mont and Rlode Island avenues, oppo-
site the Thirteenth. circle.
Prof. Boyesen, who has b9en staying
a few days in this New York City, spent
Saturday evening at the Century. Heis
about 10 publish in Scribner serial
story combining Morse and American
life.
Mr.. CARLYLE said to Prof. Huxley not
long ago: "4Ou Darwlnians are spend
ing your lives in trying to prove that
men are descended from apes-and it
needs more than our civilization 10 pre-
vent them being ogres."
Lady Seb1ght, OF London, an anna
teur actress OF considerable reputation,
has declared her intention to go on the
stage. Her friends are struck with con-
~~----s~tia"s and have intRrtnrah tn- pre-
vent her intentions being carried out.
Sir John Lubbock, speaking with the
calm prudence OF "a banker and a man of
affairs, says tnat, as far as Eugland's
interests are concerned, IL would pay
the Government well to buy the western
provinces Of Asia Minor from Turkey.
Mrs. Marion Ward, wealthy lady of
Milton, VT, lately received threaten
ing letter, written to eXtort money. She
placed it in the hands OF the police. The
writer was arrested, tried, and SEN
fenced to five years in the Penitentiary.
DR.. Hopkins, son of the late Bishop
Hopkins, of Vermont, has been compli-
mented by the Church Congress, recent
ly held IN Boston, as man OF ideas and
a strong, keen writer. Dr.. Hopkins is
The editor OF Dr.. Milo Mahan's works,
and the author OF "Llfe OF Bishop
Hopkins"
Disraeli advises the Church to make
heterodox clergymen into Bishops as
soon as possible. "Look at Bishop
Temple" he says. "When he was plain
Dr.. Temple he was troublesome, but
now there is no more harmlessIy ortho-
doX man in the Church"
Ristori has been taking lessons in En-
glish. A CORES spondent VINO has heard
her recite scenes from Lady Macbeth in
the new tongue, says that her pronun-
citation is taultless in the impasSioned
speeches, but betrays some foreign Pc
culiarltles in quleter passages.
beach at Newport with lady. "When
L look" said she, sat the sweep of the
ocean and its power, and think OF the in
finite range beyond, l feel myself SO
small as to be all insignificant. DO not
your" ''My dear friend" SAID he, when
l look at the infinite ocean | do not think
Of myself at ALL"
Mr.. VIM. M. Evarts has q patent proc.
ess for solving the Presidential prob
lem. He says there is no use in making
such a fuss about the case; that the rem
edy is perfectly clear, and that the
courts are constantly applying it. The
thing to do is to put the Presidency into
the hands of receiver, with power to
run the concern and collect the debts.
DR.. Armitage, a Baptist pastor in New
York, undertook, in his Thanksgiving
sermon, to propose preventive of flu
ture political crises SUCH as the one
which now agtates the country. He
you'd haye votes cast both directly for
President and Indirectly through Elec.
tors. In case of a popular majority for
any candidate, he would be declared
elected; Otherwise the Electors would
be summoned to choose a President.
The plan is perhaps more novel than
feasible. -ll
Bishop DQane, Of the Protestant Epis-
copal DIOCESE Of Albany, at late ser |
vice, severely criticised modern church
music. He thinks that it is given over
to the hands of men and women who are
only musical in 9 SECULAR sense, and who
are used, avowedly, to draw multitude
of listeners who prefer the Kind of music
they have learned to love in operas and
concert halls. He considers the church
music of to-day not only bill of ex-
pense, but a bone OF contention which
The Rectors OF parishes are unable to
check or control.
An exchange says: at is not gener-
ally known tnat boiled carrots, when |
properly prepared. form an excelIant |