The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-11-17
PERSONAL.

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Miss May Alcott will study art In
London this winter.
| Bob Toombs declares war on the Dem
ocratic party OF Georgia.
Dom Pedro is vigorously making ex-
cursions all around Athens.
| Countess de Bassanvile says English
manners have corrupted French polite
ness.
William Cullen Bryant is eighty
three, and still writes both history and
poetry.
James Parton is writing series of
articles on "EXplorations in the Polar
Regions"
Col. Z. L. Drake, of New Haven, Con-
necticut, was the first who sunk petro-
leun wells.
Miss Luta Bewley, not yet in her
teens, won the cooking match at the
Anderson IS. Y. air.
| Gen. Butler is a self-made man, and
was not born with silver spoon in his
mouth New Orleans Republican.
NJ. Louis Sue, cousin OF NJ. Eugene
Sue, the celebrated novelist, committed
suicide recently in the Passy cemetery.
| Cardinal Manning is going to reside
| pei III lNOluG, anu u COduJulOT
bishop Will look alter the affairs OF West
minister. ....
Orestes Cleaveland, of Jersey City, is
a candidate for the seat in the United
States Senate now occupied by Senator
Frelingnuysen.
Lawrence Barrett and e. L. Daven-
port have been playing Julius Casar'
| throughout the west OF Ontario with
apparently great success.
Gen. John O'Neil, the famous Fenian
leader, has, according to popular report,
been seen not long SINCE at Guelph, Ont !,
| and loyal Canadians in that vicinity are
excited accordingly.
| J. W. Andrews, Of Kentucky, has
husked ninety-seven bushels of corn in
one day, and Northumberland County
| Pa man one hundred and twenty
bushels i'll ten hours.
Prof. Richard A. Proctor is already
beginning to agitate the British Adm r
atty on the eXpediency OF sending
forth fresh expeditions to observe the
transit Of Venus in the Antarctic sum
mer of 1882.
Louisa NJ. Alcotns next book, entitled
"Rose in Bloom," is announced for the
20th inst. 1t is sequel to tEight Cous-
ms" Miss AlcoJC is writing pretty
fast. 1t can not be want OF fame tnat is
driving her.
| Young Commander Cameron will not
explore Africa any more at present. He
has been on leave iOr four years and a
half, and must by the rules of the navy
either now take ship or retire from
active service, He will take the ship,
Senator Jones, the golden, was recent
ly in Atlanta, looking at his property
| there; and, says the Atlanta Constitu-
| tion in lofty burst of approval and ad-
| Ijectives, he "is a fine-looklng gentle
man, and faVors the old-time Southern
planter"
Mrs. BambooZle rejolces in the hope,
| now this cruel campaign is over, thai
| Bamboozle will not have to save the
country till O'clock every morning,
and then be SO oppressed with anxieties
tor the State as to come to bed with his
boots and spectacles on.
Mr.. Henry Irving, the actor, is one OF
the lew very distinguished and refined
looking men on the stage. He is 1.-the,
agile, and with this has great dignity Of
bearing. MIR. Whistler, the clever
American artist resident in London, mas
painted him 10 the character OF Tenny-
sons Philip Ii.
Mr.. Robert Browning is now in his
sixty fl tn year, and Is tull of vitality and
yiyaciLy. He is of medium height, erect
and broad shouldered. His hair and
beard are white, and his large gray eyes
have youth in them still. He is a bright
companion, teller Of comical stories.
ana as a talker not at all given to the
incomprehensible.
/ King John, of Abyssinia, is described
by M. de Larsech, the French Consul, as
man about thirty years old, of middle
height, slim, with black hair, energetic
leyes, slightly curved nose, small mouth,
and face deeply bronzed. He is ex-
tremely agile, exceIs in all games, is
brave TO temerity, impassive as Hindu,
and is the best rider in the country.
Mrs. Polk, the widow Of the Ex-Presi.
dent, says correspondent of The Phil
adelphia Times, now lives in Nashville,
and takes lively interest in affairs Of
State. Her husbands tomb is laid in
the lawn in front of her house. 1t is a
solid block of gray stone, under a fiat
above by four stone pillars.
Mr.. Donald G. Mitchell is known not
only as graceful and thoughtful writer,
but also as a person of good taste, both
natural and cultivated. The course OF
lectures on the "Nsthetics of Everyday
Life," which he will give before the
Yale Art School next term, ought to be
very attractive. That painter of pic
lures charming and fantastic, John La
Fargo, will also lecture before the
| school.
George Eliot is, on the whole, snubbed
by TIE Edinburg Review. 1t says OF
| 'Deronda" "Perhaps it is true that
only George Eliot could have written
this book, but George Eliot fooled and
fattered, led to believe that her sayings
are valuable as those Of any sage, tnat
her reflections are wiser than those OF
Solomon, that even the headings of her
chapters are objects OF alteration to a
throng Of readers on their knees"
Lord Beaconsfeld has added to his
graceful recognitions of painstaking
merit. The Queen has, it is announced, % o
i tha Recommendation of the Prima Min