The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-11-25
PERSONAL.

Mr.. Morrison, of Illinois, is named by
his friends as candidate for Speaker.
Joseph Gregoire, the well-knOwn COM
poser and pianist, died a Few days ago az
Paris, aged tiity-nine.
Gortschakoff, the Russian,Chancellor,
| is eignt-seveu, and Beaconsfeld seven
ty-one. Two warlike old bucks GER
| tainly.
Ex-Governor Stanford, of California,
reyels in building. He is about to begin
another new house which will cost
800, ,0V0
Dan Rice is hopping ahead of sheriffs
with what he calls moral circus. He is
| one of the few men who make snow Of
morality.
Mrs. Stilians, the wife of physician
living in Clarinda, Iowa, has fallen
heiress to property worth $4,000 900, lett
by a family in England.
Gounod is hard at work on a new
opera, the story being taken from "Cinq-
Mars" 1t will hardly be ready before
the close Of the winter.
Mr.. Ii. L. Sollace, the Vermont post
master whom The Republican Electoral
ticket knows no more, Is u brother-in-
law OIL MI. UOUU ". odAPs
Miss Jean Ingelow is shortly described
as somewhat stout, a middle-aged, and
agreeable woman, with good and in-
telligent but not beautiful face.
Mr.. Moody does not believe in church
airs and festivals; says they should be
cleaned out like nest of unclean birds
which is a speech ratlier too sweeping.
James Russell Lowell has an ode in
the Atlantic for December which was
written for The Fourth OF July, but which
he was "unable 10 finish to his satisiac-
tion, ten or siGce."
Ball, the ulptor-whoSe statue of
Webster is to be presented formally to
the City of New York, in lew days, has
never been present at public inaugura-
tion Of any of his works.
Gomez Palacio, former Mexican Com
missioner at Washington, and Ramirez,
Judges of the Supreme Court. are in
close imprisonment in the City OF Mex
leo on the charge Of conspiracy.
VIM. Shea, of Berlin, Steele County,
Minnesota, who numbers one hundred
and two years, came to this country
from Europe seventy years ago, first set
tied III Massachusetts, then removed to
Illinois, and seventeen years ago went
to Minnesota.
Capt. Bedford, NJ. P, told his constit-
uents in England the other day that one
sailor only i'll each of England's twenty
five thousand vessels was an English
man, and that the foreign crews in the
next war would navigate the ships to
their own ports.
Rev. j. P. Tustin writes to Bishop
Williams, of Come cticut, an account oil
tue Church OF sweden, in which he says:
''lhe pulpit is great power in Sweden.
The common people 90 in crowds to hear
any earnest preacher on almost any day
OF the week." The clergy number about
three thousand.
Mr.. Mapleson has just had another
lucky "tind" in Paris, having secured
young girl with beautiful voice and
face, and with hair that touches the
ground when she unloosens it. The cor
res espOndents insist upon the hair with
much force, and seem to think its tend
ency to TALL TO the ground is a prime
qualification for good opera.
Mr.. Gladstone has found another dunn.
my to tilt against. This time it is COM
pulsory vaccination, and he writes to a
complaining friend: II view with mis-
giving all new aggressions upon private
liberty unless upon clear and certain
proof of necessity, and l keep my mind
open upon the question whether such
proof has or has not been supplied in
the matter Of vaccinations"
Cardinal Lucca, the successor of An
tonelli, used to be Nuncio at Munich
and at Vienna. He is man of refined
mind, we'll read, and versed in political
affairs; and is said to have retained the
friendship of illustrious men in Germa-
NY, who keep him informed Of what is
passing in German and ga
rian events. He is small in stature, has
a large oval head, and halt in his
gait.
The Rev. DIR. Stephen III. Tyng's facul-
ty Tor originating words has apparently
somewhat my stitied the Bostonians of
the Y. NJ. G. A, who went to hear him
the other evening. When he brought out
the term "sauctitigumption" a good
brother ielt impelled to suggest that
.sanctified common sense" would be a
much better mode of expression. This
rebuke DR.. Tying parried by relating an
amusing anecdote, by which he demon
strated that no other word would ex-
press his meaning.
Miss Farman. the editor OF the juve.
nile magazine Wide Awake, has made
practical an excellent idea. She has ar
ranged Dolls Fair, where dolls shall
be exhibited and afterwards given as
Christmas presents to the sick children
in hospitals all over the country. Other
advantages belong to this fair. The
dolls must all be dressed by girls under
fifteen years OF age. Ten premiums are
offered tor the best cut and best sewed
suits; aud, after the awards are made,
the dolls will be distributed to the chill
dren who need them.
Sir Capel Fitzgerald, London corre-
| spondent Of the LeYant Herald, says a
rOwdy young baronet who was heavily
fined at a police station last year for
driving a handsome cab in the Haymar-
keE at midnight while drunk, and with
out license, mas now taken out cab
mans license, with the view 0. mocking
his old enemies, the boobies. They YET,
however, may turn the tables on him
again if he gives them an opportunity,
| and be the means OF getting month
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