The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-11-28
PERSONAL.


Steve Klrksey, OF Layfleld, KY, put
package OF gunpOwder on hot anvil. Hid
ls bald headed now.
Miss Mary Fletcher, of Burlington.
VT, has given $I50000 to the city for th6
endoTmen OF hospital.
Major Albert Loring, prominent ciH-
zen OF Hoiyoke. Mass, has become in-
sane owing TO political excitement.
Mr.. Elihu Burritt looks as if he had
Just dropped out of the OLD Testament,
says complimentary Englishman.
Mrs. Finch, a Chicago poetess, wants
to know what are the wild winds
oringlngp We guess tits cold in the
head.
DIR. lie Moyne, OF the Pennsylvania
cremation furnace, was once a candidate
lar the Vice Presidency On the Abolition
ticket.
Mile. Crolsette, the famous actress.
has painful tumOr, which compels her
temporarily to quit the stage of the
Fheater Francais.
Mrs. Custer, who is at Adrian, Mich,
has just received the amount OF insur-
ance ON her husbands life, 50, 900, less q
war premium OF $3.50.
Mr.. Hallam Tennyson, q son of the
Laureate, is writer OF some promise.
lie has an article in the current number
OF The Contemporary Review.
Rev. B. #. Vile, for over forty years
Presby terrain minister, died at his resi-.
dence, Poughkeepsie, N. Y, on the 20lh.
lie was seYenty-tWo years OF age.
Helmbold again. This time he writes
from respectable New York hotel, an.
nouncing that he Is Immediately going
TO enrich New York With another drug
store.
Josephine Ash was awarded a verdict
of 100000 last week by Jury, in New
4oik City, as damages for malLreatment
by Henry AStor, son of John Jacob
Astor.
The Rev. John 8. G. Abbott is slowly
wasting away. He is in very feeble
state, occasionally walking about his
house and sitting by The window on
IL fine day.
Colonel j. r. Woodward, the well.
known horse man, OF Tippecanoe, died
at his residence III that place on We'd
nesday last. He served in the army
during the late war.
The Duchess of Aosta, wife OF the Ex.
King Amadeus, died from malady the
germs OF which were laid by "ihe ankle.
Ties OF precarious royalty" SO, in
grandlloquent pnrase, says foreign
Journal.
Or. Doughty lives in COvington, KY,
and sixteen years ago he vowed that ht
would wear the hat that he was then
using until a Democratic President was
sworn in. The Old hat is eXceedinly di
lapidated.
MIR. James O'Meara, OF Hoopestown,
ILL.,, is the last gentleman OF high reputa-
ZION who knows that Wilkes Bootn is
still alive, having seen him, aud
conVersed with MIN recently during q
visit to the South. :,
Mrs. Mcintosh, who was going to Tor
onto with cattle, was put off the train, the
conductor declaring that 40 woman
could ride on droyer's pass. She has
now obtained judgment from the Com
pany, though the question OF the amount
of damages is still reserved.
Gov. Kellogg OF Louis ana is about fif-
ty years old. He Is OF medium hight, is
slender aud erect, and wears a Closely
buttoned coat. His head is small, the
forehead evenly rounded ana slopinR
backward with too great rapidity. His
hair is gray, and worn as ii muen timA
had been employed ol 1t WITH q Drush In
front OF a mirror. '@4E
r, Lady Bell, widow Of Sir Charles Bell.
h; 4 g., the celebrated pnysIOlukist, re-
Gently died at tue advanced age OF nine
ty wears. Lady Bell was married in
1911, and has survived her hus band thir-
Cy-Iouf years, retaining to the last for
his name and fame that atfectionate
pride which breaches through her own
published WORK, entitled "RecolIeo-
Lions."
Ii. Stein, lately deceased, formerly in
resident OF Brooklyn, left a will. IA
which were directions that his body was
TO be cremaled, at an expense of NOT
over $oy, and that but lour persons
should De present nv tue ceremony. AS
mere was no furnace han1vv, the rela-
ilves quietly buried The BODY ia tns .ac-
cuSt0med manner. Deceased leaves T
large property to his relauves.
Pierre Dussis fell Into the water at
Melun, anu was fshed out for a dead
man. Ihe body was carrieI to the Morgue
ana lalu on u slab safe and sound.
Next morning the keepers We're scared
on hndlng the corpse walking about; he
had tit OF lethargy, when passed off nj
and he aWoke TO lind himself
among corpses, whose society he mad TO
endure Till the keepers unlocked the
inortuary.
L HLbaln90
the last sphere OF beatifc pliiosopby-
He says he has sunk ais egoLism in the
UNIVERSAL; that, therefore, he has ceased
TO cherish grudges against anybody, bur
mat, likewise, lie has ceased to cherish
separations for individuals. 81 would
not cross the street to save mans life."
ne eXclaims. "Why should L? Let the
man die and be buried, and ten million
ants VIII spring from his remains, not
one of which ever called me crazy"
Signor Rossi, the great italian Shak-
spearean ACTOR, recently mad an inter-
view with the French Prince Imperial at
Florence. The interview lasted three
quarters of an hour, and RossI, in pub
lIshed account of what transpired, says
he was surprised TO find in the young
Prince a good Shakspearean scholar. He
lad stuuied Hamlet" in particular,
land from the familiarity " ith which he
spoke OF that parsonage it would appear
IS if he looked upon himself as second
Prince Of Denmark" The precocious
ioung mans mother may not admire
his view of the case.
The Loves of Kitty and Chick.