The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-02-16
PERSONAL.
Tweed keeps busy reading novels.

| Tweed keeps busy reading novels.
Garfield is as happy as a big black
rabbit turning back somersauIt.
MIR. Charles Mathews is writing his
biograph, --atd an entertaining one it
will be. t
Herbert Spencer is SO i'll that he may
not be able " hnish his system OF PM
losopby & n.
Bonner wants horse that can trot in
2:10. He's mighty particular abuut fe W
| seconds.
Gen. Mcclellan will contribute to the
March Scfibner the third nstailment Of
his interesting papers on Egypt.
Bishop Whittingham is improving so
rapidly in health that he expects to re-
turn to active work before many days.
Mr.. Corcoran, the wealthy Washing
ton banker, IL the son of an Irishman,
and he maue most Of his money as fnan-
cial agent OF The government during the
Mexican war.
Mr.. Ruskin has retired from the tea
trace, aud Mary ylebone no longer boasts
the somewhat austere attractions Of the
shop in which the most aesthetic Bohea in
the world was sold. ..
Mr.. Beecher preached IN Mr.. Moody's
church at Chicago on Sunday, the bui d.
ing, very capacious one, being packed,
anu iuily twenty thousand persons
turned away from the doors.
Prof James Russell Lowell, who is
giving q series OF lectures in Baltimore
on Dante and the Romanic languages,
ID besleged with invitations to dinners
and parties and is making many warm
friends.
Ole Bull is to have a grand musical
lesuyal in his honor, given by the people
OF Madison, Wis. After he has been
oofed by their small music he will be
expected to fiddle for the benefit Of the
whole crowd.
Frederick B. Warde is making an eff.
lort toward raising a monument over
the grave OF George Belmore, the En-
gllsh comedian, which is occupying
spot in the family lot Of w. j. Florence,
Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn.
Signor Blitz, the conjurer, used to say
that there were thirty three of him
amusing the public-that is to say, there
were thIrty-Lwo other men who took his
name and initiated his performance,
often leaving unpaid bills Tor which he
was sued.
Thomas Hackett, of st. Louis, SAYS
that ne has eaten one quail eacn day tor
thlrty-three days, has experienced no
i'll health, inconvenience or distaste.
ana fails TO comprehend wherein lies
the difficulty ofsuccesstully accompli sh-
ing the feat.
John Bright is going this session to
speak and vote for bill to abolish the
death penalty. He considers the hang
ing laws unchrisLIan and unphilosoph-
icai, and is OF opinion that with differ
ent mode OF punishment (what mode Is
not indicated) there would be fewer
murders. t-.I
Mr.. Urah Coppage, of the Bradfords-
VILE (Kentucky) district, has eleven
children and some thirty grandchildren.
lhe last OF his children Was married last
week. There has never been q death in
his family. He is now about sixt, -four
years OF age. and resides at the place
where he was born.
Senator Ferry, President pro tempore
of The Senate, has received from Mon
tana feather over two feet long, from
a black eagle, the sender saying he
wanted him to certify the election Of
President with it, and asking him, in
case Hayes is counted in, to use the
quill part, and in case Tilden Is counted
III to use Inc ieathered end.
George Knapp, the editor of the Mis-.
souri, Republican, recently celebrated
the tttieth anniversary OF his connec-
tion with that journal. He entered that
Office as ''devil," on The 9Th OF Janu-
ary, 1927, and gradually worked his way
upward, until Tor many years he has
controlled one of the leading news
papers in the Mississippi Valley.