The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-09-21
PER SONAL.

bCdpC vi III oL lahus
Parodi, the great singer, is rearing a
large family in Rio Janeiro.
Tennyson has inherited consider
abe estate in Lincolnshire.
Lord Derby's only brother is the new
Financial Secretary OF the Treasury.
Strakosch says operatic singers are
not OF much account alter they pass
torty.
Secretary SchurZ's fair young daugh-
ter Will preside over his home this
winter.
Mr.. Irish, Democratic candidate for
Governor OF Iowa, Is the first native OF
that STATE ever nominated to that par
tlcular office.
Captain Joshua Wheeler, OF Glasgow,
Ky, now about ninety wears OF age, a
s0ldier OF the war OF 1872, it is said has
never been sick day or taken dose OF
medicine.
Steel, the famous Scottish sculptor,
| is now engaged on u statue Of Robert
! Burns. The cost will be sc, 900, and it
Will be defrayed mostly by Scottish citl-
zens of New York.
Sgnor Tamberlik and Nine. Albani
are TO have Ine two principal roles in
the "Nerone" Of Jules Barber and Ru-
bensteln, Wnicu is 10 be produced next
season at The ltaliens III Harl5.
Gustaye Dore is in London, and is
jabout 10 begin series OF Illus Cratlons
OF several of the great Eugllsh poets,
Shakespeare being tue first victim to
come 10 the ensravers block.
Rev. George Bull, colored, OF Lumllin
County, VINO Is nearly eighty years oi
age, and has been il Baptist preacher
Tor over forty years, immersed forty
candidates for baptism IN the brlei
space Of tWenty-seven minutes.
DR.. SGnlIemaun has res olved TO exhibit
his lrOj An col GCtIOa at tue South Ken.
sington Museum, LUnuOn, when sCuu..
ars Will nave amp,e opportunities TO dc.
tect any lnaccuraClrs INTO which he ma
have inadvertently fallen.
Theirs had a sparkling eye and d
qulcH, bright way Of dropping hts head
ana looking Interrogation marks from
over his speGtdcles. For FteuchmIu,
he talked very little ana very quielly
He had an exact and VIDE know ledge o
art.
1 SoIon Robinson, the famous old agri-
cultural editor OF the New York TID-
uue, in Horace Greeley's Liue, now OI
JlcksonylIe, Fla, mas been dangerous.
J III aL DlON mn LOu, SOHu'S NuC1S 1t
mas b, en- visiting, but Is NOW slowly re.
covering.
Mr.. Healy, who lives in Paris, has
painted a portrait Of Prince Bismarck
winch is considered so excellent IA like.
ness by the Princes wife that she has
commissioned Mr. Healy to make a rep.
llca. The original was painted lor MI
" ashburne.
| nI,fI nj nj,
Brown, aged eignty-SiX, both colored
were married at Fay Miss, the
+ other day. How far apart must they
have been at the start to take OveI
Ell. hty years OF atfiniJIve attraction tt
produce union!
Or. Farr, in recent lecture before
the British Association, said that in Eug
; land ana Wales the population doubled
, i'll about nifty years; in sweden, III
sixty years; in Prussia, in siXty-tour
III Spain, in ninety-thTee; in ltaiy, il
one hundred; and i'll France, in onlJ
three hundred and sixty years.
. Gen. Hood is reported to be the com
. mander of new brigade, more quain
in appearance than was hts old brlgad,
n in the Army of Northern Virginia. Th
e Raleigh News says: ga gentleman Wn,
was lately at the Alleghany Springs wa
> asked il he had seen Hoods Brigade
aninTed anu m oul to him. Tne gaIlant Ganera
pos nine rhiI1rpn ali u9Ipr tha ana u
1 n',rbt EARS ami three nnira Nf SaO y
: Iwins THey are ofTtcered pv tour nursSs
s a rnyernea;. njs wIIe and his mother.in,
law, and the corps present a tine ap
pearance on dress parade"
Mr.. j. T. Fields copies in "Under
, brush" very touching little letter O
Door Rob Burns. 1t is addressed to
kindly creditor, and describes very pit
= eously Lne writer's poverty. 81 inc los,
h you three gulneas," he says, "and shal
+ soon settle all with you. | shall no
mention your goodness to me; it is be
l yOnd my power TO describe either tut
n feelings OF my wounded soul AZ not be
RI ing able TO pay you as L ought, or th
g.ate III respect with which / have tn
: nonor to be, sir, your deeply obllget
: humble servant, ROBT. BURNS"
n CoI Thomos w Knoy. now on his wo,
- or0n,,J th., v0rII vas rarpniIv tnId r., =
atorv Inv an EnpIish gpntInmaI in Toxic
9 ,Japap: Tle latter mad attended no
e Iong before d dinner party in London. a,