The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-12-28
PERSONAL.

Father Hyaclntue is only five feet
three inches high.
Edwin Booth makes his temperance
at Booths Theater, New York, Jan. 7.
Manager Fed, Of the Boston Muse
um, is recovering from his recent severe
illness.
Ruhiustein has been drawing audi
ences Of three thousand persons in
Paris.
MI Kick, of Cleveland, has been ar
rested for "Whipplng his horse in the
barn"
John b. Cough in thirty-flve years has
delivered seven thousand six hundred
speeches.
Ruskin thinks that music and precise
dancing are, alter all, the only sale
guards OF morality.
MI. Gilbert, OF GreenvilIe, Tenn, sar-
castically offers five cents for the return
OF his eloping wle.
Governor Connor, Of Maine, who is
about to enter upon his third term, is
not yet thirty-nine years of age.
Dr.Olver Wendell Holmes will read
poem at the centennial anniversary
celebration OF Phillips Academy,
AndoVer, next June.
Prince Leopold, the youngest son Of
| Queen Victoria, appears to be weak
| ing. his health is again the occasion
OF alarm in the royal household.
Ex-Minister Pierrepont is coming
home Immediately, but Mrs. Pierrepont
will spend the winter at Oxford, with
her son, who is student there.
Mr.. Joseph Cook, it is reported, has
| been made an honorary member OF a
philosophic society Of Great Britain !;
and has, moreover, been invited to lee
| ture III London.
Cardinal Manning has been so pros
| rated by his bronchitis that he can not
| at present either return to England or
| gD TO Rome. Ii e has been ordered 10 the
south Of France.
Mirza-Al-Khan, Secretary of State TO
the Shan of Persia, has left Ieheran for
Paris with view of preparing resi-
dence for his MASTER Who is TO arrive
there IN the spring.
McCreery is q salubrious Senator on
classic poetry and medieval romances
His speeches are strings of bMc.a-brac
around columns Of clolstered cathedrals
and leudal Il lm-tiams.
Bayard Taylor says that Goethe was
greater than Homer or Shakespeare
and in his own unexplored remainder OF
opinion he thinks that Is. L. Is a bigger
man than old Goethe.
The Gar is said to be a good linguist
He Delights In French novel;, plays
and music. He Is man Of great good
ness OF heart, and is said never to have
Quarreled with a personal friend.
George Alfred Townsend was recently
struck in the mouth by journals
q named Brooks. THIS is the first record
ed instance of "Gath's" being struck IL
the mouth by anything suggestive 0
n water Worcester Press.
e MIR. Whittier once said, at was
O wonderful thing to see one's self in prin
|, for the first time. L shall never leel s
~ we'll again. Il 1t is not true, a
|, mas been said, that dash off my writin
j rapidly, and send ii TO the printer with
p out any correction. l don't believe any
. body does that, or has right TO do it,"
y Dr.. DIo Lewis, Of anti-mInce-pie fam
u and bran-Dread lnfamy, is now astride
J. new h0bby-horse. In leather pill ows tn
Q doctor mas d sCOVeled, not b-gs. but tn
lIerod Of our modern civilization. ii
= attributes the majority of deaths anon
s. young chlldren to UVerhedted brains, til
e result of lying on feather pill VS. Boz
n ton Herald.
Thomas Greene Bethune, never parts
y in The middle. So here is one black ma
h who is not a serVlle imitaLOr of tn
j. whites. 1t would be very easy fC
=, Thomas to call himself L. Greene Bett
" une, and even to prefix the trade-mar
st of geniu-, ''Prof. ;" but he refrains. Ma
lis audiences always be large.
Senator Gordon is amiably describe
as ga perfect type Of tue chIvalrOus ge
ttemau." He is straight as an arrow
" well formed and wirl, rather above tt
be medium height, with straight black hal
yh worn longer than the New England cu
, tom is, but shorter than is the habit
the South, with a prominent nigh for,
Oe mead and small, keen, dark eyes.
be Salvni has just appeared in Paris {
III "OtheilO," ana an Old observer says
a never saw a tragedian so completely co
quer strange audience in so short
III Lme. The fastidiouo Frepch audient
ng remained until the end OF the play,
,s. hall-past u, and the great actor WI
, called several times before The Curtai
- Minister Washburne wrote to b
w brother Immediately after the death
es rhiers: II anticipated great pleasu
q IN meeting NJ. Tliers to tell him of '
,d- comp plimentary words Of Bismarck VIII
/ recently met the great German state
re man at Berlin. He spoke of him in t
ey most exalted terms, ana said that he h
ITS rendered such services to France as
aa entitle him TO the proudeat monume
"' ever erected by grateful people"
~ MIR. FI0rence-otnerwise the "Hon
A. able BardwelI Slole'-thlnks that
ng sees the dawn of better day for
- stage, in the uecay oflhe ephemeral tt
has set in. "We shall return by and b.
ed' he says, so some OF the best tEaditit
me of the past, from which we have broE
ch. away too thoughtlesslE. 1t Will not
long before the public will demand mt
'ho IN a leading juvenile mln' than tue
at paclty to dress in the height Of tashi
lal aud to lean gracefully upon the back
SOFA"