The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-12-21
PERSONAL.

r chard Grant White thinks pungent
slar is pardonable.
GRANTS face has grown broad, and his
beard is unusually long.
Farjeon once run New Zealand
new spaper-lnto the ground.
Gambetta is negligent in his dress,
ana always wears an old hat.
John MorrIssey feels well and will eat
his CHRIS tmas dinner in New York.
Flood, Mackev, Fair, Jones and
| Sharon, California miIlionaires, dre seu-
| educated.
Mr.. E Thu Burritt is seriously i'll: he
has mad several hemorrhages within the
past few days.
Mr. Hepworth Dixon has written a
new novel, with the commonplace title
Of Ruby Grey"
Wendell Phillips is Overjoyed at hear
ing that Kansas is tu send a statue OF
Jonn Brown TO Washington.
Mr.. Oakley HalPs last appearance ia
as New YORK co respondent of the new
Democratic paper al Washington, the
| Post.
Ex-Minister Pierrepont will spend the
winter IN Washington. Mrs. Pierrepout
remains in Oxford, where her son is
studying.
| MIR. Longfellow received from the Ola
South Fair POst-otfiCe, the other day, a
letter OF admiration of his work, written
in Japanese.
W m. Put Kellogg, of Louisiana, is de-
scflOea as slim, under-sizeu, bald
headed, grizzly y-whiskered, oIdish
I nervous, peppery man.
Victor Hugo has completed two new
dramas-One on the Man Of the Iron
MASK and the other on Tonquemaua-
TO De played alter his death.
John Habberton, author of "Helen,s
Babes" mas more lecture calls than he
can attend to. He goes "Wound ana
wound" reading his ''plece."
David Davis would be an excellent
Judge OF baby show. He would not be
influenced, ana the disappointed mothers
! would pe aWeu into silence and dIscre-
| ton.
Prof. Mommsen's sixtieth birthday
mas just been celebrated. A congratu-
latory address was presented to HIM by
depuLatlOn OF about sixty university
probes 0rs.
Mr. Witten, the member of the House
! Oh Delegates lrOm IazeWell County. Vu.
glnla, Is only torIy-lhree years oid, but
| ls the father or sixteen chIIdreu his
wife having had five pairs Of Twins.
Mr.. john Ruskin does not wholly agree
with Ilrs. General sherman on Lle sub
jecL OF dancing. He has found ouI-aud
says so i'll FOrS--Lhat music and "p!e
else dancing" are safeguards OF moral
| Ity.
| Rev. David Buel Knickerbacker, DID,,
OF Minneapolis, Mimi, who was chosen
Missionary BlSDop Of Arizoua ana New
MeXico BY tue Protestant Episcopal
General Convention; has declined the
| election.
Rev John S. Pogue, for many years a
missionary in the Sandwich lslands,
died recently at Laramie City. He had
just returned from Honolulu for the
uenctit Of mis- health. lie was sixty
thee years Of age.
Mr.. Longfellow'5 admirable poem OF
''Keramos" so pleased the soul OF Mr..
Joun Bennett, late OF Lambeth, that he
sent the poet one of his most lovely
Yases-and had, OF course, charming
letter i'll 1eturn.
Hon. j. q, Sheppard, the new Speaker
OF The South Carolina House of Dele
gates, and person who is credited with
nucu c'evegness, Is the youngest man
ever elected to The position in that State :;
ne is but tWenty-seyen.
MI. Seth Wilbur Payne, Of New York,
is preparing The Ives OF American
JOURNALISTIC" an encyclopedia OF the
! editors ana editorial writers of the
UnIted States. He has prudently ex.
Guided their attempts to W1te each
oLners lives.
! Sir +. May says: "ln Switzerland all
| The conditions Oi mountain NE are CON
genial to freedom. N race OF men can
uwell amid its mountains, its precIpices,
It's rocks and glaciers, and It's mountain
torrents, without being strong, brave
and resolute."
Mr.. James S. Key. of Baltimore, q son
Of Philip Barton Key, who VIII be re.
membereu III connection with The SIckIes
tragedy, has aDanuOned The law lor the
stage, aud is 10 appear, i'll connection
"lUu Miss Louise NJ. Pomeroy, i'll the
Southern cities.
Bishop Harris, of the new Epscopa
diocese OF Quincy, Illinois, is all eX-Con-
Iederate solder, who was u lawyer IN
Alabama until he went INTO the rebe
army when the war began. He served
until the close, and in '69 only entered
The cerical profession, He is only
tnlrty-siX years old.
Mr.. Spurgeon said the other day that
there were number of religious people
wn0, like YagranLs, seemed inclined II
Try and get W Heaven by by-coad, sc
as TO escape paying the turnpike, al
tending sometimes one place and some
times another, never doing mucn, anO
never being asked tor much.
Senator Blalne's illness is reported to
have left him materially unchanged il
voice, manner and nervous action
There Is nothing llslless about him, AM
ne sits In the Senate in the OLD crouch
ing attitude, an arm across the desk
ready Tor the spring anu toss with which
he handles argument anu opponent.
Il Col. W. B. Slaughter, an old man, and
d native Vlrginian, who is said to have
known Lafayette, Jefferson, Madison
Monroe, JOhu Quincy Adams, Jackson
Van Buren, Ca noun, Webster, Clay ant
; other distinguished persons OF the pas
generation, 10 about to publish bO0l
giving his "reminiscences Ot these men.
john Bright wrote lately note il
| which occurred this passage; "lf Gull
; dren at school can be made 70 under
stand how 1t is just and noble TO be bu
name even TO what we term inferior AM
mails, it will do much to give them
lnixher character and tone through life
There is nothing meaner than bsrbar0u