The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-08-17
PERSONAL.

from Pegasus into politics.
Senator David Davis is reported to
have cancer Of the stomach.
Senator Edmunds makes the speech
at the coming fair at Bethel, Vt.
Arthur, leader of the Locomotive
Brotherhood, is an Englishman.
Wieniawskps brother has met with
success as pianist in London.
Lafayette once kissed Walt Whitman,
but it was when Walt was baby.
Carl Scburz can speak five languages,
but he can't skin an eel.-[Herald z. |.
man.
Edward Everett Hale says Block
island has "eXtraordinary resources for
loating,"
Mr. David Dudley Field is said to
nave been lnvlledto stand for the New
4ork State Senate.
General Cancowski, OF the Russian
army, must be the veritaDle fellow that
jumped over the moon.
MIR. Frederick Tennyson, a brother of
the poet, is a Spiritualist, and be says
spirltuallsm is The only question of the
day.
Joaquin Millers idyllic drama, "The
Danltes, or The Heart of the Sler.as," is
to be brought out at the Broadway,
New York, Iheater next Monday.
Colonel Thomas Pollock, who died
the other day in Denver, is said to have
been the only man who owned a buggy
in Denver during the whole year OF
| 1859.
Mr.. Talmage inquiries, "Hath the rain
| fatherr or course it hath father,
| though 'tis not son, t0rso0th. And
| that is what's the matter with the pater
on the roof.
Mr.. Ruskin says that in the last twen-
ty years much more general progress has
| been made III the appreciation OF good
| music than in the knowledge and love
OF good pictures.
| MIR. ". W. Story, poet, painter, sculp-
tor and lawyer, is now on his way to
America for brief visit. An American
by birth, he may almost he called an
| Anglo-ltalian by adoption.
Hon. E. W. Stoughton will have an
article i'll the September number of the
N orth American Review in reply to
Judge Blacks abusive and intemuerate q
paper entitled "The Electoral Con.
splracy."
Prince Bismarck is troubled with wake.
| fuiness, to relieve which he drinks
| champagne in prescribed doses before
going to bed. When he goes to Varzin
| ne taxes with him his own personal and
private COOK.
Edward Everett Hale suggests $50
ciety OF the Rights of Man." which
| should stand by It's members and protect
any man in his right to work at anv
| trade he might choose and any wages he
might choose.
Mr.. MaplesOn has offered to bring out
Fannie Davenport at her MaJesty's The
ater, London, In the New York success.
"Plque." Chas. Reade and Wilkle Col
Inns nave written W her, urging her to
play in London.
Mr. John Trigg, a young man livin &
| near IlompsoLVIlle, Conn, VINO enjoys
a good deal Of local reputation for
strength, recently picked up four hum
| dred pounds OF iron anu carried it a dis
tance OF thirty feet.
! SWlnburne's notice of Congreve in the
| last volume OF the Ency cIOpedia Britain.
| nlca is justly praised as a VIndlcatiou OF
| one VINO, IN the words of Hallam, "gaye
| a tone OF refinement to the public taste
| which 1t never lost"
Governor Hendricks received few so-
clal attentions in London, being little
| known or thought OF. lie had one iuvi-
| tatlon to dinner through the courtesy of
Mr. hewitt, who has wide circle of
good friends in England.
G. f. Hoar has been laboring lately
under troublesome abscess in one Of
his ears. He said, in eXcusing himself
from making speech, that the trouble
so oppressed his brain that his hearers
would be sorry If he talked long.
Rear Admiral Preble spent the Fourth
OF July az Lima, Peru. He expected to
| leave GaliaO Bay August 2, on the Oma.
ma, Tor cruise further south. He VIII
re.urn TO Panama at the close of the
present year OF the beginning of the
next.
Mr.. Darwin's life is a comfortable one
he las never been obliged to gnt poy.
erly ana mas had plenty OF leisure in
which to follow his chosen studies, He
married his cousin, Miss Emma Wed.e-
WOOD, ana they live III the lovely county
OF Kent.
william Cullen Bryant refused to
write verses ior the centennial ceiebra-
lion OF The battle of Oriskany, OH the
| plea that IL vas too late Ior him " un.
uertake sucn work. Nevertheless he
p "H OuS VI oSfcu NcISt5 lUT
Bennington.
Col. Richard Reall (known in the
stormy times of the Harpers Ferry in
| surrectl0n as Old John Browns Secre-
tary OF Stale) is arranging for publ.
| cation OF book Of verse in the autumn.
lie has been making d marked hit AT The
West as a temperance lecturer.
| Mr.. Brighps health and vigor are
proved by the fact that be delivered
three speeches at Bradford in the course
OF one day, The occasion being the dedioa-
| ton OF the Golden statue. Ihe speeches
altogether filed six closely-printeu COL
umns Of the London newspapers.
| Mr.. Dion Boucicault mas appeared in
an entirely new character, that of a can
didaLe for Parliament lor County Glare.
Ireland. He will have many hearty
wishes for his success, and deserved
wishes, too; Ior Mr.. Boucicault is an
exceedingly clever man, and good
writer, and would probably be good
speaker even III mat grave but hardly
reverend body, the British Parliament.
Ii elected he will doubtless be a further
credit Lo the country he has so delight.
lully represented already upon the
stage,
The London World has discovered tha at
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