The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-01-17
PERSONAL.

Mr.. Alexander II. Stephens is very i'll |
again, having had hemorrhage OF the
lungs.
Fred. Douglass win lecture in Illinois |
on "Self-made Men" and "Reminiscan-
ces Of Slavery"
Mr.. Hill Keith, of Lake Forest, N. c.,
having lost his wife last year, was mar
ried TO her mother on Christmas Day.
Prince Arthur's suit does not progress.
His pretty HanoYeFian cousin, Princess
Frederick, has not yet said either 'Yes"
or mo"
have painted the portrait Of Michelet,
the historian, in one day, and it is q
good picture.
M. Sardou, says the Paris correspond
ent OF the Philadelphia Telegraph, is
going to write another play on an Amer
lean theme, which will surpass "L'Oncle
Sam" in its structures upon society in
the United States.
Bierstadt and the Earl of DunraYen
are now in Denver, and the artist is re-
ported to be enraptured with What be
has seen in Estes Park, and proposes to
paint picture of Longs Peak and the
surrounding scenery.
the possessor of q Walking-stick made
from the timbers of La Petite Hermine,
one Of the ships under the command OF
jacques Cartier, wnen he made his voy-
age UP the st. Lawrence River more
than three hundred years ago.
Rev. Thomas P. Hunt, who recently
died In Pennsylvania, was curious old
genius. La his will he devised to a reia-
tion his "War eane," big stick with
heavy head. But he adds a clause to the
eff et that If the legatee should ever hap
pen 10 turn oopperhead the stick is to be
broken over his head.
Lord Teynham, one of the glitterlng
members of the British aristocracy, has
been entertaining twenty cabmen at din
ner. Addresses were given by the host
and Clergyman, and after one of the
cabmen mad thanked the former Tor his
kindness, Lady feynham presented each
OF them With a book as u souvenir Of the
occasion.
Captain Duncan, Of the good ship
Quaker city, which carried "lhe Inno-
cents AbrOau," says be always admired
Mark Twain until he was proved to pc
unreliable. The Captain has been lee
turing Oh the subject in New York, anu
not making success. Nothing could
be more delicious than his stoliG eriti-
cisms Of the volatile author OF "lnno-
cents Abroad"
John Bigelow puffed Bryanrs "His-
tory oil the UHited States" at the ex-
pense OF Bauerotps. The Graphic aptly
says of the comparative importance 0!
the two works: EFIIty years, and only
ten volumes to show for it. If he { MI,
Bancrott) had only hired half-a0zen
literary hacks to do the work for him,
he might have finished the whole thing
III two years and made nothing of it,"
Governor Hubbard, Of. Connecticut.
has incurred the everlasting gratitude
OF the Woman Suffrage ASSOCIATION OF
New Haven, by his denunciation, in his
inaugural, OF the State laws relating to
| the property rights of married women
| they have thanked him in a resolution,
| in which they blandly call him ''an ac-
knOwledged master OF Jurisprudence"
Mr.. Sims Reeves was singing in the
| "Messiah," at the Albert Hall, the other
evening, and had just sung the clear
! high notes ending one Of the airs, when
i they were repeated in shFill voice
words and all, from some crazy throat
| in the nelghL 0rhood OF the orchestra
The imitation was dreadful, but the au.
\ dience was 80 stately one that 1t only
| smited and appiauded Mr.. Reeves.
The Prince OF Wales finds MarlboE
ough House Loo small, and is about to
| migrate to South Kensingten, where ii
/ is Understood His Royal Highness has
\ property OF considerable value and eX,
tent, originally secured through the fore.
/ sight oil the late Prince Consort at the
] time Her Majesty's Commissioners for
4 the Exhibition OF 1851 made their excel.
4 lent land investment in that pleasant
suburb.
Captain Hamilton, of Parsontown, in
| Ireland, is taxing steps to establish u
| club for reyiViAg tne ancient pastime OF
4 fa4conry, and has already obtained a
fine team of falcons and hawks. The
number of birds is tAirty-hye and they
vary in species. 1t is proposed that
hunts shall take place three days in the
week. Some of the hawks have been
imported from Norway, while others
were obtained in Ireland. .i.!. .t
Hugo is insane on the subject of com
plete aInues W 10 the G0mmuaists, neY
ertneless there is pleasure in his mad
ness. On Christmas he gave one OF his
| ehildreRs parties, and alter the usua.
| teastfngs and presents delivered an ora.
ton TO The little ones, burlesquing the
opponents OF his pet measure; then in.
PRODUCING cage dlled Win birds, took
| u vote OF his audience on the 9ues zion oil
| amnestymg the ieathered cAptiyes. The
| house was unanimous, the window was
opened, so was the cage door, and away
4 fed the BIRDS to the frlenzied joy OF The
children. .
The Marquis de Castellane, a we'll
known me plDer of the Chamber OF Depu.
| ties, representative OF one 0i the Oidest
/ families in France, is accused in certain
ne wspapers by some infamous calumni
ator OF winning thirty Two thousand
| francs by che atlng AZ cards at the Baby
Club in the Rue RoyaIe. The Castellane
family, TO lts credit, has done wha
French people rarely dot has taker
up the mater with energy. II ha.
4 brought il officially before tue Prefect o.
Ponce, and it is privately pursuing al
\ inquiry into it in the hope OF discovering
| the author OF the lie and Of bringing hin
| up In court.
Dom Pedro took a donkey ride a.
4 Cairo, and on his return gave the owner
| OF the honored donkey a guinea. Gole
4 was coinage unknown tO the whaekel
9 Of asses, whe would have preferred si
yer plaster, and he vehemently de
| nuunced the Emperor as Il counterfeiter
robDer and grinder OF the faces of the
poor. The Emperor doesn'T know any
A Arabic; scores OF sympathetic donkey
4 lain nj In, Ia,