The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-03-08
PERSONAL.

this month.
Wagner wears plug hat on the back
4 of his mead.
Peter Coopers friends say he isn't
much tribuated.
James Russell Lowell is said to be en-.
Joying robust health.
Sir Randall Roberts is soon to appear
on the Boston stage.
Logan's jet-black mustache oreeps
down to his shirt collar.
Col. Audenreid is said to be the best
looking man in the. army.
Stanley, the explorer, has not yet ex-
planned his African conduct.
Robt. Corkscrew, of Great Ba rrington,
Mass, names his new baby Glmlet.
Senator Edmunds wears black vel
vet head-gear of antique appearance.
Senator Booth is spoken of by the
! Washington ladies as ''the beautiful"
Tom King, the ex-prize fighter, has
become florist in England. He always
was sWeet-scented geranium.
The new Sultan OF Turkey is the hus-
band Of one wife, who is said to be a
Belgian, very pretty and very clever.
Verdi has contributed 500 toward the
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erection of monument to Beethoven.
| Commodore Foote, the dwarf, is soon
to be married TO Minnie Warren, also a
dwarf, and sister of Mrs. General Tom
Thumb.
Mark Twain daily grows more gloomy,
ana walks around like one whose jump
ing frog OF life has been stuffed to the
brlm with No. 8 shot.
Mr.. Longfellow possesses bit of
Dante's coffin, and cane made from
the spar of the ship on which the "Star-
spangled Banner" was written.
Senator Hamlia is said to hate a news.
paper man so much that, when he can't
make bad enough face at him, he puts
on mustard plaster and eats alum.
Sam. Bowles does not think that, after
all. opera boutfe is SO dirty, for in the
performance he saw none Of the ladies
seemed 10 trail their dresses in the
mud.
| Gustave Dore has been visiting Switz-
erland, and has brought back to Paris
several important studies he made
among the mountains, almost in cloud
regions.
Theodore Tilton makes no more mis-
takes on sleeplng-cars. He carries a
/ ACN WoVACu ohilb aIOuHu Will ultl
to pin ON the curtains of his berth as
| gulde-board.
Mr.. Seth Abbott, the father of Miss
Emma Abbott, the singer, was born in
Henniker, N. H., in 1871 but is now
resident oil Peoria, LII. He was vo-
calist OF rare powers in his earlier
years.
| Archbishop Howard, who was recently
/ Ia n tain fo
the Duke of Norfolk and was formerly
an officer In the British Guards. lie is
well known for his mastery of Russian
and OF many Oriental languages.
The Prince Of Wales and Princess
Louise are taking an active part in the
preparations for the grand tournament
at Hurlingham. The Prince Will ap-
pear as Soldan Suleiman, and will have
command OF the Saracen warriors.
1t was John Brown, of Edinburg, it is
said, who, referring to literary sLimd-.
lants, altered Johnson's celebrated re-
cipe of "claret Tor boys, port for men,
brandy for heroes" into 'Scott for boys
Thackeray for men, Shakespeare for he
roes.n
Marshal Mcmahon, though keen
sportsman, never eats game. The only
barn-"rooi fowl he patronizes are
| pigeons, and his weakness is that these
birds must be shot when intended Tor
| him, never have their necks wrung, nev-
| er haltguillotined.
Peter Hitchcock, one of the most emf
nent of the. Judges OF the Supreme
Court Of Ohio, used to say: "show me
the right, and 1 will find the law to tit
IT," 1T Is pity that few lawyers of
that kind diun't hold over. They would
be such novelty in this age, you know.
Mr.. Ralph Waldo Emerson says in his
| ''Demonology," published in the North
American: Il think the (table) rap
pings new test, like blue litmus or 9TH
er chemical absorbent, to try cate
chisms with. 1t detects organic skepti-
cism in the very heads OF the Church."
| Judge Hilton Is reported as declaring
that the avalanche of letters from the
stewart heirs is beginning now to de-
crease. II don't receive over fifty
| day now, and those are mostly modest
in their demands. Had recognized all
the claims made on the estate there
would not have been much left OF it by
this time.
The Duke Of Aosta, formerly Amadeus
l, King of Spain, is thought at Turin to
have become partially insane since the
death of his Duchess. He walks every
morning in the subterranean vaults OF
the Superga, among which his wife is
inferred, and sings in a low tone litanies
to the Virgin. The rest of the day he
spends in the Church of ST. Philip pray
ing or hearing the catechism recitatlons
OF the children.
Brigham Young, Jr., is organizing in
Salt Lake City company OF five hum
| dred Mormon families, which will col
onize in Sonora, Mexico. The Mexican
authorities have promised perfect re-
| ligious liberation, and large grants oil
land. A rendezvous Of the colonists
will be established at st. George, Utah,
and the march 10 the new land will be
taken up on the 10th of April.
Justice Bradley at the age OF three
years could spell words OF four sylla-
bles. At this rate of progress he could
spell words OF eight syllabies when he
was six years of age, and words of six
| teen syllables when he was twelve, anu
words of thirty-two when he was twenty
four, and words of sixty-tour when he
was forty-eight-and just imagine whal
| a irightfully long-syllabled word he will
be able to spell should he live to be
| ninety-six years old. A prize bologna
sausage would sink into insIgnificaice