The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-05-23
Personal.


General Grant is now member of the
Grand Army OF the Republic.
Biiou Heron has made a tremendous
Square.
William Lloyd Garrison will start |
next week for Gour-months' tour in |
England.
Meissonier has a remarkable portrait |
OF Alexander Dumas in The Paris Salon |
this year.
Caleb Cushing will hang out his law
sign again, but ne would rather put more
cobwebs on it than fresh gilt.
Patti and Trebelli have given few
performances at the Volks Theater, at
Pesth, on the off nights of the Vienna
Opera.
Mr.. James Keen's coach, in New York,
has movable seats on the roof, whicu
form tables for fashionable luncheon
parties.
James Russell Lowell doesn't propose
to refuse the Austrian Mission before
it is offered 10 him, and perhaps not at
terwards.
| Theodore Thomas new home
grand concert hall-in New York prom
lses 10 surpass anything of its kind in
| the world.
Schneider, the Chicago banker, ap-
pointed to the Swiss mission, was
compatriot of Scnurz in the German
reVoutlon of 1913.
| Prof. Proctor says the earth is grow
ing larger. We are glad to hear 1T, for
real estate has shrunk learfully in the
past three years.
Gus. Williams pretty poem, "The
Water MILL" is going the rounds of the
paper in quite lively manner. Gus.
| Will be tlrst-class poet yet.
Mr.. William Carleton, the eminent
baritone, has accepted al engagement
of nine months to 70 to EAglAnu with
Carl Rosa, beginning next September.
Ben. De Bar'has gone to California to
play "Falstatf" or ali sad words OF
tongue or pen, the saddest are these: we
might have Ben, ii he'u only come this
way.
Louis G. Elson is writing very enter
tainingly on musical subjects in the
VoX Humana. Tue paper on "GraYe-
J ard Literature in Music" is right to the
point.
Gen. Spinner scares feroclous alliga-
tors away from him, III the lagOons I
Florida, by exhibiting The sigu Of dis
tress which used to appear on the Treas
ury notes.
DR.. S. Weir Mitchell says every moving
area Of rain is Eirdled by neuralgia
belt one hundred and fifty miles WIue.
IL felt it i'll my bones," is therefore sim.
ply Natures weather signal.
Fred. Douglass says that Washington
does not impress one with being u very
good city, ana though il has many
churches with their spires pointing TO
ward heaven, it is very lar from there
itself.
General Devens probably had no idea
what a good thing he was saying when
he remarked, "When Mr.. Philips calls
you u liar, a villain, and a scoundrel, he
merely means mat he does not agree
with YOU"
DR.. Bartol in his fortieth anniversary
discourse, challenged anybody in eartn,
heaven, or hell whom he nau ever in-
, jured to speak out. He knew well that
Inose in earth and heaven would not ac.
cuse him, and those III hell could not.
DR.. Taylor Lewis, the aged Professor
OF Greek at Union College, whose death
has been chronicled, was bred to the law
!, and practlced it in his youth. But his
taste tor linguistic studies soon carried
|
distinction in that department OF re-
search.
Advice to espondent-Albert
Iyours ls hard case; but suppose yol
induce your moiher-ln-laW to Try TO reaC
> The Eastern war news, pronouncing iol
, you all the Russian and Turkish names
That will be effactual, for even a moth
er-in-laW's tongue must succumb to /
= trst-Class case OF lOck-jaW.
: Judge Davis don't sit comfortably
) alter all, i'll that immense broad gauge
, double-Lrack, stone-Oallast old arm
chair tnat was exhumed for him fl ON
among the rubbish in the Capitol garret
J The consequence is they are now max
+ ing tor him chair number three; but he
may be as chary of it as he has been 0
the otner two.
The King OF Siam is only twenty-foul
years old, and has nine wives. Ii may
be very fine, in case of sudden ATTACK
Of cramps, for man to have nine wives
to slap mustard plasters on him, bu
when that man comes home from eau
r Gus meeting at 2 A. NJ and is compelled
, TO listen 10 nine curtain lectures all il
operation at one time, it is not 80 pleas
ant, even il he Is king.
! Kaiser Wilhelm owns so many honor
I AIRY medals and marks OF decoration Thai
| when he wants TO wear them all at once
y he has to put some Of them on another
man, his own coat not having acreage
enough to contain them all, anu he won
stick them on his trowsers, tor fear they
will get under him when he goes to 81
j., down, This news came over by cable
and ii 1t is not true, it is not our fault.
Rev. DR.. Justin D. Fulton is reported
r to have said, at meeting of the Amerl
D can Temperance Union in New York re
Gently, that President Hayes was very
censurable in allowing wine to be place.
i ON his table ON the occasion Of the
Grand Duke Alexis visit to the White
+ House. DR.. Fulton thinks tnat the
President ought to have said 10 th
Grand Duke: 'The bear may drinI
wine, but the eagle spurns it,"
: George Peabody did much for Tennes
: see. He lett a fund oil over 81, 900, 900 Il
be used in educating the new South
tennessee has drawn thousands Of do
i lars from this fund; this year it expects
s to have 900 OF the income. But wha
q does Tennessee do for MIR. Peabody't
memory? just this: 1t refuses TO pa.
!. the interest on 1864, 900 in Tennessee
u bonds, which is part Of the enuoWmen
!. iund of Peabody Institute Baltimore.