The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-06-07
PERSONAL.

scanual case.
Jefferson is preparing for publication
his memoirs, soon to be published by the
Applatons. lie is in excellent health.
Ar. Gladstone intends to pay visit
TO Birmingham early this month, when
he will be the guest OF Mr.. Chamberlain,
Mp.
MIR. Vanderweyde, young American,
has succeeded in 'bottling light" to be
| used lor photographing faces in the eve
| ming.
Elk Governor Packard is dangerously
III from congesLiVe chills. His phvsl-
| clans forbid his receiving visitors, mes
sages or letters.
M. Labouchere says in Truth that Mr..
Whistler's High Art "Noclurne in
| Black and Cola" reminds him Of fire.
works at Cremorne.
VIM. White, Esq, the oldest man in
fassalboro', Maine, ninety years old, is
quite smart for one Of his age. He has
covered one acre of corn the present
season.
Rev. DR.. Morgan Dix, it is related,
| recently told story OF q friend OF his
| whom he described, in depreciating
tone, as "a clergyman, but in all otner
respects most worthy man."
President Hayes is expected to visit
Windsor with his prime minister early
In July. His policy, says the Rutland
Herald, will, no DOUBT, be to catcn "a few
three-pound trout from his SecreJary's
pond.
Mr.. John Bright was one OF the strong
est opponents uf Mr.. q ,adsLone's reso-
iutions, on the ground that he could
support no policy which mig 1t lead
Ehg and into war, either for or against
The Turks.
| Hon. Sam. Randall, who hopes to be
reelected Speaker OF the House, mar
rled when young Miss Fame Ward,
VINO claims descent from Gov. Winthrop,
| OF massachusetts, and mucn OF his sue
cess III lie is owing to her influence.
Benjamin L. Tredick, late prominent
merchant of PhiladeIpnla, gives several
thousand dollars to charitable objects
in Portsmouth, N. H., his native town,
ana other towns in that State, and di-
yldes about $50. 900 am Iug Philadelphia
institutions. Tne bequests are not to
| be PAID until the deaLn Ui his vile.
Hon. Clark illsen, OF Worcester, has
recently adued 10 his collection OF rare
books a copy of Cicero's ora ions,
printed by ''Maglster Adam" in 1472,
| less than twenty years alter the inVen-
| ton OF the ART. 1t is admirably pre-
served, aud bound in heavy oak boards.
President Hayes is TO have quaint
| gilt from the enthusiastic residents OF
| Apple Creek. Ohio. TIis is large rus
| tic armchair constructed of apple
branches. On nearly every piece OF the
chair is cut a Iegend-"South Carolina ~
| ''LOuisiuna," "keconstruction," '.Peace
Policy" Fifteenth Amendment," 81.
Count Alexander HUM, who killed
his antagonist III duel III Russia and
fled the country, has since been recalled
and restored " his rank of Colonel In
the Chasseurs OF the Grenadiers. He
has passed his period OF exile in Neva-
ia, where he has been plucklng fruits
m eet for repentance in the capacity of u
waiter at a restaurant In Eureka.
Viscount Ingestre, aged seventeen,
who has just become Earl Of Shrews-
bury, Waterford and Talbot by the
death Of his father, appeared in London
police court the very day before tnat Ca
lamity in connection with silly al
tempt he had made to raise money by
selling his fathers horses. When he
c, mes Of age he will have f9),00O a wear,
ana it is hoped more sense than he
seems now to possess.
Liszt is thus described: "Tall as the
poplar swayed by the breeze, long and
dIaphanous; a broad ana high forehead,
eyes lustrous in their dusky sockets, a
straight and strong nose, arched eye
brows, almost always contracted; mas
culine features, a large and imperious
mouth, u aswarthy complexion, and those
wrinkles that denole II power. .ul organ
iZation-in word, all ascetic lace,
framed with long gray hair coming down
10 his collar.
Mr.. W. W. Corcoran lives in the
| Washington house which Mr.. Webster
occupied while he negotiated the treaty
with Lord Ashburton, and 1T was there
that the Rev. DR.. Hawley announced
that he was "sorry to inform you that
President Harrison has gone to heaven"
| Mr.. Corcoran was 80 p.eased with MIR.
| Webster's March speech that he paid u
note for $4,000 which had been dis
| counted at Ills bank.
Henry Weeks, the English sculptor,
who has just died at the aye OF seventy
was elected an A. r. A. as long ago as
| 1850. When he Was only 81 years OF age
he completed bust OF Queen Victoria
the first that WAS ever taken OF her alter
her accession to the throne. Among his
best known works are the statues OF
Cranmer, Latimer anu Ridley, for the
Martyrs Memorial at OXiold; OF DR..
Goodall, at Eton; of the Marquis OF We'll
lesley, for the Iuuia House; VI Lord Ba-
con, for Trinity College, Cambridge; OF
Lord Auckland, for Calcutta, and VI 81:
E. Barnes, for Ceylon.
| Mr.. Mckee Rankin made several start
ling innovations in his personation of
"Macbeth' at Philadelphia recently.
The most important was in making the
character an old mau In the last act,
supposing seventeen years to have
elapsed between the death Of duncan"
and that Of "Macbeth." The part, it will
be remembered, makes "Macbeth" speak
of himself AS "iallen into the sere and
yellow leaf" The Interpretation Of Mr.
Rankin is ingenious, though perhaps "a
rifle strained. In history Macbeth"
reigned seventeen years, IL is true; but
the evidence OF his reigning 50 long in
the play is, to say the least, slender.
DR.. Charles F. Deems explains how he
keeps himself able to work hafd without
any results of WEAKNESS or i'll health.
He says: / keep Sabbath. Few min
sters do. Many years l did not. On
Friday night 20 to bed and say, ''Now
lay me down to Sleep" and no one
must wake me until Sunday morning,
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