The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-03-15
PERSONAL,

haunts.
Charles O'Conor pleads in baritone
voice.
Peter Cooper has recovered his smile
got his grin back, as it were.
Seth Green spends all his spare time
poring over Holsters and such.
Mr.. Albert Rhodes, once diploma
and now writer, has been lecturing on
"Jerusalem."
Generals G. T. Beauregard and Jubal
EARLY are to institute and conduct a
series of mammoth lottery drawings in
New Orleans.
M. DecroiX, as president of the French
society for discouraging the eXces sive
use of tobacco, offers three prizes for
essays on The subject.
Gen. Diego Alvarez, who is in arms in
Mexico against President Diaz, is son
OF Juan Alvarez, surnamed The Tiger,
who in 1855 drove Santa Anna from
power.
Vahan Eftendi, Under Secretary of
State for the Department of Justice in
Turkey, is in Paris studying judiciary
system. He will remain there for awhile
and then go to London.
MIR. Holman Hunt has not made in his
Jerusalem studio that progress with his
important picture which he had autici =
pated. He says that this is owing prin-
cipally to the unsettled state OF puDlic
aft Fairs.
Il. B. Hayes is grocery-keeper on
Eighth avenue, New York. He's a mute,
inglorious asplrant alter fame, and has
not even departed Tor Washington to
solicit post.ofice on the strength OF
his name.
Prof. Joachim, the clever and hand
some yIolinist, who is supposed to have
been the original OF "Charles Auches-
ter" received yesterday the degree ut
Doctor of Music from the University OF
Cambridge.
Mr.. Gladstone's article of the first
number OF The Nine eeuth Century is
"On the Influence OF Authority iu Mat
ters of Opinion"-a subject which d
writer who was once Premier OF Britain
ought to understand.
Horace B. CLafiin, the eminent dry
goods merchant, worth, it is estimated
from S12, 600, 900 tO SIS, O0O, 900, comm. need
tAe World with nothing but energy, de-
termination and hope; and see how
magniicently he has invested them.
Mr.. Story, the American sculptor, has
made clay model OF Clytemne ira at
the moment when, after staying her nus =
band, she advances and contronts the
people with justification of her deed. 1t
is standing figure, thin and slight; the
head signify bent; the arms folded; the
expression intense, concentrated, and
restrained.
Col. Rivero y Rio, whom President
Dlaz has appointed Mexican Minister at
Washington, is an author and journalist.
he is at present in charge of the Mexi-
can Ministry OF Justice and Public In-
structlon. Having been forced into en-
lie by the French invasion, he came 10
this country and acquired general
kno Wedge of American affairs.
Mr.. Joaquin Miller appears to be th Q
most inspiring and irresistible subj CT
to the reporters and letter-wriLers mat
Washington ever saw. Ii is now stated
tnaJ ne is so pleased with the city that
he Intends to take up his permanent res.
idence there. His latest poem-one on
the lnaugural-concluue with The line
"On! statesmen, be statesmen at last.'
Peter DOnohue or Uncle Peter" as
he is often called, of San Francisco, is
perhaps the only American WAC owns
| sing gle-handed, a railroad ninety miles
l
money, and has not "A penny Of stock OF
, bond out. Mr., Donohue is fairly pre-.
served man OF about Sixty years OF age,
| with a jolly red nose, and jolly way ol
passing the time. Beside poss esslng &
fortune OF ~ 100000, he has second
wife.
Mr.. William Shakespeare, Poet, once
possessed among his chairs one OF oak
handsomely carved. Alter time this
came into the hands OF Paul White
head, who churllshly denied the use OF
| it TO Garrick, when that picturesque
actor was anxious TO have it for a throne
at the StraJlord Jubilee, in 1863. Iht
latest p0ssessor OF the precious chai
| was a Kentish clergyman, now dead; ant
it was to have been sold at auction
week or two ago.
Mr.. Darwin was recently presented
on his siXty-ninLh birthday with a iolit
album with the photographs of one hun
nred and tifty-lour men OF science il
| Germany. The list includes several 0
the most highly honored names in Euro
pean science. The album is inscribed
''To the ReIormer of Natural History
Charles Darwin" simultaneously witt
that album there came another one 0
similar character from Holland, contai n
ing two hundred and seventeen photo
graphs of Mr.. Darwin's scientific al
mirers IN the Netherlands.
Marshal Bugeaud has somewha
caustic wit. One evening when Thler
was Minister, on being received b.
Mile. Dosne with more effusion thar
common, he remarkeu: "They receiv
me too we'll this evening not to have us
for me tomorrow" At another tim
when NJ. Thiers was very energetl
about having the emutes suppressed
Bugeaud objected that he had not sutt
cient force. "AhW cried the Minister
'if there were only in Paris fifty thou
sand men like my selt." "Eh, well,"sai
Bugeaud, measuring him with his eye
fifty thousand men like you, that woul
be only twenty-five thousand men,"
The San Francisco Chronicle of tn
5th inst. relates this surprising story
Yesterday, James Gibney, who drive
hack No 16S WAS paid money bY seYera