The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-07-05
PERSONAL,
Bret Harte is going to hunt the bufIa
10; he means bisOn-ness.

Bret Harte is going to hunt the bufTa-
| 10; he means bisOn-ness.
Hon. w. E. Chandler is i'll in New
Hampshire, and Is prohibited by his
physician from engaging in any business
| this sumner.
Captain Nathaniel B. Palmer, the dis
| coverer OF Palmer's Land, in the South
Pac tic Ocean. died at San francisco
last week, aged seventy-eight years.
Mr.. o. H. Platvs dog in Meriden,
Conn, feeling Inundated by his muzzIe,
paved at it until lie got IL off, nd then
dug hole in the ground and buried it.
Capt. Catesby Jones, who was killed
in Selma, Ala, the other day, was a
nephew or General Robert E. Lee. He
commanded the Merrimac during the
war.
Mr.. Pratt, an American, who has sat
at the leet Of Liszt, and who has chal-
lenged the critical opinion of Berlin
In some of his own compositions, is now
in London.
General Toombs' first movement in
the Georgia Convention Will be to fix
the per diem of members at 81 day. he
thinks they should serve the State in
thai body as they would on petit jury.
Lord Stratford de Redcliffe, who has
an article on Turkey-Where he passed
large portion OF his lie as British
| Ambassad0r-in the Nineteenth Cen
| Jury for this month, is eighty He
| began life as preGiS writer to his cousin,
George Canning.
Mr.. Hubert Herkomer, the painter of
"The Last MUSTER" has Just completed
lite-size portraits of Herr Wagner and
his wiIe. Mr.. Herkomer, though Ba-
yarian by birth, adopted England as his
home when boy, ana ali his early
studies were carried on in the ART school
at south Kensiugton.
| Capt. e. Elton, the English Consul at
MozLmblque,' mas started, with small
European party, ON tlYe-montns' eX-
pedltlon in the Lake Nyassa district.
1t Is expected that some valuable re-
suits WItn regard to the pest route from
the coast to Lake Nyassa will result
rom LheRundertaking.
Bishop Pierce, OF the Southern Metho-
| dist Church, has, on account of his lee Bile
health, been urged by the college Of
bishops to lay oil and lake rest, but his
Iatner, DR.. Lovlck Pierce, is reported
as in admirable health, and travelling
considerable distances and preaching
with much Yigor. although nearly one
hundred years old.
MIR. Smalley tells of an Englishman
who remarked of Inc Grant.Pierrepunt
reception that nearly all the lauies he
mad seen these were Americans. Chow
do you know?' "By tAeir dress.n "Yuu
mean because they are SO well dressed ?"
!"Because they are SO much addressed"
twas bis grim retort.
Mr.. Richard Power, in iocular way.
suggested that those members of the
BRUSH Parliament VINO could not ca ten
the speaKers eye during the debate on
the Eastern question should print their
speeches. sIr Patrick OBrien accepted
the invitation and printed his speech
under the title Of "0Ae of the Rejected
ADDRESSES" uedlcaLtng 1T to MI. Power.
Mr.. Thomas Brassey, eldest SON of the
great railway contractor VINO lett each
ol his three children upward oI
$lO,OO0,OO0, contriVed 10 get leave of ab-
seuce from ms parliamentary duties
and make tour in his steam vacht
around the world in forty-slX weeks.
ME-. Brassey passed the examination for
"a certihcaLe Of seamanshlp some time
Iago.
Mr.. John Cousin was recently ar.
rested at Calcutta for knocking down
MIS-. Auna Hopkins, and pleaded in de.
| .ense VI The act lhat she had bitten him.
and that it was "kuVwn 10 everybody V
that IA bite from woman was at a
times dangerous; but Il bite from an OLD
woman was s.lll more dangerous; ill.,
deed, 1t was as dangerous as The bite ol
a snake"
James Grant Wilson says, in the Inde.
pendent, of John LoLnrop Motley: "Iu
Lne last letter thai L mad the nor of re-
celylng from my lost friend he men.
TONED that he was occupied with what
ne considered the greatest work OF his
llfe-his History OF the Thirty Years
WaP-WhICh, 1t is TO be feared, will
ever remain but a mastery fragment, .
/ John f. Qlarles, the colored United
states Consul to Malaga, Spain, is Oh a
. visit to his father, in Atlanta, He claims
TO nave opened up a demand Tor
Georgia pine, which, is now acknowI
edgeu there to be cheaper and better
thal that imported from Norway auc
sweden. Malaga, CITY of one hundre d
. ana seVenLy-nve thousand inhabitants
Is the third largest III SPAN.
Mrs. Ruth Il. Southworth. OF Py.
mouth, Mass, who Monday celebrated el
. hunureth birthday, was born in Marsh
nelu. hef maiden name being Osyur
sue was married i'll 1899, ami had {
family .! nYe sons and three daughters
she mas Always enjoyed the best o
health, and vita it "a cheerful Gisposi
tIoA. Untii last year she never took !
dose OF medicine, and The record OF hel
WORK since she was ninety years Of age
would be credltaDle one for woman
ha1 her years.
( Count MoItke does not con
slider himself particularly tacl
turn, though tnat is thC
. opinion of everybody else, and he has
: consequently acquired the epiLhet o
the "ollent Man." At a social meeting
, some Time ago, alter he hau been en
gagged in IA very animated conversation
: one OF the, conVIyes proposed his ne al Lh
= aud OF course luggea III the "Silen
+ Man." Whereupon SAID Count Moltke
, II don't know what Unese people mean
! 1t seems to me mat | talk as much a.
: anybody else."
b, MIR. Ashburton Webster has written
/, note TO the Boston Post, correctin.
), its statement concerning Daniel Web
: ster's silver service, Which was latel
4 SOFA to the Somerset Club OF Bos on
e lie says: "The 'Rush silver was left t
me by my grandfather, and was durIn
!, my minority sod by my guardian, tn
u late George Eaton, at The request of MI
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