The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-05-17
PERSONAL.

Mr.. sankey will summer at Cohassett
Villagh, near Boston.
Tilden. Cooper aud Ole Bull met in
one box at Booths Theater, Friday
night.
Major George L. Gillespie, of the En-
gineer Corps, has gone to the seat Of war
IN Europe.
General join B. Hood is father of
three sets OF twins, not to mention three
other children.
J. Martin, late OF Westfield, VT. died
at the age of one hundred and four, and
had smoked for sixty years.
General Sam. Houston in 1888 pre-
dicted that Texas would have popula-
| tion Of ten millions before the close of
the century.
Ex-Governor Fentou, of New York, is
said to be in high favor with the Admin
lstration, and he raps Conk1ing merci-
gets the chance.
Gen. Sherman is said to have a low
opinion Of the feminine mind, but he
does buy statues OF Winnie Ream, and
goes every night, when he can, to see
Mary Anderson act.
General G. b. Comstock, of the En-
gineer Corps, has been granted leave of
| absence for one year, with permission to
visit Europe, and, il permitted by the
Delligerent governments, the seat Of war
in the East.
Mr.. George William Curtis will deliver
the Chancellor's address at the coming
commencement of Union College at
| Schenectady. Ex-Gov. Seymour has
been invited to deliver the address be-
/ fore the Historical Society.
| Senator Dawes has been intrusted
| with petition from the apprentices in
the Boston Navy Yard, asking Congress
to pass a law placing them under in
structions for two years at their last
years apprenticeship wages.
Rev. DR.. William Speer, late Secretary
of the Presbyterian Board of Education
in Philadelphia, has returned from his
missionary visit to China and Japan.
He lectured in San Francisco last week
upon subjects connected with his visit.
| Field Marshal Wrangel celebrated the
ninety-third anniversary of his BIRTH
day on the 10Th of April, and received
visits Of congratulatl0n from the Ger
man Emperor, the Crown Prince and
number Of other members of the I'M
perial family.
| Rev. Father Francis Xavier Tsch ep-
hens died in Baltimore last week, IN the
seventy-six th year OF his age. The de.
ceased was the founder OF tue Redemp.
torist Order in America. He was
native of Wurtemburg. Germany, and
first came TO America in 1882 to establish
MI sSions.
Danbury Bailey opened his lecture at
Bridgeport by remarking that he had
seen 30 much about it on the posters and
| in the papers, during the past week or
| two, that ne had come to have feverish
| desire to hear it himself and was very
glad he was present.
Mr.. Burdette, OF the Burlington Hawk
eye, ls soon to publish book full Of his
best witLicisms, including his lecture,
never before published, on "rhe Rise
and Fall Of the Mustache." He is one
OF the happlest and most versatile news
paper humorlsts In the country.
Mr.. Gladstone could only find time to
write 10 the general meeting OF the So
ciety tor the Protection Of Animals Liza
Bile to Vlviseetion that "You are al
ready aware that my sympathies and
prepossessious are greatly with you,
nor do l wish this to be secret; but 1
am overwhelmed with occupations"
Edwin Adams proposes to pass the
summer months in one OF the villages OF
Alameda or Marin County, California,
probably San Rafael, in The latter, where
The atmosphere is balmy and Uniform,
He is somewhat stronger than at last
account, and even talks of renewing his
appearances.
The Rev. Josiah Henson, the original
Tom OF "Uncle Toms Cabin" attended
the Monday meeting Of Methodist minis.
1 in n n 10 Tn Of h
homely and amusing speeches he con.
graduated the elder brethren that they
"nad survived the crush OF matter and
still Stood"
DR.. Hodge, tall, spare man, with gen.
erous mouth and nose, and closely.
shaven tace, save an iron-gray mus.
tache, is Rlcnmond's most distinguish ed
preacher. His face and accent show
MIN to be OF pure Southern blood, and
his speaking without notes is what the
people OF the South especially admire.
Joseph Bonaparte, King OF Spain, once
possessed ponderous set OF military
maps OF France and Belgium, and these
have just been presented TO the Unlver
sity Of California by MIR. Adolphe Mail
lard, br0ther-in.law of MIR. Sam. Ward
= who formerly occupied the Bonaparte
estate az Bordentown, N. j., but is now
resident Of San Rafael, in the Colder
state.
Mark Twain was loudly called for at
Ter the production OF his new play il
Washington, but was not able to re
: spond, having been detained in Hartford
by illness. telegram was read iron
uim, in which he said he had prepared
Two speeches for the occasion-one Tor
success, and the other for a failure-ant
regretled tnat he could not be presen
> TO deliver both.
Dr.. Hayes, the Arctic explorer, ha
= been making serious biunders i'll hi
place as member OF the New Yorl
Legislature, and the Evening Post Ques
b tlons whether his constituents VIII Sc,
+ lit 10 re-elect him. Perhaps it would Dt
g cheaper 70 send him to the North Pole
u A bad politician is a more expensiy
= commodity IN our Republic than an Arc
TIC explorer.
Col. Voutier, who died recently a
. Hyeres, in France, was in 1920 mid
:. shipman on the snip Estaiette, stationed
;, at Milo, in the Mediterranean, and wa
: present when several peasants dlsiu
!, TERED the world-lamed statue oil th
u Venus Of Milo, now in the galleries O
The Louvre. He sent Information OF tn
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