The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-11-08
Personal,
Liszt is q rare mimic.

Longfellow thinks Thackeray the mas
ter of English prose.
Mr.. Whittier will probablysIiye here
after at DanVers, Mass.
Senator David Davis is doing the
Banllng system on thin cruel.
John Letcher, the War Governor of
Virginia, was once carpenter.
Jefferson Davis and wife are visiting
their son-in-Iaw in Memphis.
Cook and Murray, when they were at
Yale, stood low in their classes.
Sitting Bull is described as the untu-
toredest Indian that ever lived.
Ii. W. Shaw (Josh Blllings) declines
an invitation to lecture in Macon, Ga.
DR.. oliver Wendell Holmes is writing
a monograph Of the late John Lothrop
Motley.
Blondn, the tight-rope performer, has
presentiment that he will lose his life
by fall.
King Louis of Portugal is now prepar-
lug a Portuguese translation of "The
| Merchant OF Venice"
EX-Secretary Belknap has repented
and established himself in the claims
business at Washington.
DR.. Gardner, the old headmaster of
the Boston Latin School, used to boast
that he had worn one coat forty years.
Mr.. John Jay has written an article
| OH the dispute between Motley, Sumner
and Grant for the International Re view,
General Franz Sigel intends that two
| of his three sons shall be farmers, and
has bought for them farm in Maryland.
DR.. f. f. Gage and Miss Bessie,
| daughter OF the late Gen. W. j. Hardee,
were married at Selma ON Wednesday
| last.
Mr.. Julian Hawthorne's youngest
| daughter has been named Gwendolen,
| SO that her name is as near as can be to
that of George Eliots heroine.
| Max Adeler (Charles Heber Clark has
written play called "Her Second Hus-
band," whicn all the Philadelphia pa.
pers pronounce signal success.
MIR. Spurgeon, in the course of char.
acleristic address, said it was one OF
the hardest things in the world to do to
make noDleman into Baptist.
Hannibal namlin and Herschel v.
Johnson are the only ones OF the Presi-
Dental and Vice Presidential candl-
dates nominated in 1861 still living.
George ID. Butler is now the Paris cor
respondent oil Dunn Piatts "Capital,"
| Ii ls SAID he WrIte5 his letters In Wash
lngton to save travelling expenses.
| MIR. Barbosa, the young colored man
| from Porto Rico, who was refused the
opportunity TO study medicine IN New
York, has matrlculated at Michigan Uni
vevsity.
| Mr.. Ii. st. G. Tucker, son of the Hon.
| j. Randolph Tucker, of Virginia, mas
just been married to Miss johnston, a
granddaughter Of General Albert Sidney
Johnston.
Charles Long, the African explorer,
lately III the Khedive's service, has re-
turned TO New York utterly broken in
NJ ath. He has resigned his position in
The Egyptian army.
Henry W. Longtellow will open the
| holiday number of st. Nicholas with a
long Christmas poem, entitled "The
Three Kings" William Cullen Bryant.
also, wall Lave poem IN the same mum.
Der.
Ex-Gov. Abner Coburn, of Maine, is
said to be the largest land holder in
| America. lie owns five hundred and
ninety ty-Lhree thousand acres, large
part of which is i'll Canada and at the
| West.
Mr.. Ruskin's Oxford lectures this year,
which ne begins tomorrow, will consist
of a series OF twelve readings in "Alod.
ern Painters" collecting Lne passages
which the author thinks likely to be per.
manently useful.
Minister St0ughton gets what may be
termed "a beautiful notice" from he
Albany Journal ellis snowy bead" 1t
4 says, twill match the SHOWS OF ST. Pc.
| =, ii 81 in
that frigld but stately capital"
Col. Miles began his military careerin
1861 as u member Of the Boston Tigers
al organization accustomed to meet for
urill nightly at BoylsLon Hall. Thence
he went INTO the Twenty second Massa a.
chusetts volunteers, alter VIII ch his pro.
motion was rapid.
Henry w. Paine, of Boston, recently,
in the Supreme Court, Was Interrupted
from the Bench with the somewhat alb.
rupt comment: "Alr. Paine, that ISM,
the law" Mr.. Paine instantly replied
81 think, Your Honor, IL was The law
until this moment"
Mr.. r. 7. Perkins has written novel
called "My Three [ Conversations with
Miss Chester,' the hero OF wnicn thus
describes himself: IL was twenty live
between you and me, fair reader, l am
not much cider noW-tall, we'll formed
stroug and active, boCh mentally and
uhy sically, and an extensive and omnly-
orous reader"
Theodore Roosevelt, the new Collect
or OF the Port oil New York, was AmUl j.
can Commissioner at the Vienna Expo
sltlon, and Is now New YORK Commits
sloner of State Charities. He is Dlrec-
tor OF the Metropolitan Museum o. Nat
ural Sciences. He is only iorty-three
years of age, aud is reputed to be worth
several millions.
Walter Bagehot used to study human
nature at Crabb Robinson's breakfasts.
| Robinson Kept his guests waiting for
hours, talking on all sorts OF subjects
meanwhile. Bagehot, having some ex-
perience Of this habit, was accustomed
| 10 take his breakfast beforehand, and
he could In this manner study and enjoy
the impatience OF The other guests AZ MIS-
leisure.
Gov. Rice employs a gentle sarcasm
in speaking OF the journals Of his native
land. He was asked while Feading his
newspaper the other morning: 500 you
always read the papers be ore you 60
down town in the morningP And he
answered: "Why, Of course l do. How
else should l know how to go down
t0wn2 HOW should l know wnat kinu
o. d man am this morningW i,
Lieut.. Albert g. squires, of the First