The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-10-12
PERSONAL.


| dered.
Nikie Collins suffers severely from
| gout III the eyes.
Sam. Bowles calls Steinberger the
"tramp OF the seas"
Lorillard, the tobacco millionaire, al.
ways wears plug hat.
Martin Millmore is to make q marble
bust OF Ralph Waldo Emerson.
1t is said Oakley Hall sunk a pile OF
money in the Fitth-aVenue Theater.
Spotted Tail is wagging with pleasure,
in the possession OF a new nigh hat.
Touch-the- clouds was the shortest of
all the Indians who recently visited the
Great Father.
Nicolni, the tenor, is the son of a tav.
erhkeeper. It's wonder his voice
wasn't baritone.
General n. b. Forrest has returned to
MempAls, Tenn, still weak, but much
improved in health.
Duke GWln will name the next Demo-
cratic Senator from California, if he is
not himself the man.
Aeely wants to find some romantic
young woman who would be willing to
'klss him for his motor"
ReV. Wallace Duncan, of South caro-
| una, succeeds his lather as President OF
| Randolph Macon College.
Dlo Lewis has seen the hoodlums of
San Francisco, and he pres cribed diet
| oi DrlckDats and buckshOt,
John Brougham has returned to New
ork seriously i'll, and his starring tour
ID lor the present postponed.
| Rrnwr S,,nn,1
abroad for a long time, has settled him.
self and family in Boston for the winter.
| Rev. Mr.. Ide, a Massachusetts clergy
man, asked that his salary be reduce d
| TO $500 a year, ana his Congregation
kindly lowered it to $3.50.
| John A. Tracy, who died recently in
| ERIE county, Pennsy sylvania, left an es-
tate valued at $T00,OOO, to be equally
ulVlded among seven heirs.
| Victor Hugo likes TO walk in the rain
| 10 funerals and hear his couutrymep
shouting Long live Hugo" Long live
| the greatest writer OF La France.1
stuart, of the Clark (kyD Democrat.
mas lOur-pOuud frog tuat ''cries like "A
child" THAT'S all the family he has.
and 1t is liable to jump the town at any
time.
| MIR. Harold Power, son of Tyrone
rover, Is shortly to make his first ap-
pearance Ill America i'll New York in IA
neat llItIe paIIOf entertalume some
thing after The Maccabe order.
Burdette, of the Burlington Hawkeye.
consoles himself, on glaucinE back over
ne oi Lhlsueed and carelessness, with
She thought mat bis administrators will
make II all right on his tombstone.
pushed rapidly to completion, The
louhuatiohln place has been pronounced d
100 weak 10 support the column, and II
Is TO be torn down and replaced by a
stronger one.
Maitre Allon, Gambetta's counsel, is
the leading lawyer in France. Ii was
he, by the way, VINO pleaded the up-hIII
| case, which he gained, establishing the
legitimacy Of Prince Napoleon, against
| Barry er, counsel Tor me son of Mime.
Patterson-Bonaparte.
Mr.. Charles Fechter is said TO he an
excellent farmer, reaping every vea1
very good crops on his Penns yIyania
estate. lie cultlyaLes about hundred
acres, employing the best machinery
| lie sells nothing from the farm: how.
eV9r, lie gives away nearly all that he
| raises, ana Is reported to Almost en-.
| tireIy support, by these beneiactions.
many poor families living in his neigh.
| borh0od.
MT. Bryant explains that the four re-
| tlectlVe stanzas which preiaced "Thana.
lopsls," when it first appeared in the
North American Review, were not in
their proper place. His father carried
| both poems to Boston and gave them TO
the editor, who printed them in The Re.
view, where, by some mistake. tbey
were coupled together. They have beef
separated in all the editions of Mr., Bry.
ANTS poems.
Nj. Emile Olivier, who offers himself
as candidate Tor the French Assembly
at DfagulSnan, declares that, whether
n or out OF office, he has always con.
demned the system OF official candi.
dates-a despotic expedienJ the resur.
! fectl0h OF which is now witnessed-en-
cages to oppose the Ministry, TO respecL
the Republican Constitution, and TO :
Vocate pleblscile whenever that Con-
sutuLon is revised.
MI. L Imund Yates speaks in a very
frank ana manly way OF what he calls
only silly and uujustltiable attack upon
Mr.. Thackeray, made nearly twenty
years ago, when l was quite q voupx
man" The attack to winch he refers
was, through Dickens unsuccessful at.
Lempts at mediation. the cause OF the
| cOolness wnlcn existed tor several wears
between Dickens anG Tnackeray. The
matter very seriously hurt and dis
| Lurbed Tnackeray, ana ii is lesson TO
The clever young writer's who let their
bright pens run away with their sense
OI justice. Mr.. Yates reference to the
affair does him honor.
Mr.. Spurgeon says that one reason
why he can't come to America is tuaL
the Scriptures do not allow u man TO
take vacation of over forty days, and
II he exceeds That time trouble OF some
KIND Is sure to follow. He said that
when Moses came back from His forty
days retirement In the mount he found
that his people had forgotten all about
hlm and were Worshiping calf. Ana
congreg cations are no better now Lnan
they were then. The best thing minis
ter can do Is to STICK TO his work. He
can't expect Others to do it as well as
ne can. Hence Spurgeon takes short
vacations TWO or three times year in
stead OF one long one.
Mr.. Erskiue, of Dun-a gentleman of
Ahgus-nad an ancient valet named
Gabriel, whose petulauce and license of