The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-12-14
PERSONAL,
John Sherman Is fond of opera bouffe.

|
Senator Elmunds says there is no
surer way OF getting any thing into the
papers than BY talking about II in secret
| session.
| Belknap Is becoming a successful law
yer, but The law at tie best can not be
compared as bonanza with post ira.
dersnips.
| Col. E. G. E. Judson, "Ned Buntline," !"
instead OF going to Florida, as reported,
will spend the winter in Warrenton,
| Virginia.
civilian Ream, of Oscelo, Cearfeld
| County, Pa, is credited with having
shot over a Thousand deer" Ream-
markable!
General Longstreet sustained some
painful burns in extingui- hing fire in
his house ia Gainesville, Georgia, a few
nights ago.
Rev. Mr. Toothaker is a Philadelphia
minister He has made mistake in
his calling, for By rights he should have
| been dentist.
| Mr.. Rusktn speaks, with more than
his usual amiabllty, of the ''cockney,
curly tailed puppy who yelps aud snaps
IN ali English magazine"
| Stanley Matthews says everything has
gone down except gold, Wnicu has gone
up. Stanley lOrgets tHat few savings
alks have g0ne up, also.
Captain Greene, United States mill
| tary attache, has received tue Rus sian
| order OF st. Andrew for his conlness in
the battles OF Shipka Pass and PleYna.
| Abraham Buck alter, who died
recently near kmberton, Pa, in his
eighty-hrst year, ielt six Of the family,
| ,t,I,, 20 Nn,,ftI val
u, 10.
Monsieur Emile Zola has skipped after
| 'L'AssommoIr" 10 tne other extreme OF
| hcLion: he is Writlng romance repre-
sentiug the manners OF domestic bour-
| geols lie.
Samuel Penn, aged SO; Mrs. Anna
Penn, aged II; Mrs. Richel Cooper,
aged IS; and Mrs. Lyuia Garrison, aged
50, years, live in one house en SVuLh
Laurel street, BridgetOn, N. j.
Thurman says that in his nine years
Senatorial experience the financial leg.
islstlUn for the benefit of widows, or.
phams and lab0ring men has been SO
small that he has falled 10 see it.
Prof. G. W. Greene. of Rhode Island,
has been invited to give the memorial
address at the unVeliIng, in Washing.
ton, OF the National statue of his kins
mau, General Nathaniel Greene.
General Butler is keeping very quiet
ana giving MS atVehtioh 10 Prosalc ana
bill lor the projection OF public records
and property III the Government build
ings from loss or damage by ire.
Richard Wagner, in his youth, it is re.
pOrted, wrote an opera called Faust"
"mu tl,s', eAtiac's rh rom tnls are anouI 10 DE
pu0,,sheu. ,,M,s'a.i,o pieoto lnt'uoe SON
toi "i uIi 10 e'uoe V-oh"' US, anu
VIC 'eseho Va 'ne Mug VI AhuA1'
President Porter and the Rev. DR.. Ba'
CON are to have chairs made out OF tbs
largest elm III New haven, which has
just been cut down. IL was nearly one
nunuleu an' T., slA1y KY ~o Years ola, aho
was pi"h'ou W 'n7 p7'' ooseph Noyes
Mr.. Hamlln is tne oldest Senator now
servlhg-ne Is slXty-elght. Mr.. Dorsey
is the Youngest; he entered the senate
when only thlIty years old, and has
served i've years. Mr. e imunds, who
Is !oTly-hlne, ls the Senator who looks
OIdeSt.
Tom Thumb never used to hang up his
stockings ON ChrlsG Gmas eve. lie would
We sttlng around tIe bottom OF each
pantalo0A leg, ana hang them up; and
tnen he would groWl next morning be.
cause his Little DfotAePs stockings held
the most.
Rev, |, S, KaIIoeh of unsayory mem.
ery is now preaching in San FranoIsu,
and mas cus,- ont in vehement onnos,-
ton to the Chinese, He thinks the Iel4s.
Tails are polsuni z American sucial life
which men like HIM have done 80 mucu