The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-05-11
PERSONAL.

Professor Tyndall also declares blue
glass cures a delusion. But some people
had just as soon be cured by delusion
as any way.
Captain Isaac Bassett, the principal
doorkeeper of the Senate for many years,
entered the services of that body as
page, in 1882.
Gov. Williams, of Indiana, is to serve
as a teamster, in blue jeans, in an old
fashioned log-rolling which is shortly to
be held on a farm near Danville.
MIR. b. c. Porter, the very clever Bos-
ton artist, is reported as engaged to
marry Miss Maude Howe, the youngest
daughter Of Mrs. Julia Ward Howe.
Senator Eustis. Of Louisiana, is the
brother Of the MIR. Eustis who married
Miss Louise Corcoran, the daughter of
MIR. W. W. Corcoran. OF Washington.
Lord Dufferin, the Governor-General
of Canada, will leave Ottawa on the 25th
| OF July to visit the province of Manito-
ba and the prairies of the British North
| west.
Nile Verrier, the celebrated French
astronomer, has been reelected Presl-
dent OF the Scientific Association Of
ldHCe, mablhS InS AlIo0hsn "AnAo Al
succession.
Mr.. Left Erickson, first Morse visitor
to America in the tenth century, and
Mr.. ole Bull, violinlst Of the day, mad a
meeting held in their honor in Boston
the other evening.
Hon. John Randolph Tucker is about
to lecture on constitutional law at
Washington and Lee University. 1t is
1 NlnH hn n
Electoral Commission.
Prince Henry, OF Prussia, the second
son OF the Crown Prince, has just Joined
the Prussian corvette Niobe. He is the
first member of the dynasty who enters
upon naval career early in life.
Mr.. Hawthornel wrote jhis "House of
the Seven Gables" on a desk which is
now owned in Lenox, Mass, having
been bought at auction by man to
whom Haw thorne himself recounted its
history.
G. S. Grey, the actor, who rescued
several people during the Southern
Hotel fire In ST. Louis, has just received
from his fellOw-players gold medal as
an acknowledgment of his distinguished
bravery,
| Gounod, the composer, is fifty-nine
years old, and man OF an absorbed and
quiet manner. The melancholy OF his
nature is said to be the consequence of his
theological studies, for he was des'
! tined for the church.
| Ex-senator Carpenter, 1t is asserted
has formed law partnership with the
Hon. J.A. Coleman, recentlyiot Fond du
Lac, and the two have opened an office
in Washington. MIR. Carpenter will NJ
longer be citizen OF Milwaukee.
Robert e. Rogers, Professor of Chem.
isLry and Dean of the Medical Faculty
of the University Of Pennsylvania, has
been elected Professor OF Chemistry il
the jefferson Medical College, vice Pro
lessor Rand, resigned.
Parson Brownlow was far from being
a wealthy man, but his family is com
fortably provided for, having a home
stead, an interest in the Wing ant
Chronicle newspaper, a lile-insuranct
policy for $5,OOO, and some other prop
erty.
General Ignatieff was liked by all tht
| Londoners except his innkeeper. Wht
complained that the General was invited
out so constantly it wasn't worth Will
to have him in the house. "IWo break
fastisses," said the unhappy host, wa
all his guest paid for in The way O
meals.
King Alfonso recently attended bul
fight at Madrid, at which Frascuelo,
noted matador, was terribly gored, ant
= probably fatally injured. Shrieks OF al
, xuish burst forth from the women
while others covered their faces wit
their hands or fans, to shut out the hol
D rid sight. Sill, it is fashionable ther
a to attend such brutal displays.
3 MIR. Jennings, in his capacity as Lor
= don correspondent Of the New Yor
World, had "a conversation with Oake
o Hail in London not long since. The FL
2 Mayor assured Jennings that not u sou
knew OF his plans in leaving New Yorl
=, and that it was his express object
u have it supposed that he mad been mad
r away with, SO that no inquiries shoul
q be made for him alter the irstSensatlo
q had passed away.
Ex-Governor Israel Washburn, Jr
was agreeably surprised few evening
ago by visit fl ON nearly every one
It the emp,oyes OF The Portland Custom
, house, OF which he has been the :althfl
:. and efficient head for more than thirtee
" years. A few brief speeches were mad
o and Gov. Washburn was presented wit
8 an oil painting representing maril
:, view on the coast OF Maine. To Mr.
y Washburn the employees presented a 81
: Of the "ScOttish Poets"
IL Hon. A. II. Stephens has entirely r
l., covered from his recent illness, tnoug
he hardly looks well man. Natural
small, he has wasted, withered, an
u shriveled, until in weight and size he
% a feeble chIld. His face 10 Of a yello
q ivory tint, scanned and crossed with
network OF fine wrinkles, but the lit
{ blue eyes have snap ana light of the
Is own that sickness can not destroy. ii
,. made singular figure in the Supren
u Court the other day, arguing before tn
= august body seated in mis- armchair,