The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-04-12
PERSONAL.

Patterson is coming home to roost
and yet Pennsylvania is not proud.
Johann Strauss, the musical composer
has been enrolled in the Legion Of Honor
by President McMahon.
| Prof Swing is said to have himself led
| Mas Florence Tuton to the communion
table i'll his church recently.
MIR. Gladstone has consented to write
| an introduction to a new edition of NJ ss
Irby's work on the Ealopean provinces
Of Turkey.
Do!e sends a group in clay, Glove
and Fate" to the Paris SdLOR this year
| abaneP5 contribution Is Il "IarquiL
Wooing Lucre ia"
Jack Niles, a celebrity in New York
| gambling circles, died in that city lasi
week in wretcned poverty. He was one
of the most reckless men of his day.
Mgr. Meglia, the Papal Nuncio al
Paris, has written the Pope that E..
| gland and Austria understand each
other with regard to the Ea stern que
| ton.
Charles Fairbanks, OF London, En-
| gland, u member OF the Vermont family
Of that name, has given $40 900 to finish
new hall for women students at Drury
College, Springfield, Mo.
Prince Bismarck, WHO is already load
| ed with all the civil aud military honOrs
of his nation, received the hereditary
| title of "POmeranian Master of the
Hump on tue recent anniversary of the
Emperor Williams birthday.
The King OF Holland has offered to NJ. q.
Krantz, Commissary General of the
Paris Exhibition OF 1878, forty thousand
tulip roots, which VIII be taken care OF
at the expense OF the King. The offer
mas been gratefully accepted.
Sir Charles Reed, Chairman of the
CaxCOn Celebratlon, announces that Her
Majesty, The Queen, has offered to lend
Tor the purposes OF the exhibition some
OF the Caxton and other scarce books
now III the Royal Library al Windsor.
Alden b. Stockwell, formerly Presi-
| dent OF the Pacific Mail Steamship Com
| pany, who lett the country some years
| ago, 10 avoid unpleasant complications
| arising from the Pacific Mail investi ga
| ton, arrived in New York Monday III
| The steamship Celtic.
G. d. Folsom, engineer OF the Ashta-
bula train, is slowly recovering from his
injuries, but says he will never be able
10 lun an engine again. The locomotive
S at the Lake Snore shops, Cleveland.
BADLY broken up, and it Will take $1,000
to put 1t III running order again.
Sir Henry Thompson thinks he has hit
upon the golden number OF guests tor a
| perfect dinner party. 1t is eight; and
| this dinner of eight, VIII ch he calls an
octave" he gives every Thursday
when he is in town. He devotes pro-
found study to the composition, not only
ar MT n m t,1
are 10 eat IT..
Goudchaux, one of the old managers
Of the Vaudeville, at Paris. has just
died. He was somewhat Of a buck, a
! act which provoked Henry Munger,
Wnen some one observed tnat all the
| managers of the Vaudeville had been
able to lay omething by, to remark that
Goudchaux had never put anything to
! one side except his nat.
Fred. Archer, the crack lightweight
jockey of England, who last year rode
six hundred and tiity-seven races, win
ming TWO hundred and seven, received
lor his services at moderate estimate
including Lord Rosebery's present OF
el,OOO), $43, 700, to say nothing of his
probable winnings. Not so bad for a
BOY Of eighteen. He could hardly be
4 tempted, we suppose, TO take the presi-
lency o. life insurance company.
Congressman Cox, in his speech be-
tore the Packard Legislature in New
Orleans, touched little warily upon
\ Che political situation there. He said
L do not understand your dual govern
ment. A man seems TO need two eyes
and two legs, &C., but do not see tnat
u State needs Two governments. But
his is matter that l can not now dis
/ uuss. You must be firm and regulat te
our domasilc affairs IN your own way,
subject to The Constitution OF the United
states"
Mr.. j. G. Whittier doesn't admire the
play founded on his famous poem. He
writes to Mr.. Edward Everett Hale /:
'My dear FrIend-I have never thought
much Of "Maud Muller" and since she
las got upon the stage l utterly disown
uer. There is something eXquisitely alb.
,urd in the idea that the o.d judge and
Lhe overdone matron with as many
children as the soId woman who lived in
Il shoe finding their 'atiiuities' at this
iate day"
Lord Blantyre says a good word for
American missionaries i'll Il letter 10 the
london Telegraph. He writes: "In
Happy contrast WlCh the threatenings OF
/ var by Russia and by some in this coun-
ry on account of the Christians OF the
ireek Church in Turkey, are the peace
ul, patient, long-su1fering labors Of the
| american missionaries, and the numer-
rus otner benevolent agencies in the
East, all OF whom are assisted in their
work by the Turkish Missions Aid So
;ieiy oil London. The Americans for a
ong time, l understand, spent about
E30, 1000 year ON missionary objects iu
,urkey and Asia, and have made
narked and valuable progress in dis
eminating the purer faith OF Protest.
..utsN :"