The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-06-13

DiO Lewis Is III the OSemlte Valley.
Jay Gould will summer at Tarrytown.
Vanderbilt has returned from Europe.
Schuyler Colfax Is lecturing in Color
ado.
Max Outrey, the French Minister, has
moved into his Newport cottage.
| Ole Bull has contracted to give thirty con-
certs in this country next season.
Dr. Mary Walker has invented an invisi-
BILE buckle to take the place of suspenders.
Peanuts are now raised in France They
only anticipate that other American insti-
tuition, the circus.
Bishop Whittle, Of Virginia, refuses to ad-
minister confirmation to any man or
woman who persists in the practice of round
dancing.
President Hayes is invited to nine out of
ten church and school entertainments given
in Washington and within a radius of fifty
miles of the city.
Mr.. Archibald Forbes, war correspondent,
is coming to this country this summer, it is
reported, TO lecture on his experience with
the Russian army.
Fred Douglass blacks his own boots,
shayes himself, brings in his coal goes to
market, and feels that he isn't any greater
than Shakespeare was.
James Gordon Bennett's sister has Ben
nett her brothers. hunting place in Milford,
and fallen in love with an Irish peer
Pears to us that's the right thing.
Gen. Butler has paid over the $500 which
he pledged to the Phillips Academy on con-
dition of its founding scholarship for the
orphan of some colored soldier
Mr.. Henry Irving, it is reported, is about
to appear at the London Lyceum as Wander
decken in version of "The Flying Dutch
man." written for him by Mr.. Wills
Ex-Mayor Joshua Vansant of Baltimore,
now City Controller, is announced to be a
candidate for the Democratic nomination
for Congress in the Third District of Mary
land.
The Emperor William is said to have be-
come very nervous, although Immediately
after the attempted assassination he was un-
concerned. He is going to Ems and
Gastein.
Mr.. Thomas Hughes is about to publish a
volume directed against the movement for
the diseStablishment of the Church of Eng
land. Its title is to be "Our Old Church;
What Shall we do with It?''
Prof F. " Hayden, in charge of the Geo
logical and Geographical Survey of the Ter
ritories, has been elected honorary and cor
responding member Of forty-one scientific
societies in foreign countries.
Senator Chaffee announces his intention
to withdraw from public life at the close of
his present term, and positively declining
reelection should the Colorado Legislature
be Republican. This purpose is based on the
Senator's failing health.
DR.. Schlemann is said to be building him
self house in Athens. He has given his
little daughter the ancient name of Andro-
mache, and the two maiden servants em-
ployed in the family enjoy the Homeric
titles OF Penelope and Briseis.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robinson, of Mountain
! City, Texas, who were married eighty-two
years ago, are reputed to be one hundred
and three and one hundred and two years
| old, respectively. They have recently been
presented with comfortable house.
Mr.. Mapleson, the husband of Nine
Roze, has concluded arrangements to oc-
cupy the field next season with q concert
! troupe with Nine. RoZe at the head of it,
Frapoi, the tenor, and Pisani, the contralto
will also be in the troupe, and Cowen the
well-known English composer and musi-
clan, will be the director of the combina-
ton.
Mr.. John Burroughs confesses himself to
have been born with chronic anxiety
about the weather. and Scribner for July
will answer the popular query is it going
to Rain" giving the signs which obtain
on the farm. Mr.. Burroughs, who has here
tofore denied the title of apple-eaers to wo-
men, will not even admit that they are good
readers of the weather, which he claimsis a
masculine subject.
Rev. vosburg intends now TO give himself
entirely to his church work, and let his
enemies take care of themselves. He pur-
poses remaining in his present church. and
says that, as the people have stood by him
SO faithfully it would not be manly in him
to turn his back on them. The large ma
jority of the church people believe in him,
and only one or two oppose him.