The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-11-27
Personal.
King Alfonso likes to read poetry.

DaTretl, tne Jockey, Is worth $zV,UuU. ~-
Bismarck smokes ten pipes of tobacco
day.
Secretary of War McCreary used to be a
bricklayer. -
Gen. Beauregard is writing his recollec-
tons of the war.
Wilhelmj's father is a wealthy wine grow
er on the Rhine. b.
Count Won Moltke is seventy-nine. He
enjoys good health.
Gladstone used nine hundred and thirty
six postal cards last year.
Louis de Jea Bermudez, Spanish Consul
at Charleston, died Friday.
Hepworth Dixon has started on voyage
around Cyprus in an iron-clad.
Lord Roseberry has been elected Lord
Rector of Aberdeen University.
Edwin Booth is said to be henpecked
husband His wife is very jealous.
The Prince of Wales never blacks his
boots He pays a man salary to do it for
him. .
Captain Mckenzie, the distinguished chess
player, is to exhibit his skill in Western
cities.
President Diaz, of Mexico, declines
another term, and SO the present one is to
be stretched.
Mr Yoshida, the Japanese Minister at
Washington, is man of exceeding energy
and industry.
Parton revives Stewards prediction that
no man who spells negro with two g's will
ever be elected President.
The Emperor William has been advised
by his physician to spend the winter in
Italy He says he won't do it.
Beecher has gathered unto himself so
much of the fat of the land that he has be-
come uncomfortably corpulent.
Daniel McGonigle, of Jeffersonville, Ind,
aged seventy-eight challenges any man i'll
the country to wrestle with him.
Lingeman, the rank Communist, died in
st. Louis few days ago. He left 1000,
but he never offered TO divide it.
J. Bonham, a journalist of Peoria, Ill, is
the man who wrote the first editorial advo-
eating Lincoln for the Presidency.
Alexander Pope wore ont his pen, paper
and the patience of the printer by the great
number of alterations he made i'll his
proofs.
B. L. Farieon, the novelist who is Joe
Jefferson's son-in-law, is announced to give
a series of readings in the various cities of
the United States this winter.
Capt. Alfred Paget, the son-in law of Mrs.
Paran Stevens, who soon returns to En-
gland, has been on a shooting expedition
in he country, and is said TO have secured
abundant game. .....
David Dudley Field has erected tower
at Stockbridge to perpetuate the fame of
the old Mission Church The tower cost
GOO The bells will be ready 10 chime
out on Christmas day.
Right Rev. DR.. Lynch, of South Carroll
na, has presented to the Smithsonian In
siitute fossil tooth, found one thousand
nine hundred feet below the surface OF the
groundt Charleston.
Mn ter, the special timber agent sent
South the Government, died, and the
Pasca5 "a Star says: May the pines which
were Btlisturbed by his coming watt the
breezes gently DER his grave"
VIM. V. Taylor has been left 100000, on
condition that he marres before he be-
comes of age. He is now twenty, and is
understood to have made no choice. His
post-oflice address is Whitehall, N. Y.
Edgar Fawcett, the irrepressble rhyme
s'er,who strings off sonnets as child would
beads, has written blank verse tragedy,
which he calls Arnold and Andre" 1t is
destined to enjoy as great popularity as
Martin Farquhar Tupper's immortal
drama of Washington"
Frank Tompkins goes out of the Oregon
S ate Prison, after serving three years as a
horse thief, with his innocence clearly
established by the confessions Of the real
criminals. He has not only suffered unde-
served Imprisonment, but his property,
worth $17 600 has been wasted.
J. w. Riley contributes to the Toledo
Blade poem entitled The Song | Never
Sing" Whereupon the Albany Journal
remarks: "If the song you never sing
Riley, is My Grandfa hers Clock, may
Heaven bless you, and your aunt i'll the
country leave you all her property"
Estrada eloped with Glenn's wife, in Lo'
Angeles, Cal The two men met few days
afterward. Both were on horseback. They
drew pistols and seized each other, withou
dismounting. Several shots were fired, a
such close range that every wound wa
blackened with powder. They were botl
KILLED.