The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-19
PERSON Al.
Campaninis tenor voice is sadly gone.

Sir Garnet Wolseley is first cousin to
Connecticut lady, but she is not TO blame
for it.
Mr. Alexander H. Stephens health is
again feeble, owing to unusual exertions in
lis political canvass
Charlie Burnett, an eight-year-old elocu-
zionist, will make his debut this winter with
Mr.. Joseph Jefferson.
Senator Dawes has been appointed Justice
of the Peace for all the counties Of the Com
monwealth of Massachusetts,.
Abdul Azz, Sultan of Turkey in his
dread of fire, used to read by the light of
candle floating in basin OF water.
General Tom Thumbs father died fifteen
years ago, leaving an estate worth $4,000.
His grave is marked by lofty monument.
Ex-Governor Smyth, of New Hampshire,
who has been travelling in Egypt, the Holy
Land, Turkey and Greece, has gone to
Paris.
Mr.. Z. L. Pierce, Charles Summers biog
rapher, will lecture next winter on Sum-
ner's "Private Life and Literary Friend
ships"
Yoshida Kyonari, Japanese Minister at
Washington, will sail for Japan early in
October via San Francisco. He expects to
return next year
Mr.. James w. Paxton, rich citizen Of
Wheeling, has offered to erect, in that city,
a handsome public drinking fountain, to
cost over $4,000.
Robert Lincoln, son of President Lincoln
stands a good chance, it is said, of receiving
the Republican nomination for Congress i'll
the First Illinois District
Mr. Kittie, of New Boston, Wayne County,
Mich, is one hundred and three years Old
and, like all very old men, is as hearty and
vigorous as any one needs be-
Mr.. Barry Sullivan will not come to
America this year or next. He has decided
! to remain in England two years more, and
will then make a farewell tour Of the United
States and Australia.
The Prince of Wales has accepted honor
airy membership in the Boston Ancient and
Honorable Artillery His father was an
honorary member Of the same corps.
Prof. Baird has made an arrangement
with the Gloucester fishermen to give him
the strange fish that they sometimes catch.
They have already provided three of un-
known varieties.
DR.. Robert Wright, of Centerville, Md, is
the oldest living graduate of West Point.
He was graduated in the year 1918, is eighty
one years old, and proposes to visit the
academy this month.
Edwin Byron, the boy actor with mem
ory so wonderful that he remembered the
whole of "A Celebrated Case" started OH a
New England tour with the play thus OBJ
tanned; but he forgot to pay his hotel bill in
: Marlboro, and was arrested
Frances Alice Flintotf, known as the Cali,
forna gianess died in county infrmary
: in California recently of paralysis. She was
native of Ohio, though of German parent
age, and at the time of her death was forty
four years of age She stood six feet six
inches high.
Mr.. Frederick Vokes, the leading member
of the Vokes family, has sustained a severe
! loss by the destruction by fire of his pictu
rescue suburban residence, Lillian Lodge
: Fulham Road, London. The house, for
, merIy known as Arundel House, was erect
{ ed in the reign of Henry VIII.
, DR.. Washington L. Atlee, one of the mos
eminent surgeons of Philadelphia died il
: that city on Saturday evening. September
: 7th. He was born at Lancaster in 1903, anG
was the grandson of Hon. VIM. Augustus
Atlee, Judge of the Pennsylvania Supreme
= Court from TIT to 1893.
: Prof. Skeat has undertaken an etymo
logical dictionary of the English language
illustrated by few selected quotations ap
! proximately illustrating the period of in
@ PRODUCTION of the various words into thu
language 1t will take about three more
4 years to complete the work.
e Den Sharpley's residence in San Fran
D cisco was an old steam boiler until he wa
! fifteen years old at which age he had growI
so big that he could no longer squeeze il
' and out at the aperture. Then he went tt
q the wilds of Arizona and became highway
: man. Recently he was killed in a fgh
with resistant traveller.
. Krautz, the executioner of Hoedel, is th,
i lion of the day in Berlin. He is neat lit
= tie man of thirty-fve. He wore full eve
G ming dress when he beheaded Hoedel, ant
on his breast were medals gained in th
+ wars of 1866 and 1870. He would accept nj
+ compensation for his work, considering
q himself paid by the honor it afforded. Mag
Q istrates and court officials warmly shOol
l. to many festivals.
s Henry W. Longfellow, the poet, has fiv
J. children. Onslow, the eldest, is married
IS and man of business in Boston, Ernest i
. a rising young painter studying abroad
d Alice the eldest of the girls, is pleasing
: writer, unmarried Edith is the golden
l. nalreQ young lauy Ol twenty-five, VINO na
lust married the third son of Richard Dana
g Jr., and Anna is decidedly literary in he
,. inclinations.
l. John Steele, or Coal Oil Johnny, who wa
Z put in sudden possession of s., 100000 b.
ls the discovery of petroleum on his other
70 wise almost worthless Pennsylvania farm
l. only to become poor again through wild ex
t, travagance, is now station agent on TIN
ts Atlantic & Great Western Railroad. Fl
'' has given up drinking, and thinks that h
le is so much wiser from experience that h
st would not waste another fortune if he coul
h get one.
~ A Lady's Wish.