The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-08-08
PERSON AL.

Edwin Booth is at Greenwich Conn.
Oliver Doud Byron is at Long Branch.
Thurlow Weed loves TO potter amid rare
plants.
Ben. Butler waddles in patent leather
pumps.
John G. Whittier has gone to the Isle of
Shoals for a brief stay.
Mr.. Henry Neville does not come to the
United States this year.
Francis Murphy, the celebrated temper
ance worker is at Saratoga
Mr.. Rcever of Bayonne, n j., has caught
hying-tsh in Newark Bay.
Tom Sayers, son of the late English pugil-
list, is London comic vocalist
Mr. Billings considers silence the best
substitute for wisdom yet discovered.
Dom Pedro has given So 900 from his pri-
vate purse to aid Brazilian music students
i'll Europe.
Philip Phillips has been giving some of
his song services at Ocean Grove with
great acceptance.
G. F. Train is credited with the following
remarkable chunk Of wisdom: THE milk Of
human Kindness is all buttermilk."
Dom Piatt says that at Long Branch the
wind blew out the brains of u swell who
was trying to do the thing himself.
Mr.. Tennyson it is rumored, is busy
upon a new volume of lyrical poems,
Which will soon make its appearance.
Senator Eustis Of louisiana who has been
staying in Pittstield, Mass, has gone home
for a few weeks. lie will return in Sep
tember.
Mr., Henry Winkley of Philadelphia is
said to be the person who recently contrib
uted $3.50 10 the Andover Theological
Seminary.
Secretary Sherman's present absence
from Washington will continue for
month. lie will proceed northward on
pleasure trip.
Lord Beaconsfeld's physician is a disci-
pie of llahncmann, and His Lordship's
speedy recovery at Berlin is claimed as due
to homeopathic treatment.
Bishop JagTor, Of ohio, while indulging
in the apostolic recreation of fishing AT
Rangeley Lake in the Maine woods, appears
in $ out blue suit, including Il flannel
shirt, a knock about hat, straw and felt by
turns, and pair of hob-nailed shoes.
Assistant Postmaster General Tyner tried,
while in Paris, to ascertain from General
Grant himself whether he was q candidate
for third term. The most direct answer
he could get was this: II was heartily tired
of public life, and have no desire to enter
again upon it,"
Dennis Kcarnev, when asked if he was
going to stump the State for Gen. Butler
| this fall, looked slyly al his questioner, and
e., :; toII ,ri1
tell all things. He declared that the Gen
eral is the greatesr man in the United
States as well as the leading citizen Of Mas
sachusetts.
Sir Garnet Wolseleys appointment is as
High Commissioner of Cyprus. In Eng
lands protectOrate-a most troublesome
one she found it-of the IOnian Islands, the
Governor was styled Lord High Commits
soner, and the people used to speak of him
as "the Lord High"
Mr.. John Gilbert, the actor, will celebrate
this fall the fflieth anniversaryof his frs
appearance on the stage. The latter even
took place at the old fremont Iheater il
Boston, in 1923, and was spiendid success
Ii is a singular fact that the homes of Mr.
Gilbert and of Charlotte Cushman were sid
by side in Richmond street, now Parmente
street Boston. They often played togethe
as children, and their professional engage
ments in after years frequently brough
them together on the stage
Lord Beaconsfeld occupied with hi
suite at the Kaiserhotf, during the late Bel
lin Congress sixty-three rooms at $1,000
month, and his food bill was $4,000. Fl
gave 5000 to the walters. The correspond
ent of the London Times took $4,000 wit
him for expenses, and expended So, 44O, il
addition to 81, ,4l0 for kilograms. The wifi
of NJ. Blowitz, of the Congress, induce
, her husband to obtain the signature of eac
{ member upon a fan which she intrusted
- him. She considers that she possesses
, treasure of especial value.