The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-07-01

Dom Pedro's latest baby has only.eleven
names,
Francis Joseph loves women, literature,
music, soup and beer. ........
Sheridan Shook keeps open house in sum-
mer, at Stamford, Conn.
King Humbert and young Menotti Carl
baldi are very intimate.
Lester Wallack has two country homes
and one yacht to summer in
Todleben is "as rigid as granite, as rough
as a file and as sol ,mu as DOOM"
President Hayes has decided to attend the
| Wyoming Centennial celebration July 3D..
Governor Croswell, of Michigan has a
cane made from the Andersonville stock
ade
Mr.. Andcrson's rich auburn hair should
serve as a beacon to all future visiting states
men.
Jesse Grant thinks that the crowned heads
mean we'll, but put on altogether too much
style.
Emperor William purposes sesrecommencing
his drives under the lindens" as soon as his
health permits.
Senator Sargent was a printer in early
life That, however, was when he was
young and honest.
! Ex-Governor Seymour has given $50 to
the fund for monument to General Herk-
inner, of Revolutionary fame.
General Garfield will address the Ohio
editors when they assemble for their an
nual meeting at Cleveland, July 10th.
Senator Lamar is visiting his daughter,
who is at school in Wellesley Mass He
expects to make a short stay in Boston.
Judge Hilton could not have made more
complete failure as an hotel keeper If he
had hired clerk without a diamond pin.
Rev. Jasper says that the moon is dis
quieted mass of opaque contlagruity," and
it seems as if he had really struck the right
thing now.
Mr.. VIM E. Dodge of New York, has
bought the Preston mansion at Columbia,
S. c. for $4,000, and will use it as a winter
residence.
Mr. John Bigelow has written an article
on "Mr. Seward, Mr.. Motley and the Aus
trian Mission" for the July number of the
International Review.
Mr. Longfellow is said to have received
his first suggestion of "keramos' from
Benjamin Dodge an old potter who former
ly lived and practiced his art in Portland,
Maine.
Mr.. ]. H. Mapleson, Jr, will begin his
concert tour on the Both of September. His
troupe includes Marie Roze, Carmen
Pisani, Giuseppe Frapolli and the baritone
Carleton.
Mr.. Charles R. Adams, the popular tenor,
is rustcating at the Marion House, Marion
, He has been devoting ghimselft TO blue-fishing
with considerably better than the proverbial
fisherman's luck.
Rev. Thomas X. Beecher, of Elmira, de-
livered the Baccalaureate sermon before the
r students of Milwaukee Female College last
week. His sister, Miss Catherine Beecher
lately deceased, was the founder of the in
stitution.
Mr. Alexander H. Stephens is now enjoy,
ing better health than for many years past
2 The secret of his strange vitality is said to
, be remarkably sound stomach, which,
during his long illness, has never failed tc
perform its functions.
Mr. James B. Hosmer, of Hartford, Conn,
! is 97 years of age. His mind is perfectly
clear, and he walks about the city in pleas
ant weather. His father lived to be SO, one
of his aunts to be 80, and two of his uncles
10 be 90 each.
Gortschakoff has indigestion because oi
eating strawberries. Indigestion has ten
dency to make men cross and stubborn
With war and peace trembling in the
balance, it is possible that strawberry not
properly ripened may turn the scale fol
war
Minister Taylor, having been instructed
!, by the Secretary of State to express the con
gratulations of the American President and
e people on the Emperors escape from assas
sination, has received reply conveying
the "sincerest thanks Of the Grown
Prince.
. Mr. R. A. Proctor, the astronomer, re
lates that not very long ago, in an essay
, about spectroscopic photography he wrote
of Zines, bands and stria, near the violet
D end of the spectre" The rendering the
r printers chose to adopt was this; Links
, bonds and stripes for the vioient kind Of
spectres"
Mr.. Spurgeon on precocious moralists
Young men nowadays whose whisker'
: have scarcely grown, consider themselves
2 the proper persons to decide questions re
garding religious matters and in proper
tion to their ignorance is their confidence
and audacity in sneering at everything
sacred"
, Hon Lyman Trumbull has presented 6
e cross of flowers, in a glass case, tbsthe Lin
q coin Memorial Hail. at Springfield, Ill. /,
was placed on Lincoln's coffin at Philadel
: phia while the funeral cortege was passing
through that city, and it afterward came
n into the possession Of Mrs. Trumbull, who
y retained it up to the time of her death.
! Joe Hooker, at the reception of the sAsfny
of the Potomac, occupied big afti-chair
Q having beautiful little girl of seven on his
!. knee, whom he kissed repeatedly. One o.
the company remarked to the child: "Yor
/ must remember this. Ten or fifteen year.
e hence you will be very proud of having
o. been kissed by Fighting Joe Hooker
2 Whereupon the General wittily retorted
! II should not mind it either, my dear, i
a vou were ten or fifteen years older nOWn