The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-01-23
PERSONAL.
President Hayes is growing fat.

ITBBlu0uG 10 3 ldts
Mr.. PIugg keeps tobacco store in
Washington, ID. Z.
Senator McCreery, OF Kentucky, is a
devoted fisherman.
Rubinstein is giving piano recitals in
Be GUM and Holland.
Bauer has gone to Havana to astCund
he planters with his wrestling.
Mr.. BOgardus is simply wasting good
deal OF powder and sma hing great
deal of glass.
William Henry Hurlbut, editor Of the
New YORK Word, is seriously ill Of
pneumonia.
EX-Secretary Chandler is visiting his
son-ln.law, Representative Eugene Hale,
In Washington.
Ben. Butler is a confirmed oppidan.-
ourier-JOurnal. Now DON'T call bad
/" ames like that.
Senator Lamar, it is said, will make
no more Set speeches during the present
| session OF Congress.
james MulIin wants to skate against
I any TWO hundred and twenty five
| FOUNDER in Albany.
Ricci, the Composer of "Crlspnole la
C"mart," )" has just Died at C0negIino,
Italy7 AT the age of six y-eight.
| FIanky Flynn, of Norwich, N. Y, is
| TOUR and half years old and weighs
only twelve pOunus with all uIs clothes
on.
Senator Thurman advised his son-in-
law, Gov. McCOrmick, not to accept the
pOsl.ion OF Commissioner General to the
Paris Exposition.
Barnum wants to see the man who
sald thai he Barnum) was ready todie.
The cid man ayers that he won't be
ready for nundred years yet.
| Captain and Mrs. Grape, of the New
Bedford, VINO voya1ed to Europe in an
open boat, were to leave London on the
81 INST. IN the steamer Canada for New
York.
| Earl Granville is reported to have
SAID, not long ago, that in the use and
pronunciation OF the English language,
The educated American surpasses the
Englishman. ..l.
MIR. Chester Tilden, of Willlmantic,
Conn, has prepared u genealogy of the
Illden family, beginning with the year
1913, including biography Of MI. Sam
uel j. 1ilden.
| The Bishop OF Colombo is an accom-
I plisued person; on two successive days
he preached iD four churches in four di!-
| tereut languages: Ciugalese, Burghers
| "a kind OF Dulcu), Portug uese, ana
| TAMIL.
! Rev. Norman Atkins has found under
a large pine stump, near MunsYille, n.
| u, an ancient ax.head, believed to
have been made ana used by race OF
people who inhabited this country be-
fore the Indians.
Professor Swing said the other day, in
a sermon, that the experience oil the last
nall century shows that The Uverturnlng
of the Old Delisis regarding future pun
ishment Will not affect b lly the fulure
OF Christianity or OF public morals.
Col. John Z. Pettus died at his plan
tatiOn III Bee County, Texas, in the
seventy-seventh year of his age. The
The deceased was one Of the original
three hundred cOlonists who came to
Texas with stephen L. Austin in 1922.
Prince Iturbde, OF Mexico, the adopt
ed son Of the Emperor MaXimllian, has
ljust sailel Ior England, to become a
military student at Wuoiwich. He is a
clever, intelligent youlg fellow of fif
Teen, and seems perfectly aDle to take
care OF himself.
Mr.. Sturgeon gave curious lecture
in London the other evening, called
"Sermons in Candles" In the course
of it he exhibited TO his audience for
purposes OF illustration an old candle.
box, d rush llgh', dirty Old lantern,
and candle lit at both enus.
Prot. Nicholson thinks that 1T is t
pa &c eJntOlogy, more than any other sci
encr, that solution must be looked 10
OF tue most important questions as to tht
past distribution OF ANIMALS and plants
as well as Of many of the theories relat
Ing to the descent and origin OF species
Within the past five Or Six years tht
progress made in p"@ Jntology has beeI
very satisfactory.