The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-07-31
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Mr.. Barry Sullivan contemplates another
trip to this country.
Edwin Booth is staying with friends in
the neighborhood of Greenwich, Conn.
Senator Mcdonald of Indiana is in Colo
RADIO, where he expects to remain for some
time.
Leon Say, after lingering for time among
the hills and wales of Scotland, has returned
to France.
Ex-Attorney-Genera Taft is making a tour
of the seaside and mountain resorts of New
Hampshire.
Charles Reade is a man who does not en-
joy himself, and he wants no left-handed
compliments.
Mr. Charles Reade, SAYS London paper,
has sent manuscript play to Clara Morris
for her consideration.
Mr.. Thomas Mort who spent $5o0,0
trying to solve the problem of sending
frozen meat to England, has died in Aus
tralia.
DR.. Schlieman is about to return to
Athens, with the intention of recommenc-
ing his excavations at Hissarlik or else
where.
Charles Dudley Warner has cozy little
cottage near keenc Fla's, in the Adiron-
dacks, where he is spending the summer
with his wife.
Ex-senator Doolittle's son is candidate
for Congress at Chicago, and Ex-senator
John Bells son is a candidate for Congress
in Tennessee.
CAPTAIN James B. Eads in a letter to Con-
gresham Crttenden, of Missouri, says that
"the jetty channel at New Orleans is almost
as good as the entrance to New York
Harbor."
DR.. J. G. Hollands birthday was cele-
brated Wednesday by company of his
friends and admirers at "Holland Dell" in
Heath, Mass, one Of the scenes of his boy
hood The exercises consisted of addresses
and reading selections from DR.. Hollands S
works.
Mr. Dutton Cook, in his book on acting,
! tells an amusing story of a Partisan theater-
goer who objected to supper room at one
of the theaters because through his opera
glass he could observe that the labels on the
bottles showed the wine not to be of first
quality.
Dean Stanley knows how to illustrate as
we'll as to expound a subject When he was
recently complmented with a vote of
thanks after lecturing on Presence of
Mind" he replied: II am very much
obliged to you; | shall show my presence of
mind by silence"
Mr.. John Bright's Birmingham constitu-
ents will erect statue of him this fall, to
commemorate the twenty-one years he has
represented that town in Parliament. A
present will also be given him that may be
preserved in the family as an heirloom for
generations to come.
Franklin Philip, whose lavish hospitali-
ties in Washington dissipated the property
that he acquired during the war, has since
been at San Francisco as Chief Clerk of the
Navy Pay Office, and has embezzled about
81 300, which Pay Director Cunningham
has paid from his pocket.
Count Andrassy is reputed to be good
linguist, being able to do business in four
languages at least; but he is not infallible in
English. Some one was congratulating him
recently upon the successful policy he had
adopted at Berlin with regard to Bosnia.
well" he said, II thought the time was
come to take the bull by the corns."
Prince Bismarck received a rebuff from an
unexpected quarter during the Congress. 1t
was his custom to govern the assembly
much as a sChOolmaster governs an unruly
class. One day the Turkish Pashas were
confering in an undertone, when the Prince
commanded silence wi h a peremptory
Hush Pasha at once replied: "Your
Highness, the representatives of the Sublime
Porte are not here to bear with your i'll
humors"
Rev. Mr. Milburn well known as "the
Blind Preacher" has just returned to New
York after sojourn of two years and hall
in the United Kingdom. During this time
he has traversed almost every portion Of
England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales,
travelling about thirty thousand miles, and
preaching and lecturing everywhere. Mr.
Milburn expects to lecture during the com
ing winter on what blind man saw in the
course of this long tour.
Count Schouvaloff took his little son with
him when he went to sign the Berlin
Treaty, in order that the boy might have an
opportunity of remembering the I'M erestine
event in future years. Among other per
sons present were the Princess Bismarck
and Countess Bismarck, who looked down
upon the ceremony from a box in the hall
while Herr Won Werner, the painter, whose
brush is to perpetuate the Congress- sat al
the table with the Plenipotentiaries.
Colonel Delevan has erected monument
to his own (future) memory in Sleepy Hol
low Cemetery, 1arfytOWn-on-the-H hudson
which cost $4,000 He has picture of this
monument at Saratoga which is hung in 6
conspicuous position in hotel and he in
vites the young girls to look at it with him
while he tells how much it cost. Near thi,
pretentious shaft in the cemetery is the
humble grave of Irving-a slab of marble
! three feet high-giying simply his name, age
and place Of birth.
Think of the meanness of husband whc
would hire a man to steal pocketbook ant
! put it into his wife's market-basket, anC
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