The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-04-04
PERSONAL.
Y is a native of Cork.

Longfellow is writing a comedy for
Moajeska.
VIII Carleton is called the male Sweet
Singer OF Michigan.
E Ex-Governor Brown, of Georgia, is said to
! be worth 81, 5000 900.
Mr.. Oyster, of Washington, contrives to
do business in all the months.
Father Hyacinthe has obtained permis-
sion to deliver some lectures in Paris during
the Exhibition.
Thackeray was always making pincush-
ions into which he was plunging his points
of sarcasm.
| Beauregard, Nichols and the Mayor of
| New Orleans have been acting as judges of a
baby-show at that city.
Miss Matte Frazure was married to Mr..
| J.. A. Wilson, in Somerset KY, on March
25th, she being not quite thirteen years old.
King Humbert has instituted yearly
prizes Of $1,000 each for those most distin-
gushing themselves i'll literature, art, and
science in his kingdom.
Oliver Wendell Holmes once said
Science isa good piece of furniture to have
iii an upper room, provided common sense
stands on the ground floor"
The Count de Chambord, known as an as
pirant for the throne of France under the
title of Henri V, has bought a small island in
the Eastern Mediterranean for his winterrcS-
dcncc, where he can be monarch of all he
: surveys with no one to dispute his title.
, General and Mrs Grant had an exceed
ingly pleasant visit in ConStantinople. Din
: ncr-partes and receptions were offered
, them, and the Sultan provided them with
i,r, s+,,t, l,,t,,
yacht, in which to go about the city by land
and water.
NJ. Andre, the astronomer sent by the
French Government to this country to OBJ
serve the passage OF Mercury over the sun,
on May 9th, has already left New York fol
Ogden Utah, the point fixed upon for the
observation NJ. Andre was one Of the As
Economical Commission which went out to
New Caledonia in 1874
Bancroft gardens accompanied by two
servants, one of whom holds an umbrella
over his head to shield him from the sun
An Italian Count meanwhile plays the
, hand-organ, of which the great historian is
paSSionately fond, at the back gate But
for the accident OF clothes it would be Just
like the Garden of Eden.
Mr. Larkin j. Meades design for a memo.
Z rial monument to Senator Morton presents
a shaft rising from base and sub-base, anC
= supporting at the height of one hundred
and fifteen feet figure of the dead Senator
; in heroic size, He is represented in the at
titude of speaking The cost of monu
: ment executed after this plan is estimated
at 100000.
Dumont, the business man of Fiske
dramatic company in New York, invited
7 the editor of the Dramatic News out of the
Fifth-avenue Theater to get whipped. The
News man went out, whipped Dumont, ac
Il, cepted a bet of 500 that he could prove Du
mont a liar, proved it, crediting Dumont
: by the way, for $40, and-now tells thu
7 story in his paper.
S Senator Lamar sent this sentiment to Au
o gusta, Ga: "The typical lrishman: Hi
: home-the world His friends-all the peo
= = pie. His faith-his own. No cline to hin
d 50 cold as will not produce a shamrock; NJ
e soil 50 barren as will not grow shillalah
! Foremost at a fight, frolic, or a funeral
his generous nature finds a blow for tn
y bad, a smile for the glad, or tear for tn
!. sad"
y Lord Roseberry it is rumored, has bough
l. The Examiner from Mr.. Peter Taylor 70
$50O0--the exact sum which Mr.. Taylo
paid for it, 1t is added that it was Mr. Tav
c Blacks novel of Green Pastures and Picca
. dilly," which obliged him to give up hi
. venture. He paid the author a very larg
: sum, which the sale of the paper did no
e bring back to him.
$ Senator Burnside, the Beautiful, is a con
$ spcuous figure on Washington's fashion
- able drives He has stylish I cart, draw
Z by one superb horse, elegantly caparisoned
y a liveried footman in top-boots, high ha
: with rosette, olive green livery, with silye
buttons, is in place, while beside tn
$ Senator is always one of the fairest bud
s from the Capitals rose-garden of beautiful
: girls.
=, Prince Valdemar Vladimir Tcherkaski
the Russian Governor of Bulgaria who diet
!, a few days ago at the age of sixty, was th
d foremost Pan-Slavst of the Russian Empire
+ and man Of very advanced ideas. He wa
! even a contributor to the Republican paper
at Paris, fact which did not, however
alarm the Car, for" said the autocra
philosophically, the more he writes il
S France the less hel write in Russia"