The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-03-23

Alex. Stephens favors woman suffrage.
Bonner still invests his spare dollars in
speedy hOrse-fesh.
John Mccullough, the famous actor, be-
gun the ladder as u gas-titter.
jeff Davis denies that crinoline story
again. 1t was furbelow his dignity.
Ben. Wade used to say that between the
chairs of a dentist and a photographer he
had no choice.
Mr.. Spurgeon is said to be growing gen
tier and quieter in his methods of preach
ing as he grows in years,
DR. Levi Jones died in Galveston on the
14th instant, aged eighty-six years. He was
one Of the founders Of the city.
Charles Dudley Warner can fill four pages
of a magazine with description of how he
and another man caught a fish weighing
twelve ounces.
Mr.. Daniel Higgins, an employe in the
Richmond IVA. gas-works has Just received
information that he has fallen heir to
an estate in Sidney, Australia, valued at
100000.
John W. Mackay denies that he has any
intention of purchasing the mansion lately
owned by Baron Albert Grant, at Kensing-
ton, England. He says he wouldn't take it
as a gift
Max Maretzek has won verdict of over
S., 600 from a Philadelphia manager who
engaged Maretzek to lead an orchestra dur
ing the Centennial Exhibition and dis
charged him a week after he had begun.
Beaconsfeld is reported as saying: 'I
have the Queen on my side; have Parlia-
ment with me; have the people of Eng
] InI ,,I 7 10,
younger l would remake the map of Eu-
rope"
Mr. Samuel Rowe a deaf mute, becomes
a Congregational minister, and will preach
to the deaf and dumb in the sign language.
There are only two other deaf mute clergy
men in the United States-both Episcopal
ians.
Mr.. George w. Childs, of Philadelphia,
has given Prof. Mears, of Hamilton College,
800 to be applied to the increase of the
| library of metaphysical works which the
Professor is collecting for the use of his de-
partment.
Jesse Pomeroy is preparing himself for a
chair Of languages in some college. The
boy-murderer has been improving his time
in prison. and besides becoming a master
of the English branches, is making aston.
lShlhg progress III Lalln, HIellCA anu pel
man.
The Duke de Nemours is said to possess a
remarkable resemblance to Henri Quatre
and he makes this resemblance the more
emphatic by wearing his hair and beard in
in the fashion adopted by that gallant King
The Duke d Aumale is thin and gray-is be.
ginning to look very old.
Mr.. Fletcher Harper, at the mitigation Of
his wife, has purchased the Sea Shore cot
tage at Atlanticville, N. j., which will be
used hereafter as home for sick and intirm
people attached to the publishing house OF
the Harper Brothers, Mrs. Harper will have
entire supervision of the establishment.
DR.. J. Marion SIMS the well-known sur
geon, is now in Vienna, preparing an elab
crate medical work, which is to be pub
lished simultaneously in English, French
and German, next September. SHe returns
to his home in this city to resume perma
nently the practice of his profession here or
the lst of September
Alexandra Dumas, in going though his
fathers papers, found piece in five acts
written by the dead man. and fopndedppor
"Balsamo." He showed it to NJ Dftquesnel
who thought that the subject might have
received greater development. So M
1 Dumas set to work, cutting, extending and
rearranging, but respecting the novel and
the piece as much as possible. He says
ITO know the author of the piece is there
fore not easy, but one means exists for set
tling the point; the public shall decide. II
the play succeeds, it will be my fathers; il
it fails it is mine."