The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-08-15
Personal.

Edmund About is about fifty.
Gortschakotf fingers long at the glass
lOoking-glasS.
Governor Hartranft of Pennsylvania,
is confined to his house in Harrisburg by
sickness
Congressman Martin I. Townsend has gone
to inspect and spend short season on his
Iowa plantation.
Rev. Phillips Brooks is occupying the
historic residence OF Governor Andrew at
bingham, Mass.
Captain Maync Reid, who used to write
so many exciting stories for boys, is raising
sheep i'll England.
Senator Jones cautions young men against
the folly of extravaganza and smokes twen-
ty-lvecent cigars.
Charles Thorne Robson and Crane, and
one or two ministers have been making
merry at Cohasset, Mass
Mr.. James T. Field is entertaining Prof
LOngfeiIOw at his summer villa on Thunder
bolt Hills i'll New Hampshire
The Rev. Phillips Brooks has volume of
sermons in press. 1t will be the first and
only book he has ever published.
Ex-Secretary Chandler is visiting his SON
in-law, Congressman Eugene Hale, ut the
home of the latter in Ellsworth, Maine.
Secretary Evarts will avoid politics and
turn farmer for the remainder OF the sum
mer. He has gone to his farm near Wind
SOr Vermont.
Mr.. Leonard w. Volk, the sculptor, in
tends to open a studio in Chicago. He has
recently finished statues OF President Lin
colin and Spnarpr DOuplaS
GOunod's son Jean is twenty-five years
old, and is an artist in Paris. He gives
promise of becoming as famous in painting
a. his father was in music.
Ex-Gov. Miller, of Minnesota is deliver
Ing lecture in that State which is entitled
"Au Men Are Liars His tickets read,
"AIl Men Are Liars-admt one"
Rev. Dewitt Talmage says he has re-
solved to let the press alone if the press will
let him alone. Mans magnanimity to man
makes countless thousands rejoice
Mr.. jefferson has lately visited the Big
Trees and the Yosemite Valley. Il wish |
could describe them to YOU" he writes
but mortal man can neither paint nor tell
of lhem.'
Bishop Whitaker, of Virginia City, has
been visiting the owns Of Iybo and ward,
New. Al Ty DO he preached i'll gambling
saloon, where an enthusiastic hearcr burst
in with Keno" instead Of Amen"
Joe Emmets voice was uninjured by the
accident which happened to his nose during
a little unpcaSunlness in Union Square,
Just before he left for England, and he sings
/ 'Oh! he hit me off de nose" with more
feeling lhan ever.
Judge William Thomas, of Jacksonville,
I Ill.,, one Of the Oldest and most experienced
LAWYERS in that State, aged ninety-twu
years, has just married charming old lady
of seventy-tiye, and they are now INDUCING
i'll wedding tour.
The Emperor of Morocco was, at last ac-
counts. dangerously ill., AS a result Of the
famine now raging in great part OF his DO
minions, an instruction has broken out III
two provinces One of the Emperor 5
ncphews, sent at the head of troops 10 quell
it, was killed.
Capt Blackenbury, an English army Off
Ger who served as correspondent OF the Lon
don Times throughout The FrancO-Germar
and TurkO- Russian wars, has invented q
plan of protecting gnnners and cannoneerS
while working field artillery by means OF
iron shields, portable, and put into position
by sections He contends that his plan in
creases the destructive power of light ar
tllery enormously, rendering II proper
tonately the superior arm of the military
service.
Nathaniel Hawthorne's grave is described
by visitor as marked by "a simple granite
stone worn with the weather, It's edge
softencd by the clinging lichen. and bear
ing only the name, Hawthorne 1t is no
more than one foot and half in height
and seems peculiarly appropriate to ma
ture so sensitive, so retcent as his. Th
mound is covered with the sweet white clio
yer, mingled with the pine needles she'
by the majestic trees, whose branches sway
ing in the breeze sigh and moan an endIes
requiem for the illustrious dead.