The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-03-29
Personal.

Vice President Wheeler is particularly
fond of music
Simmons, the sculptor, will soon sail from
Portland Me-, for Rome
Sir Randall Roberts is painting large
water color picture in Boston.
Robert Toombs is to deliver the address
on Decoration Day in Columbus Ga.
James Anthony Froude is writing an
article for the May-June number Of The
International Review.
Alexander Dumas, the younger, lives in a
magnificent house, in Paris, crowded from
ground floor to roof with objects of art.
Eli Perkins has been Eli-ing about George
| Francis Train, and G. f. T. threatens the
prosecution of newspapers publishing the
Perkinslsm.
General Garfeld's new farm is at Mentor,
Lake County, Ohio, and he is said to raise
as good corn and potatoes as any man in
that region"
Storey, of the Chicago Times, is we'll up
in the newest fashions. He advises us in a
late number that "pocket-books will be
worn shorter this season."
Hon. Randall L. Gibson is the grandson
of the clergyman, Randall Gibson, who
founded the first church and endowed the
first college in Mississippi.
George, King of Greece, is never happy
except at the billiard table; billiards is the
only thing in which he is a proficient 1t
has taken him years to acquire smattering
of modern Greek
Speaker Samuel ]. Randall goes to a Pres
byterian Church in Washington. His wife
and daughters are members. His father was
| for many years an elder III prominent
church in Philadelphia.
John Laws wedding day, in South Bend,
Ind, was enliVened i'll an unusual way.
One of his discarded swcethearts went to
the hotel where he and the bride lodged,
called him into the parlor, and shot him.
Prof. Alexander Hogg, of the Texas Ag-
ricultural and Medical College, proposes
that the Government should appropriate a
certain amount Of public lands in each State
for the maintenance of higher edula .ional
institutions for women.
A Wisconsin man took fowling-piece to
the village gunsmith for some repairs, in
forming him that it was loaded and he must
discharge it. When the mechanic fired it
off it burst and he narrowly escaped death.
And now the sportsman has sued the black
smith for the value Of the gun.
Mr.. Stubbs, who ran as the Greenback
candidate for Governor of Iowa last year,
has been nominated by his party in Lee
County, of that State, for President in 1880
An idle vanity and an empty ambition :;
but if there were no checks there would be
no Stubbs you know.
John Ruskin is fond of ferns and scaweed.
and possesses a large collection of dried
specimens. To see him in a London fog is a
pitable spectacle Mrs Ruskin was, a few
years ago separated with mutual consent,
from her lord and MASTER and married the
portrait painter Millais. Ruskin is about
sixty, and wears blue tie in a bow
Mr.. Michael Angelo Hayes, we'll known
to numerous artists on the Continent, and
formerly City Marshal of Dublin met his
death recently under extraordinary circum-
stances He had gone to the roof of his
house to investigate some stoppage in els
tern. 1t is supposed that he was seized
with a fit, during which he fell into the
cistern, and was drowned in one foot of
water.
Gov Vance, of North Carolina, is a good
worker Last Wednesday he arose at day
light in the town of Asheville, mounted a
little sorrcl pony and rode to the Swanna-
noa Gap before he ate breakfast-a distance
of twenty miles. He then left his steed and
walked through and examined all the rail
road works on the mountains, and then on
to Henry before matchmaking distance
of nine miles that he walked.
NJ. Victor Della-Voss, Director of the I'M
periaI Technical School of Moscow, has
been authorized by the Russian Govern
ment to present to the Massachusetts Insti-
tute of Technology duplicate of the Rus
sian technic exhibit at the Philadelphia
Exhibition. The collection has been re-
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