The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-10-25
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PERSON Al.


dren.
King Hunbert Of italy is in very poor
health.
Gen. Joe Johnson is a brilliant conversa
ionalist.
Dean Stanley makes no gestures when
preaching,
Whittier's new book of poems is selling
rapidly.
O'Leary, the pedestrian, has sailed for
Europe
Joaquin Miller weeps because he was not
born in Italy.
Joaquin Miller has poetical license to
wear long hair
Gen. Francis A. Walker has just resumed
his du;ies at Yale.
Ben Butler will be three-score on the 5th
of November next.
The King of Siam has three thousand
wives He is bald
Bob Ingersoll admires the Scotch, partic-
ularly the ''hot Scotch
II. W. Beecher promises to vary his life
by staying at home for period.
Old Spinner could write more astound-
ing autograph than "Chin Pan Lin"
Edmond Yates says that Americans are
the most hospitable persons in the world.
Lord Exeteris trying to naturalize Ameri-
can black bass in some of the waters OF his
estate.
The venerable King of Holland is to be
married 10 the Princess of Waldeck, aged
sixteen.
Omay, Chief of the Utes, is a Colorado
farmer who lives after the manner OF the
pale-face.
Count Won Moltke, the Chief Field Mar
shal of Germany, will be seVenty-six years
old in November.
A. 7. Stewart would never have his por
trait taken, but one has been painted from
a cast made after death.
Ole Bull is going to play the fiddle before
the President on the 30th inst. for positively
the last time in Washington
Bayard Taylor says that Goethe never
hesi tated TO make love to a pretty woman,
no matter where he found her
Eli Perkins gives an account of The con-
versatiOn between male and female idiot
! Eli does not mention the name OF the
| woman he was talkingto.
"Clingman, of North Carolina" is in Ra-
leigh and is said to show few, if any Of the
physical inhrmties of age, and to be ex-
ceedingly bright of mind.
Robert Collyer told an English audience
that he saw more drunkenness in one week
while on his visit to En- gland than he had
seen in year in America
William Henry Hurlbert is a bachelor
living in apartments at University Place
luxuriousy fitted with everything that
taste can suggest and cash procure.
spurgeon says thathe expected the Taber-
nacle would kill him in seven years, and
that, having contrived to exist fourteen
years. he can not be expected to last much
longer.
Mr.. Balls statue of Charles Sumner has
arrived in Boston, but will not be exhibited
before being placed upon the pedestal,
, which it is said will be ready by November
18th.
DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes has done
nothing in his earlier brilliant vein for
years. 1t is probable that he will never be
allowed to cease writing anniversary and
| occasional verses.
} General Randolph Marcy, the father-n-
, law of Governor Mcclellan, has returned tc
Washington from hunting trip to the
: Rocky Mountains He counts twenty elk
) among his game.
: Mr.. John Penn, the most eminent marine
5 engineer of England, has just died. He
was the inventor of many mechanical i'm
provemens, and was at one time Presiden
| of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers.
r Ex-Secretary Hugh J. McCuloch has jus
bought the house upon the northeast cor
ner Of Lexington avenue and Thirty-sixll
street, New York, proposing to make tina
hnp ftnpl l,ig ant
g NJ Gambetta is to be married to widow
| with fortune of So, 100000. Mrs Hoppe
adds that the lady is the niece of M. Du
. bochet, the great gas contractor, whose he
4 it was at one time said NJ. Gambetta wa
to be.
Sam Houston Dixon is about to publsl
: book on the poets of Texas, which viii
D contain biographies of John B. Ransom
: Power Houston, w. T. G. Weaver Mary j
e Young, and other Lone Star State poets
Il with selections from their poems
n Joseph and Rebecca Taylor, the parent
4 of Mr.. Bayard Taylor, received from Berlil
u on the sixtieth anniversary of their wed
l. ding-day, recently celebrated, gifts of
t. watch and locket. Speeches were mad
n to the venerable pair, and songs were sum-
- to them by the many and merry friend
IS v no surrounded them.
q Gen. Fremont was received in Prescott
1T the other evening with speech whicl
" would seem to show that people of his ter
!. ritory are poeically glad to see him. "Her
y in our mounain-guarded home,n said tn
to enraptured orator, far from the great SC
,e cial center we will strive to make you for
w w get the gorgeous East in the hospitalities q
80 the West"
70 Mr. Gladstone, visiting King William
IN College in the Isle Of Man, the other day
j. made speech in which he inpresse
,a strongly upon the boys the etisrhiotis ih
I'd portance Of taking every advantage of th
s, passing time, cautioning them not to let
r. Slip through their hands, but to let ever
=: hour produce fruits of an enduring charat
III ter. "Play earnestly" said he. canon
ly yourselves, and let your work also be eal
So nest" They all must be resolute and mar
ly in Whatever God had set them to do q
le the principles of courage, duty and perst
It. verance were requisite for manhood.