The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-11-07
PERSONAL.
Edison chews.

VIM. Shakespeare is running for Office in
Michigan.
Gambetta is to wed widow of much
opulence.
Captain Tyson doubts the existence of an
open Polar sea.
Victor Hugo does his writing on the roof
OF his Guernsey house.
Richard Grant White says the term "chin
whiskers" is a barbarism.
General Grant has abandoned for the
present his plan of visit to India.
Nephew Pelton continues to reside with
his uncle at No. 10 Gramercy Park.
Senator David Davis says that three days
are enough to love, court and marry in.
Gen. Tom Thumb has donned his stage
paint, and will go on the show-path again.
Adirondack Murray has ridden behind a
runaway horse eleven times, yet has never
been hurt.
Thurman is now sixty-fve years old.
He has been generous eater and gener-
Gus drinker
| George Washington is manufacturing
split-bottom chairs in Virginia. It's the
other George, though.
Henry w. Longfellow is seventy-one
years old, and wears well The dignity of the
gentleman and the poet.
Chace, Hathaway and Stickney, the
Fall River defaulters, all see the sun rise
through iron-bound windows.
President Eliot, of Harvard, is to pre-
side at the dinner of the Boston Latin
School Association next month.
Mr.. Sankey, accompanied by his family,
has arrived in Liverpool and contemplates
making religious tour of England.
Whittier is seventy years old and most
quaint and kindly person. He uses habit
ually the Quaker "thee' and thou"
Mr.. Arshowe is Chinese tea dealer in
Bos on who in the past thirty years has
made fortune and educated two daugh-
ters.
William Ralph Emerson, nephew of
Ralph Waldo Emerson is about to enter
the lecture field. Subject, In Hundred
Years, What?'
F. w. Miller, of the signal service office
in Rochester. drank blue vitriol and water
in mistake for pure water, and nearly died
in consequence.
Hon. George Bancroft has so far recov-
cred from his accident as to be able to pre-
pare for his departure to Washington,
where he will remain during the winter.
Mr.. C. c. Fulton, editor of the Baltimore
American, made one hundred and fifty
five days trip to Europe on less than 81 ,000
and says he didn't try to economic either.
Mr.. Seth Green has received another gold
medal from France in recognition of his
success as a pisciculturist. This is the
fourth medal given to him by the same So
ciety.
Peter Cooperis eighty-eight and as fresh
as if only turning the quarter pole. He has
been a halter, coachmaker, grocer, glue
maker, philanthropist and Presidential
candidate.
Sir Stafford Northcote, British Chancellor
of the EXchequer, is about to publish lit
tie volume of plays for children, written by
him originally for the amusement of his
own family.
Garibaldi has decided to leave Caprera,
and will winter in a beautiful villa on The
Apennines, just outside of Genoa. His
daughter Teresina and her husband are to
live with him.
Queen Margherita's favorite colors for
her robes and hats are blue and gray. She
is blonde, and called very pretty ('bellis-
sima') by the friends and admirers at the
Roman Court
Bret Harte's "Spelling Bee at Angels" in
the November Scribner's is as good as any
thing he has written, and will certainly live
in fame alongside of the Society Upon
the Stanislaus.'
Colonel Forney is about to begin the
publication of a new weekly paper in Phil
adelphia. 1t is to be called Progress, and
will be a paper of sixteen pages, exclusive
| of advertisements, looking somewhat like
| the Nation.
Sir T. Acland, a Scottish M. P. has had
teacher from the Edinburg School of
Cookery visit his estate and give practical
| instruction, with demonst traton lessons, to
his tenants, using the appliances in actual
use in their cottages, wood fires, crooks, and
contracted stoves.
Joaquin Miller we are told "weeps be-
cause Italy is not his native land Well
BET So so that Italy doesn't. But then he
can embark in the hand-organ business
without being a native of Italy. He has
long enough hair, and two-wecks' abst-
nence from soap would produce the other
requisite.
Mr.. Tilden may have guilty knowledge of
the cipher dispatches, but it is preposterous
| to suppose that he has so far taken leave of
his senses as to engage to marry ST. Louis
belle, as paper of that city announces.
The statement was probably weak inven-
ton of the st. Louis Journal to attract at
tention from the dry goods failure there.
-[Chicago Times.
Mr.. Bright, in a recent letter, asserts that
the prevalent financial depression in Eu-
rope is largely due to the maintenance of
such enormous armaments, and points to
international treaties of commerce as the
remedy. They have, he urges, entirely
changed the sentiments which previously
prevailed between England and France,
now the best of friends
The late William L. Yancey seems to
have been prophet as we'll as statesman.
When he heard, many years ago, that kee
of powder had exploded in the arms of q
boy named w. J. Sanford without doing
him any harm, lie predicted that Sanford
would either be hung or sent to Congress-
Mr.. Sanford was a candidate for Con
gress in Alabama, and was elected.
Chun Put Man, the Chinese Consul Gen
eral, who is to watch over the Interests Of
his countrymen in California and the Terri
tories, is said to be the richest foreigner
.bot l,oo ayar nome to the Pacific poast tf