The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-04-18
Personal.

Personal.
George Jones, of the N. Y. Times, is
troubled with asthma.
James T. Fields says Cowper was the
Whittier of his time.
Mr.. Jonas Pickles, a respected citizen OF
New Orleans, has been killed by q fall from
his horse.
jefferson Davis Jr, is twenty-five, and
is not handsome, but is good-natured and
loquacious.
Rev. Thomas Spurgeon, a son of the great
English Baptist clergyman, is preaching to
crowded audiences in Australia.
Mr.. Alfred Tennyson received the sum of
300 guineas for his poem of THE Revenge"
published in the Nineteenth Century.
Mr.. George H. Boughton received it is
said, SC, 900 for his picture of William the
Testy,n painted for the Corcoran Gallery.
VIII Carleton owns meat market at
Adrian, Michigan. This accounts for the
tender lines found in his Farm Ballads"
Professor Agassiz can not be content to
rest even during his summer pleasuring
He is adding laboratory to his house at
Newport.
DR.. John Hall is about to give to the stu
! dents of Yale Theological Seminary, three
lectures on Lessons from MEDIEVAL Church
History"
| Henry Crouch, wife and two children-an
entire family-were drowned while fishing
in Wakefeld's pond, near Augusta, ILL.,,
few days since.
President Chadbourne, of Williams, is to
give course of eight or ten lectures on
Science and the Bible" before the Union
Theological Seminary next winter.
Ex-Secretary Belknap is described as stay
ing in Washington apparently as happy as
in other days The pink-and-w smooth
ness of his forehead is not wrinkled.
The Emperor Of Germany received, as a
gift upon his birthday, a flute which
once belonged to Frederic the Great, and
which was lately found in citizens
family.
Victoren Sardou has just put a new com
edy on the stage Of the Vaudeville. 1t is
called lies Bourgeois de Pont Arcy," and is
! a lively satire on French politics and man
ners 1t is very witty, and has some deep
pathos also; and it was successful.
Mr.. Stephen Ryder, of Christian Hook,
l.. l., in going to the railway station at that
place a few days ago, dropped a pocket
book containing $50 A dog, accompanied
him to the depot, and, on returning, picked
up the pocketboOk, carried it home, and
laid it on the stoop, where it was found by
Mrs. Ryder.
Cuvier, Byron and the first Napoleon re-
ouired larger hats than the average man.
Bismarck and Moltke measure more round
the crown than the Emperor William. The
) head increases in volume with the ordinary
mortal until the age Of forty-tive. Women
| Ill l,,+ Innl of ,,,iuohinf :
sometimes in them.
John Bunyan's tomb was, up to a few
years ago, disgrace to the English people
but, thanks to Lord Shaftesbury, penny
: subscription was suggested, and large sun
was realized in coppers. The tomb was
furnished up and the remains of dead cats
surrounding it carted off. Bunhill Field'
Cemetery is not the most attractive spot
Rev, DR.. Richard s. Storrs is resonan
: pulpit orator, who has lived in Brooklyn fo
more than a quarter of century, Hi
clothing always fits him exactly. He is al
} enthusiast on the subject of Long lsanC
, history, one of the most polished speaker
in the country, and could say Remove tha
poodle dog from the rear pew" i'll wa,
that would thrill every hearer.
James Parton is living quietly at New
: buryport Mass, in his iifty-seventh year
: He labors in the morning and in the after
noon strolls among his townsmen, witt
2 whom he is popular. He says that he ha
: lost several positions because he is free
,. thinker. For twenty years he has been en-
! gagged on his Life of Voltaire,' which he
irving to make the ''Onc well-written boo
: of his life labor"
r Pete Henderson, an aged negro, died
s few days ago in Philadelphia. He was note
. worthy as the model after which some O
the best minstrel performers fashioned thei
o charactcrizations. He was type of the oil
IS plantation darkey in looks, walk and voice
aRd all these may be seen closely copied b.
'' many minslrels He was employed abou
the Philadelphia minstrel shows, so that hi
= peculiarties might be initiated.
nj Gerome, the painter who has recently rt
u ceived the ribbon Of the Legion of Honor,
y about to exhibit The Gladiators" hi
:. colossal group in bronze. 1t is seven fet
+ in height, and very nearly reproduces tn
chief figures in his famous picture of tn
Roman arena. The work is said to be e1
i cellent, and it is supposed that Paris wi
" purchase it for one of its squares. NJ, Bot
: guereau will send to the Exhibition twelv
large paintings, among them his new pain
y ing of Charity" described as very beaut
e full
h Joseph Balsamo,' Dumas new play jus
Ie produced at the Odeon Theater, in Pari
- has proved unsuccessful. Our Paris corre
ie pondent writes on the subject Of its pc
,e formance: 'rhe wonderful way the piece
put upon the stage is the subject of geners
- remark The costumes of Leonide Leblanc
~ who plays the role of Nine. Dubarry, el
er ceed anything every before seen upon tn
t. stage Report says that Prince of roys
n blood now General in the French Army
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