The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-07-24
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Personal.
Beaconstield never smoked Gortschakoff
is great smoker.
Senator Conover and family, of Florida,
are visiting i'll Allentown, Penn.
Montague, the actor, has been given a
golden moustache comb by an admrer.
The Khedive of Egypt and his family own
nine hundred and ten thousand acres of
land.
Jules Verne is contemplating a voyage
around the world in his new yacht, the St.
Michael.
Senator Thurman will wave his bandanna
and drink sulphur water for time at Rich
field Springs.
Justice Miller is now able to exercise out
of doors during a portion of the day. He
both walks and rides.
Secretary Evart's official duties will com
pei him to leave his cool Vermont retreat
for the torrid heat Of Washington this
week.
9eung GwoOn Jew is the name Of
Chinaman, who was recently ordained
minis er of the Baptist Church, at Salem,
Oregon,
George NJ. Tibbits, of Troy, is said to have
been instrumental in building more houses
and planting more trees than any other man
in the country.
Lawrence Barrett is now entertaining at
his summer residence at Cohasset, Mass, the
Rev. David Swing and daughter, OF Chicago,
and Mrs. General Custer.
Mr. Arthur Cheney's condition affords
| ,,,npI, n hiu f,.in,,lc Ia ic
able to sit up at times his appetite is good,
and his mind is as clear as ever
Mark Twain is notoriously lazy, and, as
he wants to write book in Switzerland, he
has taken along 'the gat.-hy which stings TO
action, Tin the shape Of borous clergyman.
Earl Beaconsteld is in his 74th year, Mr.,
Gladstone is TO- John Bright is g., Earl
Granville is 63, Bismarck G3, Gortschakotf
49, Won Moltke 70, MacMahon u and Du-
faure rs.
Bro. Jasper has tied his faith to the belief
that the five wise virgins were males, be-
cause the Bible don't intimate anywhere be-
tween its "kiyers' that woman ever had
any ''gumption."
Mr.. Joseph Jefferson. the actor is in Col
Orado. In company with Mr. Bradford, the
New Bedford artist, he will make a ske CHI
ing tour of six weeks in the Yosemite Val
ley of California
Rev. VIM. A. Bartlett, of indianapolis
SAYS that he has been approached inform
ally on the subject of becoming President
of Hamilton College, but that he could not
be induced to accept the position.
Mr.. Thomas Carlyle's admirers will be
pleased to learn that the full-length por-
trait of him painted by Mr.. Whistler is be-
ing engraved i'll pure mezzo int. Only a
limited number of copies will be issued.
Mr.. Swinburne has it in mind to edit a
new dramatic dictionary exhaustive in he
matter of names, and containing long and
critical articles on the more important
writer's. He will write some Of the larger
biographies himself.
The Rev. NJ G. Sheldon, pastor of a
Methodist Church in Harvard, H., was a
teller of funny stories; but committee of
his clerical brethren has decided that the
stories were immoral, and that he must be
deposed from the ministry.
William Henry Goodchild, of New York,
petitioned to court to have his name
changed to Henry Lawrence Goodwin,
which was granted. If a good child wins a
good name, we can't see that it is very ma
terial whether it is Goodwin or Goodchild.
Buffalo Horn is small, gracefully built
Indian, with beautiful eyes not unlike a
cross between an eagles and an antelopes.
One side of his long hair is bound round
with threads of brown bark, which rescm-
bles a buffalo horn, and hence, probably,
his name.
Congressman Alexander Fl. Stephens has
never married. No relatives live with him
at Liberty Hall. His body servant is black
his secretary is white. He hates pork and
likes baked coon. He is hot tempered.
His nature is good and generous. He
was liked by Greeley and detestedby Sum.
ner.
Kossuth is now really poor. Some one
recently wrote to him asking his help in OBJ.
tanning payment for large sum of money to
which The Hungarian revolutionists became
indebted to him in 1913. The ex-dictator,
who once boasted that he held the fortunes
of the House of Hapsburg in the hoil0W Of
his hand, tells his correspondent with frank
but pathetic dignity, that he is absolutely
unable not from lack of will, but from lack
of means, "to render help to you or any
man in his distress" Kossuth expresses
his regret that the nation which had taken
on itself so many obligations to which it was
not bound should have neglected 10 pay it
lawful debts.