The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-05-01

PERSONAL.

greatly benefited by an operation recently
performed upon his eyes.
Hannibal Hamlin says the colored people
If the South are getting on better than the
laboring class at the North.
Mr.. Van Laun is writing a book upon
very captivating subject-the history OF
Literary Exiles in England"
Hugh Hastings the New York editor, de
nes the story that he has twenty-seven chill
dren. He probably has only twenly-six.
Senator Wagner, it is rumored, will, al
the end of his present term, retire to private
life and the enjoyment Of his large fortune
Senator David Davis is grooming himself
for the third party nomination. He will
break the back of the third party if it under
,akes to carry him.
Mr.. Joshua Montgomery Sears, the ex-
ceedingly wealthy young Bostonian, has
made good use Of a stray $10,0U0-he has
given it to the Boston Art Museum.
President Anderson, of Rochester Uni
yersity, has returned from Florida almost
completely recovered from his long and
severe illness. He has resumed his work
with the senior class.
Mr.. Lord and Mrs. Hicks-that was-are
said to be spending very happy honey
moon, and the old gentleman doesn't care a
snap of his fingers if it does cost him half a
million dollars, paid to his undutiful sons.
Mr.. Motley's preparation for writing his
famous history compelled an enormous
amount of work. Besides his own constant
labor for years, he kept two copyists en-
gagged in London and two others at The
Hague.
Mr.. Henry Shaw, of st. Louis, has just
given to the citizens of that place fine
bronze statue of Shakespeare. 1t was cast
in the Muller Foundry at Munich, and is
nine feet in hight. 1t is said to have artis-
tic merit
Professor Henry, who is now eighty years
,Id Is in somewhat feeble health, His two
daughters are described as so learned as to
be perfect encyclopedias Of knowledge
Small talk curls up in their presence like
caterpillar on a hot shovel"
Governor Emory, of Utah, says that polyg-
amy is on the decline among the Mormons,
not through any change of sentiment, but
because the wives have taken to eXtrava-
gance in dress. More than one wife is now
an expensive luxury in Salt Lake.
| Mr.. Whistler, one of the most original of
artists, is building house at Chelsea a
| London suburb, so very eccentric in shape
| that the Board of Works is said to have eX-
hausted every form of entreaty in trying to
induce the artist to modify the fantastic ma
ture of his designs.
Minister Welsh has hung the flag present
ed to him by the Philadelphia ladies in his
London drawing-rOom and he has just
written to the ladies to say that these ma
tional emblems ''are most appropriate and
beautiful ornaments on his walls, where
they have already attracted much atten-
ton"
Hon. Z. B. Washburne has just visited
Galveston, where many ciVilities were
offered to him. The News observed gently
the day after his departure: ''The fact that
not few persons of shrewdness and intlu-
ence have Mr.. Washburne in view as next
Republican nominee for the Presidency
adds some special interest to his move
mentS."
NJ. La Roche, Vienna actor, now oyer
eighty years old, has so extraordinary re.
semblance to Goethe that those who are
anxious to see what the great German was
like in his old age, have only to look at the
actor. So close is this resemblance, that al
a theatrical festival in La RQche's honor 9
bust of Goethe was used to represent the
actor during the fete.
Dr. Martin, President of the Chinese I'm
perial College at Peking, has, in the pas
few years, translated and published in the
Chinese tongue-Wheatons Elements o.
International Law" DE Martens "Guide
Diplomatique," a considerable portion o.
, h the French code, Bluntschli's "Volker
recht," and Woolsey's introduction to In
ternational Law" These textbooks have
the sanction of the Chinese Foreign Office
and are widely studied.
Mr.. James r. Fields said of Mr.. Carlyle, il
; his Boston lecture, the other evening, tina
he was strange, iron-grey haired man, whC
said just what he meant tosay, regardless o
t any ones feelings. His playfulness was lik,
the gambolings of whale. He spok
satirically of Washington, and said biog
raphy ought to be written that would talk
: him down. But in spite of his. uncouth
ness, Mr. Fields added, he liked Carlyle a
soon as he began to know him.
Mr. Wendell Phillips, while in Minneso
: ia lately found himself one day in a pleas
f ant home, where one of the prominent per
sons was little girl eleven weeks old
: When Mr.. Phillips rose to go, he said to tn
g mother of the little maid: II trust, if
!. live twenty-five or twenty-three year
longer, / shall hear of this little one as be
. ing Governor of Minnesota" why, MI
$ Phillips" exclaimed the lady, 'Fwould yo,
e approve of such thing?' Certainly,
was the prompt reply, made in all serious
." ness. "Why not?'
: Andrew Van Tuyl Leavitt, a strange oil
i man, and the brother of David Leavitt, tn
t millionaire, has just died. He was, probe
bly,, before his death, the Oldest Twin
alumnus of Yale. Once, when urged to liv
t in his brothers magnificent house at Grea
e Darlington he declined, and made his HON
in Wallingford sugar hut. He took dc
: light in long walks, and until his wife die
j in 1872, the aged man and woman were oftel
: seen toiling over the hills together. Al
! )ugh an enemy of beggars; he was alway
performing some strange but kindly act o
]. beneyolence among the poor.