The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-23
PERSONAL.

Bloniin, the tight-rope artist, is 55 years
of age.
The ex-Kedive is worth $S0,000,0 900.
He is extra lucky.
Disraeli is physically in a nervously
Frustrated condition.
Mr.. Bancroft, the historian, will reach
his eightieth year the coming October 80.
Prince Leopold is to be Duked short
ly. Is this not rather an equivocal ele-
vation2
Mr.. Gladstone has gone to Italy with
his wife, son and daughter for a two
months visit.
Mr.. Francis Parkman, the learned and
venerable historian, opposes woman's SUI
frage in the North American Review.
Ben Butler first saw his wife behind
the footlights She was probably sing
er, and he was charmed with her silvery
voice.
The painter Semiradsky has presented
to Cracow, for the whole of Poland, his
celebrated picture of "Nero's Living
Torches"
The Mikado of Japan proposes to visit
England. We always thought that the
japanese art business would be overdone
some time.
Senator Bayard is expected to return
from Europe very soon. Senator Ed
munds will not arrive before the middle
of November.
Governor Andrews, of Connecticut, let's
no grass grow beneath his industrious feet.
He has been making speeches in several
of the towns of his State on education,
and also on village improvement.
Mr.. Whittier wrote in response to an
invitation to attend a recent meeting of
sympathy with tenant farmers in Ireland:
81 do not understand fully the condition
of the Irish tenant farmers at the present
time, but my sympathies are with the
laboring poor"
Forest, the explorer, and the Victoria
expedition have succeeded in crossing the
continent to Western Australia, coming
out at Port Darwin. They discovered no
traces of Leichardt, but found vast tracts
of fine pastoral country, with plenty of
grass and water.
Daoud Shah, the Ameer's Commander
in-Chief, giant in stature, seems to have
done his best to save Cavagnari's party.
When he went to the English camp his
wounds We're found to be severe, and
General Sir Frederick Roberts thanked
him for his services.
The Prince of Wales has directed that
his eldest son, Prince Albert Victor,
after passing from the Royal Military
Academy, should become associated with
one of the ordnance corps for brief pc
Rod, and pass gradually through the
several military grades.
Baron Grants wonderful Kensington
mansion, which cost about 100000, has
doubtless been sold. At the action two
weeks ago bid of f179,000 was offered,
which was so near the reserve price that
it was stated that few minutes private
conversation would settle the matter.
Mr.. Richard A. Proctor will sail from
Liverpool for America next Saturday in
the Arizona. He will begin his work of
lecturing in Philadelphia on November
Sd, and after busy winter both in the
East and West will sail in April for Aus
tralia, to lecture there for six mouths.
Major Thornburg is said to have been
a marksman of uncommon skill. As
glass-ball shooter he had the reputation
of being the best on the frontier. A
friend relates that on once tossing
nickel into the air Thornburgh fired at it,
and the bullet struck the coin when
about fifteen feet from the ground
Mr.. Worth, the man-milliner, is de-
scrihed by Miss Brewster in the Tele-
graph of Philadelphia as a stopping
simply-dres-ed man of middle height
with a round, good-natured face, and
homely, simple, straightforward man
ners. His son, twenty years old, is en-
pIoyed with his father and is said to be
even cleverer than Worth in designing
gowns.
The King of Siam, appreciating the re-
suits of the English education of his
childhood, is giving the same advantages
to his own children. Princess Civil, his
bright, clever little ten-year-old daughter,
receives from an accomplished English
lady regular instruction in French, Eng
lish and German, music, dancing and
drawing. The Queen, her mother, takes
great interest in the lessons, and is 50
pleased with foreign ways that she talks
of adopting the European dress.
M. Menier, the Paris chocolate
maker takes intense interest in scientific
farming. Some interesting experiments
in electrical plowing were recently made
on his estate. The motive power was
supplied to the plow by a German ma,
chine, itself set in motion by water
power, which is abundant on M. Menier's
estate. The plow did about the same
work as if drawn by four oxen. 1t was a
Fowler plow, with six shares. The mo-
tive power was supplied to it by wire,
at distance of 700 metres.
Amasa Stone, Esq, of Cleveland, Ohio,