The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-29
PERSONAL.

years of age, is shortly to be married.
DIR. Stephen Fl. Tying, Jr., sailed for
home from Liverpool on Saturday last,
with health greatly improved.
The Crown Prlfce of Germany is still
i'll, his visit to Kissengen not having
benefited him. He is very respondent
Mr. Sullivan, of Starkville, Miss, in
tends to turn loose his newly-invented
fying-machine on the lst of November.
Governor Mcclellan is still unable to
4 leave the house in consequence of his re-
cent severe illness, but he is gradually re-
covering. ..t
Hon. Herschel V. Johnson says he does
not desire to be Governor of Georgia, and
has not by several years reached the age
of seventy.
DIR. Justo Arosemna, late minister
from the United States of Colombia to
London and Paris, has been appointed
Minister resident to London.
DR.. Scaliemann and Prof. Virchow
have both eft the Troad and are going
to England. Mrs. Schliemann has been
staying at Boulogne for the benefit of
her health.
Judge John F. Dillon has been obliged
reluctantly to decline a public dinner
cordially offered him by the leading citi-
zens of St. Louis. He is coming East
Immediately.
Evangelist Moody will leave North
field, Mass, early in October for a
months labor in Cleveland, Ohio. The
walls ofhis new female seminary build
inc at Mortified are almost up and the
edifice will soon be crowned with roof.
Walt Whitman is in Denver, Col,
having spent couple of weeks in Mis-
souri, and Kansas. He has had good
weather, and good time generally, and
will have travelled 5000 miles, to and fro.
before he gets home again. He returns
in October.
Judge Presley says the number of
crimes in South Carolina, as shown by
the records of the Courts, is not more
than one sixth what it was two years ago.
The reason, he thinks, is that the law is
now enforced and that cul prits are
actually punished for their crimes. The
criminal docket all over the State is very
light now.
Mr.. and Mrs. Stratton (Tom Thumb)
live at Middleboro', Mass, in three
story wooden mansion, tastefully painted,
with piazzas and bay windows, command
ing an extensive view of variegated
scenery. The house is luxuriously fur
nished, and, among other objects of in
terest, are diminutive sewing machine
and the Generals grand piano, two feet
high.
! Sir Rowland Hill is buried in the little
chanel of ST. Paups, at the foot OF the
great satue by Chantry Of Watt. The
finest monument in this chapel is that of
Sir Giles Danberry and his dame, dating
back to 1907. In the same chapel are the
altar tomb of Lord Bourchier standard
bearer to Henry V. at the battle of Ag-
incourt, and statel y monument to Lord
Bromley, Lord Chancellor in the time of
Elizabeth. Archbishop Usher's grave Is
also in this chapel
Mr.. Edward Everett Hale, greatly en-
loving the "Kansas anniversary" last
week, was particularly struck by the
good nature and courtesy shown by the
crowd of twenty thousand people. They
were hungry, and the tables on which the
vivands of the barbecue were spread
could not accommodate twentieth part
of that number at one time; yet There
was no pushing, and everybody showed
the greatest amiability.
General Clingman says that when h,
{ was in Congress years ago he much ad
mired young Washington lady, and wa
! one day indeed on the verge of asking he
, to be his wife. He was about to put tn
. auspicious question, when he was inter
rupted by colleague, who came to con
> suit him about bill which was to b
, passed upon in Congress on the followin
3 day. Clingman became so interested j.
his friends talk that he forgot all abou
: the young lady and the errand on whic
he had come, and he never had the coul
age to begin the suit anew"
t Mr.. Charles Reade is reported to hav
: been fond of fiction from his boyhooC
when he made up tales and read a
$ Scott's novels before he was twelve yeal
s old. While at college he read at lea'
7 half dozen novels every week. He hi
t been called to the bar, but never pra
tised, having read law simply as an al
t, in writing novels. He is stout hater {
injustice, and declares that he can n
I longer afford to write with no higher ol
% ject than entertainment; that the mob
it and only worthy end of fiction is to co
rect evils in society and the State.
t. The Prince of Wales is said to hay
IL some skill in the theatrical art of "mal
$. ing up" which he acquired from the La
= Mr. Fechter One day the Prince SUI
1t denly presented himself before h
e mother attired as beggar, his DIRE
10 tattered, his face dirty, and his hair
or rather wig-in appropriate disorde
N The Queen, not doubling that by son
re means genuine beggar had got into Il
u palace, flew in great alarm to a bell, b.
G. before the attendants could reach Il
room, her son had thrown off his disguis