The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-06-30
PERSONAL.

quito Dill.
Timothy Titcomb will sport a steam
yacht this summer.
G. w. NJ. Reynolds, the English nov
elist, it is reported, made EGO, 900 by his
sensational stories.
Ex-Congressman Franklin Landers is
represented to be booming as the coming
Indiana.
Mr.. Fred. Harden, of Robeson, N. c.,
who will be one hundred and three years
old on his next birthday, has just pro-
fessed religion.
Mr.. John Langdon Sibley, Librarian
Emeritus of Harvard, has just prepared
for the thirty-hrst time the neurology of
Harvard graduates.
Mr.. H. E. Hamlin, the son of the ven
cradle Senator, and a very excellent
speaker, is about to be graduated by
Colby University.
Senator Blair, the newly elected from
New Hampshire, is man about forty
five years old, tall and slender, and wear
ing chin whiskers.
Henry Page set out to preach Mormon
ism in Georgia. He had made about 100
converts, and taken six wives, when he
was arrested for bigamy.
Messrs. Matthew and John Guy Vassar
will shortly erect at Poughkeepsie hand
some and convenient building to be used
as "Home for Old Men"
Mr.. John Randolph Tucker is called
upon to suffer another trial at the hands
of the oculists. A cataract has appeared
upon his hitherto healthy eye.
Froude, the historian, and his late
brother, the engineer, VIM. Froudc, were
deeply devoted to each other, and Will
JAMS death is to the former most bit
ter bereavement.
Jacob House, of Allowaystown, Pa,
writes that sixty years ago his father
found turtle on the farm marked rs.
B., 1885," and it has been seen every
year since within few feet of the same
locality.
Jesse Beneker, son of Chang, one of
the Siamese twins, received diploma at
the New York Institution for the Deaf
and Dumb on Wednesday last. He is
eighteen and is said to be bright boy,
though mute.
Mark Twain wears his hair long, uses
Brazilian pebble" glasses, sports French
heels and a rattan cane, and is partial to
neckties. His friends are profoundly
grieved at this unseemly levity of
Mark.
Mr.. James z. Murdoch, it is now stat
ed, will make in October only a fitting
temperance upon the stage. He will
appear only in Philadel phia, his inten-
: tion being to thus celebrate his fiftieth
anniversary of his coming upon the dra-
matte stage.
George Swaine Buckley, who died at
Quincy, Massachusetts, on Wednesday,
was one of the pioneers of negro min
strelsy. He and brother began to per
form over forty years ago, and from that
. time until about 1870 his name was con-
spicuous on the bill boards throughout
the country.
Mr.. Lonsfellow is very courteous to
the pilgrims, literary or journalistic, who
call upon him at Cambridge, but he de.
'clines To express his opinions on any
subject-in short, to be "interviewed.' II
He tells them, however, that they may
say anything they please about him and
Z his residence.
: Mr.. Yabochkof, the inventor of the
electric candle, was lately presented with
gold medal, on which was this inscrip.
ton: "To the worthy, from the Imperial
Russian Technical Society" 1t was
E claimed that Mr.. Yablochkof, after
: many Investigations and experiments
was the first man to find the practical
: solution of the question Of the electric
. light.
Mr.. Worth, of New Harrison, Wis
consin, was a remarkably handsome
r young man. He was engaged to marry
Miss Da4zin, wealthy girl She pointed
what she thought was an empty pistol at
him, and shot him in the face, disfgur
ing him terribly. She now refuses to
keep the engagement, saying that such
an ugly husband would make her con
stantly nervous.
, Lord Beaconsfeld said to member ol
the Manchester Chamber of Commerce
who came to tell him recently that the
5 Chamber intended to vote resolution:
condemnatory of the Ministerial policy
on the Eastern question: 81 have heard
a great deal about Manchester 'clayed
cotton, which is disgracing the English
name in China. Please tell your Cham
ber that if they attend to my business
3 will try and attend to theirs"
The Emperor William is the fifth male
member of the Hohenzollern family who
has lived to celebrate his golden wedding
The first case was that of Johann, sur
named the Alchemist, born about 1403
and who died in 1864. The three sons o.
Frederick William l had also more thar
fifty years each Of married life-namely
Frederick the Great, Prince Henry, anc
Prince August Ferdinand of Prussia. O
the four sons of Frederick William III
three celebrated their silver wedding
and Prince Charles, brother of the pres
ent Emperor, who married the sister o
the Empress, was within day or two o
the golden ceremony in 1877 when h
consort died.