The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-22
PERSONAL.

AOOSs
King Alfonzo will be twenty-five on
the 2Sth of November. 'I.,.
Mr.. E. B. Washburne is growing to
look like Daniel Webster.
Mr.. Gladstone will return to England
from the Continent in November.
Charles Bradlaugh inherits FL 500 from
his late uncle, Mentrose broker.
Rev. DIR. Cumming, who is himself old
and i'll, has just lost his wife at the age
of seventy-three.
Mr.. Whistler has gone to Venice, where
he will make series of etchings to be
published in London.
Walt Whitman likes society, but he is
particularly fond of writers and "the
young men of the press"
King Humbert, of Italy, is living a re-
tired life at Monza, where he is absorbed
with business of the State.
Governor Mcclellan, of New Jersey,
was not so seriously i'll as at first re-
ported. He is now much better.
General and Mrs. j. f. Johnston have
rented house in Farragut Square, Wash
ington, for the coming Congressional ses-
sion.
General H. II. Gaines, who died re-
Gently in Jack County, Texas, directed
that he be buried by the side of his two
dogs.
Mr.. Thomas Hunt, farmer, of Cumnor,
near Oxford, England, celebrated his
hundredth year few days ago and is in
in hale health.
Mr.. Holman Hunt has accepted the
Vice Presidency of British society Or
ganized to prevent the destruction of
precious historical edifices and sites.
Senator Bayard writes home that the
cost of living at Carlsbad is greater than
at Saratoga, and the comforts of life
harder to get at the former than at the
latter place.
Lord Lyons, British Ambassador at
Paris, is pleasant-looking, easy-living
bachelor of sixty-two summers, who
smokes like a chimney. and drinks moth
ing but milk and soda water.
Mr.. James Russell Lowell will be six
ty years old in February. 1t is hinted
in Boston that LowelPs. ill-health and
his own dislike for the monotony of his
duties in Spain may cause him to resign.
Mr.. Asa Payne, of Scott County, Ken
lucky, the son of General Payne, of the
war of 1912, issaid to be the oldest living
graduate of West Point. He is ninety
one years old, and was a member of the
first class.
M. Thiers is said to have left no writ
ings, except the 1000 pages of notes
which were to form his great philosophi-
cal work. These were deposited with the
Bank of England in November, 1870, and
are still there.
King Alphonso and the Archduchess
Marie Christine will be married at Madrid
on the 28th of November. The bride and
her mother will sail from Trieste to Bar
ceIona on an Austrian war ship, con-
voyed by a Spanish squadron.
Wendell Phillips, upon meeting Mr..
John Bright, Jr., in Boston, the other
day, said: m am very glad to meet you,
Mr.. Bright, but would rather meet your
father" "My father is better worth
meeting" was the modest answer to the
rather embarrassing remark.
M. Alphone Daudet, author of "The
Nabob," ispublishing a novel in which
he has drawn the portraits of historical
and political personages. Among them
are the King and Queen of Naples, who
appear under the titles of the King and
Queen of Illyria. .....
Sir Rowland Hill had stately funeral
in Westminster Abbey the other day.
After the ceremonies were over the Alb
bey was for a long time crowded with Wis
itors, many of them poor people, come, as
poor little street boy said: ITO see the
grave of Sir Rowland Hill, who made
the first penny postage"
Bernhard Gotta, the famous German
publisher, is dead. His ancestor, Baron
Won Cottendorf, managed the publishing
house at Tubingen, and was an intimate
associate of Goethe, Schiller, Herder,
Fichte, Schelling, Jean Paul, Humboldt,
and indeed most Of the greatest men of
the greatest age of German literature.
Mr.. w. A. Dell, the pharmaceutist on
Bay street, Jacksonville, Fla, has asplen-
did young mocking-bird that will go and
come as ordered, turn somersaults, run
around in circle, march, fetch and carry,
hop on one foot pick up coin, etc. He
leaves his cage vt will, goes and comes as
he likes, and seems to idolize his owner.
Michael Gruschenski, a lawyer of
Brooklyn, N. Y, says that the name in
ficted on him by the accident of birth
without his consent is constant source
of worry to him. Clients misspell it,
Judges mispronounce it, and opposing
counsel make fun of it. He has there
fore filed petition in court asking that
it be changed to Michael Cru.