The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-06-11
Personal.

| Mr.. John Jay sails for Europe in a few
days.
Gambetta is building an $1,000 bath
room.
! George Washington Childs is n skillful
pianist
joaquin Miller is very sick in San
Francisco.
Gen. Banks is said to be something of
a Spirituaiist.
Earl Ashburnham is engaged to an
American lady.
Lord Beaconsfeld is irritable and un-
reasonable when ILL.
Judge Hilton spends thousands of
dollars for paintings.
John Browns revolver has Just been
presented TO the Kansas Historical So
ciety.
Warren Leland, the hotel man, pub
lished the first paper that appeared in
San Francisco.
The Earl Of Shaftesbury has been
President of the English Bible Society
for thirty-two years.
Garibaldi has left Caprera finally and
will probably spend the remainder of his
| life in or near Rome.
Bishop Gobat, of Jerusalem, whose
death was recently reported, was former
| ly Lutheran minister.
Bishop Ames never wrote book, and
never would preach in the presence of
reporters, if he knew it.
Walt. Whitman appears fresh and
rosy, although he walks about with diff
Guilty, owing to his rheumatic tendency
Wendell Phillips and john G. Whit
tier are about the only distinguished
survivors of the original Abolitionists.
Hugh R. Beiknap, the son of the Ex-
Secretary, has Just taken the Draper
oratorical prize at Phillips Academy,
Andover.
Senator Thurman, it is said, is proba-
bly, the most accomplished scholar now
in Congress. He knows literature and
manages to keep pace with current pub
locations.
Chulah-SongKoru, King of Siam, is
twenty-seven years old, a slender digni- |
fed and courteous man. whose habits |
and manners are more European than
Oriental.
Mrs. Thomas Tileston, of New York
City, has given 100000 of the sum of
$4,000 recently subscribed towards the
further endowment of the Harvard Di- |
vinity School.
Cardinal Newman will 60 back to Eng
land richer man th"n he left it. There |
will be $5O,000 placed to his credit at his |
bankers by the committees of the various
testimonial funds.
Prof. Paine, of Harvard, who is best
known to the general public by his Cen
tennial hymn, composed for Whittier's |
words, has been invited to produce his |
new symphony at Berlin.
Austin Avery, of Somers, Conn, left
his entire estate to be turned into money
for the benefit Of negroes in Africa. His |
father left him only 81, and his son has
applied the same rule OF starvation to his |
friends.
DR.. Schliemann and Prof. Virchow
have been making further successful
explorations at Troy. They have come
across numbers of charred buildings and
great find of large gold chains and
gold discs.
Garibaldi is described as lying on a
narrow iron bed-stead, his frame wasted.
his face worn and thin, but with bright
and sparkling eyes, firing with enthusi-
asm or softening into warm and genial
sympathy as he speaks.
Bismarck of to-day is certainly not a
handsome man. He is 50 fat as to be
more unwieldy than ever; he has puffy
and unhealthy look, and his appetite hes
itates never. Bread and cheese and beer
are said to be what he especially likes.
Sir John Macdonald, the Canadian
Premier, on the occasion of his recent
visit to Toronto, was met at the depot by
a deputation Of one hundred and fiftv
He lodged the crowd,
hailed hack, and got away as fast as
possible.
Stephen Green1ief, of Norway, Me,
since 1866 has read the Bible through
times He reads it through
once in eighteen days, and says that each
time it becomes more interesting to him.
Mr.. Greenlief used to be an infdel, but
is now Methodist.
Prof. Tyndall says that in the tele-
phone there is no action which men of
science would not at one time have pro-
nounced possible in theory but impossi-
BILE Of realization and mere dream. 1t
was through experimental tact alone
that so great things have been brought
about.
Col. Marshall, of Kentucky, said to
Benton: Senator Benton, why do you
talk to yourself so muchw With great
dignity, Benton replied; "Col. Marshall,
can tell you very earnestly and very
truly why I talk to myself. l love to
talk to great man, and / love to hear
great man talk"
Mr.. Horatio Seymour says that one of
his first recollections was the invasion of
the village in which his father lived by
a bear, which attacked and nearly killed
a stalwart citizen, and which was de-
'troyed with some difficulty with an ak
in the hands of brave man. He adds:
'All things were rude and new sixty
years ago, but men were men in those