The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-07
Personal.

G.. W. Smalley is lecturing on the life
and werks Of Sara Bernhardt.
Bishop Stevens, of Pennsylvania, is
i'll and rapidly growing worse.
Seth Green wants sportsmen to return
to the water all trout under seven inches
in length.
The Grown Prince of Germany is i'll
and Respondent. His visit to Kissengen
did him no good.
Senator Logan recited passages from
"Richard ILL.," on a Mississippi steam
boat the other evening.
Mr.. Leavitt Hunt, a brother of Will
lam M. Hunt, is about to write the life
of that distinguished artist.
Mr.. III. ]. Byron is shortly to appear
upon the London stage in one of his own
comedies, "An English Gentleman" l."
Protais, the battle-scene painter, is en-
gagged upon picture of the Prince I'M
perial as he lay dead on the Zulu field.
Mr., and Mrs. Langtry, instead of going
into the Divorce Court, are visiting Mr..
Millas, the painter, in the neighborhood
of Dunkeld.
Judge w. H. Swayne, of the United
States Supreme Court, and his family,
arrived from Europe in the steamer Ne
vada, Friday.
Colonel A. Fl. Harper, of the Okolona
States, has returned to his post, and will
now give his entire attention to the COM
position of blank verse leaders
Archbishop Wood. of Philadelphia,
has decided that the Grand Army Of the
Republic is not secret society, and that
therefore Catholics may be members.
Walt Whitman is at Denver, Colorado,
from whence he will return in October.
The great feather in Waits cap is that
be doesn't give his best work to the
magazines.
Lord Lyons, the British Ambassador
at Paris, is described as an easy-going
gentleman of g., who smokes like chin
ney and drinks nothing but milk and
soda water.
Gambetta is not going to England to
stay with Sir Charles Dixie, but Sir
Charles Dixie is to be very shortly guest
at Les Jardies M. Gambctta's c5untry
house, in France.
Louis Kossuth, the Hungarian patriot,
now seventy-seven years of age, has a
comfortable home, twenty minutes by
rail from Turin, with a garden, and he
seldom leaves his flowers, his pet dogs
and his books.
Secretary McCrary has just taken his
family to the West, and it is thought
that they will not return, as the Secre-
tary's nomination to succeed Judge
Dillon will be sent to the Senate imme-
diately upon the opening of Congress.
Bishop Stevens, of Pennsylvania, who
has been suffering greatly from an attack
of pneumonia, is recovering and is able
TO sit up for few hours daily. His ply
sician thinks, however, that he will be
unable to resume diocesan work for the
next two months.
Mr.. Ivan Turgeneff proposes to spend
the winter in Russia, in order to see for
himself the course of Northern Empire.
During his visit there in the spring he
was enthusiastically received by Young
Russia. 1t is hoped that he will gather
material for another book.
Mr.. Cornelius J. Vanderbilt, the Hart
ford Courant declares, is about to build a
beautiful house on the site of the old
Vanderb 1t homestead in that city. This
house, which is to cost $4,000 will be in
the English cottage style, with an Ogden
tower; and it is to be built of wood, with
stone basement.
NJ. Pietri, the late Prince Imperials
Secretary, has been annoyed again by the
Frenchman, Querin, who insists that the
Bonapartes owe him 10000 francs for his
services at Blois at the time of the Plebis-
cite Of 1871. For sending him threaten
ing letters Querin has been sentenced to
a years imprisonment at hard labor.
Samuel Sterett, wellknown citizen of
Baltimore, died Sunday, aged forty-six.
He was son of the late Commodore
Sterett, U. s. N. During the war he was
in the Confederate service, was captured
as spy and condemned to death, but the
sentence was commuted by President
Lincoln to Imprisonment during the war
i'll Fort Warren.
Karl Beck, the late famous tenor, who
first sung the music of "Lohengrin," waf
a person chronically afflicted with
thirst. At St. Petersburg, when he
was at the height of his musical
glory, the Emperor one day in
i vied him to call at the Palace
Beck" said the potentate, as the tenor
entered the room, "ask for any thing you
like" 81 should like to take a glass OF
wine with your Majesty" was the reply
They drank together, but two days later
Beck was ordered to pack up and leave
the country.