The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-11-20

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Wagner is going to spend the winter at
Pausiuppo, Italy, where, it is said, he
intends to write a new opera.
Governor Robinson and his daughter
intend to spend the winter in Albany.
Mr.. David Robinson goes to Elmira.
Mr.. Tehnyson, Mr.. Froude and Pro-
fessor Tyndall have Just been elected
Honorary Fellows of Trinity College,
London.
Senator Don Cameron, it is announced,
Is about to build large and beautiful
mansion in Washington, at a cost of
$250,0O0.
Mr.. William E. Chandler will not be
able to leave Salt Lake City for some
time, as his son, though better, is improv-
ing very slowly.
Young Mr.. Byron, the eighteen.year-
old son of the dramatist, has entered the
theatrical profession under the stage
name Of Harryson.
Mr.. Eugene Hale, 1t is thought, will
be obliged to quit politics for the present
in order to take charge of his late father
in-law's large estate.
Mr.. Tennyson, 1t is rumored, has writ
ten a charming little one-act play upon
theme of Boccaccio, and it is to be
brought out in London.
Mr.. Edmund @. Stedman is one of the
few brilliant writers to whom literature
brings substantial rewards. He has Just
bought comfortable and handsome house
on Fifty-third street.
The Marquis Of Butte is occupying his
luxurious leisure with the study of East
ern tongues. He is now engaged in
learning Coptic, and there is probabili-
ty that the result Of all this study may
be put into book.
Frederick Won Bodenstedt has Just
completed an epic poem, which he re-
CARDS as his most important literary
work. 1t is called "Der Hermenshof,"
and pictures German Life in the first half
of the present century. t
Mr.. Gerald Rohlfs has been checked in
bis course of African exploration. His
expedition had reached and explored the
Kufara Oasis. when it was set upon and
pIundered. Herr Rohlfs was therefore
Obliged to retrace his steps.
Mr.. w. E. Forster said, the other
evening, Of Carlyle, that he differed from
the Scotchman in many Of his views and
sentiments, but whenever he went back
to read him he found he got more instruc-
ton from him, even when he differed
from him, than he did from .ninety-nine
men out of hundred with whom he
agreed. 49,.
Mr.. Longfellow and the Indian girl
bright Eyes, met at dinner party in
Cambridge the other day. The poet was
presented to the Indian, who gracefully
mentioned the poem "HiawAtha," upon
which Longfellow exclaimed, "This is
Minnehaha" Standing Bear, the Ponca
Chief, made an address to the company,
which was interpreted by Bright Eyes"
The Grown Prince of Germany is liy-
ing very quietly and simply with his fam
lily in Italy-like Berlin bourgeois, it is
said. The Prince walks about the coun-
try alone great deal, and takes particu-
lar pleasure in stopping to talk to the
children he meets, to whom he gives
small pieces of money. The report Of his
generosity has spread rapidly among the
urchins of the country.
DR.. w. A. w. Spotswood, of Mobile,
Ala, now 70 years old, owns sword
which, it is said, once belonged to Gen.
Washington. 1t was given to the pres
ent possessor's grandfather, Gen. Alex
ander Spotswood, of Spotsylvania Court
house, Va, by Gen. Washington himself,
on the occasion of the visit made by
Gen. Spotswood to the Father Of his
Country at Mount Vernon in 1889.
Mr.. William G. Preston of Kentucky,
Ex-Minister to Spain, Ex-Membpr of
Congress and Ex-Confederate General,
has just been arguing case in St.
Louis Court. Mr.. Preston is described
as "still erect and high-headed," but
blind in one eye and deaf in one ear.
His argument was full of political anec-
dotes and "reminiscences, and interlarded
with quotations from the speeches Of
Benton and other statesman of past gen.
erations.
Mr. Robt. Burdette, Of the Burlington
Hawkeye, has been lecturing in Color
ado. He is quoted as saying: "The day
l arrived in Denver the Indian outbreak
occurred, and no wonder. They had en-
dured almost everything; were robbed
and cheated; had their lands taken from
them; did not get enough whisky, and
could not steal, because the agents had
placed everything too high. When they
heard l was coming they said they would
have to draw the line some place, for
they would not be lectured to-"
Mr.. Wendell Phillips says of Garrison
that his will be the name by which our
generation in its relation to civil liberty
and progress will be known. 'There may
be other men Of literary forms, poets and
scholars, in the academy, there may be
other names in science, but superseding
all that you have been accustomed to
worship, the idolatries Of the hour, the
grand regulations in National Congresses,