The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-05-15
PERSONAL.

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tor at Clearfield on Decoration Day.
NJ. Meissonier is reported as saying
that in Turner's pictures "there is plenty
of poetry, but no painting"
Mr.. Balls statue of Quincy will be
dedicated September 18th, the, anpiver-
sary of the settlement of Boston. ~,
Senor CASTELAR, goes to London this
month to receive from Oxford Univer-
ity the degree of Doctor of Laws.
Bishop Ames left his estate of $50, 900
wholly to his wife and daughter, stating
that his son has been already provided
for.
DR.. Fuller, of Syracuse, had servant
girl who sold books from his library to
the ragman; among the number was one
he valued at $500,
John B, Cough has been visiting the
Glasgow Free Breakfast, and giving the
1000 persons assembled there his personal
experiences of poverty.
Gen. Pemberton, who surrendered
Vicksburg to Grant, has taken up his
residence in Philadelphia, and desires to
resume his citizenship.
King Humbert is said to be very fond
of Garibaldi. The General is to spend
the summer at Albano, and the King and
Queen have taken villa there also.
Prince Alexander, of Battenburg, win
visit the Gar at Livadia before recev-
ing the Bulgarian deputation which is to
tender to him the throne of Bulgaria. aa
Rev. Edward Eggleston regrets that so
many American clergymen are given to
stealing their sermons, but he is reioiced
that they are not as bad as their English
brethren.
Lord Henry Lenox says that after
thirty-fve years knowledge of Lord Bea-
consfeld, he can say that there is not a
man in England who detests war more
than the Prime Minister. .s
Professor Tyndall says that very great
Improvements in the electric light must
be regarded as inevitable, but he does
not believe gas will be beaten out of the
field by it; there is too much use for gas.
The Count de Chambord, otherwise
Henri V, is quoted as saying of the late
M. de Villemessant, editor of Figaro:
"He is an excellent man, entirely de-
voted to my interests-but don't you
think he is little familiarT
Michael Propst, of North Carolina,
was married to Nancy Angel before he
volunteered as soldier in the war of
1872. They had eleven children, and all
are living to-day. The oldest is seventy
two years of age and the youngest fifty.
Victor Hugo writes to a Lausanne
newspaper on the question of the re-
establishing of the death penalty, which
is now being agitated in Switzerland:
''To retain the scafold signifies barbar-
ism; to re-establish it would be imbecili-
ty." ..s
Senator Conkling is supposed to have
objected to his daughters marriage with
Mr.. Oakman because the latter is not
wealthy, yet it is said that the young
man has an income far in excess of that
enjoyed by Conkling when he was a sue
cessful suitor for the hand of Horatio
Seymour's sister.
Mr.. Charles Francis Adams, Jr., will
not, it is said, be a candidate for reap
pointment to the Office of Railway Com
missioner in Massachusetts,. He will
go to New York in July and become
member of the National Commission of
Associated Railroads.
The Emperor Of Germany is getting
much better in health at Wiesbaden.
His celebration of his golden wedding
will be very quiet. OF al. the European
potentates, only the Czar, the Emperor's
nephew, and Prince Frederick of the
Netherlands, his brother-in-law, will be
present.
The Prince of Wales is an excellent
man of business, scanning, understand
ing and dispatchipg public and private
affairs with vigor aud celebrity. He is
said never to forget name or an Incl
dent, and he allows neither personal nor
political bias to influence him in the
choice Of his associates in public busi-
ness.