The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-03-19

GustaVe D0re mas Just conlpleleu TWO
new pictures.
Henry Ward Beecher weighs two hun
ired and nineteen pounds.
Mrs. +. D. +. n. Southworth has fin
ished her iifty-ninth novel.
The Emperor and Empress Of Russia
will visit the Crimea in April.
Wade Hampton is well enough to go
fishing. A fish never rears up and kicks.
William Astor, it is said, intends build
ing an opera-house at Jacksonville, Fla,
Senator Jones, of Nevada, pays Ben.
Butler $17,0 rent for his residence in
Washington.
Senator Vest. OF Missouri, will be the
smallest in the oeuate, being smaller even
than Eaton.
The Hon David A. Wells is engaged
to marry Miss Ellen Dwight, sister Of
his first wife.
Charles Nyc, son of the late Senator
Nye, of Nevada, is becoming famed as a
temperance lecturer.
General Mite, the midget, has a baby
sister few weeks old who weighs more
than her fourtecn-ycar-old brother.
Minister Walsh finds housekeeping ex-
cnsiye in London. and longs to get back
to his more frugal Philadelphia home.
Prof. f. d. Cope, the geologist, of
Philadelphia, has received the Bigsbv
gold medal of The Geological Society of
london.
Jerome Bonaparte, grand-nephew of
Napoleon, long Il resident OF Baltimore
and practicing lawyer there, sis i'll the
hands of his friends for the vacant posi-
ton of United States Judge.
Mr.. Chan Poy Kwai is an intelligent
Young Chinaman, who dresses III full
Chinese costume, who speaks English
perfectly, who is Of satirical turn of
mind. and who is coming East from San
Francisco TO give lectures on the Chinese
question.
Rev. Abel Manning, Congregationalist,
of GotiStown, Mass, Is now nlnety-onc
wears old. He has preached five thou
SdIlU ocflliDH>. uCiiNNilllS NiiS' i'hiibiN'
in one wear. He ridiculea the idea some
ministers advance that there should be
but one sermon week.
The Rev. Edward Egglcston has drama
tized the second part of Bunyan's Pil
grim's Progress. The play will be pre-
,onted next week in the Sunday-schoo
room OF his church, the Christian En-
deavur, Brooklyn, which is fitted Will
cenvencnces for dramatic representa-
tions.
Victor Hugo makes it rule not to re
turn visits or accept invitations. He only
consented to know the Emperor o
Brazil on condition Of not being asked t'
relax this rule. On his seventy-eightl
birthday, however, some friends in tht
habit Of assembling round his lospitabl'
table induced him to be present at din
ncr in celebration of that anniversary
which took place recently at the Caf'
Richie, in Paris NJ. Victor Hugo cam
with his grandchildren.
Colonel Thomas A. Scott writes fron
Egypt that il would prove great com
| Tort to any Dusy American VINO coul
pare the time TO come over there AM
enjoy a trip through that wonderful
land; but he adds that he sees nothin
on that side Of the Atlantic to conpar
with our own good America, and that h
shall return to her confirmed in the be
lief that we have the best and creates
country on the face of the earth.
Mr. Gladstone has written to the Gla'
COW Trades Council as follows: 81 regre
that can not in reply to your letter, d
more than refer to my often declared an
recorded opinions, with this single add
ton: | advise those WHO have had fait
in free trade, and who are now solicite
to give in to ideas Of protection or rec
procity, to request in return Of the prol
agators of those ideas that they will pit
them into something of detailed an
practical form, 30 that they MAY be be
ter understood and Judged"