The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-06-02
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l1On. ALEXANDER Ii. OlepneHs 10 hSdlh
seriously ill.
Gen, Bradley T. johnson is going to
Baltimore to live.
Mr.. Ole Bull, of Madison, Wis, trans
lates Norwegian novels.
Ex-Governor Hartranft is mentioned
as possible Secretary of War.
The Sultan and the Khedive of Egypt
are now on very friendly terms.
DIR. Schliemann intends to return to
America and settle in Indianapolis.
Mr.. H. NJ. Bryant, the temperance
lecturer, of Lewiston, Me-, is dangerously
i'll. :
Mr. Vanderbilt's income over is 81 900
an hour-which is more than some of us
make in whole day.
Mr.. H. d. Parker, of the Parker
House, is worth $2,500,000. He came
from Maine, and began life as hack
driver.
Mr.. A. w. Longfellow, nephew of the
poet, is finishing his architectural studies
in Paris before returning to Boston to
practice his profession.
Mr.. Spurgeon asserts that an old min
ister once said to him: "When | see a
young man want to preach | always feel
a wish to take him by the throat and try
to choke him off"
Mr.. H. Fl. Warner, of Rochester, is the
generous and successful young business
man who is building a handsome observa-
tory for Prof. Swift. 1t is to be called
the "Warner Observatory"
Mr.. Henry, inventor of the Martini
Henry rife barrel and ammunition, is
seeking in vain for adequate remunera-
ton from the British War Office for the
use of his patents by that Government.
Mr.. Winans, of Baltimore, is building
on the Clyde River, at cost of nearly
million dollars, cigar shaped vessel of
four or five thousand tons burden, which
he believes will cross the Atlantic in five
days.
The Rev. Lyman Abbott, editor of the
Christian Union, baptized in Farming
ton, Me-, few weeks ago, an inf3nt
daughter of the young wife of the Rev.
Jonas Burnham, of Pennington, who is
eighty years old.
Sir Antonio Panizzi, of the British
Museum, when exiled from Italy, arrived
in London with the prodigious sum of 5
shiIlings in his pocket, and half of this
he straightway proceeded to give to an
Italian charity.
Count Beust, Austrian Ambassador at
Paris, is said to be the wittiest ambassa-
dor in Europe. He has that great charm
of the humorist, a grave demeanor, for
he was originally intended for the pull
pit, and his conversation is full of
brilliancy.
The Prince of Wales has informed the
tenants of the Duchy of Cornwall,
through the Clerk of the Council of the
Duchy, that, taking into consideration
the state of agriculture, he has sanction
ed a remission equal to twenty per cent.
per annum from their rent for period
of three years.
Mr.. Rassam, who is carrying on the
work begun by the late Mr.. George Smith,
has Just discovered at Babylon an octag-
onai cylinder, on the sides of which are
engraved history of the campaign of
Sennacherib against King Hezekiah.
This important find is to be sent to Lon
don for safe keeping in the British
Museum.
The Earl of Caithness, who is now Wis
iting this country for the third time, is
quoted as praising us extremely for our
hospitality; indeed, he says that it is "a
Distinguishing trait of the American
people," He thinks that America is the
most interesting country in the world,
and he has this time brought over his
son, Lord Berrydale, in order to show it
to him.