The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-06
PERSONAL.


Mr.. o. B. rockingham is going to
Rome, where ne will stay during the
winter.
Mr.. Vanderbilt's idea is to divide the
responsibility, so it will be more difficult
to place it.
Ben. Butler laid out $275, 900 on his re-
cent political campaign. The other side
laid out Butler.
Senator BecLt mas entirely recovered
. ir9%. !. o. 0ne slight hurt caused by his horse
falling upon him.
Mr.. Parnell shakes his fist even under
the nose of the British lion, and the lion
doesn't take it up"
Tennyson's new residence is the high
est inhabited house in the South of Eng
land, 800 feet above the sea level.
Gov. Mcclellan has not been very ill
again, as was reported. He is regaining
strength and will soon have entirely re-
covered his health.
Hollingshead said that Shakespeare used
to play the ghost in "Hamlet" so that he
could have time to slip around 70 the
frcnt door and see that the ticket-seller
were not robbing him.
Lord Beaconsfeld was observed. out
walking in London the other day in "his
patrician ulster of faintest fawn color,
in its button-hole a chrysanthemum,"
and looking serene and in excellent
health.
Sir Charles Dixie, it is reported, is
about to marry second wife, a daughter
of the house of Rothschild. The first
Lady Dixie died several years ago, and
her remains underwent cremation at her
own request in Germany.
Herr Rubinstein is now within few
days of his fiftieth birthday. His new
dramatic opera Of "Nero" has Just had
an immense success at Hamburg. He
conducted it himself, and was called be-
fore the curtain fourteen times.
Col. Colt, of Hartford, Conn.,, was a
man ofindomitable will, who would not
waver in any purpose he set about accom-
plishing, and persistent even to stubborn
ness. From the fortune left by this par
ticular Colt, it would seem that he had,
an objection to being broken.
Mr.. Dana, of the Sun, advises Mr.. Jay
Gould to learn how to manage his
money or else he may soon find himself
without any; but Mr.. Gould may very
properly retort that, in view of the fact
that his horse has record of 2:21} while
Keene Jim is still in the 2:N class, such
remarks are uncalled for.
M. Bischoffsheim, wishing to be very
polite to the King and Queen of Italy,
offered them his Bordighiera villa, rent
free, for the season. Their Majesties,
however, preferred to pay rent, and the
wealthy banker has determined to spend
the amount of the rent ($2, ,400) in tetes
celebrating the royal arrival.
Mr.. Toole has been acting in Brighton
under peculiarly painful circumstances
His only son, young lawyer of much
promise, has been dangerously ill in
London, and every night, after leaving
the stage, where he had been making
fun for theaterful, the anxious father
went up to London on a special train to
nurse the invalid. The young man is
recovering.
Not hostile diplomacy nor even war
long intereferes with the social diversions
of European monarchs. Here, for in
stance, is King Christian, of Denmark,
with his wife Louise, visiting at the Aus
trian Court in Vienna just as amicably,
to all appearances, as if Emperor Francis
Joseph had not assisted, only few years
ago, in spelling the Danish Crown Of its
two fairest provinces. The truth is sover-
eigns can mingle with so few people on
terms of social intimacy that they get
lonesome and can not afford to be on bad
terms with each other very long.
Edgar Allan Poe'e old Richmond
teacher, Mr.. J. H. Clarke, now lives at a
venerable age in Baltimore, and he has
been quoted by The Bulletin of that city
as giving "reminiscences of his famous
pupil. Edgar was born poet" he
says. "He had very pretty eyes and
hair, and rather an effeminate face, but
don't think he was beautiful boy. He
had very sweet disposition. He was
always cheerful, brimful Of mirth, and a
very great favorite with his schoolmates.
I never had occasion to say harsh word
to him while he was at my school, much
less to make him do pennance."
Prince Milan Obrenovich, the reigning
sovereign of Servia, is said to be a strong
believer in the Divine Right theory, ex-
acting from all who surround him the
most slavish subservience, and feeling
no difference between Minister of State
and a Court footman, as far as concerns
the measure of servility they owe to him.
DR.. Ristich, the Servian Premier, it is
also said, does not hold the same opinions,
and at His Highness' tea-parties some.
times argues in favor of the inherent
rights Of man. On one of these occa-
sions the Prince became greatly excited,
and addressing his Prime Minister ener.
getically exclaimed: "Ristich, if I order
you to jump into the sea you will GER
tainly plunge in, head foremost" DR..
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