The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-13
THE DAILY STAR
Personal.


M. Alphonse Daudet's striking novel
of "The Nabob" has been dramatized in
Paris. .....
Alexander Dumas is in the South of
France, writing his new work on "D-
vorce."
Mfr. Hamilton Fish, Jr., is engaged to
sister of Mr.. Francis N. Mann, Jr, OF
Troy, N. Y.
Mr.. Robert Collyer has gone to Chi.
cago to conduct the services at the marrl-
age of his son.
P.J. Morgan, elected librarian Of the
Atlanta, Ga, Catholic library. present
ed the association with 500 worth OF
books.
Ex-Governor Bullock, of Massachu-
setts, is mentioned as the possible recipi-
ent of the nomination to the English
mission. sl-A, s rl.
Mr.. Longfellow's absence from the
Holmes breakfast was caused by an at
tack of influenza which confined him to
the house. +tFt
The Sultan is described as looking
bowed and unhappy. His face is OF
waxy paleness, his beard and eyes are
jetty black, his nose thin aud aquiline.
Mr.. Ruskin has, after many refusais,
many prayers and many entreaties, con-
sented to sit for his bust. Mr.. Boehm
is the sculptor selected by the great
critic. .
IGol. John Hay, Assistant Secretary OF
State, does not intend to take home in
Washington until late in the season,
when his family will arrive there from
Senator Platt's health, it is now stated,
is not at all in the serious condition re-
ported last week. He looks strong and
we'll, and ready for any amount OF hard
work in the Senate. .s, .s3~
Prince Napoleon called uponsshe ex-
Empress Eugenie while she was in Paris,
and was kindly received. The conyersa-
ton turned solely on the painful be-
reavement of the Empress.
Captain James B. Eads, of st. Louis
Bridge and Jetty fame, has recently been
in Jerusalem and the Holy Land. He
gave up, however, his proposed Journey
to Damascus and went from Jatfa to
Cairo.
Ex-Secretary Bristow, having firmly
established himself in his law practice in
New York, is now to become perma-
nent resident of that city. He is setting
up his household gods in handsome
house in Forty-ninth street.
Charles Rose, a dyer of St. Louis, in a
fit of dependency was about to shoot
himself through the head with a pistol,
when his nine-year-old daughter caught
his arm, and the man escaped with Sc
we're wound in his left hand.
Mr.. Thompson hired store Of Colonel
Bruce, at Conway, Arkansas, and put in
stock of groceries. The shelving broke
down, running large quantity of goods.
The tenant put pistol in his pocket,
hunted up the landlord, and shot him.
Mr.. Gerrit Smith Miller, who is going
to the Legislature from Madison County,
New York, represents the seventh gener-
alton of his family in that body. Every
male head Of this particular Miller family
since the Revolution has been an Assem-
blyman, and three have been Congress
men also.
Mr.. Thomas Hughes-'Tom Brown
is quoted as saying to Mr.. James Red
path: "Do you know there is nothing
that 'astonishes us English SO much as to
see you Americans come over here for
lecturers, Why, sir l can name all the
orators of England on the fingers Of one
hand; while you are a nation of ora
tors" t
Erastus B. Bigelow, of Boston, was at
fourteen years old the inventor of ma
chine for making the cord dear to the
heart of the seamstress, and known as
"piping cord" In 1889 he invented the
first power-loom for weaving two-ply in
grain carpets The Crossleys purchased
for 100000 his patents for Br ussels car
pet looms.
Mr.. Hendricks, of Indiana, is now
sixty years old; a medium-sized man,
with contradictory countenance, since
his jaw is described as pugnacious and
his eyes as large, pacific and blue. The
Washington correspondent of the Boston
Journal says that Mr.. Hendricks wife
firmly believes that sooner or later she
will reign in the White House.
Mr.. Warner, the donor Of the observa-
tory now being built at Rochester, has
added several thousand dollars to his
gift, thus providing for very complete
and excellent appliances. The telescope
which Mr.. Alyan Clark is making for
this observatory will be in working Or
der by next June, and the observatory
will be finished, it is thought, in July.
NJ. Gambetta is said to look better
than ever this winter. He is thinner and
his hair has grown somewhat white, but
his face, as well as his figure, are all the
better for the loss of flesh, and there was
at the opening of the Chambers the 9th
er day quiet, self-possessed dignity of
manner about him which impressed his
audience with singular sense Of power.
Mr.. Ansell Warren, of St. Louis, is a