The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-16
PERSONAL.

threatened with pneumonia.
Dore, the famous artist, is a hrunet
bachelor, forty-eight years old.
Gen. Grant is to be invited to the
Nashville Centennial celebration next
April.
Senator Wade Hampton has been in
vited by the Pittsburg Grand Army
Posts to give an address before them.
w. S. Gilbert is, said to, be- "a sour,
saturnine, ill-conditioned tyrant;" and
the statement comes from London, too.
Judah P. Benjamin is talked Of in
England as the mau to fill an existing
vacancy on tie bench of the Court of
Exchequer. .f-a
Mr.. Charles Francis Adams is build
ing at Mount Desert cottage winch he
will occupy next summer, 1t is to be
hoped that Charles will keep cool.
King Cetewnyo says he never knew
what real lie was till he saw an illus
trated newspaper with picture Of him
self sharpening knife to kill Grsndier.
Sir Edward Thornton, a Washington
| correspondent writes. does not grow old.
His hair and whikers could not turn a
shade whittier, nor his clear, rosy, English
complexion be whit improved.
Ex-Senators Dorsey and Mcdonald, Of
| Arkansas, are reported to have been very
fortunate in their mining specuiations.
They have just made some purchases in
Colorado mines, paying $75OOOo cash.
Archibald Forbes having refused to
/ deliver lecture at Newport, England
in consequence Of dispute with the
manager, was followed to the railway sta.
tion by an excited crowd, who hooted
and pelted him. ~.
Dr. John Lord met the other day in
Boston with an accident that came very
near being serious. On the way to the
platform whereon he was to lecture, he
fell down a flight Of stairs and was Sc.
Eerely out ton the forehead. Ya
Mr.. Walt Whitman is i'll in St. Louis
too i'll to travel. When he is vel
enough to leave the house he either goeI
down to the river to "loaf and invite hi
soul,' or visits Kindergarten, where tht
children gather merriIy about him to bel
for stories
Mr.. Whittier received for his shor'
poem written for the dedication ceremo.
MES OF the Emancipation Group" Ii
Boston, the agreeable sum Of 800. III,
Immediately sent 1t back, begging tha
it should be given to the treasurer Of thu
fair for the Cd South.
The Ameer Of Afghanistan has a con
| siderable foundation of education and al
evident power to receive new and eorrec
impressions. He possesses a very fair &C
quaintance with European and Asiati,
geography, and makes shrewd remark
on Russian and Persian politics.
| Mas Kate Sanborn has been invited b,
the senior class OF Dartmouth to give be
| fore them her lecture on 'Pets Of Notet
Persons" This prophecies evidently ha
honor in her own country. Miss San
born's winter engagements include ,
course of lectures before the New Centur
Club, of Philadelphia, and short serie
to be given in this city.
4 Jay Gould does not care to compro
mise his dignity by street fight, s.
wherever he goes in New York he j
Swallowed by big Italian guardian ange
who will receive all attentions intended
for Mr.. Gould from Wall street opera
tors whose hides are tackled up OF
Gould's barn-door, and who would lik
, to warm him; and it is said there ar
, many such.
Mr. Lorenzo Barretti, better known a
} Lawrence Barrett, the actor, has beel
+ engaged to manage the California Theate
t in San Francisco. He gets six months
. rent free and 5000 to guarantee hin
against loss. This removes MI. Barret
| from the tragic stage, and as Booth goe
to England next year. John McCulloug
. will be left alone to uphold the standar
!, of the classic drama.
The late John Blackwood one day, i
a conversation with Miss Annie Brewster
related how he and George Eliot ha
l corresponded some time before he kne,
9 she was woman. II called her 'Dea
: George" he said merrily, "ahd en-
ployed some easy expressions, such as
man uses only to man. After I kne'
: her I was little anxious to remembe
all I might have said"
The Comte de Paris says that his @,
o ing three times $o Spain in less tha
fifteen months, once for a marriage an
q twice on the occasion Of great domest
v sorrows, has greatly delayed his work o
:. his history Of the American civil wa
That work constantly grows harder as /
:, gets more documents and more inform;
y tion. He will shortly undertake Grant
2 Chattanooga campaign. ~
v Mr.. Ruskin remains impatient. I'm
!. dear Furnivall," he writes, "not one ms
i in fifteen thousand in the nineteen,
century, knows. or ever can know, VIII,
IS any line-or any word means, used by
e great writer. For most words stand Il
:. things that are seen, or things that a
r thought Of; and in the min
O teenth century there is ce
= tainly not one man in fifteen thousan