The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-28

Lorillard is going to send more horses
to England.
Walt. Whitman considers Emerson to
0e our greatest poet.
Cant. Webb, the champion swimmer
of England, is at present in San Fran
c;sco.
Rev. DIR. Edward Beecher will cele-
nrate his golden wedding in Brooklyn,
o toher 9th.
President Potter, of Union College,
h~S Just raised s., 2,000 in aid of The libra
ry of that institution.
Tx-Governor Hoffman, and family, Of
Now York, have sailed for Europe, where
IL y will pass the winter
Mr.. John Russell Young states that
General Grant is severe traveller, one
O. extraordinary endurance.
Mr.. jefferson Davis is said to be grow
il blind; and his wife, since the death
Of their son, has become an invalid,
Prof. Henry Coppee, LID, of the
lrhigh University, was for many years
editorial writer on Philadelphia papers.
Longfellow has writer poem On the
p.5n presented him some Time ago made
from the letter of the Prisoner OF Chill
lon.
Mr.. ARENAS Hale, Of Bridgcwater,
Nj ,ss, the oldest ex-Congressman in the
country. j. about TO celebrate his ninety
s. III birthday.
Herr Won Bodenstedt, the German au-
thor who is on his to this country, IN
trds to give lectures and readings with
n T., Neville Moritz.
Mr.. Pendarves Vivian, NJ. p, f. G..
S, has published book about the
United States called Wanderings in
tie Western Laud,"
The Gar of Russia will celebrate the
wenty-hfth anniversary Of his accession
with great pomp and circumstance. 1t
occurs March ,, 1890.
Justice HINT, of the United States
Supreme Court is somewhat better. He
will pass the winter in Washington, but
Will not resume his seat.
Mr.. Arthur Sulivan's brother, Fred
erick Sullivan, is stated to have died
from over-work in playing the part Of the
",judge" in the Trial by jury"
Mr.. Jacob Bright thinks that there
ar too many Careless girls" in Eng
land, and suggests that they pay more
attention to intellectual pursuits.
Mr.. P. G. Hamerton, editor of the
Portfolio, will be candidate for the
Watson Gorlon Professorship OF the Fine
Arts in the University Of Edinburgh.
Mr.. Thomas Ball is reported to have
1ust received commission to execute "A
statue of the late Rear Admiral Alden
for the city of Portland, which WAS the
Almirafs native place.
Lord Beaconsfeld, tradition says, heard
his first Christian sermon when, rs little
Benjamin Disraeli, he went one Sunday
to Hackney Parish Church with the poet
Rogers. The youth went to school also
III Hackney.
DR.. Henry Won Hoist author of the
constitutional History of the United
States,' has declined a p;ofessorship OF
constitutional law offered him i'll the
J hns Hopkins University at Baltimore,
with salary OF $500.
Mr.. Arthur Sullivan, composer, and
Nlsdamc Antoinctte Sterling, contralto,
have each received over $4,000 already
upon THE Lost Chord" the song which
Mr.. Sullivan wrote for Nine. Sterling
only two years and a half ago.
The King of the Belgians has built at
Ilken the largest winter garden in
Europe The cupola of iron and glass is
sixty metres in diameter and thirty
metres in height in the center. 1t is
supported by thirty-six columns OF white
gone.
General Todlebcn is man of science
as we'll a. soldier. He maintains con
slant. communication with scientific in.
itutions in Germany, which he regular
ly informs # important geographical dis
c>yeres. He has just presented three
clmels to the geological Garden in Berlin
Count Monteforte is an Italian, fort,
,cars old, who, after fighting again>t
Tarikaldi and taking part in the Danisl
and Prussian campaigns, emlgrated t(
Persia and won the liking of the Shah
He has been appointed Burgomaster Of
Trheran, a-position equivalent to that OF
n yor.
Mr. Richard S. Greenough's statue ot
Governor John Winthrop in the Capito
a, Washington is to be duplicated il
bronze for the city Of Boston. Miss Anne
Whitncy's model of a statue Of Samue
Adams has been accepted by the City
Government, which will pay her for tht
finished work $4,000.
King Alphon-o has just paid delicate
and sensible attention to his betrothcd by
sending her all the way from Madrid t.
Vienna n distinguished professor to Civ,
her lessons in the Spanish language. Th'
professors name is Palacios, and he one
had the honor of taking the Crow
Princess of Germany through course il
Spanish conversation and literature.
Edmund About, writing of the lat
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