The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-06-04

| mat ne dld not propose 10 retaln Tie
Premiership longer than eight months.
Clark Mills, the sculptor, has been pre-
sented by the Tennessee Historical So.
ciety with beautiful gold-headed cane
made of hickory wood from the "Her.
mitage." This is the first testimonial
ever given to any one by this Society.
| Captain Otway, one of the British
Conservative candidates, has logical
wife. She appeared before the electors
in the recent canvass and told them she
hoped they would send her husband to
Parliament because 1t would make heI
so happy.
NJ. Taine is nearly fifty-one years old,
and one Of the hardest students of the
day. He wrote in an autograph book of
a correspondent of the Newark Adver-
tiser the other day: Gone can never
write anything when he has not an idea
and that is always my condition when
before an album"
Mr.. Charles Reade, since his reported
conversion to Congregationalism, is said
to be most diligent student of the
Bible, the whole bent of his mind being
now toward attaining Christian knowl-
edge and doing Christian work. 1t is
said, further, that he is meditating upon
a delineation of Scripture characters and
events.
Mr.. Charles Dudley Warner, DR.. ].
Fl. Trumbull, and Mr.. Clemens have all
read papers during the past winter to a
club of clever and pretty young girls III
Hartford. The club has also been in
structed by visits to the neighboring
axe-works and thread mills, the work of
the same being explained to them by the
authorities.
Mr.. J. T. Trowbridge is said to never
compose his poems with pen IN hand,
nor his prose without it. His poetic
muse visits him chiefly in the open air
during his walks, or while floating in a
boat on the pond near his house. He
often holds as many as fifty lines in his
mind in this way, and in writing them
down he revises them repeatedly.
Lord Beaconsfeld is completinga novel
which he began long ago. Queen Victo.
ria has shown her kindly feeling for him
by hanging his full length portrait at
| Windsor. Somebody, it is said, once
asked him how it was that the Queen
showed him so much favor, and got a
simple answer: "Well-er-the fact u.s.
lI-er-never contradict, and-er-I
sometimes -er forget"
Solomon Welles, of Wethersfeld,
Conn.,, graduated at Yale College in the
Glass of 1889. His son, Roger Welles,
graduated at the same college in the
Class of 1875; his grandson, Martin
Welles, in the Glass of 1906; his great
grandson, Roger Welles, in the Glass of
1854; his great-great-grandson, Martin
Welles, is now member of the Glass of
1882.
DR.. Hammond of Minneapolis was en-
gagged to marry Miss BLY,, but he made
Miss Winter his wife instead. Nobody
could guess why he changed his matri-
monial plan, and the mystery was deep
ened by the fact that Miss Bly, had
nothing hard to say against him. The
matter is clear now, for he has eloped
with her after getting possession OF his
wife's SIS, 900.
Mr.. Brown, the new Georgia Senator
is said to have clerical look, and wears
long, white whiskers tapering to a point
He is Baptist, and lately presented
$4,000 to his denomination. General
Gordon is also an active church member,
often praying and preaching in camp and
church. Governor Colquitt is a member
of the Methodist General Conference,
President Of the International Sunday
school Association, and a good lay
preacher.
Lord Darlington is said to have earned
his recently conferred English title of
Baron Shute by diligence as special re-
porter in the House of Commons to the
Queen. A resume of the proceedings in
the House is telegraphed to her every
evening. This was formerly made up by
the Prime Minister, but of late years
Lord Beaconsfeld, finding the task
troublesome, delegated Lord Darlington
to do it.
President King, of the Kansas Edi-
torial Association, has issued a card an
nouncing that in view of the early OPEN
ing of the political campaign, the ull-
promising aspect of affairs in the west
ern counties of the State; and other in
terfering circumstances, it has been de-
cided, with the concurrence and at the
request of many of the editors, to post
pOne the annual June meeting of the
association until August, or possibly un-
til next spring.
Mr.. w. W. Story has just finished the
clay model of his statue of Prescott, the
Revolutionary General. "In one hand"
says a correspondent of the Courier
Journal, che holds a naked sword; the
other is extended behind him as if to
stay his impatient men, and he is Just
saying, Don't shoot till you can see the
whites of their eyesp The firm, resolute
mouth, the light in the clear eyes-for it
does seem to shine from the very clay
affect one like martial music"
Captain Hcwgate, the Arctic explorer,
has just given quaint water-party near
| Washington. He engaged a packet of