The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-05-21
PERSONAL.

Mr.. Berstadt, the artist, is visiting the
Marquis of Lorne and the Princess Louise
at Ottawa, Ont.
Ex-senator Sprague heads the Rhode
Island delegation to the National Green
back Convention.
Benjamin Franklin, Henry Wilson
and Charles Sumner Murray are triplets
who were born in Boston twenty-four
years ago.
General Garfield is said to be especi-
ally fond of the society of strong legal
minds and is a particular friend of
Judge Black. Though utterly opposed
in politics. each keenly appreciates the
intellect of the other.
Jones Very, the Massachusetts, poet
and mystic, died ten days ago at his
home in Salem. He was sixty-seven
years old, and though man of unusual
gifts was comparatively little known
even in the town where he lived.
Judge William P. Dsingerfeld, of the
Superior Court of California, fell dead
from the bench in his Courtroom last
week, an instant after making jesting
remark to the Clerk. Judge danger
field was of Virginian birth, aud had
lived in California since 1850.
Mr.. Gladstone is said to be the best
Greek scholar in England, if not in Eu-
rope, and when High Commissioner to
the Ionian Islands, in 1889, he addressed
the local Parliament in Modern Greek
with much fuency and eloouence, to the
intense astonishment of the natives.
Prince Bismarck has been SO i'll that
when the Emperor went to Wiesbaden
he waived ceremony and himself called
upon his chancellor to discuss the po-
litical situation. He stayed more than
an hour with the invalid, and on parting
babe him be most careful with his valua,
BILE health.
Mr.. Tennyson consents to be nomin.
ated to the Lord Ractorship of Glasgow
University on condition that he is moi
considered the candidate of either polit
ical party, and that if elected he is moi
expected to appear in Glasgow for install
lation. His supporters call him "Con
stitutionalist."
Secretary and Mrs. Sherman, Senator
Conkling and Senator Jones are men
toned as going to the circus lately il
Washington. Herein lies One charm o
a Republican Government. How curl
ously would read the statement tina
Moltke or Gladstone or Beacons6eld ha(
attended the circus.
| Alexandra Dumas is described as nov
being very reserved man, who care
little for miscellaneous society, but wh'
is agreeable and talks brilliantly in com
pany with few congenial people. HI
thinks long upon his work before he put
it on paper, and when he begins his Ms
he regards his chief labor as ended.
Henry Clay, grandson of the famou
Senator, will accompany the Howgat
Arctic expedition as an aid to Leutenan
Howgate. Mr.. Clay, who is known il
Kentucky as "Young Harry Clay"
twenty-nine years of age. He was bor
in Lisbon, Portugal, when his father wa
Minister to that country. He is no.
Prosecuting Attorney in Louisville.
Mr.. Spurgeon, in an address on tract
the other evening, SAID that he knew
brother who had often taken sermon c
his and turned it into Gaelic. Then h
turned it again into English an
preached it as his own. 1t haG passe
through two series, and his brother hat
! no doubt, copyright after having take
so much trouble with it.
The Emperor William and the En-
press Augusta will attend the unveilir
of the Goethe monument at Berlin, Jur
lst. They both knew Goethe intimatel
! the Empress being a daughter of Ka
August, Grand Duke of SAKE Vienna
4 the patron and friend of the poet.
was during his latter years at Weim
that the courtship and marriage Of Wi
t lam and Augusta occurred.
T. Zola, the novelist, lives like Ber
It dictine, locked into his study and nev
r, appearing in public. His mode of wo
It is very strange one. 1t consists in ia
ing masses of notes on the class of socie
e he wishes to paint; then, when his not
); are put together, he composes his nov
J. page by page, never casting his eye ov
], the back pages, and thus writing abo
II five day with the utmost care.
DR.. Miller Luther. Secretary Of t
le Pennsylvania Board of Charities. is pr
rs ecpting number of Dankards for ste
II ing his grandfather's skull from gra
at Ephrata, a Dunkard village. 1t
said they committed the depreciation
obedience to reputed witch, who t(
them that by performing certain ce
er monies over that particular skull tn
y would learn where some valuable pap