The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-02-25
PERSONAL.

Bandmann, the actor, was born in Or
chard street, New York.
Madame Taine, the wife Of the author,
has, it is reported, just died.
John Jay thinks of building Swiss
cottage at his farm at Cattonah, N. Y.
Judge S. H. Renick, for over twenty
years IA prominent member of the bar OF
Waco, Texas, is dead.
Louis Blanc, by the death of M.
Cremieux, becomes the sole survivor of
the Provisional Government of February,
1S4S.
w. S. Gilbert has sandy hair and
beard, is getting gray fast, athletic and
bluff and hearty. He is slow and care
full writer and a capital stage manager.
Eiitor Rice, of the North American
Review, is still lingering by the shores of
the Mediterranean for the benefit Of his
health, and the date Of his return is very
uncertain. He may even extend the Pc
riod of his absence until next fall.
Mr.. Robert C. Winthrop was hos. at
the dinner given in Washington the
other evening by the trustees Of the Pea
body Fund. His daughter assisted him
in receiving the guests, among whom
were the President and Mrs. Hayes.
Mr.. Howard Paul has erected a beau
tiful monument to the memory Of his
wife in Brompton Cemetery. 1t hears
this inscription from Spenser: "Sleepe
after toyfe, port after stot1nie seas; ease
after ware, death after life does greatly
please"
George William Curtis has been fire.
quently taken for an Englishmen, and
rather relishes than resents the mistake.
In his humorous writings he affects the
style of Charles Dickens, and in his adj
dress the manner of the late Canon
Kingsley.
DIR. Evans, of Paris, the famous Amer
lean dentist who took it so i'll when Mr..
Evarts good-naturedly alluded to him as
a person "to whom the greatest poten-
tates. usually so reticent, had freely
opened their mouths" has Just beeAseon-
soling himself by plugging and bor-
ing away at the teeth of the Crown
Princess of Germany in her villa at Plgli,
near Genoa. 4
Major d. Mason, of Pawtucket, R. l.,
after drinking for ninety-two years from
life's fountain, still found the water
sweet. He found no taste of bitterness
even at the bottom. He believed life
was worth living; ana all its rigorous
pleasures made to be enjoyed With the
thermometer at 92' last summer he was
seen at the races, where he was delighted
at the fact that the horse he had marked
for victory had won.
Ex-senator Pomeroy writes from North
Carolina, where he is working a god
mine: "My process I invented. It's a
grand ene--none like it on eHrth-and
none in heaven, am sure--for where
the streets are paved with god what
need have We for mining it? / have no
81 900 week. but / do make enough
to pay expenses; and that is pretty well
in the start. 1 live in house of two
rooms-a negro boy to cook, and have a
nephew with me and one other white
man; all the rest are Of the colored per-
suasion, but good men, the best and
cheapest laborers ever saw"
Mr.. Frank ID. MiHet has built himself
an odd studio of three rooms at Bridge
water, Mass. Attached to his painting
room is another, which is simply an old
fashioned kitchen taken bodily9severy1
particle, from house in the neigibor-i
hood recently torn down, which was
built in 1893. All the Furnishings areH
The "settle" and clock
and warming-pan, the fint-lock arms,
the crooked-necked squashcs and strings
of dried apples etc. are all there. The
windows are the old diamond" and foxt
and geese style, the identical ones put inI
nearly two hundred years ago. Override
kitchen. accessible by an ingenious swing
ing ladder, is a sleeping apartment for
the artists guests, which is furnished inI
the date corresponding to the Kitchen.