The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-02-05
Personal.


Senator Blaine's fortune is estimated
at $500. 900.
Farjeon, the novelist, has brother a
New York jeweler.
Mr.. Yoshida, the japanese Minister, is
expected to arrive in Washington next
month with his family. ...
Joe Jefferson's theatrical engagements
for the present season have closed, and
he will return to his plantation in Flor
ida. s
G. T. Duncan, a Hawesville, Ky., drug
gist, picked up a stray nugget of gold ON
the streets of that town that weighs an
ounce.
Ex-Governor Reuben E. Fenton, of
New York, is at present in Arizona look
ing after some mining interests Of his
there.
Sylvanus Cobb, Jr., has made $500 900
by his pen, and lives at the Cedars, near
Newark, N. j., formerly the residence Of
Henry W. Herbert.
Young Mr., Browning, son Of the poet,
is busy in painting large and elaborate
picture of an Antwerp scene for the
Royal Academy Exhibition.
Joseph Morton, of Winchester, KY,
has invented and patented new motive
power for sewing machines. This is the
sixth patent he has received.
Hon. Richard rockingham, Ex-Mayor
Of Charleston, Mass, and one of the most
prominent citizens Of Massachusetts,,
died at his residence in Charlestown,
aged sixty-eight years.
Sir Garnet Wolseley has discovered
that the ten English missionaries in Zu-
luland for the last twelve years have
grown fat and rich but have not con-
verted one single native. o
General Grant was not frightened by
the Havana earthquake; but he repeated
a recent remark, that be thought Wash
ington the pleasantest city in the world,
with extreme earnestness.
The Princess Louise is of quite ro-
mantle turn. When she gets back to
Canada she is going to have shanty
built in the woods, which she will make
her headquarters while fishing or sketch
ing. ".
Richard Wagner, the composer, has ar
rived with his family at Naples. His
health is announced to be improving. He
intends remaining in Naples till the
middle of May, when he will return to
Bayreutb.
NJ. de Saint Waller, representative of
France at Berlin, is good son. 1t was
at his mothers earnest solicitation that
he determined to retain his seat there
after having sent in his resignation to M.
de Freycinet. ...
Josh Billings (Henry w. Shaw is
sixty-three years old, and in early life
had varied fortunes, from those Of a
school teacher to those of an auctioneer.
He has made from his writings some
thing like 100000.
Charles Drummond, of Accomac Coun-
ty, Virginia, is eighteen years old, seven
feet high, weighs two hundred and fifteen
pounds; each foot is sixteen inches long;
his skin is as black as coal, and he eats
five pounds of meat each day. 49,.
| DIR. Brewer prepared for publication,
a few weeks before his death, verv in
teresting paper entitled "reminiscences
of John J. Audubon" which was accept
ed by Messrs. Harper & Brothers and
will be published during the summer.
Lord Napier, Of Magdala, will shortly
attain the age of seventy. Report has it
that he is to be allowed to remain on the
active list as Governor of Gibraltar until
II October, 1882, and that on returning
finally to England he will receive field
marshaPs baton.
Mr.. Kinglake is fast recovering from
his accident in Paris last autumn. Only
!; his fingers were fractured when the ON.
nibus knocked him under the horses
feet. The most serious consequences
were a severe shaking and consequent
ousdepression. 1
Governor Roberts, of Texas, is pasl
seventy, yet he leads the German, and al
| Juc lCdp-yCdI OIu, uIonSou Ill HID uOmc
spun jeans he danced 30 divinely into
the hearts of the Austin girls that seven
of them proposed to him, only to be re.
jected. He commuted two death sen
tences the next day.
Count Massena, a son of Napoleon,
Field Marshal Massena, died in the Poor
house in Salt Lake City few days ago
In an obituary of this man the Salt
Lake Tribune goes around the maxim
"Of the dead speak nothing unles(
good" and ascribes his low end to ca
reer Of meanness and rapacity such al
marked his most notorious fathers life
The wife of the deceased is now a do
nestle in Salt Lake family.
Colonel r. W. Higginson's regular
contribution to the Woman's Journa
failed to arrive in time for publication
this week, and that paper explains tina,
, the delay proceeded partly from the
pressure Of public duties and partly
from an occurrence beneath his rool
which will give him new tie to the
"Woman Question" and that increased
interest in it which belongs to the father
L III a