The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-01-24
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worth, Kansas, week ago. ...,
Governor Cornell has q gold pen made
from very ancient Egyptian coins.
Buffalo Bill treated "the boys" to $500
worth Of Champagne in Atlanta, Ga.
General Chamberlain lives in Long
fellows former house at Brunswick, !,
Me. ......
Mr.. Arinori Mori has arrived in London
as Minister from Japan. Since his Wash
ington mission he has been Japanese
Envoy to China.
Ex- Governor Garcelon will soon visit
Washington, whence he will escort his
daughter home to Maine. Miss Garcelon
has been visiting her aunt, Mrs. Frye.
Mr.. Carl Resa is suffering 80 severely
from the effects of overwork that his
physicians have forbidden him to take
any part for the present in conducting
his operatic orchestra.
Old Father Taylor, the celebrated
sailors preacher, used to say: "The
way for man to be eloquent is to get
himself chuck full Of his subject, and
then knock out the bung and let his
ideas flow naturally"
Hepworth Dixon's death is stated to
have been the natural consequence of his
grief for the loss of his eldest son. With
a dependency strangely foreign to the
spirit that had hitherto animated him,
he told his family that he seemed to be
losing his hold on life.
Richard Wagner will spend the winter
in Naples, and as soon as warm weather
comes will 60 to the little French water
ing-place of Saint Enogat on the Coast
of Brittany, where he will make his
home at villa belonging to Judith Gau-
tier, a well-known writer and daughter
of Theophile Gautier.
Rev. d. Jacobs was ordained pastor Of
church at Medway, Mass, si1ty-three
years ago. His health was 80 bad that
it was supposed he would die within q
few months; but he survived until last
Monday, attaining the age of 90. Of the
800 members of his congregation, he
conducted the funeral services of all ex-
cept one.
Rev. DR.. Hepworth, who isat Heidel-
berg, has not been we'll since he left New
York, and he has been constantly under
the care of his physician. His accident
was only the occasion of his increased ILL
ness, the cause dating back to over-work,
which induced nervous prostration, and
which he left in time to make his recovery
a matter Of only afew months.
Mr.. w. D. Howells, the editor of the
Atlantic Monthly, lives at Belmont, near
Boston. He does most of his magazine
work at home in his delightful study,
but is at the Office Of the publishers in
Boston one day in every week. In his
own house the morning is almost in
variably devoted to writing, the after
noon and sometimes the evening being re-
served for editorial tasks, with of course
some intermission for recreation.
The little Prince of Italy has great
fondness for speaking English, and goes
twice day to the English shop at ,Bor-
dighera and makes his little purchases
amusing the proprietors by his numerous
questions. The Queen, wishing to pre-
pare a Christmas surprise for her son,
sent for this English family to come up
to her villa and decorate Christmas
tree for him. The Prince loves the sea
and is often found chattering TO the fish
ermen on the shore, and bestowing gifts
upon them.
Theodore Tilton was to lecture in
Parsons, Kansas, and the committee was
at the station to receive him. They
stepped up to long-haired gentleman
and welcomed him with enthusiasm and
much ceremony. The .long-haired gen.
tleman appeared surprised, and said {:
81 don't know what you mean by this,
but / can remove any wart or bunion
in thirty minutes without pain, or for
felt my reputation" The committee
had taken "corn doctor" for 7. 7.
| A. G. Botkin, formerly of the Mil
waukee Sentinel, but now U. s. Marshal
of the Territory of Montana, ia at pres
ent suffering from partial paralysis Of
the limbs, the result of an affection of
the spinal marrow, brought on by over
exertion and exposure during a recent
trip to Fort Sualy on official business.
The disability compels Mr.. Botkin to
move about on crutches. He intends to
90 to Philadelphia for treatment as soon
as he can put the business Of his Office
in proper shape to be entrusted to, a
nephew. u. ... ,..
| Mr.. Wendell Phillips calls Balls statue
Of Quincy "a dancing-master clogged
with horse-blackets." And as for the
statue of Sumner on Boylston street
Mr.. Phillips thinks if "a cask made ol
slaves" and "set on human legs" He
adds: Thisheavy-moulded prize-fghtel
is the marvellous achievement of that
wise committee which rejected Mis-
Whitney's tmatchless model Gas they
confessed it to be) Of the seated Senator
because no woman could make statue
No, indeed, hope not, il this Irish por
ter in hisSunday clothes is the ideal the!
desired"
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