The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-03-30

thirty-fve. He has retiring manners,
and is a sort of recluse, devoting himself
to reading and study. He does not look
robust, having the stoop of excessive ap-
plication.
Lord Radstock, pious Irish peer who
has been preaching Evangelical doctrine
for long time with singular success to
the aristocracy of st. Petersburg, has
converted General Pashkoff, who In his
turn is now creating sensation on the
banks of the Neva by his sermons. The
General is one of the wealthiest land
owners in Russia and possesses vast
estates in the Ural mountains.
P. 7. Barnum was selecting a turkey
in Bridgeport market, when the owner
drew his special attention to large fat
gobbler. Suspecting it was an antedilu-
Wan Mr.. Barnum saAa, with a smile,
"What do you sell that old gentleman
forp With an air of triumph the owner
replied, 81 sell him for a profit" "A
prophet! Oh, I supposed he was patri-
arch, was the quiet response. The study
of sacred history terminated.
DR.. Schliemann is hard at work upon
the book on Troy, which he intends to
publish1next autumn. The one bit of
exercise and recreation he allows himself
is the riding on horseback to Phalerum
every morning to take his bath in the
sea. A correspondent of. the Herald, of
Cleveland, says that he never permits a
day to pass without this excursion even
in the severe cold which Athens has
known during the past winter.
Professor Alexander Agassiz's gifts to
Harvard have been bestowed in the most
modest manner, the public knowing
hardly quarter of the amount. If he
sees need in the university, he supplies
it, pays the bill, ,and says nothing about it.
If he thinks certain department needs
more rooms, he erects building on the
land of the president and fellows, with
out even telling them that he means to
do it. 1t is in this way that he has given
Harvard $23O,OOO.
Governor Stone has transmitted to
the Legislature of Mississippi codicil
of the will of the late DR.. G. M. Walden,
of that State, which reads thus: II de-
sire my executor to propose to the State
Of Mississippi to set aside $4,000 and the
State like amount, the State to pay
annually 8 per cent. interest, sacred to
the edification of poor young men at
Oxford, on my mess system, which
hope to live long enough to explain and
show its great utility and benefit to the
State at large"
Mr.. Loud, member of the Massa-
chusetts Legislature, was conversing with
Miss Chamberlin in the railroad station
at South Abingdon. Her father angrily
told him to 60 away from her, and be-
rated him before the crowd until he de-
parted on the train. A few days after
ward the legislator went to Chamberlain
house, accompanied by two friends, and
pummeled him frightfully, while the
friends held back those who wanted to
interfere. The girl maintained a fearful
neutrality.
M. de Lesseps and his little daughter
Ferdinande made a pleasant picture
together when they arrived at San Fran.
cisco the other day. As he replied to
the speech of the Citizens Committee Of
welcome the pretty child climbed from
the back>of the car seat on his shoulders
and cIasped her little arms about him
The Count was delighted with his jour
ney across the Continent, calling it the
most enjoyable he had ever made in his
| life with the exception of that made
r over the just united waters of the Med
) iterranean and the Red Sea.
Prince Leopold, the Queens younges
son, who was born on April 7, 1858, ha
. been prevented, by constitutional deli
} cacy, from embracing any profession, bu
$ has inherited, beyond any of his brothers
d his fathers tastes. He was entered a
Christ Church, Oxford, and is membe
/. Of the University and Doctor of Civ
n Law. An English Prince of the bloc
b royal does not reside in the college t
!: which he is attached, but in house Q
" " his own. Prince Leopold, however. ha
r his own set among the students of HI
n time, and might often have been see
playing chess at the Oxford Chess Clul
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