The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-03-03
PERSONAL.
Henry Bergh detests jewelry.

Henry Bergh detests jewelry.
Col. Delaney Kane will play "Jehu"
again this summer.
The Duke of Argyll has constitution
al antipathy to a joke.
Mr.. Joseph Strickland, aged l05, died
recently in Gainesville, Ga.
Leuis Blanc's "Ten Years of the His
tory of England" has now reached its
sixth volume.
Mr.. Lewis Morris. author of the "Epic
of Hades," has received decoration
from the King of Greece.
Edward Elliott, stevedore at ST.
John, New Brunswick, has been instru-
mental in saving q persons from drown
ing.
DIR. Hammond's suggestions for lunatic
asylum management reform have excited
approving attention in professional cir
cles
President Hayes bought at Washing
ton fair the other evening a copy OF
Rogers statuette of "The Wounded Sol
dier." paying $l5 for the same:
Mr.. Trowbridge, the proposed Com
missioner of Indian Affairs, is an old
personal friend of President Hayes,
whose classmate he was at college.
Bazaine, according to Paris news
paper, is cultivating large farm in the
environs of Madrid, and especially ap-
plying himself to the breeding of hogs
Of an improved American variety.
Jules Favre left a comparatively
small estate-about $4,000 to each of
his two children and the remainder to-
his wife, after paying some legacies. She
had marriage settlement Of $4,000.
President McCosh says that Princeton
means to put an end to the gross person.
al attacks which have occasionally found
a place in some of the speeches on Glass
Day, and this without stopping Glass
Day, or its wit and fun.
Mr.. Carlyle has just concluded the re-
vision of new and corrected edition of
his works; he has also been collecting
material for his biography. He is said
to take very gloomy view OF the imme-
diate future of England.
Mr.. Thomas Fletcher, of Lincoln
County, Ark, died in Little Rock, Ark,
Wednesday. He was for several years
State Senator and for two or more terms
President of the Senate. At the time of
his death he was leading candidate for
Secretary of State.
Senior Zamacona, Mexican Minister to
the United States, is POLITICALLY described
as "tall and slender, wearing flowing
locks Just touched by frost, and having
mobile spiritual face, delicate features
and manner gentle and polished" His
wife has "a sweet, smiling, animated
countenance, and soft, quiet bearing"
John Cox, the old Pennsylvania Abo-
litionist, whose golden wedding was cele-
brated in verse by Whittier and Bayard
Taylor, has just died at the age of ninety
four, at Longwood, near Kennett Square.
His house in times before the war is said
to have sheltered as many as twenty
escaping slaves in single night.
M. Ivan Turgeneff, the distinguished
Russian novelist, has very striking
face, framed with hair and beard COM
pletely white. He disclaims, it is re-
ported, all affinity with the Nihilists.
He firmly adheres to his intention of ab-
staining from further literary work, but
hopes are entertained that after his death
important posthumous writings, ready
for print, will be found among his manu-
scripts. ...
Mr.. J. Temple, worthy Philadelphian
who has comfortable but not immense
estate, proposes to bestow large share
of it upon the Pennsylvania Academy Of
Fine Arts. The conditions of his gift are
that the SOL 900 which he has resolved to
use thus shall be so deposited as to allow
of its accumulating for three years and
that at the end of that time, when it will
amount to 100000, it will be used as an
endowment fund providing, among other
things, for the free opening of the Acad'
emy on two days Of each week and fol
: one or two medals, to be given each veal
to American artists. One-half of the in
come, moreover, is to be set apart each
year for the purchase Of the works o.
. American artists exhibited at the Acad
emy.