The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-01-27
PERSONAL.

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Spain, is now fifty years old.
Mr.. Toole's health ID slowly improvin,
but he is still unable to walk.
General J. F. Rathbone, has Just give
5000 TO Rochester University.
Senator Thurman last week introduce
thirteen woman suffrage petitions int
the Senate. - vt-,
Bishop Simpson, Of the Methods
Church, has gone to Florida for the ber
eft Of his health.
Mr.. Job Turner, a deaf mute, has beel
ordained deacon by Bishop Whittle i
st. Johns Church, Richmond, Va.
Senator Lamar 10 steadily improving
In health. He is now able to sit up an,
has left Jackson for his home at Ok
ford. ..- ,...
Mr.. Darwin's eldest son was married
recently to Miss Emma Farrer, and tn
old gentleman declares that it was cas-
of natural selection,
Sultan Abdul-Aziz eats eleven meals .
day, and thinks Of visiting Europe mex
summer. The hotel on which he con
fers his disastrous patronage Is to b'
pitied.
Mr.. Samuel Smiles has received from
the King of Italy valuable decoration
as mark of the royal appreciation Of
his books. "Self-hetp," translated, has
been sold in Italy to the number Of fifty.
thousand copies.
Mr.. Turgueneff might find subject for
a romance in Father Nikita who after
being Lieutenant in the Russian Army
became priest, and has gone to take up
his clerical duties in the coldest, lone
liest, rudest nook in Alaska.
The Duke of Portland, the young sue
cessor of the lately deceased eccentric
nobleman, is said to be engaged to Miss
Violet Lindsay, a graceful and extreme
ly accomplished young lady, who is a
special friend of Princess Louise.
Mr.. ]. G. Flood has Just. bestowed a
pleasant little amount of pin-money upon
his daughter, Miss Jennie Flood; he has
registered $2,500,00O in United States
bonds in her name. This gift provides
for her an income of 100000 year.
Mr.. John G. Hamilton, of this city, the
venerable representative of the family of
Alexander Hamilton, is the owner of
many historical relics, not the least of
them being Stuart's unfinished portrait
of Washington, painted from the subject.
Professor Tyndall is giving series of
scientific lectures to children in London.
He has just given one on glaciers. The
showing the formation of
clouds and snow crystals are said to
have been very beautiful and success
full.
M. Henri Say is having new steam
yacht built at Baltimore to which he
will give the name of "Henriette." The
yacht in which he has been journeying,
and which suffered from the effects of
the recent storm, is being repaired in
that city.
Prince Bismarck is still too i'll to trav-
Ell. Varzin is said to be very unhealthy
in early winter, and Count Wilhelm, the
Princes second son, has just proved it.
A visit of only few days brought on a
severe rheumatic affection from which he
does not recover.
Mr.. w. D. Howells' home at Belmont
bears the quaint name of "Redtop."
The lower story is Of brick and the sec
ond of wood, entirely sheathed in Cali
fornia redwood shingles. In architecture
it is mixture of a Queen Anne house
and Swiss chalet.
Mr.. Eugene Schuyler is described by
Miss Brewster, in the Philadelphia Tele-
graph, as the most popular American
official who has ever been in Rome. He
has been elected almost unanimously to
divers clubs and is q guest at endless
Ambassadorial dinners and Cardinals
breakfasts.
Mr.. Oliver Dalrymple, the great Min
nesota farmer, intends to cultivate thirty
thousand acres of wheat this year. He
will have twenty steam threshers in op-
sration with one hundred and thirty-fve
reaping machines. Last year he en-
ployed six hundred laborers and this
year will increase the number to seven
hundred.
DR.. George Rolleston, writing to The
London Times, relates with apparent
pleasure story recently told him of an
American Bishop who was over in the
Did country little while back. He was
asked at an ordinary entertainment to
take wine. He said, "if were to take
glass of wine it would be known by tele-
graph all over the Union at once"
Minister Foster is reported to have ex-
pressed wish to be sent to Europe in
order to study the social and political in
of other lands. He is not
very rich man, yet has enough to live in
St. Petersburg in dignifed fashion with
the help of his salary. He can not leave
Mexico for two months, and will probab-
" not reach Russia for four or five.
Mr.. Edward Atkinson's gift of sam
pies of American cotton manufactures
70 India has been requited by present
IF nearly two hundred statuettes repre-
,enting the different casts and classes of
people in that region. The figures are
If clay, dressed in actual stuffs made up