The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-02-16
PERSONAL.

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Wilkie Collins never writes line al
night.
Prince Leopold, of Great Britain, is tt
be decorated, it is reported, with the title
of "Duke of Kent"
President Grevy gave his "huntress
daughter New Years gift of very
fine gun. The young lady was delighted
and proudly shows the arm to all who
call upon the family at the Elysee.
Mr.. Charles G. Fairman, of the Ell
mira Advertiser, has been selected tt
| give the annual address before the New
York State Press Association in June
Mr.. G. W. Dickinson will give the poem
| M. Victor Hugo will be seventy-eight
years old on the 26th of this month, and
about the same time he will publish his
two new books, Religions ct Religion
and "Toute la Lyre." The poet is hale
and vigorous.
Mr.. Eugene Schuyler, the American
Consul in Rome, is living in the AL
temps Palace, where he is about to en-
tertain M. and Nine. Waddington. II
will be remembered that Mr.. Schuyler
married Nine. Waddington's sister.
Mr.. Ezekiel has been making in Rome
a piece of sculpture which is described
as very striking. 1t is seated figure Of
Homer at moment of poetic inspira.
tion, beating out with his extended
right hand the hexameter measure of his
verse.
Senator Edmunds, who is now fifty.
one years old, is popularity supposed to
have saved from the proceeds of his law
practice two or three hundred thousand
dollars-which is more the Senator's bust.
ness than anybody's else except the
butcher and baker and andlestick-maker
John K. White has returned to Ligo-
nier, Ind, after an absence of ten years.
Everybody thought him dead. The wife
supported her aged mother and children
until about four months ago, when she
accepted an offer of marriage from a
well-to-do farmer named Cook, with
whom she lives happily and comfortably.
Ex-Minister Washburne's personal ap-
pearance is much lauded by Mrs. Swiss
helm. "He is gray-haired and stout"
she says, "without any of that flabbi-
ness which in Lewis Cass was the out
ward and visible sign of mental hasty-
pudding. Washburne's face and form
call up the idea of granite cliffs and clear
sky--not of wool bags on wet day."
Sir Edward Thornton and his two
daughters ride on the roads about Wash
ington every pleasant day; the white
whiskered father on handsome bay, the
young ladies on two beautiful mouse-col-
ored horses The English girls high hats
and short blue habits are mentioned as
being of the most delicately trim fash
ion, and they are remarkably graceful
horsewomen.
The Duke of Genoa has been amusing
himself greatly at Toxic. He has called
on the Emperor, the Emperor has called
on him. He has dined with the Emper-
or, the Emperor has lunched with him.
There have, moreover, been parties, and
illuminations, and reviews, and polo
matches, and races, and naval evolutions,
and fetes of all sorts tor the visitor,
japanese civilization having been grow
ing apace.
Signor Brumidi, the venerable fresco
artist of the Capitol, is now failing in
health, and it is feared that he can not
continue the work Of decorating the
frieze of the rotunda. Mr.. John La
Fargo has been mentioned as an artist
eminently competent to continue the
work, and it has been suggested that a
commission be sent to Boston to examine
his decoration in Trinity Church and re-
port. The Capitol would be In great
good luck if it could fall into hands SC
competent as Mr.. La Farge's.
M. Dumas is q very happy married
man, his Russian wife being a very charm.
ing, estimable and devoted lady. A
friend, the other day, to whom Dumas
was giving sketch Of his coming work
and Of the arguments he is about to put
forward in favor of divorce, ventured To
remind the celebrated author that he wa.
hardly in a position to feel poignantly
the misery Of an unhappy marriage
"Mon cher" answered the distinguished
author with a smile, "a medical man can
never take proper care of his patients
unless he be in good health himself" =
The Crown Prince of Sweden, under
the name Of "Count Gripsholm," is stay.
ing at French watering-place and has
managed to keep his incognito so well
that for some days hardly anybody al
the table d'hote knew who he was and
much to the amusement of those who did
recognize him, he told a German mer-
chant who questioned him that he was
"a young Swedish officer" Ofenbach il
staying at the same place for the restora.
tion Of his health. He coughs fright
fully and is obliged to be carried upstairs
1t is melancholy to see him wrapped ur
in an immense fur coat in the arms Of
bis valet, yet he is full of hope and
energy.
| MEDICAL,