The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-04-07
Personal.

DignOr Urlafte, the spanish consul q
New York city, smokes his Havana
in pipe mounted with diamonds WORT
$3.50.
Ex-Marshal Bazaine is reported to b
living in a secluded street in Madrid
and to be preparing his memoirs for pub
licatiOn.
Nine. Julia Kossuth Rushkay, tn
only sister of the great Hungarian pa
triot, Louis Kossuth, lives at Plainfeld
New Jersey.
Sir Geo. Balfour lately spoke in tn
House of Commons to the Speaker alone
there being actually not one single othe
member in the House.
Mr.. George P. Marsh has just com
pleted the nineteenth year of his diplo
matte service in Italy. In all that tim,
he has never visited America.
Col. Sid. M. Barnes, once a citizen O
Somerset, Kentucky, is now Unitee
States Attorney for New Mexico, ant
is President of a big mining company a
Santa Fe.
Mr.. Townshend, who made himself
III pleasant in Congress the other day, il
described as man in the prime of life
tall, dark-eyed, slender, wiry, excitable
and full of words.
Mrs. Partington otherwise Mr.. B. F.
Shillaber) has appeared before the world
as an inventor, having just patented an
adjustable reading-stand, adapted to
books, chart or maps.
Mr.. Jefferson Davis has an opportuni-
ty to pose as an interesting and melan-
choly person. He has been invited to
lecture before two hundred ladies at New
bury College, South Carolina.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Furman, of New
town, Long Island, celebrated the fiftieth
anniversary Of their marriage last
Wednesday in the presence of fifty chill
dren, grand and great-grandchildren.
Mr.. John Fiske will soon deliver three
lectures on american Political Ideas"
before the Royal Institution (London).
Mr.. Ernest Renau will also lecture be-
fore the same Society on Marcus Aure-
lius."
Prince Bismarck's s sixty-ffth birthday
was celebrated on the 1st inst. His
palace was flooded with birthday offer
ings from all parts of Europe. The EN-
peror William and many other distin-
guished persons visited him.
Prince Pierre Bonaparte, that cousin
of Napoleon III who married seam
stress, is said to be now so reduced in
circumstances that he is living in the
most humble manner at Versailles on
small pittance from Prince Jerome.
M. Victorien Sardou is said to be of a
most amiabie and benevolent disposition,
giving away to poor and struggling
authors reasonable share of the large
income his pen has brought him. He
has the added goodness Of never men
tioning his gifts.
Mr.. Simmons, the Rhode Island
sculptor, who is now in Rome, has re-
Gently finished in clay his conception of
'1srael in the Wilderness" which is his
pending subject for a statue on an order
from well-known gentleman who passes
his summers at Newport.
Ex-Minister Washburne's personal ap-
pearance is matter of comment in divers
newspapers. 1t is solemnly stated that
he wears "a stylish Prince Albert coat
buttoned closely about his fine figure"
that he INDUCES in "loose morocco
boots" and that he "twirls little gold
headed rattan cane"
Admiral Philips Westphal, the Oldest
commissioned officer in the British navy.
died on March 18th, at Ryde, at the age
of 80. Admiral Westphal had seen
much service at stirring time. He won
his first promotion to the rank of Lieu
tenant at the battle Of Copenhagen.
Senator Davis, of West Virginia, like
all the other wealthy men in Congress,
earned his own money. Nearly all of
them began life very poor. Baldwin,
of Michigan, won his wealth as a mer-
chant-as did Mr.. Morton; Congressman
Newberry got his as a manufacturer,
like Messrs. Loring and Russell. Nearly
all the others became rich through
mines. .....-s
General Beauregard writes to Captain
Eads in regard to De Lesseps' project
that "it is next to impossible to make a
reliable estimate of such work. If this
estimate be $168, 000 900, exclusive of in
terest during the construction, it is reas-
enable to conclude that the total cost,
including interest, will reach double that
amount, on which no dividend could be
declared to the stockholders for several
generations to come"
Mr.. McKellar owns the actual Cape
of Good Hope and much land adioin-
ing, whereon he has large ostrich farm.
A kick from an ostrich is well known to
be very dangerous. Mr.. McKellar said
that the only thing to do when attacked
without means of defense was to lie fiat
down and let the bird walk on you until
he is tired. The business is profitable.
From ten pairs of full-grown birds,
which one man may look after, an in
come Of $4,000 or $4,000 may be
reckoned on.
Bishop Bowman, presiding over the
New York East Conference of the Meth