The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-03-08
PERSONAL.

| George Alfred I0Wnsend, "Niath, mas
one of the finest libraries in the country
III. c. Bunner, the editor of Puck, is
an American and the author of several
fine plays.
Nicholas Shishkin, the Russian Minis
ter to this country, wishes to be trans
ferred to some European capital.
Gen. Fitz John Porter resides at Nor
ristown, and is at present in the eemploy OF
the New Jersey Central Railroad Com
pany.
Lord Salisbury has been seriously
pulled down by an outbreak of Roman
fever, disease he contracted a number
OF years ago.
Father Lowery has got himself into
hot water in Cohoes by preaching against
the strike of the hands in the cotton and
woolen mills.
The Prince and Princess of Wales are
said to have made up their minds to es-
tablish a fashion of 7 o'clock dinners, in
stead of those given at the absurd hour
Of 8.
Marshal MacMahon is said to have
spent great deal Of his private income
when he was President and he is now
Obliged to sell part of his mansion in
Paris.
Mr.. Walt Whitman regards Emerson
as the greatest of all American authors
and he likes Bryant's poetry with its
"breath of the open air that, to him, is
very sweet"
Mr.. E. G.. Pinkham, of the Boston
Commercial Bulletin, has resigned his
position upon the editorial staff of that
paper, and will 20 to New York to edit a
financial journal in that city.
M.:John Lemoine editor of the Paris
Dehats has the reputation Of writing his
leaders at single squirt, without re-
touches of sending them hot to the press
room, and of never looking at his proofs.
Mr.. Edward Jenkins, the author of
"Ginx's Baby" is to be the editor of a
new illustrated daily paper in London.
1t is to be of satirical turn, and its
Parliamentary reports to come through
a telephone.
Senator Blaine is described by CORE
spondent of the Albany Journal as man
of wonderful magnetism and good feel
ing. "He is no Achilles sulking in his
tent" adds his admirer; che is charm
ing and radiant force"
Mr.. John Michael Williams, one of the
great Cornish copper-smelters, has Just
died, leaving an estate of some 500,
900, and as none of the land is entailed
there is good deal of curiosity as to the
disposal of the property.
Prof. Proctor says that he finds the in
terest in scientific matters much more
widely spread in America than in En-
gland, more people attending lectures
here and reading and thinking intelli-
gently upon these subjects.
Lord Wentworth, the Englishman
whom Miss Dudu Fletcher is not going
to marry, lives in new house of Queen
Anne architecture ON the Thames EN-
bankment in Chelsea. He is reported to
be no great match as regard charms Of
mind and temper.
President Chaplin of Beloit College, in
Wisconsin, is said to be tine oldest college
president, SO far as actual service goes,
in this country. He was elected in 1851;
President Anderson of Rochester Uni.
versity in 1858; and President Andrews
of Marietta College, Ohio, in 1855.
Senator Edmunds is thoughtful and
discriminating reader and a man OF
broad intelligence; but one "untrained
i the schools" 'I never was spoiled
by going to college," he is reported as
laying. He is very fond of literature
and of law; and the librarian of Cong
ress has no more devoted patron thar
the Senator from Vermont.
Robert L. Montague died on Wednes
day at his home in Middlesex County
Va, aged sixty-three years. He wal
Lieutenant Governor of the State during
the early portion of the late war, and wai
a member of the Confederate Congress
Four years ago he was elected Judge O
the Eighth Judicial Circuit, which posi-
!, ton he held when he died.
Victor Hugo is reported to be inveter
ately fond of coffee, taking it not only
at each meal but at intervals during th'
day. He works only during the morn
ing, never after the midday meal HI
writes on large-sized Holland paper, made
expreg |y for him, and works standing
before high desk. When he gets tiret
he PAGES up and down his study, swal
lowing now and then little coffee or sul
CARED water, but never by any chance
sitting down. His evenings are nearl,
always devoted toguests, whom he take
great pains to entertain.
. George Mallory ate hearty meal a
. Virginia City restaurant, and, layinI
= the bill for 81 so on the cashiers desk
said that he couldn't pay it, for the goo'
; reason that he had no money. The pre-
q prietor said "Saw up that load of Woo
= you see in front of the door and I'll cal
: it square," Mallory walked out into th'
street and coolly invited crowd to SCI
"the biggest fool in the State"-meanin
J. the man who wanted him to work for
meal already eaten. Thereupon the res