The Ohio star. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1830-1854, 1854-02-08
This ana That.


The Prussian prayer book eujoins that the whole
service, including the sermon shall not exceed an
hour. If some of our churches would adopt SIM
liar rule, we should fswer sleepy, inattentve
regations---A quaint old writer ceflaes ego
tsm to be- ..suffering the private to be too much
| in the public rue The young man who enter
tanned an idea over night has sent in his bill
The flag of the Republic of Lower California is
composed of three stripes-red, white and red.
with two stars on the white ground-A pair of
Shanghai fowls, lately sent from Boston to Lon
don, have been sold in the latter city for FIVE hundred
doilars-The Jews of Cincinnati are about to
START paper TO be entirely devoted 10 the interest
of their sect-There are but three States which
have no debt. Vermont. Delaware and Florida
There is a secret drawer containing valuables
10 every human heart, if we. only knew how TO
touch the spring-Tbirtesn fourteen humid
dreG students are IN attendance at The four Medi-
cal Colleges in Philadelphia this wnter-A re-
viya of religion has just taken place in the Ken
iucky State p. P.ison-Counterfet fur do'lsr bills
on The Bank Of Montreal nre in circu!ation---A
man was killed on the Southern Michigan Rail-
road last week. by riding with his head cut Of The
car window-Flour is higher now than it has
has been since 1887, when it retaied at Sl2 90 per
barrel--Quarrels would never last long, il the
fault were only one siie--Hope is the only
good that is common TO ali men; those who have
nothing more possess hope stii-The Oldest
version of the Old and New Tesiaments belonging
to Christians is that in the Vatican, which was
written in the fourth fifth century and publish
Cd in, 1SS7--R aiarv ia a discOursa fa-
voring wit at the expense of good nature----North
America has SO species of the oak, while all Eu-
rope has only 80; America has 40 species oi pine
and frs, and Europe 14-The Missouri iron
works at Wheeling were entirely destroyed by
fire on the 31st ult Loss about so, ,000--The
Nutmeg tree grows on The south side of the Casu-
mes river 10 California, aud bears fruit superior, it
is said TO that which grows in the Spice Islands
The Independent Democrat and Eiyra Cour-
Ter w. have united-The trial of Parks has been
published in Pamphlet form. and contains the
the life of the subject written by himself since his
conviction -Solon Robinson, one Of the Ediors
of the New York Tribune and the author of the
celebrated "Hot Corn Stories,' is said to be in
his 71st year-A great many men employ their
first days so as to make their last days miserable
The wife of Richard Reynolds, hutel keep
er near Milwaukee, while in state of mental pb
beri alton committed suicide on the 2lst uit by
cutting her throat-Two young men, John
Clark and Phillip Hull, were knocked down with
slung-shot and their sLus so fractured as to
their death. the night of Dec. &c, in thestreets
of St. Paul, Minuesota-lt is easier to resist our
bad passions at first, than after indulgence-
Some graceless Erie noodle las written history
of that famous city after the manner of the Scrip
lures. An exchange calls it the Erie Bible."-
The first verse gives sample ofits lyle. CHAP
TERI In the days of ALFRED, The MING.
there dwelt by the seaside east Of Jerusalem u
wGrlike people called the Elraes." The Erie
ties could cot offend all m inkind enough, without
capping the climax with this specimen cfatterd day
profanity-A planning machine factory was burn-
ed in Ogdensburgh n. Y on the night of the 10Th
ult. Loss $40 000-covered by insurance--The
Indiana printers meet 10 State Convention at In
diauapols on the 22ud inst--The Ere Consti-
tuition, journal that has the madness to denoan-
ce the of tke'. Rail-fppers" say Trade
is any thing but lively in Erie this inter- that in
full and gas excepted. The people st: keep rca,-m
some ofihem might be called ,and talk and speech
| ,feat,& nbound-A grocery burned in
OberIln last week. Loss S4o0-fuIly insured
Tie LIBERAL press without exception are indignant
at Douglass infamous Nebraska bill. The Loco
foco Administration press play shy and mum, but
are gradually developing themselves, and endors-
ing the bill--The ANNUAL supper Of the i Burns
! Club' Of Cincinnati occurred on the lst inst All
was merry marriage beIi--Fiis citizens Of
Warren. Trumbull Co. are making arrangements
for lighiifg their town with Gas. The expense
will not ta, greater for gas than for oii-The
number of hogs slaughtered in Cincinnati the pres
eut seuson, up to the 1:t iast- is 657, ,ooo-Mich
ael Angelo used to say tries IN Ike perfection but
perfection is no tlle.
Satan IscbssE1iug Sin.