The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-04-29
ODDS AND ENDS.
The humble joys that in the heart
Are nurtured into birth

Aho oWOCocobJ Joy5 VI cuIbus
Nebraska has 1890 school children.
-Four per cent. Of the people of England
die o violent death.
Benton, Me-, hasa school board CON-
posed entirely OF women.
American bolognas find their way to
Japan In exchange for fans.
Heightened Boston society has gone
back to bedcords and bedposts.
Cleveland is to have dancing match
between rival professors OF department..
Arrangements are being made at Chi
cago to form a French military CON-
pany.
Tie rush to Nebraska, Wyoming, Utah
and the Pacific Coast this spring is en0r-
nous.
1t is estimated that the proposed trip
Of the Prince of W ales to India will cost
81, 100000.
Skating on wheels is the fashionable
dissipation at all the English watering
places now.
Southern people fancy that even In the
North men have a better opinion Of Lee
than of Grant.
A steamer sailing from Halifax, N. s.,
for Glasgow, on Monday, took out 400
barrels OF shoe pegs.
The fashion OF issuing tickets OF ad-
mission for wedding ceremonies at
church is dying out.
First of the season: A little girl in
Delaware county, Pa, has died from the
effects Of rope jumping.
Tne soldiers monument, to be erected
in Muscatine, is expected to be finished
by the Fourth of July.
Keep away from New York. Only
three out Of every hundred who try their
fortunes there, succeed.
Sixty-fve women are to be appointed
to clerkships in the savings bank branch
of the English Post-office.
The German Grown Prince and party
will stay in Italy about SIX Weeks, max
Ing tour Jnfougn the provinces.
Tsso Millerites, it is said, have at last
definitely settled it, and the world will
come to an end on Tuesday, June 10Th.
Two new words, minimizing and max
imizing, have just appeared. They are
the offspring OF minimum and max mum.
In Mount Peasant, Wayne county,
Pa, the old snow last week was four
feet deep. The last snow added one
foot to it.
The first English strawberries ap-
peared in the London markets on March
%, and were sold at the rate Of about
81 90 per dozen.
The st. John IN. b Telegraph says
that in some districts there is still three
| ieet of snow in The woods, and they are
still hauling logs.
Twenty-three iron vessels were built
in the United States last year, repre-
senting 33,097 tons-an average OF !, ,439
tons for each vessel.
There is an average oI five "lost chill
dren" picked up every DAY in the streets
Of Paris, and the larger number OF them
are purposely abandoned.
| A New York~coal company is about
| beginning to mine anthracite coal at
| Dora, Va, their lands amounting to over
a hundred thousand acres.
4 In French town in the Department
| of the Jura, the washerw0men have
| struck for wages. They demand twenty
cents day and their meals.
The Millerites will try TO 60 up on the
fifteenth of June. Now, If they would
only form themselves into some sort uf a
stock company they would 90 up sure.-
The electors OF Tlperary, ireland, want
citizen, OF Baltimore, to stand as their
candidate for representation in Parlia-
ment.
Two dollars and half is what q young
man in New Orleans had to pay tor
throwing Madame Soldene a bouquet
with string attached. The fine was
for the string.
HNowlet us talk about your business af-
fairs" said Connecticut girl to young
fellow after he had proposed marriage to
her in long address filled with express
siops Of passionate love.
A renowned Paris bootmaker has
opened Gallery of Lasts of all the cele-
brated feet he has shod during his artis-
tic career, N one but statesmen OF the
first water catalogued.
in Delaware will hereafter be required
to publish their annual statements once
week for three weeks in at least two
newspapers of that State.
Emigration westward from Omaha is
said to be unprecedented, over 5000
having left since March !, while 1000 In
one day last week were unable to get
passage on regular trains.
One hundred and sixty-five thousand
nine hundred and seventy-One dozen cor
sets, valued at $1,255, $50, had to be i'm
ported last year to add to the symmetry
and grace of American women.
Four Pittsburg girls are in training for
a. foot race this summer at Cape May.
AS the prize is not yet announced, why
wouldn't it be good idea to put up
husband as the reward to be competed
for.
Ex-Gov. Coburn, of Maine, during
lumber business extending over peri
cd of twenty years and involving
sales of logs to the amount of $4,000, ,0G0,
is said to have made no written con-
tract.
Among the presents at wooden we'd
ding in Allentown, Pa, the other night,
was an immense cake. This was re-
served for the last; and when they came
to cut it they found it was only cheese
box covered with icing.
Two brothers, one OF whom fought on
the Union side and the other on the
rebel during the war, met at Columbia,
Tenn, the other day, after a separation
of fifteen years, but refused to recognize
each other, and separated again without
speaking.
In New York city the law relative to
overcrowdIng Of theaters, places OF
amusement, churches, school.houses and
blocking up the aisles with chairs and
camp-stools, is being enforced. The pro-
prietor of theater mas just paid $50 for
violating the law.
A Newfoundland dog. going to one of
the wharyes in Portland, Me-, and per-
ceiving that vessel he expected TO find
there had sailed, jumped overheard and
swan after it. He mad gone long dis
tance down the harbor, when he was
picked up nearly exhausted.
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