The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-04-26
ODDS AND ENDS.

| Not the bare title OF q lord,
| Not stars andsgarters others won,
| Not epaulets and spurs and swords,
Not names that come from sire to son,
But earnest work and honest worth,
That makes him noble ON the earth.
Lowell, Mass, has a barkeeper over
seven feet high.
Mrs. Oates has been singing in San
Francisco churches.
The heavy rains have detected the
North Carolina farmers.
| Mrs. Southworth is comparatively
young, yet her books number 50.
| Women can practice law in Maine,
Missouri, Illinois and Wisconsin.
The currency of Cuba Is getting to be
worth 80 little that it does not pay to
counterfeit it.
A full length statue and monument to
the memory of Gen. Warren is to be
erected in Boston.
Notwithstanding the dull times, many
of the largest business houses in Boston
are raising the salaries OF their employees.
A Baltimore paper says that the Ba l.
timore ~ Ohio Railroad delivers in tina
CITY, On an average, 5000 barrels OF oil
daily.
There promises to be a general and ex.
tensiye exodus of fashionable and prom
inent people to Europe the coming
spring
A number of European Masons have
signited their intention to be present at
| the dedication of Masonic Hall, in New
York, on the I'd of June.
A London photographer offered Mr..
Moody $1,000 Tor the right to take his
photograph and to publish it exclusively,
and Moody declined the offer.
| Pedro Ill, Emperor of Brazil, who pro-
poses TO make this country his home, has
been Emperor fortyiour years, and is
yet but forty-nine years of age.
Germany's military forces, including
those oil Bavaria, comprise 81, $50 officers,
l,329,S0o men, 314,970 horses, 200 field
and 800 seige pieces of cannon.
buying winter residences in Florida is
becoming popular. Among those who
have done SO lately are said to be General
Babcock and Senator Anthony.
The superintendent of Washington
cemetery mas been discharged because
he married in opposition to the wishes
OF the cemetery board OF directors.
1t is said that General Spinner super-
ylsed the passage OF titty-liye thousand
miillohs OF dollars through the Treasury
during his term of fourteen years.
Somebody sent to lady in London an
Easter egg which contained all African
scorpion, by which interesting insect the
lady was bitten SO that she will probably
die.
Christian X. Ross visited Bordentown.
East India, III search Of The lost bow
Charlie Ross. A child was found who
answered the description, except the
eyes.
The pleasing Tennessee State Senator.
whom bigoted court sent to prison for
the peccadilie of marrying mis- grand
daughter, has been pardoned by the Gov
ernop.
A Yale student has brought suit for
libel against the New Haven Register for
reflections upon hlin in a report Of a mock
trial in which he took the part OF the
criminal.
The fishing season has been very dis
astrous Tor Gloucester. Mass, thus lar.
seven vessels and II lives having been
lost, Oh more than during tile same Deriod
last year.
A steamboat clerk has presented a
certain Chattanooga editor with an
empty skiiL What that editor wants
with TWO OF those things will always re-
main dark-unfathomable mystery,
MlchigaRs new liquor law forbids
sales TO minors and hab.tual ttrunkards
and, also contains "a provision for the
punishment of drunkards who buv: as
well as persons who sell, in violation of
the act.
Paul Cassagnac says that every I'm.
peflallst keeps the birJnday OF the
Prince imperial, but keeps it privately.
because the emotions excited by the
occasion are too sacred to be INDUCED
in public "