The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-02-24
ODDS AND ENDS,

Love sheds light on the gloomy way,
And labor hurries the weary day.;
though death be fearful, and life be hard,
Yet love and labor shall win reward.
Most people have lost taith in the
healthfulness of cold bedrooms.
In the coming chess contest between
Paris and London the stakes will be $780,
600.
Thirty headstones have been stolen
from Detroit cemetery during the past
three months.
He that falls into SIN is man, he that
grieves as it may be saint, he that
boasteth Of it Is devil.
A Western editor lately returned a
tailor's bill with the endorsement" "Y our
To add to the miserfes Of Louisiana,
counterfeit fifty dollar bills have just
been put in circulation In the rural dis
tricts of that State.
Nine Senators OF the Fortieth (or i'm.
peachment) Congress are dead. Twelve
Will serve with Andrew johnson in the
coming Cor Forty y-fourth) Congress.
A correspondent deties us TO name any
great man of modern times who wore his
hair parted in the middle. If he won't
accept Fremont, we will have to give
it up.
A thousand wise men are wiser than
one wise man; but thousand fools are
not wiser than one fool. On the contrary,
they are likely to be about thousand
times as foolish.
A Reading (Pa.) girl who recently
married, finding that her husband
couldn't get leave Of absence, said she
was going to have wedding trip any
how, and started off alone.
That report about the world being pre-
cipitated into the sun and burned up in
,44o years from now turns out to be a
Democratic lie, got up to influence the
next election in New Jersey.
AT the time of the landing of Column
bus there were over 100000 Indians
north OF the Isthmus of Darien, and q
900 within the limits OF the United
States, exclusive Of Alaska.
The New York papers notice that near.
ly all the spectators to the Beecher trial
are old, gray-haired men, whose sands
of life are nearly run. Remarkable; but
it is just so with the can-can.
Wait till llTheodore's mother-in-law gets
on the stand Did that young man say
her mouth was like gate? 1t is de-
claration Of war, and there shall be such
war as that young man has not dreamed
of thus far.
Take an ordinary paint-brush or a
sponge and rub over the glass once or
twice day little alcohol. This will
keep the glass as free from ice as in the
middle OF summer, and give as fine a
polish as can be got in any other way.
The New York correspondent of the
Chicago Tribune, says that Mr.. Evarts,
while adrift in the ferry boat the other
day, was informed that an artist pro-
posed drawing a picture of him in close
conference with the juror who was also
on board. He was terribly distressed by
1t, and hid In the ladies' cabin.
Four men, who had been impris oned
for IA days in default Of payment OF fines
for refusing to have their children vac
cinated, were escorted in procession
through the streets Of Lincoln, in prison
dresses, recently. Mr.. Skipwortn, who
| figured in the TIchborne case, took part
in the proceedings, and addressed the
crowd.
Circulars have been issued by the in-
cumbents OF the rural deanery of Ok
ford, England, TO their pensioners,
pointing out that more money is fire.
quently spent upon funerals than is
needed to conduct them with entire
propriety, and that this needless ex-
penditure, by adding to the outward
gloom, must often attend to aggravate
the distress which they would rather
seek to relieve.
The Paris Figaro says: Exclusively
to show that we are well informed we
note the presence in splendid dwelling
near Versailles of a parsonage Of great
Importance, who will to-day or to-mor.
row visit the Chamber; but we will say
no more for the moment, as we must re-
spect the travellers incognito." The
traveller thus referred to was the Count
de Chambord.
In the mountainous regions of North
Italy the chestnut forests have been at
tackled with disease; the roots are first
destroyed, and then the trees decay and
topple. AS chestnuts are a staple food
OF the inhabitants, the Government has
hastened to appoint committee of sci
entists to examine the disease and apply
remedies, il possible.
Owing to the multiplicity of school
boards and the consequent march Of in
tellect, new nomenclature is coming
into fashion. On our boardings and dead
walls, instead of the once familiar "Stick
no bills here" one now reads "Atfix no
placards;" and in place of "Rubbish shot
here" appears "Debris OF miscellaneous
character may be deposited in this locali-
ty."-Letter from London.
At Kingston IN. Y.) few evenings
since, Mrs. Vlctorine Kingsley went
out to liberate the cattle in the barn,
which was on fire, ana while untying
the cows beam dropped down in such a
manner it fastened the woman as in a
wise. A young lady who was stopping
at the house saw the acciden and tried
to remove the beam but withou avail.
Before help could be obtained the barn
was burned to the ground, and Mrs.
Kingsley with it.
A lady at Memphis (Tenn. hotel
created considerable excitement q few
mornings since, declaring that she had
been robbed of a diamond pin, valued at
$1,000, which she had placed under her
pillow. The detectives instituted a
search and founa the missing pin under
the mattress, when the positive fair one
Acknowledged that she then recollected
taking it from under the pillow and hid
ing 1t. beneath the mattress.
The following are statistics as to the
Persian famine: Meschid, out of a pop
ulation of $4,000 had lost 10000 lnhabi.
tants, who, without offering the slight.
est resistance, had been marched of to
slavery in Khiva and Bokhara, or had
perished Of hunger. In such numbers
did the starving wretches allow them.
selves to be led to chains for the sake oil
food, that the gates Of the city had to be
locked to keep any inhabitants in the
city. The District of Turbet Hardari
lost 10000; the District of Selzwar, a.
900; Hamadan lost between 25,000 and
so. 600: and in Kirmanscea alone, 10000