The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-02-08
ODDS and ENDS.
Trust your mother, noble youth,
Turn1ot from the paths Of truth;
In temptations evil hour

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The "Mardi Gras" ceie ebratiOn Will not
take place in New Orleans this year.
Small men'in the Overcoat OF the period
have to get out search warrants to find
themselves.
Ii is Miss Lewis, of Manchester, Eng
land, that they say James Gordon Ben-
nett has gone to marry.
Look out for the domestic tiger. An
English Coroners jury has just found
that baby was killed by a hungry cat.
A little work on British wild flowers,
considered in their relation TO insects,
has been written by Sir John Lubbock.
SWELL" exclaimed Miss Onthego, as
she returned from her eleventh enter
talnment OF the week, II 0ns tired ana l
am glad Lent is most here"
All the Spanish priests have been in
struc ed 10 offer up prayers for Alfonso
and to acknowledge the receipt Of the
instruction. Business-like.
A school tor dressmaklng is to be start
ed in Berlin soon; all the pupils will be
required to have certificates of gradual
tion i'll u higher female seminary.
The report that Mr.. Samuel Wilkeson
said that the Beecher-Tllton scandal
would "knock the 'Llfe of Christi higher
than a kite" is not accurate. What he
really said was that it would knock it to
the ueYil.
The Supreme Court of Michigan has
decided that the consent OF the parties
ls all that is requisite TO make mar
riage valid, and tnat no ceremony is nec-
essary--the same doctrine That has al
ready been laid down in several other
States.
The enterprising publishers who were
intending to have ready for the press,
the next day alter the verdict, a Full
Report OF the Great TIlton. Beecher
Trial." have consulted with the Apple
tons as to the cost of their Cyclopaula,
and gwen up the notion OF "a cheap, pop
ular edition."
The discovery of natural deposits of.
boraX III California in All almost pure
state has contributed largely to reduc-
tion OF price in this salt. Foreign boraX
ruled i'll this market at thirty-nye cents
and upward; but the present price is
thirteen to hlteen cents, and declining.
Feathers are in fashion again among
The dowagers for head dresses, but that's
no reason why some ladies should make
their heads look like an animated duster.
Somebody has yentured to assert that
there is moderation i'll all things, we be-
iieve, especially i'll the matter of mara
bout ieaLherS.
The corset waist-the corset waist
everybody is talking about it. Some
blame Worth for presuming TO introduce
the style, and others-especially the la
dies who have fine tigures-lhank him
heartily for so doing. One thing is cer-
tain, and that is that it won't do for
shapeIess girls to wear the corset waist.
The teacher of district school is in
the habit OF asking his scholars to define
The words which tney are given to spelI,
m Nub hn m trrtth
word "ulcer" stated, with good deal Of
confidence, that it was President Grants
name. Whata grand vista of possibili-
ties stretches out before that tenuer ur-
chm.
The exactness with which the man of
the house shovels off his sidewalk is re.
marked as amusing. He will 90 at it
tiercely until he comes to the line that
separates his territory from that OF the
neXt-dOor neighbor, and there he stops
and squints his eye, and treats the snow
that lies just over The boundary as though
1t were So much poison.
There is to be a great International
chess match between English and French
players. The last was thirty years ago,
and lasted two years, when The English
were beaten. Tney have now challenged
Lhe French to another trial Of strength.
Three days will be allowed tor each
move. The stakes to be played for will
probably be $4,000, ana the match will be |
carried on by telegraph.
A writer from Berlin thus describes a |
German military bow: "ImagIne an oak |
plank Six feet in height, with hinge in |
,he middle, draw Itself up to perpen-
1lcular, and with quick movement, |
snap the hinge SO that the upper part |
springs forward and back again, and
you Will have some idea of the graceful !
less OF the executed movement, and OF |
he shock one gets when introduced to q
German military 'sWell.'"
1t has been stated that each young lady
vt Vassar College consumes 1900 griddle
,akes every morning. This is lalse. The
students en- nsdSse eat that number daily.
fhls gives an average OF SIX and one
ourth cakes TO each girl, or say forty
our per week, 1864 per month, or 2,2SS
)er annum. The course Of study lasting
our years, each far Nassarian thus gets
way with the startling number of y,l52
,riddie cakes while completing her edu-
Globe.
A conSunptiye invalid writes from
}oiorado: 1--WE lite comfortably out OF
loors in the sunshine in mid winter,
hOugh all summer we slept under blan-
ets. There ls sort OF radiance In the
which l have. never wit
essed in any other country, probably
rom the purity and dryness thereof. At
ight the moon and stars seem to come
own and almost twinkle and glow near
ne's eyes," This is all bosh and writ
en- in the interest of some railroad COM
any la Jay Cooke.
Some curious customs are still extaut
n the Spreewald villages in Wendlsh,
russia, when the head OF a family dies.
'or instance, il the deceased should
ave chanced to be bee keeper one OF
be family will go the hive, and, striking
he comb, will exclalm, "Bee, arise, your
laster is deadW On the morning OF the
lneral, too, the men proceed to the ca T.
e sheds, and alter causing the animals
} get upon their legs, and placing cheese
efOres them, will soimenly announce
, them that the body is about to be
sken away.
This is The way Serrano heard of it.
Z seven o'clock A. Nj. an officer went to
is quarters and found him taking his
locolate. He said:-"l bring Your
ighness bad news" "Do you come TO
rrest meW said Serrano. "No," said
le officer, ''but TO inform you that the
rmy OF the North will proclaim Alfonso
Ing" ut will do WE'LL" answered the,
.arShall, calmly. "and far from oppos-
g myself to such proceeding accept
personally as the only possible solu- 8
on"
The bright brass work used upon car
and fixtures is the envy and
az uair of h0lSpkQeDars who oannnt .,u.