The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-01-25
ODDS AND ENDS.
The same delightful breeze
That watts to us perfume,
May sigh among the cypress trees

Straw bonnets for spring will have very
wide brims, with inside ruches.
Some of the leading churches of Bos.
ton are discharg1ng their hired choirs,
Actresses heralded as "beautifup'
rarely have any other recommendation.
Delaware has decided that man with
out money has no business at an auc-
ton.
Now that Mullett is gone, Baltimore
would like to have new post-ofice.-
News.
When public speaker gets stitch in
his side, he loses the thread of his argu-
ment.
A Detroit paper says that sliding down
hill on board is popular pastime at
Vassar.
When man is in the wrong and owns
it, he admits that he is wiser to-day than
yesterday.
With little energy and few patent
office reports every town could have a
public library.
A California man pounded his wife,
was fined $40, and she sold her silk dress
to pay the fine.
An edition of Bunyan's "Pilgrim Pro-
gress," at ten cents, is among the novel;
ties OF Philadelphia publishing.
Three Paris theaters are playing pieces
in which an ape is one of the drdnadtis
perS0n9. Darwinism is looking up.
The Sultan of Turkey has turned arch
'itect,and is furnishing the drawings for a
new mosque that he is going to build.
A young man in Jersey City poisoned
himself rather than see his widowed
mother marry a member of the Legisla-
ture.
If you want to exterminate family
don't get up a vendetta to do 1t. A recipe
for making mince pies will do the busi-
ness for you.
There will be two eclipses of the sun
this year-one April 6, not visible in the
United States; the other September 20,
visible east of the Mississippi.
A pin manufactory at Hartford, Conn.,,
it is estimated, turns out about 4,9l4, ,000,-
600 of these useful little articles yearly.
And then comes the old question, "What
becomes of all the pinsT
The American fashion of matinee per-
formanceS at the theaters has been adopt
ed this season, to some extent, in Paris,
as it was also last year. These perform
ances always take place on Sunday.
A person who objects TO Capitalization
says: "Why, every thing is controlled
by the authorities at Washington. You
don't even know what the weather is
going to be in Hartford till they telegraph
prediction from Washington"
Ishall admit that it is mystery why
any man marries any woman; and it is
mystery to the neighbor what that man
could see in that fright, or that woman
in that fool, to marry.-George Dawson.
The marriage is announced OF Mile. de
Pleumartin with the young Prince de la
Tour d. d'Auvergne, son Of the late Minis
ter to the Emperor Napoleon Ill. Mile.
de Pleumartin is the heiress to a fortune
of several million francs, and belongs to
one of the most highly connected tami-
lies in France.
A law has been introduced into the
Pennsylvania Legislature defining the
crime of kidnapping and concealing chill
dren of tender years for purposes of eX
tortion, and making the punishment a
fine not otexceeding $4,000, and imprison-
ment in solitary confinement for not more
than % years.
The Florida orange groves range from
one hundred to several thousand trees,
aud the young seedlings generally begin
to bear at about nine years of age, but
sometimes considerably earlier. The Or
anges bring from two to four dollars per
hundred, and the trees bear from five to
fifteen hundred.
The following stanZa contains every
letter in the Englisls alphabet except E,
which is letter employed more than
any other:
A jovial swain may rack his brain,
And tax his 1ancy's might
To uuiz Ill vain for tbs most plain
That what say is right.
There, lives in The vicinity of Hanover
{, girl of such exquisite beauty that peo-
pie come from long distances just to get
a peep at her, but unfortunately she has
an incurable passion for hunting skunks,
and close approach to her person is far
from agreeable. She makes money out
of her strange avocation, however, hav-
ing sent 962 skins to the Boston market
last year.
A Paisley correspondent informs
Glasgow journal that at the meeting Of a
certain Paisley Club, recently, it was
as rule that the members of
the Club should each not have more than
two children, for the reason that such a
measure would "tend ultimately TO cre-
ate scarcity in the labor market, and
benefit the working man."
A marked evidence Of the decadence
If that old English spirit which wrung
,he great charter from the unwilling
John, was afforded in a London Police |
Court short time ago, when an unlucky |
swain was sentenced to one months i'm |
orisonment with hard labor, for kissing |
young girl against her will, on board u |
abroad train, which was passing |
through a tunnel at the time of oscula-
ion.
A short time since love quarrel oc-
,urred between man and woman on |
he third floor of house in Paris. Made |
urious by something the man said to her,
he woman threw open the window and |
umped out. There was a hard wind |
lowing at the time, and this making a |
'alloon Of her skirts, sustained her |
weight SO as to let her gently down into |
he deep snow, and she called q cab and
rove away.
Romance in nut-shell.-A railroad |
rain in Michigan broke down recently
nd the passengers alighted. Among |
hem was an old gentleman, who, to fill
p the time, wandered of to an adjacent |
ouse. There he encountered an old
anne Of his, whom he had not seen for
ears. The old flame was soon rekin-
led, and within a few days the couple
Tere married.
While Sarah Clark and Julia Thomp-
on of Omaha were engaged in kicking at
mark in barn the other day, their
set at the same instant caught under q
oard that sprang away from the beam
D which it was nailed, and there they
'ere Obliged to stand until their cries
rought help. The board that held them
Tas five feet seven inches from the floor,
n6 old Omaha epnrtc cav that not a