The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-03-03
ODDS And ENDS.
The seeming joyous smile
DO not fore'er believe;

An! vet ~ may deceive.
Steamboat building on Chatauqua
Lake is active.
The strike of the Troy iron workers
continues to weaken.
The study Of Shakespeare was never in
greater favor than at present.
The "Toll-gate plan" of utilizing the
Hoosac Tunnel grows in favor.
Albani will sing in the new Grand
Opera-house in Paris Oh St. Patrick's
Day.
The gross earnings of the Philadelphia
& Erie Railroad during 1874, were $780,
9I9 %. ff
The prevailing destitution in New
York is greater than for the last thirty
years.
The drinking of coffee inyigorates and
preserves the sight, while chocolate i'm
pairs it.
1t costs three thousand millions of dol
lars year to support the armies OF
Europe.
Hitching horses by means Of a strap
fastened to the lore leg is new wrinkle
in Detroit.
Seventy-eight thousand emigrants
from the United States landed at Liver
pool in 1874.
Rev. Robert Collyer asserts that the
New England people are physically de-
teriorating. 7
The newest kind of glove is of white
kid, embroidered with wreath of ftow-
ers round the top.
A scene-shitter in the Louisville thea
ter has fallen heir to S150,00O and the
scene will now change.
The Panama railroad and the Pacific
Mail are again put under separate man
agement on the Isthmus.
Harvard graduated it's first class in
1857. William and May in 1902. Yale
in 1902, and Princeton in 1748.
There are 1853 Oranges in Tennessee,
with membership of SO 900, anda bal
ance of 70, ABS SO in the treasury.
The sudden break down in the price of
mining stocks has totally ruined thou
sands of people in the Pacific States.
1t is estimated that in the next five
years the number of factories in Cali
fornia and Oregon will be doubled.
The great lawyer, the great physician,
| and the great actor are said to be the
| best paid brain workers in America.
Experiments with petroleum as fuel
| for locomotives have lately been made in
Canada, with results every way satisfac-
tory.
There were 204 persons killed and 97S
injured by railroad accidents in this
country last year, against 216 and l, ,2S3
| in 1873.
| OItdI DdlL Ldho has Ue0u lTUZen over
most of the past winter. This is without
precedent in the memory of the oldest in-
habitant.
President MacMahon has requested
the French Minister of Finance to with
draw the bill cutting down the old SOL
| diers' PENSIONS.
The centennial of Ethan Aliens cap
| ture Of Ticonderoga, May 10, 1875, will
be celebrated in northeastern New York
and Vermont.
There is more foreign coal landed in
San Francisco than at any other port in
the United States. About so per cent. is
from foreign sources.
The Turkish Government has ordered
five hundred pieces of artillery to be
manufactured by Krupp of Essen at a
cost OF M illion sterling.
The complete undertaking of the
town of Leicester, England, has effected
diminution of forty per cent. in the
prevalence of consumption.
| Princeton College claims to possess in
its museum DR.. Ffanklin's original elec-
trical machine, Rittenhouse's orrery,
and Henry's original magnet.
| 1t is found by observation that the eff
feet of "training," or the persistent use
Of gymnastic exercises, is to enlarge the
Ibeart and lungs both i'll size and capac-
ity.
The National Brotherhood of Locomo.
tive Engineers have voted to eXpel from
their society all engineers addicted to
the use OF intoxicating liquors while on
duty.
| Nebraska has chosen Wednesday. 14th
OF April, as the day TO be devoted to tree
planting throughout the State. The peo-
pie ask the Legislature to make it legal
holiday.
The New York Board of Education has
rejected the application of the German
House Owners Association to have the
| German language made a regular study
in the public schools.
| An English physician, during lecture
to female audience on the use of alco-
holic beverages, asserted that the ''ba-
bics OF London are never sober from their
birth until they are weaned."
| Card-leaving is more fashionable In
| Washington this season than ever be-
fore. One of the ladies OF the Cabinet
received three hundred last week, and
but twelve persons entered her doors.
| 1t is said that the Suez canal is not in
a satisfactory condition; that it is neith-
er fully completed nor in good repair,
and that unless it is strengthened and
deepened it will soon become useless.
A Miss Gray, OF Parksville, N. Y,
turned her head so suddenly the other
| uug UOihS Uy uCl olsttls ludL
some cord OF the neck became displaced
and her head has been fixed in the avert
ed position ever since.
In Fiji, blacksmiths, carpenters, boat
| builders, and painters, are paid 16s. per
day, and can get capital bed ana board
for 25s. q week. Blacksmiths can find
employment all the world over, but they
are in special request in Fiji.
| The United States contain in round
numbers nine million horses, estimated
to be $3.50, 1000 900; France, 3,963, 900; Aus
tria, 3,l00,0O0; England, 1880, 200; Ger
many, 2,590,00O: Prussia, 1,So0,000; Tur-
key, 100000.
Capt. j. X. Merritt, Of Monroe county,
Ca, in moving an old desk that had been
standing. in one corner of room in his
house ever since the death of his father,
many years ago, found a bag containing
$3.50 in gold. 1t was hanging on a nail
driven i'll the back of the desk.
The figures for the soldiers monument
to be erected on Boston Common, Mil
more has nearly ready, and they are to
be sent to Philadelphia to be cast, de-
parture from the usual custem of having
such work done in Italy, which will very
much commend itself to the people Of
this country.