The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-02-16
ODDN IND ENDS.

Come, lovely Spring, with all thy flowers,
| Prih.rose and violet come;
| Sweet verdure, clothe AGAIN the bowers
Bee, let ils hear thy hum!
And hearts shall leap, and to gues.shall sing,
| And welcome forth the newborn spring.
| There are about 2,200 national banks In
the country.
A dog 20 years old died in New Milford,
| Conn.,, last week.
In ascending the hill OF prosperity,
may we never meet friend.
In all England, Ireland and Scotland
there are only 1877 daily papers.
This montn that naughty MOrdaunt
divorce case comes on again in England.
A Milwaukee man stands ready to
marry Queen Victoria at an hours notice.
The trst shipment OF corn in sacks has
just been made from New Orleans to Ger
many.
Pembina is to be the name OF the new
Territory, that will be formed out OF the
northern half Of Dakota,
Babies are sometimes thought to be
| very nearly cheruDims-possiDly because
they ''cOntinualiy do cry"
Forty girls will run alter snob with q
gold-headed cane, where one will shy UP
tU fellow with sound sense.
A touching obituary: "He knew the
value of an editors time, and never tres
passed long upon it," Peace to his
| ashes.
A newspaper warmed and placed in
beILer than large quantity Of clothing.
Now Is the time 10 subscribe.
| An exchange says: Wen ride twelve
miles to see TWO brothers under twelve
years or age go to bed together without
having a dispute about something.
| The snow has piled up 80 Oh Inc main
line OF the Rome, Watertown & Ogdens-
burg road that trains have been aban-
doned until the weather moderates.
An awful warning: Tie case OF an at
tendant at The Brooklyn trial, who con-
trac,e the earache while hearing the
testimony, and died soon aiterward.
Tue United States surveyors OF the
route between Panama and .Aspinwal
Tor q ship canal are now AZ work, and ex-
poet to complete their task at all early
day.
A Doctors wife attempted to move him
by her tears. "Ahl" said he, "tears are
useless. l have analyzea them. They
contain little phosphate OF lime, some
cAlorate uf sodium, aud water"
A half barrel OF apple butter was re-
Gently expressed over The Delaware,
Lackawanna and Western Railroad, All,
dressed to "Her Majesty Queen Victoria
Buckingham Palace, England"
A rich officer Of revenue the other day
asked u man of wit what sort OF thing
opulence was. ut il u thing" replied
the philosopher, (which can give rascal
the advantage over an honest man."
BLACK HARNESS VARNIsH.-Digest l 2
paris 0i sneliac, white Lurpentine, five
parts, gum sandarach, two parts, lamp
black, one part, With spirits OF turpen-
tine, four parts. and alcohol 96 parts.
| The difference between The sexes may
be stated thus: IA man gives forty cents
for u twenty-five cent Thing he wants,
and woman gives twenty-five cents fol
a forty-cent thing she does not waht.
i A French writer says That not one
i American III q hundred has handsomt
chin. This is due to the fact that sc
many OF our fell0w-citizens give nearly
all their time to the cultivation of cheek.
| The imports Into the United States
from Cuba the past year reached the val
ue, in round nYures, OF $S5, ,OOo, for
which we paid mostly in American gold.
Her imports from us on.y amounted to
$l5. 5.000.U00.
Now they tell of a Photographic appa-
ratus by which plate, kept permantnt-
ly sensitive, can be put in Lne locAtt ON
a watch chain, and with which the hold
er can secure the portrait Of u person be
sees any where, without the knowledge
Of that person.
] "A SaulUlHld JOuiudl ptdtc5 Vudb
''wnerever the Eucaly yptus, or Blue Gum,
has been planted out in forest form, not
only the gopher but the squirrel find it 70
their interest, comfort, OF heath to en-
tireiy vacate the grounds, abandoning
their old aud iaVoIIJe haunts and bur-
rowing grounds, Tor hiiisides and pas
tures new"
| Experiments have lately been made in
| Sweden with new explosive compound
! to which the expressly name "vlyurite"
has beer given, and which is stated to
embody ali the good and none OF The bad
qualities OF every previously known ex-
| pIosiye, titan which it is SAID to be more
powerful.
Here's what Butler said (without a
vote OF censure) aprOpos of his proposi-
tion for SUNDAY sessions. scripture
says" he remarked, ''tbat IL u mah's OK
or ass shall fall into pit, he may pull II
out on the Sabbath, and the only differ
ence between my case and that Is that /
want TO get seventy-three asses out 0f a
pit"
A discovery has been made by M.
Caussinus, Of Paris, WHO, by chemical
process applied to plaster casts, initiates
SO successfully ancient marble, bronze,
porphyry, &C., as to deceive connois-
seurs. This invention has just been ill.,
troduced into America by MIR. j. Rogers
Rich, u student Of the Ecoie des BeauX
Arts.
| NJ. Baillon has grown peas In box Of
such construction that The leayes and
branches OF the plants can be immersed
| i'll the water without the roots or the soil
in which they are growing becoming
damp. He has kept peas alive for two
months without giving the roots any
water whatever, the soil being virtually
quite dry.
Five sets OF natural teeth IS o large
proportion Ior one person; but it ia re-
ported that nun who has just died in
Paris at the age OF ninety years had u
new set grow in her jaws q lew years
! ago; O. previous new set at sixty three; !;
also at forty-seven, and these in addi-
tion, of course, to the two earlier sets
that all have.
The Pittsburg Commercial says that a
miner, at McDonald's, few days. ago,
found peti itied well-deveioped snake.
IL was about four feet long and about
| two and One-half inches broad at the
W dest part. When found it was firmly
imbedded in q tnIn layer OF what the
miners call slate, between the coal and a
clay vein above.
Prot. TyndalPs experiments on sound
are alreauy bearing huit. The French
Government has appointed a commission
to conduct the experiments upon a steam