The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-01-29
ODDS AND ENDS.

AS we pass through the journey OF life,
With its struggles, its fears and temptations
Its heart breaking cares and its strife!
Itis bad taste in Mrs. Tilton parading
to court in a scarlet shawl.
In the sense that Paris is France,
New Orleans is Louisiana.
Chicago has one consolation. AS long
as the river and city are frozen, they
don't smell badly.
The expulsion of the Sisters of Charity
from Mexico closes forty three charita-
Bile establishments, and sends out OF the
country 410 sisters.
An indianapolis woman has sued for
divorce because her husband made her
eat tor her supper large loaf OF sour
bread she haa set before nim.
There is a proposal in Pittsburg that
no babies Shall be carried in the street
cars. Ii the babies could only under
stand, how they would be up in arms
about it.
''lIe stood upon the edge of deep and
yawning abscess," read boy in u pubs
iIc shool recently. 'Spell that word if
you can't pronounce it," said the teach
er. When silence was restored he slow
ly spelt it: "A-b-y-ss."
A singer, applying tor an engage
ment, wrote to an impressarlo as
follows: 81 am good musihan. l pla
marked the impressalio to~a friend,
''sne may play by note, but she certainly
spells by ear"
The theological machinery will not
act. Moderator Wall refuses to read
Glendenning out Of the church; the Pres
Dytery threatens to read W all out. Glen
denning fights them all, and occupies
his spare TIME with the lady organlsts.
They are all on trial.
A Methodist minister in Kansas, Ow-
ing to the late failure jn crops, received
only fifty cents for his first quarters sal
airy, and another, with a wife and five
children, had neither milk, butter nor
flesh on the table for six weeks, and used
roasted rye for coffee.
One of the FUNNIEST revenges that the
Whirligig of time often brings round is
the recent innovation Of white cravats
for ladies. The fashion is, not really
pretty, nor is it so becoming to women
as TO men, but it is the freak of the mo-
ment and everybody who is anybody
| wears white ties.
The severity of the weather in Scot
| land may be. inferred from the fact that
snow in some places is lying two feet
| deep on tne higher ranges OF hills, a
depth which has not been equalled since
1883. Sheep are suffering greatly from
| lHdUlllIy W SeI dI INC ucl lpdEC Iul ouSu
its frosty covering.
| New London is not far behind he1
nelghbors for celebrating weddings in
high circles of life. Recently widower
OF three weeks, and forty years Of age,
married his neice of fourteen years
Forty couples were invited and attend
| ed the wedding. A band OF music pa.
raded the streets and the dancing was
| kept up for forty-elght hours.
| Charlestown, n. H., now boasts of 6
man who has just made the journey from
Kansas to that place in buggy. On the
9th OF October Mr.. Thomas IL. Kinney
left Westville, Kansas, in a top buggy
drawn by a four-year-old colt that mac
never been shod. Alter three days tray
ell the colt was shod, and the journey was
made without trouble or Inconvenience
The entire trip of $40 miles was accom-.
plished in 1ifty-nine days.
The London papers nave been growing
| because the Times gets official informa-
| Lion from the government departments
| before any one else. A manager of one
of the other papers called at a depart
ment to complain OF this, and was told
that the clerks had time to write only
one copy of documents before leaving
work. When ''manifold" writing was
suggested the officials appeared to be in
|
| There's man holding a seat in Con.
gress named Berry. We presume very
few people are aware OF the tact. Berry
is there, however, in the capacity of a
representative from the Fourteenth Dis.
trlct of Ohio, and now he has made his
Mesence known through the introduc.
| tion of bill to abolish the grades OF
Lieutenant General. The statesman
who has thus leaped to eminenee at a
single bound will be known hereafter as
the Buckeye gOose-Berry Daily
| Times.
| 1t is fact that Mr.. Bancroft begin s
work OH the continuation Of his history
at five O'Clock in the morning or two
hours and half before sunrise, at this
season Of the year. He is in his 15tl
lyear, and yet he is as active as he was al
| thirty-seven, when he assumed the Col
llectorship of Boston. Born almost OF
the same day with Lord Macauly, he has
outlived that illustrious writer siXteel
Iyears, The American was born on the
3l of October 1900, and the Englishmai
on the 25th of October, 1890.
The Russians have gone mad owe,
Patti again. At Moscow, recently, til,
receipts on the opening night were $500
and when it is stated that in the courst
OF the evening she Was called before tht
curtain no less than sixty times, ant
that upward of two thousand bouquets
were showered upon her, some idea may
be formed OF the triumph she achieved
AT the conclusion of the opera Nine
Patti was presented with five splendid
stars of rubIes and diamonds, together
with a magnificent ornament CONSISTING
entirely OF large brilliants.