The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-03-26
ODDS AND ENDS.
The man VINO goes to battle
With a fiinching coward's soul,
Will never wear the laurels

Maine lasts April ).
British troops are going to Burmah.
Austria has a priest eight feet six
inches tall.
A new nail factory is to be established
in Chicago.
There are upon the continent of Europe
5000, 600 soldiers.
The detectives believe that Charley
Ross is still alive.
In California the wheat in some local-
ties stands three feet high. :
New York spends about $500, 900 an
nually in patronizing the theaters.
"His Axtellency" is what the Salt Lake
Tribune calls Governor Axtell, of Utah.
The spring meeting of the Galveston,
Texas, Jockey Club commences April 20.
Henry Taylor (colored), at Marlin,
Texas, is charged with whipping child
to death.
The Star trotting stallion Magnolia
died a few days ago at Birmingham,
Conn. :
Chicago is organizing ajockey club, to
include'all the best known turfmen OF
the West.
The famous Irish sportsman, w. Din
sey, of Lake Lodge, Dublin, died on the
10Th ultimo.
Virginia City is overrun with labor
eers, and warns all such immigrants to
keep away.
Coughing can be stopped by pressing
the nerves Of the lips in the neighbor-
hood of the nose.
The fourth son of Bret Harte was'born
at Morrislown last Monday. His Oldest
is about thirteen.
Mr.. JewelPs new postal cards will pro-
tect the secrets OF theswriters. They
will be in violet.
The trotting.stallion Sam. Purdy has
been sold to q. w. Kellogg, the San
Francisco millionaire.
The granddaughter of Thomas Jetfer-
son is in Washington seeking employ
ment for herself and son.
Despite acts of Parliament, English
women and girls OF tender years con-
tinue to labor in the brick fields like
slaves.
The new green, blue, violet and prune
silks are so dark as TO be almost black,
and the new black failles are coal black
instead OF blue black.
The fences of the United States are
said to be worth $l,80O,000, 900, and it is
to keep them in repair.
A St. Louis man gave Justice $50 bill
by mistake as a marriage fee, and he had
to sue the reverend and sell the judg-
ment at a shave OF fifteen per cent.
The successor Of thu Irish giant is Mr..
Samuel Wilhelm, of Host, Berks county,
Pa, who measures nine feet seven and
one-half inches In height, and weighs
232 pounds.
A great national museum is to be
erected at St. Petersburg. Foreign as
well as native architects have been in
vited to send in plans for competition in
the building.
A woodchopper in the redwoods, near
Gilroy, California, last week cut down
u tree, in the roots of which he found a
tin can containing several hundred dol
lars in gold slugs.
at Danyille, N. Y, recently, little
boy in coasting was completely impaled
'ly all the physicians'is The boy
was alye at last accounts.
An iron bolt, half an inch thick and
one and one-nalf inches long, with nut
of the same metal attached, was found,
the other day, imbedded in a piece OF
solid rock at Wyandotte, Kansas.
In 1S47 the Girard College was opened,
with 100 orphans; now it has $50, the
limit OF the capacity of the present build
ings. The income in 1S47 of the estate
was 100000; expenses of the college
100000.
Tie colored race seems to be diminish
ing, according to the observations OF
Colonel Lee Jourdan, who says that
among the same number sixty babies
were born before the war to thirty. two
now, and of these thirty about half are
raised.
If 'shigh interest means poor security"
the French lmperialists have but small
chance in the future, as they are now
regularly borrowing money to be repaid
1,000.per cent. upon the restoration OF the
Empire.
Tie editor Of the Salt Lake Tribune is
evidently endeavoring to precipitate a
tell. The editor publishes the Governor
as "a man utterly destitute of valor,
truth, and personal honor"
AT South Benz, Ind, the manufactur-
ers last year amounted to more than
So O08, 900, OF which more than $1,500;000
was sewing-machines, the same amount
in wagons, and $500,0 worth Of plows.
The building improvements cost $500, 900.
Some remarkable. feats of skill were
recently performed at Bhopal, in India,
by the Sikh Cavalry. A sheep was sus-
pended on sort OF a gibbet, and the men
were to ride fast and cut at it. Captain
Butler, the commandant Of the Central
India Horse, divided the sheep in one
single cut.
Professor Well. ,.of Amherst College, is
interesting himself to form an American
Alumni Association, under the auspices
of which a general meeting of the Alumni
of American colleges may be held ar
Philadelphia during the Centennial Gel
ebration there.
Forty-four students Of one of the chief
Evangelical divinity schools in the
United States, and Ihirty-eight in an
other, have recently Sent word to the
American Unitarian Association that
they will gratefully accept and read the
works of Charming.
conductor in Burlington, Iowa, was
recently made happy by having voted to
him badge at public fair. Being
called upon for a speech, he was hustled
upon the platform. Looking round for a
moment he calculated "Ticketsp and
retired. 1t was SO effective that the
band couldn't play for ten minutes.
The Patrons of Kansas have completed
negotiations with the Fort Scott foun-
dry, whereby the foundry is to manu-
facture harvesters, mowers, plows, &C.,
for the State Grange at reduced prices,
and the Patrons are to order all the ma
chimes and implements of this character
that they may need of the foundry.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
will Immediately introduce photographic
Arrangement for wrecking-cars, consist
ing OF small table, with a sl0ping cover,