The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-04-15
ODDS AND ENDS.
After the storm q calm;
Altar the hlmIsa a hahn.


And the sigh becomes the psalm.
suits.
Chicag0s water costs mills per 100
gallons.
Struggled Canada whisky is freely sold
IN Chicago.
A box at PATHS benefit in St. Peters
burg was sold for $3.50.
Santa Annals 500 saddle adorns
Washington pawnshop.
In 1873 there were 40, 0,335,741 tons of
coal produced in Prussia.
Tilton has been invited to address the
Lamoille county, W., fair.
New Orleans estimates her coming
sugar crop at2O0,000 hogsheads.
They have introduced lady hotel clerks
IN kentucky with great success.
liQuantilies OF opium are sold at q
Broadway. N. Y, umbrella store.
Jelly from old boots and coffee from old
shirts are two-of sciences recent teats.
Board at all the summer resort hotels
will be materially cheaper than last
year.
A Kentucky girl tried a cigar recent
ly, and discovered what true inwardness
was.
"Calogram" is the word now proposed
to signify telegraphic dispatch by ocean
cable.
All thesSaratoga hotels are being reno
yated and put in order for the ensuing
season. "'
The new edition of Encyclopaedia Bri-
tanica is set up with type-composil q
| machines.
SOthern writes "America for me.
Easier work here, but not as jolly by
long odds.v 'T
Elghty-nine millions lbs. of cheese
were exported from the port Of New York
last year.
There is an elm tree in Paris which, it
IS Claimed, was planted in 16O5, the reign
OF Henry ~.
The employment of women clerks has
been sanctioned by the officials of the
British treasury.
The Taunton Mass. C ar works, which
sold for $lG,00
The sheriff has seized the Wilmington
| & Reading railroad. The sale takes
! place April 22d.
Musklngum county, o., produced last
year 7Ol,6S3 pounds or butler and 512, 1O3
pounds Of wool.
kladderadatsch says the only way
horses can go out of Germany into
France is with Uhlans on tllem.
The knights Of st. John. in the early
part OF the sixteenth century, had two
| lron-clads in their famous navy,
lt Is estimated that the carriage bill
paid by the commerce OF New York
| amounts to $l2,0JO,000 per annum.
A Madison county (Ili.) Girl has O :
fered herself as prize to The one of her
iour sultors who outspells the other.
Speaker Blaine's ivory mallet weighed
two pounds. when he got it, and tour
ounces when he walked away with it.
Inc lawyers IN Clinton county, Iowa.
nave dlscovered that brfbing Sheriff To
pack jury is not an indictable offense,
a ChicaSo female sued one of her
4 adorers for the damage done by his
splilng VINE ON her dress and won the
| case. t1 ~ @7h -
Captain Eads has been officially noti.
nea tnat tne surveys of the mouth of the
Mississippi will begin ut once and be ex.
ecuted as rapidly as possible. pf'i
The great N orthwestern lumber camps
are all breaking up, and mill proprIetors
are putting their mills in order prepara.
tory Tor good seasons work.
The Albany, Ca, News saws: Corn
planting Is about over i'll this section
Notwithstanding the continued rains
Muchot it is up anu doing wen.
Of iron ore there were received at
Cleveland last year 46l,OOO gross tons.
Inc quantity OF coal received during the
same period was I,205, ,277 net tons.
Fifty thousand fresh Germans are said
10 DC booked for the excursion of 1876.
lney WIZ nag plenty OF beer here, some
with corn III it and some without.
Castelar, writes to Spain that the conn.
try focked around Alfonso XII. because
1t was assured that Alfonso meant peace
but they nave found out their niIstake. ,,
Inc value OF foreign commodities re-
naming III the. warehouses of the, Uni.
ted States December 81, 1871, was S43.
8O4, ,ol2, against S62,064,9 ,932 December 81,
1873. ~ ~
A man in Smithfield, Maine, recently
died OF what is known as dry mortitica-
ton. 1t went IRON his great toe to his
throat, where it completed its fatal
work.
"A new and valuable medical agent has
Deen ulscoVefeu IN ''nltrlte OF amyl.p 1t
produces an extraordinary relaxation Of
the blood vessels and the musculnr # !,
bers, and is a spec. .tc against spasnis,
Trade and commerce, as well as MANN
featuring, seem to be .tlaty in eyery
quarter OF the globe. In Calcutta alone.
at the latest dates, theIe were $1,000 tons
OF vessels holding back Tor paying rates.
NotWlthStandlng the herculean efforts
of the reformed to restrict and decrease
the use OF tobacco, official statistics 90
to snow that the consumption of the
''weed" in this country makes steady
increase.
After the two Catholic jurors have ex-i
pressed a Willingness to continue the
trial ON Good Friday, it would be rather
mean If the rest Of the jury should insist
upon .suspending operations to attend
the Centennial. ''-;'''
A corporation has been organized in
Troy, N. Y, which will probably en-
brace larger interests than any manufac-
turing organization in the United States.
The corporation will be called serhe AL
bany and Renssellear Iron and Steel
Company" "@
In Germany a new kind of diving band
is being adopted, made from hair, and de-
livered by the makers in single piece
without seam. It has a coat which con-
sists principally of minimum. 1t is spoken
of as more satisfactory and durable than
either gutta-percha or leather.
1t is estimated that 6S, 900 tons of white
clay are annually taken from the beds
about Woodbridge, Perth Amboy and
South Amboy, N. j., and sent into mar
ket for making fire brick, fine pottery,
sewer pipes, terra-cotta ware, retorts
and cruclbles, facing for wall paper,
alum, &c.
A Swiss paper reports the discovery at
Wezikon OF the most ancient evidence
vet known of tho nyiStanca nf man r.