The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-05-17
ODDS AND ENDS.
Oh, say not hfeis dark! a.
There's brightnese for us all ;
For Dry you and me and every y,91 one


I There's brightnese for us all; y 8Ain
| For you and me and every one
| The warming snnrays fail.
| French girls who have ne dowry
seldom get married. ..ss.-s ta,,.s.
| The conversation to CathoIicity OF the
celebrated spiritualist, Home, 10 re-
ported. = azat'a I,t
The first attempt to manufacture wool
en- cloth in America, was at Rowley,
Mass, in 1913. t'& ~ 'St'' s-
1Thelate General, shiras, u. %. A., was
. physical curiosity, in that he deyeEde'
| veloped any teeth. .tl-
The colored Catholic congregatfon OF
| Baltimore-St. Francis Xavier,s-is
three Thousand stFong. ~ ESQ Tsg ssfl
| There were 13,50O tons OF zinc ore
1 mined in New Jersey In 1874, against II,
500 tons the previous year. Wv
The Japanese commissioners sent TO
Siam Lass winter have fulklled their Sc
cret errand, and returned home.
\ Desperation makes progress. In Mos
COW they have disco vered o. aee-operative
society OF thieves, sixty in number. a
Over $l00, 900 worth of dogs, principally
pointers and settlers, were brought to this
country from England during the past
two years. aes ~ Hg ~ * bBN
From Il, 900 to 12,eeo tons Of coal is be.
ing shipped daily from Coalton, KY, The
miners are paid sixty-tfve cents per ton
fof digging. - 3a@,e.s ~ Ee9 s.'
line, New York, a few days ago punched
the head OF i disorderly passenger with
his punch. sP" 90 a' ~
Inc vessel CORVALLIS was wrecked at
Pitcairn Leland ON. Monday, the day ol
the centennial celebration at Concord
and Lexington. "'
The Manitoba Indians are glad toex
changes q buffalo robe for half pint oi
whisky, which costs the white traders
less than twenty cents. - "a
Timber is being buried in the Consoli
1 dated Virginia mine at the rate OF 6,000,
000f per annum, and in all othel
mines in like proportion. s.s,s-tse., ~ !.
1 On the first occasion Of the free open.
ing to the public of the Tower OF London
1 about A, ,000 persons, most OF them work
ing people, visited the place. 40 ta.s.
American quail thrive well in England
and now they are to be introduced into
Ireland, and it is deemed o better eoun
try tor them than the sister isle. Il
Forbes, .Sala, Russell and Henty will
20 to India with the Prince OF Wales, 10
4 write his Quincy for the London News
Telegraph, Times and Standard Sg'
1 Glasgow has had "a great ,porridge
4 question: and the authorities have de.
termined that the use of Indian meal Ii
/ ljustifableA-if mixed with oat meal. S
California estimates its three leading
products tor the coming season as fol
lows: Wool, $4,000, 600. pounds; wine
4 l5ooo, o'gallonsi wheat, 10, ,oeO, 900 bush
els. 80 & saste .ai6 5sTo ha8J
Chancellor 2. o. Haven, of Syracuse
i'm. r. University, announces that there
is pleasant prospect of the college rid
ding itself Of it's burdensomei debt o
$lOO, 900. ,a& tvW 3ca ssg -
| Richard Grant White say that Of Mil
toms three daughters ssone was SO uniet
tered that she could not write at all
and another could not speH her-owl
name rightly" - -
4 The youngest of the eight Oldest Con
4 gressmen now living is gailye trippins
through his ueighty-sixth year. and the
4 most ancient has rollicked through his
nipety-fourth Christmas.
Jim Fisk's old debts are stiil turning
i up. A bill was presented ON Tuesday;
in New Y ork, against the estate, for q
gold watch and chain, sold to Prince
Erie in 1871, amounting to $42O.
\ The annual session OF the 4. W. GRAND
Lodge l. o. q. r., at Bloomington, Ill
commencing May 23d, will probably lasi
eight, or ten days. Representatives will
be present from all parts OF the world.
4
| Marshal Mcmahon to celebrate his re
lception OF the Order of the Golden Fleece
the Marshal did not wear the collar O
the Orderl r. @
1t appears that the dogs of the United
States cost about $M,090,0 900 annually
while the aggregate amount of salaries
Ipaid to the preachers Of all denomina
lions throughout the country Is only
lS6, 900, ,000. Yg g L.
II Colonel Susan B. Anthony's last lee
|ture is entitled "Woman Wants Bread
Not the Ballot" Now, that's all right
ESusie; but if you'd made it read, "Wo
Imam Kneads Bread," &C., it, would have
A COPY 81 President Andrew Jackson's
IproolanatioH on the NulHffUA tlon act o
South Carolina In 1881, neatly printed
ON fine heavy silk, was found recently
Iamong, q quantity Of old papers in a New
Haven JUNK shop. eN
Tne Gihoy 3tCal.) Advocate asks it.
Ireaders to believe that u little son thres
'Iyears old) Of Mrs. Anna Babb drank
lpound OF quicksilver, gave no other in
taication OF having taken the mercury
than drowsiness, ana is still alive.
Professor Wilder. OF Cornell Universi
tty, has found somewhere in New En-
gland a preserved specimen OF feeta
WHAle only TWO lnCne6 In ienggns liz
thinks it is the smallest object OF tn,
kind in any collection in the world.
An eel OF inimense size lately came in
tcontact with mill-wheel in Mount joy
Pa, and caused the steppage OF the ma
Ichinery. II is said to be the larges
fish of the sort ever seen in that neigh
borhood.
It may be interesting to know that tn,
people of this country consumed las
year 1855, 1856 pounds OF arsenic, 789, 7S
pounds of camphpr, 116,008 pounds Q
ljalap, g6, ,202 pounds OF ipeeac, 297, ,2l
ipounds or nux vomica, and $399, 500 wor9l
of vaccine virus, all Of fwhich was im
ported. ~ tftiN
| NJ. Michel, Frenchman of science
proposes the applicationo OF the principl,
of a bell rung BY change in the ther
i nome ter to the discovery Of that chang,
in the temperature of the water whicl
Indicates the proximity of an iceberg I,
navigators of the Atlantic. isa go
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NEWS ER0H POINTS -AROUND.
| DAYTON, KY.--At a meeting held a
Enmeias Haii, Saturday night, William
Hasson, Esq, q.,was elected Chairman, ant
Mr.. w. IL. Lyons Secretary. Mr. stanton
i explained the object OF the meeting to b,
the OreaniZat ion of q Joint Stock ShOi