The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-05-04
ODDS IND ENDS.
Know'st thou not a dropping heart,
Sinking meath misfortune's blightf

| OuiO Reports cl6feu uuuuT6u anu my
six working Oranges.
Hatters say that the head grows largel
as man grows older.
Nearly all the feminine spring fabrics
are twilled and frizzy.
Last Christmas tfsere were TOO, Alb pau
pers in England and Wales.
The first iron steamboat built in ST.
Louis was recently launched.
The Ancient Order of Hibernians has
a totaEmembership of 407,000.
A Vermont gentleman has recovered
500 for being hanged in efigy.
In the colored race the lungs are
smaller than with the whites.
l DR.. Sequard maintains that the left
brain is the one used in speech.
A South Boston newspaper carrier
makes his daily rounds OH velocipede
| A Pittsburg glass factory is said to
have been using oil tor fuel with sue
/ cess.
Maine claims to have been the first
State to allow women to solemnize mar.
riages.
Sweden has no national debt, and its
surplus revenue last year amouted TO
$19, 100000.
Scotland expended last year fully
t7,0OU,O0O on whisky for her own con.
sumption.
Daniel Webster's large and valuable
miscellaneous library is soon to be sold
lby auction.
The Windsor Hotel at New York is
credited with daily expense OF $4,000,
and daily profit Of $1,000.
Arrangements are heing made to cele.
bate the 10th anniversary OF the New
York Chamber OF Commerce.
The Patrons of Tennessee will this
year reduce their cotton crop one-half,
and increase their corn crop one-half:
A young Chicago clerk devotes his
salary to the support of his mother and
two sisters-all three habltual drunk
ards.
Germany is cultivating the Florida
cedar TO obtain wood Tor lead pencils. 1t
is superior to all other kinds for that
purpose.
The city of Winona, Minn., pays It's
Mayor $l50, and each OF it's Aldermen $75
for their years labors. No wonder Tweed
left there in his boyhood.
Germany is about to have periodical
called the Anticritic, especially devoted
10 the service OF authors VINO wish to an.
lswer Objectionable reviews.
1t is claimed that the Grange organi.
cation has saved over wi, 100000 to the
members since its organization, and that
they have invested at the present time
about l7,OOO0O0. .
The decoration of Confederate graves
lat Nashville will take place May Is. at
Memphis May %, and in both instances
an invitation TO participate has been ex-
tended to Federal soldiers.
The Supreme Court OF the State of
kansas has decided the act authorizing
y counties and municipalities to issut
bonds for the purchase Of seed grain fol
destitute settlers to be euncOnstltutiOnal
/ A bill will be introduced into the Con
nectieut Legislature early in the ap
preaching session, providing that no
member shall be qualified to hold any OF.
fice of trust or emOlument in the gilt. OF
that body.
aMarian Harland, the authoress, has
another cookery-book in press. In her
Younger days this estimable woman
thought to please men best by aiming at
their hearts,; now, grown wiser, she
strikes below the belt.
The Tichborne madness runs so high
in England that Lady Radclife-the
cousin Kate Doughty Of the story-has
been compelled to leave her residence in
StaffordShire in consequence of the bru-
tai impudsnce of the people near of the
lower classes.
A great similarity having been OBJ
| served between the soil and climate OF
4
ment is about to make trial of growing
the tea plant In Sicily. Seeds and direc-
tions for culture, and the result is
awaited with anxiety, Spain and Greece
being similarly situated as regards CHI
matte conditions and latitude.
| Sewing needles are almost wholly of
English manufacture, but a few German
goods under English brands reach the
American market. In England the man
uiacture has been systematized and sim
plifed to such a degree that English la
Dor always has monopoly OF The nee.
die trade. A needle passes through 20
machinery aud turn the eyes OF 4,U00 nee-
| dies per hour.
A band of western indians were visit
| ing the Treasury Department a lew days
since, and were taken into the Secret Ser
vice Division, where there are numerous
photographs OF people Of peculiar char
! acter, embracing thieves, cOunterfeitefs 8.
ETC., men, women and boys of all nations
| and colors, but no Indians. After look
| ing over the entire lot tue spokesman of
| the Indian party, turning to his white
escort, drew himself up proudly, and,
with majestic wave of his hand toward
the group OF pictures, said: "Ughl No
Lnjnn there!"
The ''Smith me ethod" of calculating the
population OF cities may be new to some
of our readers. Chicago and st. Louis,
those jealous rivals, have been trying it.
1t is claimed that in the United States
there is one Smith to every $40 persons.
lThe St. Louis directory shows 9O6
Smiths, and by applying the other factor
in the calculation the population is
shown to be 4S9,240. This being pub
Ilished in st. Louis paper, Chicago
editor rises to remark that the Smith
family there materializes much better
than that. He finds 1890 Smiths, and As
Smyths, Smits, Schmidts, &C., making In
all /, 43S. He muitiplies this by $40, and
behold Chicago's population looms up to
776, $40. AS he proclaims the result, he
casts glance of mingled pity and scorn
at the Insignificant village over the Mis-
souri,.
A correspondent writing from Vienna,
Austria, gives the details Of one Of the
most terrible tragedies that has ever
been recorded: A Czech tailor (almost
all the Vienna tailQrs are Czechs J, who
had fallen into pecuniary difficulties ow-
ing to the dissipated life he led, sent his
wife out of the house, bolted the door,
and while playing with his five children,
the youngest of whom is eight months
old, enticed them into dark room.
There be strangled them and hung them
up on nails, and when all were thus dis
n &c od Of tho mrofo A mo ~ hourod 1,;,,