The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-03-15
0DDa AND ENDS.

ODDS AND ENDSs
As walk'd by myself, talk'd to myself,
And thus myself ais said .att 20 ne; 4, .,vso,,
For nobody cares for thee.
Russia has q PEASANT nine feet tall. |
An, executive Ofice--Tbe hahgmnns.
Jewel stealing is fashionable in Lon
1on.
! sNebraska's population has, doubled
Within two yeafs.
A Western burglar wants 4 patent oh |
an improved Jimmy.
Two centufies,a9o rot one person In q |
hundred wore hosiery.
A BDstOh belle has her pet dog dyed y |
beautiful Magenta color.
There are fity-seven women editing
new spapers In this country.
Sandwich, lii, Is making wind mills
ON orders from New 1ealaf{d.
SiX-inch water-pipes laid fv6 feet un- |
der ground N Bostdh are frozeh.
OF the 12,0U0,eU Women In America, az
least 11,0 ,U0J wear calico dresses.
A preacher speaks OF the Black crook.
edness Of the devious ways OF sin.
Why does March come in like a lion
Because IL comes In with q spring.
One hundred ana forty -four thoitsAnd
Germans go to school III Penn ylvania.
The newest vinaigfettes are 0f Russia
leather, in the shape Of an Alpine horn.
Square blocks OF gold, dotted In black
to represent dice, Is q new style Of ear
ring.
Delaware has adopted q new flag,
6x6M feet OF blue silk with yellow
fringe.
Make the truth very disagreeaBle and
there will be found plenty OF men ready
to tell IL.
The Duke Of Cambridge holds four d.
foes, and gets an income from then Of
$4,000.
A North Carolinian got ten years in
the penitentiary Tor 35vent highway
robbery.
Eighteen mills In Oodorus township,
YORK county, Pa. have been frozen out
this winter.
A very rich quicksilver mine has been
discovered back Of Yountville, Napa
county, Cal.
According to an experienced Boston
medium, the spirits reside thirty miles
above the earth.
The wine and beer shops of Berlin
most frequented by the public are situ-
ated in cellars.
Two members Of the last Legislature in
Maine sported h0mespun clothes
throughout the session.
= The nrst NEGRO minstrel song" by a
white man with biaekened lace. was
sung In New Orleans in 1879.
A baby in Stockton, Miss, If 1t lives
long enough, will be able TO waltz upon
twenty y-elghe light fantastic toes.
Through negotiation with the fraterni-
ty OF 'fences" Lord Dudley has recovered
all his wife's jewelry at a cost of $4,000.
In France every child under two years
of age put out TO nurse is now by law
made special object of police surveil-
lance.
Alter very long pfotracted negotiations
the governments Oh Japan has consented to
admit foreigners into the interior Of the
fcountry.
farls wOrklng-men's associations are
discussing the question OF sending dele.
gates to tAe Philadelphia Centennial Elk.
hibati0h.
A oolored woman in Pitt county, N. c.,
recently gave birth to triplets: the nrsi
Was white, the second mulatt0, and the
third black.
stock in q Tennessee railway, fepre-
sehting at par value 1857, ,000, has Just BEEN
purchased by citizen OF Chattanooga
lOr "a cents.
A German chemist has shown the in.
cmpatipility OF Iron and quifiine in
wines, ON account Of their precipitating
Que another.
Lake Michigan has q warm blanket to
protect it from the incleMeneY Of the
weather--ioe two teet thick for miles
from shore.
Over 10000 letters are sent monthly
from New York to the dead letter office,
and between 1,6O0 and 1900 are held tor
postage, weekly.
The earnings of the boot blacks of Lon
don ior the year have exceeded $60,0O0,
Last y ear they contributed $4,000 to build
at'Beot-blacks' H0me."
Inc severe weather has proved fatal to
the hve giraffes at Central Park, New
YORK. Iney all died from q disease re.
semDllng consumption.
| A Rochester man has invented pair
OF single spring t0ngs, by means OF which
railroad employees can couple cars with
out the slightest danger.
Fhe mlikmen OF st. Louis protest
against the passage of bill introduced
III the Legislature prohibiting the sale Of
adulterated milk and butter.
| Brigham Young stands chance of
seeing the inside of a prison for failing
to comply with the order Of Court to pay
Ann Eliza W, 900 counsel fees. |
| The Two men who have been more in
fluential than ANYBODY else with Grant
slnce RaWlins died are General Babcoek
| ulo oeCIeO"iy, anu DOSS ouGpQeru.
| An improved sell-leeding nail machine
has been invented BY the practical nail
Tors OF Birdsbofo, Pa, which will cuI
from a small tack to an inch spike.
a Cleveland man puts waste papers
into his letters, SO as to make them Welgt
all that Will pass for three cents. Hs
does this l0r revenge on Uncle Sam.
| Oliver Houle, French Catholic, oil
Troy, N. Y, who first noticed and eh.
couraged the musical talent Of the grea
prima donna, Mile. Albani, died recent
lly.
A minute account of q journey fol
health and sport throngh the Hudson
Bay Compapy's territory to the Rock,
i Moelnttfpins has been written by the Ear
AspWorih Dixon talks ABOUT the fas
tcinatipn Of Niagara In impeliing wome
to suicide. A knowledge Of this fac
i would seem likely to make Niagara poi
ular with husbands. 80 - 7
The survey OF the section of railwa
across the Andes from Buehos AYres !
Chill, between MendOza on the east sid
lof the C0rdiIlerS and San Felipe on til
lwest, has been completed. rilitf N
i The banks OF New Orleans are report
ed to have held on January 80, 1875, "
000. 900, Or SO per cent. more currency
; and $l,73Q,000, or IA per cent. more dc
DOsits than on the OOrrasnOnding dat