The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-04-07


The sun shines bright on ev'ry one.
Who cheerfully his work has done.
Spring elections-"The vernal strug-
GLE"
sIvanhoe" has been dramatized in
London.
The Prince Of Wales will visit India in
the summer.
The first half cent was coined in 1913;
the last in 1857.
Hartford is to have q new monthly, de-
voted to chess.
The silver mining fever still RACES in
massachusetts,.
Fisherman along the Delaware predict
a light run of shad.
In the Oregon Legislature, out of 80
members II are farmers.
The secret Of Sam Wards success is
that he never bores anybody.
There are only two things that smoke
Acknowledgement and chimneys.
A railroad magnate In San Francisco
is building house 125 feet square.
"A-ing.fo-pp' is the title of new
comic opera on Chinese subject.
A Nasnvillian has invented a writing
machine, making twenty-four copies at
once.
A man named Edgar A. Poe has been
appointed Judge Of Elections in Jersey
City.
In Savannah all persons who belong to
fire company are exempt from jury
duty.
Little Rock, Ark, has several thous-
and school children and not single free
school.
When the race-horses of the Duke of
Hamilton are broken down they are PEN
stoned.
Rev. Mr.. Launde's promising colt,
Holy Friar, is the iavorite for the Derby
ut to /.
There are in the United States about
22l ,042 teachers, 127,7l3 of whom are
women.
The proportion of the married among
the insane is smaller than that Of the un-
married.
10000 hogs have died in the vicinity of
Council Bluffs in the past two months of
hog cholera.
The colored people in Tennessee are
Hooking to Kansas in bands OF five hum
dred at a time.
Fruit growers in North Carolina are in
good spirits over the excellent prospects
OF good crop.
The Eastern Trotting Circuit offers
prizes to the amount OF $72000 at the
spring meetings.
For the past two years sixty or seven.
been sent abroad.
MIR. Varley, the English Minister, de-
clares his belief that the end Of the world
is near at hand.
A Salt Lake City widow has had for
husbands II Yankee, an Italian, Swiss,
German and u Pole.
Five hundred persons were thrown out
OF employment by the burning of the
Theater Royal, Edinburg.
A statue Of John Hancock, which is to
be placed at Lexington, Mass, is now
being brought from Florence.
Tennessee has passed a law making it
the duty OF the Governor TO provide an
Agricultural and Mining Bureau.
A Madison, Wisconsin, doctor ffshed
for and caught two young lizards from a
fellows stomach in that city lately.
The number Of brewers in Great Brit
Janis about $4,000, and they pay an an
nual excise duty OF about $2,5 ,50O, 600.
The first white man who settled in Ne
braska was James Conway, an Irish
American, who lives in the State still.
Brigham Young is making friends with
his wives and tafyiDg the children. He
Is afraid of more divorce and aTimony.
A Philadelphia company are making
arrangements for the establishment of a
large agricultural mandatory at Ogden,
Utah.
A prophetic lecturer in Western New
York, named Barbour, is going TO bring
the world to an end on the sixth of this
month.
The head Of the martyred patriot pri-
mate, Oliver Piunket, is preserved at the
Convent Of st. Catharine OF Siena, Drog-
heda.
One hundred Memphians invested
81 900 in the Louisville Library Lottery,
and got each one cent and nine mills In
return.
The President telegraphed to the Bal
timore knights OF st. Patrick: "My sym
pathies are with grand old Ireland. May
God bless her,"
A new picture, by Gustave Dore, con-
tains 800 figures, those in the foreground
being OF life size. The subject is from
Dante's 'Inferno."
The machinery for the GAINESVILLE
(Wis.) new cotton factory, recently
shipped from Massachusetts, filed
twenty.three cars.
There are in Delaware twenty-eight
schools wherein 1900 colored children
are instructed. These schools receive
no fund from the State.
1t is rum0red that near relations of
President Grant hold stock in Adams
Express Company to the amount OF
something like $100,000.
Athens, Ohio, paid $500 for bell before
finding out that there wasn't cupola in
town big enough to hold it. They have
had to hang it on fence-post.
The Government OF the Dominion Of
Canada will be administered, in the ab-
sence OF the Governor General, by Lieu
tenant-General VIM. O'Grady Haly.
In Mexico, ii herd OF cattle ia des-t
cried at a distance from any town it is
taken for granted that it is band of
robbers, and the alarm is consequently
given.
A bright youth, s,juat for fun, you.
know" pulled chair from under Miss
Hood, of Carlisle, Canada, breaking her
back. She will live, but is paralyzed
and insane.
One day last week baby was born in
a wagon on the streets OF Aurfrees boro.
The editor of the news took it in and
named it Byron Rutherford--in honor of
the attending physician and Rutherford
county.
Prof. Hayden, the well-known geolo-
gist and explorer, writes to an intimate
friend in Chicago, advising him not to
take stock in the assertion that there is
gold in the Black Hills worth going there
to dig,
In paper read recently before the
New Hampshire Historical Society, Mr..
I. G. Amory, of Boston, vindicated Gen.