The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-03-24
ODDS AND ENDS,

VINO goes the soonest, has the least TO pay!
The polonaise is abafing.
Chatelaine pockets are extinct.
The cuirass basque is still in favor.
The Chicago Journal thinks Ristori is
O singer.
Several of the new dress fabrics have
East Indian names.
Shakespeare is authority tor the ex-
preston 'sthe dickens"
Tilton's old lecture routes are being
searched for little scandals.
IL is limited that dictionary publishers
started this spelling furore.
one OF every two Austrian soldiers
does not know the alphabet.
Inere are now thirty-nine young w0-
men studying in California Univefs ity.
In Boston it is still so cold that they
ask, Is this this winter or next winter?
Within the Christian era the average
length of human life has about doubled.
The United States already pays twice
as much in pensions as any other nation
i'll the world.
The gold exported from Australia
and New Zealand last year was worth
about $18,0OO,O0O. -
1t appears on the authority of the
statisticians that one of woman's rights
is to live longer than man.
Eight thousand five hundred dollars
nave been offered and refused for the
last trotting gelding Gomez.
Ihe French photographers are not
willing to abandon the idea of producing
photographs in natural colors.
The famous California trotter, Occi-
dent, will leave for the East about A ApriI
!, In charge of his trainer Budd Doble.
Judge Walsh, judicial despot of
brooklyn, has decided that a woman has
no right to open her husbands letters.
For the inaugural race meeting of the
Louisville Jockey Club, which COM
mences ON Nay 17th, there are 22O
The people at Auburn, KY, have gone
wild about the great amount of litho-
graphic stone recently found around
that place.
There are already forty horses in train
ing on the track at Nashville, Tenn, for
the spring meeting, which commences on
the 4th OF May. :
The London Society of Arts has now
existed for hundred and twenty years,
and owes its foundation to Mr.. William
Shipley, a landscape-painter.
The Pacific Glue Manufacturing Com
pany, at San Francisco, Cal, will ship
during the present season over 1900 bar
rels OF glue to Eastern States.
Girls are not admitted to the public
schools OF New Mexico. This arises
from a belief generally prevailing that
mere should be separate schools tor
Nothing leads thinking young men of
scientlhc tendencies to neglect church
going more than wfong-headed and illog-
ical deductions from science by their
pastors. -
In South Hadley, Mass, recently, an
aDsent-mlnded man ordered coffin Tor a
deceased friend, and left his own name
TO pc inscribed on the lid in place of thar
OF the dead man.
The San Francisco percussion match
factory turns out annually 500,OOO 900
matches. over $I5O,0O0 has been paid
into the Treasury OF the United States
ny this company.
Or the 12,320 school houses in Penn.
sylyania, ,7O4 are unit for use, 4,6SI are
and over 5000 are badly ven.
tiiated. Only 1900 are accepted as first
class and perfect. 80 ...-''.0
Lewis zimmerman, young man in
chafge OF school near Martinburg,
blahd county, Va.,, died very suddenly
The other evening from the ettects Of
eating a frozen apple.
A human dormouse has been dis
covered by French journal-a man
VINO has slept, without intermission, Tor
the last four months and a-half since the
beginning OF cold weather. .tU-.
for Inc spring meeting of the Nashville
Blood Horse Association, there are so
nominations, for Monmouth Park. 14l:
American Jockey Club, 13l, and the Sar-
at0ga Association, 169 entries.
Inc Commissioner OF statistics OF
Mlnnesota reports the number Of her
voters at 253,OO0. OF these $4,000 are
.orelgn born, $4,000 being Scandinavians,
'o,O0O German, and 43,0J0 Britons.
In France d controversy is going on
about "the influence OF late dinners Oh
The drama" Many half starved actor
IN the country could enlighten the world
ABOUT the lhnuence OF no dinners on the
drama.
Two famous Irish steeplechasers. Cor
.Olyin and SlyfoX, owned by the Duke o Il
Hamilton, and by him thoughttully pen
stoned for the last five years, were re-
,ently shot on account Of age and intirm-
ties.
There are only five States in the Union
where the Governor receives a salary of
,ut $1,000. These are Michigan, Nebras-
"a, New Hampshire, Rhode Island ana
Vermont. Louisiana and Indiana pay
5000, and Pennsylvania $4,000.
Employees in factories in England have
20 pay Tor carelessness. A man eIi-
)loyed in some iron works in Wakefield
was recently sent to prison for three
months for criminal negligence which
'esulted in injury to some machinery.
One of the heaviest orders ever given
10 a California foundry is now being
iiled at San Francisco. The order EN-.
)races a large lot of machinery Tor the
Consolidated Virginia (Neyada) mine. |
Eacn square yard OF the SUMS surface
$ constantly sending out heat equal to |
hat produced by the perfect combustion |
II one hundred and forty.four tons of
'oal per diem, and the surface COLI
aims over 65,O00, ,000, 900 square miles.
The last bit OF the manuscript OF Bret |
Iarte's novel will be given to the prin. |
ers on the 1st OF April. They have been |
citing on it up to date, SO that it will |
lot be long before it will be in the hands |
# the public. Mr.. Harte considers that |
le has put his best work into this book.
The manufacture OF silk in California |
'romises to develop into an industry Of
magnitude. The few iacto-
les now in. operation have proved very |
while the quality of silk |
roduced is eminently satisfactory, both |
IS regards strength and nne, durable
ol0r. ,
At Woodbury. (Ky.) Jasper Vinson, a
was frozen SO badly in JANUARY |
ast that amputation Of the nands and
eet became necessary. Strange to say, |
f.l IA 3 !. Il