The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-03-08
ODDS And ENDS.
Gloomy Winters now AVA.
Saft the Westlin breezes blaw;
'Mang the birks o. Stanley shaw

Los Angeles is to have gold-note
bank.
Gold Is being found in the bed Of the
Rhone.
Sanitary experts consider Pittsburg
unhealthy.
The nightly receipts stBooth's Theater
| average $1,000.
1t cost Pittsburg slIs to hang ortwein,
the murderer.
There have been heavy rains through
out portions OF the South.
Miss Adelaide Phillips and her troupe
are returning northward.
The British gentleman is in distress
for want of foxes to hunt.
The Vokes Family will cut their ca
pers i'll London next season.
A Bangor man is having fishing rod
made which will cost ~, 600.
In Sweden, and Norway also, January
was colder than for many years.
Harrisburg, Pa, compels able-bodied
vagrants to work on the streets.
Pittsburg infants drop off faster than
those OF any other city in the land.
The Soldene troupe is meeting with
immense success in the provinces.
An Italian named Brazza is about to
start for Africa, to continue eXplora-
tions.
Dayton, Ohio, adds new feature to
the 'match" fever. 1t is ciphering
match.
The petitions for State aid on ac-
count of service during the war increase
yearly.
The fork grinders trade is more fatal
TO human lie than any other pursuit in
England.
1t is proposed to have a sham engage
ment On the centennial Of the battle Of
Lexington.
The capital represented by the agri-
cultural interests of Great Britain is
"a, ,000, ,000, 900.
The whole number Of children in at
tendance at the schools in South Caro-
lima is SOB, 1888.
A California Indian made such pro-
gress in civilization that he finally COM
mitted suicide.
Most of the comedians at present
amusing Gotham will take wing ior Eu-
rope in the spring.
An instrument has been invented
called the "telephone," which transmits
music per telegraph.
OF the bS blast furnaces located upon
the Hanging Rock iron belt, 46 are in
Ohio and II In Kentucky.
Transmissions OF money by post in
Russia is expressly forbidden, and the
money is liable TO contiscation.
The Carllsts, in firing at a railway
train, sent some bullets through the car
in which King Alfonso was riding.
ChariyarI pictures France a lady late
ly paralyzed, who begins to get about OH
crutches called constitutional laws.
The Emperor of Russia declares that
he will never restrict himself to any ar
bitrarily limited sum in public eXpendi-
lures.
Fifteen and half million postal cards
have been shipped from Springfield,
Mass, during the first halt OF the pres
ent quarter.
The Director Of the United States
Mint, in his report to Congress, places
the annual yield at SAC, 900, 900 per annum
hereafter.
Miss Lille Eldridge, who was called on
is to marry Charley Backus, the rich col
ored minstrel.
On the 10Th OF January it showed for
two hours at Bellianeh, in Upper Egypt
something that is supposed never hap
pened there before.
The contributions of wheat from the
United States to the bread supply of
Great Britain in 1874 constituted 65 per
cent. OF the whole imports.
The Surveyor General of Nevada es-
Inmates that there are more than 1,500,-
600 acres OF land in that State adapted
to the purpose OF agriculture.
The reports received from the parties
engaged in exploring on the lsrhmus OF
Panama, or Darien, Tor a canal route,
seem unexpectedly satisfactory.
A singular exhibition has been opened
at Brussels. 1t is a collection OF about
100 landscapes of great merit painted by
a boy VINO died an idiot at eleven years
OF age.
A disturbance among the Chinese
prisoners in Singapore, was not sup
pressed until siXty-seven were killed
and injured, including sixteen wardens
of the Jail.
A farm in California, consisting of 90
GOO acres, has just been let at an annual
rental OF 0,000. The farm is stocked wItn
1900 head Of cattle, lou horses, 5o mules,
and 1000 hogs.
A wealthy and eccentric woman in
Springfield, ILL.,, contributes 500 year
to the support of one OF the churches
there, but can not be induced to attend
single service.r
In England, tin of beef, which had
been prepared for the soldiers in the
Crimea, in 1856, was recently opened,
and its contents found perfectly sound
and wholesome.
GaribaldPs plan for improving the
Sdulpds ud lufOINeS lue CONSTRUCTION OIL
canal, and he proposes that the 20,00O, 900
francs wanted for the 1ortIticatIon OF
Rome should be spent on it.
A Frenchman, named De La Bast tie, |
after six years of experiment has solved
the problem OF making malleable glass,
which can be beaten and bent like cop.
per, and can be used for cooking. uten-
sils.
In London they have introduced at
fashionable dinners miniature grog
train, which runs around the table. Tue
engine holds the hot water and the
wagons carry cigars and bottles of cut
glass.
The discoveries in the Comstock silver
mines were made fifteen years ago, but
the entire product has aggregated $I75.
000,000, or over one-half the three cen
tury product of the richest vein in Mex
leo.
A portrait of Shakespeare, supposed to
be the original portrait by Burbuge
Taylor, now owned by Mr.. G. Rippen, OF
North Shields, in England, was offered
for sale in London, on January 22d. 1t
was bought IN for thirty guincas.
The Russian Iuyalide states tnat Eng
land has supplied $4,000 rifles to the
East Turcoman tribes, and that one of
Major Napiers projects in travelling
north OF Mesched probably was to in-
struet the Iareomans in tue use OF the