The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-01-22
ODDS AND ENDS.
Oh, sever not Homes sacred tics!
They are not things of air.
The great, the learned and The wise
ALI had their teachings there.

lnGy are nOC nlDHS Oh ulT.
The great, the learned and The wise
ALI had their teachings there.
Easter comes off this year on the 2sth
Of March.
Montgomery, Ala, is reveling in new
Irish potatoes.
Seven millions ofinternal revenue was
collected In New York in 1874.
Shaker women don't care for music.
flowers and such trumpery.
Boston puts on airs because one Of its
citizens Is related to Kalakaua.
Not only strike when the iron is hot
but keep the iron hot by striking.
1t is not safe to trample upon even SC
humble thing as bit Of orange peel.
When you have shut your door, say
not that you are alone, for God is there
The great desert of Africa is as large
as the United States, and is nearly all 9
waste.
A Fox is Secretary Of the Maine Poul
| try Association. His other name il
Frederick.
Last October the income of the Pope
was S,000,000 francs in gold, counting
| offerings and presents of all kinds.
All men who do anything must endure
q depreciation OF their efforts. 1t is the
dirt which their chariot wheels throw up
| In Paris the rightto gather the fallen
leaves on the public streets has been
sold to the highest bidder Tor large
sum.
| French bank-notes are no longer to be
destroyed by burning, but are to be torn
| into shreds, and afterwards used ioI
making fresh paper.
And now those beautiful letter-boxes
at the Boston Post-otfice are insecure
can be opened readily by thieves. Toe
bad! Got to be all changed2 Wno's to
pay for that?
1t is stated as an interesting fact to
single gentlemen that there are ftty-four
widows of Generals, and 217 of Colonels
on the pensions rolls.
Statistics of hotels allow that the con.
sumption of soap per person varies in.
versely with the number of guests in q
hotel.
A man in New Milford, Conn.,, claims
to have the idol which King Kalakaua's
ancestors worshipped, it having been
| presented toi hm by q returned mission
ary..
Jerusalem would seem to be an un
pleasant place for people who don't care
to be murdered. More than hundred
murders have been committed there
Wibulu q year, duu AOL Ouc VI Luc luuI
derers has been punished.
Among the dealers who applied fol
permission to place booths ON the boule.
wards of Paris for the sale of holiday
gifts, was one who wanted to sell pre-
t.served heads and prepared human
bones. Permission was refused,
The public baths and washhouses are
q feature in the life of English cities. In
many OF them bath, with clean towels,
etc., can be obtained Ior two cents; and
hot water, use of tubs, and all necessa
ries for washing linen can be had for two
| cents an hour.
1t is SAID that Yale College has offered
to apologize 1or her conduct in the Sara
| tOga regatta last summer ii Harvard
Will. The latter has not ANNOUNCED
what she intends to do, but it is difficult
| to see how she could apologize without
stulJifying herself.i
1t is well enough for the people of this
| country to understand, once for all, that
the reason why there are so many bald.
headed young men nowadays is the uni
versal custom that prevails of shampoo.
ing the head with stimulating washes.
"A gentleman in the Detroit Opera
house, the other evening, observing q
young man leveling his opera-glass at his
wife, quietly picked up q "taken" card
and placed it on her shoulder in range
of the glass. The direction oil the young
mans gaze was quickly changed.
Butler County, Mo-, has the most &C.
centric genius on nrecord. He is sixty
years of age. At the age Of twenty-one
he commenced to count two billions. He
has counted almost necessarily eyel
since, and his task is still incomplete
| He says he wants to count that number
and die happy.
| When it gets cold enough to freeze al.
cohol, mateIialized spirits will be be-
lieved i'll by the general public. Katie
Kings confession has made it altogether
too warm for any such belief at present.
A German, living near Clarinda, Iowa.
became 50 enraged at his little daughter,
the other day, because she could not re-
cite her alphabet correctly, that he
seized a stick OF stove wood, and beat
her with it, intlicting injuries of which
she died shortly atterward.
One meets in society great many
geese, but few of them are so useful to
the world as one in Robertson County,
KY, twenty-three years old, which
raised twelve g0slings this last spring,
while her owner has made seven large
pillows from the feathers plucked from
her gOoseship.
There recently died in Belgium lady
of fortune named Nine. Monsieur, who
had a singular mania for the boarding OF
articles OF dress. After her death an
examination OF her effects revealed an
unusual state OF Things. There were
mountains OF dress goods uncut, and
bearing the tradesmen's price labeles,
besides hundreds of bonnets, dresses
made up, cloaks, shawls, and various
specimens OF the modiste'c art. 1t is be-
lieved that the sale OF this accumulation
OF goods will realize $4,000.
There Is an anecdote current so thor.
oughly consistent that it has always
been accepted as true, that lecture l
who was advised that he could not gain
the attention Of Scotch audience, com.
menced his address by saying, s.f will
show yeu how to save shillng." and
secured at once the most earnest hear.
ing.
A New Haven organ builder has in
vented an apparatus by which q chime
Of bells can De played as an aceompani.
ment to an organ and be connected and
detached from the instrument by stop,
The American ship Amity has been
lost at sea, and only two survive of her
crew Of twenty. The Intelligence was
brought to Cork by the Norwegian bark
Norge, which had OH board the two sur
vivors. II appears that after encounter
ing a heavy gale in the Atlantic the AM
ity became leaky, and gradually began