The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-04-23
ODDS AND ENDS.
The aristOcracy OF brain,
The true nobility of soul,
Not men OF accident, should reigl
And sway the sceptre OF control

The true nobility Of soul,
Not men OF accident, Should reign
And sway the sceptre OF CONTROL
England enjoys a revival in Freema'
sonry. ..
London street cleaning cost a22, 1882 last
year.
They are hunting for the Ross boy in
Germany.
The word International was introduced
by Bentham,
A rich Newarker's will limited mis-
funeral bill to $3.50. ~
Lake Ontario, it is saic, will not be
open till the 1st Of May.
The Springfield armory is making 5000
steel bayonet scabbards.
The Yendome column Is all restored,
saving the statue on its top.
A case Of feminine Siamese twins is
reported from Staunton, Ind. Pr
The Kansas Mennonites are prospect
ing lor coal and sinking shafts,
The supply OF black walnut lumber is
reported TO be greatly diminished.
There are more butfaloes on the Texas
prairies than Tor many years past.
1t is said Bennett expects to sink
500, 900 in founding a London daily.
Tue heaviest anthracite coal trade was
in 1879. lt footed up l9,5S5,00 tons.
Chattanooga will soon listen to the
jingling bells of u mue-car railroad.
An English authority SAYS that the
globe weighs 1851, 900, ,00O, 100000 tons.
Lancaster county, Pa, mas twenty
three candidates for Sheriff in the field.
Numbers Of striking miners are leav-
ing Knightsyille, Indiana, for other
parts.
King Alfonso will not permit his sub
jects to kneel at his feet and kiss mis-
hand.
Next year will be held at Milan thel6fth
congress OF the breeders OF the silk
worm.
The second centennial Of the town of
Derby, Conn.,, will be celebrated on the
18th inst.
The vintage of 1874 was one of the
most abundant for the wine-growers OF
the century.
The criminal prosecution of the Itch
borne claimant cost the British Govern
ment f60,0UO.
a proposal to have industrial drawing
taught IN the public schools is before the
New York Legislature.
There are Tour thousand lawyers in
New YORK, but five hundred Of them do
nearly all the business.
The face oil Beecher's daughter, who is
married woman, bears the closest re.
semblance to that OF her father.
An educated Chinese young lady was
an applicant for a vacancy among the
teachers of a San Francisco school.
Colored people in Alabama have such
desire tor lightning-rods tnat they put
mortgages on the houses to get them.
A cow with sublime etfrontery entered
a Louisville hotel last week and walked
upstairs before they could stop her.
the Grand Duchess Constantine ol
Russia has q passion for hair jeWelry
aud owns the finest collection in the
world.
.Oakyille.and Cuero want to be the cap
| ital OF the State OF Western Texas. Soms
people Try to make capital out Of alnos
| anything.
! Tue Indians are plundering planta
tons and settlements in Eastern Yuca
| tan, and have Committed some horrible
ouIrageS. 4J.l.t
There are seats for 1854 pupils in tht
Jersey City public schools, and durin-
the month of February there were on
register IL, 4SO.
! Maryland.and North Carolina are the
only States in the Union that have pro
yided for care aud education OF blint
| co1Ofed children.
\ Iti is stated tnat Horace Greeley, dur.
| ing the last fifteen years OF his life, leni
SIG, 900 to parties OF whom fifteen cents
| can not be collected.
Henry Morehouse, the boy Evangelist
\ who was bred blacksmith, like Kober
| Collyer, in England, is making grea
| impression in thesWest. .... 3D..
| There is an elm Tree in Paris that wa,
| planted in 1000, in tne reign of Henry IV
! This year its leaves were as early d
| those of it's younger neighbors.
| At a funeral at Madison, Me-, lately
| the man who was buried was placed be
side two of his dead wives, while tw,
living ones attended the funeral.
The Waltham Abbey Mills are probabl,
| the Oldest gunpoa der works i'll Grea
| Britain. They We're established abou
| the middle OF the sixteenth century.
A railway is being constructed acros:
| the Abruzzi to connect the Mediterra
| Pescara TO Sulmona is already finished.
Business az the machine shops in Saf
Francisco continues unusually brisk
and most Of the foundries are taxed tt
| their utmost capacity to fill their orders
The story now Is that Max Strakoscl
has permanently retired from opera man
aging in This country. His total losse
the past season, he thinks, reach $l00,0OC
Orders have been received AT the shops
of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company
| in Altoona, Pa, for several new cars Il
| be denominated "Centennial passenger
cars"
Inc grand jury at New Orleans has in.
dicted George .Drury, member of the
House from Assumption, for participat
ing in the forgery OF the general appro.
prlation bill.
The house once occupied by Dumas
D'Artagnan, on the Quai PHorologe, al
Paris, has just been pulled down. Am
brose Pare, the surgeon, once lived ii
the same house.
Mr.. George Alexander Macfarren, tn,
elegant composer, has been unanimousl!
elected Professor OF Music in Cambridge
University, England. He Will receive
salary of $1,000.
At the last valuation, in 1S46, the gross
value of real estate in st. Petersburg
Russia, reached l34,000,O00 roubles, AM
the present revision shows rise il
value OF 65 per cent.
There is no necessity of scratchin,
ones head over the photography Of 'sper
ceiye," "relieve" ct al. Lice" is th
little word that carries the key-i tol
lows |, and follows G.
A late act OF Congress entities Genera
Sickles to retain his place on the retiret
list OF the army, with the pay of Major
General from The date OF his resignation
OF the Spanish mission.
Charles NJ. Peck, ,'of Marshall College
at Huntington, W. Va, committed sui
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