The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-03-04
ODDS AND ENDS.


There was estimated to be b5, 400, 900
sheep in Australia last year.
Max Adeler is organist OF st. Martino's
Episcopal Church, Philadelphia.
Mauna Loa, the volcano in Hawaii,
recently gave q brilliant display.
The actual cost of the manufacture OF
whisky is about fifty cents per gallon.
The ice crop OF the country this year Is
The Navy Yard is SO quiet, they say,
you can hear a mouse walk in the dry
dock.
The British volunteer force which does
not include the militia, numbers 23b,6
men.
England exported last year 5000, ,0o0,-
900 yards of cotton cloth, equal W nearly
2,O4I, 48O miles.
An annual International Exhibition of
Fine Arts is to be opened in London
about the 1st of April.
A slate pencil inserted in Counselor
Bernhamers ear, seventeen years ago,
has just been extracted.
Exports from New Orleans for six
months ending December 81, 1874, $2o,-
34l,5S0; imports, $7O69,027.
Corsets have been the destruction oil
art. There are no good models noW-a-
days, say the scuiptors.
There are at present 275,000 tons OF
wheat in California, of which 100000 are
in the hands OF speculators.
The japanese Government has appro-
priated 900 for expenditure in con-
nection with the Centennial.
The number of deaths from pneumonia
in New York this winter are said to
have averaged ninety week.
1t is considered safe to leave the for
eign settlement OF Yokohama to the pro-
lection OF the Japanese Government.
The steepie of old st. PauPs, London,
was finished in 1922, fired by lightning
in 1444; the entire church was burned In
1866.
The railroads throughout the country
are still suffering, and even the best pay
ing lines are reported to be losing
money.
Inc Evansville & Charlottesville rail-
road gives prizes TO its engineers who
kill the smallest number OF cattle to the
miles run.
Enormous deposits of platinum, a most
valuable metal, have recently been found
in the State of Morelos, mining district
of Tacaa, Mexico.
A sculptured monument in the form of
a horse and sulky is soon to be placed
over the grave of James Rockey, the
well known jockey.
Ortwein, The murderer executed in
| Pittsburg last week, addressed letter
of thanks to Warden Smith, followed by
poem of iorty-six lines.
The Russian manufacturers complain
of the Governments hesitancy in ac-
cepting the invitation TO participate in
the American Centennial.
The Mont Gents tunnel cost about 1915
yard, and at The same rate the pro-
posed tunnel under the English Channel
would cost about $3.50, ,3U6,U00.
An estate at WoolWich, Eng, leased
| to the crown tor 999 years, has just been
surrendered to the representatives OF the
/ lessons, the lease having expired.
/ Charles Francis Adams, Jr., thinks the
oranges have proved the best friends oi
the railroads. They have stopped con.
struction, which he considers good
| thing.
| A native newspaper published in
Shanghai protests against the intro.
ductiOn OF railroads in China as injuri-
Gus to the public welfare and personal
safety.
A correspondent of the New York
Evening Post suggests as a substitute
| for the bell-punch system that the cars
should be let to the conductor and
driver for the day.
| An effort is now making In Boston to
organize q working mans social club, or
clubs, similar in character to the insti-
tutions in England organized by Rev
Thomas Jolly.
A number of Indians have arrived at
Port Townsend, W. r., bringing the
the news that large vessel had been
lost below Cape Flaltery, and the beach
Is strewn with merchandise.
A burning gas well in Butler county,
| Pennsylyania, makes summer weather
in its neigeborhood. The trees are bud
ding and the grass growing. in the
charmed circle OF its influence.
One OF the Japanese pa!,ers says that
In Yeddo alone $4,000 persons are giving
more or less time to the study OF the En-
giish language, which, ere long, 1T is De
llieyed, will become the dominating Ian
guage of Japan.
The iron ore and pig iron product OF
1.-THE Lake Superior district last year was
l1.O25.YS2 tons, valued at $759.,9l1; the
"copper" yield was $1,000 tons, valued al
l$7, ,OOO, ,000--aggrcgate value Of iron ant
"copper", $l4,592,0l1.
The first shipment Of corn from the Ar
gentine Republic TO Europe was made or
the 9th OF September. The shipment
consisted of 80 tons. The result was 81
favorable that nearly 1900 tons had beer
shipped up to Dec. 81.
| An elSuC-year-Olu UOy VI hdHAuhec
ILL.,, is publishing monthly magazine
four by three inches In size. He sets the
type and works off the edition himself
| besides filling the editorial chair ant
managing the finances OF the concern al
IOutside OF school hours.
The President of the Massachusetts
Total Abstinence Society sadly remark,
, that no progress in the cause has beel
made in Massachusetts during the las
twenty-five years. 1t is his opinion tina
there is more drinking, especially socia
drinking, in Boston now than there wa
in 1850.
A negro has been arrested in Yves
Tennessee ior attempting to wreck
train on the Mississippi and Tennessee
Railroad. He confessed to have throw
train off previously; on this occasion
: he said he expected when the cars wer
dashed to pieces to rob the bodies of tn
passengers.
me first of the series of centennial an
niversaries of the opening events of til
Revolution took place in Salem on Fri
, day last, at which time the stand mad
> by Col. Pickering and his men at Mort
, bridge, against Col. Leslie and the Brit
, ish troops, was celebrated.
A man living near Belle Plaine, Iows
!, found nugget OF gold, weighing twelv
grains, in the crop Of u chicken. One c
, his neighbors found similar, thong