The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-03-23
ODDS AND ENDS.

~. Tor calm and peaceful hour,
With silence for the wounded ear.
Almanacs are ten cents apiece in Me-
vada.
The Arabs have never seen ice until
this winter.
The rolling mills at Rome, Ga, have
resumed operations.
A new edition of Christiana Rossetti's
poems is to be issued.
Biblical grammar describes Adam as
the first person-singular
A member of the Texas Legislature
wants to legalize lynching.
Orthomania is the technical name for
the new spelling infection.
Fifty thousand people attend the
theaters OF Paris every night.
A poor fellow in Iowa, u painter by
trade, has fallen heir to $2,000,000.
The Sultan OF Turkey employs in his
palace 6,00O servants OF both sexes.
The constitution just adopted in
France Is the nineteenth since 1893.
The wrecked Cieniuegos makes Cape
Hehelopen more dangerous than usual.
A Dubuque young lady, who whistles
sweetly, is offered 500 week by show
man.
There has been a remarkable flow of
specie from Europe to this country re-
Gently.
Mutilated United States currency
hereafter will be redeemed by the old
mode.
An immense field of bituminous coal
has just been found near Fort Worth,
Texas.
1t cost Illinois $103,329 to pass a law
liking the highest legal rate OF interest at
ten per cent.
A Colorado audience presented "mu-
sical prodigy" with gold fiddle an inch
long, and $40.
Ground Will be broken for the new
steel works in Chicago as soon as the
weather permits.
A Man at Bradford, England, was re-
Gently lined for causing hIs gas meter to
work backward.
There are in San Francisco filty-three
persons whose reported wealth exceeds
S1, ,OO0,O00 apiece.
minneapolis (Minn.) men consider
Bill kirg's property there worth over
half million dollars.
The English "Ofder of Good Tenn mplars"
has been formally condemned by an En-
glish Catholic blsnop.
The French have no honeyed words for
the German dictator, but they pronounce
his name Bees-murk.
1t is understood in the Bismark cir Gle
that If The great man leaves office he
will not leave politics.
The British tax on male servants
yields revenue of more tuan one mil
lion dollars annually.
In Scotland recently, boy only IL
years old committed suicide because he
mad los his situation.
An importent document, which throws
fresh light On the trial OF Mary Queen OF
Scots, has been discovered.
Twenty thousand square feet have
olt ~
ut the Centennial Exhibition.
The first and only legal wife of Brig
ham Young is kept in an old house at the
back portion of his seraglio.
A San Fernando correspondent writes
confirming the reports OF rich cinuaba
discoveries in that vicinity.
"So-sO" and ''dear tather' have even
made their appearance in the CONNER
clal reports OF the Chicago Tribune.
The Legislature of Kansas has appro-
priated $4,000 To enable that state to ex.
hlbit It's resources to the Centennial EX-
hibition.
The 'Sacred College of Cardinals
now contains three English. speaking
members, thing unprecedented since
the time of Henry VIII.
A very fine marble statue of St. John
at the aye of fourteen years, supposed to
be the work OF Michael Angelo, was ex-
humed recently near Pisa.
The starch factories OF New England,
which are very numerous, have made SO
good market Tor potatoes that in many
places they are the staple crop.
According to the report OF the Cana
dian Premier over 14.UU0 Americans set
tied i'll Canada during the past year.
THIS Will accelerate annexation.
Miserable sinners Will conceal their
b io tIf nh, f,,.,
hats, decorated with sashes or ribbons
OF Cardinal red OF Stewart purple.
The Introduction oil Italan mi ners at
the Grant works of Negley 81 Co., ON the
Panhandle railway, has mad the effect
OF ending the strike i'll that section.
New Jersey has just passed d law i'm
posing Il lne Of $4,000 and imprisso nment
lor term OF one year upon any person
who shall transfer his property 10 avoid
taxes.
A new ice machine has been invented
which will, it is SAID, make pure ice Of
the finest quality inside of fifteen min
utes in any climate, at cost OF fifty
cents a ton.
A lite of Lord Selbourne, minister of
George ILL.,, is announced, which will
throw light, it is said, ON the negotia-
tions with America which took place in
Selbourne's time.
An oak tree near Arnsberg,in Prussia,
more than thousand years old, is about
to be cut down by its owner, on account
of the inconvenience he suffers from the
frequent visits OF strangers to the place.
MI. SERGEANT Ballantine, the celebrated
English lawyer, has accepted a brief to
defend the Gaikwar Of Baroda from the
charge OF attempting to poison Colonel
Phavre.
In space of ten years not much less
than two millions of British subjects
have left their native land. Some went
to Australia, some to Canada, and more
came to the United States.
The Roman Catholic clergy of Bavaria
eXhort the parents OF their flock to give
ia dover to their daughter ON her mar
riage only when the ceremony is AFTER
ward repeated before the priest.
The Brooklyn bridge Will be pushed
the coming season under a reorganized
board. The mason WORK is nearly COM
pleted at cost OF $4,000, 900, and $S, ,000,-
900 more will be required to complete
the bridge.
At Crarae Quarry, Cumlodden, one of
the largest and most successful blasts
ever Witnessed in that quarter was fired
off last Friday afternoon, the result of
which was the dislodgment of upwards