The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-04-09

The smallpox is gradually disappear
ing from Yeddo and Yokohama.
Striped and colored stockings are put
| on babies just in short clothes.
Laborers ana farmers get their heads
out of q sane level most frequently.
Barnum's Worlds fair will inaugurate
the season in Washington, on April 10th.
There were fifty stores for the sale of
horse flesh in Paris, ON the 1st of Janu-
aTy.
The spring crop of engagements is
said to be very large in Washington this
season.
ala Belle Helene" has been repre-
sented at Constantinople In the Turkish
language.
Americans are said to be the most con-
summate wasters OF food materials in
| the world.
The annual exposition at Kioto, the
ancient capital Of Japan, began on the
1st Of March.
Submarine defense of the coast is to
be systematically organized III every
port of France.
An English paper complains of the
| country beng flooded with counterfeit
penny pieces.
The Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank is
reported to have lost upwards OF $4,000
000 during 1874.
There Is some difficulty in agreeing
upon ,Schenck's successor. Poker play
| ers are so scarce.
The Harvard sophomores are to play
the Yale sophomores football match at
New Haven soon.
A young man in New Haven Cancelled
a three months board bill the other day,
by marrying his landlady.
| The tombs of Moliere and La Fon-
tame in the cemetery of Pere la Chase
in Paris have fallen into decay.
Something pew-AgrafeS for hats in
the shape of anchors, birds, wings, etc.
These are of rubber and not expensive.
| England imported in 1874 nearly $780,
| 900, 600 lbs. Of sheep and lambs wool, and
| 100000 lbs. OF alpaca, vicuma, and
lama.
| The Chinese Government has asked
| that small number of Chinese cadets
be allowed to enter the British navy for
study.
The return of John Young Brown to
his home, at Henderson, KY, was cele.
brated by the burning Of Ben Butler in
etigy.
| Nathaniel Hyatt of Sing Singhas re-
covered $500 damages from the Hudson
River Railroad company for being put OIL
a train.
| An Illinois granger Is about leasing
$500 acres of land in Monroe county,
| Mississippi, upon which fifty Illinois
families will settle.
| Oil was struck at depth of 654 feet
on farm at Warren, Pa, on March 13.
| This strike develops an entirely new belt
| of oil territory.
On the Sd Of March the Grand Opera
House in Paris was closed for want OF
artists. Six leading tenors Were dis.
abfed with colds.
The Democrats say they are sure OF
| means enough to warrant them in start
| ing that proposed national organ at
| Washington this spring.
| "Everywhere," says an authority,
"that we touch the scandal We find two
things-a cloud of inspired funk, with a
ragged edge Of business"
! GeE. Sheridan's famous Winchester
horse which is stabbed in Chicago is
suffering from rheumatism and it Is
thought he will not recover.
1 A Troy bigamlst ran out OF back
| door while his Two wives were fighting
/ over the question as to which should
have him. and has not been seen since.
| A petition WAS presented the Nlassa-
chusetts Legislature last week asking
that the sentence of Punishment against
Roger Williams, passed in 1860, be re-
| yoked.
Hon S. E. Lewis, of Oxford, Chenango
| OUuuGy, Ns uto UcCii dN diuSu GOV ny
| the National Butter and Egg Associa-
| ton as a prize for an essay on butter
| making.
| Theodore Thomas found occasion to
stop the orchestra during a recent con-
| cert in Washington, and reprOve a party
of noisy ladies, The very elte { y OF capi-
| tai society.
A paper in Finland publishes state
| ment that James Fisk, jr, was Of Fin
! nish extraction, and that he lelL "a tor-
tune of enormous value to heirs living
in Finland.
A bill has been introduced in the New
York Legislature to compel street rail
road companies 10 furnish a seat Tor each
passenger who enters their cars. In
case no seat is provided no fare can be
eXacted.
The Rochester IN. " Express says
the peach trees throughout Northern,
Midule, and Eastern New York, not
withstandIng the cold weather, are all in
good condition. Apple, plum and cherry
trees are also healehy.
A cable dispatch from London, re-
ports as follows: "Mr. Ulysses S. Grant,
| Jr., son of the President Of the United
States, who has been in this city for sew
erai days, has left for Scotland to make
tour of that country"
The farmers on the golden shores of the
Pacific are felicitating themselves over
lthe magnificent crop prospects of the
present spring. Wheat is looking splen-
didly anu the largest crop ever raised in
California is confidently predicted.
| In Switzerland there was a marriage
by proxy. A woman there was married
to a man in America, the proxy being a
nsighbor and a man already married.
| The authorities are discussing whether
this much. married man has not commit.
ted bigamy.
Giles Codet, who started the first two
cent restaurant in Paris, died recently.
lie called his saloon the California, and
tue price OF everything, soup, vegetables
or meat was two cents. The place be-
came very popular, and Codet retired
some years ago on large fortune.
The only mandatory of wooden
| skewers in the world, it is supposed,
exists at Toledo, Ohio, whence millions
| OF them are shipped to England. They
| are made by machinery from hickory
blocks. Between eighty and ninety
thousand are turned out every day.
AT Elsted, Eng, Henry Chandler
mixed a quantity OF arsenic with some
flour tokill rats. A member OF the fam
| lily saw the -four ON plate. and suppos-
| ing tnat it was all right put it into suet
l II IN Iat - Mr.