The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-01-28
ODDS AND ENDS.
There. is no death! An angel form
Walks DER the earth with silent tread,

luo UeSt ohioW VI uAO0 10 w oAA"" oAAN"'
away.
Do you believe that gold was made in
veinp
Sixty-four reporters only at the Beech
er trial.
If railroad travelling is so wearing
upon the human frame, why don't con-
ductors grow thinnerp
Since the floral manifestations at the
Beecher trial flowers are going out OF
fashion in good society.
A young man in the country announc-
es that he will give chrome to the
young lady who will take him for better
or worse.
A vessel has Just LETT San Francisco
for Liverpool with a cargo of $50, 900 BUSH
els of wheat. This is the largest cargo
of that grain that has ever crossed the
ocean.
A great strike is in progress in Dun
dee, Scotland, involving about 10000
mill hands. A majority of the employ
ers gave notice OF ten per cent. reduction
in wages.
A Michigan woman who recently died,
as was supposed, recovered conscious
ness and is now regaining her health,
after her supposed corpse had been con-
veyed to New York for burial by her
husband.
A shrewd indianapolis widow made
her lover deposit $4,000 in the hands OF
trustee on the morning of the wedding
day, the money to be at her order for di-
yorce purposes, should she ever desire
to take such action.
Minnesota papers note that the ther-
mometer indicated more continuous cold
weather during the period beginning De-
cember 30, and ending January y, than
has ever before been known in tnat State.
There was but slight fall of snow in the
same time.
1t seems that Kalakaua is going to fol-
low the example of most distinguished
strangers who visit this country, and
write book. The title selected for it
is: "My Recollections of Chicago Bed
stead" 1t will be much sought after by
entomologists.
''Have you the new fascinated gold
SETS" asked a lady of one OF our lead
ing jewellers the othsr day. o,ma'am,"
was the reply, tive have Roman sets,
engraved sets, and .ldceted gold sets.
Perhaps the latter is what YOU wish to
seer" And it was.
There's no music In q crest" that
know of, but there's the making of music
in it. And people are always missing
that part of the life melody, always talk
ing of perseverance, and courage, and
fortitude; but patience is the finest and
wOrthiest part of fortitude, and the rarest
too.
A recent writer says that corpulency
is not a disease. The founder of the
English Church was fat man; Luther
was corpulent; Napoleon l., though S
carriage was erect and soldierly, had
much adipose tissue about him; Byron
was inclined to corpulency, as were most
of the literary worthless of the Ellzabeth-
| an era. So If corpulency is disease, it
| certainly has not bad effect on the
brain. > --!-.~4.s-sa-2
Owing to the many cases of shipwreck
| in which the survivors are for days at
sea in open boats with but little if any
water to drink, the question as to the
best method of allaylng thirst when
there is nothing but sea water at hand
is one of great Importance. The exam
iners d the London Board of Trade
think the best way is to keep the clothes,
especially the shirt, soaked with. sea
water.
In London, ON the 2sth, well-dressed
young man hailed cabman in Holborn
and told him to drive to Westminster
| Bridge by way of the embankment. On
arriving near the Temple Stairs he stop
ped the cab and paid the fare, remark
| ing ''He thought that spot would suit
| his purpose" He then jumped over the
embankment into the Thames and was
|
| drowned.
The LIE Roy Gazette of Genesee county,
| N. T., mentions a most remarkable oc-
currence in the neighboring village of
! Caledonia. In the year 1882 Catharine
Mccall, aged %, ceased to speak, and has
been ever since utterly voiceless, until
| Dec. 20, 1874, nearly torty-twO years af-
| ter, when her speech returned, and she
now speaks moderately but distinctly.
| Nn iG
| wonderful recovery.
According to an English journal, the
| difficulty OF removing hard putty from a
window sash can be Obviated with great
readiness by simply applying piece of
heated metal, such as soldering iron or
other similar implement. When heated
| but not red-hot) J, the iron is to be passed
Fslowly over the putty, thereby rendering
the latter so sort that it will part from
the wood without any trouble.
| An application of photography, that is
aptly described as startling, has been
bit upon by an English amateur, whose
name is not given. The inventor claims
to have discovered mode OF liking an
image OF an object on u sensitized plate
not exceeding half an inch in diameter,
an i'm preston from which can atterward
be enlarged to the necessary size. A
plate is fixed into an ordinary locket or
Keepsake hanging from a watch chain,
and can be suddenly exposed, by touch
OF the, finger, on entering a room, and an
image taken OF picture or person with
out any one beside the operator being
| aware of IL.
There is a pie-man, an ancient peddler
Of death in the crust, who naunts the
courtroom where the Beecher-Tilton
trial is going on, and who furnish lunch
| to those VINO do not wish TO leave their
seats at the risk of losing them. This
pie-man is illiterate, but his mind has
grasped the situation and he is monarch
OF all he surveys. His latestfeat was TO
rebuke member of Plymouth church in
manner which created q sensation.
''These mince-pes are very bad," said
the church member in question, COM
plainingly. "Werry bad, STRIP retorted
the pie-man, "but they're not half as bad
as the langwedge as yoa've been a list
enin' to all dayW Plymouth subsidized.
A gentleman in New Jersey having
tried the experiment last summer Of
roofing his house with the material out
of which concrete pavements are made,
was much annoyed by the animated dis
cussions carried on by the cats OF the
neighborhood on the top of his dwelling.
Finding the noise unbearable, he as
cended the garret one night and looked
out of the trap-door. To his horror he
found no fewer than 1876 cats stuck fast