The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-01-21

wonder why the sunshine bright
Should fall in paths some people tread,
While others shiver in the shade

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Should fall in paths some people tread,
While others shiver in the shade
OF clouds that gather overhead.
Michigan has had compulsory educa-
tion law Tor several years.
A Harrisburg landlady recently cow
hided non-paying boarder. .,.!..
California is considering the feasibility
Of drawing her future coal supply from
China.
The quantity of pottery exported from
Great Britain to this country between
January l and Nov. 8, 1874 was 50,o4o
packages.
SPANS cry to-day: "Hail, Alphonse
Francis dAssisse Ferdinand Pie Jean
Marie de la Conception Gregoire, King
OF Spainw
The immense number of amethysts
lately found in Brazil has caused so
great a depreciation in their value that
| there is no longer any sale for them in
Europe.
The marriage of the Princess Louise,
daughter of the King of the Belgians,
with Prince Philip, Duke of SaXony. is
to take place Feb. 1. The dover of the
bride is $500
Friendship is good deal like china.
1t is very beautiful and durable as long
as it is quite whole; but break 1t, and all
the cement in the world will never quite
repair the damage.
Miss Sedgwick has asserted that the
more intelligent woman becomes, other
things being equal, the more judicio.usly
she will manage her domestic concerns.
A horse that is in the nabit of gnawins
his crib can be cured OF the practice by
applying a strong wash OF cayenne pep
per and hot water, or coating Of tar, TO
the crib. If this don't cure him nothing
will.
Wood saturated with tungstate of soda
can be niaue uH;nt,ammable, except when
exposed to very great heat. The pat
entee of this process has sold the right
| to use his patent to the British Admiral
| ty for large sum.
A man out West who married a,widow
has invented 4 device to cure her of
''eternaily' praising her former hus-
band. Whenever she begins to descant
on his noble qualities, this ingenious No.
merely says: ''Poor, dear man! How |
wish he had not diedw g.
An Indiana lawyer saves time and
trouble by sending postal caro- to those
whom he wishes to subpoena, requesting
| them to 'call at his office on important
| business" and when they get there he
coolly proceeds to read the subpoena.
He selects only those who are smaller
| than himself.
| A large number of Germans are about
returning to their native country at the
| invitation of PruSsian manufacturers
| who, it is said, have been sending agents
| to this country to secure workmen fol
| their establishments. 1t is understood
| that skilled labor is scarce and commands
a better price III Germany now than for
several years past.
| A man who said he couldn't sit calmly
by and see Louisiana wronged, rushed
into Broadway telegraph office with a
dispatch TO GOV. Kellogg, reading, "Al
indignant people will Shortly hurl yol
from usurper'S seat" and requesting
that the " for transmitting it be'collec.
ed from the Governor on delivery. Th'
clerk informed him they were not doin:
business that way.-N. Y. Mail.
| An Illinois farmer determines the agt
ofanimals over years old by the follow
| ing novel method: After the horse is
years old a wrinkle comes on the upper
| lip, and every year thereafter he has one
well-defined wrinkle torevery year after
nine. If, for instance, horse has three
| wrinkles, he is Il; if he has tour, he is u
Add the number OF wrinkles to and you
will get it.
| Eat your bread, Charles-do not fling
it away" said u learned and good Juust
to one Of his family; adding, 'tor " hu
knows, in the vicissitudes OF this life, il
| you may not some day want it," The old
gentleman had to cough, Took learned,
and 20 away, when the youngster an.
swered more fogically I'll l eat it, how
| can have it wnen | want it?" This is
the result Of learned judge having chill
| dren.
| She is not the best hostess, who is ever
going to and tro with hurried action, and
| Hurried manner, and heated countenance
as if to say: 'See how hospitable can
be;" but rather the one who takes your
coming with quiet dignity alid noiseless
| painstaking; who never obtrudes atten-
tion, yet is very attentive all the
while; WHO makes You in one wold-the
most expressive in the English tongue
to be at home. There is no richer, deep
er, larger hospitality than that.