The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-03-11
ODDS AND ENDS.
There are no times like the old times
They shall never be forgot!

seen.
Palestine is one-fourth the size Of New
York.
The Sultan Of Turkey has seven hun
dred wives.
The blue jet jewelry is to be the popu-
lar spring jewelry.
The public debt was reduced by &c.
$50, 600 in February.
There was mined last year in Ohio
100000 bushels OF coal.
or the 81 blast furnaces In the Shenan-
go Valley, only 8 are blowing.
There is postmaster in Illinois who
receives salary of only 81 per year.
over sixty different nations, including
Japan, now burn American kerosene.
Queen Victoria won the first prize tor
pigs at recent stock show In London.
Paper money is known to have been in
use in China from very early period.
Apples should be stored in cellars
where there is thorough circulation of
air.
Each of the Modocs cost the Govern
ment $50, 900 in the process of extermina-
tion.
Italians are said to place Garibaldf a
little above the Pope in point OF intalli-
bility.
The Cubans in this country are bestir.
ring themselves to help their struggling
brothers.
"He perforated him until he died." is
he way they explain a shooting atfray
out In Iowa.
The total exports of Canada for 1874
amounted to $S9, ,45l ,92S, and the imports
to $128, ,213,5S2.
The Financial Chronicle estimates that
there is now over $500, ,000, 900 of specie in
the United States.
The subscriptions to the Paris mum.
cipal loan are iorty.two times more than
the amount required.
The Iowa railroads have donated in
cash and freights, over $4,000 to the
grasshopper sufferers.
The Argentlnes are again preparing to
fight the Brazilians ana drive them out
OF the river La Plata.
The hair OF Ike Hooper, who was hung
at Augusta recently, turned white the
night after his sentence.
The production of bullion for 1874 on
the "Pacifc slope" was $74,40 5000, Of
which $500 600 is gold.
The daughter OF Postmaster General
Jewell teaches a class in q colored mis-
sion school in Washington.
Hereafter complaining candidates con-
testing seats in Congress will have to
bear their own expenses.
Tennessee reports a total of II, ,489
sheep killed by dogs in twenty-seYen
counties during the past year.
Within twelvemonth the merchants
of Boston expect to have apaying steam
ship line of their own to Liverpool.
10 avoid the provisions of the Civil
Rights law, the hotels of Tennessee will
appear as private boarding-houses only.
Enameling is increasing among Pari-
sian bellies. The method is to inject a
dose OF arsenic in solution OF rose-water
under the skin.
The police of Virginia City have infor-
nation that great crowd OF roughs and
thieves intend leaving Eastern cities for
the land of the Bonanza.
There are in the United States about
$50 foundries engaged in the manufac-
ture Of Stoves and furnaces, using annu-
ally 500, 900 tons Of iron.
New Jersey, besides -appropriating
100000 towards the Centennial, intends
to make State display of wares, min
erals, and other articles.
Boucicault has refused an offer of
S25O, 900 for the exclusive use Of his new
authors services to be included.
Postmaster General Jewellhas reduced
the cost of contracts from s., ,216, 900 to
$1,5l5, 900, and got 81, 900 miles of service,
against 77,6S0 under previous lettings.
Two OF the children of the old negro
who was the original of Mrs. Stowe's
'sUnce Tom" are living in Indianapolis.
Moses Magrudux, the oldest, is 104 years
Miss Brooks, of Northfeld, VT, re-
Gently horse-whipped young fellow
named Kelley, eighteen years old, in the
streets, for throwing an obscene publica-
tion into her sleigh.
The combined exports of merchandise
and produce from San Francisco by
water, anu treasure through the regular
mercantile channel for the past year,
amounted to $57, ,612 200.
The Supreme Court OF Pennsylvania
recently decided tnat when a passenger
on q railroad car lost an eye through the
quarrel OF drunken men, the company
was liable to the injured passenger.
Victoria, Australia, has q habitual
"drunkards act" with an inebriate asy-
lun, wherein the Incorporate are to he
compulsorily lodged and detained at the
discretion OF the medical superintendent.
An authoress named Lizzie st. John
Eckle has sued the N. Y. Sun for libel,
the alleged libel consisting of book re-
view. in which it was alleged that the
book was of questionable moral tenden-
cies.
1t is reported that the Home Rule men,
bers of the British Parliament intend to
submit demand for the repeal of the
act of the Union, and on its rejection
they will withdraw in a body from Par
lament.
The Sultan of Turkey has an income
OF ten millions OF dollars a year, and he
spends it with amazing rapidity on the
peculiar Oriental luXuries, while thcu-
sands of his subjects are actually dying
OF starvation.
The Canadian Cabinet are unanimous
in recommending that amnesty be grant,
ed to all persons connected with the
Northwest troubles, except Rlel, Lepine,
and ODonohue, who are to be Danish ed
for tive years.
AT a Tpaaes-Union Congress, held re-
Gently in Liverpool, resolution was
unanimously passed asking that the jury
law be so altered that in trials OF work
ingmen the jury shall be chosen from
workingmen exclusively.
The Dutchess Of Medina Cell has
valuable family heirloom in pearl neck
lace, which consists of twelve or four
teen strings of the purest jewels. 1t is
valued at $4,000, and when she wears it
it quite covers her corsage from the
throat to the waist.
While Forney was enjoying the festiv..
ties a London society as Centennia
big gan, the Morn ng Post published an