The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-01-12
ODDS IND ENDS.
What is the use OF trimming a lamp
Ir you never intend to light itp
What is the use Of graphing wrong


What is the use Of graphing wrong
fyou never intend to right 1t?
The cup of Louisiana is Philled to the
brim.
A majority of the Council of Covington
are foreign born.
Eight hundred thousand more women
than men in England.
1t is better to walk than to run into
debt for horse and wagon.
A society for the prevention of cruelty
to wives would help America.
knowledge is not necessary to carry on
a conversation, for the ignorant talk
most.
Germany's imports for the last twelve
months exceed the exports by 500, 100000
thalers.
A Lancaster babe was fatally scalded
while its mother was answering ped
lars ring.
Non-payment of rents is sufficient
cause tor removal. Resignation is not
necessary.
A countryman in Boston paid 5000 to
see King Kalakaua. He paid it to a
pickpOcket.
Love is the only possession which we
can carry with us beyond the grave
Madame Necker.
The Cunard service now numbers 40
steamships, representing an aggregate
tonnage Of 10000.
While republicanism in Europe sleeps,
Spain swallows. her Bourbon, and France
prepares to take a little Nap.
The specie shipments Dec. 81 from
New York to Europe were 81, no. 900, Of
which $1,041 900 were in gold coin.
An Eastern paper states that Prussian
manufacturers and tradesmen are send
ing to this country for skilled labor.
Dandelions are extensively cultivated
in France for use as salad, being
blanched tor the purpose like celery.
A grave-stone was sold at auction at
Hartford, Tuesday. The maker attached
it after the name had been chiselled on
it.
They say that the practice Of putting
counterfeit money into contribution
boxes has grown to unhealthy dimen-
sions in Kentucky.
1t is stated that the Oranges of Wis
consin have $250,00O raised toward a
State agricultural implement establish
ment. This looks like business.
The Secretary of War has ordered a
survey to be made to ascertain the best
route for a ship canal between the
Chesapeake and Delaware bays.
The last agony Of the lecture epidemic
is approaching in the form of discourse
on "The War-cries and Whoops of Scot
land, with Illustrations and Bagpipes.n
A lady died in Milwaukee, the other
day, who had managed an omnibus line
for ten years. Remarks on the want of
business capacity of women are in order.
Whatever its faults, the club" is not
niggardly. 1t has given over $276, 900 in
response to calls for aid during the year,
besides nearly $500, forlprivate chari-
ties.
We all dread bodily paralysis end
would make use OF every contrlgance 10
about paralysis Of the soul.-[ Epicte-
tus.
1t is stated that since the year 184S. in
which gold was first discovered in Cali.
fornia, that state has produced 81, $50, 700,-
900 worth of the precious metal. The
greatest yield was in 1858, when the pro-
duct was $68, 100000.
Heaters are being attached to Pitts
burg fire engines in order to keep up
steam at all times, so as to prevent any
possible delay in throwing water after
connections are made with the plugs.
They cost $110 apiece.
The theory has been started that since
the usefulness of whales has largely di-
minished through the discovery of min
eral oils for Illuminating purposes, the
animals might be domesticated and en-
ployed for towing ships.
Style is only the frame to hold our
thoughts. 1t is like the sash oil win
dow; if heavy it will obscure the light.
The object is to have as little sash as
will hold the light, that we may OF think
of the former, but have the latter.
The Pilot claims that Mrs. Fred. Grant
is Roman Catholic, the apparent ground
for the claim being that the lady was ed
ucated in convent, and received as
bridal gift from the directress of the
institution Roman Catholic book.
The profession of dentistry is called
chronological, because in the practice of
it the patrons, as soon as the operator
begins to bore cold iron down into their
jaws, cry, "Oh, DON'T" This is the begin
ming of the term, and the rest of it is the
illogical sequence.
The recent improvement of the Little
Kanawha river, which has it's source in
the mountains of West Virginia and
unites with the Ohio river at Parkers-
burg, consists of four substantial locks
and dams OF solid masonry, which slack
the water for distance OF forty miles.
The locks are 125 feet long and % feet
wide.
The Country Gentleman says: srrhe
shedding OF hair from q horses name and
tail can be prevented by washing the
parts affected few times in carboiic
soapsuds. Or wash made of lard oil,
one pint, and aqua ammonia one gill,
well mixed and rubbed in, will prevent
the falling OF the hair. We have found
it effectual."
A woman has been arrested in Balti-
more on the charge of being a common
scold. The laws of Maryland make no
provision for the punishment of such an
offense, and she is to be tried under the
old English common law. This defines
such an offense as common barbarity,
and provides as one Of the means of pun
ishment "boring a hole through the
tongue"
Illinois romance: "Alphonso Barrett,
OF OtteryilIe, married a second wife, a
handsome lady about twenty-eight years
of age, a year since, and died last July,
leaving, among other assets, son aged
twenty five. This young scion of the
house OF Barrett celebrated Newly Year's
day by marrying his fathers widow, and
the happy couple are now living at the
old homestead"
A country boy went to Boston forty
years ago wearing his fathers boots,
and kept them until he had earned
money enough to buy himself pair.
Now he is President of bank, and all
the country boys within ninety miles,
who have heard of the incident, are