The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-03-22
ODDS And ENDS.
In the sowing Of the sower,
In the fading Of the flower,
In the fleetlng Of each hour,

common in Paris.
There are now eight iron shipyards
along the Delaware.
| Milk and cheese men met at Pleasant
vile, Pa, March 18Th.
A ledge of nickel ore has just been
found in Napa county, California.
Ii is said that silver, gold and marble
nave been discovered in the Black Hills.
A Grange in Grayson county, Texas,
Is going to manufacture its own farming
| implements.
| The whole number of children in at
| tendance at the schools in South Caro-
lima is 103, ,73S.
The Atchison, Texas II Santa Fe rail-
road now runs from Atchlson to Gran
| ada, Col, 510 miles.
Liberia is taking steps to have the pro-
ducts OF that country represented at our
Centennial Exhibition.
| In 1874 we had in these United States
| $3.50 failures, with liabilities to the
| amount OF $153, ,239, 900.
An exhibition of all kinds OF railway
carriages in use throughout the world is
about to be held in New York.
The seventeen year locusts are expect
ed to arise from their sixteen years
sleep in Connecticut this spring.
1t is now proposed in Minnesota to
pay into the poor fund the money re-
ceiyed for licensing the liquor traffic.
Ihe acreage OF wheat in Colbert
county, Alabama, is fve-fold larger than
Ill any previous year since the war.
A vein OF black lead has been found in
the Baton Mountains, Colorado, and the
owners have refused $4,000 cash for it.
There is great depression in the Cana
dian money market, which is attributed
to the unusual severity of the winter.
The planters of Greene county, Ala,
have given orders for about one hundred
and seyenty-ive English farm laborers.
Great apprehensions are felt that this
season will witness the most disastrous
freshets and foundations known for many
years.
TWO subterranean tanks, filed with
~, O0O gallons Of grape brandy, were re-
Gently seized by revenue officers at Los
Angeles, Cal.
There are seven steam boiler works in
Detroit. They employ capital of $780,
0O0, and produced last year stoves of the
value of S222,000
A new and fayorite trimming for spring
hats is called Satin d'Orlent, soft text-
ure, and 1T is as light as Grape and rib
bed like gros grain.
A Philadelphia company are making
arrangements for the establishment of a
large agriculturalmanutact at Ogden,
Obuuj tuio llhSs
A new coal bank has been discovered
in Montgomery county, Kentucky. The
vein measures Ii feet in thickness at one
point and II feet at another.
Parties connected with the Vandeerift
gas Well, in Pennsylvania, are discuss
ing the feasibility of bringing the gas to
Pittsburg to be used for luel and light.
A new explosive has just been tried at
Fayersham, England, which, it is said,
possesses all the strength of dynamite,
and is perfectly safe to handle or store.
The Oliver men at the Cleveland Nut
and Bolt Company's works, who struck
ayear ago, have not given in, and the
company have now learned to do with !
out them.
-Four counterteiters have been arrested |
In Coryelle, Texas. One of them offered
his captors $250,000 to give him time to |
reach railroad, but the officials proved |
The Russian Government is at the
pI:vs1nt time employing engineers in
Austria, with view TO the construction
OF railways intended to unite its terri |
tory with Persia.
The manufacture of porcelain is car
ried on i'll this country, ana the ware |
now produced in the neighborhood oft
New York is in many respects equal to |
the best imported.
The British National Association of |
Spiritualists have formed themselves
into limited liability company, in order
to propagate their creed by means of lee |
lures and publications.
The machinery for the GAINESVILLE Wis
consin) new cotton factory, recently
shipped from Massachusetts, filled %
cars. The factory began operations
about the first of March.
Nptr h,,c g. sAt- l
capital of $13,250,0 900, whose production
which employed 11,1l6 hands, whose |
wages amounted to $5,538, 100.
The new oil basin recently found in
Des Molnes, Iowa, comprises an area of
six miles III length and four miles in
breadth. 1t is thought that oil in paying
Quantities can be found in it.
Double eagles 10 the amount of $780,
200 were turned out in single day re-
Gently at the San Francisco mint-the
argest days work ever performed by
any mint in the United States.
A New York lecturer on Japan the
'ther evening stated that it was impos- f
'ible to swear in Japanese. The worst +
,plthet that you can apply to a man in I,
Japan is to call him ''hungry devil"
Investigation shows that whipping is
| common form of punishment at theI
Philadelphia House Of Refuge. Girls of
fifteen TO seventeen years have had the
attan applied injuriously to bare legs /.
md back.
Wetzlar, Germany, glories in a braid
If natural hair OF light brown shade,
which measures six feet in length. The
,riginal owner received $50 for. it, and
he purchaser will exhibit it at the Gen.
ennial Exposition. |,
An unoccupied house at Barnstead, N. 1
l., having a chimney in the centre, into
which the sills and beams are fastened,
las been lifted several inches by the ,
rost Under the chimney, and can be
ocked with the hand.
The fever created by the mineral de-
elopments at Newburyport, Mass, is
uch that pasture land, which stood on !,
he Assessors books at eight dollars an !;
ere, have actually been sold at about !,
wo thousand dollars an acre.
Last year DR.. b. Mishler erected in
city two-story brick house !,
n nineteen hours. He now proposes to
ulld on the Centennial grounds in Phil !
delphia, next summer, a two-story brick !
ouse, "a by Az feet, i'll eight hours! II
The number OF books printed since last :
December, to which each member of this :,
congress will be entitled, is about 500, !
be average weight of which is two .
0undS, OF for the Senate and House 8