The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-03-18
ODDS AND ENDS.
Never get discouraged, =,
Put your shoulderto the wheel;

And your nerves 10 finest steel.
Flora Temple is thirty years old.
Beecher's leading counsel are Demo-
Gratis.
Rats are undermining the sewers of
London.
Hot lemonade is one of the best reme-
dies for cold.
New York has sixty-ive banks-cap-
ital $S1, 900, 600.
There is only one soldier left in Alaska
With unfrozen ears.
A busy season is anticipated in fitting
out sperm whalers.
Ice thirty inches thick has been found
on the Susquehanna.
A Long Islander has taken the small
pox from his pet pig.
Houston, Texas, is to have "pris-
moidap one-rail railway.
Forty-nine walters in Chicago hotel
have struck against hash treatment.
The gold exported from Australia and
New Zealand last year was worth about
$18,000,000.
st. Louis proposes to reconstruct b er
streets at total cost of q million a nd q
half OF dollars.
Emperor William objects to the pro-
posed mounting of French cavalry on
German horses.
Saxony longs for the restoration of the
"schlague"-the public whip-as an in
strument to justice.
The Nebraska Aid Society is preparing
to furnish the grasshopper sufferers with
seed for 800, 900 acres.
1t is estimated that Western New York
produces one-half OF all the apples raised
in the United States.
A citizen OF Utica, N. Y, has been
three Times married to, and twice di-
vOrced from, the same woman.
The Wapakoneta (Ohio) Republican
says that the severe winter has nearly
exterminated bees in that county.
A girl in Illinois recently sawed cord
of hard wood in one hour and forty -fy @
minutes, each stick being cut twice.
The Paris Figaro informed its readers
February % that yesterday was the an
niyersary Of American Independence"
New Hampshire's State debt is larger
than that OF any other Northern State in
proportion to population and valuation.
The famous Cremona presented by Ole
Bull to Professor j. Jay Watson, is to be
exhibited at the Centennial Exposition.
The municipal public service of New
York costs the taxpayers $40 apiece per
year Tor each lnhabltant, or S40,O0O,0 ,000 in
all.
Az Zinnwald, in Germany, widow of
103 has just'married a man of sixty. One
of the BRIDES children, aged eighty, was
present.
Tennessee has a scholastic population
of 42O,3S4. Number OF pupils enrolled in
1874, 25o,577. Number OF teachers en-
ployed, 5,551.
A New York boot-black has been sent
to the Penitentiary for one year for
picking nickel from the pocket OF Mr..
Woodwork.
One OF the Russian jeunesse doree has
made an enormous bet that he will go
from st. Petersburg to Vienna in twen-
ty-one days in the saddle.
Public sentiment is setting in against
the appearance in opera or theatricals oi
people dressed in costume that would
not be modest on the street.
The German Federal Council has re-
solved to recommend grant from the
funds at the Emperors disposal for the
completion of Grmm's dictionary.
Warwick Castle, badly burned q few
years ago, has been reconstructed, and
this fine antiquity is now as good as
new. Price oil repairs, 100000.
The annual horticultural and floral fair
will be held at the grounds of the South
Georgia Agricultural and Mechanical AS
sociation atThomasYille ON the first of
May.
The French and Belgium manufac-
turers are going to delight the ladies'
with magnificent display of laces pre-
pared especially for the Exhibition of
1875.
Belle Seymour put ON male attire and
passed for man tor year, earning a
living as a laborer in Memphis. But She
got very drunk at last, and her sex was
discovered.
The Memphis Theater admits colored
persons without restriction, being, it is
believed, the first place OF amusement in
the United States 10 yield to the Civil
Rights law.
Notwithstanding the compulsory
school law the average attendance at the
New York public schools during the past
month was 93, $50, or 2,051 less than in
January, 1874.
A manutactory of paintings bearing
the forged names of celebrated French
artists has been discovered i'll Switzer-
land. The limitations are said to be al
most taultless.
European travel and fYeights have fall
en- off so in the past year that the aver
age receipts Of the steamship lines rum
ming to New York nave dropped from
So, 900 to $50, GOO.
Here, Brother Hammond, how's this |
from Oakland because, as they say, his
reason was affected by attending your
revival meetings.
A movement is making among British
settlers OF Virginia to induce Governor
Kempton to visit England to present to
English emIgrants the advantages of
Virginia as home.
In the single county of Nice there are
800 900 olive trees, and from this one
district alone $3.50, 900 worth oil olive oil,
oranges and pertumery was sent TO the
United States in 1874.
A German savant recommends weak
solution of camphor for watering house
plants. He regards this article as, hold
ing the same relation to vegetation as
alcohol to the animal system.
Frost has been found at Boston six
feet and four inches below the street
level, where there are stone payements,
while near by, under wooden pavements,
but eleven inches of earth were frozen.
A fine copy of Napoleon's Egypt-the
eight volumes of text, ten of plates, and
two OF maps-occupies place in Bos.
ton window. 1t is offered at less than a
filth OF The original price, which was
$1,000.
| A great number of letters are sent to
Mr.. Beecher ana Mr. Tilt0n at the court
some OF them being encouraging, others
scurrillous, and nearly all anonymous
The demand by mail tor autographs is