The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-03-27
ODDS AND ENDS.

And God will aid the right
The Catogan braid is all the rage.
Washington bellies paint to ghastly
extent.
The Pope's castoff garments are al
ways burnt.
Large hoop earrings are coming rapid
ly into fashion.
Harvard has raised over $4,000 for boat
ing this year.
The top Of a wagon wheel moves faster
than the bottom.
Johnstown, Pa, has Chief Of Police
and one patrolman.
During the Fall River strike the ope-
ratives lost 500, 900 wages.
Combination street costumes will be
very fashionable this sprung.
Black silk "promenade" suits will be
all the rage for spring wear.
The Partisan ladies consider it vulgar
to wear diamonds in day time.
A. Baltimore beggar has retired from
business with q fortune Of $4,000.
There were 800, bushels more
wheat raised last year than in 1878.
Baltimore's new City Hall is approach
Oyster culture is being tried in the
Gull OF st. Lawrence, with fair hopes Of
success.
A St. Louis refinery lately made an ex-
'perimental importation of raw beet-root
sugar from France.
Saxony longs for the restoration Of the
schlague 1.-THE public whip-asa n in
strument of justice.
Pennsylvania, under the new Consti-
tuition, sets apart 81, 100000 annually for
educational purposes.
Our cotton production for the last
three years reaches u,750,000 bales,
worth about $725, ,000, 900.
There are enough new houses built in
and around Boston for five years. in
crease in the population.
New Jersey has lunatic who uses q
couple of pounds of tobacco daily, ac-
tually devouring 1t as food.
An effort is being made in Boston to
introduce sewing as one of the subjects
for study in the girls schools.
Four hundred servants, according to
a California paper, will be employed at
Palace Hotel, San Francisco.
The total value of the dairy produc-
tions in the United States in 1874 was the
respectable figure of $447, 75O,OUO:
The tendency in spring goods is to
represent soft oriental stuffs that drape
prettily, and do not crush easily.
just elected the Emperor Of Brazil cor
.
A gentleman from Bohemia sends in
formation that common salt is the sover-
eign remedy for potato bugs, insects and
worms.
A small dndershot water-wheel, which
can be applied to sewing-machines and
may be usedin dwelling houses, has been
invented.
The English House of Commons has
again rejected bill permitting marriage
with a deceased wife's sister, by a vote
of i'll to l42.
$75, ,000, 700, at twelve per cent, interest
payable monthly, to get rid Of little
floating debt.
George Law, at forty-fve years of age,
was common day laborer ON the docks,
and at present counts his fortune at
something like $10,0O0,O00.
Byron collars and cuffs are becoming
popular with young ladies. They are
like gentlemen's shirt collars, with
rather more exaggerated points.
English conn0siseurs offered several
thousand pounds for the statue of Venus
recently discovered at Rome, but the au-
thorities refused to part with it.
1t is estimated that four out of every
six dollars wasted in this country in in
toxicants, comes for those who depend
Without including garden allotments,
among the male adults of the British
Islands one out of every fifteen is a land
owner, with the circle still widening.
e Between this date and July 1st, the
Government will disburse $74,000,0 ,0D0,
gold, the greatest amount, tor the same
time, ever paid out by our Government.
The paper makers say that the rags
they have received this year are more
tnreadbare than usual, which they attri-
butte to. the general prevalence Of hard
times.
In Wilmington, N. c., Baptist clergy
man otficiated at the funeral Of jew,
delivering a sermon from an Old Testa-
ment text, and avoiding any controyert-
ed points.
A typographical blunder makes the
new editor of the Christian Union say:
"Above all, we shall now seek to build
up. ourselves by trampling down others
around u.s."
!. The young woman in Liverpool, dis
guised ior months as cabman, was at
last detected by her unyarying ciyility.
proper language and refusal to take or
ask more than the legal fares.
Spanish thieves stole from O. church in
their native land a bronze statue OF
the Virgin, ''larger than lite," and raised
money Oh IL AL arls, WHERE IL was re-
claimed by the Spanish representative.
The French Society of Veterinary Sur
geons recommend for the prevention Of
hydrophobia' police regulation to COM
pei owners of dogs and cats to notify the
authorities whenever their pets are low
spirited or apparently ill.
The population of Denmark and her
possessions in 1874 was 2,003, 100, an in
crease since 1900 not,quite 100000. OF
this number 1,SS3, 800 belong to Denmark,
n. 100 to Iceland, 27,70O to the Danish
Antilles, and 9,8U0.to Greenland.
"Spelling Bees" are not such novelty
aftersall. A PhiladeIphia man writes
that from 1841 to 1846 there was nothing
heard of in Pennsylvania but spelling
matches, which were conducted in u
Very attractive style, music being added
to the exercises.
The colored people of Boston have re.
uuested General Butler to accept pub
lie testimonial in behalf OF his efforts for
the passage OF the Civil Rights bill. He
has accepted, naming the early part OF
April for the occasion.
The three richest men in the British
House OF Commons are seIf-nlade men,
with no family arms. One ID Sir George
Elliott, who made ~, 250, ,000 last year. The
others are Messrs. Fielden and Herman,