The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-02-02
ODDS And ENDS.
And ever near us, though unseen,
The dear, immortal spirits treadi
For all the boundless universe
Is life-there is no dead!

The dear, immortal spirits treadi
For all the boundless universe
Is life-there is no dead!
Spain likes her little Bourbon well.
st. Valentines Day falls Sunday this
year.
The California State prison has 1000
inmates. OF these 100 are under Il, ana
24l under 26 years of age.
The intelligent c0mpositor who chang
ed the phrase "detective police" into
defective police" did a wiser thing than
be knew.
"a A number of the old wooden line Of
battle ships in the British Navy are being
broken up. The men employed are paid
$3.50 gold per ton for their work.
A Connecticut genius has invented q
self-opening coffin, with telegraphic
alarm attachment, for the convenience of
those who come to life after they are
buried.
A cake of ice sawed out by an Iowa
City man had frozen in it bass, which
is described as being perfect to the end
of its fins, and having the appearance of
swimming.
There is one fact, we think, that many
people overlook in warming room. Ii
is that the wood or coal burned is wasted
unless you burn enough to warm the room
sufficiently.
The little mind that loves itself will
write and think with the vulgar, but the
great mind will be bravely eccentric, and
scorn the beaten road, from universal
enevOlence.-Goldsm
Compulsory education is meeting with
increased favor in Pennsylvania. Gov
ernor Hartranft, Superintendent Wick
ersham, and prominent educators, are
earnest advocates OF the measure.
In ytvtty liiy Iu id q
last broken; the Senatorial committee
having decided to report adversely on the
petition OF A. b. Wilson for an extension
of the patent of the four-motioned feed
ior sewing machines.
There is a great hue and cry i'll London
about the Wickedness and indecency OF
the stage, and the Lord Chamberlain is
put to his wits end to evade the hot shot
thrown at him in the form OF newspaper
letters and editorials.
Harper's Bazaar states that the shoes
worn by ladies at present are far more
sensible than those lately in fashion
The design now is to give symmetrical
shape and ease to the loot rather than to
CT amp it into unnatural smaliness.
During u trial the Judge called wit.
ness. No one answered, and an elderly
man arose and solemnly said she was
the Judge, in no tender tone. 81 don't
know, but he is Dead" was the guarded
answer.
A portion of the entertainment at {
"Historical ConcerV in Boston consist
ed Of old music performed on an antigua
ted spinnet and ON a harpsichord, the
two instruments which supplied the
place of the piano to our great grand
mothers.
The Astor Library contains 100, 306 vol
umes, which are insured for $500, 0U0. One
hundred and twenty-seven thousand tive
hundred and seyenty-nine books were
consulted during the past year, and thu
original endowment of $4O0, 900 has beel
Increased to $773,336 Do.
The managers OF the Lake Shore rail.
way have issued an order declaring tha
in future the company will not retain il
their employ men in the habit of using
Intoxicating liquor as a beverage, ant
that the 1reqpenting OF places where the
same is retailed will be considered prims
face evidence of its use. and discharge
will follow.
The Euglish Church Journal says il
has some reason to believe that. the
Prime Minister is likely to be married
this spring to the widow of an Englisl
peer. In view of this coming event, the
Manor House of Hughenden is about Il
be enlarged by the addition of wing
from designs by Mr.. Vernon, the well
known architect.
Evidently the swarm of able journal
lists in attendance upon the Beechel
trial have eyeglasses OF different pat
terms, range and color. One tells III
sbloOms;" one says Tilton is s'sad,'
another that he is "angay;" and pool
Mrs. Beecher and Mrs. Tilton are de
scribed until they will never know them
selves.
The word pdr0TySmGl was much used
by Mr.. John Graham in the defense o
Daniel Macfarland. He got it into the
testimony and made great deal of it il
summing up. Mr.. Beecher probably
read the Macfarland trial very atten
tively,-a he was engaged in the free
loYe marriage at the Astor House, will
which that trial was 50 Intimately con
nected.
A writer in the Avalanche, of Owyhee
Idaho, thus describes recent debate il
the Territorial Legislature: GAS two
mighty clouds rushing across the heav
ems and meeting in mid air, as an ex
press train running into the baggage car
as a stink pot coming through the win
dow OF China gambling house at mid
night, SO was the shock at the meeting
OF these rival cOmbatants."
The phfaze "a bright blue dog" car
not convey any lucid or possible mean
ing to most people in our city. But il
may be otherwise in New York, where
it is said, you may occasionally see d
Spitz dog, the pet of some lady, dyed
the dog not the LADY, bright blue or a
lovely Crimson. If, in addition, the ami
NAL is carried about in the arms of q
stout footman, himself in uniform, the
artistic arrangement OF colors may be
striking.
The following marriage certificate was
recently found among some old archives
Of the town Of Norwich, Conn. There
was no date of the year, but the penman.
ship and paper both bore testimony to
the extreme age of the document: "Mar.
ried, at Norwich, Sunday evening, 31st
December. DR.. Enoch Smith, so called.
aged 66, more or less, arenowned collier,
to the amiaDle and accomplished Miss
Mary Melony, u celebrated tailoress, aged
rs next grass.
s'How pleasant it is to see
Turkeys and hens agree.'
Almost a unique case was decided,
two days before Chrisymas, in the Court
of Appeals at Naples. a young married
lady died recently, and her husband nat
urally decided to bury her in his own