The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-04-21
ODDS AND ENDS.
What may not Garibaldi do,
Warrior OF famous fiberp
Having made Italy anew,

| DTODZG UOOCS Will bWluhlo Ill buo bUEc c0bS
again next summer.
Leatherette, a new imitation OF leather,
Is in use in England.
Diluted muriatic acid takes the frost
| stains off brick fronts.
The smoke Of burning wool allays the
pain of the worst wound.
| England obtained forty millions last
year from the income tax.
| Schuylkill county, Pa, recently drew
its first colored juryman.
| Last year 1,50O,000 empty oil barrels
were imported by Philadelphia.
Murillo's picture of the Madonna
brought f4,500 in Paris, recently.
| No one has ever got pecuniary redr ress
in New York for damages by falling
building.
| Mr.. Astor's investment in villas, at
Jacksonville, Florida, will yield him 80
per cent.
Mr.. Weigest, of Evansville, passes
four months in Jail for biting off Mr.. Mil
lers nose.
About $175,OoO have been subscribed
towards the erection of cotton factory
at Atlanta, Ga.
The Great Northern Railway Company,
England, effected saving Of 100000 in
fuel the last year.
| One of Maryland's College Presidents
itants is being educated.
The manufacturing industry and art
of the Bible forms the subject Of a new
book by James Napier, +. r.. s.
Those Germans who went back to
Fatherland because of the hard times
here find nothing to do at home.
| At New Orleans, La, there is q move
ment among the Keepers of the leading
bar-rooms to abolish free lunches.
| Whisky distilled from the Canada
thistle is said to produce the most ex-
hilarating effect upon old drinkers.
'Her style is Western to a painful de-
gree" says an eXaeting Philadelphia
critic, alfuding to popular actress.
The workingmen aud farmers will con-
troll the legislation, next year, in several
| of the Western and Southern States.
| The learned German historian Won
Ranke, has written history of Eng
land in the seventeenth century, in six
volumes.
The Carlist war is seriously affecting
the prosperity OF Spain. The exports OF
that country in 1874 were 10000, 900 less
than in 1873.
A new quarter is to be added to the
city of Berlin, in which all the streets
will be named after Germany's musical
celebrities.
Mr.. Lick, of San francisco, has signi-
| fed his III tention to give $500 to the
centennial funds, and possibly to double
that amount.
The funeral of the late John Martin,
NJ. F., took place at Newry, Ireland,
| Thursday week, and was attended by
thousands of people.
| While Nilsson is singing in Her Ma
ljesty's Opera at London the coming sea.
son, Albani will be competing with heI
at the Royal Italian.
The Texas fever has appeared among
cattle at Whately, Mass, having been
brought into the town by the suffering
beasts from the West.
A correspondent Of New York paper,
| writing under date of Havana, states
that the reports about the yellow fever
are greatly exaggerated.
The Parisians are building a huge
church at Montmartre, by subscription,
in atonement for the saerileges commit
ted during the Commune.
| The crop reports from Northern Texas
are very cheering. The "cold spelr' cut
off just enough of the young peach
blooms to insure a good crop.
| The great difficulty James Parton
meets with in his article on caricatures
in Harper's is to find specimens sutfici-
emily refined for modern magazine.
The effects of the Grange movement is
Ieverywhere visible in the West in the
superior tilth of land this spring. SO
much for discussion and reading among
| farmers.
Eli Wellen, an injudiciously faithful
colored servant of DR.. Rhodes, at AM
herst, Mass, drove off "a creditor of his
master with a musket, and has been
fined $40.
Two members of the Presbyterian
Church in Australia have just contribu-
ted-one 100000 and the other 930, 900,
toward the founding OF university in
Adelaide.
country by DR.. Franklin. While exam
| lining a corn whisk Imported he acct
dentally found single seed, which he
planted in his garden, and from which
the corn was propagated.
A few weeks ago an installment of
peasants, with their families, who had
emigrated to Brazil two years since, ar
rived in Berlin ON their way to their
homes in West Prussia. All were in a
sickly and destitude condition.
The Wisconsin Oranges have already
established forty-one cooperative assO-
Citations for selling goods and manuiac-
turing, and twenty-nine insurance CON-
panies, all flourishing and representing
capital to the amount OF four million dol
lars.
The State Orange of Kentucky has
fixed the salaries OF the officers Of that
body as follows: The Master ST, 1000 and
travelling expenses; the Treasurer 5000;
the Secretary $1,000 and travelling eX-
penses; the Assistant Secretary 5000 and
travelling expenses.
The Nebraska State Board of Agricul-
ture has offered premium of $75 to the
party who will plant the largest number
of trees on the naked prairies OH the
third Wednesday of the present month.
This tree-planting day is called ''Arbor
Day" by the Nebraska people, and the
work OF several successive anniversaries
is beginning to tell on the general ap-
pearance OF the country.
The Atlanta Grange paper says: "We
learn from the farmers with when we-
have conversed tEat the wheat is looks
ing splendidly. The weather. which ha-
been so unfaYorable to almost every
thing else, seems to have: been well
suited to the wheat, and it has grown
rapidly. A large area was sown, and
we consequently look for larger crop
than for many years past. The green
fields OF grain present cheerful look,
and the farmers are gladp
The Jonesboro' Grange, No. 351, of JEFF
ferson county, Alabama, a,recently adopted
resolutions severely condemnlng the
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