The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-01-19
ODDS AND ENDS.


As long as.the heart has passions
So long will life have woes.
An equestrian statue of Napoleon Ill
Is to be erected in Milan,
None of the Beecher-Tilton jurors be-
long to the Ancients and Honorables.
The Bessemer steamer is pronounced
a failure. Ola Neptune was not to be
chated in that way.
That joke about the tallow candle be-
ing shot through door is started on its
rounds again by the Columbus Dispatch.
For fashions in furs, it Is noted that
Siberian sable ls proper for ladies whose
husbands have recently become bank
rupt.
Pretty much everybody, nowadays, is
dead. Look over a pile of old letters
from early correspondents and see If 1T
be not so.
Taking a review of the year, we must
own that Napoleonism is stronger to-
day than it was ON the first anniversary
of the emper0r's death.
A Paducah, KY, merchant offered, as
an induoement to matrimOny, to give
the first couple married in that city in
1875, .'a nice breakfast table,"
That great social reformation is un-
derway is indicated by the fact that
fashionable women are making their
own dresses this winter and confessing
it too.
BY q new application OF photography
which has lately appeared IN England
any lace design can De transferred 10
silk, so that the latter material appears
to be covered with delicate lace.
The Massachusetts Dental Society has
passed resolutions emphatically con-
demning the use of chloroform as an
anesthetic, and declaring any member
administering 1t libable to expulsion.
A LeayenWorth man told ne, and
then said, 81 hope to be struck dead
if have not spoken the truthW He had
scarcely ceased speaking when ne fell to
| the fio0r-a man having knocked him
down.
An Atlanta, Ga. man who had several
| times been employed 40 a gallows build.
er, and made sort of specially of his
industry, was rejected as a juryman in 9
murder trial the other day, on the ground
| that he was an interested party.
The Oranges OF Georgia are doing 8
smashing business in the way of using
| uD the extra turkeys at their basket
feasts, while their young men say theil
social meetings are almost as good fol
counting purposes as a regular party.
| The s'blab" belongs to the very wors
class of talkative people, has always go
his eyes and ears open to see or to hear 6
little, then proceeds on his errand to re
tail it to his fellows, VINO i,dia magnify Wha
may have been slight lnQlScretl0n to I
! heinous crime.
The agOrepate of imports and exports
| u;th the JTnitad Stataa Unon the mart n
Tn"at pr;ta,n dur;no tha nast vaar
oma,,n, %reau ,aa =" e1so ooo oSo nr one,sixth i y
nr;ta;n.s wSoie W ~ sg%re~ata trade With al
~ - 1.,nrId or naaSr57v fw;ca as much a,
che has with France. which comes frs
sHH sttar r the TInited States. ~ N'N -
There are two important things whic]
;rnn mannta ctnrera in this countr,
TIC E,rther annronriation bv monono
i;es of the ora and coal denosits. III
nniv wav tn do II is for manufacturers i,
own mIIes. If they owned mines apf
furnaces too there would be little neet
| IN worry about the price of pig iron.
A California lion recently went to tht
door of q house and carried off an 1,
months, old child. The mother wa,
near by. heard the creams of the child
tnrnei around and saw the lion maxim.
| off with the baby and tainted, She re
NAMED in this condition for some time
and gave the alarm on recovering, bu
neither the child nor the lion has beer
heard of since,
| Onp ot the most INGENIOUS advertise
ments issued at San Francisco. durip,
last sumner. was the following;
Ice. Ice, Ice
If You want it pure and nj
Alta reasonable pr l;ca
| Follow no new dev
But send me IN tr
For L nave the lafgest anu pest stocl
ever put up IN the CITY.
| The Massachusetts Board OF Healtl
gives an interesting paper on the Ion
geVlty OF farmer. IL says that evidence
got from country PHYSICIANS through
| out the otate ior tne last twenty-elgh
years, SHOWS tnat tne average LIE OF
darmei, IN LnaC otate, Is % - years
Ihls Is mucn longer than that OF any
other class OF cinzens. Inc class mos
nearly approaching farmers, VIZ: out
door mechahlcs, i've only oz IL years OF
an average.
| Inc heaVlest ltem OF american manu-
| facture exported Is that OF our rennet
petroleum. II fo0ts up TO the enormous
| figure OF 57,0Oo,ooo annually. NO. othel
manulactureo artic!e even approximate
| tnls va!ue, tne next hlghest Delng lard
when Is $2o,oUV,ooo OF exported value
For tne year enoing June 3oth, 1914, tnt M
exports OF fenned OILS was ~ OOo,Oo ,o
gallons OF an aggregate vaiue OF $31,60I
olS, ana Inc reslouum ana crude export
ed IN Cne same year SWelleQ tne amoun