The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-03-10
ODDS AND ENDS.
Never get discouraged,
Though your efforts seem to fail;
IL right. have faith and patience,
nd ,,o1,t. a na mi Ii ,rnt aarnun nu

IL rlgDp, nave Ialtn anu patience,
And your cause will yet prevail.
Human hair has sulphur in il.
John Young Brown Is quiet, modest
Cotton culture In the Pacific Islands is
languishing.
The date-palm grows vigorously in St.
Augustine, Fla.
The assessed value of Pittsburg, Pa,
is $141, ,732, ,835.
Pneumonia and diptheria keep Paris
physicians busy.
Petroleum has been discovered near
Des Moines, Iowa.
Ourof 100 people not more than do
their own thinking.
The convicts of Lincoln, Nebraska, Jail
have secret society,
Safe men dog Mr.. Fitch to sell him a
safe for the Khedive jewels.
The badgers in California are killing
the lambs at a dreadful rate.
The Woman Suffrage movement is
gaining ground in England.
This winter has probably been the most
fatal on record for cOasting.
A recent French invention is a mould
10 form the nose in any shape.
The French Mint has just issued o.
900, ,000f. in 2O-franc gold pieces.
The famous trotter, Belle of Gettys-
n
or $4,000 babies born in Paris every
year 5000 are "put out to nurse"
There are 25,000 members of the Pat
rons of Husbandry in Hennsylvania.
Winnemucca, Nevada, sends 500 head
of bullOcks to San Francisco every week.
DR.. Kenealy represents in Parliament
the biggest pottery district in the world.
An artist says it takes sixty different
models to CLEAN one perfect feminine
form.
A Stradivarlus violoncello was recent
ly sold to musician Of Stuttgart fOf
So, $50.
distributed atvarious points in the parks
of Paris.
A tree which was sawed into lumber
in Somerset county, Pennsylvania, yield
ed 1850 feet.
There are 10,500 miles of railway in
Russia, of which 3, 45S miles are owned
by the State.
AS high as one per cent. day was
paid for money in the san Francisco
market last month.
Four hundred and eighty-seven di-
v0rces were granted in Maine last year
half Of them for. desertions.
A Miss Crockett, OF Stuart, Ia, recent
ly walked four miles on the prairie while
The ice crop gathered on the Hudson
| far exceeds in value the entire wheat
crop OF the State of New York.
The Teachers and Pupils Fund for
the Agassiz Memorial now amounts to
$9, 1872 IA, from Vi, sos contributors.
The death Is announced in Edinburgh,
Scotland, of the widow Of James Cooke,
the once celebrated circus proprietor.
A live trout, seven inches long, was
taken from II tire-piug on Dorchester
street, st. John, N. b., on Wednesday
last.
Some custom-house detectives recent
ly attended levee at the White House
TO see If the ladies appeared in snuggled
dresses.
Two hotels in Alexandria, Va, aad one
in Baltimore, have closed rather than
submit to the operations of the Civil
Rights bill.
The Shah of Persia has just sent his
| adhesion to the Convention Of Geneva for
| the protection of the wounded Oh the
| field OF battle.
A rat found recently in tea store in
Salem, England, weighed twelve ounces.
ana mad secrcted eighty-seven pounds OF
| nuts for the wiuter.
The Columbia Oil Company's farm,
situated on OIL creek, has been produc-
ing oil tor'eleven years, at the average
rate OF 800 barrels per day.
Several persons have lately been ar
rested in the Paris theaters in the act of
taking stenographic notes Of the plays
Lfor use in England and America.
| A pair OF rare birds have just been re-
teived at the Jardin des Plantes. The
| CagouX, brought IRON New Caledonia,
have never before been seen alive in Eu-
rope.
| n, ,b n,1l Tol
| 02, 900 valentines were delivered in Liy-
erpool, and 119, 900 thousand were posted,
and 10000 passed through the British
office.
| The land owners in England numbered
in 1922, lG5, 1000, but this number had fall
en- in 1861 to 30, 166, though the population
in that time must have been more than
doubled.
| Texas had the mildest winter of any
portion of the Union. In Galveston the
only approach to freezing was slight
sleet, which melted without injuring the
orange trees.
in the way of headwear is the "baby
hat" made in quite the infant style, with
soft crown and plenty Of lace and col
ored bows.
In Chicago a man scratched a hole
| through the limestone slab, composing
the wall of his cell, with nail, crawled
up yentilating flue and Oh to the roof,
| and SO escaped.
The surplus of State revenue of Swe-
den in 1874 was Il, 5,340,000 crowns. 1t is
stated that the financial condition of that
country has never been more brilliant
| than at this moment.
A committee of the Virginia Legisla.
ture have visited the Hampton Normal
and Agricultural College, established for
the instruction of colored pupils, and
were highly gratifed with the manage.
ment OF the institution.
Sacramento has Chinese couple who
are bringing UP their daughter, girl of
about eight years OF age, as a belle. They
have kept her feet bandaged SO that they
are very little larger than when she was
born.
the Mayor of Rockford, Illinois, re-
fused to allow a can-can troupe to show
in that city, last Friday night, after a
license had been granted the company.
| The prOprietors have sued the city for
breach OF contract, laying damages at
$500.
AT Chicago party of sportsmen were
shooting birds from a trap, when one oil
the birds being crippled on the wing,
another from a flock that was passing
I toyarhpad SWOhned down and saizinn