The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-04-13
ODDS AND ENDS.
Whe-e'er single human breast
Is crushed by p Yin and grief,

There hope should ever lie guest,
And sweetly bring relief.
There are 1000 baseball clubs In the
United States.
Rev. John Hall, the noted Presbyte.
rian gets $4,000 year In gold.
The latest Partisan tid-bit is Lyons
sausages made of horse.fesh.
The income from rents Of Trinity
Church, New York, is half million.
Newspaper wrappers are being made
in London for the Sultan of Zanzibar.
Baby farming is said to be common in
Boston, and to be as cruel as common.
Great numbers Of sheep perished from
cold IN Western Texas during the win
ter.
Among the cheering signs of spring in
New York are early strawberries, at "a a
quart.
The sexton in Beecher's church has
$4,000 year, and his assistant halt as
much.
In the time of George the fv the faro
banks in London were kept by women of
fashion.
Hendricks county, Indiana, is exalted
over two hams weighing seventy-eight
pounds each.
According to the latest report, there
are 22,547 oranges in the country, with a
membership Of 100000.
In 1874 France produced 1886, 900 tons
OF pig iron, 760,00O tons of wrought iron,
and 155,6O0 tons of steel.
The Australian gold production is
much smaller than the yield of precious
metals in the United States.
At the grand Hebrew ball in New
York, the other night, one lady sparkled
in $4,000 worth Of diamonds.
lcepergs and icetields are common and
monotonous in the Gulf Stream, where
they block the way oil steamships.
1t 1s said that the car-drivers strike in
New York was instigated by idle men,
who hoped to get the vacant places.
Eight Alaskan mummes have been se-
cured by the Smithsonian Institute.
They will be visited by members of Con-
gress.
Lecocq, author of ''Fille de Madame
Angop' and "Girofle Grofa," is said to
be melancholy and distrustful in dispo-
sition.
About a hundred vacancies of naval
cadetships will have 10 be filed at the
annual examination at Annapolis in
June next.
A span of Shetland ponies is now sta
bled at Hunters Point, Long Island,
preparatory to being sent as present TO
Brigham Young.
The oyster beds along the Shrewsbury
river, near Long Branch, have been
seriously damaged by the cold weather
of the past winter.
A New Orleans paper offers the follow
ing sentiment: "George Washington
first in war, first in peace and last in
getting q monument"
Parry, the whimsical clergyman OF
Worcester, will charge an admission fee
at his church hereafter. Adults ten
cents-children half price.
The second annual convention of the
Millers' National Association will be
held at st. Louis, Mo-, May II, 1875, CON-
mencing at ~ O'Clock A. M.
II there is people on earth who are
provident 1t is the Chinese. They have
named their next Emperor Taat Tien,
and the coming man isn't born yet.
1t IS alleged that the convicts in the
State Prison in jackson, Michigan, are
treated with such inhumanity as to rem
der the institution disgrace to civiliza-
ton.
The annual horticultural and floral
fair Will be held at the grounds of the
South Georgia Agricultural and Me-
chanical Association, at Thomasviile,
May l.
The number of single barreled guns
made at Liege, Belgium, during 1874 was
270, Alb; OF double barreled, 141,S23; re-
volvers and pocket pistols, 356,6e9; car
bines, so, 768.
A false report that ten million dollars
was to be paid to Kosciusko's heirs
brought out large part of the inhabi.
tants' of Poland, all claiming to be de-
scendants OF the patriot Pole.
A silent member of Congress, being in
titled to send his speeches free by mail,
put his frank on himself, and wanted to
ride free in mail car, under the pretext
that all his speeches were in him.
The waste heat from the coke ovens at
the HarecastIe and Woodshutts colliery,
in North Statfordshire, is to be utilized
to convert the brine which will be raised
at Lawton, in Cheshire, into salt.
The Boston Aldermen are considering
the passage of an ordinance debarring
boys under fourteen years of age from
to evening amusements unless
by parents or guardians.
A boy in Eddyville, Iowa, lately found
S6O, 600 under his fathers barn, and there
was great rejoicing in the family until it |
was discovered that the cash was all
counterfeit, and very bad counterfeit at
that.
Isabelle, the flower girl of the Paris
Jockey Club, who was sued by her
mother for support, has lost in conse- |
lutuCc uer luCTdtlfe pOSJ AC CH6 CluD,
whose flower girl must evidently be |
above the suspicion of want OF flial
affection.
An elegant imitation of marble is made |
n Dresden for architectural purposes,
,y impregnating sandstone with silicic |
lcid and alumina. In Naundorf such |
tones are prepared, which are intensely |
white, transparent, and capable OF
aking polish.
At a meeting of persons interested in
he proposed exploration of Palestine. at
Boston, it was stated that twenty New
ork gentlemen had offered to give 81, QUO
lpiece, provided that one.third of that
amount could be raised elsewhere, and
Boston is asked for $4,000.
The Pope's encyclical letter of Febru.
lry 3, 1875, seems likely to divide the
herman Catholics, who have hitherto
the Pope in his conflict with
heir government. Ten Catholic Depu-
les publish their protest against the as
of the Pope to declare invalid
md nullify claws constitutionally en-
,cted."
According to the last census in Eng
and and Wakes, the females OF the popu-
ations outnumber the males by upward
f half million; 'but above the age Of
twenty-five the males exceeded the fe-
males in number. While there were
10000 widowers, there were $4,000
Widows. Above the age Of 80, females