The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-01-07
ODDS AND ENDS.

"A lanIern III Inc nanu ~ Woltn d u"Aoh
stars.
A gentleman is finished one when he
is dead.
1t is better to do more than simply re-
member the poor.
With population of 5000, Galveston
has over seventy lawyers. |
At the Christmas cattle market in Lon
don, 6,570 beasts were exhibited.
The trimmings of the Czar's best coat
are of blue fox, and cost 10000 francs.
Kansas Is now the twelfth State with a
compulsory education law upon its books.
Fourteen and half cents day Is what
San Francisco pays for each OF It's pau |
pers.
Five sisters in one FAMILY married five
brothers OF another family in Maitland,
Australia.
Charles Lamb said Of one OF his crit.
les: "The more think of him, the less
/ think OF him."
The young King of Bavaria threatens
to abdicate, but he'd better not. Situa-
tions are scarce now.
A three-line advertisement, four hun
dred and five times repeated, recently
appeared in the London Tim es.
What doth it profit pastor II he gets
seven dressing gowns and fourteen pairs
of slippers, and has not the wheYewith TO
go to market?
Amherst College will receive from the
estate OF the late Samuel Williston $685.
900, that being the residue after paying
all other beQuests.
1t must make man feel mean to pay
an old debt because he thinks he is going
to die, and then have the doctor pull him
through all right.
That farmer understood human hatu re
who said: "lf you want to keep your boy
n hn
grindstone when he turns the crank"
How deliciousp A family living in
Grass Valley, California, have peach
trees from which they had an abundance
of peaches from July A to November II.
The extravagant habits of life in Amer
ica,tind new illustration in the Hartford
scavenger's experience, when he found,
in emptying a barrel, 500 interest
bearing treasury note among the refuse.
He did not refuse it.
A child in Illinois fell into tub of
scalding water recently. The Chicago
Post thus describes her fate: ''Although
instantly snatched up by the agonized
father, she lay in slupor till death TOOK
| her where scalding water is unknown"
The people of New Hampshire are not
proud, but seem perfectly willing to al.
low the janitor of the State-house. TO use
| the basement OF that structure for a
hennery, and he Is accordingly doing a
fourishIng business in the poultry line.
| A country paper, in speaking of the
good things in the village where it is
published says: "We are proud of the
impressibly solemn appearance of our
undertakers. A smiling undertaken is a
hideous incubus on the growth OF q
place."
1t is contemplated that the new reser-
| Voir now in nrOppGg Of 0nlfrIlotiou i'm
Paris will be arched over and covered
with soil deep enough for garden. This
will not only make 1T beautiful place oi
recreation, but will protect the water
against the SUMS rays in summer and
the frost in winter.
Some men, when about to leave street
car, select the lady whose looks they
like best and offer her the seat about to
be vacated. The LADY, under these cir
cumstances, may perhaps be excus ed
for not proferring thanks, though the
gentleman perhaps reaches the sidewalk
under the impression OF having perform
ed an act of gallantry.
| Hawaiian news is in order, Of course.
The Hawaiian Gazette Of recent date
says: Her Royal Highness Princess Liliu
Dominis left for visit 10 Hilo and vicin-
ity, in the steamer kilauea, last Monday.
She intends, with her suite, to visit the
crater of Kilauea, which, we hear, has
been quite active Of late. The Princess
will be absent about three weeks.
"Do fishes hearW is a mooted question.
They certainly seem sensitive to sound
in some cases. But Mr.. Seth Green, the
pisciculturist, states that though they
are keen of vision and very sensitive tC
the slightest jar, they can not hear. A
slight vibration in the water where they
are will disturb them at once, but they
remain quiet when o. loud noise unac
companied by a jar is made near them.
Next spring one hundred English
swells are coming tor grand buffalo
hunt on the Plains. The hunt is to be
lorganized on a magnificent scale. Twen
Ity scouts, headed by Buffalo Bill, will
chaper0n them, and in addition to a vast
retinue of servants, cooks, grooms, anC
wallets, they will be accompanied by g
brass band, which will discourse sweet
music as they gather about their camI
lire to partake of the evening meal o
canned buffalo meat.
One of the most ingenious toys yet ex-
hibited is small piano; sheet OF music
is on the rack, and before it is seated .
lady doll, dressed in charming Partisan
toilette, violet silk with rose-coloreG
facings and revers; one little fOots rests
on pedal. As the piano is wound up 9
Isweet air from lies Huguenots" is heard
the little hands glide over the keys, an6
the pretty blonde head moves from side
to side, and again bends toward the
music sheet in perfect harmony with the
slow measure OF the air.
A pretty little fish story is told in a
Michigan paper of a suntish which was
: kept more than year in q globe, and
then appearing SO sick that it was feared
that it would die, was thrown into the
ltleep water Of the St. Clair river a month
since, and disappeared under the sur
face. A few days ago the same fish was
recaptured close insh0re by some boys,
land returned to its glass prison, evident
ly well pleased with its summer vaea
tion, and glad to get back home again.
Young lady readers may find grail
of interest in the following Scottish mar
riage act, passed in the reign of Marga
ret, commonly called Maid of Norway
4 A. ID. 12& sit Is ordainit that during
the refine of her maist blessit Majestic i'll
J maiden ladye OF. bath highe and low es
J tate sail hae libertye ta bespeake ye maj
she lykes beste; albeit gif he refaises t,
take her till his wife, he sail be mnlct il
|, ye sumo OF ane hundreth pundes, or less
as his estate may be; except and alwaie
gif he max it appeire that he is betrothet
) to another woman that he sail be free.'
n A horse 35 years old has been retired
from active service in Lebanon county
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