The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-03-20
ODDS AND ENDS.
In the strength of the endeayor,
In the temper OF the giyer,
In the loving of the lover,
Lies the hidden recOmper


Lies the hidden rec0mpense.
Kansas City has debt OF s., 900, 900.
There are 100000 cats in Great Brit
ain.
One-third of Ohio is underlaid with
coal.
Alderman Beecherchuck helps to gov
ern Cairo.
A whole barrel of flour in California
for only 80.
Apoplexy is less frequent with women
than with men.
An Eldora, Ia, lady festooned ball
dress with popcorn.
Detroit at last decides to teach German
in her public schools.
A brazen-faced Peorian has patented
an improved hustle.
Spain's Virginius outrage will only
cost her about $102,500.
The Canadians, without waiting for
summer, have picnics on snowshoes.
SUBSCRIPTION has been opened in Lon
don ior memorial to Cha rles Lamb.
The butter crop of the United States
Is now greater in value than the wheat
crop,
The old Benedict Arnold house at New
Haven, built in 1885, is being demol.
ished.
One New York city railway charges its
conductors 20 for a book of It's regula.
tions.
At a sale at Paris of ancient arms a
sword Of the sixteenth century brought
$4,000.
over million of gold pieces of the
value OF "a each nave just been coined at
Paris.
Buy your butter at London, Canada.
You can get it there for eighteen cents
a pound.
One OF the duties of church ianitor in
La crosse Is to heat 22S bricks and drop
them into the pews.
The chief sufferers by the "Dumb Ami
mails Fair' recently held in Boston were
the carriage horses.
The boot-blacks say they never had a
duller season. Too many rubbers and
galoches for their business.
Inc last Congress authorized the pay.
ment of private war claims from the
South, amounting to $716,05S.
In Germany it is u personal insult to
dun a debtor by means of postal cards.
and the law affords remedy.
The old Jail in Knoxville, Tenn, where
Parson Brownlow was once locked up
Tor expressing Union views, is being torn
down.
A letter from Richmond, Va, reports
terrible distress among the poorer class
es. Some 5000 men OF both colors are out
Of employment.
A number of lecturers have been so
discouraged by the last two years expe-
rience, that they intend to quit the plat
form permanently.
A weather record kept at New Bed
ford ior 63 years shows tnat with one ex-
ception-lo3o-th last February was the
coldest during that time.
The Second AdyentisLs have held a Sc
rles OF meetings i'll Oshkosh, Wisconsin,
and have figured out that the world will
next come TO an end on April IA.
The new Mayor OF Utica, N, Y. looks
SO much like Louis Napoleon that the
Empress Eugenie ON meeting him re-
Gently in London tainted away.
In Bridgton, Maine, the mercury has
already got up as high as zero, cunse-
quently the clOthiers and tailors are
about preparing for the summer trade.
. The results OF sugar planting in Loui-
siana the past season nave been highly
despite the decentralization
Of the labor system and other draw
backs.
When Brigham Young was in Jail the
other day for contempt of court, there
were five OF his wives weeping at each
window of that institution, and twelve
at the door.
The 18th, 18th and 14th of May is the
time set for a grand reunion of war vet
Grams, to take place in Chicago, under
the auspices OF the Grand Army of the
Republic.
A new book entitled "The Poetry of
Printerdom," will contain choice selec-
lion of poems by printers, or relating to
jhe art, gathered by Mr.. y. IL. HarpeI, of
CINCINNATI.
Nobody can look for five minutes at
General Burnside, the new Senator from
Rhode Island, without wondering how
70 small State can support so large
pair OF side whiskers.
The great American poet has so many
visitors that the conductors on the Cam
bridge street cars regularly shout "Long-
eller" when they pass his house, as if it
vas railway station.
The lips become more or less con
racted in the course Of years, in pro-
portion as they are accustomed to express
good humor and generosity, or peevish-
less and a contracted mind.
In London lately man ate whole
in one beer shop and raw
herring in another, and on account of
his eccentricity in diet he was fined ten
,hillings. Yet they talk Of British tree
lOm.
In Minnesota storm, two years ago,
| man named Taylor was lost. He had
itteen hundred dollars with him at the
ime. His bones were discovered the
'ther day, and the money was found all
light.
The buoyancy in the New York stock
market after the recent period of depres-
ion shows that the healthful influences
If reviylng business and good prospects
or the railroads are telling upon the
market.
Tobacco, owing to the short crop of
S74, has been steadily advancing for the
,ast six months. The new tax Bill adds
our cents to tax, and our merchants
ell us that very soon they must raise
md advance prices on most of the
.rades.
Judge Clinton, of Buffalo, has in his
possession the silver vases which were
resented by the merchants of New York
0 De Witt Clinton as testimonial of
heir gratitude for his services in the
pening OF the Erie and Champlain ca
lals.
The Changers met at Pelham, N. c.,
asst week. A fine dinner was given by
he ladies. A good crowd was in attend
nee. Speeches were made by Major
and others, A lively interest