The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-02-22
ODDS AND ENDS.

| W U ul6 nOt hils iOT OuE utcub Ittnutu
To crown with honor, or mar with stain.'
| Through endless sequence Of years 10 come
Our lives shall speak, when our lips are dumb.
Dentist ballad-'Oh, who can tell the
jaws we ieelP
1t is 112 degrees in the shade In Aus
tralia. Let's emigrate.
They are giving the Oratorio of the
Messiah at a circus In Paris.
A mother loves her child; a boy loves
man loves tobacco.
More than 800 steamships are laid up
| In the ports of the United Kingdom for
want of employment.
1t is so dry in some parts OF New Eng
land that farmers are obliged to melt
snow to water their stock.
IAN infallible cure Tor consumption"
-Ihats what q French doctor says Of
the meal of our Indian corn.
There are said to be- only three women
In Milwaukee who can direct an envel-
ope straight without drawing line with
a pin.
They have determined by experiments
in France that trees are killed Witn!great
rapidly by very small portions o. gas
escaping from the pipes and affecting
| the soil.
The coming novelties In ladies' linge-
RE are Byron collars and cuffs; indeed,
| eANy A"'N "''SuNJ DCVh anu
nave become popular with far young
ladies whose complexion can endure
this broad eXpanse OF linen.
| A Memphis fortune teller told man
that a fortune OF $3O,00O was coming TO
him the next week, and he shelled out
you TO lis WlIe to buy a new suit. When
too lale he learned that his wife had
fixed the Thing with the old woman.
by special dispensatipn Of Bishop
Loughlln, Of Brooklyn, Rev. Father
Lane, OF ST. AnLhuny,s church, solemn
lied The funeral services OF the Catholic
Church over the BODY of Michael s..
Fitch, father-in-law OF Minnie Sherman
Fitch.
A Boston merchant who, some twenty
hve years ago, sold two hunured dozen
Woolen hose TO trader who shortly
thereafter failed, was agleeably sur
prised the other day at receiving $3.50
IN gold to hquidate SHAT old-time
| The Land commissioners of Maine
give favorable report from the Sweed-
lsh colony. The whole population is
about 6OO, about l5U farms haying been
taken up. Some OF those VINO went
west from 1t, thinking to better their
condition, have relured.
Three Saginaw girls of the Methodist
persuasion having met together, con-
| cluded to pray t0r the welfare OF their
ioYers, but The first one had not got very
lar along in her petition when it was dis
covered tlat they were all engaged 10
the same man. Tne religious exercises
were at once terminated.
A distinguished member of the Uni
ted States Senate sticks to old clothes
from policy. He owes an election To
| them, he says. One of his friends stump
ed district for him in which he was
unpopular because they said he was an
arist0crat. "Arlstocrat, indeed" said
4 the speaker, with great enthusiasm,
''you ought to see him. Why, every rag
Of clothes he has in the world isn't worth
So"
Two Japanese have been in the oil re-
gions Of Pennsylvania for some time
past, studying the oil business in its Va
riOus branches with view OF manufac-
turing oil in Japan. They now return to
their native country with boilers, en-
gines, and all necessary equipments for
| boring oil wells. They also Jake out prac.
tical workmen to assist them III testing
the production Of oil by sinking wells in
tue rock.
There is story about jolly doctor
calling on lady Oh his way home from Il
dinner party, and being SO full that he
could not count her puise beats. Con-
scIous OF the cause of his difficulty he, in
moment of irritation, DiurIed out
"Drunk by JoveW and rushed out of the
house. Tue next day the lady sent tor
him, and said That sue lamented that he
had discovered her condition, and beg.
ged that he would keep the secret.
Such den as is often found in no
yeis, but seldomin real lie, was the baby
farming establishment OF Mary he .gn-
ODDS in Holliston, Mass. She begged
hap t,,,; -,
port, charged high price for taking the
infants IRON those who wished to be rid
of them, and then starved aud maltreal-
ed the lite sufferers in u diabolical
manner. Four babies died under her
cruelty, and Coroners jury has found
a verdict against her.
A metallic coffin, containing the re-
mains of a boy, was dragged up from the
bottom of the Mississippi, u short dis
tance above New Orleans, few days
ago. The casket was Of Kind that has
not been made within fifteen years, and
consequently at least that amount OF
time must have lapsed since the strange
burial. The casket, being air tight, had
preserved the corpse, and in the body
were found several cuts, indicating q
murder ands O successful hiding of the
crime.
LII Juo ylllhSe VI auuert III La ella
dee, France, recently, an idiot belonging
to a farmers family was found chained
to heavy block OF wood and living in q
miserable sort of kennel or pen. He
was squatting on manure heap, his
limbs were shrivelled and numb from
cold, and he did not even have
strength enough to change his position.
lie had been living in this way ior over
TWO years, his food being raw apples.
Public rumor at last attracted the atten-
ton Of the authorities, and he was re-
leased and taken to hospital, while his
father was sent to prison.
1t was in Wisconsin church - but
just as she was about to plight her virgin
Iaith she saw discarded lover in the
gallery, gazing down upon her with a
mixture of sorrow and anger extremely
piteous to behold. She uid what she
could under such embarrassing circum-
stances--she tainted away. Remorse
and anguish had very properly taken
possession Of her soul; for she had on at
that moment of collapse some $500
worth OF jewels which that wreiehed
man in the gallery had given her. Still,
don't suppose that she gave up the bird
in her nly-white hand. They brought
her to, ana made them one.