The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-02-01
ODDS AND. ENDS.
Let us, then, be up and doing,
with a heart for any fate:
Still achieving, still pursuing,


Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labor and to wait
The Piutes have u religious dance,
strikingly like that of the Shakers.
Lake Champlain is reported to be four
teen inches lower than it was ever known
before.
Men would often blush for the most
brilliant actions if motives were always
visible.
1t is reported that the Carlists are
now enrolling youths OF seventeen years
in their service. Il
The probable marriage of King Alfonso
of Spain to the eldest daughter OF Prince
Frederick Charles is talked about i'll the
German newspapers.
A Kansas editor never begins to be
Christian until his paper is rich enough
to stand the loss OF circulation Whlch
his becoming a Christian seems to ln-
yolve.
The plg-iron dealers of the West have
curtailea their production about i've
ninths, it is said, and their stock is re-
duceA to greater extent than at the
East.
1t is, rumored in New York that
Fletcher Harper, of the "Bros. Co.." will
shortly marry Kate Field. But Kate
has had this said about her great many
times.
All running to catch trains is extreme
ly injurious to every age and sex ana
condition of life. 1t ought to be the most
pressing necessity which should induce
a person over fifty TO run twenty yards.
The young ladies of Albany who re-
celved Christmas presents from Count
Barli, a love of a nobleman who has been
breaking hearts in that city, are now re-
turning them to the jewelry store from
which they were stolen.
Yes, it is not unlikely that Posterity
will sit around the fire, winter nights,
talking over this trying moment In the
life of the great preacher, and wondering
lfit wouldn't have been better il all cler-
gymen>had been brought up hermits.
The Unitarans are still looking for
successor to DR.. Minerin the Presidency
OF TUFTS College. Their choice lies be-
tween Rev. DR.. L. &. Bolles and Israel
Washburn, Jr., LII. D., but they can't
agree upon their man.
| The auxiliary forces in the British
army are rapidly giving up their gray
uniforms and adopting scarlet. When
! the volunteer movement began this was
prohibited, but the War Office has since
Withdrawn the prohibition.
| On account of the deep snow in the
passes and in the roads it will be impos-
sible for the Montenegrins to enter the
Turkish territory during the next two
months, except at points where the
Turks are in overwhelming force.
| Those live the longest who are deliber-
| ate, whose actions are measured who
never embark in any enterprise without
"sIeeping over it," and who perform all
the every day acts OF life with calmness.
Quakers are proverbiaily calm, quiet
people, and Quakers are thrifty folk
the world over.
| A Japanese gentleman, twenty -four
years of age, said TO be the son OF the
Mikado's principal physician, has JUS
taken his degree as a Doctor OF MedI
cine at the University of Berlin. The
| Japanese doctor is now preparing 10l
practical experience in Austria, Italy
! and France. after which he intends tC
visit England.
The Shahs visit to Europe has occa.
stoned many alterations in the external
appearance of the upper. and middle
classes in Persia. Shoes are worn, the
baggy trousers are reduced, the chin is
shaVen-an innovation obnoxious to the
| orthodox MISUNDERSTANDING cap is not
SO high and the whole dress is mixture
of Armenian and European fashions.
The villa in which Michael Angelo was
born, and in which he passed his child
hood. is now occupied by lineal de.
dinelli. There are in the villa several
paintings attributed to the great artist
including that of the so-called Satyr, the
upper portion of which only remains
i and there are also two chimney pieces
said 10 have been sculptured by him IL
his youth.
California sheep farmers have very
good prospect before them this year
lhaying apparently better season than
they ever had at any previous time, ano
the stock of sheep in all portions OF the
State are in excellent order. The pros
Il pect now is that the flOcks of the State
will very nearly or quite be doubled
within few months, which will very
materially increase The next fall clip o.
California wool.
/ The South Sea islanders are becoming
bold, some of them having destroyed
British cutter, first killing all her crew
after which they attacked another of IL
I B. NJ IS ships and actually were repulsed
They seem not to be aware that Grea
Britain still continues to wage wal
against weak and barbarous tribes tina
offend her,. Perhaps the islanders vii
demand that the matter be submitted u
arbitration.
| Rumor has it (says Lucy Hooper in {
Paris letter) that the celebrated meek
lHCC VI pCulio NAiSh So w
the Empress Eugene is now i'll The pos
session OF Anna Deslion, one OF the ri
yals of Cora Pearl in the evil world. The
celebrated picture OF Salome, by the la
mented Henri Regnault, which was the
gem of the Salon OF 1870, and d forgery o
which was lately offered Tor sale in the
lUmted States, is also owned at present
by one of ces danes, and is the chief or
nament OF her magnificent hotel near tht
Arc de Triomphe.
A young actress who had played sue
cessfuiiy in the lesser theaters OF Paris
applied for an engagement at one Of tn
tirst-class houses. The manager, wht
was in want of pretty girls, was abou
to accept of her services when she SUI
denly exclaimed: "You must also ell
gage my mother in the wardrobe depart
ment." ss0h," said the manager, plain
lively, sis that absolutely necessaryv Y
"Of course" said the pretty actress
"she is the only one in all Paris wh'
knows how to throw me my bouquets il
the right way" That settled the ques
} tion, and an actress and her mamma wer,
: made happy.
Beauty and style are not the sures
. passports to responsibility. Some OF tn
noblest specimens of womanhood tha
. the world has ever seen have presented
; tile piainest and most unprepossesSin