The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-04-01
ODDS AND ENDS.

gore,
Their heads may sodden in the sun, their limbs
Be strung to city gates and castle walls,
But their spirit walks abroad"
Raisins are 25per cent. higher than last
year.
Butter is never seen on an English OF
French table.
Girofle-Girofa has passed it's one hun
dreth night in Paris.
ct Providence they have preaching al
the Theater Comique.
The Massachusetts School Fund now
amounts to $2,500,0O0.
lodate, not iodide, of calcium will rem
ovate rancid butter.
At a late Ohio spell, the dictionary
was defeated with heavy loss.
There is hardly brick house in Osh-
kOsh that the frost hasn't twisted.
The prospects of the fruit crop are
reported to be better than for years past
Ofenbach has introduced ballet of
nurses and babies into his latest opera
boutle. rs,
Rhode Island has ordered a colossal
bronze equestrian statue OF Nathaniel
Greene.
The homestead Of the Astor family, in
New York, was sold few days since for
$9J500.
The little province of Nova Scotia last
year saved $4,000 on a revenue OF
$7SS,00O.
The United States Hotel, at Saratoga,
Will be sold on May l, under q mortgage
foreclosure.
The reporters stared so at Bessie Tur.
ner that Judge Neilson'was Obliged to
rebuke them.
The Rhode Island election will take
place on April 7th. Two days after that
Is Connecticut.
Three hundred thousand dollars is to
be spent on Custom-house for a place
called Evansville, Indiana.
The newspapers are charging some OF
the Indiana Legislature with carrying
OIL books belonging to the State.
A whale was harpooned week since
In the harbor of Fernandina, Florida,
which yielded ninety barrels of oil.
A Massachusetts, girl has constructed
hfteen hundred words from the letters
contained in the word ConsLantinople.
Two Italian physicians are said to
have discovered liquid which instantly
stops the flowing Of blood from any kind
of wound.
The 10th of May is to be Centennial
holiday at Ticonderoga, N. Y, in mem.
ory OF the seizure OF the fort by Ethan
Allen, in ITO.
1t is now decided that the vicinity of
the railroad from Aspinwall to Panama
affords the best location for the Trans
Isthmus canal.
Miss Molly Allen, of Napa, California,
is SO expert with her rifle that her beard
ed opponents recently ruled her out of a
shooting match.
The ancient Romans are freed from the
imputation of having eaten with their
fingers, by the recent excavation of q
bronze fork in Rome.
Robert Lenox, Of New York, in 1915
bought a farm five miles from the Battery
tor $1,000. Now, withouta brick upon il
it would be worth 50, 100000.
Cause and effect-Having the worst
whisky of any other city, Cincinnati
cemetery in the West.-Ex.
The Italian Government is seriously
considering the adoption OF radical mea-
sures TOR the suppression of brigandage,
murder and other crimes.
Austria proposes to appropriate sew
enty-tiye thousand dollars TO pay the ex-
penses of the representations of that
countl y at the Centennial.
The Spanish word s'bonanZaO having
come into general use, 1t would be prop
er to adopt It's antithesis "borrasca.''
meaning mine that don't pay.
Three sons Of Alexander Hamilton,
each over eighty years of aye and in the
enjoyment Of health and strength, are
living in the city OF New York.
He who haunts a printing office, and
talks so loud that he can be heard ten
feet from the person he is addressing, is
not sufficiently saturated with common
sense.
A penny loaf of bread, baked in 1901.
han hn n
recently exhibited in England, the owner
believing it TO be the Oldest bread in the
world.
The New York Woman Suffrage Socie-
ty proposes to celebrate the centennial
of the battle of Lexington, April 10, 1775,
by a public meeting at Union League
Theater.
At Key Largo, Fla, small island
about ninety.tiye miles northeast of Kew
West, the product OF pine apples the past
year exceeded 100000 superior size and
quality.
|. Nickels with no nickel in them are
very common. The die from which they
are turned out is perfect, but the mate
rial used is large percentage below
common pewter.
At certain iron works at Sheffield,
England, iron nails are now cut by means
VI u ClICulul IuOGulG5S ul5C VI lTOH, WulCQ
is driven at the rate of from 1000 to 5000
revolutions per minute.
A seal was shot on piece of ice in the
Rhine, in the neighborhood Of Mayence.
1t is supposed that the animal had es-
capped from the Geological Garden of
Frankfort or from some travelling menag. .
erie.
Brownlow says: ssSmall men, with
plenty of money and no brains, may
crawl into the Senate as the snail
crayAed to the top Of the pyramid, but
such a fellow can't run a great news
paper"
Eggs may be dried and made to retain
their goodness Tor long time; or the
shell may be vanished, which excludes
the air, and then, if kept in a moderate
temperature, they may be kept good tor
years.
On the 1st OF next July, says the St.
Petersburg Novoste, the rates OF postage
on domestic letters in Russia will prob
ably be lowered from ~ kopecks (S
cents), to 3 5kopecks { cents), on letters
OF single weights.
1t is estimated that the quantity Of
coal consumed in the New England
States during the past year was 100000
tons, and the average price paid at the
last places OF delivery to be S..
In Spain rooms are not warmed by
stoves or tre-places, as there is not
hrains anouph in that colIntrv Tn ndar