The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-03-13
ODDS And ENDS.
"When e'er I take my walks abroad,
How many poor l see.


How foolish that must be-"
You can get good rhinoceros now for
$1,000.
Spinal meningitis is killing many
horses around Indianapolis.
The brain Of q one-year old child re-
sembles a large white Camelia. .
Cabin rates by the French steamers
have been reduced to 500 gold.
Vienna has lately introduced water
from distance OF fifteen miles.
The beer glasses In Vienna are twice
as large as the American ssmug." M
The newest dress-lifter is q tortoise
shell chain with a clasp ON the end.
A New Providence, Ia, man has
trapped three albino rats with pink eyes.
Nearly fifty thousand trout will soon
be placed in Community Lake, WalliDg-
ford.
Beecher Is said to wear an eighteen
inch collar, and to sleep twelve hours q
day.
The widow of the late Confederate
| General Stevens is a clerk in the Patent
Office,
The Lehigh Shovel Company ship most
Of their manufactured goods direct to
Europe.
The number of stoves produced in
1874 10 estimated at 2,e9s, ,1ss, valued at
$46. .063, 900.
| Four hundred barrels of wheat flour,
made in Texas, were recently sold in
Kingston, Jamaica.
| The Governor of Arkansas has about
400 negro officers under him in various
parts OF the State.
The apron front is not worn. as low as
it was, and the newest are rounded in
stead of pointed.
1t costs Massachusetts $25Oo,OoO per
| n
there are 65,N0 in the State.
| The Empress OF Russia will not return
to st. Petersburg this winter, but will
60 from San Reno to the Crimea.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
| COmpany's steamship line between Bal
timore and New York is an established
fact.
The Missouri Legislature has given
permission to hawk it's felons all over
the State, and make them the competi.
tors Of honest labor.
A man and woman in Hartford, Conn.,,
have lately finished series OF 1000
games of cribbage, begun last October.
She won 502 of them.
The Remington gun, worksat Ilion, New
York, are running night and day, with
two thousand men, ON contract with
the Spanish government.
The installation OF the Prince Of Wales
as Grand Master OF the Freemas0ns
will take place at the Albert Hail, in
London, on wednesday,, April 20.
The building ofa railroad through the
White Mountains has gone steadily Tor
ward during the recent freezing tenn,
one thousand men being engaged.
The rates tor freight transportation
from Boston to the West are from twenty
| to twenty-five per cent. cheaper than
l q 4 n
Levi Petite died suddenly in CohOes
N. Y, the other day. II was ascertainet
that he had been poisoned by drinking
beer which had stood in lead pipes owe
night.
! A painter, named John Cain. has died
in Liverpool from being bitten by fel
low workman, MeDougal, against whom
u verdict oil mansiaughter has. been OBJ
| tanned.
Lemon juice, used as gargle, is said
by q French physician to be o specific
against diptheria and similar throat
| troubles, which he has successfully used
for eighteen years.
A Salt Lake mechanic Is perfecting a
fast printing machine, which, he claims
will surpass in speed any press yet in
vented, and werk q revolution IN the
printing business.
The receipts OF coal at the port of Bos
ton last year aggregated 1,175,954 IONS
all of which was domestic except AZ,
05S tons from Nova Scotia and 2, ,7SO toni
from Great Britain.
A hog ring factory, at Decatur, III.
consumes over tour miles of wire pei
day, and turns out from 10000 to 120,
600 rings every ten hours. The ring
are used to prevent hogs from roofing.
/ GARNER, the architect oil the new opera
house. was paid $l3S, 400 for his services
in connection with that superb ediiee
He devoted himself entirely to the Worl
for fifteen years.
| Mr., Emerson's "Parnassuso can no
be republished in England, because h'
has quoted so much from Tennysor
and other poets upon whose book
there is still copyright.
M, VillemessanG, OF the Paris Figaro
says that but for Chambord's lette
lishment of the Republic at Versailles
!, would never have come about.
II While man was thawing out pota
toes in Harlan County, Nebraska, tn
other day, a number OF grassnoppers
eggs were hatched out from the cart
surrounding the potatoes.
4 Invisible photographs of the Prince
! Imperial have been seized by the Pari
police. Nothing is to be seen on th
!. card until it is plunged into basin o
cold water, when likeness OF Napoleol
lIV appears.
were Iully developed it would ator'
sustenance to $500, ,0O0, 600 Inhabitants, !,
/, entire mass OF human beings now exist
ing on the globe!
; Rev. Mr.. Bateman, the Indian agen
over in Nevada is accused OF tOmenCfn,