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

Meath their arbor-shades trip lightly,
While cleaning cigar, like newborn star. |
'Twixt the lips Of each burns brightly.
Great men are always busy.
Next spring over thousand orange
groves are to be planted along the St.
Johns river, Florida.
A convict in the Illinois State Prison
drove an awl into. his head with ham
mer, but did not die, as he had expected
to.
A shrewd thief in Milwaukee recently
succeeded in retaining for his defense a
lawyer Tor the theft of whose coat he was
under arrest.
Lady doctors are meeting with success
in Switzerland. Miss Maria Vogtlin, M.
D., who graduated last spring in. Zurlch,
after brilliantly sustained examination
has settled there as practitioner in dis
eases of women and children, and mas
already obtained an extensive clientele.
She is now the wife of DR.. Helm, one OF
the professors in the faculty OF medicine
at Zurich.
The Boston Transcript says of recent
operatic performance, f'The ladies', the
baritone and the bass were good, and 80
were the tenor's intentions"
Kentucky furnished the rope with which
JOhn Brown was hung.
A servant in Hartford has accumulated
nearly $1,000 during her lifetime while
working on salary of$1 week. There's
management for you'll
Trade is now better at Richmond, Va,
than it has been since the beginning OF
the war nearly fifteen years ago.
The last suspension" reported is the
suspension Of navigation on the Hudson.
A new firm has been formed there--tirm
ice.
Eighteen thousand boxes of matches
| were thrown overheard from steamer
at San Francisco, one day last week, by
an irate importer, who was disgusted
with the scale OF duties.
A man and his wife, he 81 years old,
and she 10, were fined for drunkenness
in Oakland, Cal, the other day. Such
people should be cared lor until they
come to years of discretion.
| A Texan damsel has sued an admirer
for breaking her nose while trying to kiss
her against her will.
| Calliornia claims that the present year
has been the best, financially, which
herpeople have ever known.
An East Boston lady awoke from a
doze recently, and mistaking set oi
liewelry which she held in her hand fol
apple parings, threw it into the stove.
The TichDorne claimant is to be en-
ployed as tailor, and is to finish his
sentence at Dartmoor.
/ A statistician estimates that 600, ,00(
men will swear of on tobacco on the 1sl
of January, and that 500, 500 will be US
ing it again ON the morning OF the I'd.
The Lydia Thompson beauties will ar.
rive from England in March stronger III
numbers and stronger in blondes than
ever before. Lydia wants 1t understood
that her next will be her last tour in the
United States. So gladl
At mind-reading seanee,a young lady
undertook to practice. She failed sew
eral times, buL at length, having select
ed her lover aS a subject, discovered tina
right.
The Northwestern University of lii
nois is LII ierment because the faculty
forbid female students 10 join the secre
societies.
Two OF Robert Bruce's bones were SOLD
in Edinburgh for f5, and one of the
yerteDre of William, The Lion, Tor 60 los
The question as TO whether our 9Oya
guest, King Kalakaua, ever did eat 9
missionary or not, IL beginning to be
4 discussed in some circles with consider.
able interest.
SIaid old Boston merchants grumble
because the glri clerks IN the Post Office
keep them waiting while younger meI
writes to the newspapers that he had tC
wait for his letters until a 1ull account
of the previous nights ball, with eiabo.
| rate description OF the ladies' dresses
mad been given to the fellow who preced
ed him in line.
The WIlliamtic Linen Company made
i a reduction OF ten per cent. in wages,
commencing last Monday, the beginning
4 of their business year. A similar reduc
ton was made at the same time by the
Dunham Company, Windnam Manulac-
turing Company, ana will he made q
week later by the Smitnville Manuiac.
turing Company.
A girl who looks like s:fury" or sloven
in the morning is not to be trusted, how
ever finely she may look in the evening
No matter how humble your room may
be, there are eight things it should con
tain, viz: mirror, washstand, soap
towel, comb, haIr-nail and tooth brushes
These are just as essential as your
breakfast, before which you sh0ulC
make good and free use OF them. Parent:
VINO iail 10 provide their children with
sucn appliances not only make great mis-
. takes, but commit a sin OF omission.
II A novel sight is said to be wit
. messed mornings no" -a-days, about al
Aour before sunrise, on the nutmeg side
| VI Jul fllidSC3 COuelbtS vi u tOIGu
light procession of red noses slowly
vending it's way to the outskirts Of civ
ilizdli0n, its destination being rura
gin-mill whose license has not yet eX
pireu.--NdrraganseLt Weekly.
A clock is something like dissatis
fed traue's union. 1t has a meeting o
the hands every day at twelve O'Clock
ana the result IL a striAe.
A person WAo represented that he wal
a Clergyman, presented himself at tn,
office OF u prominent real estate firm il
Boston lately, and asked ii the tirn
would give him list OF all the farms OF
fered lor sale and owned by widows
The question naturally rose whethe
he wanted 10 buy widow or marry
farm.
A Michigan man with large famil,
and has been an emigrant tifty-tour times
has just sent to Texas Tor pampnle
; about the resources OF that State.
The old-tashioned circus is now
thing of the past. Exhibitions of tina
class at the present time are calle,
, colossal alaggregations."
An average oI the London Times cos
tains about $500 advertisements, an,
the receipts in the advertising depart
ment are said to be one thousan
pounds. or five thousand dollars day
One hundred prominent cit zens Q
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