The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-03-30
ODDS AND ENDS.

Hurrah! for the Voice and the Zen!
Rev. De Witt Talmage denounces ex-
pensive funerals.
There are at least 1000 unlicensed sa-
looms in New York.
Nearly all reception dresses have the
seams heavily corded.
The latest Kid glove comes up nearly
to your "crazy bone."
There are again disquieting reports
about the Pope's health.
A Black Hills expedition is said to be
organizing in Pittsburg.
Montreal has just had large number
OF failures, and expects more.S
"The Women of the Day" proved un-
| successfulin San Francisco.
There is strong demand for prohibi-
tory law In the Canadian Dominion.
The partridges are doing great dam
age to the apple-trees in Ashburnham,
Mass.
The arrears Of taxes in Long Island
city for the past four years amount to
$66, ,185 s..
Robbery and murder seem to have bro
ken loose in Khiva, and the Khan says
he can not help 1t.
A Chicago critic christens lMme. jan
auschek as "the. Passion Flower Of
Bohemia" Police!
The only church in the country where
preaching may be heard in Irish, is said
to be at Elmira, Illinois.
With noteworthy consideration, Mrs.
President Grant has discontinued recep-
tions "for Nellie's sake"
One Of the most important railway
lines in Bavaria has for many years been
worked with turf or peat.
A verdict of 5000 damages was given
against the Baltimore and Ohio railroad,
tor the killing of an infant.
In Berlin they are shutting up Journal
lists quite freely. In this country, they
are only told to "shut upW
The weight of the shaft which has just
been placed in the steamer Bristol OF
the Fall river llne) is 1900 pounds.
There ls trouble between the British
ana the Blrmese, and the former are
about to teach the latter third lesson.
| Az q spelling match in Indianapolis,
the first man to miss a word was the
former superintendent of Education OF
| the city.
Men and money are the things that
Captain General Valmaseda says he
must have, in order to get Cuba back for
| Spain.
Counterfeit script to the nominal
amount of ten dollars was recently
found in a church collection at Woon-
socket, H.. I.
A variety show and menagerie is tray
cling on the Erie canal, the entertain
ment being given in three boats fitted up
for the purpose.
Maretzek thinks that there is a big
Bonanza in American lyric talent, and
he proposes to try Italian opera to see
how it will pan out.
The balance of Liverpoops Chicago
wiz in hn ho ly for rI,,
| four years, has been voted to the genera
charities OF the former city.
| They sold at the public auction in
Paris the other day a revolver that has
had many owners, and with which five
| OF its owners had committed suicide.
A veritable Cyclops is reported to be
in London. His only eye is in the mid.
die of his forehead. His name is Piper
Wilson, aged 22, and he came from Aus
tralla.
There is house in Scotland which
was built in ITS, and in which the same
family has lived for thirty-eight genera
ti0ns.
"A Savoy paper says that the water
shed at the tunnel having been adopted
as the Franco-ltalian boundary on Mont
Gents, Italy will have to cede to France
about 450 metres Of ground.
Colorado has been christened, ere her
birth, "the Centennial State" because
she will come into the Union in '76, not
to speak Of her coming in taking the
number OF Senators up to 76.
Two full-grown offers, driven by the
cold from creek in Tippecanoe county,
Indiana, recently walked deliberately
into dWelling-house for the purpose OF
warming themselves at the fire.
Paris is now pluming itself on new
fancy in ladies' dresses, which is spe-
cies of tackle by which, when a lady
wishes to dance, the train of her dress is
drawn up to possible dimensions.
The spectacle manutactory started in
Norwich, Conn.,, six months ago, with
three workmen, now has twenty work.
men, and turns out ], ,72S pairs of specta-
cles and VI eyeglasses per week.
Two young gentlemen at the jena Uni
yerslty were killed in duels just before
Christmas, and now the law is no more
duels; but the fellows who do not fear
the sword will scarcely fear the law,
In Prussia, under the recently adopted
civil marriage act, the consent of the
father is necessary before wedlock up to
the end Of the young mans twenty-tifth
year and the young woman's twenty
fourth.
They say that Offenbach's mass for his
daughters wedding, which the Cure of
Notre Dame de Lorette wouldn't allow
to be played in the church, owed that
prohibition to its echoing of his opera
boutfes.
Joel Peckham spoke in a religious
meeting in Belvidere, ILL.,, having been
intensely agitated by the sermon of Rev.
Joseph Ogden, a professional revivalist.
Upon taking his seat he suddenly died of
heart disease.
Utah has in successful operation
thirty-one silver smelling furnaces, four
arastras, one separating and refining
works, tour concentrating works and
thirteen silver mills. Others will be
added this spring.
The Italian Consul at Yokohama has
sent to the Italian Government abox of
tea seed from the province of Yamasciro.
The seed will be distributed to the diff
terent farming institutions for the pur-
pose of experimenting.
From the dark recesses of the forests
Of Hawley, Mass, comes the terrible ru-
NOR Of the probability of spruce-gum
famine, caused by the severe winter and
grasshopper plaques. School children
who are "short' on gum will govern
themselves accordingly.
As recently as 1850, a woman was
burned at the stake al Charlestown,
Mass, in that commonwealth, con the
northerly side Of the Cambridge road,