The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-02-03
ODDS AND ENDS.
We can only sec things on the surface,
For few people glory in sin,


the doctor poor.
The happiest person in the world-A
nine-yearS' old boy in his first long trou"
sers with suspenders.
A Connecticut firm just received an
order for wooden type from China, to be
cut in Chinese characters.
A Harrisburg man and wife lived two
weeks on nothing but bread and whisky.
She ate the bread and he drank the
whisky.
Eta Ealcieri, Lord Byron's italian SER
want, who was with The poet when he
died, has just died in London, aged sew
enty-eght years.
Sitting in the shadow of our majestic
Scandal, Glendenning is hardly visible,
and doesn't seem OF any more import
ance than a mole in a coal mine.
Texas and Mexico are to be reunited
by railways. Mexico has contracted
with companies and individuals for the
construction of more than u thousand
miles OF railway.
The only vacant seat in the San Fran
cisco Stock Board has been sold for $780,,
600. This is the highest price ever paid
for a seat, and is $4,000 higher than the
price about a year ago.
The women of Guanajuato have issued
protest against the expulsion of The
Sisters of Charity, bitterly denouncing
the Government for the act and reproach-
ing the men who support it.
A circuit preacher i'll Missouri prayed
for rain one night at a farmers house,
and the farmer who had horse race ar
ranged Tor the next day, was SO mad
that he turned the good man out OF
doors.
In answer to An advertisement by a
Boston lady, OF the loss of wallet, con-
tDi inn ba ntl rln hh
note inclusing $50 OF the money, ana
the words, "Heaven forgive poor
girl"
A writer in the Journal OF Chemistry,
says that the decay of teeth at such an
early age as happens to almost every
body nowadays Is produced by the eX-
cessive use OF -four in the shape of bread,
pies and cakes.
The Portland Press says: "Two medi-
cal societies met in Portland the other
day. A car load OF grave-stones also ar
rived during the day. 1t is not often
that the eternal fitness of things sticks
out in this manner"
The Beecher trial taken altogether is
one of the most remarkable scenes ever
enacted OH this Continent, every day of
the trial adding deeper. shadow to
what was long recognized as singular
ly terrible domestic tragedy.
A man who promised his wife on her
death-bed never to marry again, offers a.
reward for some one who Will convince
him that lie Is justifiable when it is
told to soothe the last moments of the
departing. Let him call on Gen. Tracy,
Beecher's lawyer.
For the first time in her political his
tory (and she's as old as the most of us },
China is in the money market asking a
lna N To 10 luiI tn
count niHety-tive cents dollar, and give
eight per cent. per annum as interest.
But there are no takers.
The sleighing and skating carnival has
commenced IN St. Petersburg, and there
is much gayety OF the good, Old fash
ioned, harmless kind. The court balls
at the palace will soon begin, and MI.
and Mrs. Gar will do their level best to
make their guests happy.
Turning down the upper left hand cor
ner of a card signifies merely thata visit
has been made; turning the upper right
hand corner means visit of congratula-
tion; the lower left hand corner signifies
parting call; the lower right hand a
visit of coincidence.
The N. Y. Star gives the following as
the compensation of the lawyers in the
Beecher case: Pryor, fame; Norris, a
mortgage; Fullerton, Moulton's check;
Beach, fame and prospects,; Abbott,
$4,000; Hill, thanks and 5000: Shearman,
personal satisfaction; Tracy, $4,000 and
thanks; Porter, $4,000; Evarts, $4,000.
The Mayor of Philadelphia, speaking
of the vicious books and papers which
filled the intellects of SO many youths
with dangerous ideas, says he could rid
the jails of two-thirds Of the juvenile
criminals III the next year If he could
1,ptN Itch rf,ntt ,1nu IN q nf
the variety theaters and put books out
OF print.
The N. Y. Commercial Advertiser pro-
nounces Gov. Tilden boor in society.
The reason is because he inadvertently
put some victuals into his mouth with a
knife. Il he were not a bachelor he
would never have committed such a
breach of etiquette. A wife would have
taught him better:
The old drab-colored town of New Bed
ford, the city OF oil and arls lstocracy, must
look to her reputation. Rev. Mr.. Julien,
in O recent sermon to the people in Lib
erty Hall, asserted that there was more
lying done to the square inch in New
Bedford than i'll any other place in the
United States except Washington.
It's deep mystery-the way the heart
OF man turns to one woman out OF all
the rest he's seen in the world, and
makes it easier for him to work seven
years for her, like Jacob did for Rachel,
sooner than have any other woman for
the asking. often think Of these words {:
"And Jacob served seven years tor
Rachel; and they seemed but few
days, for the love he had to her."-George
Elliot.
There was received at the Dead Letter
Office of the Post-office Department
last week package cotaining one-halt
dozen snakes, two OF them dead and the
remainder alive. One of them is a cop
perhead, five feet long. The reptiles
were inclosed in a tin box, perforated
with holes, and were addressed to Ger
many, but had been stopped at New
York on account of overweight, the post
age not being sufficient.
One of the boys just before returning
to Cornell the other day, sent young
lady friend of mis- cake OF Lubin's finest
variety OF toilet soap, with the request
that she would draw no inferences in re-
ceiving such gilt. The young man was
somewhat astonished the next day when
he received a letter from the young lady
containing the present OF tne-tooth
como, with the request that he would
draw no inferences Dherefrom.
The House & Committee on Elections has
at. length contrived way to satisfy its
conscience about George @. Cannon, the
delegate from Utah. IL has drawn up q
resolution which does not actually and