The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-03-12
ODDS AND ENDS.
We none Of us know one another,
And oft into error we fall:

The rolling mills at Cleveland have
shut down.
Three new theaters are promised to
San Francisco.
3 A kid glove passes through 219 hands
in being made.
! The specie in the Bank Of France has
reached nearly $270,000, 000.
Japan has appropriated $400, ,000'to be-
represented in our Exposition.
Through Tickets are now sold from
Chicago to the City OF Mexico.
The great, desert. of Africa has nearly
the present Dimensions OF the United
States.
A Providence, r. T., tool company has
manufactured o $500 rifle for King Kala-
kaua.
/ The miners In the Shenango Valley,
Pa, are still on q strike, and every mine
is unoccupied.
The Chief Justice Of Rhode Island asks
the legislature to reduce his salary from
50, 900 to $4,000.
An effort to establish an Anglo.Amer
lean Club IN London seems likely to
prove success.
The second congress Of italian engi-
neers and architects is to be next Sep
tember in Florence.
A sewing machine company at Eliza
beth, ~, J., has re-employe tWenty-seY-
en- hundred operatives.
Hungarian journals state that the Gov
ernment intends selling all the railways
belonging to the State.
The Onio City Iron and Nail works
have made shipment of barb nails to
Birmingham, England.
Over eight hundred Thousand bales Of
cotton are consumed annually in the
New England factories.
John Thomas, OF Frankforu, N. T., be-
tween fifty and sixty years Of age, is cut.
ting q third set-of teeth.
The Nova Scotia coal tradeaggregated
749,127 tons in 1874, against ISL, LOG in
in 1873, and 785, ,914 in 1872.
There are but two copies now known
to exist of the original edition of Bun-
vans "Pilgrim's Progress."
The German Budget states that 20, 900, :
600 marks are to be devoted to railway
works by the Government.
Rubber horse-shoes are the latest nov
city. Their cost, as compared with those
of iron, is about one-third more.
The prospects in the Western markets
| for mill iron are somewhat better at the
present than for some weeks past.
A couple of San Francisco capitalists
have just bought two million acres OF
| Oregon lands Tor q dollar an acre.
Il L mas MOlG uOQbcS
New York by 60,000, than Brooklyn by
Il, 600, and than Boston by $4,000.
The value Of horses exported from En-
glaad in 1874 was 81 ,02I. .351, the exporta.
tion the year previous being $S66, $40.
The tobacco plant appears to be in
digenous to Nevada. 1t grows wild, aud
the stalks attain a height OF three or foul
| feet.
The autograph of George Washington
now commands higher price In ths
market than that of any man save Spin
ner.
It is reported that Beecher said Of
Mrs. MoulJon's testimony: "There is q
foundation tor H., but the heart Of it is a
lie."
The latest for dressing ladies' hair is
the Greek coiffure with long waves in
front and q small knot of hair quite low
behind
The people of Colorado are going to
import English sparrows, as it is said
these birds are great destroyers of grass
hoppers.
Tie new French flowers for spring
trimming are large wreaths with traiL
ing sprays behind, or in one single com.
pact cluster.
The number Of adult white men in the
United States who can not read or write
is stated at 100000; women in the same
predicament, ], 100000.
Tangye Brothers, the well-known en-
gineers, have established classes for the
instruction OF their work people at the
Cornwall Works, Smethwick.
The combatants in the quarrel over
"The Shaughraun" are beginning to lose
their tempers, as was SHOWN by Mr..
Harris attempt to have Mr.. Boucicault
arrested.
The Elgin Watch Company has invaded
the OLD World. Mr.. 2. S. Bartlett, one
of the pioneer watch manufacturers oil
this country, will represent the company
at London. -
The English people continue to talk Of
| the submarine tunnel TO France, but in
about the same way that we talk of 9
Darien canal-as an engineering project
of the future.
The first United States patent evel
given to Chinaman has just been issued
| to one Chang Quan WO, of San Francis
co, whose invention is for the purpose O
fastening the seams in overalls.
Our relations with South America are
every year growing closer. The trade
with that part of the Western Continent
is largely done in United States vessels,
nd American manufactures fnd a ready
sale there.
The Lehigh & Easton Railroad Com
pany of Pennsylvania has petitioned The
.Massachusett Legislature to guarantee
$5, ,00O, 900 OF it's first mortgage bonds, OF
condition that it will carry all coal des
tined sfor Massachusetts at a rate Of no
over one and halt cents per ton per mile
The commerce OF France is passin,
beyond any era in its history. The eX
ports and imports of 1874 amounted Il
over 1,500, 900, 600, exceeding any iorme
year, and shaving an increase over 1877
Of $50, ,000, ,0O0, and over 1868, when tn
Empire fourished most, OF nearly $3.50,
000, 900.
The following summary is from tn
January report of the Department Q
! Agriculture: The product of wheat j
greater in tho aggregate than in an
previous year, exceeding 100000, 90
lbushels. There was an increase @
acreage of fully 2,500,000. Rye gave
product of 1881, 900 bushels, being 0
per cent. OF the previous crop. Oats
240, 100000 bushels; a decline OF nearl
&c, ,000, 900 bushels. Barley, 32,T04, 90
bushels. being an INCREASE Of per cent
Potatoes, 106,o00,000 bushels, bein
about the same as last year. Hay, 20,
SOC, 900 tons; an increase Of 100000 tens
! A bill has been introduced in the Brit
ish House of Commons place the entir'
metropolis Of London under one munich
mol onvarnmant and it is believed tha