The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-09-22

A LITTLE HEROINE.-The Rochester
Express says that last Thursday, while
little Carrie and Oracle Solomon, of that
city, aged eleven and twelve, respect
lively, were fishing from the pier at
Charlotte, one OF the hooks became en-
tangled in a log little above the water.
and Oracle leaning over to disentangle
it, plunged headlong into the river.
There was not soul near save one lit
tie boy, who ran away screaming for
help; but Carrie grasped her tish-pOle
firmly, and when her little sister rose to
tue surface, placed the end of ii in her
hands, and, bracing her foot in a creVice
in the pier, tugged and pulled, like a
little heroine that she was, beng nearly
drawn in herself twice, and she landed
Oracle safely on the dock.
You might go behind the scenes at
the opera a thousand times, and il Miss
Kellogg was singing there in the wings
you would see her mother with shawl
over her arm, and very often a cup of
beef tea in her hand. The shawl is
wrapped around the shoulders OF "that
child" the moment she reaches the wing,
and the beef tea held to her lips. She
don't trust the maid to do any of these
tender offices. No patient was ever
watched by an anxious physician with
greater care than Miss Kellogg is
watched by her mother. Every draught
is guarded against, and every article Of
food selected with an eye to health.
The last surviving native of Tasmania
is dead. 1t was the Queen, Lidgiwidgi
Tancaninni, called Lalla-Rookh by the
white population. Tasmania or the Is
land OF Van Diemen, which became in
1903 an English colony, had in 1915 ma.
tive population of five thousand; in
| 1847 there were only iorty-hVe left, and
now the last of the race is dead. Lalla-
Rjokh had been married five times, and
each time to king. She lived at Ho-
ment Inspector, and received small
pension. She was seVenty-three years
old, and died of paralysis.
Here is Chinese joke. The Celestial
Empire quotes the statement from an
American paper: "Iu the Chinese de-
| partment of the Exhibition an enameled.
bronzed soup bowl is shown which is
four thousand years old, and there are
upward of tour hundred articles OF
| chinaware which were manufactured
one thousand years ago;" and then adds,
with quiet irony, "PossIbly the family
of the Noahs took pot luck out Of the
bowl while they were in the ark"
| A four-year-old boy, son of Mason
| Sage OF West ardsborough, Vermont,
was lost in the woods last week, and
had play spell with two black bears.
They came up to him as he sat on the
| grass in an open glade and sraeIt of him
| lie patted them on their heads, thinking
that they were dogs, ana then walked
away into the forest. Their footprints
disclosed that they were the "dogs" the
| boy told about encountering.
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loudly on the subject of religion that
thew % %awoke a big dog which had been
slice ping on the hearth before them, and
he forthwith barked most turiously. An
old divine present, who had been quietly
slipping his tea while the disputants
| were talking, gave the dog kick and
exclaimed: "Hold your tongue, you silly
brutel you know no more about it than
they do"
Little Johnny has peculiar views as to
original sin. One day he was about to
be punished for some misdemeanor,
| when he pleaded: cit wasn't me,
mamma dear-it was the bad man.''
"Wen, Johnny, I'm going to whip the
bad man out OF YOU" "Ah, yes, bul
thavu hurt me precious lot more than
it will the bad man."
While railroad development in other
parts of the United States has been ut
terly paralyzed since the panic OF 1873
the Southern Pacific has built six hun
dred miles of trunk line, with import
ant branches, opening vast and fertile
region for settlement and consolidating
the trade of the coast at San Fran cisco
| Doctor-"Pm pleased to say, Mrs
Fitzbrown, that l shall be able to vac
cinate your baby from very healthy
child of your neighbor, Mrs. jones'. J
Mrs. Fitzbrown--"Oh, dear, doctor,
could not permit thall We do not care
to be mixed up with the Joneses in any
way"
| Deadwood City, in the Black Hills, ar
! infant town OF a single summer, has
enty saloons, three hotels, six res
taurants, three drug stores, two hard
ware stores, five blacksmith shops, ivt
dry goods stores, twenty grocery stores