The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-04-09
FACTS AND FUN.

Jersey City has thieves who are pilfer.
ing door-plates.
Good taste is an element of national
wealth In France.
Game can be kept long in muslin bag
filed with charcoal.
In GENTS scarf pins, miniature whifle-
trees are an oddity.
Two Washington railways sell six
tickets for quarter.
Sleeping coaches have been introduced
on French railroads.
A mighty king has lately appeared on
our coast-Ship Rex.
Florida green peas are selling in Bal
timore at 81 so peck.
New silver iewelry is polished and
faceted like diamonds.
Expensive enamel Jewe1ry Is as styl-
ish as precious stones.
The Japanese persimmon is being i'm
planted in this country.
A man may become a cook, but he
must be born q roaster.
Forty years ago Cincinnati was IA
nous for clock making.
Two or three Bos ton lawyers earn
over 5000 a year, each.
At a stylish Gotham opening was a
bonnet entirely OF Violets.
II can not say good-by," Is one OF the
popular songs in London.
The huge red peony has been added to
the list OF artificial flowers.
In LondeE they are tining milkmen for
selling an aduiterated article.
1t is fallacy of old folks that the
weather Isn't as it used to be.
The intellectual Bostonian takes his
dictionary along to the lecture.
A. T. Stewards hotel for women Will /
use homemade gas and well water.
Who does not recall with pang the
day he was too old to walk on sLiltsl
Blue birds are twittering around the
stately public halls of Washington.
The Washington Nation calls for a
society for the prevention of lynching.
A New York bootmaker has invented
long-handled button-hook for fat per-
sons.
New York landlords let houses divided
into flats before the walls are properly y.
dried.
After lady views one hundred differ
ent bonnets her faculty OF selection is
dazed.
A treut. nine inches across the back
has been caught in Marion County,
Florida.
A New York firm has made a twenty.
hVe-gallon ice pitcher for a Mississippi
steamer.
A Clinton County (Pa.) man has an
Easter egg which was given to him by
an aunt In 1927.
''No pains will be spared" as the
quack said when he sawed of a PATIENTS
nnger to cure felon.
At the telephone concert an appro.
PIRATE piece was omitted: "Thou art 80
near, and yet so far"
A beet weighing one thousand five
hundred and thirty-eight pounds has in
terested Augusta, Ga.
A Kentucky distiler has whisky on
hand to the value of $4,000 ,0OO-a yalua-
bic parcel OF reel-estate.
The newest thing in gentlemen's neck
wear is the DeJoinVille scarf. 1t repre-
sents both scarf and tie.
Albany boasts Of a man who is SO
cold-blooded that dog who bit him in
the leg had all his front teeth frozen,
Music has 30 declined in England that
organ grinders serenading the sick are
now arrested at the first turn of the
crank.
AT Florence, Arizona, there is a res
taurant kept by a cnlnaman, with a
Mexican VILE, negro COOK and a white
man for a waiter.
The expenses of one hotel in San
Francisco are $500 per day. At last ac-
counts thirty guests were registered.
Not very profitable.
1t is said that none of the Astors are
fast. That's singular. They accumu.
late pelf astor than any other people in
the country, all the same.
A Vicksburg paper enthusiastically
tells of young lady in that city who
'picked a ton Of cotton" H'm. What
did she want with 30 muchp
A daughter wept bitterly in Witness
ing the opera OF "Paul and Virginia.
Don't cry," said her father; "they
earn 0,0oo francs every night"
A gifted contributor sends us a poem
beginning, "Open the door to the chill
dren." You'd better, if you don't want
all the paint kicked off the panels.
Charleston has awberries, New Or.
leans has new potatoes, Baltimore has
green peas, and Burlington has a fair
supply of last fall onions still on hand.
MIR. Ellsworth, citizen of Hutchin-
son, Kan, has just been notified that
S375,OOO is his portion OF the estate OF a
recenLly-deceased uncle i'll New Eng
land.
Officer Bleil, of the New York Police
Department, has, al the Imminent peril
Of his own lie, saYed fourteen persons
from drowning. His bravery is to be
recognized.
1t is asserted by scientific writer's,
says an Irish newspaper, that the num-
Der OF persons who have existed on our
globe since the beginning of time
amounts to 66,627, ,s43, ,235O75,25s.
Aniline colors are much used by manu-
facturers Of artists colors in oil ana
water, but they rapidly fade, and, it is
are OF no real value for the pur-
poses Tor WHICH they are thus used,