The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-12-30
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
The Chinese claim to have invented tho
telephone in the year 96S.

The reading and thinking farmer Is
he one who wins the prizes.
A woman in Bla2ensburg, Nd, gavo
birth, recently, to three girls and two
boys.
The English pawnbrokers must not take
any article in pawn from any person ur-
der the age of twelve years.
One operator in a spool-thread factory
will average thirteen and one-haf mics of
thread day.
From the spire of the Congregational
| Church at Pawlet, VT, over 125 pounds of
| honey were taken recently.
The potteries at Trenton, New Jersey,
turn ont $4,000, 600 worth of ware year.
They have ninety kilns in operation.
The War Department has been induced
to experiment in the use of cheese as
an army ration.
Dynamite is being used in Australia as o
means of discontinue in rabbit warrens.
The farmers rejoice proportionately.
A fight been man and bear was ad-
vertised in Montana, but Sheriff inter-
fered. The man was to have been armed
with knife.
The yearly revenue of Denmark is about
$l2, 800, 900, and its expenditure $l1, 445,-
600. Its public debt in 1877 was $51,
970, 900.
| A Coroner's jury at Savannah, Ga, has
returned verdict of Shooting, not in his
own defense, a genteel way of alluding to
murder.
A resident of Sacramento, CAL, has
breadfruit tree in full bearing. The fruit
averages lenpth of four inches, and is
pear shaped, with favor like that of
cantaloupe.
| A Meriden matchmaker has made steam
engine weighing only fifteen grains The
works are of silver, and three drops of
water are enough to keep them in motion
twenty minutes.
A letter recently produced in breach of
promise suit as evidence contained the
following sentence: Dearest love - l
swallowed the postage stamp on your letter,
because l knew your lips had touched
| it,"
The theatre at Xivery in the Depart
ment of Charente Interieure, recently
| played "Cartouche." On the play .n,
it was announced that 1.-THE roles of
thieves would be played by amateurs of
the town."
An enthusiastic collector has presented
to the Royal Museum of Natural His
tory at Brussels a collection of indigenous
spiders, $40 of them belonging to 172
different species, with 206 webs, nests,
&c.
Robert Thompson went about Hart
County, KY, telling everybody that he
was going to shoot Henry Clack on sight;
but when the opportunity came, and he
drew his revolver to do the deed, Clack
shot quickest and killed him instantly.
English steel pens are almost entirely
made by women. In 1S20-2l the first
gross of 'three slit" steel pens was solo
wholesale at Ct As. the gross. In 1886
they had fallen to 8s., and 1882 to Gs. tho
gross. A better article is now sold at Cd
, per gross.
A man 1O4 years old died a few days age
=, in SpitalGelds, London, leaving as his onl.
. orphan child widow of seyenty-four
{, HIS wife, with whom he lived for sixty
one years in the same room, died severa
years ago at the comparatively early age o
q lightweight.
;, A carpenter, at work in Boston fash
:, ionable residence, was accused of stealth
a gold watch from bureau. He protest
ed his innocence, but was taken to jail
y Then the accuser learned that the watc
v had been taken by her little girl. Th
e carpenter refused to accept either apolo9
: or remuneration.
Snakes in the boots are common wit
,e many men who love poor whisky, but
= Syracuse man found q live rattlesnake
II one of his as he was about to pull it OF
He was camping out and had used II
es boots as o pillow, one of which the snal
e. had pre- .empted during the night.
v Five tramps reeklessly resolved to eal
ture IN Ohio village. They marched I'M
n, the village Aourishing clubs, terrified
t, few women, and began to pillage stor
" Their triumph was short. The village
gathered in force, stripped them, dipp'
them into barrel of tar, rolled them
n, sand and drove them out of town.
ed The following advertisement is taxi
n, n. from Scotch paper Wanted person
es train Newfoundland dog. None ne
~ apply whose ability and character will II