The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-11-09
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Nine Welsn miners, Durleo Dy accldent
in coal mine, lived ten days without
food.
ST. Petersburg is, with single e1cep-
ton, the unhealthiest city of the world
Madras, Spain, being that exception.
The uses of India rubber have become
so numerous and the material SO costly
that many experimenters are looking about
for substitute.
1t has beeen proposed to the Khedive of
Egypt to convert into paper the cloth of
the mummies, of which it is calculated
400, 1000, 600 must be deposited in the pits
of Egypt.
Nailed to the doors of the Temple
Church, London, was notice, reading:
''Divine service will commence on Monday
morning at 9 o'clock, and continue until
further notice."
An English woman named Mary Guile
has accidentally been present at three
different murders, and been the means of
hanging four men and sending seven others
to prison.
St. Pauls Cathedral, London, was begun
and finished by one architect, Wren, under
one master mason, Strong and during the
episcopate of one Bishop of London,
Compton.
When farmer in Hamilton county, N.
Y, found that his wife had eloped with a
peddler, he went over and hired band,
bought new suit of clothes and gave o
dance, which cost him $50.
When very young Fox used to attend the
House of Commons in hat and feather,
but in 1881 usually wore a frock coat and
buff wastcoat, which Wraxall calls 'the
uniform of Washington"
The population of st. Louis, Mo-, Is put
down at 5O3, 900. The city covers 10000
acres. The river frontage is over eighteen
miles. There are 2,017 acres devoted to
public parks.
There is young man in Illinois who
falls in love with every actress who makes
hit in Chicago. AS he buys each one
five pounds of candy, every great actress
works westward as often as possible.
Frances Henry Morgan, the tumpeter
who sounded the charge for the 'Noble
Six hundred" at Balaklava, has recently
died He was badly wounded at the brave,
but disastrous charge.
A German miller received an order for
three months of free lodging at the ex-
peuse of the Government for mixing gyp-
sum with his -four to the extent of ten
per cent.
A Baltimore pickpocket defeated an at.
tempt to take his photograph for the
rogues' gallery by making wry faces.
Tnereupon the police labelled him Thief
and marched him up and down crowded
street until he promised to sit quietly be
fore the camera.
An aristocratic coachman of San Fran
cisco was signalled by policeman to turi
s out or halt for all old lady and a little girl
but he brushed against the policeman an
/ was therefore arrested The policeman
e was suspended and the case was dis
q missed.
/ A painter in Hamilton, Ont, attempte'
s to improve the appearance of a negr
3 boy by painting his face white and hi
hair red. The eolors were put on in oil
and allowed to dry, the lad being seeurel.
5ed. The painter was fined 50 by Polio
q Justice.
y, u wm. Joseph, of Ackley, La, while dry
n ing his head with towel, rubbed off ever
a spear of hair. Then his eyebrows fell ou
and his moustache followed, and finally h
a whiskers. In one short hour he was total
e bald. The cause of this affection is una
n counted for.
The natives of some distant countri
81 are provided with natural soap factorie
r A West India tree bears fruit the pulp
which is suitable for washing, and Oh
and Peru produce atree the bark of whi'
is an excellent substitute for soap in was
Y, ing.
N N There died in an asylum near Londo
Sc the other day., lunatic in whose stoma
"a 1881 indigestible articles were foun
pr namely, 20 buckles, 10 bits of glass,
pebbles, pieces of string, a piece of co
per, q fish hook, pin, brass button
r. aud ], 1872 tacks and nails.
Of
e. A curious partnership is related as exi
OF ing at Chelsea, VT, where turkey and
~ ~ partridge are sharing nest. The turk
st continues to deposit her egg daily,
though the partridge began to sit af1
g, laying thirteen. During the occupation