The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-11-02
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A colored woman said to be lo7 years
old, died in Baltimore recently. She left
155 descendants.
Montreal engages no policemen who will
not take an oath that he belongs to no
secret society.
In Great Britain there are II, 900 women
telegraph operators, and who earn from
five to eleven dollars week.
Chicago records the attempted suicide
of little girl, who had found Life insup.
portable at fourteen years.
There are seventy-three club rooms in
Portland, Me-, where members can obtain
liquor and dodge the Prohibition law.
Peru has for the first time INDUCED in o
census, which gives the population as g.
500, ,945 of whom 1,365,945, are males;
100 men to 98 women.
Our production of carpets is larger than
that of any other country in the world. In
1875 the value of the product was $32,-
375, 1GS.
There are $4,000 Jews in New York,
or more than ten times as many as in
Jerusalem, and their wealth is estimated
at 500, 100000.
When a Rhinebeck bride had donned
her trousseau, the guests and clergyman
had arrived and everything was in readi.
ness, 10! the bridegroom failed to appear.
woman in an Ohio village has Just re-
covered $5, 900 from man who has been
'courtin'" her for fifteen years without
coming to the point.
There is said TO be a law in Japan that
any woman who owns cats which disturb
her neighbors at night shall work year
for the person disturbed.
The Scotch have q railway bridge across
the Tay, at Dundee, 1852 feet long, it is
longer than the Victoria Bridge, Montreal,
and the Britannia bridge taken to-
gether.
A carriage containing baby rolled from
q sidewalk in Sacramento against the heels
of a horse, which became frightened and
kicked the carriage to pieces, the Child es-
Gaping unhurt.
A Vermont "horning" party were re-
Gently sprinLled with nitrate of silver by
the bridegroom, who is a photographer,
and the clothes of many of them ruined
Good enough.
The Amador Goal. Ledger asserts that q
man a few days since, had one boot and
one leg of his pants torn off by lightning,
but escaped comparatively unhurt. It's a
laundering tough story.
The debt of Massachusetts is now about
$50, 600, 900, or twice as much as that of
the great State of New York, and five
times as much as that of all the other
New England States.
There is cabinet at Windsor Castle
woich contains lock of the hair of Mary,
Queen of Scots. The lock of hair-a full
tress of beautiful golden harris very fine
in texture, like that of girl of six
teen.
Nebraska man asks people to believe
that his dog deliberately walked in front
of railroad train, laid its head on the
rail, and was killed, because of sorrow for
the death of a child for whom it had
shown strong attachment.
The capers of team of mules hitched
to harvesting machine, near St. Louis,
saved the lives of five men who had taken
shelter from a thunder storm under tree.
The mules began to kick, and the men,
going to quiet them, escaped thunderbolt
that shivered the tree.
Up to the seventeenth century lace
dresses were in France restricted by q
sumptuary law of royalty. In 149l a lace
dress was presented to Anne da Bretague,
on her marriage with Charles VIII,
which was valued at sum equal te
$25o,Ooo
Play has become so high in the Londor
clubs that it is asserted that OF least e..
900, 600 change hands over the card tables
every season, and both honor and fortune
slide down into the whirlpool of ruin. Te
the clubs can be traced the downfall O.
many of the young men of England.
"My greatest pleasure" said Carlyle
! to friend thirty years ago, sis to noun
my horse and ride out in the teeth of tn
wind away from these smoky streets o
London" 1t probably has gone lonl
way to help him to become an octogenar