The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-12-16
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

i "Fm q yard wido and all WOOL" Is o
Kentucky way of describing high state Of
hilarity.
The national debt of England now stands
by the most resent return, at So, $685.
997, $50.
A Summit (NIass.) negro stole the spade
left at the grave while waiting for the
funeral procession.
An old lady ninety years of nge recently
walked from Philadelphia to Reading Pa,
in four days.
The Cyprus ladies wear pants; but they
don't make fools of themselves by talking
about them all the time.
A new cannon has recently been tested
in the Krupp artillery grounds, Bredelar,
which is fired ut the expense of $3.50 q
shot.
Mrs. Bridie's favorite COW walked in the
St. Johns River at Picolata recently to
cool herself, and an alligator had fine
breakfast.
A shark was hauled ashore at Branford,
Conn. After five hours, and when he
seemed dead, he snapped off a finger that
was stuck into his mouth.
German and Austrian law forbids the
sale of dead fish. The fish are brought
from the sea and river in tanks, and are
killed after being sold.
The hat worn by Napoleon Bonaparte
at the battle of Austerlilz was sold in Paris
recently. Documents proving its genuine
ness accompanied it.
California gets fully one third of its su-
gar from the Sandwich Islands. Since the
making of the reciprocity treaty San
Francisco spectators have been snatching
up sugar lands in these islands.
There is colored boy living near Cul-
pepper, Virginia, whose skin is exactly
like that of snake, creases and diamond
shaped scales being plainly dis"ernible ON
oil the unexposed portions of the body.
A new rope making material has been
found in the fbrous leaves of New Zea-
land aloe. The long, tough threads are
said to exceed iron wire of the same thick
ness in tenacity, and they are not affected
by immersion in salt water.
| When Nevada miner is overcome by
the heat and begins to kinck up in his
bowels and grow delirious, his brother
miners Just carry him off and rub the
knots out of him with o pick-handle.
Rough but effective.
Portugal has but one university, Coim-
bra, founded in 1900. It has 70 instructors
and l, 1CO students. There are 2,45O ele-
mentary schools, and parents whose chill.
dren cannot read and write by Is lose
their political rights.
Five Italian ragpickers had narrow es.
cape from death at Bridgeport. They
went to sleep on a track i'll the railroad
yard, and would have been crushed by a
switch engine as it came dasbinB along
had it not jumped the rails just before il
reached them.
A convict in Paris prison La Roquette
having distinguished himself by good con
duct, has been appointed by the abb
Crozes sacristan to the chapel of the Jail
The convict therefore ministers daily a
the altar to the priest during mass, ant
keeps the chapel in order.
While grubbing up stump, Hun
County (Trxas) farmer struck an old iro
? pot, holding 1926 in silver and fifteen $2
gold pieces. On top of the money was
silver goblet marked Myric, the name G
= o family which disappeared during th
i war.
In Newcastle, England, on the registe
' of St. Andrews Church, is the followin
}, entry: "April "a, 1893, were buried jaime
). Archer and his son Stephen who, in I'll
D. u month of May, 1868, were drowned
IS Il coal pit in the Gala Flat by the breakin
st in of water from an old waste. The bodi
were found after thirty.six years al
eleven months"
d A coroner of Kilbarry, Ireland, &: on il
d quest on a man killed by mad null, So
sternly to the owner of the beast.
If must ask you to part with the anima
ID Ship him. He is not fit to have about tt
ID place. If you sell him here you will like
have some more Irishmen killed. Sh
r him, and if he is to kill any person let it
lie an Englishman."
Here is an instance of British red tap
r. During the Crimean war scurvy was rife
n the army, and to check its progress Lo
n Stratford de Redcliffe sent up shipload
yeoetnbles. The latter, however, q