The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-07-16
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Masked balls are not allowed in Bosto

Fifty mounted men and a hundred dogs
couldn't catch fox in Bourbon county,
Kentucky. E..
The petty thief has only to steal $11
worth Of property in Kentucky to escape
the whipping post
Major Williamson's surveying party have
ascertained the height of Mount Hood,
Oregon, to be II, 225 feet.
Out of III ladies in Michigan University
only four have taken to law. How many
have taken to lawyers is not stated.
It now requires eighteen months to OBJ
tain divorce in Georgia. The suit has
to pass through three terms of the court.
A full pack Of playing cards was discov-
cred under the pulpit of the Saybrook,
Conn, Methodist Church by workmen who
we're making repairs.
An exchange claims that the most notable
mild winters for the last eighty years have
been in the decade of 1898, 1903, 1918,
1928, 1888, 1913, 1853, 1868 and 1878.
Mrs. Phillips, of Hopkins, Ky, went out
to shoot her husband, from whom she had
parted, and who was throwing stones at
her house. By mistaken aim she killed
her brother.
William Pavitt of St. Paul, on being ar
rested for branding his unruly sons tongue
with hot iron, said that things had come
to pretty pass, when parent could not
discipline his own children.
Eleven boys in Napa, CAL, formed q
brigand club, and started out for adventure.
During week they stole food by day and
camped at night. Then their frightened
parents overlook, captured, and whipped
them,
A pocket book and $35, which lady of
New Britain, Conn, had lost over year
ago, were recently returned to her by a
Moody and Sanksy convert. Moody s
sermon on "Restitut;on," at Hartford,
did the business.
Mr.. Brassy, NJ. P, claims that within
four years three thousand railway en-
ployees have been killed in Great Britain
and twelve Thousand injured. Measures
are being taken to force the railways to un-
dertake to lessen these casualties.
In the United States there are 10000
miles of telegraph lines and 6, $50 telegraph
Offices, or one mile of line to every SO
square miles of area. England has Is, 900
niles of line and 5000 offices, or one mile
of lie to every Il miles of area. Russia
| has 81, 500 miles of line and 900 Offices, or
one mile to every $50 square miles Of
area.
A stradivarius violin, signed and dated
1909, was sold at the Hotel Drouot in Paris
recently. 1t was put up at $4,000, and
knocked down for the large sum or $4,420.
| During the sale there was great press oil
the curious to get sight of the instru.
ment, and table was suddenly upset and
three or four persons standing on it were
overturned amid the general confusion Of
the crowd.
A young girl employed in public house
in Belfast, Me-, has passion for killing
cats. She shuts the victim in a room
watches her chance to catch it by the
hind legs, gives it swing and dashes it
brains out. At one time she had five laic
out at once. Her hands have been fear
fully bitten and clawed by the animals, but
she still follows her deadly war on thu
felines
A most remarkable escape from instan
death recently occurred in the case of
Chicago young man who tried to commi
suicide by shooting himself. He held tht
pistol near his heart and the ball passed
through the lower tube of the left lung
grazed the apex of the heart, almos
touched the stomach and came out within
very short distance of the spine. THU
the bullet missed by hairs breadth every
vital spot in it's course, and the man is nov
well and is likely to recover.
Plants sleep at night, as is well known
but their sleeping hours are matter O.
habit, and can easily be disturbed
French Chemist recently exposed a sensi
tive plant to bright light at night ant
placed it in dark room during the day
The plant at first appeared much puzzled
1t opened and closed its leaves irregularly
in spite of the artificial sun beaming upor
it at night, and, in the daytime, it some
times awoke. 1t finally submitted to thu
change, unfolding itself regularly at night
and closing in the morning
King Victor Emanuel was especial,
fond of fight. At the battle of Goito, il
1919, he charged, at the head of regiment