The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-08-22
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Japan is refining kerosene.

Kissing the bride in church is one of the
lost arts.
Eighteen families in New York count
up $40, 600, 900 among them.
Every sheet of postage stamps is counted
&c times while being made.
BY an earthquake in Cua, Venezuela,
COO persons were killed.
A Boston brewer is using his waste hops
for fuel under his boiler.
An Aberdeen woman has applied to be
appointed constable, despairing of catch
ing man in any other wey.
In 1914 Great Britain, with a population
of Is, 600, 900, had 147, 900 seamen and
marines, and ia line-of battle ships.
The inhabitants of New York speak over
fifty different languages Next to English,
German is the most commonly heard
All Austrian soldiers in active service are
hereafter to carry ticket of identitica-
tion" and packet containing material for
dressing wounds.
The fact came out in q trial in San
Francisco, the other day, that woman
had carried $780, 400 in greenbacks in her
hustle for nearly six months.
The average reign of seven Prussian)
kings of the house of Hohenzolern, in
Guiding the present monarch, has amounted
to twenty three years.
About 1926 the Czar decreed that no
Pole should assume the title of Prince un-
less he had $500 a year, of Count under
1875 year, or of Baron under $125.
"Marriage Ceremonies Performed Free''
is the sign displayed by an Ohio Justice.
He keeps tavern, and is satisfied with
the profit on what the bridal parties eat
and drink.
It is the confession of widower, who
has been thrice married, that the first wife
cures a mans romance, the second teaches
him humility, and the third makes him
philosopher
A ball of popcorn lies in the British
Museum at London, with label on it
reading as follows:-"An article of food in
America greatly liked by the negroes in the
Southern United States"
A big dog in Paris, Ky, is a friend of
drunkards in need. Whenever he sees
staggering man, he sticks to him until
home is reached, or watches at the way
farer's side if he fall in the gutter.
The total production of silk cocoons
amounted upon an average, to $4,000 tons
year during the last five years. Italy
produced far the most, 80, 900 tons; France,
10000; Turkey 1000; Spain, 1900.
Two of the musicians in Queen Victoria's
service being strict Methodists, refused to
practice on Sunday. They were dismissed,
and she has restored them, saying: 81
} shall not permit any of my people to suffer
Oh account Of their religion; and shall moi
allow any rehearsals on Sunday"
At recent wedding the chest man
, handed to the clergyman at the close Of
, the service counterfeit So note instead ol
the ten gold eagles that had been placed
in richly knit silk purse by the groom
and left in his friends keeping. Had thu
note been genuine the fraud never woul(
have been discovered
A loving couple on railroad train, nea
. Elmra, N Y, made known to the con
ductor that they wanted to get married anC
9 asked to be recommended to good clergy
man in the next place. One was found Of
y, the train and they we're coupled while tn
= train stopped at the next station. Th
:, locomotive bell and whistle celebrated tn
G event.
/. A Georgia farmer smeared his hogs wit
n tar to rid them of feas, and turned theI
}, loose in the woods. At night they did nc
. return to the pen as usual, and in tn
! morning he found them stuck togethe
r the tar making them adhere in mass
o They might have gone home, nevertheless
r by concert of action, but it isn't in ho
d to harmonize.
~ One George Foy, young man frol
10 Bordeaux, threw himself from the top
- the Arc de Triomphe in Paris His fanc
~ was to die in a state of nature, and cons'
" quently he divested himself of his clothin
~ before jumping. He had for some tin
~ been subject to religious ecstatics, and I
- - he jumped he shouted, "God calls me; a
- here"
, ehe Coal Trade Journal says that sin'
ID 1910 the fastest Atlantic steamships hay
s, increased their speed from 8.3 to Is