The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-12-07
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

vania.
Forty-thres English Waterloo officers
survive.
OF the 5000 voters in Lynn, Mass,
about 8, SOC are shoemakers.
The King of Siam has 5000 wives, all
living under one roof at Bangkok.
Sixty thousand dollars worth of sponges
were sold in one day lately at Key West.
A st. Louis woman died in convulsions
on learning that her lover was counter
feiter
Burke loathed Sheridan to such degree
that he always quilted room when the
latter entered it.
In 1913 France had eleven million land
owners, of whom half did not pay more
than five francs year in taxes.
Opposing lawyers fought with inkstands
in q court at lebanon, Ind, spattering
the walls and the presiding Judge as well
as themselves.
man of seventy and woman of thirty
were married in Augusta, G., and immedi-
ately after asked for certificate to the
| Poorhouse.
The King of Burmoh recently impris-
|
oned all his Ministers for several hours
because they were not punctual in attend
ing council.
The new rules of jais in ireland require
prisoners to lie on planks and sleep with
their clothes on for the first month. Ex-
perience shows this to be torture.
An old man in Virginia City, New, hav-
ing regained the power of speech a4ser
five years of paralysis, does little else but
swear. 1t is said that he is making up for
lost time.
The coal area of Illinois is estimated at
5000 square miles, which is three times
rs extensive as the coal area of Onio and
Pennsylvania 1t comprises one-tfth of
all the productive coal fields of the United
States.
A tramp few days ago begged piece
of bread at the house of II prominent cltl-
zen of Erie When the proprietor came to
the door he reco ,nized former oil prince,
whose business capital recently was 5000,
0U0.
A bullock, the property of farmer
near Peterborough, i'll England, tossed
boy six years old, who was teasing it, into
n dyke of water The animal then jumped
Oh the child and lay on Linn i'll the water
till life was extinct.
bill for 2oS suppers was presented to
young man in Port Austin, Mich, by a
father whose daug ghter had been courted
for four years by the young man and then
deserted. lie was always in time for tea
ZACH Sunday night of the term.
There is IA Jail in Deadwood, log hut
8Ox2O, within which is u smaller one with
iron grating doors. 1t is whitewashed
and surrounded by II six-foot fence. The
guard is composed of one muscular man
and four bull dogs.
, An English ice ship, going to Bombay,
was struck by linshtning near the fore
rigging. Tue bolt then went down into
the body of the ship, making hole about
two feet in diameter through the ice. Ii
next took circular direction, and melted
about thirty tons of ice before it made its
exit through the ships quarter.
1 At Texas ball large number of marriee
J.. womrn who had brought their bable'
0 found it impossible to dance unless some
/, of the young men became nurses. Th.
Young men took the babies into another
e room, and changed their clothes, so tina
a when the mothers reached home that nigh
a there WAS CONSERVATION over the inter
= changes.
Seventy two years ago this pacard wal
It posted on the walls of Berlin:-"Fh'
King has lost battle. 10 be calm Is to
t. day the first duty of a citizen; invite til
l. neople of b, rin to fulfil it. The King am
" his broth rs are alive. Signed, Count Vol
=, schulenburg, Berlin, October II, 1906.
'r The battle that had been lost was that o
,e Jana.
A Washington young woman awok
a from her sleep with II confused sense o
r, somebody standing over her. She reache
out her hands, which fell on. the lead of
lg burly negro burglar. She clutehed tn
,e wool firmly and shouted, Somebody com
here quick" The male members of til
10 family rushed in just as the strength
n the young girl gave way, aud the burgla