The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-03-06
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
produces SC, 900 900 pins daily.

England produces so 900 900 pins daily.
Yale has twelve secret societies, larger
number than any other collegiate institu-
ton in the country.
An aged Philadelphian is so devout that
he often drops on his knees in the streets
and loudly prays for those whose sinfulness
he witnesses.
Isaac Friedlander, the wheat king of San
Francisco, sold from his farm last year
$4,000 tons of wheat for $648 900 in gold.
In the general absence of orders for rail
road iron, the rolling mills in the North of
England are going into the manufacture of
heavy house and ship building material.
Nine. Berghmanns, the fascinating and
wealthy widow of Washington who recently
married the clerk of the Alabama Claims
Commission, settled $4,000 year on her
husband.
The Wheeler survey has shown that it
win be exceedingly difficult, if not alto
gether impracticable, to divert the waters
of the Colorado river for the irrigation of
the neghboring desert.
1t is stated chat several species Of canary
seed are now used as food for race horses, on
account of the large proportion of nutritiye
matter which such seed contains, un-
mixed with any Objectionable substances.
A congregation of Roman. Catholics in
Rome, N. Y, has gone over in a body to
the Protestant Episcopal Church. The
members are Germans, and the movement
grew out of quarrel with their priest.
The Brussels omnibuses are now fitted
with letter boxes, in which passengers or
people living along the route may deposit
letters. The boxes are removed and
emptied at the end of each trip. A similar
device has been in practice for some years
on the Chicago street cars.
The secretary of the Navy has decided to
. give to the coral bank off the coast of Spain
the name Of "Gorringe Bank, " in honor
of the discoverer, Lieutenant Commander
Gorringe, of the United States steamer
Gettysburg. =
The chimes of St. Marks, Philadelphia,
are ''harsh, loud, high, and changing"
according to the petition of persons in
the neighborhood, who are pushing the
suit for an injunction restricting the ring
ing to seasonable hours.
Some idea of the value of the oldess
printed books may be formed from the fact
that the contributions TO the Caxton exhibi-
ton sent from Earl Spencer'n Althcrpe Ii.
brary alone have been insured for 955, ,O0G
The Mimic rifle was invented at Vincen-
nes, in 1888, by M. MIME, who was born
in 1900. His rifle was considered to- sur
pass all made previous to it for accuracy of
: direction and extent of range. II was
adopted with various notifications by the
British army in 1852.
Western butter is now shipped extensive
iy to foreign countries. A vast quantity
was recently shipped to England, and it
IS reported that the exports have more than
doubled within year. In round numbers
$4,000 900 pounds were sent foreign ports,
an increase of 100000 pounds over the
export of 1875.
The London Womens Printing Society,
Limited, just established, affords girls an
opportunity of receiving. thorough instruc-
tions in type setting and the lighter
branches of printing. After months
trial the girls are admitted upon three
years. apprenticeship, during which time,
mall but increasing weekly wages are
paid.
Two smuggers adopted the ingenious
plan of building what is termed '"line
store" at Trout river, on the Canada line.
One door opened into Canada and the
other into New York State. Through this
domicile it is charged that they brought
large quantities of shoe serge. and, it is
supposed, many other articles, for which
offense they are now, however, on trial.
At Clapham junction, near London,
no less than 952 trains pass daily, their
rate Of succession during the business part
of the day, being seventy-fve trains per
hour, or one every forty-eightseconcs. At
this point there are thirteen lines of rail-
way and one alone has thirty-hve "points"
or switches, with thirty interlocking sig
nails, all controlled from single "box."
A Western conductor has invented an
ingenious sleeping car contrivance. 1t is a
sliding clamp on the arms of the upper
berth to prevent the closing of that part in