The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-06-08
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Ten Texas stock 'raisers own 1,oos, 900
head of cattle.
More than 600 patents have been taken
out in England for railroad Car wheels.
The Jewish population of the United
States is 250,O00. Ihey haye 152 syna-
gogues.
There are seventy-two' Post Offices
in the United States managed by wo-
men.
Mrs. Getty, Of Jackson, Tenn, has in
her possession grammar used by Henry
Clay when school boy.
In Montague, Texas, they have SEN
fenced two Browns to be haugod twice for
different Offences
Minnesota has q tramp who has been on
the road for thirty years, and has been all
over the world. He is German.
Girls are of SO little account in China
that parents do not name them, but call
them first daughter, second daughter and
SO on.
The British Empire has 236, 900, 900 in
habitants; the Russian Empire So, 100000;
the French, Il, ,S0O,o 900; tho Ottoman,
Al, 100000.
No weight was used in the hanging by a
Texas mob for the reason that a man was
suspended by moose at each end of the
rope.
A sevef-year- old Chicago boy was go
slightly bitten by dog that the skin was
barely broken. A week afferward he died
of hydrophoOia. .
A rich Belgian philanthropist recently
gave the government 100000 to help
educate the orphans of people killed in
railroad accidents.
.. society woman in Springfield, once di-
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display of finger jewelry by wearing all
four of her engagement and wedding
rings.
A. Wisconsin man has secured 6,S40
. names to petition for a State law to pre-.
vent any Wisconsin female who has taught
school for three years from marrying any
resident of that Stale.
At Finehville, KY. there is the model
hog house Of the country. 1t is built of
stone with hanging roof, and clear
stream flows through the building There
are $40, 600 worth of hogs in it.
1t is stated that there are 5000, ,000 pr-
pills enrolled in the public schools of the
United States. The. average daily attend
ance is 4, 500 900. The estimated popula-
ton between 6 and 16 years of age is
10, 500, 900.
There are in Egypt 765 non-navig0ble
canals used solely for irrigation, and 62
{ canals used both for irrigation and for the
transit of merchandise. Of these canals
over 100 have been opened during the
reign of the XIII i've.
Shortly before daylight one morning
recently San Francisco policeman over.
hauled a suspicious team in that city and
captured $4,000 worth of smugged
opium and about 5000 worth of silk
handkerchiefs.
! To have the negative of his sweetheart
on his arm was the freak of brilliant
, North Carolina youth. The arm had g
n scratch upon it and the cyanide of potash
struck in. 1t began to swell and for twelve
: hours his life was dispaired of.
Clockwork has been successfully ap
c piled as motor to sewing machines by 6
/ mechanic of Vienna. 1t can be wound W
in few minutes, and will run for severa
hours, its speed being meanwhile fully TN
der the control of the operator.
> Mrs. Lda Ammen recently applied t.
!, the Courts of Middletown, Ohio, for an in
j. junction to restrain those who refused he,
r access to her sick husbands chamber, ant
i the defense filed an affidavit from her hus
band to the effect that he had been induced
to marry her through fraud, and didn'
want hnr u oar him
r 1t has been calculated that about 100, 00t
$ boatmen are employed ON the canals o
: England. and Wales, that 10000 womel
n live in them, and the children found adoa
i make up total population of nearly half {
million. No women or children are allowed
to live ia canal-boats in either Scotland OF
+ Ireland.
4 On one side of Mount Etna there is {
famous chestnut tree, measuring nearly
t two hundred feet IN circumference JUS
a above the surface of the ground Its enor