The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-01-30

davenport, Iowa, mas had lts WlcKeu
clergyman. He borrowed money Of church
folks, forged checks, and absconded.
Mr.. Lyman, Geologist of the japanese
Government, estimates that there are in
the Island of Yesso 150, 100000 tons of
coal
| The Oherokees constitute an indie
pendent civilized nation, with a public
debt of $1s7, 900 and $5G6.6G in the
treasury.
Refusing 10 serve the office of Lord
Mayor of London renders an Alderman
liable to a fine Of $4,000, which Sir B..
Hammet had to pay in 1898.
A French pnper observes that philoso-
pliers pass their lives in not believing in
what they see, and trying to guess at what
they don't see.
Switzerland has passed iaw prohibiting
children under the age CT fourteen from
being employed in manufactures after the
first of next May.
There is a crusade against dancing in
Baltimore social circles. Many young
ladies who are church members are drop
ping the amusement from their list of party
engagements.
Wolves are becoming so plentiful and
ravenous about River Falls, Wis, that the
heaviest sheep raisers are selling off their
stock, and either emigrating on going out
the business.
A Judge in Wilmington, Del, has so
profound aregard for custom that, having by
mistake sentenced murderer to be hanged
on Tuesday, he had the man atraigned
again to change the time to Friday.
Ben You vas gone back to China after
making $100, 900 in the cigar business in
San Francisco Considering the relative
value of money in the two countries, lie
will be enormously wealthy at home.
A St. Louis Clergyman went off on a
revival mission, and while he was away
from home his housekeeper suspended a
little girl by her thumbs and whipped her
until she was Scared from head to foot.
A German gentleman who is anxious to
PITT down the immense trade done in
deleterious wines, has had many samples,
bought in hotels and restaurants, analyzed
and several didn't contain any juice of the
grape whatever
bear got away from its owner in ST.
Louis and half a dozen police officers tried
to throw a moose over its Head. Bruin
lodged it every time. At length two men
held the lasso open and an officer got on
the other side and held an apple in his
fingers The bear went for the apple and
fell into the trap.
DR.. vignolles, Dean of Kilkenny, who
lately died aged SO, was the descendant of
one of the many French families who
settled in ireland after the revocation of
the Ediet of Nantes, and was the last per-
son to read the English liturgy i'll French
at the French church at Portarlngton.
Caroline Bauer, wife of Count Ladislas
Platter, is dead. In early life she was an
actress and a renowned beauty. Captivat-
ing Prince Leopold, they were secretly
married. but years afterward, on his
becoming King of the Belgians, the union
was quietly dissolved and in 1874 she was
married to Count Platter
One who has visited the temple of the
Three Thousand Gods in Kyoto, Japan,
says that one thousand of them are life size
and hold the smaller ones in their hands
| They stand in ranks like soldiers. Every
one is richly gilded, and as the sliding doors
of the great temple We're thrown back and
the sun shot its rays along the line it made
a spectacle of dazzling splendor.
Ling Lok, a sleight-of- hand performer
and Yamadina, eontortionist, Travelled
for several years in this country. They
| shaved their heads and wore Chinese clothes
but really were Austrian brothers named
Guder. Recently they went to China, anG
in Hong Kong the contortionist burst q
blood vessel HIile performing, and died
john Garter, sea captain, went tc
Manchester, Mass, to get married. He
found that the town Clerk was away from
home, and nobody else had the right to
give license. His vessel was to sail on the
morrow, SO that delay was out of the
question. In this emergency towr
meeting was held, and temporary CLERK
elected.
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