The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-10-17
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


males practising as doctors, 420 as den-
lists, five as lawyers, and sixty-eight as
preachers.
American anthracite is now being sold in
southern Italy for $7.72 per ton. Hitherto
English coke costing 11.5o ton has been
almost solely used.
A negro of Bellbuckle, Tennessee, was
the wrong man for lynching party to at
tack. He killed the man who carried the
rope, and wounded two others. They were
glad to let him go.
On Aug. 2S 1859, Col. Drake "struck
OIL" In 1861 exports of petroleum
reached o. 900 barrels, worth $1,000, 900,
while in 1877 the aggregate value of Pc
troleum exported was $G2, ,OO0,000
The contractors for convict labor in the
Vermont State prison gives each prisoner
plug of tobacco every week, and about
2,70O more hats are made year than
would otherwise be turned out.
Washington's will is kept in glass case
in the Office of the Clerk of Fairfax county,
Virginia. The writing has almost al
faded away, and the paper is so frail that
it will not bear handling.
A conductor on the Portland & Roches-
ter railroad has just received legacy of
$4,000 from an old man, supposed to be
a pauper, to whom he rendered some
kindness few years ago.
Over ffty-three million gallons of water
from Artesian wells are daily used in irri-
| eating lands in Hoquois county, Ill. There
are 200 wells in radius of twenty miles,
| none of them over Is feet deep.
Among the assets of bankrupt Ken
| lucky farmer was an elephant, which he
had bought at an auction sale of circus
| property a year before, and which had
doubtless hasteued his financial disaster.
A boy of five died in Manchester, Eng.
from hydrophobia, caused by the bite of a
cat. The wound healed, and he appeared
to be cured until few days before his
death, when he began to rave.
A notorious thief preached to o North
Carolina Baptist congregation six months
| - fnp,,l ont tlnf ha rot n
clergyman. His conduct during that half
year was excellent, his sermons eloquent,
and he says he intended TO turn over new
leaf
OF one hundred and sixty-four samples
of much abused boarding house butter re.
Gently tested in New York City, one hun
dred and sixty one were found to be of q
higher grade than usually found in private
families.
| New Jersey takes the lead in the States
in the manufacture Of window glass. L
has 81 factories. Pennsylvania has 80
New York. II; Massachusetts, Illinois
and Maryland, each 5; West Virginia ant
Missouri, each 2; Indiana, 8; and Micli
gan, Wisconsin, and Iowa, apiece.
1t was thirteen years ago that Dennisor
Crandall was left for dead by robbers il
Drookfeld, N. Y, and his wife killed; bu
he remembered the faces of the murderer
SO we'll that, recently he identified one o
them on sight. The man had hoped that
after so many years, he might safely re
turn to that part of the country.
The entire amount OF gold in the worlt
at present is estimated at $1,000, 1000, ,00
in value in United States coinage. Thi
immense sum is hardly comprehensive
: to the mind, but if it were put in soil
mass it would measure only seventeen fee
high, twenty ght feet wide and fifty 81
feet long.
A convict at Auburn escaped hard wor
during Gs confinement of two and hal
years by feigning paralysis. He was S
successful in the fraud that he was lifte
s-hout by attendants, and on his release ha
to be carried to the depot and placed i
the cars. An hour afterward he visited til
prison. officials and astounded them at hi
speedy and full recovery.
: In 1855 the firm of Sir John Dean Pa,
4 & Co., bankers in London, failed, and til
: partners were punished for fraud, Sir Joh
g being sent to the penal colony, then i
e Australia. The liabilities were $2, 500, O0(
e and dividends amounting to about u thir
r of the Indebtedness have been paid A las
4 dividend of one cent in five dollars hs
0 now been declared.
1t is said that 5000, 900 person in Franc
y are afflicted with inability to distinguis
= colors (Daltonism). The number wome
7 so afflicted, as compared with the numb'