The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-04-20
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in eleven months, and swapped his last
wife for shot gun.
An eminent Dublin surgeon has given
$4,000 to establish a lifeboat on the wild
coast of Kerry in memory of his deceased
brothers.
A single English prelate firmly opposed
the American Revolutionary War-Jona-
than shipley, Bishop of st. Asaph. He
died in 1888.
In17S8 a forged London Gazette extra,
properly stamped, was put in circulation
on the Stock Exchange and the author
was never discovered.
A mob in Winnemucca, New, threatened
to destroy the railroad station and train
of cars, if the company did not remove
passenger who had the smallpox.
Hawk shooting forms quite a business
in Custer county, Colorado. Sixty cents
per head is paid by the County Treasurer.
One man brought in sixty few days
ago.
It is significant how wolf infested
France was early in the century, that in
1902 an English Kings messenger was at
tackled near Boulogne, and his horses badly
bitten.
Mile. Louisa Siefert, who died recently at
Pau, was the only woman whose poetry
obtained admission for her into the ranks
of the "Parnassian school, of modern
France.
Of forty three varieties of apples tested
by M. Truelle, of the Chemical Society Of
Paris, the red American renette was found
to contain the largest amount of sugar.
A Scotchman has proposed that every
body who drinks alcoholic liquors should
be compelled to take out license. This,
at SIS ahead, year, would raise avery pret-
ty revenue.
The superintendent of factory in Can
ada which manufactures paper from wood
says that the process is now SO much i'm
proved that the paper can be made ready
for use in six hours from the cutting of the
tree.
1t is believed by the Chinese that the in
ventor of ink is charged with keeping an
account of the manner in which all ink is
used here below, ana that for every abuse
of it he records black mark against the
offender.
The metrical translation of the lyrics of
Runeberg, the great Swedish poet, by
Eieke Magupsson and E, Fl. Palmer, will
soon be published. 1t will be dedicated by
permission to the King of Sweden.
The colored people in Lynchburg think
that a large meteor, which some of them
saw flashing throguh the sky, formed the
letters M and l.. They are looking for q
seer able to interpret the sign.
For some years past the great garrison
and naval towns of England have been
placed under the operation of what is called
the Contagious Diseases act, and the result
has been that the number of men in the
army incapaeitated by disease fell in such
places from rs per 1000 in 1867 to 20 pei
1000 in 1875.
Benjamin Godfrey and Mollie Winned
ger, lovers, neither over IS years of age
of Norfolk, had trifing quarrel Il
was en- Sunday, and that evening she re
fused to let him accompany her home from
church. He went to barroom, got drunk
went to her house, shot her through tht
heart, and then killed himse If. Both be
longed to wealthy families.
One of the great features in sacred orders
is the number of capital letters required fol
initials to represent their names or the title
of their officers, but Washington coloret
society lays over them all in this regard
its name being ''The Ancient Order of til,
Sons and Daughters of Moses of thu
United States and the World at Large"
Hitherto the names of the streets of tn
thriving city of Gloucester, Mass, hav
existed only in the imagination of it's in
habitants. Since July last a committee ha
been at work naming the streets. Whel
the work is completed, 226 streets ant
courts will have been named, and 800 sign
put up to designate them. The house
will then be numbered, and letter carrier
commence their rounds.
An iron mountain, 0,500 feet high, an,
rivalling the famous iron mountain of Mis-
souri,, has been discovered in Colfax county
, New Mexico. The ore is almost entirei
pure iron, and in connection with the i'm
mense quantities of coal found in Cola
county, this huge deposit of irons ore mus
at no distant day become the source o
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