The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-03-21
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
The Gfeboat was invented by Henry
Greathead, of South Shields, England.

Wisconsin has over 2o,O0o,oo0 acres OF
farming lands which have never yet felt
the plow.
Victor Hugo never wears an over
coat, and goes out in all weathers without
one.
A Southern correspondent says that me-
groes resort to the law on the most frivol-
Gus pretexts.
The Irish friends of convicted mur-
derer in Columbus, Ga, have presented his
counsel with suit of clothes.
A woman in Fairfield, Me-, has a growth
of natural hair eight feet and one inch
long, and has refused, it is said, $4,000
for it.
A Chicago German, who wanted to add
O postscript to letter after he had mailed
it, was found trying to dig up the lamp
post.
A young lady in Wisconsin refused an
offer of marriage on the ground that
her father was not able to support larger
family.
Cowansville, Ont, boasts of a bride who
was recently led to the altar for the
fourth time, and who is not over eighteen
years of age.
A couple on their wedding tour fell into
the hands of three-card monte men on the
cars near Delaware, Ohio, and were re-
lieved of $3.50 and their watches.
The question of compelling foreigners to
take off their overcoats when in the pres
ence of japanese Judge has been referred
to Toxic for solution.
Diptheria may come from sewer gas, as
some physicians assert, but towns without
sewers are generally worse afflicted than
those that have them. How do they ae-
count for that?
The tallest man in the United States is
probably Henry Thurston, native of
Missouri, now residing in Titus county,
Texas, and formerly confederate soldier,
who stands seven feet and six inches in
his bare feet.
Mr.. T. W. Williamson of McConnells-
vile, Ohio, while boring for oil, struck a
vein of gas at depth of 500 feet He has
fitted pipes to it, and heats his house, does
his cooking, and runs pump at another
well with the gas.
The Astor library contains 175, 900 vol
umes. During the past eighteen months,
| $4,000 volumes have been added to the
collection; and within the past year, nearly
$50, 900 has been expended in the purchase
of rare and valuable books, manuscripts,
etc.
On the first day Of the Jewish new year
most of the fifty or sixty thousand He
brews living at Odessa go to the sea shore
to pray and east their last years sins into
the waves, beginning the incoming season
with clean souls. Some turn their empty
pockets inside out and shake them toward
the sea; others only make gesture as il
finging something into it.
At the Merionethshire Quarter Sessions,
in Wales, the other day, the Rector Of
Lanfairp wllgwyngyllgoger tysiliogogogoct
was charged by the Dolgelley Local Board
with obstructing the highway near tha,
town. The Rector of LIanfairpwllgwyngyll
gogertysiliogogogoch, which is parish il
Anglesea, near the Menal Bridge, OWN
property in the neighborhood Of Dolgelley
The name given is an abbreviaton of the
full title of the village.
In 1880 writer in London periodiea
proposed a political union between England
and Ireland, and adduced as an argumen
therefore that, Sin the opinion of man
persons it is no very difficult matter t,
divert the water from the narrower part O
J the Irish channel, near Port Patrick, anc
join Scotland and Ireland together TIL
, distance is the same as between Dover ant
and Calais, and if the one strait be tun
nelled, the other may come to be tunnelled
too.
The late King Victor Emmanuel neve
ate in public. He sat out all State din
ners at which he was obliged to be presen
with his hands resting on the hilt of hi
sword, without tasting anything, excep
,, perhaps some triae at dessert His lon,
and superabundant moustache was tn,
cause of this abstemiousness. He mad
up for it, however, in private, when h
could bind up his obstructives on each sid
( of his face without becoming publ,
laughing stock.
,, Probably the only horse that servet
f through the late war and wound up hi
campaign with visit on duty to the plains
was Old Bill, the roam charger of Col w
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