The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-08-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

On December /, 1877, the population of
Berlin numbered LOIS, SIS. In 1850 it
was on 500, 1000.
No proposal for canonization can be en-
tertninrd in the Roman Catholic Church
until person has been dead fifty years.
When you walk pray once; when you get
to sea, twice. when you 60 to be mar
ried, three tines-says Russian pro-
verb.
The German School Gazette states that
there are in the German empire, in round
numb RS, 10000 primary schools and
G,OOO, 600 scholars.
We hear odd things being sent through
the New York Post Office, such as live
snakes. turtles, &C., but short time ago
a gooseberry pie was forwarded through
the London General Post Office.
New York woman, who was fined for
drunkenness, the oth.r day, refused to
pay the fine, but ofere the judge bag of
coffee, and when he declined, flung it at
his head
on a railroad track. He saw locomotive
coming, probably mistook it for hostile
beast, and boldly confronted it. He
was extensively damaged, and aston
iShed.
Out of 429 British peers whose addresses
are given in the Parliamentary Directory,
233 live in t4A southwest district of Lon
don 1875 in tie west, and only one in the
north. None live in any of the eastern
districts, although they are by far the
most populous.
1t is stated as significant fact in the
experience of prison keepers that while
wives constantly visit and condole with
their husbands when imprisoned, hus-
bands seldom or never visit their erring
wives in prison, but almost invariably de-
sert them in their trouble.
A tramp saved a night train on the Ken
lucky Central Railroad from destruction,
by signaling it with his shirt that lie had
stripped from of his back and set on fire.
He had discovered large tree that had
blown across the track, and adopted this
method to prevent accident,
Twenty years ago New Hampshire
man named Lewis stepped on needle,
which broke as it entered his foot, but the
pieces were not removed. Last summer
tie eye half came out through sore under
his left knee, and not long ago the remain
der was taken from the feshy portion of
his right hand.
In January, 1875, Northumberland
England) gentleman named Silvertop
married widow named Pearson, 'rh re
were unique circumstances attending this
union. Mrs P.'s first husband had been
Quaker, her second a Roman Catholic, and
tLe third was an Episcopaljan. Each hus-
| band was exactly twice her age at mar
riage-the first 32 the second 20, and
silvertop 3d.
New York has 21, 900 tenement houses
out of rs, OO0 buildings. There are 1000
business buildings. If 50,0 900 buildings, a
large estimate, are used for residences OF
single family to each they will hold 250,-
600 people, for families average about five.
This leaves about $50, 600 people to live in
the q 900 tenements or about 30 to each
tenement.
In England the class among whom the
rate of mortality is highest are the inn
keepers. For this there can be but one
cause-drink, The class highest in the
scale of vitality are the barristers, who are
) not, as class, distinguished for habits Of
total abstinence. The death rate is highe
among clergymen than lawyers. 1t is
curious fact, too, that mortality is create
among solicitors, who lead much les
, stirring and bustling life, than among bar
t risters.
! Recently one of the young lady pupil
at the Rogers High School in Newport pu
:, her hat on quickly when her days studle
r we're concluded, and proceeded towar
r her home. She noticed something strang
: about her head, but determined to wa
until she got to her residence before seein
S what was the matter. On arriving ther
: and divesting herself of the head gear,
o large mouse was found lying snugly inside
/ Sensation followed, which the young lad
!, !, got bravely over.
d Alaska is a wonderful place for thieve
h A correspondent of the San Francisf
q y Chronicle says one merchant in sitka hlr
Indians to steal for him, and recently Shll
ped away a ton of copper that they had take
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