The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-08-15
ITEMS OF INTERECT.
Holland has 10, 600 windmills.

IN Cnlna lOU caHcetcu poStiSe bLaups
will buy baby.
josh Billings makes SEC year by
bad spelling.
Beautiful women can always afford to
dress simply.
There are about 8, 900, OCO Israeitos scat
tered throughout Russia.
Shop girls in Belfast are provided with
chairs, and can sit down when not busy.
Four of the signers of the Texas Declara-
ton of Independence are still living.
An Englishnan rode some 900 miles
on a velocipede in six days recently.
New York company is said to send
200, 600 pounds of oleomargarine to Eng
land every week.
A Meriden (Conn. cat rang the door bell
the other night, because she wished to get
into the house.
Ten per cent of the husbands income is
what it is legally decided in England he
shall pay for his wife's dresses.
One Frenchman was purchasing COW
from another While the note was lying
on a post the COW ate it. Whose loss was
that ?"
It takes about $50, 600 lead pencils day
to keep the United States marking on
paper. $4,000, 600 are used in year, cost
ing nearly $4,0oo,o0
A Chinaman fell into fume in Placer
vile, Cal, was swept with frightful veloci-
ty through tunnel 800 feet long, and
dropped forty feet intoa canon, but lie
was not much hurt.
Several thousand years ago seven per-
sons engaged in a deadly combat in what is
now Lyons, KY. Their skeletons recently
unearthed, show by the attitudes that they
were fighting when they died.
The latest French idea in railroading is
| to have the track between important sta
tons reflected upon great mirror at each
station, so the master can watch the
actual progress and position of all trains.
The New Haven City Court is determined
to punish contempt. A woman was sent
UP for thirty days for drunk 4nness. She
insulted the Judge. He gave her thirty
days more. She repeated the offence and
he made it sixty. Then she became silent.
1t has been noticed that European bees,
when imported in Australia, for year or
two keep their hives in good order, and
make very fair amount of honey, but
after that time they become idle AMI wholly
unproductive. An explanation of this
curious fuct would be OF great interest.
Here is anovelty--a strike among pau
pcrs. The inmates Of the old poor-A house
at Sheffield, Eng, were lately sent to work
on the new house, when they took offense
at the hash and refused to do anything
till that kind of vittluS should be investi-
gated.
A Piute Princess in Nevada married a
white man and took him home to camp,
but the coppery ariatocr"ts ruled him Out
at poker, shaved his head, caressed linn
with clubs and informed him that his re-
ception had just begun. lie concluded not
to make his home in the setting sun and
returned to civilization.
Two young men, twins, of Hurt county,
Ga, worked out their fathers debts, il
compliance with his death bed request
They were thirteen years of age when they
began, and attained their majority before
finishing. Although frequently told that
they were neither legally or morally bound
to do SO, they persisted until the last cent
was paid.
A peasant named Yang, who had ex
hibited remarkable literary gifts, died il
Norway recently in his S3l year. Ht
never ross beyond humble Office IN the
village school, but he published severa
important collections of folk music anG
folk songs, and in 1871 brought out re
markable volume of local legends. HI
lived entirely among the people and sup
ported himself partly by teaching ant
partly by breaking stones.
Twenty-six years ago man went from
Wilbraham, Mass, to California, leavin!
$500 as loan to farmer in whom he pu
more trust than in savings banks. II
! wrote letters about the money from time t
, time, and supposed it was safely drawin
! interest. Recently he came across tn
= continent to collect it, the sum of prncips
e and interest amounting to $4,000; but tn
farmer who is wealthy, refused to pay
0 cent, on the ground Chat the note was ou
e lawed. The man had to borrow none
d with which to get back to Calilor
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: The barking of the cork tree-a gpeci