The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-05-07
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

An English scientist has kept an eel for
90 years and it is as lively as ever.
The Italian Government has forbidden
Henri Rochefort to live in Italy.
A lemon tree at Stanford, Fla, pro-
duced 5000 lemons last year, some OF
which weighed pound each.
Twenty-three hundred wells were COM
pleted in the Pennsylvania oil regions last
year.
Philadelphia supports 5,455 taverns and
beer saloons-7IS more than at the lst of
June, 1875.
The mammoth sponge that was found in
Florida is twelve feet in circumference,
and weighs nineteen pounds.
The famous German vio1inist, Joachim,
has received the degree of Doctor of Mu-
sic from the University of Cambridge.
Mr.. Charles Blanc of Paris has discov-
cred a mode of giving plaster the consis-
tency of marble, and Of bronzing it.
The town of Wales, in Maine, by no
means remote from civilization, has man
aged to get along for fifteen years without
doctor, lawyer, minister, or pauper.
The Philadelphia Tines tells of bar
ber who advertises "silent shaves," and
whose shop is, in consequence, crowded
from morning until night.
DR.. Petermann, the eminent German
geographer, has received grant of $780,
coo from the Portuguese government to
aid him in exploring the interior of Africa
by way Of the Congo River.
A London magistrate is in favor of ar
resting all women who wear pockets at
the back of their jackets. He says street
boy can hardly have a greater inducement
to steal handkerchiefs than this.
An aged woman in Indianapolis is sup
ported in luxury by her wealthy son, but
he will not provide her with tobacco to
smoke; and consequently she knits stock
ings, sells them, and thus obtains the one
thing that the son denies her.
France and Germany continue to be en-
barrassed in their relations by distrust in
both countries. The French having de-
clared that the Germans were fotifying
Metz, the Berlin press reply by intimating
that the French Government is importing
corn for army purposes.
An exhibition of historical costumes of
great interest has been formed at Bor-
deaux, including those of the celebrated
dwarf of the King of Poland, the court
habit of Voltaire, a jeweled dress Of Louis
XVI. and the red robe of Cardinal de
Richelieu.
The manufacture of cigars is becoming
an important industry in Cincinnati. In
1870 there were $50 manufacturers in that
city, who turned out 25,OoO,0OO cigars, on
which they paid tax of $l25 900. In
1876 there were 400 manufacturers, who
turned cht 1oO, 900, 900 cigars and paid a
tax of 5000, 900.
A correspondent informs the Sheffield
Telegraph that an urn full OF old coins,
dating 200 years after Christ, has been
dug from the Cloud-Hill Lime Rocks
Breedon, Leiesstershire. The workmer
making the discovery, it is stated, SOLD
them. The Secretary Of State become ac.
quainted with the circumstance and
and claimed them treasure trove" be.
longing to the Crown.
The number of pins produced daily ir
England is SO 600 900, of which Birming-
ham produces 81 ,o00, 900, leaving r3,0o0,
900 as the production of London, Stroud
and Dublin, where pins are also made
The weight of wire consumed annually in
the pin manufacture Of England is abou:
one thousand two hundred and seventy.
five and a half tons, or 2 1857 ,l20 pounds.
A French railway company at Ivry is
building novel car, to be used on the lit
tie railroad between Bayonne and Biar-
ritz. 1t is of iron, panelled with wood
and will seat 80 passengers. 1t has bag
gage room and smoking room, separate
compartments for three classes of passen-
gers, and interior stairway leads to a
covered upper story, from which fine
view of the scenery of the route is af
forded.
AT Walsall, England, it has been de,
cided to exclude the Ten Commandments
from the religious teaching in the board
schools, on the ground that difficulties
would arise in explaining the fourth and
seventh commandments to children The
passage from the New Testament has been
substituted, running, "Thou shalt love the
Lord thy God," &c.
American goods are forging ahead.
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