The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-04-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
A mississippi mAs weighs 4le poands.

Mr.. Hemming is tue appropriate name
of the great English neediemaker. |
The genirts who Invented wooden
tooth picks for hotel use has made ever
$4,000. ..,.... ....-a
A New England Puritan mob killed
the first elephant that landed in this
country.
Theirs are about five hundred thonsamd
lace workers In Europe, ons-half of
whom are employed in France.
1t is said that Senator Sharon's i'm
mense Gan Francisco Hotel paws the
wrong way to the tune Of 81 900 a day.
Great Britain has Is 100000 of Mus
sulman subjects, and is next to Turkey,
the largest Mussnlnan power, in the
world.
AA1innesota girl has been serving on
a railroad sfodr Some time as a brakeman.
She dressed in male attire, and was not
suspected for some time. ",-
Gen. Cortina, the notorious Rio Grande
robbes bat recently prisoner in the
City of Mexico. is again at work piunder-
ing and numbering On the frontier.
Charles vsn Few, of Linden, N. T., is
seventeen years Old, weighs eleven
pounds, and is seventeen inches high;
but he refuses all offers from SHOW
men. .,...-...r ..
The negroes Of South Carolina are led
by a fanatic named Palmer. who claims
to be '4the son Of Christ" sent by the
Father to raise the blacks out Of poverty
and lead them to riches.
4 Not less than 100000 persons visited
camp meetings in Ameriea in the course
Of the past summer, and the PROPERTY
used for the these purposes was worth
!, $5;ooGoOo.
\ A Tennessee paper, has discovered that
rum costs the country 5000, 100000 and
the clergy $4,000, 900, wheseat a;profans
contemporary cries for the abolishmeft
! Of the latter on the ground of economy.
! Whena any one is run overin st. Peters
) burg the carriage causing the accident
! is confiscated, the horses are taken to
the fire brigade for public use, aud the
driver is imprisoned and fogged. Hence
, fewer accidents than anywhere else.
Mrs. Bridget Fay, a female pauper in
mate of Longford Workhouse, Eng,
climbed up the face Of the Workhouse
like cat and rang bell at height OF
thirty or forty feet for three hours, in
defiance of the Workhouse Master.
The Turks have battle hymn which
J they sing when they go into battle. II
: is said that the soldierS of the enemy
put their fingers in their ears and rust
madly upon the bayonets of the foe
gladly welcoming death as an escap
from the singing.
Y An Indian walked into the office Of
frontier editor the other day and aske'
l. that his name should be put in the pa
9 per. Next day the paper came out wit
8 an article declaring Indians to be sus
= ceptible to the influences of civiliza
y tion.
8 John B. Cough, so says the Tro,
IS Times, employs a man to travel with hir
d and prevent. him from drinking. Man
/, years ago he lapsed from sobriety, an
y he fears that the old appetite may agai
q overcome him. His income from LEI
le turing is about $4,000 year.
mts Is The initiative Chinaman of Shanghs
is has tried his dextrous hand on a So
note of the Hong Kong and shanghs
OF Banking Company, and has produced a
h article that the most expert teller eoul
ne not tell from the genuine but for tl
Us date is "December 45, 1871"
rd A lady suggests in the Nevada Ie7r
Or er toridl Enterprise that policeman /
m armed with cords instead of clubs. 81
e. says that "a cord or rope could be quicl
.r ly thrown over the Offenders head
shoulders, pinioning his arms, and thu
st. preventing any resistance on his part. y
ed
We A man at Fairview, Ky, with cravin
ic for liquor, after selling everything
~ value where with to buy the stimulal
tn took his few months old child al
ed traded it over the bar for drink
re os whiskey. They child was afterwad T
ps deemed by the mother ON paying for II
ne liquor.
ir, The buildings of the Paris Exhibiti'
n, of 1878 will cover a space of 1,350,0
" u square yards. They are to be of irt
he filed in with brick work, and will ha
by the form of Pythagorean table; i.
ndd if passed through in one direction tt
or similar productions Of different cou
tries may be inspected, while If crosse
is in the other direction the various pr