The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-02-26
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Last years copper crop amounted to
800 ,00O, 600 pounds
North Carolina owes $42 900 ,000 N.
G. should stand for "No credit" down
there.
Fanny Davenport mas $50 900 worth of
diamonds and a half interest in big Iowa
tannery.
DR.. r.Spies, of San Francisco, is said to
have the largest and rarest collection of
foreign coins in this country.
Counterfeit dimes are in circulation,
well executed in composition metal, but
lacking the ring of silver.
A London newsboy found SO 900 dia-
mond which he carried about in his pocket
for month without knowing its worth.
Since Yankee Collar Company put up
their collars in tin pail collar box, they
have manufactured 100 tons of the pals,
which cost by the thousand five cents
each.
"Mum's the word" in the Treasury De-
partment until the recent package-robber
is discovered. Meanwhile, the detectives
are looking as wise as owls, and the money
is non est.
Don't put the end of your lead pencil in
your mouth. The frequent practice has
resulted in the ruin of health, and in many
cases in paralysis and death. Besides it is
a vulgar habit.
youth was recently tried in England
for breach of promise, who had written to
his sweetheart 227 love-letters since 1867.
Those letters cost him ElO0, not including
the stationery.
The late octogenarian Governor of the
Persian Province of Ears, upon retiring
from Office, had his soles beaten until he
disgorged $500, 900, and promised to dis
gorge 100000 more of his ill-gotten
wealth.
On panel ina church wall in Valpa
raiso, Chill, is painting representing the
Emperor Of Germany and Prince Bismarck
squirming in the flames of hell, while the
devil is poking the Imperial Chancellor in
the back with red hot fork.
There is farmer living near Mount
Bethel, in this State, who, in the interest
of science, agreed to cut open an old hor-
nets nest, to examine the architecture of
the interior. As soon as he can see and
talk again, what he discovered will be an
nounced.
A young woman of Newburg, Wash
ington County, Wis, seconded by her
her mother, whipped her father be-
cause he would not raise $500 to give
her as a dowry in order to marry
man who wanted his wife to have that
amount.
A remarkable musical organization is
the convict choir at Auburn IN. W
Prison. The organist is sentenced for
grand larcency; the first violin, the first
tenor and double bass are murderers, the
second tenor, basso and sopranos are
are all burglars, and the professor is
forger.
The musk OK is one of the most re-
markable quadrppeds to be found in the
Arctic regions. 1t is about the height of
deer, but is much stouter, and appears
larger than it really is from the great pro-
fusion of long, matted woolen hair
which covers the whole body, and con-
ceals thick coat of extremely fine wool
The head is large and broad, and the horns
very broad at the base, are about two feet
in length.
M. Dubert, French physician, in
paper read before scientific congress, at
tributes the mortality of young children,
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mothers who feed their children improper
ly, and to remedy this he suggests that a
short appendix containing elementary
precepts on feeding and rearing infants
should be printed at the end of prayer
books, missals and religious books gen
orally.
A negro woman belonging to troupe
ofjubilee singers sang religious songs with
so much sweetness and fervor that the
citizens of Otis, Ind, grew enthusiastic in
their admiration. They gave her as "a
testimonial of approval of artistic merit
and humble WORTH" purse full of silver
dollars. She got drunk with the money,
and, when one of the admiring citizens
helped constable to arrest her, she
stabbed him with a knife.
General George Washington was pre-
Else in dress, and probably had many a