The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-02-19
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Calcutta makes 100000 bags yearl.

the war vessel tonnage at $4,000 tons.
English ferrets are used extensively
at Oshkosh, Wis, to mitigate the plague
of rats.
Bull, Cow, and Calf are the names of
three Kentucky streams that empty into
the Sandy river.
The Supreme Court of New Jersey has
decided that bonus paid for loan, in
addition to the legal rate of interest,
can be recovered back.
A rich merchant in San Francisco
whipped his son numerically, and the
son has begun a lawsuit to recover
damages.
1t is said that the peculiar odor
and great strength of Russia leather
are owing to the use of white birch bark
in tanning.
A man who had once been wealthy and
candidate for Mayor was recently in
a Boston police court, ragged and bloat-
ed as common drunkard.
Two springs have just been discovered
in Nevada that flow about eighty or
ninety gallons of petroleum per day.
The oil is almost colorless,
One-tenth of 1 per cent. of the whole
atmosphere contains oxygen enough
for the supply of the whole popu-
lation of the world for 10000 years.
The first bank in the United States
was the bank of North America, Or
ganized January 7th, 1772, at Philalel-
phia, and it is still transacting an extern
sive business in the Quaker City.
Chief Justice Taney was slave of to-
bacco. He ate and drank little, but
smoked necessarily. When his ply
sician prescribed short allowance he
would reduce the supply tothirty or
forty cigars day.
An unknown hater of Louis Napoleon
has badly mutilated picture in the
Paris Luxembourg, by the celebrated
Aeissonier. 1t represented the late
Emperor at the head of his staff. His
head was almost entirely cut out. The
picture was similarly damaged three
years before.
In the Department of Bscay, France,
every land owner mnst plant two sap
lings for every timber-tree he cuts down.
In Java the birth of every child is ceIe-
brated by planting fruit tree, which is
as carefully tended as the record of the
age of the child whose birth is register
ed.
A new industry has started in Han
cock County, Me. - extracting tanuin
from sweet fern. From ton of sweet
fern barrel of extract tannin is made,
worth twenty-five dollars and also
barrel of second quality, worth seven
dollars and fifty Cents per barrel.
A Biblical scholar in Germany has
been doing some pretty close figuring to
determine the dates of events described
in the Old Testament, and announces as
one result the discovery that Noah is
sued from the Ark on September 18th,
3446, at six O. clock in the evening.
During the prevalence of the yellow
fever in Savannah about fifteen hundred
people died, and out Of a POPULATION of
about eighteen thousand. Among them
We're five Roman Catholic priests, one
Episcopal and one Methodist clergyman
two physicians, nine druggists and as-
sistants, six Sisters of Mercy, and mum
erous nurses.
With view to ascertain the time that
would be occupied in bringing an iron
cIdQ lilo aCLlDH, InS LhulnlIdl COlDlna0u-
ing the British fleet in Biscay Bay re-
Gently had the "turn out" sounded in
the middle of the night, without any
previous warning to officers or men.
The whole ship was cleared and the first
gun fired within seven minutes after the
alarm.
Professor Johnstrup, the naturalist
who has been engaged in perilous and
difficult explorations in the desolate vol
canic regions of Iceland, comforts the
icelanders with the assurance that the
activity of the volcanoes has undoubted-
ly ceased for a long time to come He
reports also that the belief that there is
gold, silver, and iron ore in the Island is
entire unfounded. Iceland has not even
coal seams. The condition for the
presence of these ores are all want
ing.
Recently there died at the Jardin des