The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-03-13
ITEMS. OF INTEREST.
Canada papers are making an outcry
rainst tax exemptions.

Italy produces $4,000, 900 gallons of
olive oil annually, and France some u
100000 gallons.
Peter Cooper never travels without an
inhatable rubber cushion. M. Theirs
without footstool fashioned like a va
lse, and DR.. Kenealy, the ."claimant's'
counsel, without All immense umbrella.
Sidney Lanier has written book OF
poems of so explosive a character that
they have to be kept in a glass case
marked, Poetry. Hands, off. Danger
In his diary, John Quincy Adams
wrote this personal note:-Such is hu-
man nature in the gigantic intellect, the
the envioustemper, the ravenous ambi-
ton and the rotten heart of Daniel
Webster.
Captain Boynton recently accom-
plished the task of swimming down the
river Po from Turin to Ferrara, dis
tance of eight hundred miles. in ninct ty-
six hours, without single stoppage.
A copy of the first edition Of Mar
lows Edward H., tragedy" bearing
the date of 1594-the year after the
poets death in a tavern brawl-has
just turned up in Germany. The
earliest edition heretofore known in
England is that of 1898.
The pineapple is cultivated extern
sively In the East Indies, where the
leaves are converted into kind of wad-
ding, used for upholstering purposes
instead of hair, and into sort of flannel,
of which substantial shirts and coats are
made.
The bull worship of the Egyptians
finds its parallel in the fox worship of
the Japanese; dogs are protected from
harm by public edicts in Yeddo, as in
Constantinople; to kill stork is as
great crime in the eyes of the Japanese
as to kill an albatross in the eyes of ar
English sailor.
The pith of the rattan which was
formerly thrown away, is now utilized
in making Jasapori ware. Pretty
baskets, bowls, vases, trays, napkin
rings, and hanging wall pockets, are
made of this material in tasteful de-
signs and decorated with colors.
Last year 3, 1893 unclaimed bodies were
buried from the morgue and hospitals
of Paris. At Pere la Chaise there were
buried during the last fifteen years,
21S, ,312 bodies; at Mont Parnasse, 1885,
$40; and at NJ Montmartre, 95,522. OF the
twenty cemeteries six are beyond the
line of fortitication.
English papers tell of a sea captain,
recently arrived from Bombay, who
saved his vessel during hurricane of
two days. duration by filling two can
vas bags with oil, puncturing each
slightly. and towing them astern. The
oil spread slowly over the water. The
huge waves spent their force at some
distance, and around the ship was a
large space of calm water.
The supreme court of the District of
Columbia has decided, in building as
sociation case, that the association can.
not sell property for fines, but that the
complainant must pay back what he re-
ceived, with the compensation allowed
by law, before he can regain his proper.
ty given in trust to secure the payment
of the sum borrowed
According to an English authority
redness of the nose in both sexes is pro.
duced by inattention to the common
rules for preserving health. With men
the bottle is the predisposing cause
with women, and especially the young
tight lacing. An unnatural pressure or
the waist and chest obstructs the circu
lation, and causes stagnation of the
blood in that prominent and important
feature, the nose.
As an evidence of the desolute char
acter of the Turkish soldier it is sale
that in Constantinople itself there il
scarcely an English lady who has no
at some time been pinched OF intention
ally insulted by the soldiers while pass
ing through the streets. Their only
protection is to follow the example O.
the Turkish ladies', and when out O.
: doors wear the winding sheet and keel
their faces covered.
In Texas all doctors are required, un
der the new law governing the practice
of medicine, to appear before the Coun
ty Board of Examiners appointed by tn
District Court, and stand an examina
tion in chemistry, anatomy, physiolog!
and materia medica, before they can col
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