The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-06-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
A cradle in Connecticut family is oveN
twt, hundred yeorr did

A little girl at Conshohocken, P6., has
died from the scratch of a cat.
Lady ushers are the most vigorous and
persistent at the Paris opera.
About six thousand barrels of -four are
consumed daily in Boston.
It appears by recent report that $4,000
children are employed in factories in Ger
many.
A Cleveland county N CO. man has had
three just and lawful wives in the last
year.
For The last $50 years the lawyers fee
in England has been six shillings and
eight pence.
Cabbages weighing twenty and twenty
three and third pounds are on exhibition
at Stockton, Cal.
England has among her clergy million
aires and paupers. Tie Rev. Francis Swan,
lately deceased, left $l,75O.00O person
ally.
Forty one girls applied for admission to
the new Boston Latin School, and only
one of them was rejected at the examina-
ton.
Parisians are tired of losing their pocket
| handkerchiefs at the wash, and now they
have their photographs executed i'll the
centre of each.
A young woman of Woolwich, Me-, aged
23, married man SO on payment of ST.
900, which was the price he offered and
and she was sold for.
Aldermen MarEley and Nalle fought
with knives in the Common Council cham
Der in Austin, Tex, over pending meas
ure, and Markley was killed.
The San Francisco Legislature has
passed bill forbidding any physician to
advertise that he is expert in any particular
branch of practice.
Miss Mary Hampton, a pretty school
mistress of Memphis, has been indicted by
The Grand Jury for series of unusually
clever forgeries, and has disappeared.
A black and tan terrier, in Raleigh, N.
J., irritated by the vociferous growing of
game-cock, attacked him, and, after a
fteen minutes fight killed him.,
Custom forbids Turkish Sultans to wear
INV article of dress twice. From fez to
| slippers, he must be clothed anew each
lay, and the worn clothes are relinquished
10 an attendant.
Galveston is perhaps the only city in the
and that can guard herself against tramps.
She is located on an Island, and all she
has to do is to station policeman at the
end Of the bridge.
Prisoners in the jail in Beloit, Wis,
,asily overpowered and gagged the Sheriff,
,ut found a barrier to their escape in the
lucky person of the Sheriffs wife, who
Kept them at bay with revolver until helE
1 anne.
The correct thing at funerals in Rhode
y Island is an equal number of male and fe
t male pall-bearers, the males taking thu
right and the females the left of the coffin
y At least that is the way it was done at
recent Woonsocket funeral.
d OF late years quite passion has grow
- in Paris for handsome books. Ancient AM
h rare works are sold for fabulous prices,
" is not unusual for volume to fetch 100
e. or 1000 francs. Publishers find bette
a sale for handsome editions than fo
le others.
An aged colored man recently carrie
IA 81, 900 in gold and silver to the Farmer
Sc Bank of Delaware, at Wilmington, Del,
being the sum of his hoardings since /
TX was young man. He said he had kept
~ ~ in an old chimney, and some of the silvt
being black and smoked corroborated b
es story.
I'd In Rhode Island there are 4,447 sing
women who pay taxes, and their avera(
1g property is $4,5lO each. The large
r, amount on which any one of them is tax
is 1856, 100, owned by Providence woma
I'd and thirty other widows or unmarried W
Ic- men in the city pay taxes on proper
e' averaging 800, 600 to each.
'oe A novel use of telegraph has recent
ce been adopted in Norway In years p'
ce the herrings which come up from the
to spawn have often accomplished tn
'es purpose and gone back again before t
ce- people could be notified and go out to ca
ly ture them, but now line of submarl
cables has been laid, by which intlmati
IRE of their approach is given.
ra- Mr.. Murphy, of Kern, CAL, talked
cessantly for twentyfour hours, exc'
III one stop of FIVE seconds in each hour