The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-07-13
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

iuuCAIue w EeCOE0 tu6 movements OF The
pulse.
A Tennessee negro stole one hundred
pounds of bacon, and was sent to prison
| for nineteen years.
Pittsburgh woman prays in so loud a
tone that her neighbors have had her ar
rested for disorde1ly conduct.
Mr.. John B. Cough, since 1860, has
been paid for each of his lectures an aver
age price of $127.
A man and his wife committed suicide
together in Cambridge Mass, by getting
in the way of railroad train.
In Boston bold thief stole letter car
rier's key and uniform and went over tie
usual route, emptying all the boxes
A North Carolina woman used her baby
as missile so effectually as to knock her
husband down, but it killed the child.
A ST. Louis forger tried to swallow the
bogus check that had caused his arrest,
but the officer choked him until he elected
it.
Some Of the young members of church
in Tunbridge, Vt, got themselves into
trouble by turning prayer meeting into o
kissing party.
mouse placed in box with three rat
! tlesnakes at Anna, ILL.,, killed one of the
snakes, while the two remaining ones
showed the greatest fear of the little beast,
watching every move it made.
young woman of Newburg, Wis. SEE
verely thrashed her father because he
would not raise $500 to give her as q
dowry in order to marry a man who wanted
his wife to have that sum.
Two Holyoke women gave birth to three
babies each on the same day. One of the
fathers is described as being 'as much set
up as a country store;" but the other de-
clared that the triplets were "too darned
much of good thing"
A man in Carrolton, Ky, hid 81 900 in
a bed, under which keg of powder was
kept One night he went to sleep with
lighted pipe in his mouth. He escaped,
by quick jumping, worse injury than a
severe scorching; but the money vanished.
There are four hundred societies in Paris
which give annual balls. Among them are
the True Friends of Butchering, the
Mirror of the Virtues. the Friends of Pru-
dence and the Imitators of the Bees. The
choicest of these public gatherings are
the balls given by the different dramatic
societies.
The body of Mrs Mary Weis, who died
in 1866 at the age of 60, and buried at
Fort Wayne, was recently dsinterred and
found to be petrifed The deceased
weighed 200 pounds when she died.
When the body was exhumed every portion
of it was hard as rock, and the features as
natural as life.
AT village of La Clappe, France, re-
Gently, plot of ground planted with vines
and olive trees slowly sank and disappeared,
leaving the gulf of tunnel-shaped form
about 12O feet at the, bottom. One hundred
feet from the surface may be seen q sheet
Of water.
The Chinese play game called tan, in
which small buttons are thrown from q
box, like dice, and the players guess
whether the numberis odd or even. Wong
All Lee was caught, in San Francisco, u.s.
ing box that had a slot to hold button,
with spring so arranged as to drop or re-
tain it at will. His companions cut off his
cue.
A little boy was convicted of murder by
bis playfellows in mock trial in Madison
Ind, and sentenced to be hanged They
put moose around his neck, threw the
rope over door, and hoisted him up. He
was fast choking to death when a woman
stopped the foolery; but he was 80 badly
injured that he soon died.
1t is computed that in the year 1877
there were ten million COWS kept for dairy
purposes in this country, which, at $45
per head, were worth $3.50, 900, 00o The
land needed for their support represents
5000, 900, 900 more, and the capital invested
in teams, dairy implements, &C., $780,
900, 600, making a grand total of 81
100000 invested in this single In
dustry.
The most remarkable railroad accident
on record happened not long ago on the
Northwestern road between London and
Liverpool. A man and his wife were
travelling in compartment alone when,
the train going at the rate of sixty miles an
hour, an iron rail projecting from car on
| n side track cut into the t.arriaoa and tool,