The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-07-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A billposter in an Ohio town covered
the tombstones in graveyard with circus
cuts.
In Benoit, Canada, a woman has given
birth to twins joined as Chang and Eng
were. They are living.
Marriage is becoming fashionable among
the Catholic priests of Germany, the civil
law protecting them.
A Fort Wayne Qnd) couple were di-
vorced in thirty minutes from the time the
petition was filed.
1t is better to have elaer conscience
and be threatened than to have bad ono
and be flattered.
woman in Mount Sterling, Ky, has
been married six years, has three children
and is now only eighteen years of age.
The Rev. John Baker, who preached the
first sermon ever heard in Marshall, Texas,
died there recently, at the age of IS.
An ebony cofin lined with white satin,
with q lot in Pere la Chaise, was me of the
gifts prolfered to a popular actress in Paris
recently.
Josie Fowler of New Haven snuffs candles
and cores apples with a revolver. The
young men are exceedingly respectful in
their attentions to her.
A kiss recently oest Beloit (Wis } man
$500. He was bachelor, kissed a married
woman, and paid that amount to the hus-
band to settle the affair.
Professor Hall, the American discoverer
of the satellites of Mars, has been awarded
the Lalande prize in astronomy by the
Academy of Sciences at Paris.
Italy reaps $40, 100000 per year from
her lotteries The ticket holders reap just
half as much and yet lots of men believe
that lotteries are conducted on the square.
1t is claimed in Germany that the drug
known as curare is sure cure for hydro
phobia, as it paralyzes the motor nerves,
without affecting the sensitive ones, and 50
stops muscular convulsion.
Before the Church of Our Lady Of
Atocha in which the King of Spain was
lately married, a asentinel perpetually stands
on guard. The Virgin of Atocha has long
held the rank of Colonel in the Spanish
army. Hence the military honor.
Asingular coincidence recently occurred
at Nashville, where man died on the ff-
tieth anniversary of his wedding, and the
house in which he was married caught fire
and was destroyed upon the same day
and within four hours of the time of his
death.
A member Of the Kentucky Legislature
got very drunk one Sunday in Frankfort;
but, being deacon, his home habits led
him to 60 into church, where he insisted
upon passing contribution plate, aud be-
came so boisterous that his removal by
force was necessary.
A discharge of buckshot from gun
killed a man in the Capital Theatre Austin,
Texas and made hole in the wall. The
fresh plaster has cracked in such way
as to present the outline of mans face
likeness of the murdered man, as some
say.
Joseph Faulkner, who recently died at
Windsor, N. S., at the age of LOG years
was one of the crew of the Shannon when
she fought her celebrated battle with the
Chesapeake, one of the most sanguinary
naval combats of the war of 1912, in which
the gallant Lawrence fell, exclaiming,
''Don't giveu the ship"
Mr.. Doane of Gold HILL New, shot and
killed his Chinese cook for supposed as.
sault upon child. 1t was afterward shown
that the Chinaman was innocent of any
offence, but as the local newspaper calmly
says, 'Mr Doane did not know so at the
time, and is, therefore, not to be seriously
blamed He was not even arrested.
A tooth the size of small ham, and
similar in shape, weighing twelve pounds,
was extracted from the jaw of white ele-
phant in Ceylon while the animal was un-
der the influence of chloroform. The
dental operation was performed to relieve
the beast Of the great pain caused by ex-
posure of the nerve owing to the decay of
o portion of the bone.
Oswego has the champanion somnambu-
list in the person of George Peckham, who
not long ago walked twelve miles to Fulton
without awaking and who the other morn
ing awoke to find himself fully dressed and
aboard the Midland train about to start for
New York. He dreamed that he was