The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-07-06
ITEMS on INTEREST.

-Four and half millions OF registered let
ters in this country last year.
Beggars in Hartford ask for postage
stamps and use them to buy drinks.
An agent of the Peruvian government
recently purchased 25, 900 pairs of brogans
from Philadelphia parties.
A London tailor 115 years old is looked
upon as striking illustration of the sur
vivd of the fttist.
A man in Kentucky devotes the yearly
product of one acre of his farm to pur-
chasing reading matter for his family.
The Hartford Conn city government
has prohibited the sale of newspapers ON
Sundays on the streets of that city after ten
o'clock in the morning.
An English gentleman committed suicide
recently, leaving paper to say that he
did so because his wife was great deal too
good for him.
A ALewistown, Me-, Frenchman drove six
teen miles to have his baby christened,
and when he got home had forgotten its
name.
A teacher of the girls Bible class in q
Methodist Sunday school in Providence.
has deserted his wife to elope with one Of
his pupils.
Benjamin Franklin, in 1889, left S., 200
for fund to make loans to young me-
chanics. The fund is now $1,000 The
trustees have white elephant.
The Rev. Job Washington, of Rockport,
Me, 80 years of age, has concluded to give
up tobacco, believing it to be injuring his
health. He has used it seventy eight
years.
On the 25th of April, 1928, one hundred
and fifty years ago, the first step toward
the formation Of the present Trinity church,
New York, was taken. The corner stone
was not laid until the 18th of April, 1884.
There are II 900 rooms in the Vatican,
which is not palace, but city COM
pressed. An army of 80, 600 strong could
be lodged in it; its actual inhabitants num-
but few hundreds.
An Iowa husband, four years married,
has applied for divorce on the ground of
struck him hard with a tin dipper, and
locked him out at night when it was dark
and cold.
The original bill of sale of negro man
and woman by the Rev. Jonathan Edwards,
of Northampton, Mass, in 1855, to the
grandfather of John O. Pettibone, was
among the curiosities found in the house of
the late John o. Pettibone, of Simsbury,
Conn.
A short time since in Parliament the
First Lord of the Admiralty stated that
SO, 172 seamen and marines of the British
feet were members of the Church of Eng
land, 1,748 Presbyterians, 4, ,162 Protest
ants of other denominations, and $3.50
Roman Catholics.
A lady of South Lowell, N. c., relates
an instance of the efficacy of prayer.
While preparing to make bread she dis
covered that she was out of yeast, and ex-
claimed to her daughter, 'I wish to the
Lord had yeast cake" Just then the
door bell rang. When the summons was
answered, no one was found, but lying on
the sill, neatly packed was a single yeast
cake. 1t appears that some person intro.
ducing yeast cakes deposited this sample
as an advertisement and departed for the
next house.
stranger who applied at q house in
the vicinity of Quebec for some slight ia
vor, the other day, was met by an old gen.
tleman eighty five years of age, who hesi
tated for moment and then said, ''I'll &C
d1u dbh luIueI IcScutly uo IeluIueG
with his father, Paul Leonard, who is as
serted to be 107 years old. The latter
owns all the property, looks after it anc
gives his son orders as to what he is tt
do, and the son obeys as a dutiful chile
) should.
t According to recent returns France hal
1882 important bridges, erected at cos
of nearly sixty million dollars. Eight hun
dred and sixty .one were in existence at thu
beginning of the century, "a were erected
under Napolern L., 1sO under the Restora
ton, $50 under Louis Philippe, and 80
since 1913. Of the II principal bridge
only are in Paris. Nearly four millio,
dollars have, within the last four years
E been spent in building and repairing bridge
= in that city.
4 A singular death was that of Theodor
Kraus, for many years gardner at Cleve
land, Ohio. He had had a cold for fey