The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-10-01
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necticut; there are now 1000.
France smokes $50, 900, 900 cigars annu-
ally, and 1872 tons of cigarettes.
Dubuque has professor who teaches
ladies' how to iron shirt fronts.
A Rochester physician advertises that
baseball accidents will receive his prompt
attention.
A negro IN Eewtown county, Ca, Is
credited with the possession of a foot
twenty three inches long.
"He looked the character to the life" is
the doubtful compliment paid to San
Francisco actor who played Satan.
English servant girls have their mono
grams on their note paper and envelopes
and insist that their letters be delivered at
the front door.
In the South Unitarian Church, Boston,
the bread and wine are displayed on the
communion table, but not partaken by the
worshipers.
A Virginia City man was knocked down
for whistling on the street, and the Court
ruled that he was served just right and not
entitled to damages.
Chicago has $500 liquors saloons, OR one
fOr 1T9 nony,la fbi ~ fiva adult
males. The people of the city spend $16,-
o00, 900 for beer and liquor.
An Ithaca constable drove sixteen miles
after man, and just as he was about to
nab him he discovered he had lett~his
warrant at home.
Iowa is one of the greatest States in the
country for lead, and more ten cent pieces
are taken up in church collections there
than any place in the Union.
Four school boys of Glover, Vt, thrashed
their school teacher recently and put him
out of the school house. He had them
arrested, and it cost them $50 apiece be-
fore they got through with it.
Plus TX. had curious habit of writing
the clauses of his will on separate sheets
of paper, just as the idea struck him.
These Sheets eleven in number, were at
tached to each other by silk thread.
The aborigines of Victoria Australia,
who, when the colony was formed, some
forty five years since, numbered 5000,
have dwindled down to 1000 and are de-
creasing at the rate of thirty five per cent.
year.
At Johnstown, r. l.. bed of soft soap
stone has been uncovered which proves
to have been an old Indian pottery,
where basins, pipe-bowls and axe
heads were made in immense quanti-
ties.
The story comes from Woodstock, Vt,
of an old clock that no tinkering will in
duce to run; but at every annual gathering
of the family it starts of itself, and keeps
on ticking and striking the hours until the
visitors have departed.
The reason given for girls not being
able to throw anything with the accuracy
of a boy is that her collar bone is some
inches longer and some degrees lower
down, and, being long and crooked, in-
terferes with the free action of the shoul-
ders.
Triplets, sons of Leonard Haskins, born
May "a, 1861, and named by President
Lincoln, are at present residing in South
Starksboro, vt. They have letter from
Mr.. Lincoln announcing the names-Abra-
ham Lincoln, Gideon Wells, and Simon
Cameron.
Miss Blair was one of the most beautiful
girls in Atlanta when Mr.. Wetherstons en-
gagged to marry her; but afterward she
fell down stairs, broke her nose, and was
disfgured for life. Mr.. Wetherstone now
refuses to marry her, saying that she is a
damaged article.
The title, Queen of Tramps, is given to
women who walked from Bangor to
Kansas City and back. She was three
years at it, and her route was far from
direct, being varied by her wandering in
clinations. She worked little on the
way, but generally lived by begging and
stealing.
In 1862 the United States government
paid out on its pension rolls 1852, 1902.
In 1871 the amount reached 1874, 444, 894.S
which was the largest sum. In 1877 the
pensioners received 1927, 1868, 1927. The
total aggregate of pensions paid since 1871
to the present time has been $428, ,2O5,-
659. &c.
Mr.. and Mrs. Barnes met in San Fran
cisco after separation of twelve years.
He had been seekino n fortI1ne with varv