The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-08-03
ITElIS OF INTEREST.
Paris has two hundred and ten musical

IaflS mas TWO Hunured ana ten MUSICAL
societies.
There are Eve different men who claim
to have invented the greenback.
A gamecock drove his spur into child's
head, in Bullet county, Ky., making q
fatal wound.
A Nevada paper tells of an Indian ball at
which the music consisted of three jews
harps and a cowhorn.
A resident of Paris has sued the city
for obstructing his view of heaven by tele-
graph wires.
The colorod citizens of Georgia are
credited with the possession of property
worth SIS, 480,S
A Bidleford lady has taught her largo
Newfoundland dog to carry the train OF
her dress.
Cowansville, Ont, boasts of bride who
was recently led to the altar for the fourth
time, and who is not over eighteen years Of
age.
The Japanese sits down when he works,
turns a screw to the left, puts horse head
out in the STALL pulls his plane toward
him and kills himself to spite his foe.
A Chicago woman sat down beside
quart of whiskey to conquer It. When
found dead the bottle was still half full.
She had met her match.
A well-known English naturalist says that
it is one of the old vulgar errors to suppose
that skin taken from live animal is more
glossy than that from dead one.
Instead of sitting up nights and wearing
the down on her cheek off on some fellows
vest, an Indiana girl has during the last
year made $500 by cultiyating broom
corn.
Singing or reading aloud increases the
appetite for food, since the increased res
piration which these exercises demand
occasions speedy waste of vital air, which
requires to be renewed by food.
A native of Newry, England, lately died
in Canada at the age of 119 years. He was
the father of eleven SONS and seven daugh.
ters, eight of his children being born at
four births. One of his daughters has also
had twins four times
A witness in Charleston court refused to
5 sign deposition taken down in short hand
on the ground that he could not be COM
PEELED to put his signature to any document
not in ordinary writing. The presiding
) Judge sent him to Jail for contempt,
and the case is to go to the Supreme
Court.
) II should like to live to draw two
= breaths after am acquitted, and then l
would die satisfied" said a man who had
, lain in jail nearly year on charge of
murder, and was brought into court on his
, couch sick At II o'clock the verdict mot
guilty" was brought in and at II the old
q man died.
The japanese have record of all earth
quakos in the larger cities of the empire fol
the last !, 800 years. The number of slight
S shocks is very large, and there have been
6 14O destructive earthquakes during that
period. There were twenty sight of these
= latter in the ninth century, and sixteer
have occurred in the present century.
,, A Baltimore boy of fourteen took two
cartridges to school with him recently
l. As he was scratching one of then with {
C pin during roll call it exploded, shatter
ing his left hand 20 seriously, that it hat
i to be amputated, and his right hand some
what, besides shocking another boy so that
d he had to be sent home and causing thirt
u to faint.
e At recent sale of autographs in Lon
l. don, Johnson's signature to receipt wen
for only three guineas, though such
o' document must have been rare indeed, fol
the Doctor was, according to Boswell, il
k the habit of forgetting the names of tn
IN subscribers to his books, and spending tn
money, so that it is not likely he was vor,
~ y fond of giving receipts for it.
The wife of San Francisco machinis
O. became performer in q concert saloon
contrary to his Wishes and he decided t
es kill her He prepared an explosive box
H. filed with gunpowder, fuse, matches, nails
bullets, and paper soaked in oil, and ser
ce it to her by express. There was no ez
: plosion when she opened it, however, til
' mechanism failing to work as intended.
ba ol A very simple method of postal d.
Sc livery is said to prevail in Spanish provir
cial towns. Those who expect letters CON
nd to the Post Office and form queue. tt
ot Postmaster then hands all the letters /