The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-04-04
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The Italian Senate, by vote of 72 to 80
have abolished Imprisonment for debt.
The United States now use more postal
cards than any other nation.
An old fashioned family clock sold in
Lancaster pa. the other day for $500.
A Venetian artist has discovered a
method of making fine engravings by the
use of aqua forte.
Electricity is the new antidote for sea
sickness A mild galvanic battery is
brought to bear on the stomach.
The mail packets plying between Dover
and the Calais are the strongest and swiftest
steamers Of their size afoat.
The spire of the Cologne cathedral has a
monster bell cast from twenty-five cannon
captured in the campaign of 1870.
The Rev. DR.. John G. Morris played
Macbeth under the auspices of the Balti-
more Young Mems Christian Association.
In the Commune of Rivola dAdda in
Italy, woman has given birth to quin-
tuplets, all living. A year ago she bore
four children at a birth.
The cultivation of sorghum sugar cane
has assumed great Importance in Texas,
reaching the highest perfection in the mid
die countries.
Machinery is being made in New Orleans
to be used in manufacturing hats from the
fibre OF palmetto leaves at Orange Park,
Fla
Arizona expends 1924 per capita for
the education of her children in public
schools; California, $22.O4, and Massa-
chusetts but $40.
The first prisoner at the Joliet ILL.,,
penitentiary was received in 1858, and
, since that time about 10000 prisoners have
been committed.
, The shipbuilders Of Italy claim that they
can compete with any nation in solid,
elegant vessels, both ornamental and
useful.
Last year there were granted in Switzer
land 1,102 divorces and 1870 separations
1t is estimateded that per cent. Of those
married are divorced.
Bass, the brewer, is the largest contrib
utor to the revenue of Great Britain,
averaging $4,000 for every working day
of the year.
: The number of desertions from the
British army was last year l, 75g, as a result
of which l, TAG soldiers were committed to
4 hard labor.
2 By the new route from Portpatrick tc
; Stranraer the sea passage 'twixt England
and Scotland is but twenty-five miles, ane
Belfast is within nine hours of Glaagow.
8 An ecclesiastical authority estimates tina
l in round numbers there are now in Eng
i :. land and Wales 13, 500 benefces, and theil
: annual net value is $15, 000,00
Nevada has new law authorizing tn
public whipping of wife beaters. whip
S ping post has been tremendously placed il
- - front of the Court House in Austin
e A druggist at Salem, Oregon, saturated
rat with carbolie acid and turned him loose
!, after which the rats seemed to have disap
e peared from his premises.
= There is museum of Goethe relics il
IS Frankfort, in which the last pair of slipper
J. the poet ever wore and the beer mug h
0 last drank out of are treasured up as inter
l. esting curiosities.
e There is one church in New York whicl
g ought not to pass around the contribute,
plate. Trinity Church is worth over
~ trinity of millions-in fact, 500, 900
" the figure.
IL The new pipe line between Great Bel
/ and Pittsburg was lately finished. 1t i
% % thirty-six miles long and will supply twenty
1t eight refneries in Pittsburg, all owned b.
the Standard Oil Company.
l. The active principle of the arrow poiso
n used by natives on the south coast of Afric
+ is found to be of the nature of an alkaloid
II one crystal of which placed under the ski
e of frogs foot causes an instant stol
i page of the hearts action.
; Another martyr to science - Achill
d Casin, Professor of Physics at one of tn
e Paris lyceums, has just died of malad
=, contracted in 1874 whenhe was membe
$ eff the French expedition to observe th
7, transit of Venus.
Il A clergyman in Madisonville, Ky, wa
annoyed while preaching by giggling girls
J He reproved them sharply, and said tha
d they were ''outrageously wicked" Ths
= offended the girls parents, and abou
a half the members of the church hav