The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-12-20
ITEMS Of INTEREST.

A Maine man has been Postmaster Of his
town for fifty years.
Lightning has killed two husbands for q
Minnesota woman.
A wealthy East Boston widow has eloped
with her milkman.
You can't strengthen fence by white.
washing it, nor a mans character.
Certain locomotives are deemed un.
lucky, and drivers dread to travel on
them.
A London -schoolmaster has killed q
boy by hitting him on the head with II
book.
A Florida farmer tainted in his barn
yard, and the hogs ate off the calves OF his
legs.
The Shah of Persia has in his stables four
| little camels, no larger than ponies, and of
a species extremely rare.
At Bath, Me-, recently young couple
we're introduced, engaged, married and
divorced, all within week.
A Nevada miner fell Into an old winze,
where lie lay three days, with both thighs
broken, be.ofe he was found.
During the past ten years Canada has
increased her annual cheese production
from 4, 500, 600 to 81, ,ooo,0 900.
The Russian provinces have 81, $4,000.
horses the United States $780, 600, Tur-
key l, 600, 600, AustriH 9, 500, 900, Germany
8, 352, 900 aud France 100000.
new education law has been adopted
by the Holland Chambers and sanctioned
by the King, which excludes the bible
aud religious teaching from primary
!, schools.
i A Poland, Pa, man S5 years old, paid
$40, 900 cash, and decided homestead
worth So, 500 to secure his bride of twenty
four summers, It is to be hoped that she
II Will IufA out W be "oisA VIA sAAe ""o t's''~
, for her.
A mechanic at the arsenal of Tarbes,
France, has invented musket which can
be fired five hundred times before need
ing to be cleaned. After each hundred
shots it is necessary to cease firing until
the gun becomes cool.
? An Alabama inventor has applied for q
patent for chulk mark. He has dis
= covered, he snys, that ants will not cross a
e line of chalk, and his idea is to protect
things from the pests by drawing chalk
line around them. The application has
been refused.
A member of the Boston police force re-
0 Gently examined by doctor is seventy
nine years of age, and counting his tern
! of service from its commencement on the
/ old Boston Watch, lie has been for fifty
) three years one of the guardians OF tue
city's peace.
:, The growth of the nails on the left hant
q requires eighty two days more tl'nn thos'
J. of the right, is more rapid in children tllal
/. adults and goes on faster in summer thai
in winter. 1t requires 1872 days for TIT
IS renewal of the nails in cold W, ,ather, ant
e but 116 when the weather is warm.
h Victor Saunders was married in Rock
!. u ingham, Va, four years ago, and on tn
J, next day killed man. He WIS sent t.
f. prison on q conviction Of n.ansianghtei
le His wife got divorce, and married an
= = other man, but she was widow whe
IA Saunders was discharged recently, and o
$ meeting they remarked.
The Church of St. Perran, Cornwall
1t said to be the second Oldest in England
g. e.. has recently reopened. The font in whicl
e. a thousand years ago, Gothrum the Dan'
r; whom Alfred the Great had just defeate
m m at Edngworth, conquering the peace {
0. Wedmore, was baptized, still stands
Is Alter Church. r...
7o Each Speaker of the House of Common
f nf receives pension of $50, 1000 a year, wi,
pc remainder to his eldest son, at whose d
en- mise it terminates; but there is only OF
wv ex-Speaker-Viscou Eversley, who b.
such pension, and he has no son. II
IL successor, Mr.. Drnisou. created Viscou
TX * Ossington, refused pension. He di'
tirI childless.
de The magistrates of the village Of Aw
I'd Japan, being unable to discover the auth
in of series of mysterious crimes, opened
tn poll, inviting every citizen to name on b
H. ballot the person whom he thought guilt
One notorious ne'er do well was elect
n us the culprit by great majority, q,
at ,e having confessed his crime was prompt
mt executed.
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he A gang Of burglarr composed Of t,