The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-11-19
ITEMS OF INTEREST,

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1t is mentioned in English Post Office
statistics as a matter of notoriety that
the great majority of complaints reaching
the head office take their rise with clergy
men,"
An irate and jealous Washington wife
walked into the Treasury Department
the other day and horsewbipped the fe-
male clerk who had aroused her suspi-
cions.
AT Castagna, Italy, recently, mason
vent to the parish church and asked the
priest to say mass for him. While the
services were being celebrated he went up
to the belfry, tied the bell rope round his
neck and jumped out, breaking his neck.
The town of Black Diamond, CAL,
enjoys the distinction of being the only
walled town on the Pacific coast. II has a
high fence surrounding it and the only
entrance is gate, over which is an
inscription warning 20 Iublic of fve-
dollar fine upon any perso.. who leaves the
gate open.
A prize fight between women took place
OF Cobridge, near Hanley, England, few
weeks ago. They were both married and
with families. They tied up their hair and
ring was formed, each woman having
her partsans. Teeth as well as fists we've
freely used, and, after three rounds, one
of the wretches was severely bitten and
retired.
A Sacramento man intercepted note
sent to his wife by another man. He
therein discovered that she was making an
appointment with t'other. He simply took
her false teeth from the bureau, put them
into his pocket kissed the children, went
down town and played several games OF
billiards.
On the coast of Malabar are some He
brews who are black, belonging to II com.
munity called B'nai Israel. They claim to
be descendants of the Jews sent by King
Solomon to India to collect ivory and
precious stones. They observe the Pass
over and the Jewish Sabbath. There are
some among the British troops at Malta.
The pillory was used in Scotland within
the present century. Its last victim III
Glasgow not only received the oblations OF
the crowd, but when relieved from the
crib was violently assailed and tossed
about, and at length cast headlong into the
police manure wagon. Except for per
jury, it was abolished in 1916 and alto
getAer in 1887.
On the first day of her honeymoon Je
susita Chavez, of San Antonio, Texas, put
a bullet through her heart because she ha.
been "bulldozed' into marrying Jesus
Zepeda, q rich fellow she did not love,
and had abandoned Jose Madrid, Ael
chosen lover from childhood, with whom
an elopement had been planned bu
failed.
In the house of Devonshire laborel
there were lying on an ordinary sizee
bed two mothers, two sons, one daugh
ter, one grandmother, one grandson
brother and sister, N1cle and nephew
all of whom (eleven) were compre
hended in four persons VIA mothe
and her daughter, each with an iafan
son.
! There is tradition in the East that Oh
of the tests by which the Queen of Sheb
tried to prove the wisdom of Solomon wa
by placing on table before him tw
: bouquets, one of natural the other of arti
fetal flowers, and requiring that he shoul
distinguish the one from the other; where
upon the wisest man ordered the VIII
dows to be thrown open, and in came til
a bees.
: A man at Liverpool was recently al
u rested in his bed ut three A. NJ. for mol
n payment of school board fees, it being th
G custom of the officials to make these a
= = rests at night. when they are certain {
finding their men at home. So agitate
s was the prisoner on this occasion that o
: reaching the jail he died of heart diseas
= The Coroner's Jury censured strongly IL
|, |, mode of procedure of the officers.
u ! A young man of twenty-five years Wei
e into the private Office of the Judge of IT,
n County Court, in Milwaukee, recently, an
> asked for an injunction TO prevent Il
3 young woman he was in love with fro
n marrying cripple to whom she WI
II II devoted. The womans father accol
panied the young man, and they we
e much chagrined when they learned that I
Vt legal injunction could be laid to prevent
= wedding.
4 As furniture in o tenement house at Fl
II River, Mass, was being transferred to
rs wagon, the wife carefully wrapped i'll
=. large comforter her little baby and put