The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-05-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Measurements Of million and half
American white men gave feet 1-2 inches
as the average height.
Eight thousand and sixty-four languages
are spoken in the world-5S7 in Europe,
1876 in Asia, 276 in Africa and 1894 in
America.
A tax of ten per cent. is levied in Paris
upon all tickets taken at theatres, public
balls, music halls, or any other place of
amusement, for the benefit of the poor.
Virginia once had native African for
Governor. Alexander Spottswood, who
filled the chair in 1850, was born in
Tangier, while his father, British officer
was there on duty.
In Russia husband may appear as a
witness in lawsuit against his wife, but
a wife is not heard against her husband,
neither has she any redress against him II
he deserts her.
A man in Brazil has confessed a murder
committed as long ago as 1859. But JUS
tice has not been asleep all this time; four
innocent persons were hanged for it
in 1856.
A Clyde (Ohio) woman, who had ap-
parently been nearing death from con-
sumption, coughed up from her lungs
piece of yarn fifteen inches long, and now
she is likely to get well.
Birds killed on the Western prairies and
packed with paper in barrels, without
freezing or any other artificial process of
preservation, are sent TO England by
every steamer, and arrive in excellent con-
dition.
Sixty thousand commercial travellers are
employed by the wholesale merchants of
the Uniten States, at an average annual ex-
pense of $3, 900, at least making the aggre.
gate the enormous sum of $3.50, 900, 900.
At Battle Creek Mich, crazy woman
endeavored to make little colored girl
white by using scrubbing brush and
strong Iye on the child's naked body. The
neighbors rescued it only after it had
been literally skinned and was in terrible
agony.
A Monroe, Iowa, Justice of the Peace
has ruled that father has no right to oc-
cupy his parlor while the daughter and
her beaus have possession. A young man
bounced a gentleman from his room
and was locked up for assault, but at trial
acquitted.
Four thousand prisoners have been
tried before Mr.. William Hardman, Re-
corder at Kingston, England, during the
corders decisions has ever been reversed
Alittle girl living in HoGdaysburg told
her brother to watch how the sparks would
fly when she poured the contents of a
powder flask on the stove. The sparks
flew and so did everything else in the vi
cinity, including one of the girls thumbs
and the hair on the boys head.
A Japan correspondent says that he saw
wrought in inlaid wood on a door severa
hundred years old in the temple of Igmoto
q scene showing first monkey, then ar
ape, then gorilla, and so on up by grad
aual development until the final one of the
series was perfect man, surrounded by
elephants and curious birds.
druggist in Lille, France, hnd to make
, up prescription for consumptive pa
tent where phosphate of lime ant
the peel of bitter oranges were ingredients
: Being out of these articles he used COO
: liver oil and a syrup of bark. Result-he
was fined $3.50 and compelled to adyer
tise his conviction in three local papers.
A negro magician in Alabama recent,
gained great glory for himself by announc
that he was impervious to bullets. No
: body questioned the assertion for som,
time, but at last arose notable coloret
skeptic, who lay in wait one night for th,
wizard and shot at him. The result wa
most satisfactory, for the enchanter fel
dead at the first fire.
The English army has long enjoyed tn
!, reputation of being the most expensivel,
dressed in Europe The most costly uni
form is that of a staff sergeant in the Foo
: Guards, to clothe whom entails upon tn,
country about $40 per man per annum
and the cheapest manfto equip is the negrt
private of the West India regiments, who's,
picturesque zouave uniform costs abou
$12 per annum. ....... .
Chinese laborers are employed in ,th,
largest wine houses in San Francisco
They had had skilled wine makers from
France and Spain, but at the end of tn.
fret vear there was a shDrtApe that Coult