The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-01-14
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Cleveland has a girl boot black.

- RP~hAen WolAioh WtaAS IA eh1 n11o
boulevards leading dove with ribbon.
Nearly all of the needles made in Great
Britain come from Redditch, in Worcester
shire. '" '..
| Paris has 65, 900 houses, London 100000
more than Paris, Berlin, and New York
combined.
| Who says there are no heroes? A Chica-
60 man married widow with twenty chill
dren.
The English have laid prejudice aside
and are chewing American beef and calling
it good
Illegally wearing the red ribbon of the
Legion of Honor has cost woman of Ver-
sailles two months in jail.
! A Raleigh, N. G., blacksmith attempted
to melt down an old shell. His body has
been found in isolated fragments.
Among the annuities still paid in
England is one of 940O a year to the
descendants of William Penn forever
In various cities of Germany boys under
1G are prohibited, under penalty of fine and
Imprisonment, from smoking in public
places.
The Federal Council of Switzerland has
adopted an ordinance making instruction in
gymnastics obligatory for oil boys in the
| public schools.
Gold has been struck l. 9SS feet below the
surface, in shaft at the colony of Victoria
Australia. This is the deepest at which
| gold has ever been found.
Fournier, the eminent botanist, finds in
Mexico 63S varieties of grasses, 376 of
which occur in no other land. Of the rest
50 are found in this country.
A justice of the peace in Arizona ruled
out the evidences of all Witness chased
both lawyers out door, knocked the plaintiff
over bench, and decided mo cause of
| action"
The abbot of the Kremenski, wealthy
Russian establishment has levanted with
| the contents of the treasury, and also with
| the wife and cash box of Kremenski mer-
chant.
Zone minute in the penitentiary" was
the punishment fixed by Dallas (Texas)
jury for the tramp who, having been dis
charged weak and hungry from the hospi-
tai, stole a citizens breakfast.
Some negro boys organized mock court
in Baldwin, Ga, condemned a playfellow
| TO death, and hanged him from q beam.
| They supposed he would tell them when to
let him down, but he only kicked and they
took that for sport. He was choked to
| death.
| A St. Louis Judge holds that street-cross-
ings are made for the convenience of per.
sons on foot, and that it is the duty of the
drivers of all vehicles, including street cars
not only to check their speed when any
person is on crossing but to stop whert
there might be the least danger of col
lision.
Two Genoese recently fought duel il
small boats on the high sea, just outside O.
| their native port. Without witnesses, they
fought with knives till one of them, thC
lover of the others wife, was killed, ant
sunk to tha bottom with weight arount
lis neck, tied by the ferocious victor
The latter then came into port and CAV,
himself up.
English election expenses are notoriousl.
very high, but in former years they wer
higher. In Yorkshire, in 1897, Lord Nil
ton and Mr.. Lascelles paid out milliol
dollars, but Mr.. Wilberforce beat them a
an expense of only $175, 900 to his friends
In four elections in 1880 and 1882 Lore
Londonderry spent $13O,O00 in Durham
alone and did not win.
Two men of st. Paul have patente'
IN express and postal car to be made o
bullet-proof iron, fixed with brakes and
coupler that may be operated from tn
inside, and with springs by which the door
and windows may be instantly and violentl
closed at the will of the inmates. Their
are loopholes and various other means @
defence against train robbers.
The hereditary protector of the famou
heathen idol, Juggernaut, a man of hig
rank to whom the HindooJ pay divin
honors, has been imprisoned for life on
charge of murder, by order of the Englis
government, and it looks as if the Ion
reign of this bloody deity was at last at al
end. The horrid car in which the god wa
drawn over his victims is understood to b
in the market.
A workman in Winona, Mimi, mi
saved his life by main strength. His COT
was caught by swiftly revolving shaft