The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-01-22
GENERAL ITEMS.

Another Commune threatens Paris.
Circuses this year are not successes.
Artificial flowers are said to be made Of
tin foil.
They say Joliet, ILL.,, is to have a street
railway.
Imprisonment for debt is abolished in
Russia.
The raging canals are now open to
tourists.
Baltimore is to show up her babies.
Chicago, financially, is in a very bad way.
"Dirt as diet" is being discussed in Ger
many.
A heavy snow fall occurred in May 79
years ago.
Augusta, Ca, drew 5000 in the Louis
vile lottery.
April always bears off the palm in the
marriage line.
The Richmond, Va, mosquito already
Flaps its wings.
The attempt to nullily the cighthour law
has failed.
"Real, genuine buffalo gnats" distress
Princeton, Ind.
Nashville is happy in the anticipation of a
custom-house.
Gold has been found in the vicinity Of
Lake Winnipeg.
One of the first things colony establishes
is grog shop.
A Memphis sand slide buried two barges
100 feet deep.
A quicksilver mine has been discovered at
Exeter, England.
AT suit on trial iu Boston, twelve law
yers are employed.
Gutenberg, N. j., school children are
great opium eaters.
A Baltimore belle senta daisy from Poe s
grave to Tennyson
Water Gap, Pa, April 29.-Nineteen
inches of snow fell to-day.
A twelve-year-old girl has been licensed
| to teach school in Iowa.
A party of scientists examined the new
Atlantic cable lately.
There are many clergymen out of employ
ment in New York city.
A Paris banker failed, and but 81 cents
were found in his cash drawer.
A pair of zebras have been trained and
broken to harness in Paris.
An Indian squaw was found hanging to a
flag staff at Elko, Nevada.
Another English writer is going to tell us
all about the Byron scandal.
indianapolis has elected a Democratic
Mayor, the first time i'll l9 years.
r What nice time the temperance crusad-
ers would have in Louisiana
From Independence, Kan, have been
shipped forty-six bales of cotton.
A female child with two perfect tongues
appears in La Crosse, Wis.
A dictionary of the English gypsy Ian
| guage is soon to appear in London.
There is strange tale about newly-dis
covered race in Central America.
An extradition treaty between Great
Britain and Switzerland has been signed
ALI the cotton and wooden mills in Georgia
have declared large dividends.
Castles in the air would seem to be built
of sunbeams-they always appear 50 bright
The size of parasols is much increased and
far more decided than heretofore.
Professor Tyndall says man cam
breathe after ascending over 25, 900 leet.
An Indiana man fell sixty-nine feet the
other day, aud was cured Of deafness.
A portrait of Napoleon I, by Paul Della
roche, was recently sold in London fol
$3.50.
An autograph hunter recently paid $l9(
for the signature Of Oliver Goldsmith.
The carrying of concealed deadly weapon
is one of the greatest curses of the South.
Michigan has an overfowing treasury
and accordingly no State tax will be leyiet
this year.
| Victoria county, Cape Brenton, is happ,
over the discovery of o new seam of ga
coal.
Husbands and wives in Illinois, unde
the new law, may bring civil suits agains
each other.
Boston is to have seventeen public bath
to promote the next thing to unattainabl
godiness.
u A man in Washington county, New York
recently eloped with his sister-iu-law, age
thirteen.
A huge playhouse. exclusively for tn
juveniles, is to be built at Cape May at al
expense Of $4,000.
Mrs. Barley, aged 90, died in Winchester
Va, lately. She was the mother Of twenty
one children.
: The Washington Star says every approac
to both Houses of Congress is blocked wit
) pie stands.
Sulphur baths are to be introduced g
Long Branch this season-the ulphur bein
| supplied.