The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-04-19
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Broken Heart is station on Minnesota
railroad.

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The Mormons are said to be increasing
OF the rate of ten thousand year.
A year of pleasure passes like feeting
breeze, but moment of sorrow seems an
age of pain.
The deepest mine in America is at pres
ent staying in California, it makes hole
2,G4o feet deep.
In 1915 the average yield of wheat in
France was eleven bushels to the acre, now
it is fifteen.
Japan is now manufacturing boots for
sale in the United States from leather
bought from American ports.
"Sing Song of sixpence' dates from
the sixteenth century, and ''Three Blind
Mice" is in music book dated 1909.
The average temperature of the south
literal branch of the Sutro Tunnel is 1o2
degrees, at depth of 1,6oO feet
The drinkers Of the German Empire dur
ing 1878 drank 81, ,05S, 76s gallons of beer,
or about twenty gallons for each person.
New Jersey paper carpeting factory re-
| Gently filed orders from Germany and
South America. Formerly Japan made all
sneh goods.
1t is said that vulture can fly 159 miles
in an hour; wild geese, ninety miles, and
swallows ninety-two miles; common crows
make about twenty five miles an hour.
The rice lands of the estate of the late
s. D. Coar, once valued at $175, 600, and
situated in Charlestown and Georgetown
Counties, S. c., were sold recently for
| $25, 200.
There is no excuse for man to go shut
fling through life with his hands in his
| pockets and no more animation about him
than an old door mat on which everybody
wipes their feet.
A number Of enterprising Jews have
been engaged in collecting the bones of
horses that fell in the late battle between
Russia and Turkey, and have sold them to
Austrian sugar refners
Recently man named Montgomery, of
Killinchey, County Down, ireland, drop
ped down dead; his wife, upon hearing the
news, fell dead also; and, on a message be-
ing despatched to the sister of the
latter it was discovered that she had died
suddenly.
Fossilized remains of what is reported as
gigantic prehistoric man have been found
200 feet beneath the earth's surface in a
cave recently opened in a mine near
Eureka, New. The lower limbs, head and
neck are said to be clearly defined and
natural
There is curious and close likeness be-
tween the character of the Greek and the
American, which goes even into the type of
the physique; it has often been noticed in
Greece, both by Greeks and foreigners.
The element of imaginativeness is one
of the strongest components in the SINH
larity.
The Revue Horticole, of France, contains
| 81 L.
claims that gas tar mixed with sawdust
has driven away all the ants that has taken
possession of his greenhouse. He scattered
the mixture around, and the ants and other
insects departed Better try it on the pota-
to bugs next season.
Of 1900 guns constructed by Herr
Krupp at his works at Essen during the
last twenty three years, only sixteen have
burst, and nearly all these were destroyed
during trials undertaken to test their power
Of resistance or endurance. and when. con-
sequenty, they were loaded with charges
heavier than they were designed to fire.
New Caledonia does not seem to have
very great terrors for some French criminals.
A young man brought before police court
on a charge of theft lately made an elabor,
ate confession of terrible murder that he
had committed, which was proved to have
no truth in it whatever 1t was found that
his motive was desire to be sent to New
Caledonia at the expense of the government
and for the benefit of his health.
Some of Japan's tea plants are $50 years
old and some plantations produce over$3,
900 worth per acre. few choice leaves
of which a small quantity is produced, sci
at home as high as $S per pound. Gov
ernment taxes in Japan are now levied a
the rate of two and one-half per cent
while formerly they have, at times, beei
as high as from fifty to seventy per cent
The ia IS are fixed for six years in advance
, SO that the people can know just how mucl