The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-05-31
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

tocu per Ccub. III Jehrb.
Cambridge is allowed the honor Of
having turned out more poets than OK.
ford.
American beef and American girls, both
looking for market, cross the ocean by
every steamer.
Out West they eatraw eggs with vinegar,
pepper and salt, and call them prairie
oysters.
New York tailors sell their old accounts
against sons OF first families for two cents
on the dollar.
A Caledonia man found q mans finger
pressed in plug of tobacco he was chew
ing. The discovery cured him of chewing
tobacco.
A Crazy man dug grave for himself
near Utica and slept in 1t, in an open
coffin, every night until he was taken to
an asylum.
As an express train was leaving Marsh
field, Vt, recently, large crane lighted on
the top of the engine and remained there
until sufocated by the smoke.
Russian ladies are apt to exceed ladies
of other countries in the number of brace
let's they wear From twelve to twenty are
often seen on their arms.
At Liverpool 90, 800 damages we're given
in breach of promise case. The parties
had been counting for fifteen years, and
four ilegitimate children had been born.
Shakespeare makes use of the words
Sand thereby hangs tale" in four of his
plays" Tanning of the Shrew," "Othello, "
merry Wives of Windsor and Gas You
Like It,"
In the stomach of large fish recently
caught in the river near Port Washington,
Ohio, was found the watch and chain
lost by man wading the river over two
years ago.
There is married woman in West Ho-
boken, N. j., who has given birth 10 twen-
ty-six children at eleven accouehements,
namely, eight times twins, twice triplets,
and once four at birth.
A gold watch formerly owned by Presi-
dent Andrew Jackson has been found in a
pawnbroker's shop in Boston. On the
back of the inside case is the inscription,
:Andrew Jabkson, Hermitage, 1926"
The chair in which the Tory Governor
Tyron sat when from the crest of Grum-
nau's Hill he watch 4 his red located troops
burn the town of Eorwalk, Conn, was
sold at auction in that place recently.
A Bay City, Mich, servant girl, given
to sleep walking, walked out of second
story window, struck IN q hover bed, got
up and went to the front door, rang the
bell, and inquired if her mistress was in.
She was awakened aud put to bed.
The English Post Office Department
wanted few women clerks, and adver-
tised for them-applicants to call between
ten A. M. and noon. Three thousand wo.
men put in appearance, and the streets
were blockaded for two hours.
The officers of Jewish synagogue were
recently arrested at Manchester, England
charged with cruelty to bullock, in
sIaus htering it by the Hebrew method of
allowing it 10 bleed to death. Professional
witnesses testified that this method was
not cruel, and the case was dismissed.
The coin examiner at the Treasury at
Washington can detect counterfeit coin
in heap of money while blindfolded. He
runs his fingers through the mass, and in
a few minutes each coin is tested. This
remarkable power of touch has been per.
fccted only by the practice of many years.
Charles ". asked the Duke of Medina
Celi how many towns and Villages ae
owned. 'Nne hundred and ninety nine,
replied the grandrSt of grandees. "Why
not make the number up to one thousand?"
because, sir, the sound of nine hun-
dred and ninety-nine is much more
vast"
In the new Russian uniform the cap
Which the Christian soldiers wear has on it
a brass cross with the inscription on its
branches: For the Faith and the Gar"
On the caps of the militiamen who are not
Christians the cross is replaced by brass
plate, inscribed "For the Gar and the
Country"
The conundrum about the pins is well
enough, but who breaks all the needles :
A single factory in Redditch, England,
turns out between 5000, 900 and 1000, 600
of them each week, or about $50, 600, 900 a
year, which is equal to one-third of the
population of the globes With all the fac.
tories in the world going, who breaks these
billions of needless?
From the beginning of the reign of