The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-06-21
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


Iowa erected l,2G6 school-houses last
gear.
There are over GO,OOO Patrons in Ken
lucky.
ohio's champion baby weighed eleven
pounds.
Dentists make from $4,000 TO $4,000
per year.
Chicago has only eleven "heretical" min
isters.
An Inman steamer made the trip in 3-4
lays.
A Baltimore library loans 1900 books per
month.
Memphis has 1870 lawyers to offend and
defend her.
There are 40, 900 commercial travellers in
the IT,. S.
New Jersey had 3O5 railroad accidents
during 1873.
Peru's Guano "crop" is estimated at
100000, 900.
Maine's ice crop will reach nearly two
million tons.
One convict escapes from Blackwell's
Island every day.
Nine hundred national troops defeated
1000 CarlISts.
Saratoga is erecting regatta-st tand to
old 5000 people.
The Gl,,,oetn, ,b,J ,,ok ,,,o, ,,o,,o ~ o,, =,
nile long.
500 coo Circassians have emigrated from
Russia to Turkey.
Concord, N. H., meekly records SO inches
Il snow in April.
Syracuse, n Y, turned out AZ, 600 eco
pounds OF salt last year.
Nearly 100000 bricks were frozen in
Reading, Pa, last week.
Twenty-nine steamers will "plough" Lake
Superior this season.
More than $500, 900 votes were cast in the
late English elections.
A Reading man is the father of al child
rem. Seek no lal tler.
Illinois has four feet of mud, and is
happy because it isn't snow.
A trout IA inches long was caught in the
Schuylkill the other day.
There have been eighteen collectors of the
port OF Boston since l7S9.
Twenty thousand emigrants arrived in
Gotham one day last week.
London had 1862 periodicals printed within
its limits in February.
One company at Montpelier sold IL 900
sleds for chiIden, last winter.
Of 500 900 men who took the pledge in
this coahSiJ', JJJ,JUO broke it.
A Michigan manufacturer has $4,000
broom-handles ready for shipment.
There are seven insane asyIums, with
5000 insane persons in Massachusetts.
More than $4,000 persons in Maine over
ten years old can neither read nor write.
In San Antonio, Tex, there are ,OOU
Americans, 1000 Mexicans, and 1900 ne
grOes.
The total Grange membership in the
United States is now estimated at $50 900
There were 202 deaths in Brooklyn in one
week latel y, over one-haf being children.
1t is estimated that Tulare County, Cal. .
will, this season, export 325 900 sacks oil
wheat.
One hundred and thirty-four immigrants
la tply aPIuA1 of Son
Forty thousand cattle are said to have
persisted in Utah and Nevada during the
winter.
of the adult population of San Francisco,
about 0ne-third take their meals at restau-
lants.
The Milk Conden> ing Co. of Elgin, Ill.,, ,
are about placing $4,000 trout i'll then
reservoir.
Nashville has been heard from Amount
invested in the Louisville Lottery, 81 800
prizes, so.
The total export of silk from China fol
tie season OF lo73-4 is expected to be aDou,
81 600 to Sc, 900 bales.
America imported one hundred and four
teen lawyers, and two hundred and thirteen
last year.
Germany has now $4,000 Old Catholics,
organized into 90 societies, which are min
isvered to by 81 priests.
Ohio had fewer marriages by nearly 7 900
in 1873 than in 1866, although the pUpula-
lion is largely increased.
The little city of Dubuque, Iowa, has
more than half ii million dollars invested ir
liquor manufactures and stock.
Kentucky publishes nine daies, eighty-siA
weekIies and sixteen monthlies-Une hun
dred and eleven in all.
A rope thirteen miles in length has been
manufactured at the Alameda rope factory :,
for deep sea sOundings.
The five factories in Sweden consumed
last wear 5Id h0f pwt nf hpats aud mo