The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-02-18
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| a pee owner discovered that his beef
few forty miles To friends clover field And
returned
A company with $4,000 capital has beer
formed at London, Ont, to make india
rubber from the juice of the milkweed.
In round numbers we have now thirty
thousand post Offices, and they are increas-
ing at the rate of about two thousand O
year.
Two small boys were lately sentenced in
a London Police Court to three days i'm
prisonmeht for stealing an onion valued at
one penny.
A train of 1S9 empty cars, making length
of more than q mile, was drawn by q single
locomotive on the Northern Central Rail-
road of Pennsylvania
A communion service was celebrated in
Bridgeport with brandy instead of wine,
the druggist having made blunder in fill
ing the order for sherry.
The French Academy Of Arts has paid
$500 for an Egyptian rapyrus believedto be
more than 1000 years old, but in excellent
preservation.
At single meal three or four Afghans
find no difficulty in eating the tail Of o
d1atnba sheep, a mass Of pure fat weighing
from six TO eight pounds.
A mutiny broke out recently in La Fleche
Military College, Mans, France. While out
walking one class attacked another, which
had refused to undergo some practical jok-
ing.
At the little village Of Imari, In the
province of Hizen, Japan, are telegraphic
insulators of such good quality that Europe
is sending for them in preference to those
of home manufacture.
A mob in Wilmington, Ohio, could not
| get at the murderers whom 1t wanted to
hang, and SO vented Ns fury on the house
in which the murder had been committed,
tearing it to pieces.
A soldier stationed at Turin, Piedmont,
recently won $43,37 at the royal lottery;
but his sudden riches failed TO tell on the
military authorities, who demand of him
two years further service in the ranks.
Eish viii be made the capital Of Servia.
A staff of engineers is engaged in surveying
the town with a view to determining sites
for the erection Of Government buildings
and the Princes library, &c. The Court
archives have been sent thither.
An American lady recently bought the
costliest braid or switch" of hair that
was ever made in Paris. II was composed
of hair yard and quarter in length,
snow white and exceedingly soft and glossy.
Its price was $500.
The Chinese of San Francisco have
brought over an expert priest for the ex-
press purpose of propitiating All Toa, their
devil or spirit of evil. They think that All
Toa is incensed by the little attention that
has been paid to him in this country, and
they have resolved to make amends.
The duplex system, or double transmits
sion, was successfully worked over the
Anglo-American cable recently This sue
cess in sending and receiving message at
the same time in both directions upon the
Atlantic cable is an important step in the
development of telsgraphy.
The introduction Of a uniform oath for
the soldiers of the various German contin-
gents is being mooted at headquarters. At
present the Prussian soldiers swear ALE
glance to the King of Prussia, the Alsace-
LorEainers to the German Emperor, and all
others to their respective sovereigns and
the German Emperor
Mrs Wheeler, of Milwaukee, is convinced
that her daughter Kate is insane, because
the latter married against parental COM
mand. The daughter was arrested and
sent to an asylem on fraudulent papers,;
but the husband being as energetic as low
ing, has rescued her. Physicians say that
she shows no trace of insanity.
Emmet Snodgrass while on his way
home from the trial of murderer in Mount
Vernon, KY, shot his companion dead with
out greater provocation than trifing
quarrel He had previously spoken in a
way that showed his admiration for the
prisoner on trial and it is supposed that,
being half crazed by drink, he took a
fancy to make himself similarly conspicu-
Gus.
Carlsbad has been fashionable watering
place for ever 200 years. AFTER the fair
at Lsipsic," writes the English Ambassador
at Dresden in 1895, 'the Elector will go to
some waters, hope Carlsbad, where
should be glad to meet your lordship for
intend to follow his Electoral Highness,