The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-05-17
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

IN Sumatra forests which has an average
diameter of thirty three inches. It Is called
the Titanum.
Physicians say that the almost universal
practice of wearing wells ever the face and
eyes is of great injury to the latter delicate
organs.
The New Zealand Government has sent
to New York for three palace cars to
be used on through route and as
models.
Foreign merchants ship eggs to London
In cheap collins, there being more profit in
selling the cheap collins than in disposing
OF other wooden packages
Biologists have reported that there is in
Japan enough workable coal to produce
yearly yield equal to that in Great Britain
for 900 years.
Charleston S. O., has abolished the tax
of So day to drummers, having found
that the indirect loss to the community was
greater than the profit accruing from the
impost to the city treasury.
The Little Rock Gazette says that ono
railway has spent over $3.50, 900 within the
past three years to promote immigration
into Arkansas, and that it is Just beginning
TO reap the fruits of its labots.
Berlin has 1906 frst-class and 1862
second-class cabs 1856 omnibuses, and 224
street railroad cars. In all 5000 public car
riages. A 'course" in second-class
drosky costs about IL cents for two miles.
In Siberia you can buy beef for two cents
apound, goose for twelve cents, chick
en- for four cents, horse for $5 and 361
pounds of corn for six cents, and you can
shoot bears out of your parlor window.
Portsmouth, at town meeting held Sep
$ember rs, 1862, ordered that q cage be
made or some other means invented by
the Selectmen to punish such as sleep or
take tobacco on the Lords Day out of the
meeting, in the time Of the public exer-
cise."
A little girl Of seven years was recently
forwarded from Rondoutto an interior town
in Wisconsin, partly as baggage. A tag on
which was written directions was put about
her neck, and she was passed along by one
conductor to another till she arrived safe
and well to her journeys end.
There is remarkable Jewish synagogue
In the ancient city of Prague, with walls
30 thick with dirt as to be absolutely black.
A local tradition says that somewhere on its
walls the name Jehovah is inscribed, and it
is believed that if the walls are cleaned the
name will be effaced.
$ At a wedding recently, when the oficiat-
ing priest put to the lady the question,
"Wilt thou have this man to be thy welded
nusDN-d 2" aha dropped the prettiest cour-
tesy; and with modesty wl.inh lant her
beauty an additional grace replied, ''if you
INease."
In Mecklinburg- -schworin capital punish
nnent has been abandoned for twenty years,
the Grand Duke having commuted all SEN
tences, but, owing to the increase of serious
crimes this practice has been given up,
and one execution has already been per-
formed
Prof Baird has worked out his discovery
Of eel eggs, They are what the fish men
have hitherto called ''eel fat" This sub
stance under the microscope shows that
It is composed of millions of little eggs.
places the number of eggs in one eel at
1900, 900.
The divorce business showed gratify-
ing increase in San Francisco last year
gratifying, that is, to the shoals OF divorce
lawyers who subsist on marital infeicities
N that city. No less than 2S4 couples
were disentangled, or at the rate of one
divorce to eight marriages, ana an increase
of Al over the record of 1877.
Londoners are discussing project for
covering Regent street, their finest thor
oughfare, with a glass roof stretching
above the caves Of the houses on either
side, thus afording complete protection
from rain, while at the same time insuring
good ventilation. After dark the huge
arcade would be Illuminated by electric
lights.
Within the present century beggar in
Moorfelds, London, used daily to have a
penny given him by a merchant on his way
to the London Exchange. The penny was
withheld and the appearance of the mer-
chant manifested his embarrassment and
distress The beggar at length spoke to
him, offered him loan of G500 and an
other of the same sum if it were required.
It re-established his affairs.