The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-03-29
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

remedy of lockjaw, ...
The Mormons are said to be increasing
at the rate of ten thousand year.
Nearly eleven hundred miles of rail-
road are now open for traffic in New zea-
land. .A....
An aerial trip across the north pole
and into Asia is contemplated by Prof.
King.
Australia has been afflicted with q
horse disease of a model type. 1t is very
fatal.
The receipts OF the Paris Exposition
were 1,G5S, TAG francs, and the attendance
1G,09e, 735.
The Chicago Journal wishes all the gold
coin under $5 called in and kept in, as in
conveniently small.
A spool of cotton will sew on 2, 400 pant
buttons. This is the estimate of a man
who does this kind of work for himself and
family.
Women were allowed TO vote on the cues
ton of selling lager beer at Plymouth,
Mass, recently, and the sale of the liquor
was prohibited by two-thirds majority.
The Bull of the Woods and the Red Fox
Of the Roaring Lily, two distinguished
Kentuckians engaged in the secluded manu-
facture of whiskey have been captured.
A Boston physician tore up the prescrip-
ton that he had written for boy with the
diptheria because the mother had no money
to pay for it, and within few hours the
boy died for want of medicine.
i The island of Samon sixty years ago had
q population of 80, 600, all of whom were
barbarians The population now numbers
$4,000, the majority of whom are Chris
tians.
Divorce was 80 exceedingly rare in the
earlier days of Rome that, according to
good historical authority, not case oc
CURED during the first 500 years of the
city's existence.
The following is a substitute for alco-
holic stimulants:-''P twenty five drops
of dilute sulphuric acid into bottleful of
cold water, first boiled; take wine-glass-
; full four times day."
The indianapolis school commissioners
: have decided to make the study of dress
making compulsory to girls in the gram
mar department. Only half an hour per
week is to be given it at preseut.
At recent fashionable marriage in Lon
don, the bridegroom requested the bride
to order her own jewels. This she did,
and bills have now come in amounting to
above f100,000. The bridegroom cannot
pay and the jewellers decline to take back
their wares.
'Let us pray" said, reverently, Cali
fornia Clergyman, who had been warned
that his auditors, in remote settlement,
were profane and rough, and as he said SO
he cooked two revolvers and laid them to
right and left on the desk that served him
as pulpit. Never had he preached to so
attentive and silent congregation.
4 1t has been predicted by some philoso-
phic dietists that dogs will yet become
favorite food in civilization. They con-
tend that the dog is not only very palatabls
but that he is nourishing and entirely
wholesome, and that, when young and ten
der, hs cannot be distinguished from the
best mutton
While six robbers were being sentenced in
court at Gergenti, Sicily, one of them ad-
dressing the Court remarked: -" Infamous
mani Assassin" with which word he took
off his shoes and flung them with violence,
hitting the Judge in the stomach, and the
Public Prosecutor ON the arm. The Judge
added five years to the offenders sentence.
The manufacture of fireworks on ones
own hearthstone is attended with some de-
gree of risk. At Cranleigh, in Surrey,
England, laborer named Sherlock was
engaged making fireworks in his cottage at
an early hour in the morning when a spark
ignited the gunpowder. The cottage was
, blown to pieces, the wife and aged father of
Sherlock were killed, and his own recovery
is, considered hopeless.
The sun shines every day in the year in
Denver. The Colorado Bulletin states that
an old resident, who has kept record
of the days when the sun was visible
or invisible, vouches for the fact that there
has been unobscured sunshine on 365
: consecutive days. As sunshine promotes
good health and better temper, Denver
, must be place where one can enjoy
! life.
|, The simultaneous discharge of two of the
thirty eight ton guns on board the Dread
aught, off the Isle of Wight caused the