The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-03-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
England gets half her wheat abroad

There are 1000 workmen employed in
Toxic, japan, in making safety matches
alone.
Since its foundation in 1875 the present
Paris mint has coined l, ZOO, 900, 900 gold
pieces
Raitas and Burraburra, two islands Of the
Society Group, have completely burst up,
and large number Of people have been
drowned.
An elephant butted the end out Of q car
on Kentucky railroad, fell with his fore
legs astride the couplings, broke his tusk,
and had foot cut of.
Worshippsrs who disagree with their
clergyman in Window, Mimi, can walk up
the pulpit stairs and knock him down, but
it costs s..
An Iowa paper gives thrilling account
Of the effort of a young man to take home q
widow and three swsrms Of bees at the
same time in wagon.
Between 1868 and 1923 there were forty
periods of famine in the provinces of China
which are now suffering with a similar
calamity. In ten of the these the record
reports that human flesh was eaten.
At Hartlepool, recently, o man gave
himself up to be returned to his regiment
and punished for desertion. This is the
only way in which he can identify him.
self as the heir TO fortune of G35, 900.
A boy of 10 and girl of 8 eloped from
Brookline, Mass, and went to Boston,
where they soon got lost in the crooked
streets. Their expectation was to get mar
ried and live in fine house somewhere.
The reality was spanking.
A male bear in Belgian geological gar
den recently got mad with the female COM
panion in his cage, tore her to pieces, and
was on the point of becoming cannibal,
when the corpse was snatched out of the
cage. The quarrel occurred at their dinner
table.
Suicide is an hereditary disease in many
families in Germany; its frequency is in
part attributed to the vicious system Of in
termarriage among near relations, many
uncles and nieces, aunts and nephews mar
rying merely to keep property or titles in
the family.
Two sculptors at Rome recently fought a
duel with pistols and without seconds.
Each one shot the other in the leg, and
they had to lie where they fell till a
chance passer came along and afforded
assistance. Neither would be likely to give
leg bail.
Awealthy but drunken farmer in Hines
vile, Ga, stood up in camp meeting and
asked to be prayed for. A clergyman made
the desired prayer, in which he character
lied the farmer as on exceedingly wicked
man The farmer resented that descrip-
ton of himself and has sued the Clergyman
for defamation.
A woman at an English almshouse was
lately troubled by q quickened conscience
and confessed to having murdered her three
children at long intervals in the past. In
vestigation proved that the children were
still living and grown up, and the confes-
sion was the result of delusion.
There are forty-eight theatres in Paris,
the largest of them having $500 seats.
Probably restriction upon amusements,
especially on Sunday would create a revo-
ton in France sooner than almost any
grievance that could be imposed upon tho
people.
1t is believed that on elephant presented
10 Henry III. Of England by the King of
France was the first ever seen in London.
The instructions to the Sheriff of Kent to
fetch it from Dover are yet extsnt, and
those instructing the Sheriff of London to
prepare quarters for it in the Tower, which
continued to be menagerie up to forty
years ago.
The latest plaything for French children
is mechanical Newfoundland dog, destined
for the saving of dolls that fall into the
water. He takes them in his mouth and
paddles across tank or very considerable
pond, keeping his head and the precious
freight above water until he has reached
shore, his ample tail being used as q
rudder
A Paris paper tells story of q BARRIERS
apprentice in Hungary who cut his throat
because girl would not marry him. He was
taken to the hospital at Ratisbon and cured
1t subsequently, proved that the operation
his larynx had undergone had given him a
fine tenor voice, which he improved by
practice, and he has lately been engaged at
the Opera House in Vienn.