The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-02-25
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Boots are made on the Pacific coast with
pockets for pistols in their tops.
The floor Of the Pantheon at Rome was
recently flooded by rise in the Tiber.
Since 1865 the Shipwrecked Mariners
Society of Germany has saved 1,1os lives
It is considered to be the duty of
Swedish father to teach his boy or girl to
swim.
Rutland county, Vt, averages about
thirty divorces year, in population of
10000.
The King of Portugal not only translates
Shakespeare into Portuguese, but is o con-
ohelogist
A man 90 years of age was baptized by
immersion in creek near Benton, Pa,
recently.
A benevolent lady of New Orleans out
of her private purse supports an asylum
containing $50 inmates.
About sixty bodies of Boston's dead pau
pers are annually given away to the doc
tors for dissection.
A sign of the times. In Atlanta, Ca, o
c!othier advertises to supply patches of oil
kinds for children's clothing.
A girl in Oil City, Penn, saw de-
capitation trick in pantomime, and was SO
frightened that she had spasms and died.
An angry mother at Sittingbourne, Eng
land, who threw knife at her two boys
because they quarrelled, killed one of them.
Fiesole is one Of the few italian towns
which have o right to create mobiles. A
title of Count can be bought there for
800.
Ten of the twenty Mairies of Paris are
now provided with libraries where taxpayers
can procure instructive books gratui-
tously.
In damp closets, strong rooms, safes,
and other places where mildew is dreaded,
trayfnl of quick lime placed there will
prevent it.
Germany turns out annually five hun
dred and fifty doctors thoroughly educated
about one hundred of whom emigrate tc
foreign parts.
A British Columbia farmer was greatly
astonished recently to see upward of 100
aores of his farm slide into Thompson
River
The last census taken in Austria revealed
the fact that there were l83 men and 229
women above the age of LOG years, in that
country.
The stagnation Of the English Iron
trade causes the consumption of coal to
be very small in England compared to
what it was
An Italian brigand famous twenty years
ago, has turned up in the person of hard
working engine driver, and been arrested
for past misdeeds,
The head rabbi of the Ghetto was buried
with public pomp at Rome recently, and
the procession was the first of the kind il
that city.
In Asia Minor hereafter the police is tc
be composed of Christians and Turks in
equal proportions, and to be commanded
by English officers
BY dint of untiring effort the temperance
reformeS of Maine have largely checked
the consumption of liquor, but the con
sumption of opium has greatly increased
A woman in Clifton Park, N. Y, was il
one day separated by divorce from two
husbands, one of the suits being decided
against her there and the other in Cali
fornia.
Paper teeth are new invention in Ger
many, and number of specimens wer
displayed at the late paper exhibition il
Berlin. They are warranted fully as dura
BILE as any other teeth.
A Providence swindler coolly sold hous
to which he had no claim, and receive.
$2,70o for the forged title. The owne
first learned of the sale when the supposed
purchaser ordered him to move but.
Owing to the frequency of fatal ARRAY
among the workmen employed on the st
Gothard Railway, the Landrath of Uri ha
forbidden the wearing of deadly weapon
and the sale of arms in that canton.
It is not the servant girl who is unde
arrest in Allentown, Pa, for opening he
mistress letters, but exactly the reverse
7 The servant received letters from her lover
and the mistress yielded to curiosity an