The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-05-10
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


railway bridges over the Rhine; now she
has sixteen.
A Canadian claims to have discovered
process for refining petroleum without the
agency of heat
When lady and gentleman are well ac
quainted, politeness does not require the
lady to speak first.
Visitors to st. Pauls Cathedral, Lon
don, carry opera glasses So as to have o
good look at the preacher and the bon
0ets.
A vacuum automatic brake lately tested
In England will stop in three hundred
yards train running at sixty miles On
hour.
An indianapolis man, who in 1866 made
$4,000, and invested heavily in real
estate, has just been sent to the Poor
<ouse.
According to the Rome Sentinel, "quail
on toast" is popular restaurant order in
the more or less Eternal City of the Mo-
hawk Valley.
One of the most exquisite of braid clasps
represents two little birds with spread
wings, holding the chain of jewels in their
beaks.
Phosphorescent paper, writing or print
on which can be read in the dark, is
the substance of late European inven-
ton.
Two boys recently found in the gem dis
dict of Ceylon blue sapphire weighing no
less than two pounds in the rough, and
valued at $500
A colossal flower has been lately found
IN Sumatra forests which has an average
diameter of thirty three inches. It is called
the Titanum.
The Philadelphia Times wants society re-
constructed so that it will be the proper
thing for woman to propose" to man, as
well as utce prsa.
Workingmen in Philadelphia have over
$70, 600 invested in cooperative loan
associations, which they find more secure
than saving banks.
Hillsdale county, Mich, has cripple for
Register, one-legged man for Treasurer,
and one-armed man for Judge of Probate;
and South Carolina has two one-legged
Senators.
The Japanese sikworm egg card dealers,
complaining of over production, have sub
scribed $17, 900 to ship 12O, 900 of the best
cards to foreign countries and will destroy
fhe others.
When you enter an inclosure in which
there is vicious dog take off your cap,
and as the animal approaches you hold the
headgear down by your side between your
calf and him. He will not trouble you.
Among the attractions offered for a
charity entertainment in a Virginia City,
Ne~. variety theatre was boxing match
between ballet girls, pie-eating contest of
newsboys and an attempt by a dog to kill
"a cats
Miss Harriet Hosmer is complimented by
the World, of London, as the greatest of
the few female sculptors the world has ever
seen and one of the very few among those
who have produced strong work and not
mere prettinesses
The irr5 cent glass which is becoming
very popular is prepared by exposing it
while very hot to the fumes of stannic
chloride. When the colors are very deep
the nitrate of barium or of strontium had
been added
A horse at Georgetown, Ky, twice every
day drives his masters COW through the
main street to water, and returns with her
as promptly and carefully as a man or a
boy could do the same service All that is
necessary is to put bride on him when he
starts. II the COW turns aside he brings
her back.
The eruption of mud at the foot Of
Mount Etna continues, and smoking lake
of steadily increasing dimensions has been
formed. Professor Silvestri says there are
two kinds of crater one in constant
activity, emitting muddy and oily water,
with exhalations of carbonic acid; the
other intermittent, issuing with subter-
ranean noises volumes of thicker mud.
An instance of the great value of pres
ence of mind was shown in church near
Newcastle, England, recently. The curate
had just begun his sermon, when the vicar
suddenly arose, interrupted him and pro-
nounced the benediction. The people went
out, wondering what was the cause of the
sudden closing of the service. 1t soon
transpired that the heating hues bad set fire