The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-05-24
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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There are $1,000 commercial travellers,
On "drummers," in the United States.
To dlse euise the bitterness Of quinine 1,
Is recommended to take it dissolved in
milk.
Forty officers have been dismissed from
Che Boston police for drunkenness and
other bad habits.
San Francisco man on becoming the
father of triplets, publishes frantic ap.
peal for pecuniary aid.
Hoyle, the oracle of card players, was
seventy-esht when he wrote his treatise,
and ninety-seven when he played his Last
game.
Christopher Mann, Of Independence,
DO, has Just celebrated his 1o5th birth.
cay He has son only eight years old,
and ID the father of twenty eight children.
a Vermont man under arrest has pleaded
guilty to twenty eight charges, on each one
of which he can be sent to prison for at
least five years.
An architect Of the town of Antwerp,
has an original bin of sale of the 1st Sep
tember, Leaf, for twenty-five bottles of Pc
eroleum. This shows at that date petroleum
vas already imported into Antwerp.
A Chicago Methodist has fitted up boat
10 travel in as an evangelist. He makes
landings at the places along the shores Of
the lakes, holding revival meetings, and is
said to be exceedingly successful.
A woman eighty -four years old, living in
Washington county, Kentucky, who has de-
scendants unto the third generation, sur
prissd the community in which she lives
" giving birth to twins few days ago.
a London hrm advertised recently for o
collector, work hard and wages low, and
received over eighteen hundred replies,
nearly all from men Of apparently good
education and character, many of them from
gentlemen.
The Manitoba Indians cannot get any In
to1ioating liquor TO drink. The Hudson
Bay Company's infexibls rule against sell
ing liquor to Indians has been adopted by
Che Canadian Government, and the mounted
police are detailed to enforce it.
A two-dollar bill issued by the Smith
field, r. l., Exchange Bank in 1929, one
year after its organization, was presented
for redemption, in clean order and excellent
condition, one day last week It was found
among the effects of lady recently de-
ceased
A miner was riding up on an elevator in
o Nevada shaft. One of his hands caught
In the framework of the side, and he was
left dangling / 600 feet from the bottom.
Ills plight was not discovered until the
elevator reached the surface without him.
He was 80 weak, after being rescued, that
he could not stand
The driver Of what the English call o
''van' was lately surprised in London by
large orang outans suddenly jumping into
bis vehicle. He attempted to take the fel-
low into custody, but it escaped and after
ward attacked costermonger in the street,
upset his barrow and smashed his crockery.
The animal was captured after severe
suuggle with several men.
II can't lose my dollar and half" said
young man OF San Saba county, Texas,
when, with his license in his pocket, he
arnved at Che house Of his prospective
father-in-law and learned that his betrothed
bad eloped half an hour before. Hs bor-
rovcd spare horse and side saddle, over
hauled the fugitiyss and brought back the
lady and the marriage took place.
The Levant Herald says that the word
Pasha means "ths feet of the Shah" and
that the application Of 1t to officials is as
old as the time Of Cyrus. he called his
Judges his tongues his police agents his
'1sars," his taxgatherers his "hands," his
officers charged with the sdministra-
ton Of internal affairs his eyes" and his
warrior chiefs his feet.
The Greek Archbishop of Smyrna was al.
most mortally wounded the other day by
man desiring to be married The latter
upon being informed by the priest that
among the formalities to be complied with,
the consent of parents was indispensable,
stsbbed him three times and fed. At last
accounts the Archbishop was in a precarious
condition, and the assassin had not been
captured.
The Legion of Honor includes 10 grand
cross, 17S grand officers, sl5 commanders,
4,72l officers, and 29,5l7 knights. Each
of the grand cross receives 5000 year;
each Of the grand oficers $40O; and the
commanders, $500. OF the officers, 4 have
s2oo and the rest 800; 1os knights re-
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