The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-04-26
ITEMS OF INTEREST,


Friendly letters should be written be-
cause the words spring spontaneously from
the heart and not from q sense of duty.
Young ladies who wish to have small
mouths are advised to repeat this at fire.
quent intervals during the day, Fanny
Finch fried five founderipg frogs for
Francis Fowler"
| The devil runs on immense manufactory
of excuses. They are of all sizes ond
shapes, suited to every possible occasion,
and such is the demand for them that it is
imp ossible to overstock the market.
1t is doubtful if even cremation will de.
stroy the emenations of unadultarated
meannegs of man that will sell whisky to
person whose family are starving at
home
Dr. Blacher has recently reported (in the
Courier Medic"D some excellent results
from treatment of pulmonary consumption
in its first two periods, with glycerine in
stead of cod liver oil.
Bright colors gaudy trappings and even
white horses are being eliminated from the
French army service, Us they furnish too
conspicuous mark for the new arms of
precision now used in warfare.
How women long for home, love and
protection only they and God know. Some
are compelled to accept a miserable SUBJ
stitute for it, but true woman never &C.
cepts the counterfeit coin.
American coal is sold in Switzerland,
coming from Philadelphia by sailing ships
to Marseilles and thence by rail to Geneva,
where it costs about $40 ton. The price
is under that of German and French coal
at the same point, and the quality is pro-
nounced much better.
There has lately been admitted to pro-
bate in England the shortest will on record.
1t reads: Mrs. - is to have ali when
die" Such brevity and exactness in oil
wills would soon make half the lawyers in
the country turn their attention to startins 3
country newspapers!
The making of wooden toys is almost the
sole industry of many parts of central
Europe. Schools have been established and
artistic taste has been developed in a way
to make the work done of greater value and
more attractive than it has hitherto been.
At Sonneberg, in Thuringia. the annual
production of toys amounts to some $10,.
600, 600.
The Chinese are superseding English
sailors to great extent on Australian ves-
sells and steamers, being found to be
cheaper, cleaner and more easily managed.
In a recent case at Liverpool, the captain
of the English vessel Queen explained the
presence of an exclusively Malayln crew
by saying that all the available English
sailors at Singapore were SO drunk that he
could not take them:
In the instance of the iron stenmshI
City of Venice, which went ashore on the
rocks, after every other plan to raise and
haul her off had failed-she had rocks
through her bottom in some places foul
feet high-dynamite was tried. The rocks
protruding through the vessel were first
removed by ne of small charges; the tops
of the rocks outside of the vessel were then
blasted away, and the vessel got off without
further injury, and was saved.
Artificial teeth were manufactured il
China centuries before they were produced
in Europe. The material used is bone ol
ivory. and the tooth, having been sawed
and filed into proper shape, is fastened
to the adjoining teeth by copper wire OIL
catgut string. If two or more teeth are
required they are made in one piece, and {
hole being drilled through the entire length
a dorble wire is passed through it ant
looped over the natural tooth at one enc
and tied to the teeth at the other.
The imitation diamonds made of Rhine
pebbles are now used in Paris for many
purposes. There are not only diamond
buttons, mounted like solitaire, or in clus
ters, but buckles for the shoes and belts IL
all conceivable designs. There are, also
fastenings for necklaces and bracelets OF
velvet and very small buckles to fasten the
ribbon loops which are placed down tn
front of the dresses and on the lower par
of the sleeves. Earrings, crosses and orna
mental pins are also made of these stones.
The holly tree is called "Christ's thorn
in Germany and Scandinavia, from its put
ting forth its berries at the supposed periot
Of the year when Christ was born and iron
its time -honored use in decorating Christian
churches. The tree, according to a Ger
tain legend, was that in which the Almight
revealed Himself to Moses in q fame O
fire, by which it was not consumed. Like
wise it was supposed to have formed tn
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