The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-03-22
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ngs are insured.
Up to the present time over 10000 silver
mines have been located in Arizona.
LAssoing diamond shirt studs with q silk
cord is the latest trick on Broadway, New
York.
Rampagious small boys stoning the
telegraph wires cost England $50, 600 last
year. a----as-a..-
In the Spanish provinces the hotel cooks
use she same style of pots used by the Ro-
mans before Christ.
1t rs estimated that sewing machines
use ninety per cent. of the thread that is
made every year.
The Court of Queens Bench of Quebec
has decided that man who frightens an
other to death is guilty Of manslaughter
A New jersey clergyman refuses to make
return of his marriages to the State, claim-
ing to be responsible only to God.
There are about "a, 900 stands of bees
owned in San Diego county, Cal, yielding
it is estimated, million pounds of honey
year.
American street cars are now running in
nearly every large city in the world, and
horses continue to be exported from this
country to Europe.
Under the general law of Missouri, Jurors
must be able to read. In st. Louis this
disqualiies ninety per cent. of the colored
residents. o.,
More boys than girls are born in Great
Britain, but statistics show that there are
about million more women than men in
the kingdom.
The fifth publication of Behm and Wag-
ners estimates of the population of the
earth, lately issued, puts the increase since
the Last issue at Is ,0O0, 600
Formerly one sermon converted three
thousand sinners" said Elder Burgess, of
Butler University, Ind, in sermon, re-
Gently, NOW it takes three thousand ser
mons to convert one sinner"
A Pennsylvania girl waited whole year
before bringing suit for damages against
man who had kissed her without warning,
and the crushing verdict of one cent dam
ages took her breath away.
The height of Partisan elegance is to
look Like Japanese lady. Santal essence,
rosy nails, yellow face powder, and satin
smooth hair, are some of the details neoes-
sary to the perfection of style.
The latest fan in Paris is really a sort of
toilet set. 1t has knob handle which
holds powder and puff. Under one of the
side slaves is concealed mirror and under
the other scent tube and pocket comb.
Among the articles sent through the Eng
lish mails the past year were live mice,
goldinches, lizards, cutlery, medicine, per-
fumery, articles of clothing, a squirrel,
fish, frogs, vegetables and o box containing
eight live snakes.
resident Of Vinton, Iowa, returned for
several years his property for assessment
at from Sc, 600 to 81, 900. Now he is dead,
and his administrator swears that the es-
tate is worth 110, 600, SO the county brings
suit for So, $50 back taxes.
Figures show that the American people
are drinking less whiskey and more beer
than in the previous year-ths falling off
of whisky consumed the past year being
6,b20, 900 gallons compared with the fiscal
year of 1877, and an increase Of 1900, 600
of beer.
The Santa Barbara (Cal.) Advertiser says
that among the curosities of the Pacific is
an oil well at sea in thirty fathoms of water
on the coast, off Santa Barbara, which
sends forth constant stream of oil run
ming to waste. Rejecting the light of the
sun in all colors of the rainbow, it produces
singular and beautiful effect.
Satisfactory experiments nave been made
with the electric light in Paris, during q
night snow storm, and additional ones will
follow when the next thick fog occurs in
which gas will be of little or no avail
Should the electric light render objects vis-
BILE to the distance of even sixty or seventy
feet, it will be used henceforth at all the
most populous points of the streets.
With their excellent police system in
Paris, which oblges landlords to report ara
rivals of strangers, they are able to show
that 571 1872 travellers arrived between the
LIST of May and the LIST of November. The
leading nationaliities were thus repre-
sented: English, 64,o44; Belgians, 31,419;
Germans, 3,524; Italians, 16, AIT; residents
of the United States 1850, &c.
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