The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-02-04
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

sale of lager beer.
The Empress of Austria is only SO years
of age, and yet she is grandmother.
Twenty-Five colored people in Washing.
ton claim to be over 100 years old.
The potato crop for the United States
for the past five years has averaged 145,-
600, 600 bushels.
A boatman of Birmingham, England,
aged forty-six, has been convicted of
drunkenness ninety times and paid 81 900
in fines.
A Cleveland woman ndvertises that she
will take in washing, and that, "bejng un-
til recently in affiuence," she knows what
| fastdious folks require.
AS curious liquidation OF an old bill as
any is that of a young man of Shebyville,
Ind, who has hauled wood to pay doctor
for attending his mother when he was
born, twenty years ago.
A gentleman who lately bought pair of
marine blue gloves in Hamburg, Germany,
1ound that his hands were soon covered
with an eruption. He gave the gloves to
chemist, who discovered q considerable
quantity of arsenic in the dye.
The bones of the intrepid explorer, Pere
| Marquette, have been discovered near
Point st. Ignace, Mackinac, about thirty
yards from the former Jesuit church, and
probably within the fence which once
surrounded the dwellings of the mission
aries.
The house in which John Knox, the
Scotch Reformer, lived and died is yet
standing in that part of Edinburgh known
as Old Town. Extending over the en-
tire front is this inscription in Roman
letters: -''Lufe God abufe all and vi nicht-
bour as vi SELF"
A miller in England, who had beaten lis
wife and threatened his children because
summoned for not sending the latter to
school, was last month seized by forty
women, who fogged him and then dragged
him to pond, where, while drenched
with water he implored pardon for his
misdeeds.
A Nevada charmer the other day picked
up a rattlesnake and snapped both ends of
the "varmint" at one twist. The reptile
measured four feet in length. His head
was as fiat and large as a turtles and he
| left nine rattles in his captor's hands.
John Davis was incurably i'll in Mont.
gomery county, Ind His sweetheart, to
whom he was soon to have been married,
went to work in mill to earn money for
his support, her well to do parents refusing
to give her any money for the purpose.
Davis committed suicide in order not to he
burden on the girl.
Queen Elizabeth once claimed sover
eighty of Cyprus, contesting the Turkish
usurpation - 1870 IS - probably on the
ground of Richard C9ur de Lions con-
quest. The arms of Cyprus are blazoned
on her tomb, and her right to the title of
Queen of Cyprus was recognized by the
College of Heralds of her day.
The consumption of coal in London is
steadily augmenting, both in arithmetcel
and geometrical ratio. THUS, in 1851, the
consumption was within 200, 900 tons; In
1851, it increased to $780, 900 tons; in
1861 to 5,O7S, ,275 tons, and in 1877 to g.
600, 700 tons. For manufacturing purposes
alone 1900, 600 tons are used up annually
in that huge city.
bear robbed of her cubs is generally
supposed to be furious and dangerous, but
at Reed City, Mich, bereft mother bruin
one Finn in their stead. There the
neighbors found il, after searching for
twenty -four hours, with never q scratch
upon it, and the old bear seemed very 10th
to give up the child of adoption.
A boy of fifteen has been brought be-
fore the magistrates of Bristol, England,
charged with several burglares. A wagon
load of plunder valued at from So, 900 to
SO, 600 was produced in court, as also that
young gentleman's kit of housebreaking
tools and library of exciting fiction of
The "penny dreadful sort, from which he
doubtless gained his inspiration.
drunken fellow at Austin, Nevada
took q handful of coin from his pocket
and threw it on the ground. An Indian
standing by gathered up the pieces and
offered them to him, but the white man
refused the money and said:-"You keep
it, Jim, and treat the Indians with it,"
"All right" replied the Indian, ''me keep
'um; give you 'um back when you are
sober" And next day he hunted the man
up and gave him back the money.