The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-02-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| len miles OF wire are In use In London
for the one purpose of synehronizing clocks.
In the city there are 1os clocks which are
kept 10 time by one central standard.
Prof. Barff has refused an offer of ST.
25o, 900 for the patent rights of his process
for the permanent protection Of iron from
rust and atmospheric influences.
A Pittsburg Justice has decreed that a
flag pole in a public highway, even with
the glorious Stars and Stripes flying from
it is q nuisance and must come down.
There is a man in the woods of West
Virginia who has been fugitive there
ever since he was drafted in 1868. He
cannot be persuaded that the war is over.
When the daughter of Russian noble
man goes into an institute for her education,
she is not allowed to go home until she
leaves for good; so that she has no home
life in her girlhood.
Maryland has some small cities. Cum
berland has population of about 10000,
Frederick has probably 5000, and Hagers-
town 5000, while Ellicott City has only
1900, and al are regularly incorporated.
Cleveland supports the view of artists and
dyers that there only three simple colors-
red, yellow and blue. By an apparatus
having q maximum motion of 160 to 100
turns per minute, and minimum Of sixty
turns per minute, the complementary of
every color may be produced
One of the most pleasing features about
japanese progress is the attention paid to
female education. The Empress, who is
said to be very able woman, spends both
time and money in fostering everything
which looks toward the elevation Of her
country women. Recently she invited a
number of girls to the palace to make an
exhibition of their needlework.
Muscular fatigue from prolonged use of
the pen may be pleasantly relieved by hold,
ing the latter after the manner of photo
graphers, namely, between the index and
second fingers, keeping it in place by means
of the top of the thumb. The distal end
of the holder should point away from the
body. The strokes are reversed, but one
can write in this manner for hours without
weariness.
1t is admitted by all that prevention is
better than cure, and the prevention of
left-handedness is not impossible. 1t is a
well-know fact that most children in arms
are carried on the left am of the mother or
nurse, as the case may be. The conse-
quence is that the right arm is fast against
the nurses shoulder, while the left HAND is
left free to grasp at anything that comes in
the way.
There has been great deal of confusion
not only as to the height, but the spelling
of one of the volcanoes of Iceland, which
is Hekla Hecla is wrong, Hekla, in Ice
land meaning hooded in allusion to the
snow or cloud which rests on its summit
The height of Hekla is 5, 1os English feet,
and is not the highest volcano, though the
most frequent in eruptions. Oraefa Jokull
Is the loftiest of the volcano chain, having
a height of 6, 496 feet.
Three sisters and a sister-in-law, whose
urited ages amounted to $50 years, recent
ly met for visit at Middletown, N J.
The oldest was ninety-six the other ninety
one-both with unimpaired health and
faculties-the next eighty nine, with some.
what failing health, and the fourth, eighty.
seven, who had made the journey from q
distant part of the State to be present at the
interview. The law, the woman
aged ninety-one years, has twin sister
till living.
M. Menier the Chocolate manufacturer
Is one of the wealthiest men in France
He is one of the few Frenchmen who have
appreciated the benefits of advertising
One day q man told him he liked his
chocolate but it had one fault-it grew
white as it grew old. Menier saw grea
point. Next day the papers announced
'Le chocolate Menier-ths only chocolate
that grows white as it grows old" Thou
sands have since bought it for this grea
and peculiar merit.
Singular combination of fgures-A yer,
curious number, 142,S57, which multiplied
by l, 2, 3, 4, s. or gives the same figure
in the same order, beginning at differ
ent point, but if multiplied by z gives al
pines:-
142, 2,S57x1.142,s57
142, ,657x2=2S5, ia
142, 42,S57x3=42S,51
142, ,S57x4=571, ,42s
142,S57x5 714,2s5
142, ,s5716-s57, ,142
142,S57x7-=999, ,999