The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-04-12
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

seventy tons OF oneWln8 gum are re-
quired to keep American jaws moving dur
ing the year.
Chipmunks' skins are discovered by the
people of Oregon to be available for the
manufacture of kid gloves.
A man in Illinois has found way to
make good lumber out of compressed
straw.
Toads and frogs were originally intro
duced into the Sandwich Islands to extor-
inmate cockroaches.
While the English infantry rife is sighted
up to 1000 yards, that of Germany is
sighted up to 1,750 and of France to
1,790.
A Belgian physician, appointed to report
on the prevalence Of color blindness, attri-
butes that disease to the excessive and gen.
eral use Of tobacco.
Castor oil is becoming an important pro-
duct in British India Last year there was
G7, 900 acres devoted to it in Madras. 1t
has been cultivated with success in Iowa.
A decision has Just been rendered In st.
Louis that the city cannot be held response
BILE for damage when person is run over
by fire companies hastily answering an
alarm.
The Bourse at Vienna Is handsomer
building than the Emperor's palace and
was put up by Jewish capitalists who own
it. The Viennese call it the tsmple of Solo
mon on the Danube.
A German paper says that the repeater
rife, the invention Of an Austrian captain,
is the best military weapon in existence,
and hints at its adoption in the German
army in place of the Mauser.
Iroquois County, ILL.,, has 200 artesian
wells all of small bore, within radius of
twenty miles. No one Of them exceeds rs
feet in depth, and they yield total daily
supply of 53, 500, 900 gallons.
An ingenious policeman at Normal, Ill,
suggested curing balky horse by fasten-
ing rope around the animals jaw and
hitching another horse to the rope. The
balky horses jaw was torn off.
The United Presbyterian Presbytery OF
Edinburgh has agreed to recommend to the
Synod that marriage with a deceased wife's
sister shall be no longer bar to member
ship in the Church.
An East Berlin, Conn, cat recently
swallowed S. gold piece which her master
had dropped, and the village butcher offers
$o.5 for her. The question now arises,
is the butcher sage man or sausage
man
In Japan, the 4th Of July is now a gen.
eral holiday, because on that day was
fought the decisive battle of Uyena, in the
ment of the temporal power of the
Mikado.
Cincinnati grocers advertise for sole in
the Sunday papers, under exasperating
cartoons, the bills of their delinquent Gus
toners, giving the debter's name, occupa-
ton and residence, and the amount of the
little bill.
The Thames Embankment, from West
minister to Waterloo (about mile and a
half, is now lighted with twenty Jabloch-
kof electric Light candles, worked from
an engine at Charing Cross Bridge, which
stands between Waterloo and Westminster
Bridges.
India is said to possess q convenient tree,
called the "kapas," which is used as tele
graph post. When cut down, its branches
partially removed and stuck in the ground
it rapidly takes root, thus checking the
ravages of the white ants and becoming q
living telegraph post
Sympathetic pipes" are q recent novelty
The bowl of a meerschaum may be coloret
in Eve minutes, by first tinting it with I
solution of nitrate of silver in ether ant
alcohol, to which essence of roses and cam
phor are added. Figures of any patterr
are produced by the heat of the to
bacco, and when produced are perma
nent.
Law, physic and divinity are well sup
piled with feminine members in the Unite'
States. The lady doctors numbers 53o
and feminine dentists 42O while 6S womel
are preachers and practise as lawyers
Some ladies adopt two or three callings q
once. A Mrs. Gibbs, living in St. Louis
notifies on her door plate that she is a
"elocutionist, poetess, washer, and ironer.
A Londoner Of fortune, named East
lake, has committed suicide in a singula
manner. He filed the pockets of his Goa