The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-01-06
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

glass snppers'
Potatoes were introduced into Ireland
in 1910.
1t takes 12, 900, 900 clocks to tick of tho
hours for this country.
The finest -four in Germany is now sc:d
to be made with glass millstones.
A man Of ninety-two years has just mar
ried woman of twenty -four at Greenville,
Ga.
The Pekin Gazetts speaks of Kung Too
Whing, about A. D. 976, as the inventor Of
the telephone.
An actress dropped her false teeth on the
the stage while comforting her face in
death scene in Vienna theatre.
Three hundred kegs of bad beer, thrown
into pond at Insterburg, Prussia proved
that an intoxicated fish is very queer fish
indeed.
Two workmen at Marseilles lately per-
ished in vat in an oil factory while one
was trying to rescue the other.
No woman can be employed in On Aus
trian Railway offiAo unless she is under
twenty-five and wifi promise not TO marry
under three years.
A Snowman in Sheffield, Mass, stuck his
Gnger into box of rattlesnakes to stir
them up, and was bitten. He swallowed a
quart of whisky and two ounces of morphine,
and recovered.
In a paper mill in Manchester, Conn, is
in use an improved machine, in building
which the maker says that he followed
directions given by the spirit of his dead
brother.
Bedlam is derived from the Priory of
Bethlehem, suppressed religious COM
munity, which Henry VIII. gave to the
London magistrates as an asylum for the
| lunatics.
The pretty maid milking her twenty
three COWS ir an hour and forty minutes was
sight recently to be seen at East Zorra,
Ont She carried the milk upon the stands
as we'll
Chicago's barking girl is put in the shade
by the cat-baby of Racine Wis, which
news like cat in distress, has claws in
st ad of nails, mouth like that of O
bat, and an arm resembling a cats paw.
A destitute old man, desiring to die, but
resolved not to kill himself, went into o
lonely wood near London, Ont, and lay
down to starve. He was found almost
dead, having lain there five days without
food.
Over 132, 900 persons are employed on
the East India railroads. The greater
number are natives In fact the working Of
the lines is practically in their hands-ir
some cases not even under European super,
vision.
A man was recently literally cooked in {
steam bath in San Francisco, into which ht
went without the knowledge of the attend
ants. He turned the steam OIL ignorant
ly, and was first sufocated and thel
: boiled.
The Russian Government talks of exilins
its criminals to the marble quarries of Fin
land, instead of sending them to Siberia
r This marble is susceptible of high polish
and promises to be o very important articl
$ of export.
). A native teacher has been removed fror
e Elphinstone College, Bombay, because hi
e class left the room in disgust when he, IL
tending to account for some Of Milton's et
e centricities as to construction, called th
y bard "a icentious poet"
% North Beaver township Pa, has di
n covered tree climbing snakes. A dozen {
d them have been killed, the longest of whic
measured seven feet. They have fiji
a heads, greenish spots on the skin and EN-
he kissing sound like that of a goose.
40 u, The Japanese are the only foreigners
e. lowed to enter Corea, where they are A
as strong and have organized municipal
u, on the European model. The streets
fe their settlement at Fusan are very cle'
I'd and the natives are beginning to imita
l[ their customs.
Nv !" The japanese boy who as brother OF t
ne Tycoon, headed the embassy that came
o. this country eleven years ago. is now
;" student in Paris He would now be t
rycoon had he not led futile revolutiona
of movement; but he retains an income
~ 100000 year.
ce DIR. O'Donnen loaded wagon with G
~ Co., T,.o po;ooo on5 aYhibl1