The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-06-28
ITEMS OF In TEREST.

sOp"NNos
1890 600 watches is the annual product
OF Berne.
Catskill has balance of $4,6i5.57 in the
treasury.
Population of Texas State Penitentiary,
1900.
England has three thousand temperance
lodges.
Customs receipts in New York were one
day $3S0,O0O.
A recent census gives Japan population
Of 33,00O,0O0.
Troy is the fourth largest wool depot in
the United States.
Over l 900 vessels cleared from New Nork
one day lately.
AN. j. captain caught 5000 herring in
four tides lately.
One-half of the poll-tax of Paiola county,
Miss, is delinquent.
Sweden contains eighteen cotton mills,
running 900 spindles.
Salt Lake City has population Of &c 900,
and the Territory l25,000.
The Singer Company swear to the sale of
232 ,444 Of their machines in 1873.
Lafayette College, Easton, has graduated
30 Judges and Congressmen.
A Shell Rock miss has managed to put
APPS different blocks into bed quilt.
The total number of deaths in Chicago
for the year ending April l, 1874, was
1857.
An orange tree in vigorous growth yields
from 500 to 1900 oranges every year.
Vermont has in its population 924 negroes,
IA Indians, and 329, 9,6l4 white persons.
The gold and silver coined at the Carson
Mint amounts to about $500, 900 month
Two million bushel of peanuts are every
gear devoured in the United States.
More than $4,000 Londoners have in
spected Holman Hunt Shadow OF Death"
The gross receipts of the British railways
have been more than doubled in IA years.
A haIibut, weighing $50 pounds, was
caught in Eastport Harbor, Me-, a few days
ago.
Sparks from locomotives did 81, 900 ,0Co
damage to forests last year by setting fire.
The decrease of the public debt for the
month of April was nearly three millions.
Two hundred and ninety wild ducks in
one day, is the boast OF an Illinois sports
man.
Twenty thousand persons have been drown
ed in Lake Erie during the present century.
The Midland Railroad Company of En-
gland found ii ,O35 umbrellas left along its
line
Only 800, 900 young salmon are to be put
In the head waters Of the Champlain this
spring.
A Lake City hotel has a hired girl who
killed | 800 bed-bugs in three and one quar-
ter minutes.
This State Of Nebraska contains 5000
square miles of territory-nearly SO 900 900
acres of land.
The Pennsylvania Railroad annually
moves 6,0OO,0O of passengers and 10000
WV tons vi lfelSnC.
Virginia pays $40 200 900 per annum for
whisky, but cannot meet the annual interest
on her debt.
A German professor has undertaken the
task of counting the hairs ON u buffalo robe
one by one,
The death rate on English railways during
1872 was equal to the slain in battle during
the Crimean war.
About 25O,00O pounds of cotton, the
growth Of California last year, have been
marketed in San Francisco.
Out of the total population of SO 900 900,
the French census shows total of l3 OOO,-
700 who can neither read nor write.
Theclergy cost the United States SI2, ,0OO,-
900 annually; the criminals $40, 900 900 !;
the lawyers 10000 900; rum $500 900 900.
The Barber match factory, at Akron,
Ohio, employs nearly two hundred men,
girls and boys, producing about $500 600
annually.
Philadelphia has four linseed oil establish
ments, employing l0S men and producing
S760 900 worth Of oil and cake.
The funeral expenses of men killed in the
Hoosao Tunnel, and paid by the contractors,
have amounted to $4,000 in five years.
The number of cans of peaches packed
last year approximated about 10000 900 ;
tomatoes 5000 900, and corn from $780,
300 to 100000.
Russia is about to adopt general con-
scription law which will bring the strength
of the army up to 1900, 200 within fifteen
years.
Last year four of the twenty cities mar
gining the great lakes shipped 1862 ,3G2 1876
bushels of grain, and Montreal more than
lSOO0,000.
The Sunbury and Lewiston railroad, run
ming from Lewiston to Selnsgrove, Pa, a
distance of fory-two miles, was sold last
week for $55l 900.
Three hundred and fifty dollars conscience
money was received at the Treasury from
Brooklyn, and thrty-ive dollars from New
York, one day last week.
A telegraph operator at Cincinnati lately
seceiyed dispatch Of fifty-one words per
minute from Washington, for thirty minutes