The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1850-02-21
Correspondence Of the Star,
From Philadelphia.
PrulLApA.. Feb. 1s, 1850.

iHiLADA. IOD' 10 i'NS'
Though have nothing 10 write of either
grave or gayscharacter, will string wods
together just as they occurto me, and when
the sheet is full endeavor TO find out their
meaning and connection. This may strike
you as not exactly the best mode of writing
good letter, and yet the Poet Young in
forms US il is the way in which the vast ma
ori;y of books are written
There is lady in New York with eeri-
table horn of several pcbes in length pro-
jecting from her forehead, about which there
is considerable said at present. The. growth
of horns from the human head is singular
circumstance indeed, and yet there have
been many examples of it. John Russell,
Esq, in his tour through Germany in the
years 1820-2l-22, paid visit 10 Bumen-
bach, the celebrated Psychologist in Gotting
en-, who showed him three horns aud gave
him the following account of them :--"See
these horns. They were once worn by a
woman. She happened to fall and break her
head, from the wound +prouted this long
horn. Ii continued TO grow for thirty years,
and then she cast it dropped off, and in its
place came a second one; but it did not grow
80 long. and dropped oftoo Then this third
one, all on the same spot; but tho poor wo-
man died while the third was growing and |
had ii cut from the corpse" Russell sags that
''they were literally three genuine horns
The last two are short, thick and nearly
straight, but the first is about 10 inches long,
and completely twisteS, like the horn of a
ram. 1t is round and rough, of brownish
color, and fully half an inch in diameter at
the root. All three are hollow, at least at the
base. The terninationis blunt and rounded.
Other instances of TIE SAND thing have been
known, but always in women; and Blumen-
bach says it has been asccrtained by chemi.
cal analysis, that such horns have greater
affinity in their composition with the horns of
the Rhinoceros than with those Of any other
animal"
| thought it right 10 refer 10 the fact that
blows on the head may occasion the growth
of horns on ladies' heads so that they may
be careful, lest, being thrown from n sleigh,
they may get their heads cracked in the even
ing, and awake next morning with horn 10
inches long pceping from under their sunny
locks.
ST. Valentines day is over with all its fun.
There was nothing like the number of Val.
entines this winter that there was last, but
they were much more expensive and snowy.
Jewelry to the value of hundreds of dollars
was enclosed in some of them. Few satiri-
cal ones were sent, and, from the reform
which the old Saint is introducing, perhaps
next winter nothing but gold, diamonds and
articles of kindred value will be considered
Valentines at all.
stepped into room OIL Walnut street q
few evenings ago, TO listen TO the discussion
of question of no practical bearing at all
by debating society. The question was
"Which exercises the greatest influence over
the mind of man, Superstition or Ambition y
Now more pucrile, frohy debate you new
cr heard. The brilliant gas light was the
only light thrown on the subject.
The debating clubs of the "Star of the
North never selected more soulless ques-
tion, or handled it with less spirit. The roorl
was filled and everything was in good taste
except the debate, One compared Ambition
TO a self-feeding lTd lamp, which burnt fee.
bly, at first, but by its own heat furnished in
creased fuel, till finally it blazed out beauti-
fully, splendidly, glorously Almost ludc-
,,,,rs comparison, similar, though inferior, to
1bo, ce,en,,ote ted line of iHiadebras, in which
he compares the r.;;rg sun 10 b6:.!leed lob
ster. X.