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there will be large sur
plus, and the Increased railroad facili-
ties will bring them to the needy por-
tion quickly and at reasonable figures.
Added to this is the fact that Australia
had last year surplus of three hundred
thousand tons of breadstuff, and that
the surplus Of this year is likely to be
as great. These and other facts have,
tended to make the condition of the for
eign markets such that shippers are in
many cases to-day refusing TO send grain
at the present rates to European ports.
Freights, like the prices OF grain, jumped
up considerably on the ANNOUNCEMENT OF
a probable famine in Europe, and have
had perceptible influence in bringing
about the present condition of things.
The great scare concerning the injury to
crops in this country also affected the
prices to a considerable extent, but-as
the facts are becoming more widely
known the feeling of danger is passing
away, and although prices are being
kept up and will continue to be fair,
they can not remain such as to
seriously affect consumers during the
winter. The strip OF country damaged
by the continued rains and floods was
very small in comparison to the whole,
and not In the great wheat producing
portion of the country. To this even,
the damage was not SO greats as expected,
while in the great West, where wheat is
abundant, the supply is great and the
surplus from last year not inconsider-
able. California alone is said to have
100000 tons of wheat for shipment.
Add to this rs the fact that the South
has this year, for the first time, raised
sufficient grain for her own use, and it
will be seen that but little danger Of
very high rates need be anticipated. That
The prices Of grain will be good and
large amount exported is probable, but
that there will be SO great demand as
to seriously affect prices Of bread here is
unlikely. The demand for shipment
will probably be considerable within the
next few months, but it will only be,
enough to give vigorous tone to the
grain market and through it to other
interets, and the advance of few
cents ON breadstuff will be welcomed by
the laborer if it opens other departments
of trade by which he may find employ
ment. -
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1875-08-18

THE high rates for breadstuffs which
have agitated the minds of both pro-
ducer and consumer for some time, seem
hardly likely to remain at their present
standard for any great length of time,
and the fears expressed by many of Sc
rious trouble during the winter on that
account need not be longer entertained.
While the European demand bids fair to
be considerable, there is no likelihood
that it will warrant the prices at which
grain is now held. In fact the latest ad
Vices from the seaboard show that ship
pers are convinced that prices are abov
the shipping point, and that at the pres
ent rates our products can not be sent to
Europe. The damage to crops in that
country is not nearly so bad as at first
reported, and the results of these dam
ages are not such as to play directly into
the hands OF American grain raisers 80
completely as on former occasions. The
great grain raising country Of Russia is
now connected by rail with Western Eu-
rope. and although portions of its crops
have been damaged By drought,
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1875-08-18
How London Amuses Itself on Sunday.

"Drearily respectable" "Profoundly
solemn" "Stupidly quiet,' these are
the terms one hears applied to the con-
ventional London Sunday. Iuhink they
are somewhat exaggerated. Quiet. re-
spectacle, in the ordinary acceptation
of the terms, London Sunday as
suredly is; but fashion, society, rests
not even with the closing of the week.
There is still something to "do''- still
some social pleasure or duty which is
peculiar to the Sabbath. A certain veil
of stiffness seems to have fallen over
Town and ''city" when you rise on Sum-
day morning. sort Of tranquil smile of
resignation, as it were, on the streets
and squares. About ten O'Clock the
stiffness is broken in upon by the cries
Of street venders oil fruits and vegeta-
bles, as men and boys pass beneath your
windows with, haBdcarts laden with the
debris of Saturday markets. No one
seems to consider their cries or 0ccupa-
tfon a desecraLion of the day, and for the
matter of that, no one seems to think OF.
patronizing them. They pursue their
cheerful calling unencouraged and un-
moiested.
The services in the various churches
are held at eleven O'clock. In the ap-
proved-of Church of England service is
less snowy ritual than III the High
Church of America, but much more
tormality, it seems to US, than in the Or
binary Episcopal service at home.
Luncheon on Sunday is somewhat la
ter than through the week, and about
four O'Clock We drive to the ''Zoo"- a
singular amusement for Sunday after
noon, but dictated by fashion. We 20 in
at the Regents park entrance, and
down the broad walk TO the outer circle,
where are the entrances to the Zoologi-
cal Gardens. On Sundays only "fel-
ows" of the Society and their friends
are admitted; hence The reason OF it's be-
ing en- regle to go. Within the magic
circle the animals, human and other
wise, are proudly disporting. | remem-
ber seeing pretty girl and ner cavalier
before the monkeys cage, and hearing
the latter, heavy Dundreary, say, with
his eyeglasses fixed upon the cage, $50
nice to come here, you know cousin Ara
bella, isn't it? One sees everybody one
Knows" Whereupon cousin Arabela
smiles somewhat IRONICALLY. 1t is
really the place to meet ones
lriends;an what with the "hanimals,"a
an energetic keeper calls them, and the
Dand out in the park, the afternoon is
pleasantly whiled away.-The Galaxy
for September.
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SYMPTOMS.
J0HNG. SAKE, IN GALAXY FOR SEPTEMBER.
"IIe is sure possessed, madam

"He is sure possessed, madam"
Twelfth Night.
II. when you hear q certain lady's name, i
Youfeel your pulses give a sudden start,
Or blush. as il some secret sense OF shame
Had stirred, just then, the currents Of your
heart;
And If that name-to put 1t rather strong
In euphony seems very much above
All other names-l think can't be wrong
70 venture the opinion. you're in love.
II with two ladies', on a summer day,
You sit alo ~. at luncheon or at tea,
And thiuk, il one OF them was but away
Yet tind your wits in such giily whirl,
You scarcely speak TO her you're thinking OF,
But prattle gayly with the other girl
There's reason for supposing you're in love
n. all at once, your amatory pen
(which meier before attempted lyric lines,
Invita- musa-bane of gods and menD
10 fervid song and madrigal inclines,
Wherein you fashly rhyme OF ''yOuth" and
''truth,"
And call your subject "daring," stduss,. or
''dove;'
Or sadly be some cruel lady's ruth
The symptom is unlaillng-y you're iu lowe,
II, Of her sex no other you can find
One half SO bright or beautiful as she;
If to her failings you are wholly blind
The faults, mean, the 9th or people see);
IL in her "pug" you see "Grecian nose,"
An nd'never doubt the angel band above
Are silent when she Sings--you may suppose,
Beyond the slightest question. you're in love.
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all my life, Angie, ana that was your
self. You know how long and devoledly
l have loved you, you will not break my
heart nowr
What could she say2 For this man
she had lived single, and should have
until her death: could she refuse his love
when offered?
"But Amy, Stephen-she-perhaps she
loves youw
"No, indeed, she does not,n retorted a
merry voice. "Amy Edgeworth wants 40
beaus this summer" Then, in u quieter
manner, she came and knelt down beside
them, taking hand in each of hers.
81 have little confession to make,"
she said softly, and little story to tell.
Our old housekeeper told me one day
how a poor young artist won Angie
Edgeworth's heart; that her naughty
home and give him up, or raccept him and
main at home, not because she feared
poverty, but because she had promised
her dying brother that she would never
forsake his motherless babe. Aud faith
fully she kept that promise, break
ing her own heart to become mother to
IT. Then, dear auntie, vowed if ever
l could restore your lover to you would
do it. A friend Of mine accidentaIly'in in
formed me that Stephen Hayden, the
celebrated artist, was going up to Oak
dale among the mountains, aud that Is
why /! preferred the country to Sara
toga." .... . ...t
"You sly sunbeam" Miss Edgeworth
exclaimed.
l. "You blessed girl" said Stephen Hay
den, as he imprinted a kiss on her cheek,
"you do not know how jealous / have
been of you for years."
When they returned to the city there
was q fashionable wedding, and bridal
tour to Europe, and Amy Edgeworth ac-
,.l.i,Ia I'M hai
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1875-08-18

Arbor vitae and other evergreen hedges
which have not already received their
annual clipping, should be attended to
now without delay. Keep the top down
and induce a thick bottom growth. The
wider hedge is at the bottom, the bet
be. A pair of shears costing from two
to three dollars will be found very con-
venient, both for trimming hedges and
clipping grass borders, but an old scythe
fastened to short, straight stick for a
handle, leaving about half of tue cutting
edge beyond the stick, will be found not
Il bad tool for shortening in the. tender
ends of evergreens. Some gardeners
prefer it to The shears, believing they
can cut more evenly and much more
rapid, but a neglected one is perpetual
eyeSOre.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1875-08-18

THE watering-places report the poor.
est business this season that they have
had for many years. This is attribu-
table in part, without doubt, to the
general depression in trade and the dis.
position of people to economize. But
the principal cause has evidently arisen
from the wet weather and the cool,
pleasant breezes that have prevailed all
summer, making home more desir-
able than the seaside or the mountains.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1875-08-18
The Spanish Government has made, a

The Spanish Government has made a
levy of one hundred thousand men to
suppress the Carlists and the Cuban
rebels,at the same time. Of these new
levies, ninety thousand are to remain in
Spain, and ten thousand are to proceed
10 Cuba. Ii the levy is fully made and
completely armed, the war in the home
country will doubtless be much shor-
tened, and that in Cuba be proportion
ally lengthened. Where the men are to
come from, though, is not easy to foresee,
W ho are not soldiers are either brigands
or private thieves. 1t would be dilticult
TO make a levy OF either of these classes,
and far more so TO make honest soldiers
OF them, even If drafted and enlisted
Glohe-D Democrat
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THE telegraph yesterday informed us
Ihat cholera in Syria was abating. This
was welcome news to every one, and the
public will look anxiously for confirma-
= ton OF the reports. India, Persia and
Syria are the traditional fountain heads.
Of cholera, and as such the breaking out
of cholera in this region is the cause OIL
no little anxiety in all parts of the
world. Its disagreeable habit of travel.
ing across into Europe, and thence to all
parts of the world, have never been es.
pecially popular, but with the improved
facilities for travel and the large number
Of vessels and people passing to differ
ent parts of the world, the means of rapid
transit for cholera are especially plenty,
and any announcement Of Asiatic chol-
era in any part of the world creates gen.
uine alarm everywhere. Another cause
OF especial interest displayed regarding.
affairs in Syria is the fact that SO many
Christian missions have been recently
established in that country and so many
of our countrymen and women are ex-
posed to the ravages of disease. The
effects Of the epidemic have already been
very serious and alarming, and every
one will be glad to know that there is
likelihood of its disappearance. Four
hundred cases were reported daily at
Damascus, with no physicians nor medi-
cine to be had. Portions Of the town
were entirely deserted and all the mis-
sion schools were closed and the chill
dren dispersed. The picture was sad
dening one, and the line from CONSTANT
nople, "Cholera is abating in Syria" is
welcome announcement to all.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1875-08-18

The tomato was known in England as
early as 1897; which was more than half
a century after Cortes captured Mexico,
SO that the vegetable had plenty OF time
to reach Spain and spread over the rest
OF Europe. At that day it was called
the ''love APPLE" q name which clung to
it up TO the beginning OF the present Gen.
tury, and it was cultivated as a garden
curiosity because OF its beauty. The
Romans and Neapolrtans OF to-day hold
to the ancient title and still call toma-
toes pomi d'amore, and when the fruit is
yellow, as it Is sometimes in our gar
dens, they call it pomi d'aro
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1875-08-18

The new rice crop has made its ap-
pearance in the Southern markets, and
is mentioned as of excellent quality.
The yield this year is also very abun-
dant. This will in some parts Of the
South do great deal toward the desira-
BILE kind Of imitation and help make
times there more prosperous.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1875-08-18

WALT WHITMAN is reported as spend
ing his time at Camden, where he freely
gives vent to his indignation at the
world. If he expects to get even he viii
have to give vent at rapid rate, for the
world has expressed good deal OF indig-
nation at him.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1875-08-18

CAPE ANN, MASS, has the ruins of q
city, Dogtown, the last inhabitant OF
which committed suicide seventy years
ago. II that city had been located in
California its name would have been
the making Of it.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1875-08-18

MR.. PILLsBURY, leading Democrat
Of Maine, is charging Mr.. Blaine with.
completely in the Credit Mobilier affair.
The campaign there is very warm, but
MT. Blaine is not suffering much by these
attacks.
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i painting, granting, vanishing, polishing
kalsomining, papering, lettering, staining,
gliding, &C., SO CTS. Book Of Alphabets, so.
Scrolls and Ornaments, vi. Matchmaker and
JeweIer so. Soapmaker, 25. Taxidermlst,
SO. OF booksellers, or by mail. JESSH
HANEY s. CO., 119 Nassau street, New York
laul9-d&w,til 81
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THIS is q good month for moons, there
being two new ones. Butweneed good
deal of moon as we see so little OF the
sun.
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THE Boston Traveller wants any man
who urges that the cutting down Of the
forests Of this country is likely to pre-
vent rainfall, arrested as tramp.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1875-08-18

In Kansas, recently, two young ladies
having retired early, were awakened
with an urgent request TO attend So
cial gathering OF friends, and in just
fourteen minutes they appeared before
their escorts completely arrayed in
fashionable attire Inis !. the best time
on record,
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THE STAR For THE SUMNER.
THE DAILY STAR will be mailed to
porsons who may be absent from the
city during the summer at the rate OF
nifty centsper month.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1875-08-18

AN Eastern paper wants the people
who cook with kerosene exterminated.
That work it seems to us is going on.
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THE next State election occurs Sep
tember 1 in California.
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,SPEcuLAToRs are said to be greasing
up for corner in oil.
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RAILROAD TIMETABLE.
ATLANTIC AND GREAT wrsTERN.

ATLANTIC AND GREAT WESTERN.
Depot, Fifth and Hoadlv. Time, 7minrtes fast.
Depart Arrive Arrive
Chit. Oin'tI. Dest'oR
New York Ex daily. 9:5oP.M. 5:o0P.M. 6:50A.M
Lot1svILLE AND CINCINNATI sHoRT-LINE.
Depot, Trout and Kigour. Time, minutes slow
Louisville Ex daily b;55A.M. 6AOP.M. lo:2OA.M
Louisville Tex SUM-. 3:0DP.M. 12:l5P.M. 7sI5P.M
Louisville (daily).... 7;o0P.M. I5A.M. IL PM
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DAYTON sHoRT-LINE AND COLUMBUS.
Depot, Pearl and Plum. Time. minutes fast.
Columbus Ex. ...... 10 :50A.M. 350P M. 1852. M.
Ac. ........ 3:45P.M. 9:30P.M. l0:l0P.M.
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. GRAND RAPIDS AND INDIANA.
Depot, Fifth and Hoadly. Time, minutes fast.
Grand Rapids Ac. -. 7:3OA.M. 925p.M. e:35p M.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-03-26
What an Army Of Toad d-StoOIs Did.

Did ever you think how strong the
growing plants must be TO force their
way up through the earth? Even the
green daisy tips and the tiny blades Of
grass, that bow before a breath. have to
exert force in coming through, that, in
proportion to their size, is greater than
you wOnld exert in rising from under
mound of eobble stones. And think of
toad-stools-what soft, tender things
they are, breaking at a touch. Yet, ]
can tell you, they're quite mighty in
their way.
Charles Kingsley, the celebrated Eng
lish priest and novelist, was very close
observer OF nature. One evening he
noticed particularly square fiat stone,
that, l shoulI say, was about as long
and as broad as the length of three big
burdock leaves. He thought it would
require quite strong man to lift a stone
like that. in the morning he looked
again, and loi the stone was raised so
that he could see the light under it.
What was his surprise to find, on closer
exa animation. that 4 crop Of toad-stools
had sprung up under the stone in the
night and raised it up on their little
round shoulders "a they came!
I'm told that Canon Kingsley gives
an account of this in his book called
christmas in the West Indies" but it
was in England that he saw it.
Knowing that he was so close an OBJ
server, l shouldn't be one bit surprised
if he went still further and found ont
that one secret Of the toad d-stools being
able 10 lift the stone was that they didn't
waste time and strength in urging each
other to the work, but each one did
his very best without quarreling about
whose turn it was, or whether Pink
Shoulder or Brown Button was shirking
his share. But then the toad-stools
must have been strong, too From
"Jack-In-the-Pulpit," St. Nicholas for
April.
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The Confederate Treasures.

A writer in the Atlanta Constitution
tells curious story concerning the fate
of the money in the hands of Davis and
the high officials of the Confederacy af-
ter they left Richmond The fugitives
halted in Georgia, near the Savannah
river, and il was resolved to make an
equal division of the amount in the
Treasury, something over 100000 in
gold and silver, which gave to each Of
ficer and man S2825. But there had
also been carried off from Richmond
S4,0 900 of funds belonging to the Vir-
ginia Bank, and this was an immense
temptation to the defeated and desperate
soldiers. 1t was in charge of some bank
officials, and was stored for few day al
Washington, Wilkes county, in Georgia.
After the country had become somewhat
quiet, the officials started to return
North with the money. Some of the ex-
Confederates who were idling around the
neighborhood heard of the wealth and
laid their plans to capture it. About a
dozen of them, dressed in Federal uni
forms, rode up to the small guard ac-
companying the treasure, and demanded
its surrender in the name of the United
States Government, claiming to be ac-
ting under orders from General Stone
man. 1t was handed over to them and
they made off with it. But one of the
party was tempted 70 display some of
the money in town near by, and as the
fact of the robbery had become known,
the possessor of such a rare thing as
gold or silver at that time was immedi-
ately suspected of being in the transac-
tion. When arrested, he confessed and
disclosed the name of the whole party.
The greater part of the money was re-
covered, but two or three of the men
could never be found, and were suppos-
ed to have gotten off successfully with
their share Of the plunder
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ShiRIesshess.

Shiflessness and lazyness are often
coniouHded, but thare in really much
odds between them.
Lazy folks hate 10 work, but when
they DO set about a thing, they often do
II better than any one else kan, while a
shlltiess person IL al often hizzy doing
things 80 sloyingly that il disguise ever
ybody.
! have seen lazy wimfnin who were az
neat, and ~ klean NJ ma cent piece.
end ! have seen shillcs- ones who waz
NJ blzzy ~ a hunnv brc IN SUGAR bar.
rell, and ~ badly daubcd up.
shIltierF people make almost ~ mutch
truhble ~ this world ~ wicked ones do.
They never do ems thing entirely right
and perhaps not entirely wrong, and yu
kant get a good average on one ov them,
emmy more than w kan on the fuss aud
hurry Of a pissniire.
! hav'a gate nenny lazy ones ON mi
list ov acquaintance, and even friends.
but ! never hav ennything to do with "a
shilfless one. They allwuss reddy 90
borrow aumthing, and are allwuss reddy
to keep It.
/ luv to lend things, even mi boots
and nmhreller, but DO hate 90 hav o.
go two miles and hnf after them, in q
wet day.
The shifllesa and the'drunken nrc
good deal alike; every time yu lin them
up and le, go ov them down they 60
again.
Yn kant held this kind oy people, yu
kant even skare them; they will prom
ise ennything, and they will tell lie
just NJ honestly NJ they will tell the
truth.
| had rather watch two rnskals than
one shifless kuss
Lazy people kaE be pun,ched up
little once in awhile, but the more yu
puntch mp a shiillcss one. the wus- yu
and they are of.
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him cry ont, Lord Jesus, have mercyw
Il did not know I. said it, but l know
I might, for it's only the Lord can help
me where am now"
The chief had taken him from the
bed and carried him to an open window
Il noticed he was crying. What's that
for?' l asked him. Because you looked
dead, and you called Lord Jesus"
1 give this much of our dear old
friends sacred last talk with me because
those who knew him best were the most
panied by the singularly untrue use
made of his name by one incapable of
understanding him. And as Old Nor
tality kept the moses from hiding the
inscriptions on the tombs he cared for,
so it is needed that some should not al
low the fungus growth on honored
names.
Carson did reach home. And his wife
did feel the shock he had so hoped to
soften to her; she even felt it so much
that she died. Then Carson's friends at
the fort made him come TO stay where
they and the surgeon of the post might
do all they could to lesson his suffering.
And so surrounded by his friends and
love and honor, his end came.
His wife was of one of the good New
Mexican Spanish families, and their
children belong with the most Iespecta-
BILE and wealthy old settlers there, al
though Carson's post as Superintendent
left him no richer than when he was on
ly guide and hunter.
Gen. Sherman, who was among his
most valued and attached friends, had
the good fortune to be able to offer free
scholarship in an Ohio college to one
son.-He, l am sure. and all who knew
Carson best, when they hear him spoken
of, will not think of him only as the
brave man, or the great hunter, or the
cool, sagacious, admirable guide, but
first and tenderly as their "Dear Old
Kit."-[Mrs. Jessie Benton Fremont,
in New York Ledger.