The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1875-08-13

belt WIFI uiS pdEb' dS w iosc 1uio OWu
identity, and not only tear passion to
tatters, but the clothes of those who
were the victims OF his mimic rage.
But he found his match once in an actor
who played Claudius to Macready's Vir-
ginius. The hrst night Macready tore
the actors ballet shirt into shreds. But
| the second night the actor filed his shirt
with pins, and then calmly let the power
OF genius manifest itself. Macready be-
gan as usual TO lose his identity, but
about the time a dozen pins had pene-
trated his cutlcle as Virginius he began
10 rage in real earnest as Macready, and
those who heard him say that his re-
marks were totally unlike those which
He never lost his identity with that actor
again.
| Two American ladies are just now
making p pedestrian trip in the High
lands, End enjoying-the best of all ways
| OF travelling amid mountain scenery.
They are alone, each having her KNAPP
sack on back, and each also armed with
| p revolver. The weapons were pro-
duced for the information of a gentle-
man, who certainly meant them no
harm. We hope we may not hear that
these strong-ininded ladies have shot
themselves, or anybody else, by misad-
venLure.-Court Journal.
Last week o gentleman and daughter,
| travelling East, entered the hotel car
| tor lunch just after leaving Ogden, u.
t. At the table the daughter removed
| several handsome rings from her fingers
| and handed them to her tatner to take
care otuptil lunch had been disposed Of.
The gentleman took up some chicken
bones with the hand containing the
rings, and in a moment OF tabsent-Minded-
ness tarew bones and rings out OF the
| open window of the car, The rings
! were valued at 81, 700.
tNo, don't want none of your Hight
ming rodsp said a Kentucky farmer last
week to u man who had stopped at his
house to put up patent lightning con-
duct0rs. ~. amt afraid Of lightning.
4 Its thunder believes going to knock us
all endways some day." eYou don't
seem 10 comprehend" said the peddier.
"These 'ere silver tipped rods are Light
ming rods, and the gold tipped ones
| thunder rods-just what you want" and
he persuaded Lne old man TO order the
| gold tipped rods.
Csnstantinople wasillnminated on the
| evening of the 25tn, on the occasion of
the anniversary OF the Sultan's acces-
SION. What renders the Nominations in
Constantinople unsurpassed Ior effect is
| that the whole length OF the BOspt orus,
| ON both The European and Asiatic
shores, is lit up with every variety OF
color and graceful and tancIful display
OF light, and this almost continuously,
for a stretch OF upwards OF sixteen miles,
| on land and sea-.
Some of the churches in this country
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| take the place of fermented, commonly
| IN use for church purposes. The jour
nal of Applied Chemistry describes the
| method OF manufacture as follows: "ln
order TO prepare IT the grapes should be
allowed 70 thoroughly riYen. They are
then picked and Lne stems and all green
| and rotten grapes removed. The grapes
are then CRUSHED ana pressed in the
usual manner"
A correspondent Of New York paper,
| writing from Baltimore, gives the follow
| ing views OF social and art matters in
| that city: Apart from monuments, Balti-
more is the city OF handsome women !;
the homely ones are drowned young.
| You can tell q New Yorker by her dress,
Pniladelphian by her manners, Bos-
! Lonian by ner conversation, a W ashing-
| tonian by her dancing, but Baltimore
girl you teA Wy ntr lace.
| The Maryland and Delaware peach
| crop is enormous. At meeting of
| ftult-growers last week, it was estmat-
ed that the Peninsula will put into mar
ket this year not less than 3 000, 900 bas-
kets. Early varieties, it is expected,
| would be sent to market this week; but
the regular trade will not open till the
| lst proX. Direct communication has
Il
and the principal cities of the east and
| west.
Attention is being given in England to
| the value OF the mule. AT q recent show
the prize mule stood seventeen hands,
high and proved to be much stronger than
q horse. Another animal exhibited, and
which was only twelve and halt hands
high, had been driven the previous week
1 220 miles in forty hours, aud entered
| London on the evening Of the second
day at a pace OF ten miles an hour, with
no marks Of fatigue.
A man who owns book store face.
tiousiy remarked that he couldn't leave
Chicago this summer because he KEEP
stationery. Smarty heard him, and he
| went,away to spring joke. This is the
way he sprung it: "Mitchell can't gc
s.Don't know.' "Because he sells books
and papers.n And he never can under
stand why the other fellow don't laugh
l-lnter-Ocean.
The discussion of the subject of Gre
nation having called the attention o
the people OF England to the difficulties
attending the resurrection of the deaC
under certain circums tances, they have
now resolved to make the thing as easy
as possible, and to that end bave re
solved TO be buried in coffins made O
wicker work hereafter. The only objec
tions they have to them is their extreme
combustibilIty.
Illinois has the champion farmer. His
name is MicheaA SuiIiyant, and he re-
sides in Ford county, which is the scene
OF his agricultural operations. This sea
son he has $1,000 acres in corn, $4,000 O
1 which he put in with his own teams, ant
the other 1000 let out on shares. He hal
also 6, 900 acres in oats and fax. He hal
also 400 teams at work, and has no less
than 500 persons on his place.
i The report that the famous frigatt
Constitution is at the Philadelphia nayJ
yard, awaiting destruction, is denied
The navy yard has had no such vandal
/ io., in Uan a N, Al a tinn nm fha aNufra "