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The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1875-10-22
ADJUSTMENTS.

Concerts ---- Thomas Orchestra
And HARMONIC SOCIETY.
Pi k els Oper III ou . @,
FRIDAY EVENING, Oct. %, at clock.
PROGRAMME.
Overture-Abenceragen ......... .Cheuribini
Scenes from Orpheus ...................G Gluck
Miss Emma Cranch, a mixed Chorus, and Or
chestra.
1NTERMISSION.
Concerto, for Piano and Orchestra, OPP. 1856
]. Allegro. 2. Andante. 8. Finale.
Nine. Madeline Schiller.
Symphony No. T, in A. OPP. "a. Beethoven
]. lntroduction-Vlvac 2. Allegretto.
8. ScherZo. 4. Finale.
Reserved seats, 81 90; Single admission, 81
Gallery. so cents.
Ticket of1ice-Music Store of j. Church S Co.
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LNOR RENT - FURNISHED HOTEL - The
IL Continental 4-story brick, 90 rooms; in
complete running order; only first class hotel
at Kent, Ohio, division terminus and principal
car shops OF Atlantic and Great Western Rail-
road. Hotel has excellent reputation, and will
be leased on liberal terms to satisfactory party.
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T,OR SALE-MIssOUR LANDS-Valuable
IL unimproved farming lands, within range
OF railroad, extremely low for cash. Title IS
derived from Government, and guaranteed
clear and perfect. Capital lists, real estate deal
ers and trading men MAY find 1t greatly 10
CHRISrMAN, St. Louis, Mo. Ocl0-At
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VNTANTED-NEw MEXICO INvALIDS
wv AND OrHERS-D Desiring information
regarding New Mexico, by Enclosing 25 cents
Jor expense TO TAOS, STAR Office, will re-
eciye prompt and correct answers. ocl0-tf
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VTTANTED--JIM d CHARLIE DAVIS
wv formerly OF ia Race street, are located
nc the 'sSuu Saloon 73 Fountain Square, where
they will be pleased TO sec their friends Open
VI all hours, day and night oc4-2Ot :
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TNOR SALE-DRUG STORE First-class,
IL with good stock OF drugs and good GUS
tom, and one-half acre OF land, in Cullman,
Alabama; present owner has other business to
attend to; terms, $1,000 cash. Address GEO.
ii. PARKER, Cullman, Ala. oC10-4t
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VNTANTED-To CLOSE OUT--A stock of
wv nrst-class Sewing Machines IN order to
retire finally from the business. Will sell at
COST for CASH. Call for AGENT, 2SO W alnut
street, drst floor. je26-i
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FOR RENT.

LNOR RENT-HALL-For the rehearsals of
IL dramatic clubs. Hall contains stage and
scenery. Address F. ARICO, las W. Fourth
street. oc2i -2t
NOR RENT TN COVINGTON-A brick
IL house OF 12 rooms, newly painted ant pa
pered, suitable for store and dwelling-SO2 and
6U4 Craig street, near Pike. Apply at the
Bakery, next door. oc22 st"
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T. good spring on same; in thickly-scttod
ncighborhood, in Adair county, Iowa, near
county seat Or will trade for horse and light
spring wagon. Address "W," this office.
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TIOR sALE-NEW CoTrAGE-of 8 rooms
$500 cash, balance on nine years time at slCO
year until paid for. Inquire at SO Dayton
street, Newport, KY. JOHN NBRECHWATER.
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VKJ ANTED D--COTTAGE--Of 2 or rooms
wv and kitchen. by a young couple, within
10 or ~ minutes walk from the Post-0fflce;
beet OF reference given. Address F. e., Lock-
box ea7, city. ocSo-at
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NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

wv 7ANTED-SIrU ATION-As housckeeper
w for u respectable wdowby widow lady.
Address MAUD. Aurora, Ind. oc20-3t
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Observation-Disclosures

D-WASHING-Che washing at
w SAM WAH'S Laundry, 255 w alnut st.
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.VKTANTED-ENGAG G AGEMENTS--By day or
wv week by very competent dress maker
and cloak maker; understand cutting thor
aughly. Address DRESS CUTTER, this office.
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Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1875-08-14
French Expansiyeness.

There is funny expansiveness in the
Frenchman which is ungovernable on
grand occasions. The spectacle Of an
American General in the hour of victory,
selfrestrained and impossible, smoking a
cigar, to his eyes must be singular He,
under similar circumstances, would be
falling on somebody's neck, and giving
himself over to lively transports. Wei
lingtOn calmly fighting by the watch,
and Napoleon nervously taking snuff in
great pinches from his waistcoat pocket,
is an illustration of this.
1t is not the fashion to repress the ex-
preston of feeling in France When the
Anglo-Saxon is of melting mood, his
endeavor is to hide it, and he resorts to
blinds and talks of cold If his voice
gives way under charged feeling, he ex-
plains that it arises from hoarseness-or,
in short, any but the true reason.
There is nervous apprehension lest any
manifestation of it should be observed.
In this respect the Frenchman is every
thing that he is not. At meeting a
friend his face is radiant with delight
he folds him TO his bosom and kisses him
on the cheek; at parting with him for a
voyage. he embraces him again, and the
unrestrained tear drops from his eyelid.
This is done with such natural graceful
ness that it seems a matter of course.
He has dramatic power in voice, expires
sion and gesture. and uses incisive Ian
guage, which lends itself to his nature
with fexibility. He turns himself inside
out before the public. He is alway:
communicating his joys and troubles
and secret is a heavy burden to him
He almost lives in the open air. When
not sleeping or working, he is walking
the asphalte, sitting in front of cafe
chaired in the Champs Elysees, lounging
jim the Luxembourg, or pleasure-hunting
in suburban forests. In unrestrained ex
preston of feeling, and wayward pursuit
of pleasure, regardless of certain consid.
erations which we deem moral, there j:
something suggestive of Donatello in hi;
unconsciousness of good and evil before
the fatal push from the rock.-ABert
Rhodes French at Home.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1875-08-14
Waterproof Paper.

The French papers speak of method
of rendering paper extremely hard and
tenacious, by subjecting the pulp to the
action of chloride of zinc. After it has
been treated with the chloride it is sub
mitted to strong pressure, thereafter
Becoming as hard as wood and as tough
as leather. The hardness varies accord
ing to the strength of the metallic solu-
tion. The material thus roduced can
be easily colored. 1t may be employed
in covering floors with advantage, and
may be made to replace leather in the
manufacture of coarse shoes, and is a
good material for whip handles, the
mounting Of saws, for buttons, combs,
and other articles of various description.
An excellent use of it is in large sheets
for roofing. Paper already manufac-
tured acquires the same consistency
when plunged, unsized, into solution OF
the chloride.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1875-08-14
Multum i'm ParyO.

Worth begets in base minds envy; In
great souls, emulation.
The mind cOnceives with pain, but it
brings forth with delight.
The only fence against the world is a
thorough knowledge of it..
Trust not the world, for it never
payeth that it promiseth.
Girls we love for what they are !;
Young men for what they promise to be.
Youth ever thinks that good whose
goodness or evil she sees not.
1t is a truth too well known, that
rashness attends youth, as prudence does
old age.
When a man seems to be wise, 1t is
merely his follies are proportionate to
his age.
The morning oflife is like the dawn of
day, full of purity, of imagery, and har-
mony.
We ought not to Judge mems merits
by their qualifications, but by the use
they make of them.
There are men who are witty when
when they are sad.
Young men are apt to think themselves
wise enough, as drunken men are to
think themselves sober enough.
Time will bring to light whatever is
hidden; it will conceal and cover up
what is now shining with the greatest
splendor.
Man has here two and half minutes
one to smile, one to sigh, and half an
one to love; for in the midst of this
minute he dies.
There is a tide in the affairs of men,
which taken at the food leads on to
fortune; omitted, all the voyage of their
lives is bound in shadows and mysteries.
Different minds incline to different OBJ
iects; one pursues the vast alone, the
wonderful, the wild; another sighs for
harmony and grace and gentlest beauty.
Thinkers are scarce as gold; but he
whose thoughts embrace all his subject,
pursues it uninterruptedly and fearless
of consequences, is diamond of enor-
nous size.
Many do with opportunities as children
do at the seashore, fill their little hands
with sand, and then let the grains fall
through, one by one, till all are gone.
Make not bosom friend of melan-
choly, sad soul. He will be sure to
aggravate thy adversely and lessen thy
prosperity. He goes always heavily
| loaded, and thou must bear hall.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1875-08-14

An Affecting Case.

The many freaks of physical infrmity
show nothing stranger than instanta-
neous blindness or deafness, or their i'm
mediate cure. But cases of the kind are
we'll authenticated. The following is
told in Nashville paper: We recently
heard remarkable and touching story
of a little boy, the son of gentleman in
an adjoining county. His age is twelve
or thirteen. He is an interesting and
promising lad. One day during the past
winter he failed TO rise in the morning
as early rs usual. At length his father
went into the room where he lay, and
asked him why he did not get up. He
said il seemed dark yet, and he was wait
ing for daylight. His father retired, but
the boy not making his appearance for
some time, he returned, and said sec
ond time
"My son. why don't you get up%
Father, is it daylight ," he asked.
Yes, long ago"
"Then, father" the little fellow said,
am blind"
And so it was. His sight was gone
In short time his father took him to
Nashville, to get the benefit of the med
ical profession there, but none of the
physicians could do anything for him,
and happily made no experiments on his
ewes. Some ladies in family of his
fathers acquaintance sought TO cheer
him in his atlliction, and one night pro-
posed to take him to the opera, that he
might hear the music and singing. lie
went and was delighted.
In the course of the performance, all
at once he leaped up, threw his arms
around his fathers neck, and screamed
with ecstacy:
80 father / can sec.'
His sight had instantly returned.
And since then he has retained it in full
vigor, except that under excitement
there is sometimes a dimneSs of vision.
The case is one of remarkable and sin
gular character.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1875-08-14
The Fun of Steamboat Racing.


Mark Twain, in late issue of the At
laatic Monthly, speaking of steamboat
racing on the Mississippi in former times,
says:
Racing was royal fun. The public al
ways had an idea that racing was dan
gerous, whereas the very opposite was
the case-that is, after the laws were
passed which restricted each boat to just
so many pounds of steam to the square
inch. No engineer was ever sleepy or
careless when his heart was in a race.
He was constantly on the alert, trying
gauge-cocks and watching things. The
dangerous place was on slow, popular
boats, where the engineers drowsed
around and allowed chips to get into the
"doctor" and shut off the water suddly
from the boilers.
In the "fush times of steambOating,
a race between two notoriously fleet
steamers was an event of vast import
ance. The date was set for it several
weeks in advance, and from that time
forward the whole Mississippi valley was
in a state of consuming excitement.
Politics and the weather were dropped,
and the people talked only of the COM
ing race. As the time approached, the
two steamers stripped" F" and got ready.
Every incumbrance that added weight,
or exposed Il resisting surface to wind or
water, was removed, if the boat could
possibly do without it. The spars, and
sometimes even supporting derricks,
were sent ashore, and no means left to
set the boat afloat, in case she got
aground. When the Eclipse and the A.
l.. Shotwell ran their great race, twenty
two years ago, it was said that pains
were taken to scrape the gliding off the
fanciful device which hung between the
Eclipse's chimneys, and that for that one
trip the captain left off his kid glovesand
had his head shaved. But | always
doubted these things. If the boat was
known to make her best speed when
drawing five and a half feet forward and
five feet aft, she was carefully loaded to
the exact figure-she wouldn't enter a
dose cf homeopathic pills on her mani
fest after that Hardly any passengers
were taken, because they not on y added
weight, but they never will trim
boat" They always run to the side
when there is anything to see, whereas a
conscientious and experienced steam
boatman would stick to the. center OF the
boat and part his hair in the middle with
spirit level
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1875-08-14
Noted Horses.

N[erkes, the sire of English Eclipse,
was sold for mere trife at the Duke OF
Cumberland's sale. When his get ap-
peared upon the turf. the Earl OF Aber,
deem paid $4,000 for him, and he stood
for $500 To serve mares before he died.
The Godolphin Barb, that Lett many
renowned descendants, was purchased
out of n water-cart in France.
Spilletta, the mother of Eclipse, was
but an Indifferent race-mare. She never
started out but once, was then ignomin-
iously defeated. Eclipse and Proserpine
were among the aristocracy of her pro-
geny.
Rysdyk's Eambletonian, the king OF
trotting sires. never started IN race.
He carved out his owners fortune rs the
sire of such trotters rs Dexter, Nettle
and others OF great renOwn. lie com
menced his services in the stud at TWEEN
ty-tw0 dollars mare. lie is ending his
career at $500 to insure colt.
Andrew Jackson was ordered to be
killed when Il young colt for his deformi
ties. He was only saved from an early
grave by the interposition OF the vile OF
his hard-hearted owner. His descend
ants are among such flyers as Kimble
Jackson, American Girl and Lucy.
Dexter was parted with for mere
song at his first sale, on account of his
white legs and blazed face, subjecting
him to the scoiIs and jeers of the deluded
public. When those white legs could
pass without effort every hOrse of his day,
and that white nose appeared first on the
home-stretch, he was sold for the iabu-
lous price of $4,000. -,
Flora Temple is said to have been sold
when colt for thirteen dollars. She
was at least diminutive pony, but grad
ualIy rose in the market to $l75 at five
years old. She afterwards sold for $4,000
on account of her superlative action, ana
would have exchanged for twice that
sum at fourteen years old, when she
made 2:l9-44 at Kalamazoo, before war
prices governed the horse market.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1875-08-14

THE immigration toTexas il immense,
but, unfortunately, too many Of the inn
migrants bring their dogs with them and
hydrophobia prevails TO an alarming ex-
tent in the new empire. When Texan
is bitten by one Of the disordered brutes,
his neighbors do not gather and declare
that hydrophobia is disease of the inn
agination, but they hurry out TO look for
maidstone. In Georgetown, a DR..
Knight got a maidstone for use in his
practice, and it wasn't long before he got
a patient. His bill was two hundred
dollars, but be found he could not collect
it, and he therefore appealed TO a court.
After an interesting contest, the court
decided against him, and he made the
case more interesting than ever, as many
people had believed the maidstone TO be a
great and only remedy. The Georgetown
paper says: HThe verdict seems to place
the stamp of disapproval upon this popu.
lar fancy" but it doesn't say how Dr.
Knight feels.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1875-08-14
The National Heir.

"Now, Mr.. President" said a
paper man at Long Branch, the
day, 10 President Grant, whom ]
on the beach, "just 10 stop ali u
and suspense about what that
baby Of yours il 10 he named, let N
a suggestion"
"What is itT' indiHcrently mu
the President between pubs, a. he
away at a dark colored Havana.
II propose" said the knight
press, that you make his innitial
B. s.--all Of which shall stand I
name-star-SpaDgled Banner saI
"Now, Mr. Reporter" said the
dent, n he removed the cigar fr'
mouth, "what sense IL there in "a
such n name a. that on the child :
why" replied the pencil
"sense enough--im't he the NJ
heirT
Then Mr. Grant ran his eye oys
reporter from head 10 heels, and
fully two minutes before he Tt
smoking and stroIled away towa
cottage.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1875-08-14
Measles In Fiji.

1t has been reported that the measles
have broken out in the FIJI Islands, and
have ragged with such awful severity that
no less than fifty thousand of the ma
tives have died of the disease. There
has never been a trustworthy census of
Fiji. but the number of deaths from this
disease are said to have been much more
than one in ten of the whole population;
probably more than one in six. such a
mortality in the United States would
take away seven millien people.
1t will doubtless seem strange 10 many
persons that disease so common, and
so little dreaded among Us, should have
proved so fatal among the FIJI Islanders.
To be sure, there are many deaths from
measles in America, but they are mostly
among class of people who either will
not or can not take caro- of themselves.
There is reason, however, for Its
severity among savages.
Every boy who has had the measles
knows that he is not likely to have the
disease second time. But it may not
be so we'll known that all maladies of
this kind become milder in their effects
in passing through successive generations.
Thus a whole race will in time become
so accustomed to a disease that 1t be-
comes almost harmless. In well-to- do
families the treatment formeasles is ow
quite simple, and where proper care Is
taken there is little danger of fatal
result.
The Fiians have not this gradually
acquired power of resistance. The Eu-
ropcans have carried the mild type OF
the measles to the islands, and 1t has
taken its most violent and fatal form at
once. The people do not know how to
treat it. and their habits almost render
ordinary treatment Intellectual. 80 the
epidemic has had clean sweep, and It's
effect has been terrible. This, however,
is only a sort of repetition of history.
Savage men are swept away by the dis
eases of civilization when civilized men
appear among them. The Indians of our
own country were destroyed by the
thousand by that product of civilization,
smallpox. Consumption was unknown
to the Sandwich Islands when Captain
Cook visited them. 1t is now the scourge
of the Hawaiian Kingdom, and scarcely
one-tenth the population the first Euro
peans found there remains.
1t is unfortunate for Great Britain,
which has but just annexed FIJI, that
this terrible epidemic has occurred.
Some of the chiefs, upon whom the Eng
lish relied to reconcile the Fijians to the
change of rulers, have fallen victims to
it. The common people will see in the
plague result of the political move
ment, and it will be more difficult to
persuade them that it was a wise change.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1875-08-14
The Peabody Buildings for the London
Poor.

The report of the trustees of the Pea
body donation fund, for the poor of Lon
don, is quoted by Col. Forney in his last
letter. They have spent in all almost
S2,62O, 900, and have near g, 600, 900 left
to expend. The result is blocks of model
tenement houses in Blackfriars, South
wark, Bermondsey, Shadwell, Spital-
fields, and Chelsea, which, by the end of
this year, will furnish accommodations
for 1916 families; there were 954 fam
lilies lodged last year. These are poor
people; the average weekly wages Of the
head Of the family was less than six dol
lars; the average rent of each dwelling
ninety-eight cents a week-water rates
paid, and the use of bathroom and laun-
dry included. The sanitary arrange
ments of these dwellings must be good,
for the average death rate, throughout
last year, was but twenty-three in a
thousand, and, excepting the Shadwell
buildings, where scarlet fever was ep-
idemic, the rate was but seventeen and a
fourth to every thousand. The death rate
of all London is about twenty-eight.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1875-08-14
How High Can a Cat Jump.

That birds, however, apparently safely
hung in cages, are unsafe from the skill
and cunning of the cat, may be gathered
from many instances Of the extraordinary
leaps they are capable of making to OBJ
tain their prey. We are told by re-
liable authority that when his cat was a
wear old, he was seen several days IN
succession to take bis position on a show
case four feet high, licking his chops,
while watching canary in cage, sus-
pended from the ceiling eight feet from
the case. The ceiling was eleven feet
high from the floor, and the cage an or
dinary cylindrical one. While thus OBJ
serving the cat, and thinking how remote
was his chance Of plunder, the animal
suddenly sprang at the cage and caught
his claws in it. His weight sprung the
cage up against the ceiling, spilling seed
and water, and terrifying the canary.
After swinging 10 and fro several times,
the cat dropped to the floor uninnJured.
Our informant measured the distance
from the top of the cage, and found 1t To
be ten feet; 20 the cat made an ascent OF
six feet in height, or upon an incline oi
Eearly thirty-three degrees. The sur
prise here is that the bird escaped for it
i during it, terror, and while beating
itself from side 10 side Of the cage, that
the hooked claws Of the cat are prepared
to receive it, and if any portion Of the
bird is caught, it is rapidly pulled
through the wire, and the cat and bird
disappear before the spectator can recover
his astOnishment.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1875-08-14

THEY have been figuring in the de-
partment Of agriculture at Washington
on the crop prospects, and find that in
Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Missouri and
the Eastern Slater there is every prospect
Of far better yield Of wheat than here
tOfore, and the production will be
far in excess Of the consumption
The product in these States is
represented as being much superior in
quality than that Of former years. Oats
will be a MAGNIFICENT crop, and rye ard
barley promise well. This Is cheering II
true, and we are very hopeful that IT j.
not greatly exaggerated