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The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1875-10-09
Bass-BaIS.

Base B0ES.
The following is the score Of the second game
between our Reds and the st. Louis Browns, at
Bt. Louis, Wednesday. The Reds played a
magnificent game:
Innings. ....... 8 4 81 50
Reds. 0 8 o o 90 l p
Browns. 0 2 o 81 OF
The Reds have returned from their estern
t0ur, and to-day they will meet the stars on
the grounds of the latter.
.'riie game of the Latins vs.. Greeks, Of HUI
nsanities class tSt. xavier's College, resulted
In The following score:
Innings 2 3 4 s 6789
J,atius 2 U o Al o Ole
Erceks. "a o 8 o 0-Sl
Double Plays--Latins. e; Greeks,o
Home Runs-Latins, /; Greeks, 0.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1875-10-09

Gem ent, Plaster, Lime,
SEWER PIPE, Fire Brick, Lawn Vases,
y Flue Lintngs, Patent Ohimneys Chimney
Sand, Fire Sand, Sc All Terra Gotta Build
ing Material. JOHN V. NIGOLAI.
Corner Walnut and Water sts.,
oc5.1mo Cincinnati, D.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-09-02
Mother Shiptons Prophecy.

Every now aud then, for these 400
years and more, says the Springfield
Rep4bHcon, some one has brought
10 hight the prophecy Of Mother
Shipton. As event follows event
in mechanical progress, her doggcreI
verses fall in so pat that they must
needs be quoted. ONE Of the pre-
djctionS rhcrcot-''Fire and water
Shall wonders do'-has come TO
pass time aud time again, and the
latest futiImcnt is in the Kecly
motor. This Mother Sbipton is one
that would have taken high rank az
4 medium IN Our day; IN hers, the
fifteenth century, she was said to
have been begotr"n, like The wizard
Merlin Of the fantaem Of Apollo, or
some aerial demon uudcrthat guise,
and beautiful orphan Yorkshire
Girl, named Agatha She bad the
wicrd, lonely girIhood that the
child OF shame is apt to have,
avoided or prosecuted by those who
should have been her mates; she
was chriSIer ed Ursula by the abbot
Of Beverly, and grew up 50 eccen-
uic and ~.ua'uralIy shrewd that by
and by his tradition, in those super
stltIous days, grew about her birth.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-09-02

an put a reel tite cIo2e pin on it,
which maid him jump Ikea kanga-
rue. Dad sed ware is that Sammy,
and thare | wuz. | tole him that
see that cat a wawkin on the cloze
line an bet she cot her tale akSi-
dentaily betwene the pin. 1t don't
cccm to maik emmy detftrents
whether | tell lie or oan up
Git wallupcd ennywa. Inc only
Iputtin oph bein a James boy outil
the baby gifts big enutf to 90 along
an malk two NV Us, then look owt.
Forth ov Jooly dun the otiuleSt
tril with old Sip. | shut him up
in boks an throo in a buntch Nv
frs krakers wich wuz lit an a coin.
1t wuz fun enutf for boys NV my
size, and | sat on the bokS to hold
the lid down an latt like a crowded
howSe | dident kno thare wuz
sum shavimS in the bokS. Also
dident kno thare wuz big krak in
the lid. The fire cum up IN burnt
me an the cat cum mp ina hurry and
scratched me in the burnt plaSe.
| went ava then to find cool spot,
an Wen | got bak the hen howse
an sum tents wuz all burnt down
and dad WIZ lookrn fer me agin.
| don't know how he townrd it owt
con | kno | never limited it to sole.
If ever he whups me like that one
moar time lie 90 without waiting
fer the baby. | thot sip WIZ dead
sure, but he didrnt. Gou cant most
hardly kill a cat. He sets in a
corner now Wrapt up IN blg
poltise an wen line arownd he
waches me like coles NV fire.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-09-02


She prophesled as she grew older,
and even persons of quality" con-
suited her, She told the great
W o>ev that he should never come
TO \ ork, and, indeed, when within
eight miles OF 1t, he was arrested by
Northumberland at King llenry,s
order, ana brought to Leicester,
where he died. Also she is said to
nave toretoId the great fire of Lon
don, the execution of Charles l.,
and many notable events besides. of
the reformation and thp roiUns ot
Elizaho,h and JomoS AZ tLo 600
- IL. r..IsI -
" "H' ''''o'" l'el uVtli II, aHu a'
the honr predicted she died Her
name is Il popular tradition in
York shire even to-d,v and
r,o ,,,l;,;o, !, rl',
Wv '''' WIN 'o"''"'" !"
part upon lacl. ller famous proph-
rcy was Saldto have been published
in her lifetime. and auain 900 wears
400. il was certainly nnbIis,nd Al
,.,,.,,.,..., c,..,
go ''' nave No'l ~ III I"
oook Oh thaI tlln", where II was
sand to be copied from an older
book. ThOuvh most of fine itoms
,,,n ,o,rro o,,r,rL ,o, 4 49,. !,
49,. $50 "
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-09-02
The Superior Times.
SUPERIOR, THURSDAY, SEPT 2, 1878,
John Jays Centennial Suggestions


How. John JAY has written what
may be termed Centennial sugoes-
tons, to The New York Tribune.
The second letter contains several
OF the suggestions which seem to
be particularly pertinent. He pro.
poses TO divide a portion of the
grounds into national plots, one to
each nation that will accept it, to be
hlled up to represent, on small
scale, the more prominent natural
characteristics of the country to
which it IS assigned. Thus Bra
lillian plot might represent the cot
fee fields and the forests Of that
land; Swiss plot would contain IN
miniature the mountains and the
prcclplccs of Switzerland; Holland
plot might display the canals and
other pecuIlariues to be found in the
bounds of that land, and so on
through the catalogue of nations.
Tins peculiar arrangement need not
necessarily interfere with the eXhibi-
ton OF farm and dairy products,
which could be made in the same
pIols of ground, and it would af-
ford to the rural population of our
land an opportunity to see the va
rety OF methods and the number OF
ways OF dong the same thing. He
than - hat a..
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-09-02
Cats-A Boys Feeling "reminiscences
Of the Feline Order


Cats do very well to GIT along
with until tina GIT to a certain size
then tina are only mt to fling things
at. LaV cremS to aileck them the
sam wa mat cohck does oWorbabY.
lheN amt neer as soft aboW' Il as
sister .lrn an her clerk teller. Them
two ar too much. Cats don't lay In
| anuthrrS zap ana look Ike cat.
lha marx moar nolS aboWt 1t IN a
mint than Jen an that teller duz till
hat past 2 IN the mornln. If iuv
must be, think the cats wa ainr
kWite 50 Slckenln, tho all kinds is
bad cnuti,
Cats ar" good things to be IN the
Saumroom wen yu mock Sumthn opn
an break 1t, or eat Sumthm tina amt
SaVn Tor va, cozcats ar dun broots
an cant deIylt.
w ats the use havln EN- arownd
onIeSS ina can bare sum OF the do
mcstlk difficulties? Ina hay cot to
dolt,m family ware lme SoIournln,
II yu rub cat up the bak in a
dark room 1t Will "lcctmclt. This
is good thing to CIT sum boy to
do witch has cum to sta aWI mite.
" en- have som" fun like that KIND
like to divide moaSt aWI nv 1t
with my IltlIe pIaymatcS.
\ mt Tester has a ole eat which
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-09-02

We have just discovered what
makes AWleton's TeIuIah springs
So healthy. Tive minister baprize.
folks in them.-Nclc LDndOH Times.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-09-16
A Singular Wedding.

A marriage took place the other day
at Carnavon under peculiarly romantic
circumstances. The bridegroom was a
returned convict, and at the time of the
wedding was awaiting his trial at the as
sizes for theft. The bride had assisted
him in his thieving enterprise and was also
waiting to be tried. On the morning of
the wedding the two lovers were escorted
by the police to the Roman Catholic chapel,
where they were united together in the
bonds of matrimony. Immediately after
the ceremony the happy pair took their
departure to the Assizes Court, where they
were arraigned before Lord Coleridge
and convicted of the crime laid to their
charge. The bridegroom was sentenced
to five years. penal servitude and the
bride to six months Imprisonment with
hard labor. A wedding under these cir
cumstances no doubt appears at first sight
rather melancholy affair; but, on the
other hand, it must be admitted that if a
similarity of tastes is the harbinger of a
happy union, the imprisoned couple have
better prospect of happiness than many
brides and bridegrooms whose weddings
are chronicled as marriages in high
life," and who, instead of being shut up
in separate buildings Immediately after
the ceremony, and spared all trouble and
expense of housekeeping, are condemned
10 dwell together regardless of cost and
consequences.-London Observer.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-09-16
Plain Persian Directions.

A little girl, daughter of Rev. J. G. Coch.
ran, missionary to Persia, when in Amer.
lea for the first time, was living in Buffalo,
N. Y. She was four years old. More
for fun than for fear of her getting lost, her
older sisters taught her to tell in English
where she lived. She could speak very
little English, but could talk fast enough
in Syriac. She was in the habit of going
with some of the family, and sometimes
alone, when she had penny, to the
grocer's round the corner. One day,
when the folks were away, she started for
the grocer's, but, turning the wrong cor
ner, she wandered on for some time, and, ,
finding she could not get home, sat down
on doorstep and began to cry. Soon q
police officer came along, and when he
asked her where she lived she repeated
very promptly and distinctly what her
sisters had taught her: MY name is
Emma Gway C0owan. My faver is the
Weywond Joseph Gallap Coowan, from
Mount SER, Owoomilah, Persia, Asia,
Eastern Hemisphere; and live at mum.
Der sixty-seven Chippewa street, Buffalo,
Ewie County, New York, United States Of
Amellica, North Amellica, Western Hem.
isphere." The officer laughed to hear such
lingua from such little one, and, TAX
ing her home, said to her parents that il
every lost child knew as we'll where it
lived as she did it would make much less
trouble for all the officers.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-09-16
A Rare Old Bible.

A correspondent at East Hampton (Long
Island) of the New York Times gives the
following description of an Eliot Indian
Bible possessed by gentleman there:
"This believe to be unique. 1t has a
fabricated title page and is in an excellent
state Of preservation, although it bears
the plainest evidence, in the worn and
rusty condition of the corners of its pages,
that it has been at some time very closely
conned, or at any rate, very frequently
handled. This old treasure was given to
one of the proprietors about $50 years ago
by the last full-blooded Indian missionary
on Long Island, and is highly priced by
the owner. The Squire values it, Of
course, as an heirloom. He knew moth
ing of its money value until he received
an offer of $1,000, gold, for it from .
book -collector. 1t would take great
many times that amount to buy it, said
the Squire to me. The existence of this
treasure was first made known to the pub
lie in 1859. OF the ordinary edition of
1868 but twenty six copies are known to
exist in this country. 1t is an odd coinci-
dence that there are also just twenty-six
copies of the edition of 1885 in this coun-
try. They are distributed very nearly as
are those of 1868. Whenever a COPY of
either edition is exposed for sale the bibli-
omaniacs of the two continents make q
rush for it, and lucky is the purchaser
who can take it away for less than several
times its weight in gold"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-09-16
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

How to get start in the world-never
get short.
"A phib is a lie painted in water.colors.
Josh Billings.
"A pauper's son ought to make good
balloonist, for he is an heir % naught.
To many the path of life is all tun-
nels. This is what makes it such bore.
Peaches are so plenty in the East that
they don't arrest anyone for stealing them.
The grasshoppers have been succeeded
by rabbits as the vegetable destroyer in
Nevada.
Its a poor day when old Virginia
doesn't ship so, 600 watermelons to hungry
Northerners.
The oyster season is upon us in all its
savagery, and America expects every man
to do his duty. 80
The moral of the failure of the Cali.
fornia Bank seems to be: Don't try to
spread yourself over too many eggs.
From the way things look in the
financial world, "mush -and-milk' par
ties will be about the thing next winter.
The price Of tin is lower now than for
many years past, and if you want dinner.
horn 60 and buy it before the reaction
sets in.
The colored men at Norfolk, Va, are
going into the business of raising singing.
birds for shipment to the Eastern and
Middle States.
Old daddy-long-legs has q mission.
He has been observed to devour the larvse
ofthe terrible potsto-beetle, aud there are
prayers for his health.
There are but few people who survive
to tell how It feels to be hung, and history
suffers Because such % do have delicacy
about abiding to the subject.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-09-16
A Stove as a Money.Safe.

Persons who are the most careful to
guard their treasures from the moth and
rust that corrupt and the thieves who
break in and steal are sometimes very i'm.
prudent in their choice of means to this
end. The experience of Mr.. Smith, q
worthy but rather absentminded widower
living in q Canada town, presents a case
in point. He stole few hours from his
busy round of toll the other day to 20 to a
Sunday school picnic, first taking the pre-.
caution to put his house in order and hide
everything of value from the eye of
chance intruders. On his return from the
festivities, in which he had joined very
heartily, he built roaring fire in the
kitchen stove preparatory to cooking his
evening meal. A neighbor happened in,
however, and invited him to take tea else
where. MIR. Smith assented, shut the
damper, turned off the drafts and repaired
to his friends house; but no sooner had the
meal fairly begun than, as if stricken with
sudden lunacy, he dropped his bread and
butter, sprang from his chair, and, with
out waiting to put on his hat, bounded
out Of the door and fled in the direction Of
his own abode. His host and hostess and
all their children sped after him and
entered his kitchen in time to see him
draw from his oven = mass of charred
paper, which, on examination, proved to
be the remains Of sundry printed substi.
tutes for the metallic currency Of the
British realm. 1t seems that Mr.. Smith,
anxious to secrete his money where the
most ingenious of robbers would never
think Of seeking it, had shut it up in his
oven and forgotten all about it. He is
now devising plan for a small and mex.
pensive fire-proof vault, and it is said that
he reads with sympathizing comments
those newspapers published south of the
st. Lawrence River which condemn in the
least equivocal terms the use of q depreci.
ated paper currency.-N. p: Evenina Post.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-09-16
In an Amphitheater.

A writer in Appletons' Journal, describ.
ing an entertainment in the amphitheater
Of Verona, says:
THE sword game was about to begin
Two Cinnamon, in crimson satin and blue
silk costumes hung with countless bells,
occupied the stage One of them acted as
spokesman and general diverter of public
attention; his companion was a tall, reti-
cent, ugly-looking rascal, with cheek
bones pushing out his pock-markcd skin
almost as high as the bridge of his Celes-
tial nose, and with eyes of very decided
oblique angle. Two swords were pro-
duccd; my interest quickened again, and
I was almost persuading myself that there
was to be fun between the barbarians,
when the giant of the great jaw slowly be-
gan to cram both wide blades down his
capacious, wound-proof throat, my friend
meanwhile INDUCING in the most frantic
jumping;jack exercises, and shrieking UNI.
Ineligible, spasmodic words of encour-
agement. When the blades were fairly in
the giants nav, and he looked like some
bird Of gay plumage spitted for the fire,
feathers and all, the excitement of tie au-
dience was supreme. My cries of
Habet! ha6et! were drowned by pro-
longed shouts of 'Braro!' with an accom-.
paniment of hand applause; and the noise
did not diminish until he had unspitted
himself successfully, and had repeated the
salan half score Of times. The grand
old interior gave dignity even to such a
performance as we were witnessing; the
voice of the people and their quick, SYM
pathetic recognition of the efforts of the
performers indicated the same impulsive
spirit that their ancestors displayed in the
enjoyment of nobler games the same blue
sky arehcd over the Enclosure that smiled
upon the bloody combats which turned
mems hearts to stone as they grew accus-
toned to the horrid spectacles. This was,
to be sure, ridiculous parody on the
sports of the Romans; but it required lit
tie effort of the imagination to whisk out
of sight the cheaply- painted theater, to
repeople entirely the immense eclipse with
full, brown faces, bright garments, and 10
murmur of fifty times that number. The
upper row of benches cut off for those
seated lower down any view of the town or
country beyond, but the wide arches be-
hind the spectators framed in beautiful
pictures the sunlit streets and the broad
piazza-pictures dancing in the heated air
like the reflections in an unquiet pool.
How many times have eyes weary Of
slaughter turned to gaze upon those peace
full pictures of flat-roofed houses with the
sheavcs of grain drying in the sun, the
women knitting in the shade of the door.
ways, and the scrubby fig trees casting
sharp shadows of the broad leaves and
plump figs on the dazzling white of the
Walls!''
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-09-16
Pulmonary Gymnastics In Consump.
tfOn.

Galignnnfs Messenger has the following:
Under this title lin Frencho DR.. BURG has
published one of the most curious disser-
tations We ever remember having seen,
and which, we think, contains advice
which may be useful to such of our read
ers as are afflicted with weakness in the
chest He begins with stating the ques-
ton fairly: Are defamation, singing
and, above all, wind instruments danger.
GUS exercises for persons of weak or deli
cate constitutions and more or less predis-
posed by birth to serious diseases of the
respiratory organss" Most physicians, he
observes, will answer in the affirmative;
he takes the contrary ground, supported
BY what we deem startling evidence. DR..
Burg, 1t may be remembered, was the first
who proposed copper as . specific in
cholera, on the ground that workingmen
constantly handling that metal had trav-
versed the epidemic of 1849 with impuni.
y. In order to establish this fact he had
visited variety of large workshops, and
among others those Of manufacturers of
wind instruments. On one of these occa-
sions NJ. Sax gave him the following in.
formation, which we here repeat almost
word for word: Besides choleric i'm
munity our workmen enjoy another-they
are free from consumption. Many philan-
thropists on seeing our young military
musicians WELD the enormous instruments
we make have sorrowed over the few years
those poor fellows would have to live.
Well, they are mistaken. All men who
make it their profession to try wind in.
struments made at the various factories
before sending them off for sale, all, with
out exception to my knowledge, are free
from pulmonary affections. have known
many such who on entering upon this pro-
fession were very delicate, and who,
though their duty obliged them to blow
for hours together, enjoyed perfect health
after a certain time l am myself an in
stance of this: My mother died of con-
sumption; eight children of hers fell
victims to the same disease, and only three
Of US survive, and we al! three play on
wind instruments. The day is not far
distant, perhaps, when physicians will
have recourse to our dreaded art in order
to conquer pulmonary diseases"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-09-16
A California POmerOy.

San Francisco boasts youth the coun-
terpart of Jesse Pomeroy. His name is
Harry Rogers and he is but ten years of
age. When about eight years of age the
yOungster was detected in catching the
neighbors' chickens, which, having con-
veyed to some hiding place, he proceeded
to torture to death by INJECTING cuts on
every part of their body with pieces of
glass, apparently utterly regardless of the
sometimes painful wounds which his own
fingers received from his unmanageable
weapon during the operation. Curiously
enough, he seemed to have sense enough
to prolong the torture of his victims by
avoiding any wound in the neck or other
vital part, so that the victims of his blood
thirstiness were occasionally able to make
their way home after being released.
About this time disposition to bite and
pinch children was manifested, and his
mother sent him to the Brothers, School
private schools, from all of which he was
to display his peculiar propensities. Fl
nally, after two years Of trouble with
him, the mother, who is an in
valid, procured him board with q
family named Bennett, near. Saucelito,
and here for the first time he seems to
have given full vent to his Internal appe-
tite for blood. One day recently he in
weighed a child of the family less than
three years old into the barn, and covered
it partially with gunny sacks, after which
with piece Of bone, which had been
broken 50 as to present chiseled edge,
he proceeded to cut the child's hips in a
most horrible manner, inflicting no less
than nineteen wounds, and finishing by
severing its right ear from its head with
the exception Of slight piece Of skin. The
father Of the injured child was absent at
the time, and young Rogers was instantly
sent home to his mother, signalling his
arrival by setting fire to the curtains and
nearly destroying the house. His mother
declares that the mania has come upon
him entirely within the past two years,
and that when accused Of his deeds he
frankly owns up, only saying he stcould
not help it." On one occasion lie got
hold Of q black-and-tan puppy belonging
to his step-father, which was Of SO diminu.
tive . breed that when half grown it
weighed one and . half pounds, and liter.
ally dayed 1t alive, causing a net loss Of
$76 to the owner. 4 s., ..,ss5
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-09-16

VERY few churches in America have q
seating capacity Of over 1900. The fol-
lowing shows the size of some Of the
largest churches in Europe: St. Peters
Church at Rome will hold 81 600 persons;
Milan Cathedral, $1,000; st. Paul's at
Rome, $4,000; St. Paul's at London, 49,
600; St Petronio at Bologna, "a 400; Flor
ence Cathedral, A,300; Antwerp Cathe-
dral, "a, 900; St. Sophia's, Constantinople,
$4,000; st. John Lateran, 1880; Notre
Dame at Paris, $1,000; Pisa Cathedral,
$4,000; st. Stephens At Vienna, IL, 400;
st. Dominic's at Bologna, 1000; st. Pc
ter's at Bologna. II, 400; Cathedral of vi
emma, 1000; st. Marks, Venice, 1000;
Spurgeon's Tabernacle, 1000; DR.. Halls
church, Fifth avenue, New York, seats
1000. -
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-09-16

"SEE what feet!" exclaimed q little
dapper dandy, loafing on Clark street, last
evening, as he pointed to the tremendous
pedal extremities of an over,grown but
honest looking country youth who was
passing at the time. "Oh-ho-hop laughed
crowd Of brother styles" II sweah,
though" continued the first speaker, "if
I don't believe the fellah weahs twice a.
lawdge boot as I do" "Yes," quietly
said the youthful countryman, as he half
turned round in his course, and twice
as large hat, too" And the dandy, look
ing at his companions with sickly smile,
tried to get some consolation, but they
didn't give him any.-Chseago Journal.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-09-16

IT must be a satisfaction to anyone
whose eye has impinged upon any hard
substance to have the result spoken of as
"a confusion of the integument under the
orbit, accompanied by extravasation Of
blood, ecchymosis of the surrounding col
lular tissue and abrasion of the cuticle. :"
1t was in these choice terms that . New
York medical witness described an ordi-
nary case Of "black.eye'' in court few
days since. "