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The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-08-05
The Moon and the Weather.


4 ION hlaCkWUOu5 Mdsazine.
The notion that the moon exerts an in
fluence on the weather il SO deeply
rooted that, Notwithstanding all the
attacks which have been made against
it, it continues to retain It's mold upon
Us. And yet there never was a popular
superstition more utterly wi lhout a
basis tnan this one. If the moon really
did possess any power over the weather,
that power would be exercised in one OF
these ways-by reflection OF the SUMS
rays, by attraction, or by emanaIon.
No other form Of action is conceivable.
Now, as the brightest light OF a iull moon
is never equal III intensity or quantity TO
that which is ret1ected towards US by a
white cloud on summer day, it can
scarcely be pretended That the weather
is affected by such a cause. That the
moon does exert attraction ON us Is man.
tesL--We can see it working in the tides /:
but though 1T can move WAGER, it is mUsl
unlikely that il Can do the same to air,
for the specific gravity of the atmosl
phere is 50 small that there is nothing TO
be attracted. Laplace calculated, ill.,
deed, that the joint attraction of the sun
and moon together could not stir the
atmosphere aCa quicker rate than five
miles u day. AS ter lunar emanati0ns,
not Sly VI Luelu uaS ever Deen Qlb-
covered. The idea of an influence being
produced by the phases OF the moon is
therefore based ON no recognizable
cause whatever. Furthermore, il is now
distinctly shown that no variations al all
really occur in weather at The moment
or the changes of quarter, any more than
at any other ordinary times. Since the
establishment OF meteorological stations
all over The earth, it has been proved by
millions OF observations that there is no
simultaneousness whatever between the
supposed cause and the supposed effect.
The whole story is fancy and supersti-5
tion which has been handed to us un-
contradlcted, and which we have &C.
cepted as true because our forelathers
believed it. The moon exercises no
more influence on weather than behring's
DO on the Government OF Switzerland,
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-08-05
Disappointing.

Shakespeare has recorded the advice to
"tell truth and shame the devil" But
some men prefer to shame the father OF
hes by telling lies. For the sake of eu-
phony we will call it misrepressnting.
Besides being Master of Arts ingen-
sral, the editor of the Chicago Times is
plainly the master Of that art in partic-
alar. The Times discourses OF the silver
dollar controversy by making bald de-
nial of facts that are provable by the
record. 1t denies in point blank terms
khat the silver dollar was made legal
tender from 1902 to 1878; and asserts in
terms equally positive that "Congress
never assumed to make either the gold
dollar or the silver dollar a legal-ten-
her.n
The Times is reviewing certain reso-
lutions submitted to the Chicago Board
Of Trade, and in so doing makes these
mest remarkable Misrepresentation Of
fact:
ain the first place, they state by i'm
plication that the silver dollar was q
1ull legal-tender from 1902 to 1878 by vir-
tue OF Congressional enactment. That
isnot true. Congress never assumed to-
make either the gold dollar or the silver
dollar legaLtender. II never assumed
tn say that either the one or the other
should not be a legal-tender until 1873
The only Iegal.tender legislation by Con-
Fress, before the passage Of the green
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-08-05
A Natural Ice-house.
From the Rutland Herald.

In Chlttenden, W., is sort OF natural
ce-house, which has hitherto been COM
paratiyely little known. The place is a
morrow gUrge with rocky sides, extend
ing down about twenty Ieet, and arched
overhead with trees. Here an abundant
quantity of clear, solid ice can be found
during the hottest season OF the year.
At the upper end of the gorge is a clear
spring OF water, from which The ice is
formed in winter, filling the tissures and
creVICes between the rocks AZ The bottom
Of the ravlne. A gentleman visiting the
spot last Saturday, one of the hottest
days we have ever known, found ice in
large quantities.
One insure eight feet long, three feet
wide, and apparently several feet deep
was filled with ice almost blue in It's
beautiful clearness. This is the lce-house
for the people in the vicinity, and here
they obtain their supply. Last year ice
was taken out in September, and there
is reason to believe that it lasts during
The whole year. The atmosphere in the
vicinity OF the gorge is cooled by its
frozen treasures, ana when the wind is
in the right direction a change i'll tem-
perature is apparent hall a mile distant.
At a Watering-trough by the roadside,
eighty rods away, led directly from the
ice-Ded, men and beasts alike are re-
tresned with real ice water.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-08-05

THE letters of Governors Tilden and
Hendricks are lengthy documents, but
we give the full text OF the portions re-
lating to the subject in which our read
ers feel the greatest interest-the cur
rency. Both letters have been pretty
well outlined in our dispatches, and the
views of Gov. Tilden will be found pre-
cisely those published in our first Sara
Eoga dispatch nearly week ago, but
which was rather doubted at the time.
Both letters are able documents, and are
strong bids for strength in the October
States, Ohio and Indiana.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-08-05

"FAIR Play" a correspondent who
has something to say of Mr.. Mullett, Mr..
Potter and matters connected with the
architecture of our public buildings
now in course of construction, is gen.
tleman of wealth and standing, who has
no personal ends to serve save the inter-
est he feels in seeing the buildings
finished after the original designs. He
is not man likely to be influenced,
either by favoritism or prejudice, but
sees an important subject as it is seen
by large proportion of our business
community.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-08-05

THERE is agonizing anxiety among the
New York politicians of both parties
about their candidates for Governor.
Both sides are desirous of securing cam
didates that will make each his calling
and election sure. This seems to be
about as difficult feat as to run two
locomotives in opposite directions past
each other on single track without a
collision. We are told that no engineer
has yet been found that can do it. But,
perhaps, the New York political engin-
eers may achieve it. That is just the
problem before them.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-08-05

THERE is material decline in the rev.
enue from customs; and some are
prophesying evil on account thereof.
But SO long as our foreign exports keep
growing in amount, we are not anxious
on the subject of revenue from customs.
such falling off in customs revenue
leaves the grateful sense of relief from
paying back our gold, increased by sew
enfold over the customs revenue, in pay
ment for imported goods that we can
very we'll do without.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-08-05

COSTLY CIRCUS TICKETS Some watch
full clerks in bank AT Halifax, on hear
ing the music of circus band in another
street, turned the key in the front door,
leaving all else open within, and went
of to hear the music. After a short alb
Sence they returned to the bank and
found that $1S,5 in good money had
also gone off in their absence, but did
not return when the music had gone by.
Expensive circus tickets.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-08-05

A sombre-visaged boy recently in
dulged in the following soliloquy: II
must manage to scoop in three Sunday
school picnIcs. There's the First Bap-
tist, First Presbyterian and several
Methodist Sunday-schools that have
their tut n-outs purity soor. Then there's
i've or SIX Others come all in a heap,
sometime in August. Now, some things
got 10 be done il this duifer is agoing TO
siC his dipper in all around. Eve jest
got to fly 'round and join about three
Sunday-schoolsa a week for the next SIX
weeks, ii expect to be in any kind OF
condition when winter sets in"
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-08-05

They had company to tea. The table
was set out splendidly. The biscuit
were as white and light and flaky as
snow, and the cake was just lovely. The
company were delighted with every
thing, and were enjoying themselves
hugely, and getting the molus operandi
OF making the biscuit, which were too
lovely lor anything, when the infant of
The household unfortunately whispered: {:
ma, why don't you have such tea
when there amt companyW
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-08-05

In the Himalayas trees grow at the
height of II, $40 feet, and there are often
forests just below this line. In the
Andes the growth Of trees ends at II 130
feet, in the Alps 1t ends on an average
at 9, 400 leet; but it is stated that speci-
mems of trees are found above 1000 ieet.
In the Himalayas there is no grass vege-
tation above ID, 400 feet, but the pasture
grounds in ThlDet are known TO extend
over an elevation of from 10, 600 to 49, $50
teet. Statistical Reporter,
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-08-05

GEN. CARY'S letter of acceptance is
looked for with extraordinary interest
by pensive but very impatient public.
He ought to waste no time. There are
only 80 days now till the Presidential
election. Let him remember that delays
are dangerous; procrastination is the
thief of time; and so on. Let him not
stand upon the order of his writing, but
write at once.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-08-05

SIX HUNDRED Indiana Republicans
have been to take tea with Governor
Hayes at Columbus. Since the charg e
at Balaklava ''six hundred" is an omin
Gus number. But General Hayes didn'
scare worth cent. He made "neat
little speech" to the immortal six hun
dred, but not word of politics. Sensi-
BILE to the last.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-08-05

THE general health of the Prince of
Wales is reported to be very delicate.
He seems to have small chance OF wear
ing Englauds crown by outliving his
mother. He has a son, however, W no
may be able to outlast his grandmother.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-08-05

This is no quack nostrum, but the
prescription of a regular and successful
city physician Of extensive practice and
regulations; the prescription has been
used for some years IN our own families
with invariable success.
During the late war it was given to
many OF our friends and volunteers in
the army, who were suffering from Diar-
rhea, caused by change OF water, uu-
healthy and improperly cooked food,
and in every case it was used with the
best results.
1t is scientific prescription prepared
with the greatest care, and we recon-
mend it with the utmost confidence as the
best remedy known for the diseases
mentioned.
Every family should have a bottle of
this Cordial ready for immediate use. A
single dose OF only tew drops in tbs
early stage OF these diseases will often
check and cure the disorder.
Travellers, who are subject to so many
changes of water and diet, will find this
valuable article. The Walls are small
and strong, and can be carried without
inconvenience.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-08-05

1t is said that no man who sees man
die of hydr0phobia wall ever again own a
live dog or let any one else own one,
il there's poison to be bought.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-08-05

We would respectfully inform friends public generally
BUILDING,
fitted them frsc style for the general JoB PRINTING
Machinery Types Borders
the approved construction design Being practical
having been actively engaged the Printing business this city for
enabled thoroughly understand the and desires
customers second price and quality OF
We to
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-08-05
CORDIAL.
BURDSAL9S
DIARRHEA CORDIAL,


Diarrhea, Asiatic Cholera, ChOIs~
ra MOrbus, Summer Complaint,
and other Diseases that PrO-
duce a relaxation of the
Bowels, whether on
Children or Adults.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-08-05

Boat, foot Of b broadway, to Huntington. City Time
Rich Mond Ex,",,,4 @.PA s:00A.M, 30 Pm.
The New Orleans bulletin., 1876-02-17
The Newest Shame.

The confirmation by the Senate Of Grants
nomination Of L. @. Billings to be Judge OF
che United States District Court in Louisiana,
in place OF Durell. who resigned to escape i'm
peachment, indicates very plainly that there
is no hope Of reform within the. limits of the
Republican party.
The facts in regard to Billings and his COM
plicity in the worst acts Of Durell, are we'll
known. 1t is putting the case in moderate
language when we say that previous to the
administration of Grant no President would
ever have even thought of making such q
nomination, and that no Senate ever before
existed sufficiently servile and reckless to have
approved it.
Mr.. Edmunds. Of Vermont, Chairman of
the Judiciary Committee, is entitled to the
credit of making a report in favor of con-
firming this disgraceful nomination. He,
himself, is believed to have aspirations for
an appointment as Judge of . United States
Court, bat his action in this matter should
forever bar the mention of his name in con-
nection with SO responsible an Office. In re-
porting in favor of Billings, ISenator Edmunds
has made q formal declaration that he does
not consider integrity and purity of character
essential qualifications for q judge.-N I.
H,kn
The New Orleans bulletin., 1876-02-17
"COlumbus" a Dead Issue,

Where is there a friend of Christopher ?
Will nobody stand up for the old Navigator !!
dtsc0rerer!! erplorer!!! Who did first dis
cover us-we Americans? We're we ever dis
covered? The following, if true, is to be
made the subject Of Investigation BY Morton !:
A most valuable manuscript, says the Lon.
don AthenGana, has been discovered 10 the
Azores. 1t refers to the colonization in the
year 1900, of the northern part of America by
emigrants from Opolto, Aveiro, and the ISL
and Of Terceira. 1t was written by Francisco
de Souza in 1910. Barboza Machado states
that it was lost during the great earthquake
oof Lisbon in 1755. This most important
document is about to be published by an cru.
dite Azorian gentleman. and will throw great
light on the disputed question Of the cary
discovery Of America. Philadelphia Common
tpcdth.
The New Orleans bulletin., 1876-02-17

st. Charles Hotel.
RIVERS l. LONSDALE. ProprietorA
st. Charles Street, BetweeD Common ~
Gravier.
This Hotel has since 1852 been the leading Hote
in the South and is Setter prepared to enterta,
guests than at any period since its opening.
The proprietors have spared no expense In httin,
up the House. and both IS to furniture and the ~
rangemeuts Of the culinary department it il u.
rivaled.
Transient visitors win find the st. Charles th
most delightful - well - the most central Hose'
the city. ms17 If
A DvERTISE IN THE
HandsbOrO (Miss.) Democrat.
1t is THE BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM in
Southeast Mississippi.
Merchants and business men can have Advertise
ments inserted in the DEMOCRAT, by the year or
for a shorter period, at liberal rates.
Address PIX. MAYERS,
Editor and Proprietor,
% t ualdsboro, Mississippi.
a
The New Orleans bulletin., 1876-02-17
rHr NEW ORLEANS BULLETIN THURSDAY FEBRUARY IT, 1876
THE NEW ORLEANS

3EW OkLEAN6 BULLEI1C
THE NEW ORLEANS
| BULLETIN,
AN EIGHT PAGE DAILY.
PUBLISHED MORNING AND EVENING.
Containing the Latest Intelligence.
BY TELEGRAPH AND MAIL.
From All Parts Of the World.
With the Most Complete. Accurate end Reliable
Local and Domestic NesUs.
THE GENERAL READING MATTER is most
carefully oulled from American and European
Journals, and great pains are taken that nothing
shall be published that can offend the most re.
fined and fastidious tastes.
THE COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, RIVER
AND SHIPPING COLUMNS
are under the charge Of experienced men, who
spare no effort to make them reliable and sa.h
factory to tho
MERCANTILE PUBLIC.
It is the chic aim Of the Proprietcz to make
the BULLETIN acceptable ard valuable to all |!
olasses-the MERCHANT, the MECHANIC, the |
and the POLITICIAN OF CONsEE-
vATIvE VIEWS. ss well as to the FAMILY
CIRCLE.
Having { large and constantly increasing cir.
,ulation in this city and State and contiguous
country, it presents most desirable medium for
PAGE nj. BAKER,
EDIToR AND PRoPRIEro1.
Every Description Of
JOB PRINTING
-Encluding-
,OMMERCIAi., RAILROAD AND STEAM
BOAT PRINTING.
LEGAL DOCUMENTS, ETC..
kecuted on the shortest notice, in the best style
The New Orleans bulletin., 1876-02-17
The Washington correspondent Of the New

The Washington correspondent Of the New
York Bulletin, Of the 11th inst, says:
1t is definitely ascertained that there will
be no change in the tax on tobacco this ses-
sion. There have been numerous appliea-
tions, but Q conference with several members
has developed the fact that the Committee on
Ways and Means is unanimous in opposition
to any change. Prominent members of that
committee, and also of the Senate Committee
on Finance, have stated this to your CORE
spondent for the distinct purpose of offsetting
any disquietude TO business that might origi-
nate through rumors or an agitation OF
change in the tax.
The New Orleans bulletin., 1876-02-17

Advertisements in the WarH and Rent column in
ths lsUzAkxaS, S0s exec. erS one square. inserted
- Gfty cents each.
The New Orleans bulletin., 1876-02-17

W. W. II. DA11Ex.
]. A. GIRDNER,
GEO. JONAS,
JULIUS WEIH,
HU. KENNEDY.
DAVID WALLACE,
i. B. WHEELOCK.
E. L. RANLETT.
JOHN 81. KENNARD,
CYRUS BUSsEY,
lBy Z. { G..)
JOHN PHELPS,
w. B. SCHMIDT.
SAM'L 81. KENNEDY.
A. J. ARMSTRONG.
JOHN w. HUNTER,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-06-15
Not Any for Him.

TINS is the season when advertisements
of refrigerators and ice-chests spread ont
in a newspaper like a mortgage on small
corner lot. 1t was advertising in the Free
Press that attracted a Nankin farmer into
Detroit and into a Woodward avenue
hardware store yesterday. When he men,
toned the fact that he would like refrig
orator the proprietor welcomed him with
a sunny smile and the clerks cheerfully
barkcd their shins against the stoves as
they flew around.
viii you look at these ice-chests ~
asked the proprietor as they came to
long row.
What do l want TO keep ice in chest
tor?" growled the farmer What want
is something to keep provisions cool and
nice IN hot weather.
Well, here you have it. Here Is the
best refrigerator made"
The farmer opened the doors, looked
the box over and around, and seemed
much pleased with IL. Presently he in
quired:
Whats the principle of the thing
how does she cool off the provisions?"
" You put your ice right in here, shut
the box, and away she goes" was the re-
ply.
:" lce!" gasped the farmer.
Why, of course. You can't run a re-
frigerator without ice, can your"
The farmer turned without word.
walked down stairs and out to his wagon.
and was getting in when the hardware
man hurried up and asked:
whats the matter ?'
"Do you think I'm a four-cornered
fool ~ howled the agriculturist "Do
you think I'm gsing to buy that high
priced provision asylum and then keep
ice, too ?"-Detr05t Free Press.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-06-15
Farmers Wives.

FEW things will bring more certain
and happy reward to farmer than for
him to remember his wife is social be-
ing; that she is not a machine, and there
fore needs rest, and recreation, and
change. No farmer will lose in the long
run, either in money, health or domestic
comfort, enjoyment and downright hap
plness, by allotting an occasional after
noon, from midday until bedtime, to Wis
iting purposes. Let him, with the utmost
cheerfulness and heartiness, leave his
work, dress himself up, and take his wife
to some pleasant neighbours, friends or
kinsman's house, tor the express purpose
Of relaxation from the cares and tolls of
home, and for the interchange of friendly
feelings and sentiment; also as means
of securing that change of association,
air and food, and mode of preparation,
which always wakes up the appetite,
invigorates digestion, and imparts new
physical energy, at once delightful to see
and experience; all of which in turn tend
to cultivate the mind, to nourish the af-
fectiOns, and to promote that breadth of
view in relation to men and things which
elevates, and expands, and ennobles, and
without which the whole nature becomes
so contracted, so barren and urintcrest-
ing that both men and women become but
shadow of what they ought 10 be-
G0Z6en R7,1e
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-06-15
The Supply DepOt of the HOdy.

The stomach is the grand supply depot Of
the body, upon which it draws for all the
elements needed in the composition of bone,
muscle, brain and blood. The liver is an
important auxiliary of this mighty organ,
and the two are most intimately connected.
Nothing SO certainly ensures the harmoni-
Gus action of these viscera, and so complete
Iy removes the disorders which simultane-
ously affect both, as Hostetter's Stomach
Bitters, the most popular American specific
for all complaints to which the stomach,
liver and bowels are subject, and the fore
most tonic on this side of the Atlantic. In
gestion of the liver, poverty of the blood,
debility of the bladder and kidneys, and
many other ailments produced by or caus-
ing weakness, are entirely removed by .ts
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-06-15
A Romance of the Derby.

MANY story could be woven from the
Derby; it has, indeed, figured in hun
dreds of novels. One of it's latest TO-
mances was very strange one. 1t hap
pened that great and very wealthy racing
mana certain Mr.. Chaplin, now mem
Der of the House of Commons-was en-
gagged to one of the most beautiful women
Ia England. She was rich as well as
lovely and the daughter of a peer The
wedding day was rapidly approaching,
and Mr.. Chaplin escorted her to one or
those great fashionable shops in London
which have two entrances, one on one
street and one on another. The lady left
Alr. Chaplin at the door and. rapidly pass
ing through the shop, passed out at the
opposite exit and jumped into the carriage
of the zeal love of her heart, ran away
with him then and there, married him at
once, and became the Marchioness Of
Hastings. From that hour the discarded
lover brooded over plots for revenge He
took into his counsels an ex-Captain in the
army, and between them, by tricks too
familiar to turfmen, they planned the
ruin OF the young Marquis. With the
tricks we are not sufficiently familiar to
know the precise methods by which their
success was achieved, but achieved it was,
and one or two Derbys after the wedding
Hastings was ruined, and had not Lord
Butte, the real hero, by the way, of Dis
raelI's "Lothair,' and Guinness, the rich
brewer OF Dublin, come to his assistance
he would have been posted as defaulter
at Tattersall's, and compelled to fly the
country. His life, however, was soon
ended, his estates are still out to nurse.
and his widow is now married again, but
not to MIR. Chapin.-Cancinnat ENQUIRER.