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L4CISG.-If al the women insane on
this subject were in the asyinms, the ae-
eommodations would have to be largely
increased. The habit Is general one,
and very injurious A good authority
saws at has been found that the liver,
the lungs, and the powers OF the stomach,
have been brought INTO diseased state by
this most pernicious habit. Loss OF bloom,
fixed redness of the nose, and eruptlons
ON The skin are among its sad effects II
,,rolonged. there is no knowing to what
maIady tight-lacing may not lead Its most
a,narent effect is an injured digestion,
and consequent loss of appetite. OF this,
however. It is often difficult tie convince
the practiced tight-lacer, for vanity is gem
eraliy obstinate But, looking ar tight
Iacinc, without consideration of It's effect
on health, and merely as its tendency to
improve or to injure the appearance, moth
ing can be more absurd than to believe
that IT is advantageous to the figure. A
small waist is rather deformity than
beauty. To see the shoulders cramped
and squeezed together is anything but
agreeable. The figure should be easy,
well developed, supple. If nature has
not made the waist small, compression
cannot mend her work
, 1877-08-11

and among the people residing on Seventh
avenue up to Washington street. There
were now rumors of threats in circulation to
sack the city after nightfall, and everybody
was terribly excited.
RAPID SPREAD OF THE FLAMES.
The fife started in the Panhandle Rail
road. soon destroyed the sheds at the Union
depot, the bridge over Washington street,
the dispatcher's office, the engine-hOuse, and
ali buildings in the vicinity of the Union de-
pot. 1t then spread to the dwellings on
Washington street, and as they were OF
frame, it was at once apparent that the de-
struction of property at this point would be
immense. As conjectured, this proved to be
the fire of fires, and not only embraced all
the buildings on the property of Pan Handle
Railroad from the Union depot alongfountain
street to Seventh avenue, and Grant street
to Liberty, but also the frame tenements on
Washington street, occupied by pOorfamihes.
But at $50, the wind having changed,
THE IsIsrENsE GRAIN ELEVATOR,
Which it was thought had escaped, ignited,
and was soon mass of flames. The mob
principally young men and boys, in posses
sion of the elevator building, knocked hole
in the rear of it, and the fire from the cars
and depots in the rear gained access through
this aperture, and suddenly, without the
slightest premomtion, curling smoke began
to appear ont of the roof. A moment later
the smoke became black and dense, and ont
from it was the Iurid fame The roar of the
burning bmldingwas immense, and thousands
soon congregated around the acres of fire.
A TRAIN CT CARS
On the old metal yard was also ablaze at
this time, and it was required to make quite
a detour in order to get near the scene of fire.
The fremen succeeded in saving the planning
mills and other property opposite the Pan
Handle offices on Seventh avenue, but were
not so fortunate with that on Washington
street. It is stated that the mob entered
the Office of the Pan Handle before the torch
was applied, and they ramsacked the book
case and desks, destroying completely valua-
bic and important papers.
, 1877-08-11
AT LAST.

When first the byide and bridegroom wed.
They love their single selves the best;
4 sword Is in the marriage bed,
Their separate slumbers are not rest;
They quarrel and make up again,
The give and suffer worlds of pain.
Both right, and wrong,
They struggle long,
Till some good day, when they are old,
Some dark day, when the bells are tolled,
Death having taken their best OF life,
They lose themselves, and find each other
They know that they are husband, wife,
For, weeping, they are Father, Mother !!
, 1877-08-11
GRANT AND QUEEN VICTORIA.

MYSTERIES AND NuSERIES OF COURT LIFE.
We ask the immediate attention of the
State Department 10 most unpleasant
'eriss-crosS of cable statements, which, If
it be nor speedily unraveled, threatens tt
make OF non-efect the entente corliale so
skillfully established by the efforts of
Minister Pierrepont between the British
Empire and the American Republic Ii
- ID -L~,,II l-..e~..
, 1877-08-11

TR.Mps.-Burlington, Iowa, is trying
10 OFT nd of the tramp harvester nuisance
by prosecuting the steamboat officers who
land them IL is said that fine OF 500
was innposed on steamboat company Tor
nuttinr them ashore at that point, charg-
ing the company With Illegally ianding
paupeTs,
, 1877-08-11

TIE Iowa man who has invented grass
hopper soup, has concocted a beautiful
sauce of cockroaches and kerosene oil.
, 1877-08-11

WITH his wages reduc d 10 pr cent
every few days, a railroad man can boa. d
a train easier than he can board himself.
, 1877-08-11

WHEN two widowers get really warmed
up in pursuit of one widow, We see two
souls with but single thought, two
hearts which want 10 beat each other.
, 1877-08-11

TAKE care how you ea-, what YOU eat,
and how much The hot weather Is get
ting every man ready for cholera ylc'iIr''
, 1877-08-11
Gsms n 2ostgtl.
$4,000 l0,-s~-~01o---0>~ ~-~O0O-0-
TIE GfRL

= song for the girl l love-
God love herl
A song for the eyes of tender shine,
And the fragrant month that melts on mine.
The shimmering tresses uncontrolled
That clasp her neck with tendril gold,
The blessed mouth and the dainty chin,
And the little dimples ont and in
The girl | love
God love her,
A song for the girl l loved
God love her.
i song fGf- eyes Of faded light,
And the cheek whose red rose waned to white;
The quiet brow, with its shadow and CLEAN,
and the dark hair dropped in long, deep
dream;
The small hands crossed for their church
yard rest,
And the lilies dead on her sweet dead breast.
The girl loved
God love her.
, 1877-08-11
eTHER NOMINATIONS.

Judge J. W. 0'Key, of Franklin, was
nominated for Supreme Judge; r. J. Fan
ming, of Cuyahoga, for Clerk OF the Supreme
Court Judge Isaiah Pillars, of Allen, for
Attorney General; A. j. Howells, of Stark.
for State Treasurer, and j. J. Burns, of Bel
mont, and Hon Martin Schilles, of Ross, for
School Commissioners, the latter by accla-
nation
, 1877-08-11
SEY EEEE'S E0EE,

o ruby lips, whose smile has stolen my soul,
And drawn from it all love but love of
you-
Speak kindred longing, absolute and whole,
Swear faith supremely true
o ruby lips!
Oh southern eyes, whose light has lit my
heart,
And kindled it to warm and wild desire
Glow with kindred passion. for your part,i
Flame with a kindred fire,
o southern eyes!
0 my LIES love Eyes, lip, hand, heart and
soul
Come to me, satisfy me, seal me yours.
Each part is sweet, but only in loves whole
Loves final life endures
0my life's love.
, 1877-08-11

THE UTMOST CONSTERNATIoS
Prevailed on the south side of Fountain street
, 1877-08-11

General Jabez ". Fitch, of Cuyahoga
county, was nominated by acclimation for
Lieutenant Governor
The Virginia star., 1877-09-08
A Valuable Work.

The well-knoWn advertising agents,
Messrs. S. M. Pettengill & Co., of this
city, have just issued in a handsome
form their Newspaper Directory and
Advertisers Handbook" for 1877. 1t
is without doubt the most valuable and
trustworthy compilation of its kind
published in this country, and work
which no advertiser or newspaper pub
Usher should be without. No fewer
than S,574 newspapers or periodicals
are described, showing the day and
place of publication, character, pub
Usher, circulation; in short, all that an
advertiser requires to know regarding
any medium published. Besides the
general list there is list of periodicals
by counties, which must be valuable to
those who desire to reach any particu-
lar section of the Continent, and tables
of daily and weekly newspapers having
a circulation of 5000 copies or over, re-
ligious, agricultural, and other class
organs, Two or three striking portraits
of prominent editors are scattered
throughout the volume, which, alto
gether, gives us a capital idea of the
wealth and variety of American journal
ism, and proves the immense connection
and great business facilities which its
publishers and compilers must have at
their command. - ". Y. Sc0tish-ADaer.
Journal.
The Virginia star., 1877-09-08

BelIad0nnd IN ASthmd.-TEe Mel
bourne lAustralia) Medical Record states
that smoke from the leaves of the bella
donna possesses much more power in
cutting short an attack of asthma than
that from stramOnium; a long pipe
being the best means of smoking them,
the smoke to be drawn deep into the
chest. Or if, when the attack is at its
height, the patient has not the power OF
doing this, the leaves may be placed in
a saucer containing lighted charcoal or
wood ashes, which should be put on a
chair in front of the patient, this chair,
as we'll as his own, being covered with
large sheet, so as to cOntine the fumes,
before the leaves are put on the hot
charcoal. From two and half to five
grains of the leaves are sufficient when
smoked, and from five to twenty grains
when burned.
The Virginia star., 1877-09-08

Too LONG WHIFFLETREEs ON PLOUGHs.
Most plOughmen have so long whitlle-
trees that it is often impracticable to
make any plough work satisfactorily.
Excellent ploughs are denounced as
worthless and rejected, simply because
the double whiffletree or the OK yoke
was too long yet the ploughman never
suspects wherein consists the true cause
Of the difficulty. Our own practice
from boyhood has been to make double
whiffietrees for ploughing never more
than two feet between the point Of at
tachment to the singletrees, which were
about twenty-three inches in length.
When 1t was desirable to plough narrow
furrow-slices, the singletrees were at
tached only twenty-three inches apart.
Let ploughman attempt to plough
with dOuble-tree six feet in length,
and he will readily understand why a
plough will not run correctly when the
double-tree is too long. The plough
will be drawn too far from the furrOw
to the unploughed ground, unless the
ploughman makes constant effort to
prevent the implement from cutting a
furrow-slice wider than can be properly
turned over.
The Virginia star., 1877-09-08

The .trdgnibihy of lamp chimneys is a
universal as well as costly fact. The
truth is, some of these chimneys will
last for months, while others apparent
ly as sound and good, will break after
a short use, without any apparent
cause. The great difficulty, in a word,
of their being thus brittle and break
ing so easily lies in the material they
are made frOm-that is, there is
''shoddy" in glass as well as in cloth.
A great many manufacturers make
Chimneys from silicate of lime, instead
of silicate of lead. The glass made from
the former has about the following pro-
portions, namely Sand, 100; lime, 20 to
"a; nitre, Z to 10. Now, lime being a
nOn-cOnductor of heat, the chimney
will not bear the expansion caused by
the heat, and if, by gradual heating,
the chimney does not break on the
lamp, few times heating will make it
so brittle that it breaks with the least
effort at cleaning it, no matter how
much care is used. The proportions of
the siicate of lead are 100 of sand, 40 to
80 of lead, and 10 to Is of nitre. Lead
being very ducGle, and good conduc-
tor of heat, a chimney made from this
formula will almost melt before 1t will
crack with the heat. Another point is
in anneallng. AS general thing,
chimneys are not annealed; under a
powerful microscope the difference can
be seen in the glass, the particles in the
annealed glass lying close and compact,
while those in the unanne called seem
ready to diverge.
The Virginia star., 1877-09-08
SCIENTIFIC.

Earliest Use Of the Electric TOrpedO.-
Starting from the close of the Crimean
War, the first in which the electric tele-
graph was employed. we find ample
examples of the assistance furnished to
the soldier by scientific research. One
instance taken from the war 1858 is
especially interesting. The Austrians
held Venice at the time, it may be re-
membered, and, to protect the harbOr,
tOrpedOes were laid down. The tOrpe-
does were fired by electricity, and con-
tanned gun-cOttOn. this being the first
instance on record of the employment
of electric torpedOes and of the newly
invented nitrO-compOunds. Nor was
this all. The torpedo system devised at
Venice by the Austrian engineers had
yet another point of scientific interest.
A camera, Obscura was built overlook
ing the harbOr, and upon the white
table of this instrument were reflected
the waters of Venice. AS the torpedOes
were sunk one by one sentinel in
the camera noted the place Of their
disappearance with a pencil, giving
each torpedo a consecutive number. A
row-bOat in the harbor described a
circle around the sunken torpedo, indi-
eating the zone of its destructive power,
and the sentinel again, made CORES
pOnding ring upon the camera-table.
In the end, therefore, while the harbOr
itself was apparently free from all OBJ.
structiOn, very effective means of tor
pedO-defense was established, the key
of which was only to be found in the
camera-obscura. The sentinel here had
wires in connection with every torpedo
and was in position to fire any one as
soon as he observed-by means of the
camera-the presence of hostile vessel
within the limits of any of the circles
marked upon his white table.-POpuldr
Science Monthly.
The Virginia star., 1877-09-08
That Disease Breeds Disease

Is notorious fact, 1t is therefore of vital i'm
portance to check maladies in their BIZ tn, ere
they have a chance to develop other and more
dangerous disorders. As means of checking
complaints which, if allowed to proceed
finally disorder the entire system. Hostetter
Stomach Bltters is a medicine the use of which
cannot be too strongly urged upon the sick
and feeble. The physical functions are regu-
lated by it. it insures the acquisition of vigor
by the debilitated, and it substitutes cheer
full condition of mind for gloom and despon-
dency. Dyspepsia, constipation liver COM
plant, and kidney and bladder troubles yield
to its remedial influence it counteracts a
tendency to gout and rheumatism, and invig-
crates the nerves. Moreover, it is derived
from purely botanical sources, and in this, as
in every other respect, is superior to the min
eral remedies of the pharmacopeia
The Virginia star., 1877-09-08

FuSing Nickel and CObdH.-M. G..
Winckler announces in Dingler'S journal
that he has Succeeded in fusing nickel
and cobalt in ingOts of from two to five
kilOs, by using refractory crucibles,
maintaining very high temperature,
keeping carbon and silica from contact
with the melted metal, and by carefully
excluding the oxygen of the atmos-
phere during the progress of the cast
ing.
The Virginia star., 1877-09-08

The qoantjip Ofair inhaled and exhaled
by an adult in twenty-fOurs amounts
on air average to about 360 cubic feet,
or 2 900 gallons, making an aggregate
of 1900 gallons in one year. What
we take in and give out during twenty
four hours, in the shape of solid and
liquid food, occupies on an average the
space of five end half pints, which is
equal to ,3000Jh of the volume of the
air passing through our lungs.
The Virginia star., 1877-09-08

RELIEVING FARMERS FEARs.-Mr.
Thomas Taylor, Microscopic of the De-
partment of Agriculture, has returned
from Northumberland county, Va,
having completed his investigation of
the so called root disease of wheat in
that county. He reports to the Com
missioner of Agriculture that he made
a thorough examination of the so-called
disease and finds that there is no evil
dence whatever in support of the state
ment made. About three years ago, a
farmer observed barren spots in his
wheat field, and on makiDga an examina-
tiOn of the wheat in such places he dis
covered, as he supposed, fungus at the
roots, but by the use of the microscope
Mr.. Taylor has demonstrated that the
so-called fungoid matter consists wholly
Of microscopic roOtlets, and has further
shown that the land which gave the
largest yield-say thirty-seven bushels
Of:Wheat to the acre-prOduced cor
responding increase in these rOOtlets.
The farmers had observed that where
ever barren sCOt appeared in their
wheat fields the s0-Called root disease
appeared, but they failed to investigate
the roots of the successful wheat crops,
which show that the disease is but the
normal condition of healthy root growth
the web-like appearance arising from
the ramitications of numerous micro
scOpic spots.
The Virginia star., 1877-09-08

If FARMERS would experiment more
on a small, cheap, scale, they could
learn better how to treat their soils. In
stead of spending much hard labor and
money plOughing and re-seeding large
pastures, often to lose more than half
they expend, if they would take small
tract and treat parts of it by different
methods, manuring it with various
kinds of fertilizers, they might be bet
ter prepared to undertake the more ex-
tensive jobs, and with almost GER
tainty of success.
The Virginia star., 1877-09-08

The NJ ilwaukee Wisconsin estimates
from reliable data that the wheat crop
of Wisconsin. Minnesota, Iowa and
Kansas for 1877 will be 56, ,O00, 900 BUSH
els larger than it was in 1876. The
quality is also uper-excellent.
The Virginia star., 1877-09-08

PRICES OF LIVE AND DRESSED PoUL-
TRY.-It is sometimes convenient to
know what price per pound live weight
is equivalent to a given price dressed
weight. Preparing for market will cost
about eight cents for each fowl, when
labor Of the usual quality is employed,
and a considerable number of fowls are
butchered at time. Making allowance
for dressing and leaving out all frac-
tiOns, the relative prices in cents of
dressed and live Meiphts are as follows !.
The Virginia star., 1877-09-08
Mothers, Mothers, Mothers.

Don't fail to procure MRS WINSLOW'S
SOOTHING SYRUP for all diseases of teeth
ing in children. 1t relieves the child from
pain, cures wind collie, regulates the bowels,
and by giving relief and health to the child
gives rest to the mother.
The Virginia star., 1877-09-08

This rule VIII cover average cases,
but something will depend upon the
condition Of the fowl. One in poor
order will really cost more to prepare,
will lose as much and will command a
less price per pound than the good in
fair order. No kind of live stock will
fatten faster or give better return for
grain than poultry, and it is very poor
policy to sell them when half fat.
The Virginia star., 1877-09-08

Dr. C. W. BENsoN's CELERY and CHAMo-
NEIL PILLS are prepared expressly to cure Sick
Headache, Nervous Headache Dyspeptic Head
ache, Neuralgia, Nervousness and Sleepless-
ness and will cure any case. Price so cts, post
age free. Sold by all Druggists. Office. Nc
LOG n Fntaw street BaltmOre
The Virginia star., 1877-09-08
Rheumatism Quickly Cured.

Durang's Rheumatic Remedy" the great
Internal Medicine will positively cure any case
of rheumatism on the face of the earth. Price
81 bottle, six bottles, $5. Sold by all Drug
gists. Send for circular to Helphenstine Il
Bentley, Druggists. Washington d. G.
The Virginia star., 1877-09-08
! C1TDOUDd OXVgGl Treatment

This Is no system Of medication confined in It's action
to narrow limits, being oxygen maRnet1zed 1t is
the most wonderful Vitaizer OF the human body ever
known Therefore it should cure greater variety Of
ills and larger proportion of patients than any other
agent. Eight years of large experience fully confirm
the expectation The subscribers unite their forces
make known and available to the sick the wonder
full virtues of the Compound Oxygen 1t Is
Let all consumptives, dyspeptcs, paraytcs (recent
and all discouraged nvalids, send for our bro
chure pa ges which contains many wonderful but
true statements and best of testimonials Mailed free
G. f. PLLRN Phi b D. lll2 Girard ST., PhilA.
The Virginia star., 1877-09-08

VIOLET INK FROM CARPETs.-I have,
says an old householder, removed violet
ink from carpets and table cloths by
washing Immediately in cold water and
soap. Hartshorn diluted will remove
it if dried. Iodine can also be removed
from silk and other goods by hartshorn.
The Virginia star., 1877-09-08

To STEW CoRN.-Cnoose well-filled
but tender ears. Cut it from the cob
with two cuts to the grain, also amking
an incision lengthwise of the ear. 1t
can then be cut off the cob without the
skin. Then put the cObs on to boil in a
stewpan, covering them with water.
When well cooked, having boiled
twenty minutes, say, take them out,
and into the water in which they were
boiled put the corn. When sufficiently
stewed-only few minutes are re-
quired-season with pepper, salt, cream
and butter, adding a little sugar if pre-
ferred very sweet. This recipe may be
relied upon as peculiarly excellent
one, the sweetness of the corn being
unsurpassed when the directions are
exactly attended to. 1t originated in
the valley of Virginia.
The Virginia star., 1877-09-08

SONGS OF BEULAH-the new Sunday-School
LEE & WALKER, lib Chestnut St, Philada
The Virginia star., 1877-09-08
DOMESTIC.

COOKING APPLEs.-The great English
physician. Sydenham, says the Rural
Home. allowed no other ailments to his
patients in the febrile stages of quinsy,
erysipelas and smallpox than could be
found in boiled apples. There are a
great many ways of using apples for
food, and doubtless some novel way is
vet to be discovered. The French,
whom we are told excel in culinary
matters, are said to have three hundred
and sixty-tive ways of cooking an egg.
Why should not a similar enterprise be
shown in regard to the apple? An
estimable lady of my acquaintance
makes some palatable dishes and desserts
in this way: Apples of uniform size
are selected and simply wiped and
cored. This last operation is quickly
performed by punching them through
with an apple cOrer; thus removing
the stem, seeds and tougher part, and
making an opening for the Introduction
of sugar in the cooking operation,
which follows. After dipping them in
water, they are placed in any deep pan
or baking dish, and sprinkled with
sugar, about teaspOOnful to each
apple, teacupful of water turned on
around them. They are then baked
with a slow, steady fire till soft, when
they should be removed from the baking
pans for cooling and the table. When
served with cream, this is a dish fit for
a queen. Every part of the apple can
be eaten, the sugar having neutralized
the acidities in the fruit, and the cook
ing making tender the skin. There is
another very good way of treating
sweet apples. Stew them in porcelain
kettle, and with just enough of molasses
and water TO prevent their burning on,
till cooked, and then transfer them to
the oven with all the liquid residum to
dry brown. This gives baked apple,
half jellied, deliciousness in flavor that
any one can love. Sweet pickles, by
some considered superior to the old
fashioned apple sauce. are made by
partly baking sweet apples and then
saturating them in pickle of vinegar,
sugar and spices.-This is easier than
apple sauce, which must be smothered
in boiled cider.
The Virginia star., 1877-09-08

FREcKLEs AND SUNBURNs.-1. Bruise
and then squeeze the juice out of the
common chickweed, and to this juice
add three times it quantity of soft
water. Battle the skin with this for
five or ten minutes, and wash after
wards with clean water night and
morning. 2. Elder flowers treated and
applied exactly in the same manner.
When the flowers are not to he had, the
distilled water from them (Which may
be procured from any druggist will
answer the purpose. 3. Honey, one
ounce, mixed with one pint of lukewarm
water; when cold, it forms Il good
lotion. This is commonly called honey
wash. 4. Take carbonate of potash,
twenty grains; milk of almonds, three
ounces; oil of sassafras, three drops.
Mix and apply two or three times a
day.
The Virginia star., 1877-09-08

CHICKEN BRAIsED TOMATO SAUCE
Take two large, tender, dry-picked
chickens; singe, draw and truss nicely ;
cover the breast with pared slices of
lemon and bardes of fat pork, tie with a
string and boil i'll a saucepan with
white broth enough to cover, a bunch
of parsley, slit carrot and an onion,
with three cloves stuck in, for about
half an hour; drain, unite and remove
the lard and lemon; dish up, pour a
weil-reduced tomato sauce around and
serve.