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AMUSE Ns EMS,
GRAND OPkkA-HOUSH.

Alice Oates aud her splendid Csmln
Opera Company are drawing fine houses
every night. 1t must be highly gratifE-
ing 10 her to know that, notwit ths 5andiaz
The scandaious articles that have a,s-
peared about her, she is drawing abaus
the finest bOuses that have been seen IN
Cincinnati this seasen.
II -uight "BhrDe Bleue" Blue Bearda.
Saturday matinee, by particular re-
quest, "Fhe Princess Of Trebzondesss
Admission Is and 800. Saturday eypn-
ing, farewell performance, "La Joila
Parfumeuse." Reserved seats at HaH&
ley's.
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D. 1. BALDWIN eco.
Third Edition
E@Sn WEATHRB.-Probably fair or partly
cloudy for the next twenty -four hours.
THE LATEST
New Telegraph Company.

National Associated Press to the star.
NEW YORK, Dec. 14-The Tribune says: A
new telegraph company has been organized
under the laws of this State, with a capital of
sl0,O02,0O for the purpose Of building and
operating telegraph liues between New York
ana all Tie othor important cities in the United
States,
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Murdered by Unknown Men.
n National Associated Press to the Star.

1Vt*UtOHss' 13Ho0VEsstVu Il IGo1 VV Dt8Es
WHEELING, W. VA, Dec. A.-A man
named Findlay was found drowned at
Bridgeport. Ohio, across the river from
here, on the lin inst, and testimony
taken before the Coroaer's jury shows
that he was murdered by sVme unknown
person by beng thrown from the rail.
read bridge into Wheeling Creek.
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RoB1NsoN's oPERA.BoUsR.

Mr.. Oliver Doud Byron, the popular
young actor, will, for the remainder sg
the week, give his great California suc-
cess, a drama in five acts called 'sfsen,
MCCULLOUGH" Act l. California twenty
years ago. Act 2. Seven years later.
Act 3, Home in Nevada. Act 4. Chrtst-
mas Day. Act S. San Francisco Neg
YEARS. Day.
"Bsn. Mccullough" at the Saturday
matinee.
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Discussing the Silver Question.

National Associated Press to the Star.
WASHINGTON, Dec. l4.-At 12:32 O'Clock the
Senate took up the Matthews Silver Resolution,
on which Mr.. Hereford took the floor. Senator
Hereford, speaking on the Silver question, says
he viii vote for the Matthews resolution and
Blanl's bill without amendment
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improve slowly. It is believed he will
be able to attend the ConsistOry on the
21st, if not it will be held in his bad
room. A.
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ID LACK BOARD IN THE SUNDAY
- SCHOOL LA practical guide for su,erin :
tendents and teachers by Frank Beard. Fully
Illustrated. 81 81 of booksellers or by mail
JESSE HANEY d CO., ll8 Nassau street
New York.
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Seryia Declares War.
National Associated Press to the Star.
LONDON, Dec. IA dispatch from Belgrade
announces officially that Servia has declared
war against Turkey.
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NILDERS' MANUAL.-A complete uract-
VI cal guide adapted 10 all traaos using gtia-
ting; also sILVERiNG, and othor valuable
matter. Just out b0c- or aAybook seller
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! sign painting, granting. vanishing, pol
ishing, kalsominIng, paDering lettering,
staintag, gliding. &C., Soc. Book Of AlphabeEs
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Gabinet Finisher 51c. Matchmaker and Jew
sisr S0c. soapmaker 26e. Taxidermist 500
VI hookseliers or by mail JESSN HANkY
CO., 1lS HassaAstreet, Now York.
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MISCELLANEOUS.

pABIES OF CINCINNATI-Awful funny
ID Comic Monthly, ~ Cts. at any news stand.
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TOR SALE - FEATHERS - Large 4L-lb.
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Feathers. 15c per ID. Feathers renovated. Z.
w. MORRISON. 81 W. Sixth street. between
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FOR SALE

TOR ESS-Gooi .Saaufact-
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GTANDARD SCROLL BOOK. Just out, has
- 200 designs and ideas invaluable 10 all
rainters, &c. just the thing wanted and m ust
be seen TO be Appreciated Only 81. Examine
nt any book stors or painters supply store.
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CKBTCHING FROM NArURE--In pencil
~ and water colOrs. and drawing and paint
illustrated, co Gus. OF any bookseller OF tt3S 4
HAkEY d Co. 1l9 Nassau ST.. Y. fell
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THE POPE.
RoME. Dec. A.-Tas Pope continues 10
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-09-01
Milking by Machinery.

Hard labor is gradually being super
coded by machinery in nearly every
branch of industry. 1t is curious to
mark the unlikely uses to which ma
chinery may be applied. An ingenious
inventor in the United States has re-
Gently patented a useful device in the
shape of cow-milking machine, which,
it is said, will do all that can be done in
milking by hand, faster and easier, and
will be of special service where COWS
have sore teats or are hard mixers. The
apparatus consists essentially of glass
globe, large enough to hold an average
yield of milk, which is connected by
means of flexible tube with an air pipe.
Rising from the top of the globe are
small pipes with metal tips. The mode
of operation consists in suspending the
globe underneath the animal to be
MIXED, and inserting the tips of the
small pipes into the teats. A partial
vacuum is then effected inside the globe
by means of the air pump, and the milk
thus drawn forth. The advantages
claimed by the invention are that it pre-
vents any loss of milk through spilling,
il renders milk or straining pals I'M
necessary, and prevents entrance of dirt.
Finally,.it can be easily manipulated by
ANYBODY,
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-09-01
Animal and Vegetable Diet.

In favor of animal diet, in addition t.
the usage of all ages and countries, we
may allege the structure of the human
body itself. We find that men not only
resemble carnivorous as we'll rs gram
inivorous animal in his teeth, but that
his intestines form mean between those
of the two classes; neither 80 long as
those of the animals destined to live on
vegetables alone, nor so short as those of
beasts of prey. Too exclusive an ami
NAL diet renders persons subject to vio-
lent inflammatory attacks, and produces
Gas in the case of butchers) that over
ford appearance which the superficial
mistake for the hue of health, but which
the discerning know to be but one step, and
scarcely one step, removed from disease.
Too exclusive vegetable diet reduces
the strength, and forms race of men
peculiarly liable to be mown down by
low fevers. 1t must be confessed, how
ever, that climate modifies these rules
The native of a warm
and dry country will prosper on diet
which would hardly sustain life in Eng
land; and the coarser inhabitant of the
north is benefited by quantity of ami
NAL food which would utterly disorganize
the more delicate structure of the Hin
doc. Habit, too, must everywhere be
taken into consideration.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-09-01
An Army Officers Downfall.

First Lieutenant w. W. Flemming, of
the United States army, recently reached
the penitentiary of Iowa, his native
State, in which institution he is to be
confined at hard labor for ten years, for
embezzling the money of enlisted men.
He is graduate of West Point, thirty
years of age, of good family, has an &C
complished wife and three children. At
the close of his trial by court martial, in
San Francisco, he made full and frank
confession of his offence, which he did
not attempt to palliate. He alluded to
his mother, his wife and children in the
most feeling manner, and closed by
warming every tempted man to avoid
that, which to him, as to so many, had
proved the open gate to ruin-the
gaming table. He declared that at no
moment in his life had he been conscious
OF desire or intent to appropriate to
himself that which was another's. It
was the old story. The trust funds
which he lost were taken little by little
in the strong though desperate hope of
retrieving his fortune and repaying all
he owed. But the gamblers fate pur-
sued him, and exposure became inevita-
BILE. A sadder story has seldom been
written.
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Fishing Monkeys.

A party of English officers at Gibraltar
amused themselves with whiting fishing
at the back of the rock till they were
obliged to shift their ground, being
pelted from above, they did not know
by whom. At their new station they
caught plenty of fish, but the drum I'M
expectedly beating to arms, they rowed
hastily ashore, and drew their boat high
and dry upon the beach. On their re-
turn they were greatly surprised to find
the boat in different position ashore,
and some hooks baited which they had
left bare. In the end it was ascertained
that their pelters while they were fishing
had been party of young monkeys.
They we're driven off by two or three old
ones, who remained secretly observing
the whiting fishing of the officers till
they retired. The old monkeys then
launched the boat, put to sea, baited
their hooks, and proceeded to work.
The few fish they caught they haul
ed up with infinite qualification, and
when tired they landed, placed the
boat as nearly as they could in its old
position, and went mp the ;ock with their
prey. General Elliot, while commander
at Gibraltar, never suffered the monkeys
with which the rock abounds to be taken
or in any way molested.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-09-01

In recent lecture delivered in Edin-
burgh on 1.-The Stars, Professor Grant
gave graphic idea of the immensely of
space. He said railway train, travel
ing night and day at the rate,of fifty
miles an hour, would reach the moon in
six months, the sun in two hundred
years, and Alpha Centauri, the nearest
OF the fixed stars, in forty-two millions
of years. A ball from gun, travelling
at the rate of nine hundred miles an
hour, would reach Alpha Centauri in
two million feven hundred thousand
years; while light, travelling as it did at
the rate of one hundred and eighty-five
thousand miles in second, would
reach it in less than three years. Light
from some of the telescope stars would
take five Thousand seven hundred and
sixty years to reach the earth and from
some of these clusters the distance is SO
great that ightwould take half million
of years to pass to the earth, SO that we
saw objects not as they really are, but
as they were half a million of years ago.
These stars might have become extinct
thousands of years ago, and yet their
light might present itself to us. As to
the magnitude of the stars, he noticed
that it was computed that Alpha Lyra
was one hundred billions of miles dis
tant from the earth, aud it's magnitude
and splendor were as twenty to one when
compared with our sun. Similar in
designations brought out the fact that
our sun was neither vastly greater nor
vastly less than great majority of the
stars
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-09-01
An AneCdOte of Henry Clay

During the compromise discussion
OF 1850 a lady from Georgia, accom-
panied by her husband, called on Mr..
Clay at the National Hotel, Washington.
He was extremely busy, and sent down
card apologizing and expressing the
hope that they would call in the morn
ng But the lady would not be put off
so easily. She Immediately wrote him
beautiful note, in beautiful hand, in
which she said that she and her husband
had come some hundred miles out of
their way to see him, and begged the
honor of brief interview, as they we're
under the necessity of leaving that eve
ping. The great Kentucky statesman of
course made graceful surrender.
The party were introduced, and
pleasant conversation followed, which
Mr.. Clay himself seemed to enjoy no
less than his guests. As it was drawing
to close the lady remarked that she
had still another favor to ask, the refer
ence to which seemed to give her some
little embarrassment. "What is it.
madam, If you please?" "Sir," said
she, "before leaving home told my
friend that l would not only see Mr..
clay, hut that l would be kissed by
HIM !! my dear madam" said he
rising, las Mr.. Lowndes said of the
Presidency, that is an honor neither to
be sought nor declined !" and the lady's
wish was gratiaed.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-09-01

Here is an amusing comedy of errors
with Partisan edge: Nine. de V. was
very jealous, and determined to watch
her husband. One day he told her he
was going to Versailles, and when he
went out she put on her bonnet and
followed him. She kept him in sight
until he turned into a passage which
shortened the way to the railway station,
where she missed him. She stood for
few minutes in the passage looking
about, and suddenly saw man coming
out of a glove-shop with rather over
dressed lady. From the distance she
made sure the man was her husband,
and without word Of warning she gave
him three or four sounding boxes on the
ear. When the gentleman turned
around to confront his assailant, she
perceived that she had made mistake,
and at the same moment she caught
sight of her husband, who had replen-
ished his cigar-case at tobacconist's,
and was crossing the street. What
could she do? 1t goes without saying
that she tainted in the arms of the
stranger whose ears she had boxed,
while the other lady ran off as fast as
she could to avoid scandal. The stranger,
who was comedian, was astonished to
find an unknown lady in his arms; and
while his ears were still tingling from
her blows, he was again startled. A
gentleman collared him, and shaking
him roughly, asked him what he meant
by embracing lady in the street.
"Why, she boxed my ears and tainted !"
screamed the actor. "She is my wife,"
shouted the irate husband, "and would
never have struck you without cause"
The Infatuated gentlemen shook their
fists until the lady, who had been car
ried into a shop, recovered sufficiently
to explain how it had happened.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-09-01
Bashl.BszOuks Drinking Poison,

Duringth bombardment of Rustchuk,
band of Bashi- Bazouks took advantage
of the absence of a German photo
grapher, named Bauer, to break into his
studio. The owner had, however, al
ready placed his valuables in security,
SO that his visitors found nothing but o
number of old plates. The result of
their visit may, therefore, be said to have
been literally negative.
At last, in some propinquous cup
board, they spied what they took to be
bottle full of raki. Pouncing upon
their booty, and fighting between them
selves for it's possession, three men
shared its contents between them. The
"raki," however, turned out to be moth
ing but a solution of cyanide of potash !;
and when the owner returned to his
STUDIO, there, amidst the havoc, he be-
held three Bashi- Bazouks lying dead on
the ground with the fatal bottle between
them.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-09-01
A Boys Letter.

In the following specimen Of a boys
letter. there is much Of that spirit Of
drollery mixed with mischief, which
often prevails in the young human being
Of the male sex. The letter proceeds
from n country boy TO his "iriend in
town y
"Now, Bob, I'll tell You what want.
! want you to come down here for the
holidays. Don't be afraid. Ask your
sister to ask your mother to ask your
father to lot you come. It's only ninety
mile. The two 'prentices, George and
Will, are here TO be made farmers of;
and brother Nick is took home from
school, to help the agriculture. We like
farming very much, its capital fun. Us
four have got gun and go out shooting;
its famous good one, and sure TO go
off il you don't full cock it. Tiger is to
be our shooting dog, as soon as he leave
of killing sheep. He's real savage, and
worries cats beautiful. Before father
comes down We mean TO bait one bull
with him. There's plenty of new rivers
around here, and we're going a-fishing,
as soon rs we have mended the top Joint.
We've pony, too, to ride on, when we
can catch him; but he's loose now, and
has neither name nor tail to signify to
lay hold of. Isn't it prime, Bob? You
must come. If your mother won't give
your father leave to allow you-run
away. Remember you turn up Goswell
street to go to Lincolnshire and ask for
Middleton Hail. There's pond full of
frogs but we won't pelt them till you
come butletit be before Sunday, as there's
our own orchard to rob and the fruits to
be gathered on Monday. If you like
sucking raw eggs, we know where all the
hens lay, and mother don't; and I'm
bound there's lots of birds's nests. Do
come, Bob, and I'll show You the wasp's
nest and anything that can make you
comfortable. I dare say you could Dor.
row your fathers volunteer musket of
him without his knowing anything about
it; but be sure anyhow to bring the
ramrod, as we mislaid ours by firing it
off. Goodbye, Bob"
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-09-01

There are, perhaps, more individuals
who ascribe their weakness Of sight 10 a
| use Of their eyes under an insufficient
artificial illumination than to any other
one cause. In great many instances
this may not DO strictly true, but there
can be no doubt that faulty artificial
light il ono of the most productive
causes of certain class Of injuries, 10
which the eye can be exposed. The two
sources of trouble with the ordinary
artificial lights, are-frst, that they are.
not pure white, and secondly, that they
are unsteady. The first defect is found
in all artificial lights except the lime,
electric and magnesium lights the Sec
ond, especially in candles and gas. The
yellowness is, in measure, counteracted
by using, in the case Of lamps and gus,
chimneys of violet or blue tint, and the
Pickering of the gas may be obviated
largely by employing an Argand burner.
All things considered, n German student
lamp, furnishes the most satisfactory
light. The next best is gas with an
Argand burner. The chimneys of both
may, rs above suggested, be advanta-
geously of light blue tint.
The position of the light in relation to
the body is of great Importance. If
shade is used on the lamp or burner Gt
should, by preference, be Of ground or
"milk glass, never of colored glass,
the light may stand directly in front of
the body and the work be allowed to lie
in the light under the shade, which will
protect the eyes from the glare of the
flame. II no shade is used the back
should be turned to the source of light,
which ought to fall over the left
shoulder. The same rule applies in the
management of daylight. In this case
the light should come from behind and
above, and fall directly on the work,
whence it is reflected to the eye. 1t |
should never fall directly in the face.
The light in the room during sleep is
also not without its influence. As a
rule, the room during sleeping hours
should be dark ; and, in particular, care
should be taken to avoid sleeping OPP
posite window where on opening the
eyes in the morning flood of strong
light will fall on them. Even the strong
est eyes are, after the repose of the
night more or less sensitive to the i'm
preston of intense light. The eyes
must have time to accustom themselves
to the stimulus.
Attention should be called to the in
furious effects that sometimes follow
reading on railroad cars. On account of
the unsteadiness of the page, reading
under these circumstances is exceeding
ly trying to the eyes, and should never
be persisted in for any considerable
length of time.
During convalescence from severe ILL
ness, the eyes are generally the last to
regain their lost power. Especially is
this the case with women after child
birth, and too much care cannot be taken
to put as little strain upon the eyes as
possible at this time.-,Scri6ner.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-09-01
Cloves.

Cloves are unopened flowers of small
evergreen tree, that resembles in ap-
pearance the laurel Or the bay. It is a
native of the Molucca or Spice islands,
but has been carried to all the warmer
parts of the world and is cultivated in
the tropical regions of America. The
flowers are small in size and grow in
large numbers in clusters at the very
end of the branches. The cloves we use
are the flowers gathered before they are
opened and whilst they are still green.
After being gathered they are smoked
by wood fire and then dried in the
sun. Each consists of two parts
round head, which is the four petals or
leaves of the flower rolled up, inclosing
a number of stocks and filaments. The
other part of the Glove is terminated
with four points, and is, in fact, the
flower cup and the unripe seed vessel.
All these parts may be distinctly shown
If few leaves are soaked q short time
in hot water, when the leaves soften and
readily unrell.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-09-01
A ChiIl's iIerOiSm.

"Mother, I saved the house, but I
shall die" said six-year-old girl to
Mrs. Theodore Markham, as she entered
her home at High Market, Lewis county,
one day recently. The child, while at
tempting to light lamp to warm some
milk for baby, set fire to her clothing.
Her first thought was to run out of
doors, fearing that the house would be
burned and the baby be hurt, but no.
ticing that shreds of her clothing had
fallen upon the floor, she carefully ex-
tinguished the flames. Then she ran to
a horse trough in the yard and plunged
into the water. Returning to the house,
she waited patientiently for her mother
to return. She died an hour after the
accident.