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AN EXTINCT RACE.

One Of the most remarkable races that
ever inhabited the earth is now extinct
They were known as the Guanches, and
were the aborigines of the Canary Islands.
In the sixteenth century, pestilence,
slavery, and the cruelty of the Spaniards
succeeded in totally exterminating them.
They are described as having been gigantic
in stature, but of singularly mild and gentle
nature. Their food consisted of barley,
wheat, and goatss milk, and their agricul-
ture was of the rudest kind. They had
religion which taught them of a future
state, of rewards and punshments after
death, and of good and evil spirits. They
regarded the volcano of Teneritfe as the
place of punishment for the bad. The
bodies of the dead were carefully embalmed
and deposited in catacombs, which still
continue to be an object of curiosity to
those who visit the islands. Their mar
riage rites were very solemn, and before
engaging in them, the brides were fattened
on milk.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-03-30
LAKE TAHOE.

Half of this lake is in Nevada, the other
half in California. 1t is twenty-eight miles
long and from twelve to sixteen miles wide,
and has been sounded to depth of 1,600
feet. Its waters are beautiful ultra
marine, and it may be called the purest
water in the world, containing by analysis
only four per cent of impurities 1t is SO
light and mobile as to be easily lashed into
foam, or Gained to a mirror-like surface
In the early morning it is like looking
glass; with surrounding objects reflected in
it with surprising accuracy. Several
steamers with small tonnage are used in navi-
eating it. It's altitude is about sixty-three
hundred feet it is always cool and pleasant
in the hottest weather. The lake never
freezes and never gives up its dead.
No person who has been drowned
has been known to rise to the sur
face. Wood, as soon as it is saturated,
sinks to the bottom. The water is as clear
as crystal, and huge rocks fifty feet down
are plainly discernible. In fact, it is q
marvel, and the very contrast of the Great
Salt Lake; for this is SO dense and slug
gish as to offer great resistance to the hu-
man body, and everything else that will
float.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-03-30
TEfE S0VEREEGNS OF CMRtSTEN.
DOlE.

There are at the present moment thirty
six reigning sovereigns in Christendom
from the Queen of England, to whom 237, =
000, 200 of human beings owe allegiance,
to the Prince of Monaco, whom 5,742 sub
jects acknowledge as their liege lord Of
these princes, ten are nominally Roman
Catholic, namely, the emperors of Austria
and Brazil, the Kings of Italy and Spain,
Portugal, Belgium, Bavaria, Saxony, the
Prince of Lichtenstein and Monaco. or
the remaining twenty-six, two belong to
the Greek Church, though the Gar and
the King of the Hellenes belong to different
branches of it. The other twenty-four are
Protestants, sixteen being called Lutherans,
four Gncluding the German Emperor) be-
longing to the Evangelical" confession,
three TO tho reformed" church, and one
being the supreme head on earth" of the
Church of England, but the vast majority
of Queen Victoria's subjects (139, 600, O0o)
are neither Protestants nor Catholics, but
Hindoos, while the Mohammedans, 40, 00O,- =
600 IN number, are themselves mere numer-
Gus than the Protestants of all denomina-
tions in the empire.
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not till 1799 that he contided his discovery
to the institute. In September, 1900, he
took out patent, and in 1901 he pub
lished memorial containing the result of
his researches. LIE Bon commenced by dis
tilling wood, in order to obtain from it gas,
oil, pitch and pyroligeneous acid; but his
work indicated the possibility of obtaining
gas by distillation from fatty on oily sub
stances. From 1899 to 1902, LIE Bon
made numerous experiments. He estab-
lished at Havre his first theremo-lamps;
but the gas which he obtained, being mix
ture of carburetted hydrogen and oxide of
carbon, but imperfectly freed from its i'm
purities, gave only feeble light and in
volved an insupportable odor, and the re-
suit was that but little favor was shown to
the new discovery; the inventor eventually
died, ruined by his experiments. The
English soon put in practice the crude
ideas of LIE Bon. In 1904, one Winsor
pat ented and claimed the credit of invent
ing the process of lighting by gas; in 1906
several shops in Birmingham were illumi-
mated by gas manufactured by the process
of Winsor and Murdoch; among those who
used this new light was Watt, the inventor
of the steam engine. In 1916 the first use
was made of gas in London, and twas not
until 1918 that this invention, really of
French origin, was applied in France.
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versation with an elderly gentleman, who
observed that he found that they had the
same name. 1t turnvd out that they were
second cousins. The elder had gone to
California, in the early days, mSde vast
fortune, and entirely lost sight Of his rela-
tives. That chance meeting gave the
young Bostonian fortune of between two
and three million.
Two ladies had box at the opera, in
London. An old man opposite bored them
dreadfully by perpetually 'lorgnetting"
them. The scene came to an end, and
they thought no more about him. One
day, year afterward, solicitor called on
one of the ladies, Lady Frances Bruce, and
told her that an old gentleman, Mr.. W.,
had left her property worth several thous-
and a year. 'Never heard of the man.,
she said. 'Must be mistake" every
extraordinary" replied the solicitor. Sud
denly happy thought struck him. 'He
lies in his coffin, in St. James Street, close
by, at Banting's, the great under
taker; will you come with me and see
him?"
She went. II was the old lorgnetter.
And it is said that be left it to her under a
mistake, after all, having intended to leave
it to her friend, whom-and not Lady
Frances-he admired, but he was mis-
informed as to the names of the two
ladies.
And to give one more-a quite recent in
stance. Ayoung New Yorker went to San
Francisco, to seek the fortune so many
have failed to find. He got poor clerk
ship, and had to be thankful for that. One
evening at place of entertainment, he
watched game of cards, saw that an
elderly Englishman was being cheated, ex-
posed the fraud, and had tussle with the
cheat. The Englishman has presented him
with twenty thousand dollars to start him
in business, and there is every prospect that
there more is to come.
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education without the expenditure of a
single dollar The great danger is not
that too much money will be expended
upon the higher branches, but that in
providing for them the education of the
masses will be overlooked. Even now,
with all our boasted facilities, hundreds
of children in this city are kept away
from school because their parents are not
able to purchase the necessary books and
do not want to become objects of charity.
This schoolbook problem is now the most
difficult one connected with educational
affairs with which the authorities have to
deal. 1t must be settled in some way be-
fore much greater step in advance is
taken.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-03-30
OCULAR DEMONSTRATION.

Doctor Fowler, Bishop of Gloucester in
the early part of the eighteenth century,
was a believer in apparitions. The follow
ing conversation of the bishop with Judge
Powell is recalled
"since saw you" said the lawyer, II
have had ocular demonstration of the eX-
istance of nocturnal apparitions.
II am glad you have become a convert
to truth; but do you say actual ocular de-
monstration? Let me know the particu-
lars of the story"
"My lord, I will. 1t was, let me gee,
last Thursday night, between the hours of
eleven and twelve, but nearer the latter
than the former, as lay sleeping in my
bed, was suddenly awakened by an un-
common noise, and heard something CON-
ing up stairs and stalking directly toward
my room. The door flying open, drew
back my curtain, and saw a faint giimmer-
ing light enter my chamber"
''Of blue color, no doubt"
1.-THE light was of a pale blue, my lord,
and followed by tall meagre parsonage,
his locks hoary with age, and clothed in a
long loose gown; a leathern girdle was
about his loins his beard thick and grizzly,
large fur cap on his head, and long staff
in his hand. Struck with astonishment, I
remained for some time motionless and
silent The figure advanced, staring me
full in the face. then said, Whence,
and what art thou?'"
"What was the answer-tell me-what
what was the answer 2"
"The following was the answer I re-
ceived: 4 am watehman of the night, ant
please your honor, and made bold to come
up stairs to inform the family of their
street door being open, and that if it was
not soon shut, they would probably be
robbed before morning"
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IUCK.

some psople are fond of denying that there
Is any such thing as luck" but, be that
as it may, there certainly are PERSONS to
whom what seem like fortuitous good
fortune comes. Colonel Green Wilkinson
gave seat in his pew, in London, to an
old gentleman, who left him $4,000 O
year.
A young Bostorian crossed to England,
three or four Years ago and got into con
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-03-30
THE INVENTOR OF GAS LIGHTS.

The inventor Of gas lights is said to
have been Frenchman, Philippe LIE Bon,
an engineer of roads and bridges, who in
1772 adopted the idea of using, for the
purpose of illumination, the gases dis
titled during the combustion of wood.
He labored for long time in the attempt
to perfect bis crude invention, and it Yas
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Are You Afflicted,

and wish to recover the same degree of health,
strength, and energy inexperienced IN former
years? Do any of the following symptoms or
class of symptoms meet your diseased condi-
ton? Are you suffering from ill-health in
any of its many and multifarious forms, con-.
sequent on lingering, nervous, chronic, OF
functional disease? Do you feel nervous, de-
bilitated, fretful, timid, and lack the power
of will and action? Are you subject to loss
of memory, have spells Of fainting, fullneS
of blood in the head, feel listness, mopings
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SENATE,

COLUMBUS. March 29-The Senate met
ing of a few formal messages from the
House and signing of bills passed, ad-
journed until Tuesday afternoon.
HOUSE.
COLUMBUS. March 29-Bills were intro
duced: To provide for the improvement of
cross roads, by allowing residents to apply
on such roads the amount of road tax as
sessed against them; relating to duties of
City Auditors and City Treasurers.
Section l makes it unlawful for the City
Treasurer of any city of the first class to
purchase from such city, or be in any man
ner interested in the purchase or profits
arising from the sale of any bond or bonds
or certificates of Indebtedness of such city.
Section makes it the duty of the Audi
tor Of such city, when bonds of the city are
to be sold, to take charge of the sale, by ad-
yertising the same for sale, deposit proceeds
of sale with the City Treasurer, and report
to Council particulars of sale and amount
, received therefrom,
Section 8 makes it the duty of the Treas
urer and Auditor to publish monthly, in
one or more leading newspapers of the city,
balance sheet of their respective accounts
with the city, and with statement of the
amount of money then in the Treasury and
to what particular fund the same belongs.
1t shall be the duty of such Treasurer, in
his monthly report, to state where such
money is thus kept.
Section H. That any City Auditor or City
Treasurer violating the provisions of this
act, shall be liable to be removed from of
foe in the manner provided for the renewal
of officers in the Municipal Code; and be-
ing so removed, shall be ineligible to again
fill such office.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-03-30
Lost Confidence in Yourself

and energy for business pursuits Are you
subject to any of the following symptoms:
dreams, palpitation of the heart, bashfulness,
restless nights, broker sleep nightmare,
confusion Of ideas, aversion to society, dizzi-
ness in the head, dimness of sight, pinpes
and blotches on the face and back, and other
despondent symptoms? There are
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-03-30
Unfit for Business

or pleasure, and subject to fits of melan-
choly? Are your kidneys, stomach, urinary
organs, liver or blood in disordered condia
ton? Do you suffer from rheumatism, neus
ralgia, or aches and pains? Have you been
indiscreet in early years and !"
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-03-30
Broken Down in Health

and spirits from disorders peculiar to their
sex, and who, from false modesty or neglect,
prolong their sufitrings. Why, then, further
neglect subject so productive Of health and
future happiness when there is at hand a
means of cure? Why not throw off the yoke
altogether, and seek a remedy that has
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-03-30

There is one sentence in the Fast Day
Proclamation of Gov. Fairbanks, of Yer
mont, which deserves reproduction. 1t
reads: "Let US especially pray that He will
graciously vouchSafe to make and keep us
as individuals, and as State and nation,
infexibly honest, even in times of financial
depression-so shall we fulfill our high
destiny, and transmit to our children un-
impaired the rich legacy received from our
fathers"
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-03-30
AN ESTABLISHED FACT.

In the largest library in the world, in
Paris, may be found Chinese chart
Of the heavens, made about six hun
dred years before Christ In this chart
one thousand four hundred and sixty
stars are found to be correctly inserted, as
corroborated by the scientists of the pres.
ant dev
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-03-30
FOrty-fifth Congress - Second Ses-
sion.
HOUSE.

WASHINGTON, March pa bill appro-
priating $4,000 for the miscellaneous fund
of the House was reported from the Com
mittee on Appropriations and referred.
The bill appropriating $42o,0o0 for the
payment of claims allowed by the Court of
Claims was passed
A bill was introduced to promote the gen
eral use of the metric system.
The House went into Committee of the
Whole, and after disposing of several bills
on the private calendar adjourned.
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COLORADO giants should be planted early
in the spring, in rows about two post-ofices
apart. They should be transpianted in
August, when college professors are on va.
cations. ."-New Orieoas Picayune.
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A Victim to Youthful F0EIies,

or carried the marital relation to excess in
later years? Have these indiscretions and
excesses left you in weak and debilitated
condition? Are you timid, nervous, and for
getful, and your mind continually dwelling
on the subject? Have you
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-03-30

THE Volksblatt's attacks on Judge Til
den are in bad taste. When it is remem-
bered that Judge Tilden stepped aside to
allow the party to pay a compliment to
Judge Taft, and then accepted nomina-
ton after the latter had declined, it is
reasonable to suppose that a paper large
ly owned by the Taft family would treat
him with fairness.
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Science and Common Sense

to commend it?-a remedy of indisputable
efficacy, and the most certain means Of re-
storation to health and pristine vigor?
There are many diseases of an acute and
febrile type that we do not propose to cure
by means of Electricity; but from all that
Electro-Physiolosy teaches us, in regard to
the m0dus operandt of the
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-03-30
ITEMS FOR THE LADIES.

Bege-colored beads are shown as the nov
city.
Peacock grenadine is something new and
very pretty.
Ladies who love curios are collecting
beads for necklaces.
The "calla" is one of the favorite designs
in flower embroidery.
'Drap de Syra'' is one of the many suit
materials new this spring.
Lace mantelets will be the favorites for
wearing with thin dresses.
Pulled sleeves and Medici ruffs are an
nounced as the next caprice.
Krutina has new pedestals for busts that
stand high and have shelves below for use.
Crape-covered pins are worn by ladies in
mourning for fastening the veil and shawl.
Some of the crowns of the new spring
bonnets are covered with a network of
beads.
Brass or nickle rings are used on the
handsome bureaus and tables and shown at
Solomon's.
Loose covers for protecting furniture are
made of the striped jacquard linens in gay
colors.
New tea-sets are made with high stands,
and more slender than formerly. Those in
repousse work are the handsomest
Flower bonnets will be worn all summer
but the large flowers will be superseded by
fine ones, such as heather, buttercups, daisy
buds and various others.
A maiden of twenty five was lately throw
ing out affected sneers at matrimony, when
a friend in the company observed that
marriages were made in heaven" "Can
you tell me- sir" rejoined the sly nymph,
why they are so slow i'll coming down?'
Baby is not fond of beef, but his mamma
wishes him to eat it. Yesterday at the
table he wanted to be helped twice to it..
That is a good boy!" says mamma; you
are learning to like it already" "Oh,"
said baby, Il didn't want to leave any for
tomorrow"
A Treasure-Lady calling on intimate
friend, who is unmarried, and only has one
servant): is your mistress at home, Sarah?"
Sarah: mo, mann" Lady: Then will you
kindly say that l called to see if she would
come and spend the evening with us?'
Sarah: "Oh, no, mum! A sure she can't,
cause it's my turn out"
Mr.. George Peters and wife, of Detroit
Mich, six months ago quarreled and by
mutual consent the wife procured divorce.
But, separated, time few on leaden pinions.
Lonesome were they all the day long Sun
day evening last, at the house of an old
friend, they met once more, and in little
while clergyman was sent for and they
who had been put asunder were made one
again.
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Thousands of Young Men,

middle-aged, and even the old, who suffer
from nervous and physical debility. There
are also thousands of females
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-03-30

The telephone has begun its pretty pratt
tie in Persia. There are no railroads in
the empire, but the wires of the Indo-
European Telegraph Company run from
end to end. Soon after tidings of Prof.
Bells invention were received in Tabreez,
one of the officers, Welshman, set to work
to make the instrument, and so well did he
succeed that he has conversed satisfactorily
with another officer nearly four. hundred
miles away. The experiments were made
quiet and traffic had ceased, and his friend
at Tihis heard his voice and answered all
his questions. They not only talked, but
sang, the music being heard very dis
tinctly
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Curative and Preservative

effects of Voltaic Electricity, we may most
reasonably infer that all those chronic all
mcnts and all diseases dependent on a de-
pressed condition of the nervous forces, ex-
haustion of nerve power, or the diminished
energy of vital functions, as treated upon in
our publications, are happily most suscepti-
BILE Of cure by means of
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-03-30

The San Francisco Aha, says that the
pleasure travel to the Yosemite Valley has
shown little iaerease in the last FIVE years.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-03-30

IT isn't virtuous in Governor Bishop to
hold two Offices at the same time, hence
he isn't happy.
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Gov. BISHOP appears to have kind of
guardianship over the Senate, but the
House feels able to take care of itself.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-03-30

THE Constitution of the State provides
that man shall not hold two offices of
trust and profit at the same time. The
reasons for this are obvious. A man can
not give his attention to the one without
neglecting the other, or if he pays atten-
sion to them both he is likely to use his
position in one to advance his interest in
connection with the other. Isn't Gov.
Bishop daily violating the spirit of the
Constitution by acting as Governor Of
the State and Trustee of the Southern
Railroad at the same time?
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External Remedies are the
Safest

and best that can be applied in diseases, on
account of the facility which we possess Of
watching their action and their results
and of these remedies Electricity, in the
form OF mild, continuous, and prolonged
currents, as realized exclusively by
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PULVERMACHER.
ADDRESS!

TO the WeoAc, Nervous, G4ad
De6itit0ted, scho Suffer from
WI- Health consequent on
lingering, Chronic, Nerv-
OaGs or Functional Diseases.
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LET us have a thorough investigation
of the Southern Railroad management.
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Learned Physicians and Sci
entific Men

in Europe and this country. We also DEM
onstrate why relief and cure result from
their use after every other plan OF treatment
has failed, Reader,
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PULVERMACHER'S
EL-ECTR RlC
B I: ]. ! s
AND BAN N NDS,

has been found the most valuable, safe, sim
pie, and efficient known treatment for the
cure of disease. In our descriptive Pam
phIet we review the manifold benefits to be
derived from Pulvermachers Appliances,
and bring forward testimony in their favor
from the most
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-03-30
VERY warlike.

VoTE for men with clean records.
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Fulyermacher's Electric
Belts and Bands.

These conditions they will cure, while drugs
will not and we offer the most convincing
testimony direct from the afflicted them
selves who have been restored to