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The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-05-02

your affairs. 7 wonder if be is really so
rich as he saysT'
"IIave no anxiety about the money,
said Godfrey Prime, to his dsugntdl alter
a few days, "The fellow has come most
unexpectedly into an immense fortune.
He could pay my debts and set me up in
business again, if he chose, without miss
ing the money. And he stands ready to
do it, if you will marry him."
81 am ready,'' said Annis, gaiIy. ''My
heart warns to him already"
The marriage took place soon.
The merchant was reinstated in his
business, and in grander and more -four
ishing manner than before.
The splendid residence which he and his
daughter had inhabited before his bank
ruptcy was repurchased, and refurnished
in the most magnificent manner.
Only one thing troubled Annis. Her
"clod" remained "clod," do what she
would. All her efforts-though she had
made him cut his hair and Danish his rain
how suit-could not make him any differ
snt from what he was at first.
But he was devoted to her; and, he
cause of his riches, everybody courted
him. His very awkwardness became the
fashion, and his most ungrammatlcal
speeches were passed from tongue to
tongue, as profoundest wit.
Besides all this, he had good heart
so much genuine kindness of disposition
being always ready to snccor the unfortu,
nate, and he loved her SO well that Annis
could not help loving him in return.
"Dear Clod," she said to him, one day
despairingly, when, in spite of all her in,
structions, he would a,me out in fancy
neck-tie, and persisted in saying "hain't
for "have not"--"dear CIod, you are too
stupid for belief; but, somehow, I can't
help loving you, in spite of that"
The "clod" smiled and kissed her.
81 have been stupid" he said, "and you
have been more patient than l deserved
But from this hour you shall see a change
in me-"
Annis laughed induIgently. She had
resigned herself to see him always {
"clod."
But, to her amazcment, that evening,
when her parlors were filled with th'
elite and fashionable of the city, her hus
band presented himself attired in exquisite
taste, and so altered in every other re
spect that only the eyes of love could have
traced in this elegant gentleman any o
the characteristics of the "clod."
Everybody stared, and Annis, under
standing at last that he had been playin!
part, was grieved and offended.
"How could you, sir?" she asked hin
reproachfully. 81 don't know how cal
ever forgive you p
Her husband laughed in her face ro
| guishly.
"Pd do it again for the same reward
and if you don't forgive me III go bael
and be clod the rest of my days."
The threat was sufficient.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-05-02

THOSE foolhardy feats of marksman-
ship which have become feature of the
variety stage seem to owe their principal
attraction to the reckless manner in
which they play about human life The
swaying of mirror by the wind, the
excitement of a sudden alarm, the inter
position of the slightest accident, in fact,
Is liable to send bullet to performer
brain at any such exhibition. Since the
death of young woman in Pawtucket
at the hands of a rifle expert, this dan.
gerous amusement has attracted the at.
tention of the authorities, and bills have
been introduced in five different Legisla,
lures forbidding all such performances
1t seems proper for somebody to step in
and protect these people, who evidently
have not the minds to protect themselves.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-05-02

JOHN MoRRrssEY died last night at
Saratoga, New York. He was man of
peculiar talents and possessing many good
impulses. Though professional prize
fighter and gambler, as politician he
ranked in point of honesty much above the
average. When he entered politics he
frankly admitted all that was charged
against him regarding his past life, but
promised to do his best in his new call
ing. This promise he 50 fully redeemed
that in the closing years of his life he had
the confidence of the best men al@ largest
property holders in New York. The last
two times that he was candidate his
opponents were Mr.. Fox and Hon. Au.
gustus Schell, both of whom he badly
defeated, his supporters being composed
of the best elements in the district
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-05-02
DWARFED TREES.

The Chinese and Japanese are excellent
gardeners. They have long practised the
art of dwarfng large, growing trees, and
the specimens 80 treated, only few inches
in height, bear leaves, flowers and fruit in
season, and form pretty little plants tor
decorative purposes.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-05-02

WHAT is the country coming to when
it takes all the pleading power of the
Speaker to keep the members of the Ohio
Legislature from throwing bird shot
down one another's backs, and the mem,
} bers of the Cincinnati Chamber of Com
merce feel indignant and injured because
they are not permitted to pelt each other
with bags of grain and flour?
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-05-02
PERSONALS ABOUT LADIES.

Miss May Alcott, the artist, was recently
married in London.
Lady Roseberry's wedding dress cost
$7,S75; her veil 81 CPS.
Mrs Fremont's daughter has the most
beautiful hand in America.
Mrs Ashby, of Bloomington, Illinois, has
reached her hundredth birthday.
Clara Louise Kellogg and her mother
have engaged passage for Liverpool on the
Germanic for June 10Th.
Miss Parola gives lectures in Boston four
times a week in cooking, and has large
class in the culinary art
Nine. Marie Roze is reported as being sur
prised that the number Of operas produced
in this country is so small
The Queen of Greece is said to be greatly
admired by her subjects for her beauty and
her simple and charming manners.
Helen Potter, Mrs. Livermore and VIM
Parsons have gone to Paris. The Exposition
will have to furnish all the lectures for next
season.
Princess Lydia, sister of King Kalakaua,
is in San Francisco She dresses fashion
ably speaks English huently, and is well
educated.
Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth is de-
scribed as the modest and unassuming
writer of sixty-eight novels. She has a
wide, full brow, and clear blue eyes, and
talks very well.
| Mrs Foster, of Muscatine is another be.
whiskered beauty. They are black and
glossy, three inches long, and the mustache
over her lovely mouth would do credit to
aoV younp or old gentleman
Rhoda Broughton lives in the beautiful
| Valley of Choyd, Wales. She is about
thirty, spiritual in expression, with light,
quick, impatient manner, anda good figure.
| She is of about the average height.
Madame Llanos, the only surviving sister
of John Keats, who has long lived at
Madrid, has written to her friends in Eng
land, expressing strong disapproval of the
publication of her brothers love-letters.
Mrs. Clara NJ. Foltz, formerly of Oregon
now of California has been making a nota
Bile and brilliant speech on the woman ques
ton at Oakland. She is thoroughly
womanly woman, large hearted and earnest
Viscountess Kingsland, the widow of al
Irish peer, has just received grant of $500
from the Royal Bounty Fund This lady
has for long time been living in extreme
poverty, supporting herself by making
shirts.
Mrs. Swisshelm writes: There can be nc
way of settling the Brooklyn scandal but by
bringing Susan b. Anthony and Mrs. Cady
Stanton up before some competent tribuna
and inducing them to tell, under oath, al
they know about it.
Mrs. Mary Hewes celebrated her hun
dredth birthday in Boston, on Monday
The Rev. Jas. Freeman Clarke directed thu
ceremonies, which included speechmakint
and the reading of poems. Mrs. Hewes re
tans her faculties wonderfully, can hea
distinctly, and until recently could reaC
without spectacles.
Miss Lizzie Sherman has selected si1
bridesmaids to attend her at her wedding il
Cleveland May 9TH four of whom are, Gen
Sherman's daughter, Miss Addie; Miss Ad
die Moulton, a niece of General and Secre
tary Sherman; Miss Parsons, of Cleveland
and Miss Jennie Dennison, whose father i
one of the Commissioners of the District o
Columbia; another lives in Cleveland, ant
one in New York
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-05-02

The Gold Hill News cautions men
against coming to the mines at the pres
ent time, and particularly mentions the
surplus of workingmen now on the Com
stock. There are fully fifteen hundred
idle men in Storey County who would
rejoice to be supplied with any kind of
labor.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-05-02

DIR. HAYES, the Arctic explorer, COM
plains that he has already spent $3.50 in
doctoring his frozen ears. He might dis
pense with them entirely and get new
set, as some of his fellow legislators are
peculiarly blessed in that respect.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-05-02

A MAN was recently discovered stand
ing upright on New York sidewalk
sound asleep. Nature evidently cut him
out for policeman.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-05-02

THERE are about eighty-fve thousand
eight hundred and eighty Federal office
holders in the United States, or one to
every ninety voters. 1t certainly seems
that by a more rapid rotation in office
every man should have his turn at the
public crib.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-05-02
Cousin WIFI.

strolled last night in musing mood,
Rejecting on my lonely state;
Till, wearied out at last paused
And leaned upon garden gate.
The old moons mellow radiance hung
In golden mists among the trees.
Faint odors, borne from distant flowers,
Ebbed IDLY on the evening breeze.
As thus I stood, absorbed in thought,
pressed against ths gate too hard
1t opened with sudden jerk,
And found myself within the yard,
A form came gliding down the walk;
Soft arms embraced ME as, perplexed,
stood one biissful moment, while
A sweet voice soothed my ear; the next
1t rose into a shrek. then sobbed,
30, sir, how could you keep so sttll3
When all the time know you knew
/ thought you were my cousin WILL"
These stars are moons, or rather months;
Just five have fitted since that night,
And two of these have calmly shone
Upon our welded life. 1t quite
Surprises me to think Of 1t.
And she Is queenly, tall and fair,
With lustrous eyes, and such wealth
of-well, we call 1t auburn hair.
y
$50 lateT' I've just come from the club;
Ny wife sits silent, but a light,
Unseen before, turks in her eye.
Once more muse on that calm night
When first she met me at the gate,
And wonder, while her eyes flame still,
II ever 1, in days to come,
Shall wish 1t had been cousin VIII.
-Scribntr.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-05-02

IT would perhaps be advisable for the
Spitz dog to pack his trunks and have his
baggage checked for some foreign cline.
A bill looking to his utter annihilation in
the District of Columbia has been intro
duced in Congress, and as the Spitz dog
has no money and few friends, it will
likely pass.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-05-02

IT costs Britannia $60,0OO,OOO year
to rule the waves with her navy. The
expense of keeping one iron-clad in repair
frequently amounts to $4,000 in one
year.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-05-02

THE London Lancet scouts the idea
that it would be possible to exclude the
Asiatic cholera from any country by
means of quarantine, in case the disease
should become epidemic. The only true
protection, says the Lancet, rests in in
ternal measures of precaution.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-05-02
THE STAR,
rnnt Cinninnnti a

A CONNECTICUT couple, having been
twice divorced, were recently married
again, They believe that the third
tie'em's the charm.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-05-02

velopment of virtue and heroism any gen.
eral crookedness could have been found
in the country sufficient to absorb so
much money contrary to law.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-05-02

Depot Fifth and Hoadly. .....
Ft. Wayne & NJ. Mail."."..". 7:2sam 95$ m
MunCle foo II III 10 y -
CINCINNATI wEsTwooD (NARRowrGAUdEh I.
Daily, except Sunday.
Leave G., II. Il D. Depot, 900 10, 6:25 p m. s-
Leave Robb's CWestwood), 5:55 IN, 7:45 m.
12:45 p IN, A p IN. 6:1O p N.
Leave Brighton, $50 IN, $40 IN 2:15 M 525
p m, $50 pm
Sunday trains
Leave Robb's CWestwoodl, 900 m, LOO p m:
and $50 P m.
Leave Brighton, 1918 m, 2il5 pm and 6l5 PM
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-05-02

THE MASSACHUSETTS STAY LAw.-Speaking
of the workings OF, the Stay law in Massa-
chusetts, the Boston Herald says: cone
result of the new law is the distress
occasioned to that class of deposi-
tors upon whose homes the stayed banks
hold mortgages. Several instances Of pecu,
liar hardship have come to notice. In one
case poor widow, who had mortgaged he1
house to a savings bank for $500, had by
much self-denial, deposited in the same
bank $500 toward redeeming her home.
The bank lost the confidence of its
depositors, run was made upon it,
and the Stay law applied. The
woman was called upon to pay the
mortgage; she set about to raise 81 ,00C
among her friends, and asked to have hel
deposit of $500 put to her credit in the mat
ter of the mortgage. The bank people ruled
forbade their paying out more than ten pei
cent to each depositor, and therefore all she
was entitled to was One-tenth of her deposit
or $50 The woman, being unable to meet
her note, is to be sold out of house anC
home. 10 meet and remedy just such cases
as these, Representative Noyes propose;
that a bill be passed providing that savings
bank depositors whose estates are mortgageC
to the banks in which their money is PLACED
shall have their deposits set off against the
amount due under the mortgages,
-&~S~--
A New Hampshire man, as the. story
runs lost his watch in a field in fake Vii
lage while picking blackberries, three year,
ago this summer On the 18th inst, while
taking walk in the same pasture, he light
ed his pipe, and threw the match upon tht
ground Through habit he put his foot OF
the match to extinguish it, and there saw
the watch which he had lost. He wound i
up and it has run since with old-time regl
larity. If the story was not true, perhaps
it would not have been told.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-05-02

Tho 8 :33 m and 4:O3 ? m trains CONNECT Iot
Yellow Springs and Springfield, The Church
Train leaves L0veiand Sundays at 9:03 IN, ana
returning leaves Cincinnati at ;o5 m.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1878-03-07
The Blessings or Steam PowSr.

The aggregate steam-power in use
in the world is ut present three and
one-half millions horse power en-
ploYed in stationary engines, and
ten millions horsepower in loc0mo-
tive engines. This force is main
tanned without the consumption of
animal food, except by the miners
who dig the Goals, and the force
maintained in t. cir muscles is TO
the force generation Ivy the product
OF their labor about l to 1880. This
steam power is equal to the working
force Of % millions Of horses, and
one horse consumes three times as
much food as one man. The steam
power, therefore, is equivalent TO the
saving of food for 10 millions of hu-
man beings. Further, three power
looms, attended hy one Nan, pro-
duce 70 pieces Of Gotten fabric,
against four pieces produced
by one hand-loom, worked By one
man in the year 1900. A carpenter
planning machine does the work Of
twenty men.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1878-03-07
Rapid Locomotive building.

On November IA, in the Michi-
gan Central Railroad shops, at jack
son, Michigan, two gans of work
men, numbering fourteen men each,
attempted to pot two locomotives
together in the shortest time yet
made. The Detroit Free Press says
1.-The jacks were applied, the huge
boilers were raised and bolted on
their frames, then they were placed
on their wheels with all possible ex-
peditlon, while simultaneously work
was progressing on every portion OF
the machines. which were rapidly
assuming perfect form. Water was
let into the boilers, and even while
men were working at the CRATES the
fires were kindled, and the ''in
fants" began to warm up for theil
work. At last one Of them is ready
for the smokestack, and is pulled
along the track until she stops be
meath the one designed for her, which
hangs above her.
Lower away, cast off you
tackle, so ahead" and the yard eli
CINE pulls her out of the house anC
to another shop for completion, be
constructors working as she moves
and busy hands being employed I
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1878-03-07

think she laughed after l came
away l could almost swear it was
a laugh. / am certain that it emer-
ged from her room /; and it seemed
to me that she was jumping up and
down, and having Il great deal of
Surreptitious fun about something.
All, well, she will tell me all about
it herself, l dare say" -
The elopement was perfect sue
cess. The cid people were as sound
asleep as il they had entered into
the conspiracy themselves. There
were no boys around. The carriage
made a great deal of noise, and tbs
rope ladder was as awkward and
noisy as a brass band, but nobody
aWoke.
Fortune favors us, Huldah, "
said the professor, rs they rode
away.
"Yes, SIR" SAID Huldah, who. was
as calm rs June .morning, and so
happy and good-natured that she al
most forgot TO he entirely respectful.
Some days thereafter the profess
Sor proposed visit to the CID peo-
pie. "As my wife, YOU will be
saved from any. annoyance fro IN
them," he said, proudly. do not
be alarmed Huldah. They dare not
hurt you. That little ceremony has
changed things good deal, my
dear"
Yes, sir" said HuldAh, smiling
confdingly, and looking as if her
happiness wanted her to smll more.
To the professors unbounded sur
prise, lie was kindly received. The
old gentleman shook his hand nearly
off, and the old lady had tears in her
eyes and kissed him on both cheeks.
"ThiS is very odd," remarked the
professor, looking from one to an
other in profound establishment.
"You-you are perhaps not aware
that Tuldah and l are married -
"When did this happen Z" asked
the old gentleman, apparently with
Some strdiad n,,rinSit,-
"Three nights ago, sir" said the
professor, promptly.
"Three nights agI, hey ?" roared
the old gentleman. ''And why
didn't it happen ten years ago, you
stupid old proerastinator ~
The professor WAS SO overcome
with asto1iShment that he seemed
to be perfectly helpless.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1878-03-07

fastening the bolts Will; Iii hold the
smo&estack in its place. A few
moments more and the last screw is
turned, the last bolt is fastened, the
engineer stands IN his place, and in
just two hours and fifty minutes
from the time the signal to COM
mence was given the throttle is
pulled, and the first of the twins
moves off completed, followed n
moment later by her mate.
All the pieces of machinery con-
nected with the locomotive had been
finished and ready for use before
hand, but mono had been fitted.
On the same day the two new en-
gines made trips of seventy-six
miles each and worked nicely.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1878-03-07
OLD POST OFFIgE MYSYERIES.

a story that reads like medi1v-
al romance comes from New York.
In reftting the old post Office build
ings. the carpenters have discovered
that the upper flools are double, 'and
so arranged that detectives can
watch the operations Of those in the
different looms, who suppose them
selves to be alone. The whole build
ing was furnised with secret pas
sages, sliding panels, hidden trap
doors and mysterious chambers, CT
whose existence tie post officials
had no knowledge with Tie cxcep'
tion Of the post master ard assist
ant. When the workmen had re-
moved the flooring it vas seen that
the concealed space was from four
to four and one-half feet deep, al
foTdiDg ample room for men TO
move about. Passages led entirely
around the building. At verT short
intervals were found small circular
holes II which were Inverted lenses.
Through these view of the room
below was obtained. Back OF and
above these lenses we're ref5ctoys
which brought tefore tie eTes Of
the observer The utmost recesses Of
ice post Office. Il a detective saw
any stealing or any improper action
committed by clelk or a person
not employed in the Cfi}ce, the
speaking tube at Lis side conveyed a
warning at once to the attic room,
and the guilty person was met at
the door, or tapped on the shoulder
in the interior of the Office by anoth-
er detective. The aperture through
which the detective overlooks the
rooms in most cases are so small as
hardly to be visible from the apart
ments below. Some CT them, how
ever, look boldly down from the
easements, but as the planks in
whicb they are seen were obtained
from very old timber the holes
would readily be taken for knot
holes. The maxim of the post mas
ter was, The detectives and assist
ants watch the employees and people,
the post master keeps an eye on the
detectives and assistants, and the
Lord will watch the post master.''
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1878-03-07

Our TrMBER.-No thinking man
can pGss through the country and
see every here and there a beautiful
grove Of forest trees cut down, with
out feeling that Just in proportion
as the trees are cut down in that
proportion is the country injured,
The absence of trees or shades causes
the springs and wells TO go dry, the
earth becomes parched for want of
rain and shade, ard vegetation is
ruined and stunned. Cannot a stop
be put to it, should not our Legis-
lature enact some law that would
compel each farmer 10 have at least
five acres Of woodland to every hun
drej acres of his farm ? we think
it would be well to put q stop to this
wholesale destruction Of the beauti-
full and highly useful woods E1.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1878-03-07
JACOB KAMP'S SHOE STORE
LOCK HAVEN,'PA.

Mems Boots, only S1.75
Mems Boots, very best, only $3.50
Mems Carpet Slippers only 80
Mems Best Rubber Over Shoes, 81
WOmens' F0xGd Caters, only $1.25
WOmenS' every Day Shoes, snlyS.0e
WOmens' best RubDurOVer Shoes 4.
Children'S 'E L" "a
Boys, Youths ana ChIIdrenS'
Boots and Shoes, very low.
ChIldrCns' Goat Button Shoes
Nos. 4 to Z, with heels, only %
Mems Calf Top Sole Boots, only $3.O 90
WOmeRS' Kid Button Shoes, only 81. 90
WOmen's Grained Button Shoes, 81 SIS
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1878-03-07

BRANDY AND A ZIG RATTLE
sNAKE.-James Mitchell, Fred Dt-
wins, Johnnie Woodward of Butler,
Ga, went out squirrel hunting last
Saturday. Mr.. Mitchell got into a
rattlesnake's nest. and WAS bitten
four times before he could extricate
himself. There was flask of bran
dy in the party, and after drinking
the contents he says he felt no in
convenience from it. Mr.. Wood
ward, while attempting to shoot the
snake, accidentally shot Mr.. Biyins
in the left arm jast below the ell
bow. The suake was killed, and
measured fifteen feet long, with
twenty-one rattles and a button.
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