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THE USES OF THE LEMON.

The London Lancet says: 'Few people
know the value of lemon juice. A piece of
lemon bound upon corn will cure it in o
few days; it should be renewed night and
morning free use OF lemon Juice and
sugar will always relieve cough. Most
people feel poorly in the spring, but If
they would eat lemon before breakfast
every day for a week-with or without
sugar, as they like-they would find it
better than any medicine. Lemon juice,
used according to this recipe, will some-
times cure consumption: Put dozen
lemons into cold water ana slowly bring to
boil; boil slowly until the lemons are soft,
then squeeze until all the juice is extracted:
add sugar to your taste and drink. In this
way, use one dozen lemons day. If they
cause pain. lessen the quantity and use only
five or six day until you are better, and
then begin again with a dozen a day.
After using five or six dozen the patient
will begin to gain flesh and enjoy food.
Hold on to the lemons, and still use them
very freely for several weeks more. An
other use for lemons is for refreshing
drink in summer, or in sickness at any
time. Prepare as directed above and add
water and sugar. But in order to have
this keep well, after boiling the lemons
squeeze and strain carefully; then TO every
half pint of juice add one pound of loaf
or crushed sugar boil and stir few min.
utes more until the sugar is dissolved, skim
carefully and bottle. You will get NOR
juice from the lemons by boiling them, and
the preparation keeps better. ..
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-04-10
The Bridge Case.

The case of the Newport and Cincinnati
Bridge Company against the United States
was argued yesterday before His Honor
Judge Baxter.
He said that the Company appeared to
have complied with the law as it stood at
the time of the enactment of the law of 1871
in the construction of the bridge as far as it
had progressed, but that in his opinion
there was no liability on the part of the
Government for the exercise of the legisla-
tive power of requiring the bridge to be
raised to one hundred feet in height; that
Congress did not intend by the resolution
to cut itself off from withdrawing its assent
to the erection of bridge whenever it
should find that, if erected on that plan, it
would be an obstruction; that the enact
ment of the law Of 1871 was withdrawal
of the assent contemplated by the resolu-
ton, and the bill must be dismissed Judg-
ment for the Government accordingly,
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poser, that all the mills were set to grind
ing all the tobacco into snuff, and that an
equinoctial whirlwind should snatch up
the titillating powder and shower it down
upon one of the little G srman States as
ashes are showered down in the neigh
borhood of Vesuvius. And further, let
us continue to suppose that the aston
ished natives should attempt to clear
away the mysterious snow from their
doorways with shovels, and that the
snuff should arise and tickle the nasal
organs of the entire population, after its
fashion, and that they should all with
one accord begin to squeeze, what would
be the consequence? The thought
is an appalling one, for such
an awful outburst of sternutation
might dethrone monarchs and alter the
history of Europe. Happily, however,
the tobacco crop is not all converted into
snuff, but good part of it passes away
peacefully, and we hope innocently, in
smoke, while at this season of the year
quantity is utilized by pru-
dent housewives in the preservation of
winter garments. There is plenty of it,
according to the figures we have pro-
duced, SO that the consumer can continue
to consume without any fear of the sup
ply being cut off.
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THERE is great slaughter of dogs
going on in New Jersey, and the New
York papers are calling on Mr.. Bergh to
go over and interfere. 1t is held that
the Jerseymen's reason for the slaughter
that some of these dogs might have
had hydrophobia the coming summer had
they been permitted to live-is not a
Justitiable one. 1t seems to us that the
reason Isl very powerful one and when the
saving in provisions next winter is taken
into consideration it becomes overwhelm-
ing If Mr. Bergh wants to retain the
good will of the public he must confne
himself to deyising ingenious and pleas
ant methods of dog-killing, but he must
not SO the destruction of useless ours.
There is not a village, town or city in the
country but what has two or three times
too many dogs May the work COM
menced in New Jersey spread rapidly
and be done effectually.
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at short intervals. Perched on blocks of
stone, which m winter defend them against
the assaults of the snow, they look rather
like huts affording shelter to a nomad
population than permanent shelters for the
protection of fainiiies undera climate the
most rigid in the world Broad skates
stand up against the walls, their purpose
is to bear the sledges which were used yes
terday and will be used again tomorrow.
On the threshold half-naked children gaze
at us as we pass; their yellow halo throws
like a golden nimbus round their heads.
Sometimes tall men smoke their pipes
gravely before their door, all wearing red
flannel shirts, scarlet caps and a kind of
sleeveless vest in coarse woollen stuff,
black or green. Under sky without light,
in colorless country, the Firms have d
passion for those bright tints and high
tones of color which nature denies them.
The women wear gowns striped blue and
red and part-coiored bodices."
The night of June 24th is celebrated in
Northern Sweden by festival which had
perpetuated itself from pagan times. In
Finland it is preceded by universal open
air bath, taken by persons Of both sexes
and all ages, In paradisaic costume. The
day Of the Oath is chosen by young folks
for their betrothal On Mount Avasaxa. On
the first rising Of the sun, hymn is sung
by women. As soon as it's full disk appears
there is an explosion Of Joy, choruses are
sung, long strings of dancers stream along
the sides of the rounded plateau of the
the mountain, and bonfres mix their pale
fires with the suns rays.
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News has Just been received Of the death
of James Watson Eggleston, in Lima, Peru,
s. A. He was the eldest son of the latc
James Eggleston of Pleasant Valley. "A
correspondent of the Winsted Herald in
that place says:
"In 1881, at the age IA, he tied up all his
worldly possessions in small bundle, and
like MANY another venturesome youth, went
out to seek his fortune. He made HE way to
Boston, walking most of the way, where he
met his father, who was there at the time
on business, and who after many entreaties,
allowed his son to 60 to sea on board a
whaling vessel. Letters occasionally reached
his anxious parents, from China, Japan,
Egypt, Turkey, Sweden, and from Lima,
Peru, in which city, after having married a
wealthy Spanish senorita, he remained q
permanent resident. Many will remember
his first and only visit to the United States
in 1851, having been sent here by the
Spanish Government to superintend the
building Of some machinery in Boston.
His appearance in Pleasant Valley at q
Fourth of July celebration was the The
cause Of much curiosity and excitement, his
friends not recognizing in him the boy
who had gone out from among them twelve
years before. Even his father refused to
believe that he beheld his son, whom he had
long mourned as dead, until shown a scar
on his neck which had been carried since
childhood. After remaining here year he
returned to Lima, saying he should again
visit his home in the course of ten years,
but his business was such that he was never
able to fulfil the promise. He was a man
Of more than ordinary abilities, holding
many important positions in the Spanish
Government. After his marriage his name
was legally changed to the Spanish name
Of Santiago Flores He leaves a wife,
three children, and grandchildren in
Lima. "-New :Hdeen Palladium.
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ALL indications now point strongly to
the probability of solution of the Anglo
Russian trouble without war. Russia's
reply to the last British note is concilia-
tory in the extreme, and, while it reasons
strongly in the interest of Russia, is free
from anything like buster 1t is calm
paper, the intent of which seems to be
rather to convince by cogent reasoning
than to express determination of hold
ing out, right or wrong. 1t is further
stated, in dispatch from St. Petersburg
that negotiations have already been com
menced with view to letting down the
two Powers from the high warlike posi-
tion' they have taken. If this be true,
we shall soon see much more decided in
dications of peace; for, with determine
tion on both sides to avoid war, there
will be no difficulty in arranging salts
factory basis of peace. The preparations
Of the Gar to retire early to fashiona-
BILE summer resort in Germany is fur
ther evidence that he does not expect
such state of affairs as will demand his
constant presence either at the capital OF
with the army.
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themselves even butter, milk and eggs. At
Mount Lebanon, and in some of the other
societies, two tables are set, one with, The
other without, meat They consume much
fruit, eating it atevery meal; and they havc
alwaysfine and extensive vegetables gardens
and orch ards. Father Evans (the Shakers cali
him Elder Evans, but we like Father better)
now about seventy years old and at the head
of one branch of the Shaker community at
Lebsnoli, has not eaten flesh for nearly
forty years, and he is hale and hearty, much
more so than most men OF his age; yet
when he commenced his vegetable diet he
was in declining state of health; as he
tells us, "a candidate for consumption"
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Princeton AIu mni Association.

The annual banquet of the Princeton
Alumni Association, of Cincinnati, was
held at the Grand Hotel last evening
Graduates of the College from all parts of
Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky were present
The Association voted to have entrance ex-
aminations for Princeton College held in
Cincinnati this year, as the last years ex-
aminations had been self-sustaining. AT
the close of their business meeting they
elected as officers for the ensuing year the
following gentlemen:
President-Hon. Z. d. Mansfield, LID.
Vice Presidents-Hon. Thomas l.. Jones,
Rev. L. D. Potter, DID, Professor James w.
Albert.
Secretary-Charles e. Webster.
Treasurer-P. A. Reece.
Executive Committee-David Henderson,
Esq, DR.. Wallace Neff, James f. Ernst,
Professor A. F. West
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LAPLAND.

A French traveller, M. Vandal, who re.
Gently visited Northern Sweden to see the
midnight sun" as it appears on the oath
of June, gives the following account of the
country and its peeple:-
"If the Lapps deserve the palm Of ugli-
ness among all the inhabitants of old
Europe, their country is assuredly the
most frightful of our continent. Horroris its
special characteristic; stony plains succeed
dried up marshes, the soil only shows at
long intervals, covered with blackish
moss. Yet we are crossing forests, but the
frs composing them do not pass three feet
in height. The zone of dwarf trees suo-
ceed that of gigantic frs, like Lapps beside
Scandmayians. Now and then strip of
cultivated land brings rest to the eye; rye
wheat, ripen in forty days, and beneath an
unsetting sun acquire strange and rapid
development in the north; cornstalks are
often taller than trees. Sometimes few
lowly flowers tinge the hill sides with their
sickly greenery, scarcely tall as grass which
has bust begun to grow. But these fugi-
tive appearances do not last-the desert
begins again. Tumblc-down cabins, in
which the cattle are shut up in winter, oc-
cur here and there on the plains, and only
add through their ruinous appearance to
the gloomy dosolateness of the landscape.
The country, nevertheless, is not without
inhabitants; thsre are neither towns nor
villages, but miserable buildings scattered
st2pg TIE rYss siaS iIsa Tornea-eN appear
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-04-10

If your representative in the School
Board votes to make a man President
who wants the place for the sake Of the
plunder, you can safely assume that you
are not well represented, and that it will
be your duty as a good citizen to help
lay him out when he is next candidate.
This is especially applicable to the hold
over members, who having been in the
Board, know how it is and will ask re-
election next spring. Their votes next
Monday night will indicate pretty strong
ly what course they intend to pursue
during the year.
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SOME SUPPOSHTIONS.

insignificant as a pinch of snuff may
seem, it is thing not to be sneezed at,
for it represents weed which is con-
sumed the wide world over to such an
extent that those who partake of it in
its various forms would be startled at
the array of figures. A journal strictly
devoted to the interests of tobacco
planters and dealers, and which is pre-
sumed to possess reliable statistics in its
peculiar line, states that the entire mass
of tobacco annually used by snuffers,
smokers and chewers upon the earth, is
four billion pounds. In the abstract,
and spoken of merely as SO many pounds,
this statement is not particularly formid:
able, but the imaginative editor turns
himself loose in the fair fields and green
pastures of his fancy, and supposes some
Suppositions which will cause the tobacco
consumer to rub his eyes in considerable
amazement. He supposes all the tobacco
leaves of the annual crop twisted into
two-inch rope, which girdled about the
earth at the equator, would go around
sixty times and leave a handsome bit
of cable besides. How some inveterate
old chewer would relish such
natural twist if he could
but take one end of that tobacco rope
IN his mouth and chew his way lux
uriously around the world, being free to
expectorate at his own sweet will in all
nations and every Cline Again, suppose
this mass of tobacco nodded into tablets
or plugs, and builded into stately pyra-
mids which would tower high above those
of Egypt, or shaped into city Of palaces
which would outrival even our new Gus
tom-house in size and grandeur. What
q glorious resort such edifces would be
for the gangs of idlers who loaf about
our street corners or frequent our public
places, depending entirely on charity for
an occasional chew. How they could ap-
ply their molars assiduously to the col
umns and corners of s',rh buildings and
gnaw away to their hearts content.
Ai,ainsuppose, says thissupposititioussup-
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Sinking Fund Com mission.

The Sinking Fund Commission met yes
terday afternoon.
The Board took up the report of the Trus-
tees of the Southern Railroad, and as it
was not sufficient to give full information it
was referred.
A resolution was passed requiring the
city to pay over to the Board all money
due interest account to provide for paying
$175, POP currency and $94, 260 gold bonds for
May interest.
The question coming up on the cancella-
ton of 800, 900 school bonds purchased last
August, Mr. Seasongood offered a resolu-
ton to hold and draw on the coupons of
these bonds and all other bonds hereafter.
Adopted.
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Literary and Musical.

In spite of the unfavorable weather last
night the Odd-fellows Hall was well filled
with lovers of music, who listened with
marked interest to the entertainment given
under the auspices of Washington Lodge,
No. 2, /. o. o. F. The programme opened
with an overture, "AdeIla," by Messrs.
Pape, FRANKIE and Whitaker and Miss S.
Durrell. This was followed by a comic
song, well rendered, by Col. +. Brodie.
Chas H. Miller next recited "Asleep at the
Switch, and on being encored gave "Pat
and the Frogs" Then followed q fantasia
by Prof. Nembach and E. S. Whitaker;
Ave Maria" by Miss Lulu Stevens and
Cherry Ripe" for an encore. A duo for
piano and flute by Prof ]. f. Wilson and
W. D. Duble. A solo, 'Nancy Lee" by
George d. Newhall. A comic duet by
Messrs. Anderson and McCabe. Miss Mary
How next sang a solo, 'The Three Fishers .
which was followed by a harmonicon duet
by Messrs. Greenlees and Curtis Then
came an original stump speech by Col. F.
Brodie, and a recital of the "Wonderful
One-horse Shay" by Charles H. Miller. A
quartet by Messrs. Pape, FRANKIE and Whit
taker and Miss Durrell, closed the evenings
entertainment.
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To the Editor of the Star:
Some interesting Post-office statistics, in
relation to the Free Delivery Department,
were given in yesterdays STAR, which, how
ever, for the better information of the pub
lic and in justice to another department
call for slight correction.
Passing over the array of figures in the
first part of the article I come directly to
the Objectionable part, which is embraced in
the following extract:
"The entire number of separate packages
of mail matter of every description received
and delivered at the office for the month is
roundly estimated at ], ,150 900, leaving only
about $4,000 letters, &c, to go through pri-
vate boxes and the general delivery"
1t is not known from what source the
above information was obtained, and it
doesn't matter; it is incorrect 1t is known
to every man in the Office who has taken
the trouble to inform himself, and is denied
by none, that fully one-half of the mail is
delivered through the private boxes This
statement has been verified in several in
stances by actual count and by weight. 1t
is, moreover, apparent to an observer any
day in the month be it the month of March
or any other month. In support of this it
is only necessary to add that one firm alone
received nearly 10000 letters through their
private box in the month of March.
The aggregate number of separate pack
ages OF mail matter received and delivered,
viz: 10000, is, perhaps, nearly correct.
The error consists in crediting the Free De-
livery Department with labor that it never
performed
1t is not intended to detract anything
from the efficiency of the Free Delivery De-
partment of the Cincinnati Post-olfice. one
of the most efficient in the Union, perhaps.
but to do justice to another department in
every way its equal in efficiency and i'm.
portance. \.
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FEMALE REFORMATORfEs.

An experiment has lately been tried in
Indianapolis, Indiana, in regard to the
management of female treformatories which
deserves the consideration of those in all
parts of the country having the direction of
such institutions, and of the public at large.
This experiment consists in giving the care
of these reformatories entirely to women.
1t has been tried at Indianapolis for the
past four years, and is proving complete
success. All the women prisoners in the
Slate prison were transferred to this new in
stitution but there is no communication of
any kind between the convicts and the
young girls in the reformatory proper.
Many Of the former class are known as
hardened characters, bit the rnatron has
no difficulty in managing them alone by the
mildest treatment. Out of ninetylfve dis
charges from the prison in four years, but
two have been sentenced for subsequent
offences. Marry of them, after discharge,
have been furnished with good situatiens,
which they are oreditably filling. Only
half dozen inmates of either reformatory
or prison have gone back to their former
habits after leaving the institution. The
girls in the reformatory are admitted be-
tween the ages of ten and fifteen, and are
discharged at eighteen. There are now 1876
girls in the institution who ara well trainad
Intellectually, and are also carefully in
structed in household duties. One of the
directors of the institution is the wife of
ex-Gov Hendricks.
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The London Standard points out as q
curious coincidence that exactly century
ago Warren Hastings triumphed over his
enemies at the Council Board in India, and
ruled according to his own discretion. The
year l777 was, in fact, crisis in the his
tory Of British India. II is Lord Macaulay's
opinion that If Hastings had been worsted
in his struggle with Gen. Clavering and
Sir Philip Francis, the Indian and Am.
srican empires would baye disappeared al.
t0gstheEa
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Are You Afflicted,

and wish to recover the same degree of health,
strength, and energy as ex xperienced informer
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, fullnese
Of blood in the head, feel listness, mopinga
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Unfit for Business

or pleasure, and subject to fits Of melan-
choly? Are your kidneys, stomach, urinary
organs, liver or blood in disordered condis
ton? Do you suffer frotn rheumatism, neu.
ralgia, or aches and pains? Have you becA
indiscreet in early years and
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Broken Down in Health

and spirits from disorders peculiar to their
sex, and who, from false modesty or neglect,
prolong their suferings. Why, then, further
neglect subject 30 productive Of health and
future happiness when there is at hand
means of cure? Why not throw off the yoke
altogether, and seek a remedy that has
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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-Physiology teaches us, in regard to
the modS operdndi Of tile
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THE Board of Public Works and Sink
ing Fund Commissioners are to appoint
three persons to investigate the affairs of
the Southern Railroad. Investigators
that will investigate is what the people
demand.