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The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-08-14

The Company have ordered the con-
struction of five more new engines.
The most sanguine expectations of the
promoters of their introduction has been
fulfilled. The engine is run at trifing
cost, and without noise or smoke or smell
of oil. Any rate of speed could be OBJ
tanned up to thirty-fve or forty miles an
hour, and the engine always under the
control of the engineer. The motive
power is furnished by stationary engines
run by steam or water or wind power.
Within twenty-five years from date pri-
vate carriages will be run by pneumatic
power from stationary engines, and me-
tallic tanks of compressed air will be fur
nished to customers on somewhat the
same system that the soda fountains are
now supplied with carbonic acid gas.
Under this new development of me-
chanical power it requires no
spirit of prophecy to tell
the day when the noble horse is to retire
from the road, and out of the sporting
ring become of the beef, beefy, and when
the Jealous mule, finding mulishness un-
profitable and kicking a mere vexation of
spirit will take to the hill sides and wish
he had never been born or was eligible to
Congress.
There is now no question about the
utility OF compressed air as a motive
power for short distances, but what can
a politician or an engine do when either
are out Of wind and at a distance from
any friendly recuperative forces like a
corner grocery or a stationary engine?
The duplex query puzzles the brain. If
one could divest the new engine from all
associations with the compressed wind of
politicians it would be understood and
believed in.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-08-14

A long ride on Japanese pack-horse is
an epoch in the life of any traveller. AS
the animals are shod with straw, and as the
roads are very rough, they never attempt
anything beyond walk even with the
most violent inducement. The traveller is
perched high up in hard pillion, in a sort
of valley, the sides of which are COM
posed of his luggage, spare hats, shoes,
girths, and straps rolled into bundles; his
legs are doubled up so that his knees touch
his chin, and the sensation is like that of
being on the back of camel Thus placed
he must perform his journey, or as an al
ternatiye he may be driven to the Kago, or
litter. This may either be basket slung
on pole, or regular box with doors and
sliding shutters. The litters of men of
rank, such as once were frequent enough
in the streets of Yedo, but which have gone
the way of SO many remnants of old Japan,
were often small rooms gorgeously decor
ated and painted, and requiring SO re Of
coolies to carry them; but the litters which
the ordinary traveller must use are of the
basket type, and as provocants of suffering
and misery are second only to the pack
horse. To the native, whose normal
position when not standing or sleeping is
squatting on the heels of his feet, con-
inement of several hours in a Kago, with
scarcely a change of position, is no hard
ship; but to the European the agony of
sitting cramped up in the space of an
armchair, with legs curled up, tucked in or
huddled together, for an indefinite period,
must be actually suffered to be appre-
ciated. Temporary relief may be obtained
by sitting with the legs hanging over the
sides, but in this case they either Craze the
ground or come in contact with the huge
bolders with which the road is Uttered; by
stretching them out in front, when they
kick against the coolie; or by stopping
altogether and walking, which means loss
of time, but which is the only eficacious
method of escaping the pains of cramps.
The Kago is, however, much more rapid
than the pack-horse, and far more eco
nomical. The coolies are we'll trained,
sure-footed, stalwart fellows-as rule,
four to litter, covering easily their five
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-08-14
TAXlDEAk My.

According to the dictum uttered, or
supposed to have been uttered, by one of
our leading ornithologists, '"Ihe worst use
you can make of bird is to stuff it," and
in 10 cases out of 20 this saying is true,
for, from real natur.list's point of view,
comparatively little can be got from the
stuffed and mounted specimen not only of
a bird but of almost any other animal.
Nevertheless, there is very large class of
persons who are not real naturalists, and to
them the skin of beast, bird, reptile, or
Ash, duly prepared and embellished with
glass eyes, stuck up with wire through its
legs in glazed box, and surrounded by
imitation foliage, dried and died herbage,
is a joy forever, though perhaps not
even to them thing of beauty.
tuTe.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-08-14
THE LONDON OF AMERICA.

New York is filing up day by day with
the wealthy people from all parts of the
country. 1t is becoming more and more
the London of America, and those who
have reached the summit of their ambition
elsewhere find those comforts, elegances,
and refnements which life offers nowhere
else, These are people who do not care
about taxes or ha-1 times or bad govern
ment, people who only want to assert their
right to all the comforts their money can
pay for, and they help to swell the luxury
of New York,
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-08-14
THE NEW MOTIVE POWER.

The moving of engines Or machinery
by compressed air is one of the advances
of this present generation. Of course
power must be used to compress the air.
1t is simply question of utilizing the
different forces of nature and adopting
that which is the cheapest, the safest and
the least obnoxious. We have on more
than one occasion referred to the
pneumatic engines in use in Paris and
New York, and particularly in the con-
struction of the Hoosac Tunnel. The
Second Avenue Railroad Company of
New York have given such trial to the
pneumatic engine as motive power as
to warrant its acceptance as success.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-08-14
THE CLIMATE OF TIE AZORES.

The climate of the Azores, although the
vegetation is so luxuriant, is by no means
one of uniform tranquility and sunshine.
gale off these islands is, indeed, phe-
nomenon which, In winter at least, Is ex-
ceedingly familiar to seafaring men. The
winter of St. Michaels makes itself felt in
weeks or fortnights of violent westerly
winds and driving rains. These stormy
periods occur irregularly between Novem-
ber and April, alternating with intervals of
genial weather and sunshine, which call
to the mind by the combination of summer
skies with short days a fine September in
England. Of real cold there may be said
to he none. The average temperature OF
the coldest mouth, as given in the tables
published by Sir james Clark, is upward
of $50 of Fahrenheit, which is the tenn
perature of the month of May in London.
But as hardly any of the houses have fire.
places or stoves, it is sometimes chilly
enough within doors in the winter even
ings. The Azorean summers are for the
latitude cool, very much cooler certainly
than those of Lisbon, Madeira, or the
Mediterranean. While according to the
tables already referred to the winter of
st. Michael's is 190 warmer than that of
London, the summer is but Go warmer
and even this modeate excess of temerature
seems mainly due to the uniformity of the
warmth. Certainly not like the exhausting
effect of a very hot day in Lond is ever
felt in the Azores. Equability of tempera-
ture indeed, is from we'll iertsood phy-
sical causes the special characteristic of
purely oceanic climates. The waters ab-
sorb much of the solar heat when it is in
excess, and give it out again when the air
becomes cooler; in other words, they SUBJ
tract largely from the temperature of the
day to add to that of the night, and from
the temp rature of the summer to add to
that of the winter. Moreover, between
the Azores and the cold quarters of the
north and northwest the Gulf Stream with
its exceptionally high temperature inter-
poses. So happy, indeed, is st. Mlchaers
in the matter of temperature that grumb-
ling at the climate is almost always directed
against its dalnpness. Dampness, how
ever, is of two kinds. The atmosphere
may derive an excess of moisture either
from contact with the ocean or from the
evaporation which takes place from the
surface of impervious soils and in low
situations. The damp sea breezes of De.
Won and Cornwall are not to be confoundeG
with the no less humid airs that may be
breathed in the Bedford Level. Now, in
one of these senses St. Michael's is very
damp, but in the other the reverse of damp.
the soil is everywhere highly pervious to
water, and moreover such part of the rain
fill rs is not absorbed by the soil is rapidly
carried off by streams. On the other hand,
however, every breeze that blows comes
charged with the salt moisture derived
from long contact with the sea. And the
humidity of purely sea atmosphere has
its Inconvenience 1t may be doubted,
however, whether it is on the whole at
all unfayorable 10 health. -Fraser's Maga-
tine.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-08-14
ROMAN GIRLS,

Among all classes, the guarding of girls
Is the same in Rome as in France, and in
all the Continental Catholic countries;
none but those in service are ever allowed
to go out of the house alone until they are
married The person OF whom rent my
rooms, remarks Cept. st. L'ger. Is
countess with five daughters, and 1 sup
pose not one of them ever set foot on pave
ment without their mother or some au-
thorized attendant, and no gentleman is
ever admitted to the house if the mother
considered respectable protection. And,
what is sadlest in the state of society here,
these precautions are not absurd. For
eigners are more respected and even Young
ladies can follow their English or American
home habits of freedom. The mothers
feel this bondage even more than their
daughtors-for you see feeble, worn-out
women in society, who would rather be i'll
beds, and only but because their daughters
cannot go alone; they must be presented
to the world, or lose the chance of finding
husbands. Here all the rules are reserved
that hold with US; girls are kept in and
wives are free. The moment young
woman is married, if she has attractions,
she is surrounded, for the first time in her
life, with admirers, and it is not strange
that a foolish head should be turned by
their batteries. No compliments are moro
common from young men than such as this
to young wife"
"How beautiful you are--how graceful.
If I had only known you were SO charm
ing, I would have sought you for my
wife"
And SO, if she find lovers more agreeable
than her husband she is exp cted to &C.
cept them. 1t is, however, a common
observation that the Romans are beginning
to prefer English wives-they find them
more faithful, and, besides, they bring
more money. The traffic amounts, in the
end, to the same thing as in that of other
chattels. Though the servant girls go out
alone in the daytime, you cannot send one
of an errand after sunset. She will lose
her place sooner than so compromise her
reputation. Hence, for convenience on
all sides, most of the servant women are
married, who go home at night and return
to you early in the morning, leaving their
children in q school for the purpose, if
they have no old mother to guard them
No men are more impertinent in their
stares ard salutations than the Romans
A fine, robust, Ceres looking unmarried
servant, though past the spring of life, has
Just related, with immense gusto, her late
adventure with one of these light -Ploved
fine-curled, mustached fellows who an
noyed her while out Oh err,nds.
''Finally," said she, II could beor it no
longer from the silly boy. l knocked him
down and scratched well his faoe I only
wished had my pins"
Here we felt what might have been the
catastrophe. These pins are worn in the
hair, six inches long or more, of silver or
steel, with ornamented handles, and we
never thought before they were stilettoes;
but Santina atfirms that this is the real Sc
cret of their use and the best protection of
honest italian women of the lower class,
who only wear them.
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Are You Afflicted,

and wish to recover the same degree of health,
strength, and energy as experienced 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 losa
of memory, have spells of fainting, fullnea
Of blood in the head, feel listness, mopinG
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Unfit for Business

or pleasure, and subject to fits of melant
choly? Are your kidneys, stomach, urinary
organs, liver or blood in disordered condi
tion? Do you suffer from rheumatism, neu
rslgia, or aches and pains? Have you been
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 sufferings. Why, then, further
neglect subject SO productive of health and
future happiness when there is at hand q
means of cure? Why not throw off the yoke
altogether, and seek remedy that has
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-08-14
Lost Confidence in Yourself

and energy for buslness pursuits Are you
subject to any of the following symptoms:
dreams, palpitation of the heart, bashfulness,
restless nights broken sleep, nightmare,
confusion OF ideas, aversion to society, dizzi-
ness in the head, dimness of sight, pimples
and blotches ON the face and back, and other
despondent symptoms? There are
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-08-14
A Victim to Youthful FOIIies,

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, 1878-08-14

DAVID DUDLEY FIELDS 50 well toward
the town of Stockbridge, Mass, that he
has given the citizens chime of bellies
to keep them posted as to the chime of
dav.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-08-14

The Turner's have been celebrating the
anniversary of jain as the founder of
their order; but Lots wife turned long
before he died, and a great deal harder.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-08-14
External Remedies are tho
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, az realized exclusively by
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-08-14

or six miles an hour, and resting but rarely.
The motion, however, is very unpleasant,
and is apt, like that of a swing, to make
the unaccustomed traveller feel sick. ?
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-08-14

be near me" he replied, ''to close my
Gen." "Weel," remarked another of the
party, "Pve had twa wives, ani they
opened my eenl"
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Thousands of Young Men,

and even the old, who sufsr
from nervous and physical debility. There
are also thousands OF females
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-08-14

AN agricultural exchange says that
Guinea hens eat potato bugs, foretell a
change of weather and give warning
when tramps approach. No wonder En-
gland wants Guinea.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-08-14

MIKE WEAVER burglar, is held in
100000 bail at Chicago. The magnitude
of his bail leads him to consider himself
man of some Importance.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-08-14

No agreement which Johnston and
Varwig can make will in any way allay
the dissatisfaction with the ticket made
at the Bellevue House. 1t isn't per-
sonal grievance of Mr.. Varwig at which
the party is indignant, but it is the fact
of turning the Convention into a mob
and defeating'the will of the peoples
representatiYes.
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Science and Common Sense

to commend it?-a remedy of indisputabls
efficacy, and the most certain means Of re-
to health and pristine vigor?
There are many diseases of an acnte and
febrile type that we do not propose to cure
by means Of Electricity; but from all that
Electro-Physiology teaches us, in regard W
the n,odHs opera1adi of the
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-08-14

A MAN at Hayward, Cal, employs
about forty Cinnamon in the cultivation
Of cucumbers Somehow cucumbers
don't hurt Chinaman.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-08-14

FELLOWS born and bred in America,
and having brains enough to teach a
good frst-class district school, or run for
Congress, prove to be great fools when
they 60 into the province of sporting
men. For example, Michigan sent out
to England some weeks ago an aquatic
club to compete with the hardy but
simple-minded sons of Albion. Their
boat was good and the members of
the club were muscular, pious and
patriotic. But they must have a
name unique, aboriginal and unpro-
nounceable. The good clothes of the en-
tire club didn't fill but five brass-nailed
trunks. The members went off on the in
ternational trip before they had gotten
their muscle up by doing the old mans
FIRST corn-hoeing, but they loaded them
selves down with a club name, and it
was the "Shoe-W Wae-Ce- -Mette" crew of
Michigan. With such a name of course
they had to cotton to their English ad-
yersaries and come back worsted.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-08-14

THE Baltimore Gazette is edited by
Col. John A. Cockerill, formerly editor
of the Enquirer. Col Cockerill has
pretty good idea of political affiliations
in the Second District, and this is what
he suggests regarding Goss and Holland:
'If Mr.. Goss is in any way indebted for
this result (his nomination) to Mr.. Eph.
Holland, which is possible, he should not
let Mr.. Holland engross too much of his
valuable time"
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-08-14

BRAGG, spoken of as Banning's chief
coadjutor in Congress, will, says the Chi
cago Inter-Ocean, also be bounced in
Wisconsin,
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-08-14
HAD HIS EYES OPENED.

An old Scotchman, on marrying
very young wife, was rallied by his friends
on the inauality of their ages. "She will
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-08-14

New YORK boys have lost all interest
in bathing since hungry shark seized
upon one of their comrades in the harbor.
A few enterprising sharks might work
up an intense excitement at the various
seaside resorts if they would only put
their minds to it.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-08-14

THE Republicans may do worse, but
we hardly see how they will 90 about it.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-08-14
PULvERMACHER'S
ELECTRIC
B {: ], I S
Bands, ,

has been found the most valuable, safe, sim
pie, and efficient known treatment for the
cure of disease. In our descriptive Pam
phlet we review the manifold benefits to be
derived from Pulvermacher's Appliances,
and bring forward testimony in their favor
from the most
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-08-14
Curative and Preservative

effects of Voltaic Electricity, we may most
reasonably infer that all those chronic all
ments and all diseases dependent on de-
pressed condition of the nervous forces, ex-
haustion of nerve power, or the diminished
energy of vital functions, as treated upon ID
our publications, are happily most susceptl-
BILE of cure by means of
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PULVERMACHER.
adore

To the WeGh, Nervous, and
DeDiIjt0ted, sChO Sufert from
UI-He0lth consequent on
Lingering, Chronic, NerU-
Olts or Functional Diseases,
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-08-14

The solid Democrat of Hamilton
County draws much more consolation
from reading of the keynote meeting at
Hamilton yesterday than in considering
the Bellevue House row of last Saturday
He will of course vote the Democratic
ticket as usual. The top of it will be all
straight, but when he comes to the coun-
ty ticket it will perhaps contain the
names of Matson, Irwin and Sam. Hunt.
All the remaining places will be left
blank, for the S. D. never puts the name
of Republican on his ticket. Now with
the independent scratcher and the Dem
ocrat who is not strictly party man in
local affairs, it is different. He rebukes
his own party by voting for an opponent
when the opponent is a good man.
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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,
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-08-14
FuIvermaCher'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
Health, Strength, and Energ,
after drugging in vain for months and years.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-06-17
The Peoria Regatta.

4 large number of persons left on the
Peoria train to-day to attend the regatta
which occurs on Wednesday and Thursday
of this week Among those leaving from
this city were, the Romeo and Juliet
troupe. A. G. Smith and w. s. Kuowl-
ton. From Moline, the Sylvan crews as
follows:
SenioEs-C, A. Baruhardt, Captain, W.
V. Cooper, Il. Perregoy, .Roseborough.
Juniors w. Ii. Lewis, Captain, Jos.
Waters, B. Perregoy, w. V. Cooper.
Single Scull-James Fleming, also John
Good, Frank Gould and wife, l. B. Mapes.
Marcus Goldburg and others. From Dav
EXPORT, A. Van Derveer, Chas. Henry.
James Preston, Doc Wooley, Jr., and
others, whose names we did not learn.
In addition to these large number will
go tomorrow and on Wednesday morning
The Sylvans of Moline, present strong
crew this season and will undoubtedly
! make good record in the races.