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The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-17
SCIENTIFIC.

ExPEnMENrs with the pneumatic trans
mission of dispatches show that the speed
of "carrier" driven by compressed air is
greater when the pressure is cut off after
each transit-or, in other words, that there
is loss of speed when the air is kept con-
stantly in motion. In the former case, the
carrier starts into comparative vacuum
at atmospheric pressure, and in the latter
case into dense air-consequently, the
higher the pressure employed, the greater
the difference in speed. In working by
vacuum q reverse result is obtained. When
compressed air is admitted into long
tube, or the air is pumped out of it, SEN
sible time elapses before the permanent
condition of the air pressure is established.
In tube 5, 1928 feet long, this interval was
found to be forty-fve seconds for the end
next to the air pump, and about seventy
five seconds for the centre of the tube
The temperature of the air issuing from a
tube is not lowered to an extent corres-
ponding with its expansion in the tube.
Comparing a three-inch tube with two
and one. e.fourth inch, it was found that
more than double engine power gave only
sixteen per cent. higher speed in the larger
tube, so that any increase of diameter
above that actually necessary to carry the
traffic in the required time, involves un-
necessary cost.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-17

IT is believed that the time is not for
distant when transparent minerals - in
which their elements are united in definite
proportions-wi be substituted for glass
in the manufacture of microscopes. Dia-
mond, topaz, and rock crystal are those
which are found to be well suited for such
lenses. The white topaz of New Holland
is particularly fitted for optical purposes,
as its double refractions may be removed
by cutting it in plates perpendicular to one
of its optical axes in rock crystal, the
structure is, generally speaking, less per.
feet along the axis of double refraction,
but this imperfection does not exist in
topaz. If glass is to be used for the lenses
of microscopes, long and careful annealing
is essential-the polishing process to be
continued long after it appears to be per-
feet to the optician. At any rate, it is evil
dent that body whose ingredients are
united by fusion, and kept in state of
constraint from which they are starving to
get free, cannot possess that homogeneity
of structure, or that perfect polish, which
will allow the rays of light to be refracted
and transmitted without injurious modif-
cation.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-17
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The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-17
A Ladyss Wish.

ooh how do wish my skin was as clear
and soft as yours" said lady to her friend.
" You can easily make it so" answered the
friend How? inquired the first lady
BY using Hop Bitters that makes pure
rich blood and blooming health. 1t done it
for me, as you observe"
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-17

GEORGE WEBER is a business man of
excellent qualifications. He is well
known in all parts of the county, and no
one knows him but to speak in the most
favorable terms of him. He has had an
extensive business experience, and, if elect
ed, will make one of the very best Sher-
lifts Hamilton County has had for years.
He is in no sense a chronic ofce-hunter,
and is entitled to the support of good
men of all parties who have the pluck to
vote as the best interests of the people
demand.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-17

THE heartless pencil pusher of the
Syracuse On. W Evening Herald Won
ders if the South would trade the yellow
fever for Dennis Kearney. "A man who
would suggest the piling of Pelion on
Ossa to that extent would whistle Yankee
Doodle at his mother-in-law's funeral.
The press in some sections of the country
is becoming very heartless and unfceling
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-17

exclaimed the ofd man roots ''A-rect !"
whispered the president, softly rubbing his
hands together. ave hez de .wagin an de
wheels. We will now pass de hat aroun
for de grease"
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-17

ABOUT the only clearly defined right
Cincinnati has in connection with the
Southern Railroad is the right to pay the
bills. This has not been denied, and is
not likely to be, and the consent of the
Kentucky and Tennessee Legislatures
does not have to be asked.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-17

apartment will become changed very fire.
quently by the draft made by the fire
and by opening doors; the air in spare,
or closed room, may, however, become
very poisonous, owing to imperfect venti-
lo+iOp
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-17

THE duelists who repaired to grave
yard at San Francisco to settle their un-
pleasantness had fine ideas of economy
and convenience.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-17
SEIZE CONSOLED HIM.

Now" they say to her, "you can go in
and see him; but remember that he ia
very sick with heart disease, and don't say
word that will trouble him." Then she
walked in, sat down on the edge of a
chair, and remarked, cheerfully, as she
shook her head: "Ah-ah!-m !-sad,
amt it? Thought I'd jlst run in, cause
they said their wuz no knowiR how soon
you might drop of!
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-17

ANGEL was a considerate thief. He
left the Pullman Car Company enough
money with which to declare handsome
dividend.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-17

PERHAPS the Chinese laundrymen will
accept our trade dollars. They were
made for the Chinese trade.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-17

THIS is Buffers day in Massachusetts.
He is either to ride back into the Demo
cratic party or get badly bounced.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-17

SUBSCRIPTIONS to the Southern Relief
Fund still come in lively, and are still
badly needed.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-17

MONTGOMERY BLAIR is again heard
from. He still takes great interest in the
fraud hunt.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-17

Before 1881 no Catholic schoolmaster
was allowed to keep any. school in Ire
Land
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-17

Several instances are on record showing
that the hair may attain considerable
growth after death and burial
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-17

TT is now alleged that the yellow fever
epidemic in New Orleans has developed
the meanest man in the world. Hitherto
the candidate for that infamy was sup
posed to reside in Boston. This New
Orleans man had servant, who, though
not acclimated nursed all the members of
his family successively through the fever,
and was one day last week taken down
with it herself. Her brutal employer,
whose name was Schillinger, at the risk
Of the woman's life had her put into an
open wagon and conveyed in a drenching
rain to the hospital, excusing himself tor
the brutality of the act by saying he had
already had all the yellow fever he
wanted in his house. If that woman dies
Schillinger ought to. If she lives Schil-
hnger ought to be passed around the
wide world as the meanest man living.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-17

CINCINNATI &c WESTWOOD [NARROW GAu0El
Daily, except Sunday
Leave Robb's (Westwood) 543a m. 705 a m.
u :3S p m, 1858 p m, 6:O3 p m.
pm, CAB m.
Sunday trains
Leave Robbs (Westwood) $685. m, 1923 a m.
l2:2S p m, 203 M 4:53 p m, and 6.3S m 49,
2:ss m. 5:55 p m, 7;1S p m. 4, ! =
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-17

NEXT to clean city and cleanliness of
person as essentials to good health comes
the necessity for proper sewer connec-
tions, that the air of the house be not
poisoned by impure gases from the sew
ers. Many cases of diphtheria and other
kindred diseases in the large cities of this
country are directly traceable to evil
effects Of sewer gases The long illness
of the Prince of Wales, the physicians
aver, was caused by sleeping in room
directly connected with an unclean sewer
The city medical officer of Glasgow, Scot
land, has been investigating the cause of
zymotic disease; he has ascertained be-
yond doubt that houses containing all
the so-called modern improvements are
liable to greater danger than those with
out them; his investigations clearly
showed that the death rate of diphtheria
and enteric fever during three and half
years was The lowest in houses of one and
two apartments that had no connection
with the sewers, and the high
est In houses of two apart
ments having both water closets
and sinks; the mortality was still higher
in houses of three or more apartments,
provided with both sinks and water
closets. In one apartmenthouse the
death rate per million was equal to 120
from diphtheria, and to 249 from enteric
fever. 1t rose in houses of one apart
ment, having sewer connections, to 253
diphtheria and GIT from intestinal fever.
In houses Of two apartments, with no
sewers, the death rate per million was
I27 from diphtheria, and 1856 from en-
tsric fever In those having sinks the
,ate-w respectively 275 and 465. In
those having water-closets and sinks it
rose to 41S and 6G5 per million. The
reason for this difference, the Glasgow
medical officer claims, is that foul gas be-
comes more poisonous from contact with
she air; the atmosphere in house of one
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-17
.ENTUCKY cENTRA
COLLEGE HILL NARRoW-GAUGE RAILWAY,
Denot SiYth and Hondl,r

CINCINNATI AND PORTSMOUTH RAILROAD
Depot. Front and Kilgour.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-17
CINCINNATI SOUTHERN RAILWAY.

= DVpUl, TUtTI anu FIUTn.
Baltimore Ex., daily sos am 613 nd
Baltimore EX., dali y............. 1858 pm 623 u1
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-02-23
Forests Of the United States.

THE Commissioner of Agriculture has
addressed letter to the President rec
ommending an appropriation of $4,000
to prosecute during the next year the
inquiries into the subject of forestry
which were begun last year under the
auspices of the department by DR..
Hough, of New York. The Legislative,
Executive and Judicial Appropriation
bill of Aug. Is, 1876, made provision
for the investigation with view chiefly
to discover the means best adapted to
the preservation and renewal of forests,
the influences of forests upon climate,
etc. DR.. Hough, who was selected by
the Commissioner of Agriculture for the
purpose, has diligently prosecuted the
inquiry, not only in the United States,
but has entered into a correspondence
with officers of foreign Governments
connected with the forest management
and forest schools which abound in Eu-
rope, where the vital Importance of this
great interest is well understood, and
where for long years an intelligent and
settled policy has prevailed looking to
the increase of the woods, the equal,
seasonable distribution of the rainfall,
maintenance of forests upon the higher
lands, and the subsequent preservation
of the regular supply of water for the
springs, rivulets and rivers, and the
prevention of the terrible floods which
wash bare the unclothed mountain
slopes, and by sudden overflows destroy
the agriculture and the manufactures of
the valleys. DR.. Hough has already
compiled statistics of the most valuable
character, embracing statements of the
expectation of every class of forest
products from each port of the United
States TO each country, from the organi-
cation of the Government to the present
time. He has also wealth of matter,
historical and instructive, which will be
of interest not only to every agricultu-
rist and landowner, but to every person
who has hope for a prosperous future
of his country. The question of timber
culture and timber preservation not
only on the public but on the private
lands of the United States is one of the
most difficult and one of the most in
teresting problems that can attract our
attention. The forest laws of Europe
have for us much that is suggestive and
instructive, and there are many features
of them which it would be to our in
terest to adopt. Congress should afford
every facility for proper understand
ing of the subject, and there is no doubt
that it will cheerfully make the neces-
sary appropriation to enable DIR. Hough
to continue his inquiries. There is no
longer any controversy as to the fact
that something must be done to arrest
the wholesale destruction of timber
which is still going on in every part of
the United States where there is any
timber left baltimore Sun.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-02-23
The Man Who Made the Colorado Giant.

A CORRESPONDENT of the New York
Tribune, writing from Elkland, Tioga
County, Pa, charges that he has dis
covered substantial proof that the
COLORADO Giant was made there by
George Hull, who made the Cardiff
Giant. This information, it is claimed,
was obtained from f. j. Cox, Justice
of the Peace, to whom Hull is said to
have explained the mOduS operandi of
his working. Hull nodded and baked
his giant spending, it is thought, SlO,-
600 or $4,000 on it, which exhausted
his means. Then he visited Barnum
and shortly afterward the giant was
shipped to Colorado Springs, where it
was planted. Cox describes his first
look at the giant as follows:
81 went to Elkland, Jan. 10, 1877
said Mr.. Cox. about the LIST of Feb
ruary Hull said his work was done, and
on the evening of March IL he came to
me, all enthusiasm. and said: Cox, |
want you to see the old man; we've got
him out all right He gave me to un-
derstand that the giant had been bak-
ing whole year, and think Hull made
his own charcoal. When | entered
the ice-house' the giant was lying ON
board supported by two stout saw
horses. A derrick-like structure stood
over the kiln, and had beenHsed to take
the giant out. Barrels of plaster of
Paris, ground bone, ground stone, clay,
and other materials were in the corners,
and there were many plaster molds ly-
ing about and on shelves. Hull was in
Il liz
lined by the light of an old coal stove
Said he: Cox, would give 800 ifyou
could have been with Case and me the
night we took him out. We had rope
around his neck, and pulley up there,
and how we worked and tugged away
on that rope. l went through torture
my whole existence hung by that
rope. 1t seemed as if lived thou
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-02-23
A Sensible Wife.

IT is only recently that people have
taken to marrying and dying in Denver.
There were no weddings for the reason
that the young men of the place inva-
riably came East to pick out their part
ners. There were no deaths for the rea-
son that the king of terrors could not
hold his grip in such marvellous eli
mate. But lately there has been several
deaths and good many weddings in
that rich and prosperous, but wicked,
Western capital. In the line of the lat
ter most notable was that in which the
contracting parties were Mr.. w. P. G.
Hayward and Miss Sue Moffett The
bride was not rich, but she was worth
winning for her beauty and brains, and
her husband was what would be called
in society a good catch" Theirs
was wedding such as rarely happens
in Denver. 1t was an event in which
the elite took lively interest. After the
ceremony, and the reception, and the
presents, and all that sort of thing, Mr.
and Mrs. Hayward started for their
home in the mountains. This Colorado
girl, who had seen much of society,
much of the world, instead of insisting
on a bridal trip to the Eastern seaboard
and its fashion-centers, bought some
linsey-woolsey dresses, red wooden nit
tens, bufalo-skin jacket and cap,
Arctic overshoes, and possibly pair of
snow-shoes, and accompanied her hus-
band to his new cabin, way up among
the mines of st. John, 1,200 feet above
sea-level. The wagon-road over the
Snowy Range, which had been kept
open especially for the bridal party,
closed behind them as they journeyed,
and now if they should wish to visit the
Capital City before springtime they must
do so on snow-shoes. That's the kind
of a girl to marry.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-02-23
England's Strength.

The total number of British troops
available for foreign war is estimated
at about 1921 Besides this there are
nearly 200,0 900 men for home protection,
and nearly $4,000 of colonial forces,
comprising militia, volunteers and re-
serve troops, which, though only avail
able for local defense, would serve to
release the royal troops in their several
localities for active service elsewhere
Add to these $4,000 Sepoys in India,
who, although not subject to imperial
service, could be easily employed as
subsidized auXiliaries, and we find a
total force of 1,069, 900 men which En-
gland could call into service in a case of
urgent need without resorting to con-
scription, means of raising troops
which she alone, of all the powers of
Europe, is independent of In view of
these facts, Great Britain, it is seen, is
no contemplate military power. She
contributed only $4,000 of the allied
army that fought at Waterloo, the re-
mainder of the force of SO, 900 men being
Dutch, Brunswickers and Hanoverians.
In the Crimean war the allied armies of
England, France, Sardinia and Turkey
only numbered about 10000. Since
those times the military strength of all
the great powers of Europe has vastly
increased, and it would appear that
Great Britain is also not unprepared
for any emergency that may arise
which might force her to take the field.
- WdSlll1lQtOR Post
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-02-23
An Actress and Her Twins in Califor-
MIA in 40.

At the recent Territorial Pioneers
dinner Mr. McCasky, a pioneer actor of
'49, said ''Our theaters at that time
were generally the dining-rooms of the
hotels. The company had often to wait
at the door until two or three lingering
guests had finished their suppers be-
fore opportunity would be given us to
enter, put up our scenery and dress
for the performance. However, we
were happy and made money. Five
dollars was the usual price of admis-
sion. The pioneer actress of California,
to the best of my knowledge, was a
Mrs. Bingham. She was in some re-
spects most extraordinary woman.
She could not read, but learned her
lines as her husband read them to
her. Her faculty for memorizing in
this manner, no matter how long the
part, was wonderful. She was the first
white woman who entered Downieville.
The miners had heard of her coming
and sent a deputation to meet her while
our company was still couple of miles
from camp. Besides the regular men,
bers of the troupe there were Mrs. Bing-
hams infant twins, each swung in q
basket on either side of mule. shall
never forget the manner in which a
rough-looking, heavily bearded miner
approached one of the baskets, and,
lifting the coverlid, gazed a moment
at the child and then remarked: Mad
am, is this yours?' 1t is she re-
piled. Will you let me kiss it?'
Yes Will you allow me to carry
it a little while?' Certainly And
so he did, and striding on with the in
FAINT in his arms at the head of the cav
alcade he constituted himself our avant
courier, and in this way we entered
Downieville.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-02-23

sand years while we were pulling him
out, and when he hung up there by the
neck, | tell you he looked alive; he
looked as if he was going to talk! Don't
tell me that the people won't be fooled
by thisn So Hull went on in the most
eXtravagant talk.
Hull called my attention to the four
inches of tail which adorned the ex-
tremity of the figures backbone, and
struck match so that | could see it
plainly. Said he: Cox, look at that
tail! take hold of i'll! Then rising, for
we were STOPPING, he exclaimed; That
tail alone is worth million | called
his attention to the fact that the man
was not perfect. He struck matches to
show me the differences in the toes. He
said 1t would not do to have the man
perfect; that there was nothing perfect
about it. 1t had been made so as to
have it not like anything ever discov-
cred of the human or brute creation.
The arms, he said, were made dispro-
portionately long, so as to make it ap-
pear something between a man and an
ape. He explained how he had used
$50 gross of steel needles, which he had
fastened in lead, dozen or so at a
time, and with these he had gone over
the entire surface of the figure before it
was baked, producing that goose-skin'
appearance which has puzzled scientific
men.
Suppose said I, 'some scientist
proposes to 60 into him, what are you
going to do?' oh said Hull, i've
got that fixed and he pointed to two
places where, he said, the scientists
could have foot of surface to work on,
where they would be sure to strike
bone. If they want to go in anywhere
else,' said he, we sha'n't let EN-
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-02-23

THE custom of eating eggs at Easter
has been traced up, not only to the the
ology of Egypt, but to the philosophy
of the Persians, the Gauls, the Greeks
and the Romans, all of whom regarded
the egg as an emblem of the universe
and the work of Deity. g Easter" says
Gebelin, land New Years have been
marked by similar distinctions. Among
the Romans the New Year is looked
upon as the renewal of all things, and
is noted for the triumph of the sun of
nature, as Easter is with the Christians
for the Sun of Justice, the Savior. of
the world, over death by His resurrec-
ton" The early Christians of Meso-
potamia had the custom of dyeing and
decorating eggs at Easter. They were
stained red in memory of the blood of
Christ shed at His crucifiXion. The
Catholic Church adopted the CUSTOM
and regarded the eggs as the emblem
of the resurrection, as is evidenced by
the benediction of Pope Paul V. about
1910, which read thus: "Bless, o Lord!
we beseech Thee, this Thy creature of
eggs, that it may become a wholesome
sustenance to Thy faithful servants,
eating it in thankfulness to Thee on ac-
count of the resurrection of the Lord. :"
Thus the custom has come down from
ages lost in antiquity. Tran
script.