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TEE nIsaINs OF CRIMINALS.

The subject is an important one, both
from a physiological and psychoiogicai
point of view, and it is to be hoped that
more extended and; more. precise inquiries
will be made upon it, for the results which
Dr. Benedict has obtained, though very
important are not sufficiently numerous to
warrant any large induction. Up to tile
the present time Dir. Benedict has examined
the brains of l6 criminals, all of which,
on comparison with the healthy brain, he
finds to, be abnormal. Not only has he
found that these brains deViate from the
normal type, and approach toward that of
lower animals, but he has been able to
classify them, and with them the skulls in
which they were contained, in three cate
rories These consist in: First absence of
symmetry between the. two. halves of the
brain; second, an excessive obliquity Of the
anterior part of the brain or skull-in fact
continuation upward of what we term a
sloping forot cad; third, distinct lessen
ing of the posterior part Of the skull in its
long diameter, and with ita diminution in
size of the posterior cerebral lobes, so that,
as in the lower animals, they are not large
enough to hide the cerebollum. In all
these'peculiarities the criminals brain and
skull are distinctly of lower type than
I those of normal men, and the interesting
question arises, how far are the evil acts OF
| the criminal to be attributed to this retro
grade development? DR.. Watts can par
don the vicious propensities of "bears and
lions" on the ground that "God had
made them So" If he. had forseen these
new inquiries he might have felt less hope
fulwhen he bAde hislittle readers net to ''let
their angry passions rise" The results of
/ DR.. Benedict's researches, if confirmed by
further examinations, will do much to
shake many beliefs now firmly fixed. Md
iCQi Examiner.
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At Fifty-One.

Testing 10 oysr with me forever;
Life is too sobeh at ffty-one;
No longer worship the witty and cleveSt
Things that amuse me loathe and shun.
Ihave come to the summit and now begun
To sink the vale on the other dde;
There's a damp in the air-there's gloom Oh
the sun,
Whose waning the vapors Of orcus hide
And my fellow travellers, left and right,
Fall away from the track. as we downward HE,
To their several homes; they are not in sight
But hear the bells as they bid good by !
How lonely feel as get more nigh
To my destined inn-a distant place ..
Shut from all glimpse Of the goodly sky,
And the sunshine of every friendly face.
Yet what is to dread There's amaster there,
Full of pity, to welcome the weary guest;
Who will bind tue foot-sore, and have good
care
or every poor soul that seeks His rest.
tremble to go to Him, unconfessed-
bear him ne letters from priest or Pope
But / carry passport within my breast
OF His own sure woodland deathless hope
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-02-20
4 VALUABLE ANTIQUE INSCRtP.
TION.

In the Hippodrome at Constantinople may
stfll.be seen the remains of venerable tro-
ply of the Persian war, the bronze serpent
which, with the gold tripod it supported,
was dedicated to the Delphian Appolo by
the allied Greeks after the victory at Piataea
as tenth of the Persian spoil. On the
bronze serpent which served as base for
the tripod the Laced@nonians inscribed the
names of the Hellenic States which took a
part in repelling the barbaric invader. The
golden tripod perished long ago in the sac
religious plunder of Delphi blythe Phocians'
but the bronze serpent remained in its orig
inal until removed by Constantine the
Great to decorate, with other spoils Oh
Hellas. his new seat of empire at Byzantlum.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-02-20
CAPTAIN CRAPO AND WIFE.

1t was refreshing at the Congress of Cul
ture and Beauty to turn from the shabby girls
to the little craft of One-and-a-half tons in
which Captain Crapo and his wife crossed
the Atlantic Grape is from New Bedford,
and is genuine specimen OF the Yankee
whalemen. Hardy, wiry, bronzed and
brawny, without an ounce of supert1uous
flesh upon him, he looks the ideal of man
who would cross the Atlantic in bread
bowl did he resolve upon it. His wife, who
ACCOMPANIED him, is girlish-looking little
woman, with an expression Of quiet firm
ness and daring.
Were you not Cramped and stiff sitting
so long in one positiOn?' | asked her.
80, yes was a number of days without
a dry bed. Everything was wet. Our rub
Der suits proved no protection against the
salt water. 1t worked through every
thing"
Yes" said the Captain, my hands were
raw and sore from constant exposure to the
spray"
How many hours were you on the
watchY' | asked him
Twenty out of the twcnty-four. She did
nothing" said he, alluding to Mrs Captain
Crapo. Nothing, at least, but endure"
ii couldn't stretch out when | lay down
to sleep. There isn't much spare room in a
Ollp-dnu-u-lldll tOl Cldlt Nltll Sllc SOp ilcl
water and stores on board for trip to Eu-
rope she remarked nautically.
'How did you cook"
eve had nothing warm on the trip but
tea and coffee, and that we prepared on this
oil stove" The oil stove like the boat,
looked rusty, banged and battered
"Well, how did you come to make such a
trip"
Folks said it couldn't be done in such a
small boat, and we wanted to prove that it
could" she replied.
How long were you on the passage?"
| "Forty-nine days"
"And didn't you put your trust in God?'
asked an elderly female, who had strangely
strayed into the Congress OF Beauty and
| Culture.
II put my trust mostly in my husband, u
said little Mrs. Captain Crapo. And ex.
pected to cross safely. Ii hadn't shouldn't
have started"
"Well, your husband ought to be proud
of you anyway" said younger female
standing by.
"He is" said Mrs. Captain Crapo.-
[Graphic.
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pronounce heavy penalties for the
offense. They are, however, hardly ever
enforced, even in those sections where
the most direful consequences are con-
stantly recurring from their violation.
But if Judge Hackett's dictum is correct,
then every man should go armed, that
he may be prepared at all times to do
what the. Judge declares ."would be a
great public service" and shoot every
felon caught in the act. There can be
but one opinion, we think, in relation to
this utterance, and that is that the Re
corder allowed his zeal to outrun his ju-
dicial discretion.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-02-20
FfYDR AULEGsl OFF TIE ANOI41NFS.

Father Secchi has written a. letter to1the
Academy of sciences on this curious sub
ieat. The monuments he mentions have
been mostly discovered by him in tile en-
yirons of Rome. The first mentioned by
him is an aqueduct built at Alatri, 200
years before the Christian era. 1t is an in
yerted syphon, its lowest point being loi
metres below the orifce from which the
water flowed into the town, SO that it sus-
tains at its bottom a weight Of at least
eleven atmospheres The;pipes Of this ac-
queduct are of earthehware, buried in a
thick bed of concrete, they were very firmly
joined together along length OF seven and
a half miles. This work seems to have
been the model On which Vitruvius found
cd his description of syphon aqueducts.
The second remarkable relic Of antiquity
found at the same place in a complete sys-
tenn of drainage composed Of enormous
porus stone-ware pipes, metre in length,
fourteen centimetres in diameter, and only
two in thickness. This was done to dry up
plain intended for military maneuvres.
Next come inclined planes expressly laid
down on substantial foundations, and near
the top of mountain, in order to col
lect rain water on large surface, with
basin to purify it and cisterns to preserve
it. This was done to provide the town of
Segni with portable water. Then follow
contrivances of the ancients for turning the
water, flteling through porous ground INTO
the aqueducts by turning the clayey strata
to account. They USED also to rid water of
its carbonate Of lime by boiling and then
cooling it again by applying snow to the
outside They likewise had an ingenious
way of cooling their aqua tepala, which
was too warm for drinking after it had
been brought over to the Capitol Father
Secchi has discovered the spring whence it
came, and found that it marks 1S degrees
centigrade (64 degrees Fahrenheit) in win
ter. The Romans used to mix it with wa
ter from the Julia, which only marked IL
degrees. The other spring, now called
Preziosa, issues from an old volcanic
crater.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-02-20
SHOOT HIM ON THE SPOT.

1t is reported that Recorder Hackett,
of New York, while passing sentence
upon a pickpocket recently, declared that
if man were to shoot brace or two of
the light-fngered gentry he would be
doing public service, especially if
they were caught in the act. 1t is not
an unusual thing to hear such remarks
made by thoughtless people upon the
street-corners, or by men who feel no
sense of official responsibility for their
utterances. But the theory Of redressing
ones wrongs without an appeal to the
law is a relic of savage life. Every Grim
inal judge in the country has very fire.
quently to sit in judgment upon cases
where the party defendant has taken the
law into his own hands, has assumed in
the heat of passion, growing out of real or
imaginary wrongs, to be law unto him
self. Just in the degree that this senti-
ment prevails in a community do we find
the frequency of personal affrays and
murderous rencounters. The newspapers
of the West particularly TEEN with
chronicles of the results of this doctrine.
There is no law justifying homicide as a
punishment for picking pockets, no more
than there is for shooting a man who
gives the lie or commits a simple tres
pass. 1t is only when the aggression be.
comes 50 violent as to endanger life, OF
the aggressor refuses to become amenablt
to the law, that any degree of violence is
iustifiable that may endanger the life Of
the offender.
The carrying of concealed deadly weap
ons is one of the greatest evils of Ameri
can society. The laws of most States
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-02-20

Profundity of thought is generally pur-
chased at the expense Of versatility. To
be very profound, it is necessary that the
intellectual eye be fixed, for a long time,
on one continuous series Of operations; to
be versatile, the mind must glance from
subject to subject, and brood over none.
Profundity plunges tc the depth, while
versatility skins the surface cf the sea
Of speculation; while the former is going
down, the latter is sporting onward on
easy wing,
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IT IS pretty safe to conclude that
Messrs. Bell, Foote and Gessert will not,
after the recent developments, take the
responsibility of continuing Mr.. Hoffman
in the City Auditors office. Such a
course would be virtually statement to
the people of Hamilton County by them
to this effect: "We keep Mr.. Hoffman in
because we approve of such doings
That's the kind of men we are"
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-02-20
Are You AFFLICTED,

and wish torecover the same degree OF health,
strength, and energy as xperienced in,former
years? Do any of the following symptoms or
class of symptoms meet your diseased condi-
ton? Are you suffering from illtliealth in
anyof itsmany and multifarious forms, CONF
sequents on a 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, fullncts
of blood in the head, feel listness mopings
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-02-20
Unfit for Business

or pleasure, and subject to fits Of melaii~
choly? Are yourkidneys, stomach, urinary
organs, liver or blood in a disordered condi<
ton? Do you suffer from rheumatism, neu<
ralgia, or aches and pains? Have you been
indiscreet in early years and .. .,.-...
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-02-20

INDIANAPoLIs is alive to-day with dele
gates, candidates, wire-pullers and spec
tators, who are on hand to attend the
Democratic State Convention. There is
no scarcity of men willing: to serve the
State.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-02-20

THE Cardinals are. able to keep their
ballots secret from day to day till a Pope
is elected. The newspaper correspond
ents in Rome, however, are not as prying
as those in this country.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-02-20

THE Enquirer, if it has any regard for
the managers of the Ohio Penitentiary,
should suppress its "Newsance." The
odor that he is stirring up in that vicin-
ity is liable to make some people sick.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-02-20
A. Victim to Youthful FoiIies,

or carried the marital relation to excess in
later years? Have these indiscretions and
excesses left you in aweak 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, 1878-02-20
Lost Confidence in Yourself

and energy for business pursuits? Are you
subject to any of the following. symptoms:
dreams, palpitation Of the heart, basflftilhess,
restless nights, broken sleep, nightmare,
confusion of ideas, aversion tusociety, dizzi-
ness in the head, dimness of sight. pin,p4es'
and blotches ON the face and back, and other
respondent symptoms? There are
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-02-20

EVERY MOVE that General Ewing
makes gives additional cause for thanks
that he was not elected to the United
States Senate. ~ ..
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-02-20

PEOPLE are becoming so careful that
fraudulent banking is growing unproft-
able If the public will continue to
scrutinize with the utmost care the stand
ing of banks and bankers with whom
they do business, one of the great
"wastes of society," will be greatly re-
duccd. This is especially applicable to
St. Louis and Chicago, though most
cities, except Cincinnati, have suffered
more or less the same way.
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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 slfferines: Why, then, t'ntier
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 remedy that has
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-02-20

"WAR is just as probable as peace, )" is
the way the reliable London correspond
ent of the Commercial puts it this morn
ior
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-02-20

]. MADISON WELLS thinks he sees the
cunning hand of David Dudley Field
behind the scenes in the Returning Board.
prosecutions.
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Thousands of Younq Men,

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, 1878-02-20

THE real friends of the silver measure,
under Mr.. Stephens, of Georgia, have
taken steps to checkmate the moves of
such pretended friends as Ewing and
Ben. Butler. The class of statesmen rep
resented by the latter would like to see
the bill with the Senate amendments de-
feated, although assured that it can be-
come law in that shape, while as it
passed the House it would be vetoed.
The initiation demagogues care not cent
for the interest of the country; what
they seek is a chance to make capital
with the masses.
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THE STAR,
$50 Walnut street, Cincinnati, 0.

ST.. LOUIS isn't anxious for the Ohio
River to be improved. Of course not.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-02-20

THE trade dollar is a legal-tender for
church collections, but it is not in great
favor 1t contains too many grains of
silver. The little three-cent piece, with
its twelve and half grains, used to meet
the requirements of the masses, but it
has become very scarce. This requires a
large proportion of most communities to
fall back upon the nickel and the two
cent piece, for it isn't considered high
toned to drop cent. into the basket.
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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 nodus operu,,ot of the
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-02-20
Learned Physicians and Scr.
entiife Men 49,. g.. 81, .

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, d..
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-02-20
External Remedies are the,
i Y Safest

and best that can be applied in diseases on
account of the facility which we possess Of,
their action and tlrer results /;
and of these remedies Electricity, in the
form of mild, continuous, and prolonged
currents, as realized exclusively by
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-02-20
PULVERM1ACHER. 81
ADDRESS!

TO the ReGE, Nervous, aaste
Debilitdtett, ttho Suffer from
NI- He0lth consequent ON
Lingering, Chronic, INerc-
Oacs or Functional Diseases.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-02-20
Curative and Preservative

effects of Voltaic Electricity, we may most
reasonably infer that all those chronic all
ments and all diseases dependent on q 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-
bic of cure by means OF
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-02-20

has been found. the most. valuable, saf fe, si1n-
pie, and efficient known treatment Tor the
cure of disease. In our descriptive Pam
phlet we review the manifold benefits to be
derived from Plilvermaeh Appliances,
and bring forward testimony in their favor
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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1878-03-07
MOTHERHOOD.

Her lot is on You, '-woman's lot she meant
The singer who sang sweetly long ago:
Aud rose and yew and tender myrtle bient
To crown the harp that rang to love and
woe.
Awake o Poetess, and VOW one strain
10 sing of Motherhood, its joy, its pain.
What does it give TO us, this mother love
In verse and tale and legend glorifed,
Chosen by lips divine as type above
All other passions? Men have lived and
For sisters, maiden queens, and cherished
wives,
Yet, sealed by God, the one chief love sur
wives.
Yet what is Tit gives u.s. Shrinking dread.
Peril and pain and agony forgot
Because we hold the ray of gladness shed,
by the first cry from lips that know rs not,
Worth all that has been paid, is yet TO pay,
For the new worship, born and crowned
that day.
Then nursing, teaching training self denial,
That never knows itself, so deep it lies
The eager taking up of every trial.
To smooth Springs pathways, light her
April skies;
Watching and guidiag, loving, longing,
praying,
No GOODNESS daunting and no wrong dis
maying
And when the lovely bud to blossom wakes,
And when the soft, shy, dawn-star flashes
bright,
Another hand the perfect flower takes,
Another wins the gladness Of the light;
\ sweet, soft, clinging, fond farewell is given;
Still farewell, and then alone with
Heaven.
With Heaven. VIII He take the fond heart,
The God who gave the child and formed the
mother,
Who sees her strive to play her destined part,
And, smiling, yield her darling to another?
Az on His cross He thought of Mary's woe;
lie pitias still the mothers left below.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1878-03-07
Ordering a Wife.

The following occurred on the Atchi-
son, Topeka & Sante Fe Road; A gentle
man travelling between Pueblo and Kan
sas City was engaged In conversation by
very intelligent but rough looking
minor, who bad been for tours years an
auriferous adventurer in San Juan coun-
try add who Lad "struck it rich". He
made no secret of the fact that his visit to
a certain town in Michigan was for tn
purpose of marrying "the girl he left be-
hind him." for whose future comfort he
had built and furnished a house high up
among the snow-capped mountains of
Colorado. But this does not interest the
reader as will the remainder of his story.
He left in San Juan partner, whom he
describes as "as square man as ever
struck drill, with whom he had con-
stantly labored three long years as mere
'prospectors, and with whom he now
Jointly held one Of the most valuable
properties in their district.
jim, too, desired to 60 East, but their
both partners at the same time impossi-
BILE; he didn't know anyone in particular
East, but then he wanted to go. jim
was rather ba' hful, reticent man and
did not like to tell even his partner the
real purpose of his coveted visit; but up
on the eve of the departure of the latter,
the purpose of whose visit was known,
linn made the request. in dead earnest,
that he bring him wife
"Will you do it9' he was asked.
do it; you be:."
chad he any instructions to give in re-
gard to, the selection?"
eyes !; he said: Harry, bring me good,
honest, sensible gill, what there's no fool
ishness or show about-a girl what'll
make an honest man an honest wife, and
that's just the kid o woman I'll take
out, and the one that'il be Jim's wife,
While this manner of choosing wife
is II somewhat novel one, it must be
confessed that Jim's idea of the WON an
best calculated to make with him tn
journey of life was good one Dencee
Tribune.