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The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-11-21
SUlEN lItIU,

A FRENCH traveller among the Kourdes
states, of the result of his endeavors to as.
certain the process employed by them in
the manufacture of their sword blades, that
the manufactures in which these blades
are made are situated at the declivity of
mountain, near cascades, the water of
which, from rock to rock, arrives in the
most limpid state in the reservoirs in
which the blades are tempered, these reser-
voirs being also located where the air is
very pure-these conditions of purity of
air and water being considered essential to
the success of the operation. Iron of the
purest quality is used, and, submitted to a
very high temperature, the first tempering
is commenced when the metal is at white
heat; it is exposed before fusion, the fuel
being placed on each side, and the red hot
iron is then covered as quickly as possible
with fatty and oily matters, such as paste
made from bones, wax, &c. This process
is thought to render the blade flexible.
The second tempering is similar, except
that the heated iron, after having thrown off
considerable quantities of sparks, and hav-
ing been exposed, is covered with paste
composed of powdered bones and purified
mutton suet. The third tempering is
effected by disposing the metal in such
nanner that it may be seized by man on
horseback who rides at full speed, in order
that the blade, which he bears in an ele-
vated position, may receive the impression
Of the air.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-11-21

ACCORDING to an Austrian paper, two
new systems of telemeters have lately come
INTO use in German coast batteries. They
IRE based, like all other, on the principle
of measuring base line and of angles at
the base, in order to determine, with the
aid of tables, the height of the triangle.
Without giving details of construction, it
is simply stated that the two observers
communicate their results obtained at
either extremity by electricity, and they
are also in electric communication with the
place where the commander of the battery
is. In the one instrument, made by Yarlt,
the electricity merely communicates, by
telegraphic signs, the angles obtained; in
the other, constructed by Siemens and
dalske, the electro current transmits au-
tomatically, by an instrument situated al
one point, the angle measured by the alti-
tude of the other. But the latter, though
made with great precision, is, it is stated,
liable to grave errors, and, though much
more rapid than the Yarlt, is less liked.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-11-21

The Complies Rerldus states that the OBJ
servations made by Bessel on the paraliax
Of the star 6l Cygni, led him to the conclu.
sion that this double star was moving with
great velocity, and that the two eompon-
ents are held together by the force of at
traction, describing orbits about common
centre of gravity, the time of revolu-
ton being estimated at about 400 years,
and the annual paraliax at less than one.
half second. The more recent observe
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-11-21

tions have, however, led M. Flammarion to
conclude that no orbit yet computed for
this star will satisfy the observations--the
necessary conclusion being that the smaller
of the two stars is moving in respect to the
greater one in perfectly straight line.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-11-21

AS folly on the one side, though it should
'njoy all it can desire, would, notwith-
standing, never be content, so, on the
other, wisdom ever acquiesces with the
present, and is never dissatisfied with its
immediate condition. -.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-11-21

DEsTITUTloN and distress seem to be
snarling angrily in the faces of the me-
chanics and laborers of Great Britain,
and the masters exhibit hardness in
threatening lockouts, which creates bit
ter spirit among the men.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-11-21

A CONVENTION of hop-raisers will be
held at Maidstone, England, next week,
to consider the depression of the hop.
The waltz has been cried down in this
country, but the hop is in nowise de-
pressed.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-11-21
WICKED FOR CLERGYMEN.

!" believe It 70 be all wrong and even wicked
for clergymen or other public men to be led into
giving testimonials to quack doctors or vile suffs
called medicines, but when really meritorious
article is made up OF common valuable remedies
known to ALL and that all physicians use and trust
in daily we should freely commend it. ] there
fore cheerfully and heartily commend Hop Bit
ters for the good they have done me and my
friends, firmly believing they have no equal for
family use i will not be without them"
Rev. --, Washington, D. C,
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-11-21

CLASSMATES can both blow and
strike. Fifteen hundred blowers at
Pittsburg struck last Saturday.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-11-21

INA the Inalan problem Will be solved.
they will feel too overwhelmingly sheepish
10 think of fighting - CiacinnaG Brealtai
Table.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-11-21

THE convicts in the Virginia Peniten-
tiary smile softly and serenely since their
workshops have been burned
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-11-21

THE Ameer does not appreciate the
Importance of expeditiously replying to
ultimatums.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1878-10-26
& Chinaman on China.

As a demonstration on a small scale that the
rigid monotony of Chinese history is not a neces-
sary consequence of the character of the people
may be cited the appearance at New Haven of
Chun Lung, a Chinaman, who at a college exhi-
bition delivered an address which is counted
superior to that of the students who were not
compelled to begin their collegiate studies by ac-
quiring the English language. Here is a man
who has SO completely gotten out of the Chinese
groove, so entirely departed from the mental and
moral mould Of the quaint nation of which he is
n part, that he has made great advances in the
widely different culture of the West, and has ac-
quired the habit of regarding China from a criti-
cal and literary standpoint. His own example
supports his argument that the stationary char
acter of his country and bis countrymen is
due only to that sort Of second nature which
results from their education. Chinese education
has its peculiar methods. They are much as if
in the study of the horses one were forbidden to
study the real animal, but required to get him
by rote from a wooden model approved by the
government. All their studies are moral, but
they do not study real morals. They get by rote
moral precepts laid down by Chinese who lived a
few thousand years ago. Defects like this in
the studies of q people may account for any con-
dition but the Chinese student also invokes as
a cause the absence of q supernatural element
from the religion of tie people.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1878-10-26

Miss Totten, of G%ullford, Ohio. and Mr.. Snow,
q theological student whom she had promised to
marry, were walking sweetly through n new
mown meadow, exchanging vows Of affection.
All at once Miss Tottcn shrieked loudly and be-
gan to dance and to Shrek q" There's a snake :
Oh, take it off! Take it off, Mr.. Snow was
well aware that the neighbOrhO0d was not entire
ly free from rattlesnakes, and he had often heard
that in the construction of feminine garments
nature has placed opportunities within the reach
of lurking serpents. While he would, i'm n good
cause, have fearlessly faced the deadlIest snake
in existence, the peculiar circumstances Of the
case filled him with horror. Appalling as the
alternative necessarily was to a conscientious
theological student, he nerved himself to beg
Miss Totten to pause in her wild dance and per-
nit him to help her. But to all his offers Of
assistance she cried, Z" Go away" and in the
same breath added, without the slightest ap-
parent perception of her inconsistency . Don't
stand there grinning, but do help me-" From
his state of suspense he was finally relieved by
the ingenuity of the young lady herself, who i'm
plored him to get a club and strike the invisible
snake, no matter how heavily the blow might
fall upon her. The only available substitute for
a club was a fence rail which lay near at hand.
This rail Mr.. Snow instantly seized and poised
with both hands, while he awaited further in
structions. "Aim here cried the suffering,
but cool-headed girl, pointing to the region of
the pocket, and Mr.. Snow, with a strength born
of his great excitement, swung the fence-raIl and
hit the snake with the accuracy and efficiency of
an accomplished army mule. The effect of the
blow was startling. Miss Totten was whirled
before it and landed in a confused lump at some
distance from the striker. For n moment he
fancied the snake was a boa-constrictOr, orna-
mented with transverse red and white stripes; but
the sight of dead snake of the agile though
harmless species, known as the black racer, con-
WINGED him of his error. Mr.. Shows attention
was speedily withdrawn from the snake by a
feeble announcement on the part of Miss TOtten,
that he had killed her. This was an exaggera-
ton. His mighty blow had broken her leg and
otherwise impaired her efficiency but she was
still alive, and is to appear at an early day in
Court to accuse Mr.. Snow of assault and battery,
and to exact from him such damages as an in
telligent jury may assess.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1878-10-26
DEATHS.

The mortality in yellow fever varies greatly.
In Grenada at the present time it is 90 per cent
only five having escaped SO far who were taken.
In Vicksburg it is SO per cent. and in Memphis "A.
At the outbreak of the epidemic in New Orleans
the mortality was nearly GO rer cent. Now
it is reduced to about IA. Tie skill of New
Orleans practitioners, the incessant labors of the
Howard Association and the numbers of long ex-
perienced nurses always to be had, has much to
do with this. No one breads to visit the sick
rooms here, it being well proven that the attend
ants on the patient rarely contract the disease.
Your correspondent has visited the several fever
wards in the hospitals and the sick-rooms of
friends with perfect impunity thus far, although
u~nacclimated and susceptible to infection. There
is no more danger in this than in avoiding infect
ed houses, for it is held by all physicians here
that the atmosphere is so filled with the germs
of the disease, that every man, woman and child
in the city has it in his or her system already,
where it will lie dormant until some derange-
ment of the vital organs gives it occasion to as
sert itself.
On entering a room where a case of yellow
fever exists, a peculiar, sickening, fshy odor at
once assails the nostrils, and Is an unmistakable
characteristic of the disease. The sallowness
does not appear in more than one case out of four.
When it makes itself visible on the second or
third day, it is considered a bad symptom. One
patient, whom your correspondent saw, was as
yellow as a pumpkin, and after death was invested
with 4 blotched hue, like a spoiled lemons.
+, DdDer.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1878-10-26
Hot Springs of Plumas Co., Cal.

The following description of the hot springs
of Plumas county, California, will be read with
interest. 1t is a graphic account of one of the
many wonderful phenomena of nature to be
found on the Pacific Coast.
:" valley, or rather a spread in a deep canon,
covering seventy acres, is honeycombed with
springs-a hundred thousand-each differing
from the other in size, temperature, color,
density and form. Standing upon a crust,
which resOunds as you tread upon it like an
empty barrel, you have in front of you a milk
white spring, cool and soft to the touch, with
an occasional bubble arising to the surface and
breaking giving off an odOr like garlic. Near
it, not q foot away, is q clear limpid spring.
still and inviting but apply your finger to it
and the heat will force you to draw away your
hand. On the other side, but O few feet distant
from the white spring, is a boiling cauldron,
shooting off it's steam and b~ubbling increasingly.
Within stepping distance. n lead-colored mass
of soft, putty-like mush, slowly pufs and belches
as the steam, unable to get through easily,
gathers in a body and bursts forth with a sort
of grunt Of satisfaction. Here, again, a Jet
black mass revolyes slowly down in a natural
well, sunk in white rock. Near at hand a
spring of bright yellow or golden covered semi
liquid fluid curls over and over as the steam
pushes its way up one side Of the cavity in
which it lies. Here in the musby springs,
where the steam had burst through at inter
walls, a little spring of mud has been thrown up,
which, lighting upon the edges of the spring,
has hardened, and so, drop by drop, until a perfect
cave is formed, resembling more a cathedral in
miniature, the crystalized drops hanging pendant
stalacites. while the drippings upon the edges
of the spring had built up s~talagmites, which
resemble pillars, all of the color of the spring,
some yellow as gold, some white as milk, some
a dark green, some a lead color. Beneath these
arched caves arises, at intervals, the soft floor, and
mounting higherand higher, until it becomes per-
feet dome. the steam bursts out in every direction,
scattering lis golden spray or every side. 1t
makes one think that nature is playing baby
house or showing man how easily she can excel
human Imagination and ingenuity. Strangely
enough, meandering through these springs
swiftly runs a cold mountain stream, c~arelessly
rafting on to the shades of the valley be-
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1878-10-26

The President of the Central Pacific Railroad,
few months ago, purchased for his wife a diamond
necklace for $4,000
The Prince of Wales receives e4o,0 0 from the
treasury and 100000 from the Duchy of Cornwall,
and yet he is in debt and unhappy.
The Prince of Wales has accepted the honorary
membership recently preferred him by the Ancient
and Honorable Artillery Of Boston.
1t excites q good deal of pleasure on this side Of
the water to hear that John Walter Of the London
Times. was among those who were selected for the
peerage.
That was q shrewed girl and not devoid of sense
either. who remarked, when other girls were making
fun Of her short skirts, and affected to be much
shocked at the exhibition thereof at a party eff
you'd only pull up your dresses about your neck,
where they ought to be, they'd be as short as mine!''
She was not troubled any more.
The proper study for each man is-some other
man. Thus do the majority of those around US
parsphrase Pope's old declaration, in their actions,
at least. To study into the workings of some other
persons heart-to divine another's motives-tO find
out all the virtues and defects of some companion
seems to be the chief delight Of all.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1878-10-26
Beware.

Let mothers and all ihose having the charge Of
children Tcad tie following. and DC guarded in
their use Of the drugs spoken Of.
some mothers dy to the camrh5r q pepper
mint bottle Gu the slightest pr0vocation. Cam
ph0r Is the most dangerous drug, and both are
capable or destroying life. Is generally used in
form Of 81 alcoholic ~tincture, their potency Is in
no wise diminished, but rather increased by ad-
dition Of another poison.
Peppermint oil, from which the essence r.
made, Is 4 powerful s.imulant, and its capacity
for harm Is by no means inconsidenblc. Uiccrl-
ton OF the stomach has been induced by IL, and
many diseases have followed its hs5i.ual use.
Camph0r Is q poisonous gum resin, capable Of
readily inducing great nervous irritation. When
taken IN small doses II has much the effect Of al
c0hOI or opium. In large doses il occasions
spasms and death. In auy aDpreciable amount
1t i~rritates the mucus membrane OF the stomach,
and leads 70 constipation and liberation. Even
q few doses Of this drug may lead 70 incurable
dyspepsia. Yet thousands Of families fy 10 the
camphor bottle for relief from every variety Of
pain.
1t were q thousand times better that every
camphor bottle IN the land should be broken
than that its contents should be iudiscriminately
employed. The potent drug ought never to be
administered internally except by 4 Competent
person, familiar with its power.
1t would be a good thing if mothers would
learn to depend on water-culd. tepid or hot-to
relieve a very large percentage Of all bodily pain.
There IS nothing so innocent nothing 80 etlec-
tual. Copious draughts of hot water, aided, If
need be, by hot water enemas, and hot water ex-
ternally applied, will speedily relieve nine cases
out of ten. Cold water Is the most powerful
local anesthetic known. The pain of q sprained
limb is quickly relieved by ice cold water. The
terrible pangs of whitlow OF felon are cut short
by intense heat. y large proportion of all
cramps and spasms may be relieved by water Of
a proper temperature and inteIligently applied
We need a school for the education of doctors
and nurses up to a moderate comprehension Of
the advantage of water, as an agent for the re-
lief of every day aches and pains, whether slight
or seyere.-HaN's Journal Of Realh.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1878-10-26
Dot Leedle Loweeza.

How dear % dis heart vas I2iEe eg4udsLlG. L5wss-at
Do; schveet Ieedle laughter CO Yawcob mine ssat
7 nefer vas tired 90 hug and q shqactzg he-
When home / gets back u-I der days work vas done.
Ven 7 vas sway. Oh. / know dot she miss me-,
For when I come housyards she rUshss b,IIusu
IND pots CUP Oct shveet leeiie mout fCr 70 kiss ne
Her 3. Darling olat gampa, dot she I5fs So veil
How shvest, VIXEN der tolls O. der week vas al oscr,
Ind Sunday vus coue init .ts quiet ind rest.
To walk nit dot shlId mons her dsiSes urd clo:er.
IND look al Ieedle birds building dheir nest
Her bright IeedIe eyes how dhey shparkle nit pleasure
Her laugh II rings oudt shu=t 80 clear asa bell
I dirk dhere vas ncpoay hat sooch a treasure
AZ dot shmsII Loweezs. dot Iofe ne so veil.
-Carrlez z 4T-Hr
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1878-10-26
TREATMENT OF PATIENTS

The treatment of yellow fever is simple in the
extreme. At the commencement a hot mustard
foot-bath is given for forty minutes, while the pa
tent is in bed. Enemas are administered and
frequent draughts of orange-leaf tea as diapho-
retics. Sudation is promoted by warm covering
One blanket being sufficient. Should the tenn
perature rise greatly, and delirium be violent, ice
is applied to the head. Some old practitioners
prescribe ten grains of calomel and ten of
quinine at the start, or quinine and oil, but the
above method has been found most successful.
When the fever leaves the patient, quinine is
given in small but frequent doses, to prevent re-
lapse. and as a tonic. Tendency to nausea is
checked by iced lemonade. champagne and char
coal. Hyocyamus is frequently administered to
lower the temperature, as also extract of iabo-
randi in the stage of collapse.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1878-10-26

They had been married about three months. The
boy from the store appeared with a note from her
husband She clutched the precious missive with
an eager hand, tremblingly opened it and read
DEAR WIFE: Send me a pocket handkerchief.
JOHN"
She went slowly to the drawer to get the desired
article, and while looking for it she came across the
following note, dated two weeks after the wedding
SUNLIGHT OF Ny Soul: You have to send me
a handkerchief. Your bewitching eyes so turned my
head this morning that 1 forgot to take one with me,
for which l shall kiss the sweet face of my own q
thousand times when l come home. In two hours
and twenty minutes it will be II o'clock, and then
l can come to my beautiful rose. | long to fly to
you. A thousand kisses 1 send thee, my fairy wife.
Yours t~enderly, JOHN"
She sighed, gave the boy the handkerchief, and
sighed again.-Danbury NelcS.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1878-10-26

LITTLE BLIyENs, who lost his grandma a short
time ago, and who in his childish simplicity,
believed that she had gone away on a visit,
repeatedly asked his parents why they didn't
write to her. At last they showed him cOnclu-
sively wherein death consists, which kept him
quiet until the death of a neighbor, a United
States mail-carrier, by the name of Collins,
whereupn young Blivins triumphantly ran to
his mother shouting, " Ma ma you can write
to grandma now, and send the letter by Mr..
Collins, cant YOU %
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1878-10-26

In the very midst of a heated term - 10000
bales of fannels and 500 cases Of blankets were sud-
denly thrown upon the New York Market. Such a
deed was enough to send the thermometer up to 20
degrees. Strange as it may seem. however, the at
tendance at the auction sale was large, the bidding
reported to be "spirited;' - and it was further
added-ironically or otherWise-that the goods
offered were seasonable."
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1878-10-26
DANGERS OF A RELAPSE.

If the patient survive the third day, and the
fever has entirely quilted him, he is in a fair way
to recovery. No food is allowed him until the
fever leaves, when he is given a spoonful or SO of
barley water or milk, and a little diluted cham
payne to prevent nausea. The fourth day he may
take two tablespooniuls of barley water. The
fifth. a half a glass of milk and a fragment of soda
cracker. The sixth, the same quantity of milk,
and halfa cracker. The seventh, perhaps n little
chicken broth, a cracker or two, and half a glass
of milk twice a day. Thence to the fourteenth
day, the allowance of food is gradually increased
up to the full qualification of appetite. In this
matter the greatest care must be exercised.
From the moment of the cessation of the fever,
the patient is ravenous, and, though conscious of
the danger, will even steal food if not constantly
watched. If he is allowed to crafty himself to
any extent beyond what is prescribed, relapse is
almost certain. with speedy concurrence of black
vomit and collapse. These cases are almost as
numerous as those in which death is the direct
result of the fever, and are terrible warnings for
the conyalescent. One case, that of a beautiful
and accomplished CARL, well known to your cor
respondent, is an example. She had been free
from fever for nine days, and was even allowed
to walk about the house. The doctor prescribed
her limit of food for dinner to be a half plate of
chicken soup without meat, and two crackers.
Her nurse gave her "a large bowl of soup, with
the chicken in it, a bunch of grapes, and three or
four slices of buttered toast. This was at 2 p. NJ.
At Q P. N. she was a corpse.