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The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-03-07
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Bacon.
An interesting original story by
Miss Sadie cannon will appear next
week. probably.
You cannot dream yourself into a
character: YOU must hammer anu
forge Yourself one -Fro'tde-
:. \ man renowned for repartee
Will seldom scruple To make free
With Friendships finest feeling.
Copper.
This mournful truth is everywhere
confessed
Slow rises Worth by Poverty op-
pressed"
- Hare and Tortoise ran a race,
The Hare went very fleet
The Tortoise took a plodding pace
He plodded on-and-beat.
- Oh. were | thou, that she might
And Law me in her bosom and her
heart
Would rock the snowy cradle til |
ied."-IeHnySOn.
The Washington ladies Of fashion
are initiating Mrs. Hayes plain, sim
pie stvle Of dressing her hair, and
e fa.bion
:,
LIoels are ii!idi,io.S' 80 ~; IN
health. Bitters, YOU know. are nause-
Gus. but they are nevertheless very
good for the stomach.
"A mar 50 varied that he seemed to
be,
NO one, Out an illdilhlihu ,. eP4'o4iiO'
'
Was everything. by starts, and moth
ing long.
Wild Tom Hood thus touchingly
portravs the death-scene Of a young
girl:
We watched her breathing through the
night
( - bar $500 tba u-,va nfTgbt
Kent heaving to and fro:
Our very hopes be-lied u fears.
Our Tears our hopes De-iled
~ ~ 80,
An excellent landscape OF 0aiVaIof
Rosa eAhlbl0eda the bfi'l9li institute
III 1873, came 10 be painted IN curl
Gus way. II painter happened one
day to be amusing hlnlSeiI by tuning
an old harpslchord; some II observed
they were surprised he could take 50
much trouble With an tiiat
was not worth crown.
- pet you make L worm iilou-
sand before nave done WIN II!
cried Rosa.
The bet was taken, ana SaINator
painted II the harpsichord a landscape
that not only SOLD Tor a thousand
crowns, out was esteemed aIrst-fate
painting.
Old Mrs. Merritt, who left her
millions to Archbishop McClOsky, and
whose will is now being contested by
her son, on the ground that she was
insane. may have been crazy on some
topics, but occasionally she hit
the nail of common-sense as squarely
as if she had been driving carpet tacks
ali the J OF ner lie. mere IS one OF
her sententious sentences No girl
who is really sincere and honorable
ever has occasion to say no to an adj
mirer.' Perhaps the old lady is too
sweeping. 1t would be better to say,
"no sincere and honorable girl ougItt
ever to have occasion t say no to an
admirer? It is. of course. all fudge for
a woman to pretend She Is not aware
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OUR ORTlz8GRAPHY.

No wonder that foreigners complain of
the difficulty of learning the English lam
guage, for our spelling, is wofuly bad.
Why do we need ph to produce the sound
we give to f, when will do as well9 OF
what use is in would, could and should?
Why not put in K, y and z, and call them
silent letters? Is b any benefit in doubt, or
in doublea So it 10 all through the wide
range of the English language. We are
hampered and bound by the discordant
cords of custom, yet we must follow the
rules, we must be governed by the stand
ards. Why do we drag out p-h-t-h-i-s-i-c,
and then call it tizzik? We write through
when thru would be better We laugh at
Englishmen because they omit the sound of
h where it is written and apply the letter
where it does not exist. Thus: 1.-The hox
it's orn and broke hit hoff," instead Of
"Fhe OK hit his horn," ETC., and yet we
pronounce honor as if it were spelled onur.
If we pronounce it onur, according to
Webster, why not write it so? Either our
pronunciation or spelling, in thousands of
instances, is wrong. Because of this, lexi-
cographers are obliged to spell many COM
mon words for us, that we may know their
correct pronunciation. We need rules in
spelling, .......
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In rendering Bids.

The following rules to govern builders
"in rendering bids" were made the special
order for Monday, April 18th, at the Build
ers' Exchange:
Section 1. When contractors shall, upon
the invitation of owners or architects make
bids on the whole or any part of work, the
time and place (of letting) shall be named
all bids shall be opened in the presence OF
owners architects, and all the bidders (at
the time and place agreed), and the work
shall be awarded to the lowest bidder, un-
less the work shall cost more than the own,
er is willing to expend. In that case the
three lowest bidders (only) shall be invited
to bid again, when the plans shall have
been changed.
"Sec. g No member of this Exchange
who makes an estimate or bid to prinoi-
pal contractor for work upon building, as
sub-contractor, shall, at the same time,
furnish an estimate or bid upon the same
work to the proprietor or his agent.
Sec. 3. No member of this Exchange,
having been awarded principal contract,
based on estimates or bids solicited and re.
ceived by him shall, after the award of such
contract to him, receive new bids from sub.
contractors for the purpose of securing still
lower terms for such sub-contract; and the
fact that such sub-bids and estimates were
received previous to the letting of the prin.
clpal contract, shall be conclusive evidence
that they were used by the principal con
tractor.
''Sec. 4. Any member who shall violate
any of the foregoing rules shall be consid
cred guilty of disreputable conduct.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-04-13

An elderly, prim, spectacled spinster re.
Gently took passenger train at Chester
station, on the Grand River Valley Rail.
road. The car WAS nearly filed. The first
seat she glanced at was more than half oc-
cupied by young man who had expector-
at I'd tobacco juice within his territory until
the bottom of the car was puddle. The
spinster lectured him severely on the evils
of a habit so injurious and filthy, and hoped
he would abandon it; the young man made no
reply. Two seats in front was a seat partly
occupied by a young man, who was gazing
from the window. The spinster resting
her bundles upon the seat arm, peered
down on the floor to detect possible traces
Of the weed; after which, in student tones
she said:
II say, young man, do you use tobacco?"
'No," was the quiet reply; but oan
get you . chew in minute il you wan,
ons."
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-04-13
The Ohio Legislature.

COLUMBUS, April 12.-Mr. OConnors S
House bill, reorganizing the Soldiers and
Sailors Orphans Home was debated, and
a vote postponed
HOUSE.
COLUMBUS, April 12.-Bills were intro
duced:
Authorizing the Commissioners of Ham
ilton and Clermont Counties to unite in
building two bridges across the Miami Riv-
er between the two counties.
For the relief of John Fuchs, of Cincin-
natl
Authorizing the Commissioners of Knox
County to raise money by taxation to pay
bonds issued in 1852 for the Springfield, Mt.
Vernon & Pittsburg Railroad
To authorize the incorporation of canal
leasing and transportation companies.
Mr.. Lords substitute Cincinnati South
ern Railroad bill was reported back from
the Committee on Railroads, and made the
special order for next Wednesday.
Mr.. Klimper's bill to authorize the Board
of Public Works of Cincinnati to collect
and disburse money received from the Wa
ter-works, without the intervention of the
Common Council, and to provide water
free to public buildings and fountains was
passed.
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PECULlAk NAMES.

Two centuries ago, Bible names of both
good and evil repute, we're bestowed i'm
partially on children. The reader can have
no conception how fer this was carried,
In the street, Dianshs and Absaloms
walked hand-in-hand to school; Ananiases
and Sapphiras groyelled in the dirty courts
and alleys; and Gains took Abels to pluck
flowers in the rural lanes and meadows,
without thoughts of fratrieide. A highly
respected Presbyterian lady bore the name
of Sapphira. In any danes school, the
twelve patriarchs could have answered to
their names through their little red-cheeked
representatives, who lined the wall, unless,
maybe, Simeon OF Reuben stood on a sep
arate seat, with the ounces cap on. But
the strangest freak of all is still 10 be re-
corded. We have all heard of Praise God
Barebones. Hume, in his 'fHistory Of
England" asserts that his brother bore the
long name of eff Christ -had-not- died for
thee thou hadst- been condemned Bare
BONES" What the historian adds to this
will not repeat, for fear of seeming irrever-
ent. Many have supposed this to have
been case of mere exceptional eccentrioi-
ty. Nothing of the kind; it was quite a
common custom for man or woman after
conversion to reject with horror the pagan
name of Harry" or Dick" which their
god-parents had imposed upon them, and
to be known henceforth as "Replenish, or
Increase" Or Abstinence" or "Love-
WE'LL Of course, if they married after
this, they spared their children the neces-
sity of any such alteration by furnishing
them with personal appellations of this
character at the outset; and the more quaint
and unheard-of the name, the greater the
satisfaction of the parents. To any one
who may wish to do likewise, we give q
few names which, we think, occur but once
in the Bible: Ebedmeleck, Epaproditus
Othniel, Apphia. Tryphena and Bezaliel
Musieal sounding, aren't they?
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THE WAY TO SERVE RELATIONS.

The following plan ought to be adopted
another year by country people having city
! kindred. II is furnished the Kingston
freeman as worthy of public considera-
ton.
A gentleman living up the railroad hay
ing been pestered by his relations from the
city coming to visit him every summer
told his wife last spring that there must be
change in things. If she had to work
herself half to death during the hot weather,
she might as well get paid for it, so he
meant to advertise for boarders. The
good wife acquiesced, and the result is they
have filed their house with boarders at
seven dollars a week, and the host Of
relations have to go somewhere else to
board.
"Why, said the gentleman, my wife don't
have to work half so hard. These boarders
are not near SO particular about having
costly food as our relations, and they actu-
ally help around the house just as though it
was fun for them. Catch any of our COM
pany doing that Not bit of it. They
are always in the way, wanting con-
tinual waiting on, and never did thing to
help my wife-not even in washing dishes.
We will make this summer nearly four
hundred dollars, and it will be clear money,
for our relations would have eaten just as
much as these boarders, besides making
more work, without contributing a cent"
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kindred appear to be melted away in the
fierce struggle for existence now going
on. Husbands seH their wives and par
ents their children. A traveller, recently
returned from China, writes: when l
left the country a respectable married
woman could be easily bought for Sc,
and little girl for 81. In cases where it
was found impossible to sell their chill
dren parents have BEN known TO kill
them rather than witness their prolonged
sutferings, in many instances throwing
themselves afterward down wells or
committing suicide by arsenic"
Thousands of able bo lied men are emf
grating from the famine stricken dis
tricts to Mongolia and elewhere, leaving
the old men, women and children to die
of hunger or to strug gle through as best
they can. 1t is estimated that nine mil
lions of these people are now starving.
The contributions made for their aid are
invested in rice, but all of this that can
be forwarded to them is but a small
help to such mass of sufferers.
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Board of Alder men.

Z The new Board met yesterday afternoon.
A resolution to sell the six remaining Bur-
net Work-house lots was referred to COM
mittee.
A resolution making Peter Zinn proxy for
city in election of Kentucky Central Rail
road Directors was adopted.
The following ordinances and resolutions
were passed.
An ordinance to appropriate $69,965 9s
from the Water-works Fund.
Ordinances to improve Mt. Hope Road
Mclean avenue and Fifth avenue.
Fremont street, from New Baltimore Pike
to Harrison Pike.
James street, from Colerain avenue tc
Fifth avenue.
Third avenue, from Charles street to Cen
ter street.
| Gest street, from Harrietstreet to Mclean
avenue.
| A report from the City Solicitor recon-
mending a compromise with Caleb Nourse
as to claim of city on strip of land held by
him. Compromise of 5000 paid by him was
referred to the future Committee on Law
and Contracts.
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THE FAMINE I'm CHINA.

The steamer from China and Japan,
which arrived in San Francisco Thurs
day night, brought the sad intelligence
that the famine in the Northern prov
inces of China is unabated. Large con-
tributions in aid of the distressed people
are reported, This serious visitation,
as terrible as it has turned out, is not the
only sweeping disaster with which the
Chinese have to contend. Great floods
have devastated the southern parts of
the empire, and in the Central provinces
the plague of locusts has filled up the
measure of calamity by destroying every
green thing The Government is power
less to grapple with this great tide of
trouble. Though the famine in North
ern China has ragged for three years with
terrible intensity, it is only lately that
the facts concerning it have reached the
knowledge of the outer world. The
scene of the famine is the vast delta
plain which includes the provinces
of Chihle, Shanse, Shense and
Honan. This plateau covers an area
of two hundred and forty-six thou
sand seven hundred and twenty-one
square miles, and is inhabited by popu-
lation Of seventy millions. The soil is
very productive when watered by season.
able rains; but as it is easily percolated
by water, it requires frequent wetting;
few days dry weather converts the sur
face into dust. OF late years. owing to
the wholesale destruction of forests rains
have been less frequent, and consequently
crops have been less sure. As the people
are rarely able to indulge in the luxury
of meat or salt fish, failure of the vege-
table crops is the source of great distress.
Owing to the mountain barriers, which
cut off these provinces from cheap COM
munication with other parts of the En-
pire, it is not easy, even if the authorities
were disposed to do so, to minister to the
necessities of such swarming hive of
misery. When it is considered that for
three years past the crops have failed, in
a country thus isolated and filled with
people subsisting from year to year
on the product of the land without
any surplus accumulation, some dim idea
of the terrible nature of the situation
may be conceived. Foreign journals fur
nish fearful picture of houses tenanted
only by the dead; of thousands of ema-
ciated corpses lying by the roadside and
in the streets of villages; of the frantic
efforts made by some to gain nourish-
ment from the barks of trees, the thatch
from the roofs of houses and even from
earth and slate stone. This is the over
whelming infiction that has fallen upon
population nearly twice as large as that
of the United States, All the ties of
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-04-13

THE Nashville Banner on Wednesday
issued a mammoth birthday number, in
honor of the commencement of the
third year of its existence. The Banner
is live paper in all its departments and
and has fairly earned the great success
that has been accorded it. That the pa
per in so short time has been able to
take the lead in Southern journalism, is
highly creditable to its managers and
speaks well for the keen appreciation
that the people of Nashville have for a
really good newspaper.
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The Cincinnati Star

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FOrty-fifth Congress - Second Ses-
sion.

WASHINGTON, April 12.-Immediately af-
ter the reading of the Journal the
House proceeded to the consideration OF
bills of private nature several of which
were passed. The Senate amendments to
the General Deficiency Appropriation Bill,
and the Senate amendments to the Diplo-
matte and Consular Appropriation Bill
were non-concurred in. A bill providing
for the opening of the Fort Hortsutf Mill
tary Reservation, in Nebraska, 10 home
stead and pre-emption settlers, was passed.
Adjourned
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Are You Afflicted,

and wish to recover the same degree of health,
strength, and energy Inexperienced in former
years2 Do any Of the following symptoms or
class of symptoms meet your diseased condi-
ton? Are you suffering from ill-health in
any of itsmany and multifarious forms, con-
sequent 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 ioH
of memory, have spells of fainting, fullnea
of blood in the head, feel istness, moping
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-04-13
Ball Ga me This Afternoon.

The full Cincinnati team for 1878 will
play game with strong picked nine at
the Ball Park this afternoon, and are ex-
pected to put in their best efforts A train
will leave the Plum street Depot at 2:40, and
the game will begin at 8. The following are
the mines:
Cincinnatis-Pike, M; McVey, 3D. b.
Geer, s. S; ]. White, c.; Gerhardt, I'd b.
Jones |: f.; Sullivan, 1st b.; Kelly, r. f.;
W: White, P.
Picked Nine-H. Wheeler, p; Wearnan,
c.; Lushes, 1st b.. Riley, I'd b.; Smith, Sd
b.; Cummins, S. s. Pagan, |. f.; R. Wheel
er, m. Myers, r. f
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Broken Down in Health

and spirits from disorders peculiar to their
sex, and who, from false nodesty or neglect,
prolong their sufterings. Why, then, further
neglect a subject SO productive of health and
future happiness when there is at hand
means of cure? Why not throw off the yoke
altogether, and seek remedy that has
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-04-13
Exciting Event at the Zoo.

Do not forget the great attractions at the
Geological Garden tomorrow, Sunday. The
summer quarters of the sea-lions are now
ready, and the monsters will be transferred
thereto, between the hours of 9 and a. II
is a very exciting event. The Garden at
present is very beautiful. There will also
be given grand concert by Brands Band
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Lost Confidence in Yourself

and energy for business pursuits ? Are you
subject to any of the following symptoms;
dreams, palpitation of the heart, bashfu.ness,
restless nights, broken sleep, nightmare,
confusion Ct 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, 1878-04-13
A Victim to Youthful Fo!lies,

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
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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 n,odus operandi of the
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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 a disordered condi
tion? 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, 1878-04-13

BAYARD TAYLOR, Mark Twain and
family, and Mr.. Murat Halstead and fam
lily are fellow-passengers on the steamer
Holsatia, which sailed from New York
yesterday.
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THE Pittsburg Gas Company cut off
the supplies from the Opera-house re-
Gently and Hamlet" was forced to ap-
pear in the dim light of kerosene lamps.
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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 in
our publications, are happily most suscepti-
BILE of cure by means of
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THE New York Stock Exchange will
give concert on the Goth inst, at Chick
ering Hall The bulls will below and the
bears will growl.
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Ii Mr.. Ferguson is properly invited to
disgorge some of the interesting informa-
ton with which he is possessed, we shall
get considerable light on the Southern
Railroad problem.
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OUR Government should begin to shine
up the State jewelry, for the Crown
diamonds of England are already at the
Paris Exposition.
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Thousands of Young Men,

middle-aged, and even the old, who suffer
from nervous and physical debility. There
are also thousands of females
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THE will of George P. Gordon, in,
ventor of the Gordon printing press, has
been set aside, and half million dol,
lars is thus added to his daughters
fortune.
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THE expense of living in Paris has
been raised to such exorbitant figures
that many Americans who contemplated
visit this year will put it off till after
the Exposition is over.
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THE ST. Louis Journal, practical and
poetical, thinks that oleomargarine at
20 cents a pound sounds sweeter than
brtter at As cents pound.
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"Do they miss you at home ?" he asked,
IS she folded and put away letter she had
Just received from her mother. "Never, u
,hs answered; they call nae TSiE'"
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A Boston item says: There is a manufac
turing firm in this city with orders six
months ahead for foreign markets They
laugh at the reported dull times, and ad
wise all to look abroad for relief.