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The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-19
LIFE IN EsIS.

Many American ladies who are 30 stu
ated as to be independent now make their
homes in Paris. How cheaply ladies can
live in the prettiest and merriest city upon
themselves; but two art students who re-
sided together and dubbed resources in
one of the streets near the Luxembourg,
managed comfortably on less than three
hundred dollars a year till better times
came to them. They had their breakfast
from cream and coffee shop (cremerie) a
very different place to q cafe, and their
dinner from a small eating house, fire.
uuented by artists, where moderate sized
beef-stake cost them only seven sous.
Their lessons and lecture on art cost them
nothing, and their only professional ex-
penses were incurred for the materials of
painting and models. Ladies without
special business in Paris, but who yet de-
sire to reside there, may create for them
selves a peculiarly quiet and honorable
home in such places as the Abbaye-au-
Bois. This, like several similar establish.
ments, is convent where ladies can rent
apartments and enjoy the protection of the
sisterhood under conditions not too oner.
Gus. But cooking at home is much dearel
than boarding out or arranging with the
nearest hotel or eating house keeper to be
served ready dressed. 1t is difficult to ex.
plain the astonishing expense of home life
in Paris, in view of the unquestionable fact
that hotel prices have not varied for the
last thirty years. Thirty years ago, the
hotel price of a lady's breakfast of tea ol
coffee and bread and butter was one franc
and half; it costs one franc and hal
now. The price of hotel bedrooms ant
the cost of hotel servants also remain sta
| tionary.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-19
A PLUCKY STUDENT.

At the commencement of the present
term of the Medical College student from
the West started for Keokuk to attend.
Arriving at Abba he found his means would
not be sufficient, and lie walked the rest of
the way to this city. He paid in full for
his tuition, and then had just 81 left.
Three of these were laid out for quar-.
ter's rent for room, in which was nothing
but his books. No stove, no furniture, no
bed, not even blanket, and $4 to live on
In month or 30 he procured blanket
and considered himself fortunate. His
money was used to buy corn meal and
twice week he would go down by the
pork houses and make up lot of corn
bread bake it, and bring it to his room, aud
on corn bread alone he has been subsistine
during the entire term. He has earned
SIS since he has been here and on this and
the ST lie had left, after paying his college
fees, 1912 in all, he has subsisted. During
all this time no one has known how he
lived, and the only remarkable thing that
has been noticed about him is that he is
one of the brightest students in the class
and bids fair to graduate with the highest
honors His condition would not have
been found out had it not been that gen.
tleman rented room in the same building,
and by making his acquaintance, ascer-
tanned how he had been living.
The student is a bright, frank, fearless
fellow and has paid in advance for every.
thing he has got, and is not afraid of diff
cultes, and if lie proves not bright anG
shining light in his profession, if he is no,
heard from as an eminent physician anG
surgeon, ere many years roll around, We
lose our guess. --Keokuk Constitution.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-19
A WISE MAN,

had friend who could not endure q
story that smacked of scandal. He used
to say, "I have so much to do that can.
not hear it. One-half of my time is taken
up with my own business, the other halt
with letting alone that of my neighbors. =
How many excellent opportunities of let
ting alone other peoples business are
sighted, and the world is troubled with
the interference of people with what does
not concern them. Neighborhoods ar,
driven crazy by the reports of idle Or mis-
chievous people, who watch for OCCASION,
of scandal, and lose no opportunity oi
making it public, regardless of its truth, OF
of the injury that it inAicts upon the feel
ings of others. Gossip passes for facts
and surmise for history; and the nimble lie
runs many league while the truth is put
ting on its boots.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-19
MODERN ENGLISH PROSE.

The Restoration marks the real moment
of birth of our modern English prose.
Men of lucid and direct mental habit there
were, such as Chillingworth, in whom be-
fore the Restoration the desire and the
commencements of a modern prose show
themselves. There were men like Barrow,
weighty and powerful, whose mental habit
the old prose suited, who continued its
forms and locutions after the Restoration.
But the hour was come for the new prose,
and it grew and prevailed. In Johnsons
time its victory had long been assured, and
the old style seemed barbarous. The
prose writers of the eighteenth century
have indeed their mannerisms and phrases
which are no longer ours, johnson says
of Millions blame of the universities for
allowing young men designed for orders
in the Church 10 act in plays, "This is
sufficiently peevish in man, who, when
lie mentions his exile from college, relates,
with great luxuriance, the compensation
which the pleasures of the theatre afford
him. Plays were therefore only criminal
when they were acted by academies" We
should nowadays not say peevish here, nor
luxuriance, nor academies. Yet the style
is ours by its organism, if not by It's phras-
ing. 1t is by its organsm-an organism
opposed to length and involvement, and
enabling us to be clear, plain, and sort
the English style after the Restoration
breaks with the style of the times precrd-
ing it., finds the true law of prose, and
becomes modern; becomes, in spite of
superficial differences, the style of our own
day. Burnet has pointed out how we are
under obligations in this matter to Charles
H., whom johnson described as "the last
King of England who was man of parts.''
A King of England by no means fulflls his
whole duty by being man of parts or by
loving and encouraging art, science, and
literature. Yet the artist and the student
of the natural sciences will always feel a
kindness toward the two Charleses for their
interest in art and science; and modern
letters too, have their debt to Charles H.
although it may be quite true that that
Prince, as Burnet says, chad little Or no
literature. ''The King had little or no
literature, but true and good sense, and
had got right notion of style; for he was
in France at the time when they were much
set on reforming their language. 1t soon
app ared that he had true taste. So this
helped to raise the value of these men
(Tillotson and others,) when the King
approved of the style their discourses
generally ran in, which was clear,
plain, and short" - MacmiLGn'S Muga-
zine.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-19
COOKING MEAT BY COLD

Those who have handled piece Of
congealed mercury, which freezes at q
temperature Of forty degrees below zero,
will know that the sensation is similar
to that produced by holding coal of fire
in the hand. In other words, intense heat
and intense cold bear striking resem-
blance to each other in their effects. A
Hungarian chemist, whose speciality con-
sists of finding out the best methods of
preserving meats, has made practical use
of this analogy in the action of heat and
cold, and partially cooks his meats by
subjecting them tothe action Of intense
cold. Strange to say, the meat subjected
to this low temperature is reduced to q
condition similar to that produced by
heat. The material must be perfectly
fresh, and after being exposed to tenn
perature of thirty three degrees below
zero. must be carefully sealed in tins. It
is found when opened to preserve re-
markable freshness, and to be in a more
satisfactory condition for use than has
hitherto been attained by any Other
method for the same purpose.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-19

THE Democratic caucus that last night
so emphatically reaffirmed the Jacksonian
doctrine, "to the victor belongs the
spoiIs," should give Goss and Fratz a
going over. There are number of Dem
ocrats in the Seventeenth Ward, and sew
eral others in other wards, that feel capa-
Bile of filling the positions under Fratz to
which he has appointed Republicans.
Goss and Fratz work in the same team,
and it is fair to presume that Goss die
tated to Fratz the policy of appointing
Republicans to places under him.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-19
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The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-19

A newspaper of Jan. 8, 1921, mentions
an extraordinary and absurd performance
by the Postmaster of Lsmore, Ireland,
then in his 9th year. He Travelled for a
wager from that town to Fermoy in Dun
garvan oyster tub drawn by pig, bad.
ger, two cats goose, and hedge hog,
with large red nightcap on his head, q
pig drivers whip in one hand, and in the
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-19

If man has Government bonds should
he blush to own them, or make frantic
efforts to secrete them as if they were in
cendiary articles? Ben. Butler denies
emphatically that he possesses any, and
Secretary Sherman takes particular
pains to impress the public with the fact
that he has not owned bond for five
years. They are really what most men
are struggling with all their en-
ergies to obtain, and many an
honest fellow no doubt wonders at the
earnestness of those men in denying the
possession of what he regards most ex-
cellent thing to have.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-19
A EadV1S 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
for me, as you observe"
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-19

CAN the people who have devoted
themselves to the work of casting a
doubt upon the legality of the Southern
Railroad bonds show that they have
served any interest except that of the
Louisville & Nashville Railroad Com
pany?
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-19

THE Baltimore Gazette says that Col.
Morgan's enthusiastic mention of Goss as
the "Young Eagle of the Board of Edu-
cation" was almost as good a compliment
as to call man the jaybird of the unfet-
tered forests or the favorite ram of the
sheep pasture.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-19

THREE and a half years is the average
term of imprisonment for convicted
murderer in Illinois. This looks more
like premium on crime than punish
ment.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-19

THE Managers Of the House of Refuge
at Baltimore are discussing the propriety
of restoring hogging in that institution.
1t is argued that moral suasion has lost
its force with the unruly boys, and that
nothing can reclaim them but the rod.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-19

THE probability of defeat does not
deter Halpin from making the race for
Congress- There are defeats that pave the
way to victory just as there are victories
that lead to defeat.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-19

A WOMAN at the Dusseldorf shooting
match won three prizes and drank one
hundred glasses of beer in two days.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-19

In France the professor of the paste
pot is compelled to pay tax of five
centimes for every bill he posts, and is
limited in the size of his spreads" The
consequence is that the eye is not offend
ed by seeing every vacant wall or fence,
or even the piers of the boulevards and
parks defaced by glaring acres of show
bills. Bill-posting and street-adyertising
in this country has overrun the limits OF
good taste and even the interests of the
advertiser, and has become public nui
sance. Far better patronize the newspa.
pers more and board fences and brick
walls less. The former are read by peo
pie who buy, the latter attract the atten
tion mostly of those who steal.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-19

In the Auburn On. W Penitentiary
there are forty-two lawyers, twenty-seven
preachers and thirteen doctors.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-19

THE Chicago man nurses his wrath and
cherishes his revenge until the auspicious
moment arrives when he can swoop down
upon the enemy and wreak the vengeance
for which his heart panteth. About two
months since the Chicago man purchased
an umbrella at Broadway store in New
York City. The fact of Chicago man
buying an umbrella is in itself of sufi-
cient Importance to be mentioned among
the strange occurrences of the period, but
when he buys an umbrella and gets cheat.
ed the affair is worthy to be embalmed, as
this one is, in the chronicles of our coun,
try. The Chicago man bought an um.
brella and was cheated, for, having
served him six weeks without being
stolen or borrowed, the fraudulent con-
Germ suddenly fell into decline, its rib;
painfully protruded and great rents ap
peared in its alpaca covering. IT.
owner presented himself to the umbrella
merchant and generously offered to ex,
change it for new one, but the PROPOSE
ton was scornfully rejected, and the
Chicago man fell back on his revenge
He employed negro to parade Broad
way with the dilapidated umbrella ex
panded above him and two sign-board
strapped across his shoulders, which indi
Gated where the article had been bought
and calling particular attention to it
condition after six weeks service. TIL,
merchants caused the sign carriers arres
on the ground that he interfered will
their trade, but the Courts decided tina
the man had perfect right to advertis
them in that way if he desired, unless h
should commit some open breach Of th
peace. So the negro was released, t.
continue his perambulations, and tn
Chicago man had his revenge.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-19

THE heroes are not all fighting Indians.
A Chicago man has just married widow
with twenty children.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-19

IT is well that Ingersoll went to the
Old World. The name of He'll street,
in Paris, is to be changed.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-19

THE Bosnian women are said to be
very handsome. Can we blame the
Austrians that they want to stay?
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-19

MASSACHUSETTS is in muddle. But
ler has turned both parties upside down.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-19

Following many vocations has ruined
the life Of many Man.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-19

A PHILADELPHIA man threw pot of
tea in his wife's face, which gave her the
grounds for divorce.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-19

other common COWS horn, which he blew
to encourage his team and give notice of
this new new mode of posting.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-19

CINCINNATI g. WEsTWooD MARROW GAUGEl
Daily, except Sunday.
Leave Robb's (Westwood) 5:43 m, 7:05 m,
1898 m, 3:53 p nj, 6:03 M
Leave Brighton, 6:23 m, So M 2:OS M OILS
m, 643 pm.
Sunday trains
Leave Robbs (westwood) s:3s a m, 1923 m.
1928 m, 2:03 p m, 4:53 p m, and 633 m:
Leave Brighton, 933 m, 1:08 m, l:2o p M
2:SS p m, 5:55 p m, 7:1s . m. .,E
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-19
CINCINNATI SOUTHERN RAILWAY.
Depot, corner Mclean ave. and Gest street.

Jackson and Portsmouth
BALTIMORE d OHIO, VIA PARKERsBURG.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-03-23

DEDUCkD FAkEi S3 30 BOSTON,
~ EXCURSION TICKrrS So
THE OLD RELIABLE sTONiNGION LINE FOR BOS
Not trip missed In consecutive years Ee-
leave 80 North River foot Of Jay
ST., at 3 i. NJ. daily Except Sunday).
Hereafter the ambost train Will leave ston'
ineton NJ 1 30 A. VI.
Providence line freight only from pier 20
North RIVER foot OF Warren ST.. ut 5 7. N.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-03-23

I'D AUCTION SALE ~ EvEhETr LLRaARv, 900
OGh tins Saturday evening. 7S entire Of
Books statioery Pictures and Fancy Goods offered
" ksaay biddsu. Ladies provided with seats
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-03-23

s. wEINBgRGER, AUCTIoNEER. SELLS THIS
l.day Saturday March D. los O'Clock. at sale oom
rs Bowery account removal the entire Contents.
Furprure utery Tewel ing Cigars Reii serator. &c. OF
II Bowery: great variety. VIII occupy new
sulr bowe ON MAY 4.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-03-23

A SET OF rEETh IN THREE uoUTs AT EITHER
A3'7 9th av one door above 23d 1873 West saith
81 ruouer, eciluioid goId ptnA and al other chant
cal dentistry with despatchi terms to suit the
NkWBkOU0H NkWBAOgGH>
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-03-23
EXCURSIONS.

JNXCURSION BOATS AND GRovEs.-sTEAMERS
Generml sedgwick ana Fort Lee bRrges Caledonia Re.
pntc and Anna Excelsior PARK, Oriental Tartan Beach.
Cold spring. Iona Island and Columbia Groves \. *
BRIGGS. 3Si West opposite Christopher street ferry
Brooklyn office (Hudsons Buildings corner Fulton aud
York SITS
DOR NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. STEAMER J. 3.
II SCHUYLER; capacity 1000 passengers entirely re.
httsd also Barges Occidental Grove the Hudson and
others; open Sunday:
MARTIN j. HASKELL, ll9 South IT.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-03-23

/ DTSTRTTT UUUKI, SOUTHEHN
" District of New York In the ater Abram Duryec
bank upt-No. In bank uptcy.
Notice hereby given That the unders assignee in
bankruptcy OF the estate and effects OF Abram Duryee the
bankrupt above named, will sell public auction the
Exchange snlcsroon, No. Ill broadway, Il. H. Ludlow
Co., auctioncers. Ia the city OF New York. the 3Oth
day OF March, 1873 nj clock In the afternoon the toll
lowing described belonging to the estate Ia bank
ruptcy the said bankrupt, that to All that
certain lot piece land with tho buildings
improvements thereon situate lying and being In the
Twenty hst 2lst) ward oi the city New York and dis
tngulshed map OF tho Ogden place farm, madc Jo
w. Bridges City Surveyor He the said office
Register OF tho city and New York by tho
number twentysevcn CD. bounded ANA described fol-
lows BE ginning point he norory side OF 3Sth
ST. distant hundred and twenty-five tI2bl feet
wardy from the castery line OF the Filth 9th and
runnu thence eHswardy along said uortheriy sdo
Ihrtyeighth Istb) twenty-five ,25 feet; thence
northwardy and parallel with the Filth 9th ninety
eight s) feet nine % inches to the line al tho
block thoncc aunI said aud
lei with said Thirty eighth Ct IT, twenty-five Cl5 teet
aud thence southway aud parallel with the Filth (5thj
ninetyeignt s cet nine 90 inches to the oil
beginning
D.ted NKw YoRx. 18th March, 1878
WIN. "a. HENRY,
Assignee In bankruptcy OF said bankrupt
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-03-23

NEW YORK AND HAVANA DIRECT NAIL LINE
IN These brst class steamships will sail Mt r. NJ from
pier Is North River loot OF Cedar Tor Havana Direct
follows
GEORGE w. CLYDE .......... Saturday March 30
COLc MBUs..... wednesday, April io
For freight and passage, having unsurpassed
dsti0ns, apply to
WILLIAM p. CLYDE 4 Co, No O Bowling Green.
MckELLAR, LUIING CO., A ents in Havana.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-02-23
UOU THEY SPENT TIE MONEY.

The Members of Congress who, in the good old
DAYS ranked their boots home to be mended, were
mere tyros the fine art of ilching So were those
who supplied themselves with paper and penknives
and patent nkstands for the rest of their lives. Ii
took South Carolina Assemblyman under the
carpet-bag regime TO grab and gobble with an
almost ideal grecdness. The Legislature of that
State las received report which Will astOnish
everybody who reads it, 1t is made by Committee
on Frauds appointed to investigate the misdeeds of
former General Assemblies. The prodigality with
which these Solons, sable or white spent the State
money. the things for which they spent it, Justify
the mild remark of the committee that there was " a
carnival of fraud and extravaganza" We should say
there was And saturnalia. Andan epidemic. Sup
pliesr and Sundrics and Incidental Expenses"
are proved 10y vouchers in the Treasurers Office
TO have amounted in n single session to the sum of
$3.50 OOO and of this, fl2j 200 was paid out for
refreshments, including the choicest wines and
liquors aud the most exquisite and expensive cigars
Two or three drinking places were fitted up IN the
State House, where members cOuld conveniently
iortify their nrmties, and charge the bill to the
State Itself. From these places they carried of
cigars by the hatfull, with "a bottle of champagne
in each pocket Moreover they ordered refresh
mpnts" of all sorts to their boarding houses. The
Scrgeant-at-Arms also used To take orders and fill
them from several neighborug groceries
There was one James a. Bowley described
as "a leading colorcd member" who seems
certainly to have led in the business of
imbibing for to him in day were sent q" one box
of champagne, one box of port wine, one box Of
brandy, one box Of sherry wine and three boxes of
cigars" There dealer named Solomon, who
was remarkably wise in his generation. AS a
specimen of his way of doing business. it
may be stated that on the 18th of March,
1872 he furnished the Senate with wines
and liquors to the amount of $l.G3l
and only three days after with the sort of mer
chandise to the anSuntof 81 ,S52. Three thousand
four hundred and eighty-threc dollars spent in
m0stening the Senatorial clay in only three
days! And this was at time when the
State was obliged to pardon the vest crlm-
inals to keep them from starving in Jail !;
when all the lunatics were bowling hungry in the
asylum; when the free schools were closed and the
teachers unpaid! According to bills rendered and
pay certificates issued, it appears that every member
Of the House must have consumed one gallon per
diem Of wines or liquors, and smoked at least one