The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-03-07

The institution of the Independent Order
of Foresters took place last night. r. NJ.
Cordes, Right Worthy High Chief Ranger;
Charles Towns, r. w. H. Master, and A.
Kolehler Past Chief Ranger, of Cleveland
j. F. Martin, P. G. R., and David Hudson,
?. G. R., of Columbus assisted in the insti.
tuition. 1t is called Court Mason, No. 40
Independent Order of Foresers" The
Court has seventy-hve charter members
After the business of the evening was
through, there was banquet at Jolly's old
dlning-room.
TELL-TALE TOMATOES -'Where did you
get them tomatoes?" asked an old Long Is
land farmer, last autumn, of neighbor
whose real estate yields product of nil
and on which there was not tomato vine.
His basket was full of very fine, ripe speci-
mems, which he thought he recognized. 1t
was not the first time suspicion of his i'm
pecunious neighbor's honesty had arisen in
his mind
Where did you get 'em!" he asked
again.
s"Bought 'em."
"Ah! Let's look at your hands"
With his basket on his arm he held out
both hands for examination: "What do YOU
want to look at my hands for? There amt
nothin' on to 'em." The old farmer was
washing his own hands at the same time in
a tin basin of rain water, with a wooden
bowl of soft brown soap before him. !'No,
there amt nothing on em that YOU can see
but, look a'here! Set down your basket,
and wash 'em. It's VERY coolin' and your
face and hands look hot"
so saying, he emptied the basin, and
filled it with cold water pointed to the soap
dish, and relieved the bearer of his basket.
The first immersion and friction of the
hands in the water let the cat out of the
bag. The fluid at once turned green and
grew greener every second, and at length
turned an intense dark green "Here,
Jim," said the farmer, to his tow-headed
son, take in this basket and empty it,and
bring it out ag'in." Then turning to his
honest neighbor, he said, "You hooked
them tomatoes from my patch half an hour
ago. Three or four of the top ones | knew
III minute. Here's your basket" Ifany
country reader Of the foregoing would test
this discovery of a theft, let him pick one
or two tomatoes next season, separating the
vines with naked hand and then wash it.
There is mysterious something about the
plant, perfectly colorless, that remains on
the hands until water removes it.
A BRIDES THREAT Detroit Free
Press of Thursday says: "Among the pas
engers who arrived at the Michigan Central
Depot yesterday were . newly welded cou-
pie from near Dexter, Mich, the husband
giving the name of Henry G. Barlow. Go
ing into the waiting-room to stay until the
train for Toledo should leave, Barlow, Incl
dentally, and without any thought of trou-
bic, began playing with a two-year old child,
a 1oI
with the mother of the child.
Mrs. Barlow Immediately arose and
quietly walked out of the room, a move
ment which caused Barlow to follow her.
He called to her. and she would not talk,
and had gone to within few feet of the
edge of the wharf, when he seized and held
her. After acknowledging that she intend
ed to jump into the river, she changed her
mind, and, accusing him of Irritation, be-
gan upbraiding him. Barlow bore it all
patiently, made an explanation, and in
less than ten minutes after the beginning
OF the trouble the pair were again in the
waiting-room pleasantly chatting, having
apparentlyforgotten the difficulty"
ETERNAL SUMMER-There is a spot in
Florida, where few or no persons ever go,
that 60 to Florida as visitors, but where
summer reigns the year round. 1t is the
Biscayne Bay region, at the southeast
corner of the great peninsula-and only
about twenty miles from the everglades A
Hartford Times letter says: In this limited
region of piney land and prairie, with
measureless swamps inland behind it, and
coral islands (mostly low and muddy and
covered with mangrove trees and the
''rookeries" of peliCans, curlew, etc.) in
front of it, any of the tropical plants and
fruits of the Bahamas can always be grown
and ripened Cocoanuts, pineapples and
many West India fruits do well there. The
gulf stream washes the shore as it bends
around to the northward and northeast, and
keeps away all frosts from generation to
generation. Only few wreckers and
-'spongers' visit this region; but one day,
when improved methods of communication
are established, the Biscayne Bay region
can (and probably willy be made the garden
and winter paradise Of Florida.
A well-known Oxford man, who was at
head master of prosperous grammar
school, was once detected by en Old punil
skating, on Sunday afteI, noon. 81 think,
DOCTOR" was the T9t unnatural observation,
"you once flogged me for boating ON Sun
uay. eS, my uear Doy, was Ine reply,
"and l did quite right. If man really
likes boating one day to him is the same as
another. Skating is entirely different II
may freeze hard on the Saturday night and
then thaw again before daybreak on Mon.
day morning"
FOrty-fifth Congress - Second Ses.
sion.
SENATE.