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Daily Kennebec journal., 1878-12-13

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The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-10-16
A SUCCESSFUL JOKE.

Theodore Hook cnce made bet with
Terry, the actor, that he would dine at a
certain house without invitation, on the
occasion of large dinner party. Accord
ingly he presented himself at the mansion,
and was uslered into the drawing-room by
servant, giving the name of Smith
Making himself perfectly at home, he had
half dozen people about him laughing at
his bon nlots before the host discovered that
a stranger was present. On making in
quiries of the supposed Mr.. Smith the host
mildly said, "Really sir, I did not antici-
pate the pleasure of Mr.. Smiths company
to dinner Whom do you suppose you are
addressing ?" "Mr. Thompson, ofcourse, y
answered Hook, IAN old friend of my
fathers. received kind invitation from
you yesterday, on my arrival FROM Liver.
pool, to dine with you to-day. Family
party, come in boots, you said" The host
at once disclaimed the name of Thompson
or any knowledge of the vivacious Smith.
fGood heayens! Then have come to the
wrong house." exclaimed the hoaxer. my
dear sir, how can I apologize? So awk-
ward" Thereupon, the old gentleman
begged him to remain, which Hook Of
course did. Everybody was delighted with
him. All the evening he kept up q con-
stant fire of wit and repartee, and ulti-
mately sat down to the piano and sang
extempore verses on every one present II
was not until the close of the evening that
he disclosed his identity.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-10-16

Compared to cat dog is very simple
and transparent creature, Sometimes, in
deed he is guilty of acts of deception and
hypocrisy, but they are crude and ingen-
nous compared to the unfathomable wiles
of cat. Mr.. Norths dog, for instance,
who ate the pigeon out of the pie and
stuffed up the hole with North's ink
sponge, was not an adept in the art of
theft; and fox-terrier, with whom the
present writer enjoys the intimacy of
common household, disgraeed herself re-
Gently by what was, to all intents and
purposes, q lie, when little more astute-
ness would have shown her the futility Of
falsehood in the face of an abb. She
had been tearing up paper and strewing it
about the floor, with fine literary freedom,
when the servant, whose duty it was to
clean the carpet, asked her, with magis-
terial severity, "Who tore those papers P"
The culprit looked at first terribly ashamed
and hung her head and tail, in expectation
of chastisement, till her mistress, as trial,
observed, 'I wonder did Gyp do it?''
(Gyp being the offenders, usual companion
and fellow sinner, but as it CHANGED, 200
miles off at the moment.) Instantly the
perfdions little wretch perceived way Of
escape from the penalty of her own
misdeeds, by throwing the blame on her
friend, and looking up briskly, shook her
tail frantically, and almost nodded, "You
are right 1t was that wicked Gyp! As
for me, am quite incapable of touching a
piece of paper. "--4Hs Spectator.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-10-16
THE oLD.FAsHrONEp n1EI.E.

In the b5 -gohe days of Der Ffeischutz,
riAe-shooting was very different affair
from the routine business now so well
known to all of us--thanks to the volunteer
movement The old-fashioned rifeman,
Kuno, headirahger to the Grand Duke Of
Sehless- Windbeutel, used rifle as unlike
the Martini Henry or the Snider, as could
well be imagined. Into the nature of
Caspar's gun and bullets it is needless to
inquire; butit is perfectly well known how
Kuno's weapon was constructed, and what
he did with it. 1t was a heavy grooved
rife, with a rather sharper twist than that
now in fashion. Kuno carried with him q
quantity Of apparatus besides his flint
lock gun. He had two powder horns, one
for loading and the other for printing; he
had store of wadding and Of CREASED
circles of leather and little hammer.
When he loaded his gun he gave his mind
to very serious operation. First of all
he wiped out bis gun carefully, then
poured in his coarse powder and wad, and
rammed all down. He next took CREASED
piece of leather, or, in default of leather,
of linen, and placed this over the muzzle Of
the gun. In this CREASED disk was laid the
old-fashioned spherical bullet, too large to
enter the barrel without persuasion. This
he applied with the hammer before men
toned, driving the ball by main strength
into the muzzle, and then forcing 1t down
with the ramrod. He then primed his gun
with some very fine powder, and if his
hand were steady, and both flint and steel
were in good condition, all went well.
Excellent shooting was made with these
old rifles, within, of course, far more
limited range than that of the last new i'm
provements. Whatever may be thought
of the comparative merits of the breech
and muzzle loading in the case of infalli-
bic artillery, there is little doubt that the
treech-loader has, as small arm, COM
pletely superseded it's sometime rival. AL
the Year Round.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-10-16

when lunatics are furnished with fire
brands, who can prevent conhagrations?
In every scheme of social and political
reform there are minds which can see re-
form only through demolition. They
must first destroy in order to rebuild.
They would endeavor to correct all So
cial wrongs by first destroying all social
rights This is the evil against which
Germany is now struggling. And this is
an evil that even the leaders of Liberal
ism are striving to avoid. H ....
In Russia this sentiment takes the
name Of "Nihilism;;" and we read in our
daily dispatches of its spread among the
Russian people. As yet, its operations
are conducted under profound secrecy,
but in terms of warning to the Imperial
personages. Just what is demanded does
not, at this distance, very clearly appear.
But, from all that can be inferred, it
seems plain that constitution for Russia
is the principal demand. And this the
Gar has intimated his willingness to con-
cede; to the surprise of all Europe.
But we must consider that the Rus
sian people have been rapidly advancing
in civilization. The only system Of Alb
solutism now remaining in Europe is the
Russian. Every other European sover-
eighty is limited by some constitutional
restrictions and shared by some
form of parliamentary and legisla-
tive bodies. Doubtless the Gar
foresees the inevitable, in this regard, as
to Russia; and, like wise man, yields
gracefully in advance to a storm that by
and by he could not resist. By our latest
advices we learn the singular fact that
the most prominent of these Russian
Nihilists are found among. the young
noblemen of the Empire. The explana-
ton of this is probably to be found in
the idea that they would impose consti-
tutional restraints upon the autocracy of
the Gar in order to render their heredi-
tary rank and rights more secure The
same was done by the British Barons
when they wrested Magma Charta from
King John, and for precisely the same
purpose.
At all events it is manifest that this
spirit of Liberalism is steadily working
among all the nationalities of Europe,
producing changes everywhere favorable
to civil liberty and in restraint of des-
potic power. Even Russias ancient des-
potism seems now to have felt the touch
of this Ithuriel spear, and shows signs of
changing her absolutism into a Contitu-
tional Monarchy. When this shall be
done, autocracy in government will no
longer be known to any nation in all
Christendom.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-10-16
ITEMS AT LARGE.
Texas is sheep-shearing.
Heliotropes love rich soil.

Heliotropes love rich soil.
Indiana's hog cholera is waning.
Attend strictly to your own business.
Potatoes were introduced into ireland in
1910.
The locust sings by fddling on lis wing
with its leg,
Many farmers still husk their corn by
thumb power.
Colorado produced less No l wheat this
year than last.
Turkeys are laying on fat for the near and
thankful future.
An agricultural show is actually to come
off at Tashkent, Central Asia.
Good crops are the results of good honest
days WORK, directed by skill
Farming don't pay, says the man who
spends his time at the grog-shop.
The cranberries around Vineland are
small, and hardly worth gathering
There are five hundred thousand acres
under the cultivation of tea plants in In
dia.
Bronson Michigan )dealers have shipped
over fifteen hundred barrels of apples
already.
Farmers should mediate on what they
read, and read that they may have food for
meditation.
A place for everything and everything
in its place is characteristic of the method
ical farmer.
1t is said there are farmers houses with
out book ora newspaper "a base SANDER,
let US believe.
An Illinois farmer sent an apple seven
| teen end one-half inches in circumference
to the President.
Put little soft soap on the creaking
hinges of barn door or gate, and stop the
wear and music.
The Delaware peach crop brings 81 900, 900
into that State this year, the average price
being 81 basket.
The flesh of birds differs from that of
mammals, the former never being marbled
or mixed with fat.
Keep chickens in the orchard. They
will clean up the rotten fruit, hunt the cur
culio, and destroy the larvae Of the codling
moths.
Fancing farming is INDUCED IN regard
less of economy, yet such farming may
teach lessons of economy to good agricul-
| turiSts.
Farmers should experiment with more
care with regard to the different kinds of
manures, fertilizers and in taking account
of crops thus produced.
A contrivance was made in England in
1888 for cutting grain, when the Society of
Arts offered a gold medal or EDO for reap
ing or moving machine.
Peppermint oil is selling for 81 80 per
pound, discouragng fact to the pepper
mint growers of Wayne County, N. T.,
where the acreage of that mint is large
reaping machine was known in the
days of Pliny and was worked by the Celts
in the fields of Gaul, but for centuries had
fallen into disuse until recently invented.
The question of cooked or raw food for
milch COWS still agitates the rural mind.
Perhaps the manufacturers of cooking ap-
paratus have something to do with the dis
cusSion.
Russian varieties Of apples are very highly
spoken of by all who have cultivated them
to any extent. Their hardness and pro-
ductiveness are not the least of their vir-
tues. French nurserymen give their Guilt
vation especial attention.
The late importation of blood cattle has
been closely followed by the recept from
Europe of shipment of blooded horses.
On the horse question, however, we some
times make an exchange with the Old
World by an export shipment
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-10-16

An improved construction for Weighing
scales consists in the direct application
of the platform carrying and weight sup
porting khife-edges to separate weights of
different proportions. These weights are
jointed by arms and pivot-rod, 80 that
the result is obtained of allowing the
Object to be weighed being placed upon
any port of the platform--and also the
weights, having to each other quicker and
slower oscillations, tend to stop each
other, and thus bring the index sooner to
a rest. The casing is provided with an ad-
Unstable device for setting the index to the
zero point of the stationary dial. To one
or more of the weights is also attached one
or more smaller weights, which, being ad-
Unstable, can be used to increase or de-
crease the capacity Of the scale, as well
as adapt it to any given dial plate.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-10-16

IT is stated that in the Bay,of Komenok,
near Koma, in Greenland, fossil and very
characteristic remains of palm and other
trees have been discovered lately, which
tend to show that in those parts rich
vegetation must formally have existed;
but, the Ice period of geologists arrived,
and, as consequence of decreasing tenn
perature, this fine vegetation was covered
with ice and snow. This sinking in the
temperature, which moved in a southerly
direction as is proved by geological data,
such as the discovery of fossil plants Of
certain species--is believed to be going on
at the present day also in the region named,
and likewise on some portions of the
European coast. !"5 a. a. ,'o
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-10-16
ABOUT LACE.

In the sixteenth century lace was q
favorite lovers bribe to an Abigail.
Silvio, in the bill of costs he sent to the
widow Of Belinda, at the termination of
his unsuccessful suit, makes a charge
FOR "piece of Flanders Lace to her
waiting woman. Swift addressed q
"young lady," in his peculiar strain:
sand when you are among yourselves,
how naturally after the first compliments,
do you entertain yourselves with the price
and choice of lace, and apply your hands
to each others lappets and rufies, as if
the whole business of life and the
public concern depended, on the
cut of your petticoats. Not satis-
fed with lace when alive, both men
and women craved for it as a decora-
ton for their grave clothes. In Malta,
Greece, and the .lonian Islands, the
practice of burying people in lace ac
quired an unsavory reputation on ac-
count of the custom of ritling the tombs
and selling the lace-often in a filthy
condition-in the market. At Palermo
the mummies in the catacombs of the
Capuchin Convent are adorned with
lace, and in Northern and Middle Europe
this fashion prevailed for long period
In the church OF Revel lies the Due de
Croy. a General of Charles the Twelfth,
in full costume, with rich flowing tit
of fine puinuree ---"--..."..
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-10-16
SCIENTIFIC.

IT was the opinion of the late Prof..
Agassiz that, at a former period, enormous
masses Of ice covered the great and beau.
tifM valley of Switzerland, together with
the whole chain of the Jura, Che sides OF
which, facing the Alps, are also polished
and interspersed with angular and erratic
rocks, resembling the bouiders in the
mornins, yet SO far different that the masses
of ice, not being there confined between
two sides of valley, their movements
we're in some respects different-the boul-
ders not being connected in continuous
ridges, but dispersed singly over the Jura
at different levels. But the most striking
theory, perhaps, advocated by this great
scientist, was this, namely-that at cer-
tain epoch, all the north of Europe, and
also the north of Asia and America, were
covered with mass of ice, in which the
elephants and other mammalia found in
the frozen mud and gravel of the arctic
regions were imbedded at the time Of
of their destruction; and, therefore, when
this immense mass of ice began quickly to
melt the currents of water, thus resulting
transported and deposited the masses of
irregularly rounded boulders and gravel
which fill the bottoms of the valleys-in-
Vulnerable boulders having at the same
time been transported, together with mud
and gravel, upon the masses of the glaciers
then set ahoat.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-10-16
s-s---=.-.r.=-

A convicted Texas murde:er, in his con.
fession, opens in this style: II scratch
you few lines toilet you know that still
float through the gentle breezes, Of mis- ry;
but, according to the decision Of the sp-
pellate court, / guess it is about pea time
with me, but then we must bear our mis-
fortunes in this world like men," a
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-10-16

IT is claimed that the Newspaper -four bar
rels are not only cheaper, but more tight
and durable, as we'll as lighter, than those
of the ordinary construction. By an inn
proved method of manufacture, these bar
rels are composed of straw paper pulp,
which is run into mould made in the
shape of one-half of q barrel cut vertically.
The pulp is subjected to powerful hy-
draulic pressure, and, when reduced to the
required thickness, the ends of the halves
are cut off; the pieces are then placed in a
steam drier, the sides are trimmed evenly,
and the substance thoroughly dried. 1t
comes from the drier ready for making up
into barrels There are three heavy
wooden hoops and two hoops fastened to-
gether, and, into grooves cut in the slaves,
the paper halves, which have an average
thickness of three-sixteenths of an inch,
are slid. The ends of the barrels are made
of paper of q similar thickness, constructed
upon the same principles as the sides.
The barrels are manufactured entirely by
machinery, and the halves are cut SO true
that any pieces of the same size will readily
fit together.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-10-16
Are You Afflicted,

and wish torecover the same degree Of health,
strength and energy as experienced in former
years? DO any Of the following symptoms or
class Of symptoms meet your diseased condi-
ton? Are you suffering from ill-health in
any Of it's many 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 los
Of memory, have spells of fainting, fullnes
Of blood in the head, feel listness, moping
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-10-16
An Indian grave containing four skele-

An Indian grave containing four skeie-
tons, was recently discovered at Revere,
Mass. One skeleton, evidently that Of .
warrior, alasped in its right hand q large
clam shell, containing the bowl of stone
pipe, o smaller pipe complete, oehre and
sermillion, war paint and a substance
resembling tobacco. The smaller pipe is
curiosity of itself. 1t is made of roll
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-10-16

Forest and Stream describes the novel
manner in which two-inch water pipe
that had become clogged was cleaned. A
hole was punched through an eePs tail and
u string was passed through. The eel was
then started through the pipe An oeca-
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-10-16
Lost Confidence in Yourself

and energy for business pursuits Are you
subject to any of the following symptoms:
dreams, palpitation Of the heart, bashfuIness,
restless nights, broken sleep, nightmare,
confusion Of 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, 1878-10-16

CONSIDERABLE commentator Is be-
slowed opon a new tricycle. recently intro
duced in England. 1t is operated by both
hands and feet, the latter resting upon
cranks that drive a shaft placed in the
lower portion of the framework, ano IS
this shaft is rotated, it communicates mo-
ton by means of a chain band to a sixty
inch driving wheel; the shaft of this driv-
ing wheel has two cranks, which, being
engaged by the hands, of the rider, materially
assist loeomotion. steering wheel, TWEEN
ty-four inches in diameter, is placed in the
rear, being attached to a vertical rod-its
upper end provided with small gear
wheel mesLmg into the geared arc of a
lever, the opposite end Of which, formed
like fork, partially encircles the body of
the rider. BY incining the body to the
right or left, this lever, turning on its
pivot, produces corresponding turning of
the steering wheel. By means of this simple
but effective arrangement of the machine,
it may be propelled by either hands or
feet, at the option of the rider, or
the Simultaneous action of both hands and
feet may be employed.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-10-16

oflead, fadely fashioned ii Resemblance of
a European pipe, and when first foand
contained tobacco, SO thatIit any one had
been SO disposed the smoke interrupted
two hundred years ago might have been
continued long after the lips that had
clasped it had turned into dust.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-10-16

MATsoN's majority is 99 votes. 1t is
not immense, but it answers all practical
purposes as well as if it reached 10000.
Weber goes into the Sherif's office with
the handsome Endorsement of 2,084, and
Carrick for Coroner leads the field with a
majority of 1862
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-10-16
Unfit for Business

or pleasure, and subject to fits Of melane
choly? Are your kidneys, stomach, urinary
organs, liver or blood in disordered condis
ton? Do you suffer from rheumatism, neu
ralgia, or aches and pains? Have you been
indlscreet in early years and
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-10-16
Broken Down in Health

and spirits from disorders peculiar to their
sex, and who, from false modesty or neglect
prolong their sufferings. Why, then, further
neglect subject SO productive of health and
future happiness when there is at hand
means of cure? Whynot throw off the yoke
and seek a remedy that has
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-10-16
Science and Common Sense

to commend it?--a remedy of indisputable
efficacy, and the most certain meaps 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-P Physiology teaches US, in regard +"
the modts operandi Of the
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-10-16

BUTLER is making a vigorous cam
paign for the Massachusetts, Governor
ship, and feels encouraged. His friends
roasted an OK at Worcester yesterday.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-10-16

MANToN MARBLE makes a sweeping
denial of fraud and knowledge of fraud
in connection with his visit to Florida
during the count.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-10-16
a Victim to Youthful Fo!Eies,

or carried the marital relation to excess in
later years? Have these indiscretions and
excesses left you in weak and debiltated
condition? Are you timid nervous and for
getful, and your mind continually dwelling
on the subject? Have you