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History of a Cent.

An exchange relates the curious history
of nickle cent: In May, 1857, Mr..
c. N. Fuller was married in Gowanda, N.
Y. Hiram Wheeler,a brother of the bride
presented the couple with one of the nickle
cent pieces which had just been issued, on
which he had engraved the names OF the
bride and groom, and the date Of marriage
When the first child was born,a year after
wards they attached this coin to chain
and hung it around the babes neck. The
family moved to Ithaca, a few years later
and one day the boy when about six year;
old, detached the coin from the chain ano
spent it for candy. Since then father
mother and son have died. At the recen
fair of the Indians in Cattaraugus Reser
walton, w. N. Fuller, a brother of the late
c. N. Fuller, made purchase at stand
In tbe change that was handed back t'
him was the very identical penny tina
Hiram Wheeler had engraved twenty ON
years ago, and that his little nephev
spent thirteen years ago. From appear
ances the coin has been in circulation
ever since.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-21
Lecturing a Teacher.
(Youth's Companion.)

When Aaron Burr was at Princeton
College, he took strong dislike to one OF
the professors, who, being good deal OF
martinez, was In the habit of lecturing
the students for tardiness and other mis-
demeanors, The professor was mem
ber of society Of which Burr happened
to be PRESIDENT and occasionally attended
the meetings.
One evening he came in while they
were transacting business. Burr saw his
opportunity, and determined to improve
it. With great dignity and severe coun-
tenance, he called on the professor to rise.
He then began to lecture him on the bad
habit of want of punctuality; adding
that the older members were expected to
set good example to the younger 81
hope" he said, in closing, mot to be un'
der the necessity of referring to the sub.
iect again You may take your seat, sir
The thing was done so naturally and
gravely that the professor submitted like
a school boy, and it was said that grea
improvement in his treatment OF the STU
dents followed.
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Some Good Managing.
Boston JournaD

A clever fellow, an expert in the cah'
ing, rang the door bell and soon the lady
Of the house was before him. Said he:
"Will you be kind enough to take this
book and give it-3" 81 guess not to-day,
sir" said she closing the door. "But
madam, you don't understand. only
want you to give it" cannot possibly
to-day, sir: Pm very busy" "Why, my
dear madam, the folks in the next house
are away; won't you please hand 1t to
them when they return? It's valuable
work, and you will save me many steps
and also oblige the lady very much" "Oh!
certainly, sir; excuse-I thought-you see
we have so many" 81 see madami i
don't fret yourself, can l further trouble
you for pencil to write the address on
the book'" "Most certainly, sir" she
said, throwing the door open. "Walk in.
! hope sir, you will excuse my mistake:
~ will but can't help feeling hurt" said
he, huskily; "but the lady is anxious to
get it, and no wonder; just see the engra-
vings-only 81. Shall add your name
to the list? She was powerless; he
got it.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-21
Magnets In the Minneapolis Mills.
Chicago letter.


The introduction of magnets into all the
great mills of Minneapolis and great
many elsewhere. has been revelation to
the millers who complained Of wire in
wheat. Not only have the magnets cap
tured all the stray pieces of iron bands,
and thus removed the last and only objec-
ton urged against wire binding harvest
ers, but they have revealed the startling
fact that of the scraps of iron and steel
that find their way to the mills mixed
with wheat, fully one-half are something
besides pieces of wire, and large proper
tion of which are of such nature as to
be even more dangerous to mill machin-
erv
The magnets gather everything Of this
kind with the certainty OF fate, and the
millers are free to acknowledge that their
introduction is blessing the value OF
which cannot be overestimated. The de-
vice is so simple and cheap, and the rem
edy for the evils complained of is so com,
plete, that farmers aod manufacturers will
never again hear any complaints from
millers, growing out Of self binding har'
vesters and wire bands.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-21

The children of New York clergymen
rarely follow the profession of their faith
ers. This is peculiarly true of the Fifth
avenue preachers. Garden Spring, the
former pastor of Brick church, left fam
ily of sons, not one Of whom sought the
ministry. James W.Alexander, another
Fifth avenue divine, left three sons, two OF
whom are in the Equitable Life lnsur-
ance company, and third is college
professor The most striking exception
to this rule is found, in the TyngS. Steph-
en- H. Tying sr, had three sons in the
ministry. The Oldest, Dudley, who was a
man of remarkable talent died early. The
second, who bears his fathers name, is the
highly esteemed rector OF the Church Of
the Holy Trinity, and the third, Morris is
also in the ministry.
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Editorial Spinnings.

A cemetery is not necessarily a bone
ANA.
Firemen are generally expert poker
players.
The Oil City Derrick uses tackle
block to haul up some of its deepest jokes.
The Indiana man who has married
nineteen wives charges two dollars each for the
job.
The prosaic young lady who went tc
Italy returned home with quite Rome-antic
fancies.
Parson Murray's misfortunes date
from the day when he undertook to buck-(board
the tiger.
The reason the moon is seen so often
"full,' is because she is out at such unconsciona
BILE hours
The rolling mills are all said tc hf
coming money, Where are the revenue officers
that they permit this?
As soon as it was officially announced
that the "Scalpers' were to hold Il secret meeting
at the Gibson House in this city on the 10Th, al
prudent citizens put on their wigs when called
down town on business.
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A Limb Of the Law

A story comes to Causeur of certain
Judge in this State, who, at the outset OF
his career as limb of the law, established
himself at Abingdon and hung out his
"shngle' as lawyer.
He was a stranger in the town, and
soon after his arrival asked man whom
he CHANGED to meet where he could hnd
the Chairman of the Seiectmen. "What
do YOU want with him?" was the Yankee
like reply. The Young man explained
that he was stranger in town, that he
was Just starting in his profession, and
that he thought it might help him to know
the leading people in town "Oh, that's
It. is III" said the party of whom he
sought information. "You are lawyer Yer
are you, and don't know anybody Ihe
Overseers Of the Poor are the men you
want to know"
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IT appears to be authenticated that the

IT appears to be authenticated that the
Swedish navigator Nordenskjold has ac-
compished Che perilous voyage from
sweden, through the Arctic, to the Pa
cfic Ocean, passing out through the
Behring Strait. The voyage has covered
the greater part of year to accomplish,
although the Professor was ice-locked
and in danger Of being lost for some eight
months of the time at East Cape, not fal
from the Pacific. What practical results
are to come from the voyage are Of
course to be determined hereafter, but
the pluck of the indomitable voyager is
ct least established.
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try; those lanes SO still, and so beautiful
with their broken sandy banks, covered
with tufts of feathering grass, with peep
ing primroses and violets,and barren
strawberries between; the beech and ash
of the copses casting their slender
branches across and chequering the way
with innumerable broken lights! Whilst
may be, as was here the case, long
pebbly stream runs sparkling atd shining
upon one side of the way, forming ten
thousand little pools and waterfalls as it
courses along.
Charmed with the scene, Iettice could
not prevail upon herself to turn back till
she had pursued her way little further.
AT last turn in the lane brought her to a
lowly and lonely cottage, which stood in
place where the bank had little re-
ceded, and the ground formed small
grassy semi-circle, with the steep banks
rising all around there stood the cot
tage.
1t was an ancient, picturesque looking
thing, built one knows not when. have
seen one such, near Stony Cross in New
Hampshire, which the tradition of the
country afiirms to be the very identical
cottage into which the dying William
Rufus was carried, and am half inclined
to believe it.
Their deep, heavy roofs, huge roof.
trees, little, low walls and small windows,
speak Of habits of life very remote from
our own, and look to me as if like heap
of earth, tumulous, such edifces might
stand unchanged for ten ages.
The cottage before us was of this de-
scription, and had probably been wood
mans hut when the surrounding country
was all one huge forest. The walls were
not more than five feet high, over which
hung the deep and heavy roof, covered
with moss, and the thatch was overlaid
with heap of black mould, which at
forded plentiful nourishment to stone
crops, and various tufts of beautifully
feathered grass, which waved in fantastic
plumes over it. The door, the frame ol
which was all aslant, seemed almost
buried in and pressed down by this roof
placed in which were two of those ole
windows which show that the roof itsell
formed the upper chamber of the dwell
ing. A white rose bush was banded uE
on one side of this door, rosemary tree
upon the other; a little border witt
marigolds, lemon thyme, and such like
pot-herbs, ran round the house, which
lay in tiny plot of ground carefully
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-21

The phrase "too thin," says writer in
the Baltimore Every saturday, was per-
fectly good English more than century
ago. Thus, in Smollett's novel "Pere-
grine Pickle" published in l75l, when
the hero suddenly informs his ladylove,
Amelia, that he is going abroad, the
tears gushed into her eyes, and she was
at great pains to conceal the cause of hel
grief by observing that the tea was sc
scalding hot as to make her eyes water
'This pretext," says Smollett, in all seri
business, "was too thin to impose on hel
lover. or deceive the observation of hel
friend Sophy.v
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A Singular Cat Story.

A gentleman who resides on Adams
street and has a fountain in the front yard
stocked with small fish, had been puzzled
for some time over the disappearance OF
the fish from the basin of the fountain.
One night last week he and several
friends sat up and watched. About ic
O'Clock they saw the house-cat stealthiiy
approach the rim of the fountain and
scratch in the ground. The cat caught Q
worm, which She moved around in the
water for few minutes, then, when the
little fish would rise and bite at the bait
the cat, with the other paw, grabbed anc
ate them. "Puss" was the "lone fisher
man" of the place. The above story il
authentic, yet it reads as if it was apocry
pha. Here is an important fact fol
scientists who draw distinction between
instinct and reason.
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WHAT SHALL WE DO ABOUT IT.

II seems that there is more unhappi-
ness in store for mankind, and this latest
phase Of human woe all grows out of the
nroblen as to what we should eat and
drink-particularly what we should
Ir;nk. Professor, or rather Dr., Book
<no relative to Book Bier), OF Lelpsic,
believes that the morality of nation de-
pends in great measure upon its eating
and drinking The Doctor has classified
the different moral effects of certain arti-
eles of food and drink, and has arrived at
several important conclusions. he thinks
that the nervousness and snarlishness OF
the present age is chiefly owing to
4he excessive use of tea and
coffee. Coffee acts on the
digestive organs OF confirmed consumers
and produces kind Of chronic derange
ment which reacts upon the brain, produ
cling fretful and maudHn moods. Coffee
drinking ladies are apt to become infused
with the mania that they are prosecuted
saints and their doubly distilled ant
highly refined organizations are no
appreciated at par.
The inordinate use Of tea deyelopes
snapishness of temperament; kind o
toueh-and-go disposition; an over-senss
tiyeness to external influences; mel
vous inquisitiyeness into the affairs o
Others. and a degree of petulence tina
is said by ancient authors: and moder
satirists to characterize old maids an
the inhabitants of the Celestial King
dom. ,.,
The Doctor, although German OF tn
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"Then It was lie" cried, iovfuiiv. "it
was all wicked, cruel lie; l knew t was.
And now will tell Miss May and | hooe
that girl will be punished for saying such
miserable things.
looked up in my mothers face. She
was regarding me with fixed, intent gaze.
There were tears in her eyes, and her face
was very sorrowful Her silence op.
pressed, terrified me. All my old suspi.
cions rsturned in full force. My heart
sank again, and the pain returned
"Alice" said my mother, at last, and J
must have been fainting, for she shook
me little, and there was a sob in her
voice that recalled me to consciousness
sat 'uprightand put my hair back with
my hands, Ny forehead felt like Goals
of fire.
Then, mamma" said, with a great
effort, "is it true-all that came unwilL
ingly to my ear'"
"Alice, listen, and I will tell you all"
She sat beside me, and put her arm round
my waist, drawing me closer and closer as
she talked
"My dear your father was in prison 70,
six long and weary months"
shivered-O, how cold l was! The
information seemed the death knell of all
my hopes. was too wretched to cry.
"But, dear, o, it is more painful to mo
than you can ever imagine-he was
wholly innocent. A sin had been laid to
his charge, and SO skillfully that no proof
appeared wanting Of his guilt. My dar-
ling, it was only few months after my
marriage that it all happened, and you
can family imagine, with your tempera-
menL what suffered You were born,
dear, while he was languisning in those
walls. But, Alice, we have a paper up
stairs, signed by dying man, which en-
tirely exhonerates your dear father, for
though he might have cleared himself, he
chose rather to suffer for time for one
he loved. shall never speak of this
again, dear; you will see why, when tell
you that the dying declaration of the true
criminal, which have locked away-you
shall see it sometime-was that of my
only, my idolized brother"
"My poor dear mother"
At that moment became her comfort
er, for she was nearly overcome with the
dreadful recital.
never troubled myself about this
dreadful scandal, and something was done
or said, never knew what, that closed
my schoolmate's lips, from that time, for
ever after. AS for my father-he was
now my hero, and to me the greatest, no.
, blest of men. I
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priBters' Generosity.
(Elmira Gazette)

With all their faults, the printers, as
Class, are a generous set of fellows. Sat
urday night the Sunday Telegram had
the misfortune to "pi" the entire fourth
page of their paper, Just as they were 60
ing to press with the first edition. Not a
single line was left standing, or single
letter left in its place. The work of hours
was wrecked in second, and the prospect
of getting out paper on time looked
rather dubious. The news of the acci
dent was soon noised about the streets
Willing compositors from the other oihce'
soon volunteered their services. Editors
iours and "devils" were hard at worl
again in few minutes, and exactly one
hour and half from the time of the crasl
the page was in type again, and in fiitee' e,
minutes the press was turning of tn
edition just as if nothing had happened
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purest tootonic character, is averse to
lager beer. He pronounces it brutaliz-
ing in its effects, and says that wine "im-
passions" and that whiskey "infuriates
but eventually unmans." Alcoholic
drinks combined with flesh and fat diet
subjugate the moral man entirely un-
less their influence is counteracted by
violent exercise. He thinks the tone OF
a man fattened by the free use OF fer
mented or distilled fluids and juicy
meats is only functional to the body as
salt is to pork-in preventing imminent
putrefaction."
In place of all these tabood beverages
the Doctor only leaves mankind choco-
late. That, he allows, is neutral in Its
psychic effects, and the most harmless OF
all our fashionable drinks. But choco-
late unfortunately does not quench thirst
any more than plate of hot soup, so
that really only water and milk are left
to mankind as thirst quenches, and these
in large cities are almost unattainable IN
pure state.
Other eminent writer's have said a
good word for tea and coffee, and some
favorable mention has now and then
been made of wine and beer, when used
in moderation. OF the former it has
been always claimed that they moder-
ately exale the activity of the brain and
nerves, and that tea increases the power
of digesting the impressions we have re-
ceiyed, as well as the food we eat, and
that it revives the faculty of Judgment,
while coffee acts on the reasoning facul-
ties, and that they both seem to cheer
without inebriating the overworked men
tai and physical organs.
These scientists, each in his way, are
rapidly circumscrbiDg the list Of dietary
articles allowed to mankind. Very soon
nothing will be left for us to feed upon
excepting the memory of bygone feasts
and nothing to drink but distilled water
and bean soup. We shall all be as Sanchc
Panza while ruling over Baratana. The
brand of the modern philosopher anc
physician will taboo all the most appe
tizing dishes and viands and cordials tina
now go so far towards making life thing
Of joy and spur mankind onward in thu
search for new discoveries in the CASTRO
nomic field. What will human life ther
be worth? Shall we follow these new
lights or still continue to enjoy ou
"cakes and alew
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There is curious tendency in human
nature to crave sorrow in hidden or
unconscious way that does not need OF
find words, but betrays itself in actions
1t is like the physical longing for salt
pure joy and peace are savorless without
this pungent favor of tears; there is nc
relief to sculpture without shadow, ne
delight to the eye like dawn, and ye
dawn implies darkness inevitably Ros'
Terry Cooke, in Sunday Afternoon.
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Cured of Drinking.

"A young friend OF mine was cured o
an Unsuitable thirst for liquor, which hac
SO prostrated him that he was unable TO dc
any business. He was entirely cured by
the Use of Hop Bitters 1t allayed all thai
burning thirst; took away the appetite FOL
liquor; made his nerves steady, and he ha'
remained steady and sober man for more
than two years, and has no desire to return
to his cups; know of number Of other
that have been cured Of drinking by it,
From leading r. R. Official, Chicago, LII
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Mrs. A.-"Somebody's A in the next
room. l wonder what they're doing
looking wistfully at the keyhole) "lm
a good mind to peek" Mrs. B'-"oh' !
wouldn't; It isn't right" Mrs. Al
don't care I'm just dying to know" Puts
eve to keyhole, but Immediately takes 1t
away, disconcerted) "Hm! the key is
in." Mrs. B-"Yes, so l found before
| YOU came in."-[Boston Transcript u
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-21

People have already ceased TO wonder
at the telephone; the Phonograph has be
come an old thing, and what the people
demand of Mr.. Edison now is a machine
that will stand at the kitchen door and
knock the head off the first tramp that
asks for lemon ice and two kinds a
cake-[Hawkeye. ..
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FROM this time on the organs will con-
tain little except political literature. 1t
Is good time for people who believe
shat there is much worth living for be-
sides struggle for Office, to subscribe
sor paper that it not entirely devoted
TO the interests of any of the men who
are bending their energies to get into
Nffioe.
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How He Avoids II.
fFigaro.1

"Nothing seems to me so i'll bred" say
a young man, "as to smoke in the pres,
ence of ladies'"
"Well," a friend asks, show do you
manage when there are ladies present and
YOU want to smoke"
"How do manager Why, | SEEM ILL
bred?n
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-21

THERE was an increase of new fever
eases at Memphis yesterday and an out
burst of incendiary fires, which was cal
culated to create decided feeling of un-
easiness among the citizens.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-21

A COUNTERFEIT quarter has been dis
covered at New Orleans, which not only
contains more silver than the genuine
but fraction of gold besides.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-21

DE LEssEPs is preparing for visit to
America. He wants to feel the public
pulse before he digs his Darien ditch.
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The Republican fire opened all along
The line yesterday, and Dalzell even was
not forgotten.
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UNDERTAKERS.
DUNKMANN 4 CO.,
,TNDERTAKER6.

Embs,ming promptly done. Ice used when 70
,uested. ONCE calls attended TO day ana night
Manufacturers of all kinds hrst-clasS Woce
cofins and Caskets Keep constantly on hand Z
full line of trimmed and untrmmed C0fflns ana
Caskets for the trade at manufacturing prices
Office and Warerooms Nos. l73 and l75 Clinton
Detween Linn and Baymiller sts Night once W
1aym iler street, Cincinnati. feN'lyIhs@ru
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Spirit of the German Papers.

Carl Schurz delivered his long adver-
tised speech at the Lookout House, last
evening. 1t contained absolutely nothing
new. For the most it can only be admitted
that Schurz has clothed in a new form
what has so often been said. The weak
ness in his speech consists in this that
Schurz is trying to defend the Republican
party. His speech of yesterday will make
little impression, convert nobody, and
hardly strengthen any OF the Republi ,,.ans
in his faith.