The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-01-02

SOUTHERN RAILROAD is to be finished
by December 10Th, of this year.
WILL the financial idiots go on calling
for repeal of the resumption law?
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The Philadelphia Star unfeelingly re-
fers to the O'Leary-Campsp contest as
"the late crawling match"
THE country has resumed, and that
general tearing up by the roots in every
direction at the moment resumption was
reached has not occurred.
POLITICIANS and alleged statesmen
will confer blessing upon the country
by no longer considering the financial
question political issue.
Mrs. WILHELM, of Host, Berks Coun-
ty, has fed five hundred and fifty tramps
this year, and she doesn't tack J to the
end of her name, either
LET Neptune shake his trident at the
Richmond if he will, and summon all the
furies of the deep Grant will not fear
the perils of the sea SO long as Borie, the
bold mariner, is aboard
A POOR wretch was run over by the
cars at Flint, Mich. The citizens who
picked him up were so disappointed be-
cause he was not killed that they straight
way arrested him for being drunk.
ALL the scows in the service of the
New York Police Department are frozen
in at Bayonne, New York, and conse-
quently the garbage and ashes of the me-
tropolis are rapidly accumulating in the
streets
LEGISLATORS in the various States are
Fastening to don their harness, and it is
appalling to think of the days of arduous
toi! and the sleeplcss nights which lie
before this band of hard-worked law
manufacturers.
"'WHAT will take the place of mill?'
asks the New York News man, while a
shadow of intense auXiety oyercasts his
tountcnancc. Why don't he pump the
miIlimen? They can soon chalk an an
sWcr down for him.
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A CARGO of CArrara marble, lost at
sea eight years ago, has been recovered
and found to be completely houcycombcd
by some minute marine borer. He must
be even more penetrating and perseyer-
ing then the familiar newspaper bore.
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If You are solicitous for the intellectll,
al welfare of your son do not send him to
William, College. They actually take
so little interest in boating at that insti,
tution that they talk of selling thcir
boats and tearing down their boat,
house.
The Intcr-Occan, of Chicago, is will
ing to lay wager that for every Sic
Louisville has given to charity during
the past year, Cincinnati has contributed
hundred. Cincinnati acknowledges ;
handsome compliment from the ables
and best of the Chicago journals.
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ANOTHER large Touring mill has beer
destroyed, this time in Iowa, from the
explosion of flour gas. Gunpowdcr, dy
Mantle and nitro-gIycerine will answc
for the feeble purposes of quarry blast
ing, but when you want blowout o
stupendous proportions you must fal
back on flour
Not many days since Pietro Cen
tcmeri, who was at one time a favorit
concert singer, but who subsequently be
came wealthy importer of silks anc
carpets, was buried from "lhe Littl
Church Around the Corner" in Ne,
York City. A short time previous to hi
death he wrote hymn to be sung at hi
funeral in memory of himself and hi
wishes were faithfully carried out.
STATISTICS show that more boys tha
girls are born in Great Britain, but tina
there are about a million more wome
than men in the kingdom. The sam
will probably hold good in reference t
any other country. When we rcmembe
dangers that beset boys as they gro
up, the wonder is that any arrive at MAJ
hood. 1t is fortunate that there are S
many more boys than girls born or ii
proportion of women to men would /
even larger than it now is
THE Supreme Judicial Court in Mass
chusetts has decided that it is not tt
duty Of mill proprietors, in constructir
property for ordinary purposes, to pr
vide means of escape for the safety
employees from the dangers of fire n
caused by the proprietor's negligenc
This virtually amounts to decision th