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Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1879-10-16
A Strangers Nose.

Some of those chaps who wear their
elbows down thin leaning on saloon
counters have an artificial fly with a
fine thread attached to the back, and
sometimes these toys can be handled to
the amusement of small crowd. When
an unknown man fell asleep in saloon
the young man with an artificial fly was
there. He took position behind his
victim, who was lying back on his
chair, and presently the fly alighted on
- '--s.-sS--'--.~s.sA-Ir I'M the
bridge and down, anu sruJrUI IA
ment on the tip end. The sleeper new
er moved a finger. The fly went over
the old route, dove into the corner of
the lett eye, galloped over to the right,
and came down to the grand stand on
the dead run, but the sleeper slept on.
1t began TO appear that he was used 10
flies, and so the game was changed. By
sticking a pin through one Of these
tops you can make quite bee of it, the
pin being the stinger.
When the "bee" descended on the
strangers nose everybody expected to
see sudden start, but IL did not come.
After jab at the tip end the "bee"
crawled along up, waiting tor develop
ments, and getting in an occasional
sting, but not even sigh escaped the
sleeper. The young man with the ill
sect was getting tired, whe n the stran-
ger lazily opened his eyes, slowly rose
up from his chair, and coolly remarked: {:
"Now, then, if you have got through
fooling with my nose, l'll fool with
yours for awhile!"
1t isn't likely that particular young
man will ever dangle artificial flies any
more. He was doubled up, straighten-
ed out, choked, mopped and slammed
so thoroughly that his appetite will run
to chicken broth and arnica for some
days to come. When the cyclone had
passed the stranger called for gin,
drank it, and said to the white-faced
crowd on the bench:
Gentlemen, II any more of you see
anything peculiar about my nose, please
call around and let me know!"
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1879-10-16
The Rattlesnake.

1t has been observed by some natur-
alists that If we withhold water from
snakes when about to shed their epider-
mis-, they are thereby prevented from
divesting themselves entirely of the old
skin. always kept a small Bird IS
bathing cup, filed with clean water
once dav, in the case containing my
crOtalus. The first skin he cast off, in
July, was entire and without a blem-
ish. AT the second change, however,
about the last of September, removed
the cup one night, intending to replace
it shortly afterwards, but forgot to do
SO. The next morning l found por-
tIons of loose skin all over the floor of
the case, and much more hanging in
shreds from various parts of the body
of the snake. Other parts seemed not
to be detached yet. had not sup
posed that the ophidian was quite ready
for change. He was over two months
in divesting himself OF his torn trousers
Was it due to the fact that water had
been withheld at the last timer Both
changes occurred in the night, and 1
failed to observe the interesting pro-
cess Of fdivestment. TO test the ques-
tion of so-called blindness occurring
during the time when the pupil is cov-
cred by whitish film or thin men,
brane becoming detached, and occlud-
ing the sight of the eye, placed some
very active mice repeatedly in the case
during the period of change of epider-
mis-. The Ophician attacked the mice
in quick turn, without even missing
his first victim. On other occasions,
however, when his siglt was unob-
structed, hav' seen him strike at and
miss the mark repeatedly. After max
-->;------ i--l A--------
about with intensified fury. The snake
never without first striking his victim.
He did not eat more than two mice at a
meal, and sometimes an hour lapsed be-
fore eating the second one He never
killed his prey wantonly; on the con-
trary he permitted mice to keep his
company while his appetite was ap-
peased.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1879-10-16
roo POLICE for noarderr.

The dull beaches OF this sandy coast
have been considerably stirred over an
event that Will be heard around the
world. You know what Narragsnset
is-at least you know what it has beens
for the place, believe Ia yours by dis
covery. l would not like to say how.
many years ago you and Doctor CANA D
liel Bailey and his lovely family found
by mere accident, that opposite New
port was a beach quite as favorable to
bathing, and adjoining it was one hotel
and one boarding house. The one was
Whalley's, lineal descendant Of Whal-
ley; the other crude little place, half
tavern and half boarding house, filed
with people from Philadelphia. In
those days one left the railroad at
Kingston, and wended his weary way
to the Pier by an old fashioned coach.
At the Pier there was one horse,
known as Old Smooth Tooth, that could
be hired at a dollar a day, with
vehicle thrown in, that impressed one
with the belief that it had been Noah's
family carriage, and had yet clInging
to its wheels, some of the mud left
from the flood. Primitive days and
primitive people. / remember the
Taylor people took on airs and pre-
tended to look down on the Whalley's.
They were poor snobs, whose pocket
books would not permit life at New
port, so they aped Newport at Taylor's
A good story was told of General
Schenck anent this tavern. He was
out bathing one day, when he encOun
tered couple of females splashing in
the breakers, and very courteously Of
fered his services to them. After
lively time the General escorted his
damsels to the bathing houses, and
coming out himself was met by grim
ming friend. 81 say, Schenck, we have
enjoyed laugh at your expense, he /.
cried. Chow so ?" responded the grim
M. c.. "Why don't you know you have
been bathing two ol Taylor's servant
girls 2" "Well, responded S., "I
thought they were too polite for board
ers."
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1879-10-16
Length OF the Days.

At London, England, and Bremen, Prus-
sia, the longest day has sixteen and half
hours. At Stockholm, Sweden, the longest
day has eighteen and half hours. AT
Hamburg, Germany, aud Dantzic, Prussia
the longest day has nineteen hours and the
shortest five hours. At Borneo. Finland,
the longest day has twenty -one and half,
and the shortest two and a half. At Wardhuy
in Norway, the day lasts from the 21st of
May to the 29d Of July, without inter-
ruption; and at Spltzbergen the longest day
is three months and a half. At New York,
the longest day, June 18, has fourteen hours
and fifty-six minutes; at Montreal fifteen
and half hours. But the longest day OF
all, though one never seen by a civilized
person, is that at the poles, where it lasts
for six months, and is succeeded by night
equally as long.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1879-10-16
THR HOUSR OF CLAY.

There was q house Of clay,
Wherein the inmate sat- all day,
Merry AMI poor;
For Hope sAt with her, heart to heart,
Fond aud knl
Nowing he nsver would depart
I'll an At once he changed his mind:
Sweetheart, good by :" He skipped away
And shut the door.
But Love came past, and looking in,
With snile thar pierced like sunbeam thin
Through wAA. roof, floor,
stood in the midst OF that poor room.
Grand and fair,
MAkins n glory ont or gloom
Tn a. the window Knocked grim Care;
Love signed All lose, and nothing win ??
He shut the door.
Then o'sr lhe close barred house OF clay
kind clemHtis and wcOdbiDe gay
Crept more and more;
And bees hummed merrlly outside,
Loud and strong,
The inner slsntness 10 hide
The patient silence all day longs
I'll evening touched with finger gray
The bOlsed door.
Most like the next steps passing by
Nlll he the Angels. whose calm eve
Marks rich. marks poor;
Who, fe&1ing not Al any gate
Stands and calls;
AT winch the inmate opens straight
Whom, ere the crumbl ng clay house falls,
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1879-10-16
Too Trusting.

"Mary Jane Marsh, didn't say to
last week that the next time you came
here under the charge of drunkenness
should send you up for sixty days?"
asked his Honor of five-and-forty fe-
male.
"I think you said so, Judge, but l
think had too much faith in you to
believe you'd do any such thing" she
replied.
swell. you trusted too much. You
are regularly booked"
"And I'm regularly sorry, Your
Honor, because | can never believe In
you again. It's sad day when man
loses the confidence of the public in his
word"
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1879-10-16

When person is overheated and ex-
hausted, both the hands and feet should
be bathed in cold water, and something
warm should be taken at once-hot
lemonade, ginger water, OR something
of that kind.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-04
ANCIENT PAINTING AND MUSIC.
Last Discoveries on the Banks OF the
Tiber,
Rome CORRESPONDENCE.

Rome Correspondence.
The ancient Roman house lately dis,
covered in making the excavations on the
banks of the Tiber in the garden Of Plaz-
20 Farnesina is even more interesting
than was at first supposed. The (rescoes
on the walls have been taken to the mag
azine of the archaeological commission in
the convent of ST Francesca Romano, but
they will soon be placed in the Mueso
Kircherino in the Roman college. Prof
of Rome last Wednesday morning, dis
coursed on the antiquities in the bed and
on the banks of the Tiber, and said he be-
lieved this house was formerly dedicated to
the sale of wine. All establishments of
similar kind were anciently in the same
quarter of the city, and it may be that this
was one of many houses in that part of
the city where the delights of Bacchus
were enjoyed by the Romans.
The archeoogists say that no discovery
OF equal importance has been made for
centuries in Rome. The walls, first cov-
cred with a thick coating of powdered
marble, and ornamented with exquisite
paintings are in perfect state Of preserv-
alton. They were evidently made in that
period of Rome at the end of the republic
or the beginning of the empire, when the
art Of painting was in the greater perfec-
ton, One of these pictures is an eXqui-
site representation of Bacchus as a child.
Near this are two limitations of the an
cient style, and there are also two musi-
clans playing the cithara This is an in
strument resembling the modern guitar
in form as well as in name. An antique
bas-relef in the hospital OF San Giovanni,
in Laterano, also represents this ancient
instrument, with cords and frets like
guitar The cords, however are longer,
and the space for the frets smaller, while
the player held the thick part of the in
strument in the curve of his arm. The
Egyptians also used this instrument, and
the picture OF man playing upon it is
seen in the tombs of Thebes.
But this new representation of the
cithara has value which none of those
discovered previously possess. Over each
cord Of the instrument are seen certain
letters or signs which are believed to be
notes, and if the learned men Of the city
succeed in reading them we may be able
to hear a melody composed two thousand
years ago, and sung by the merry follow
erS OF Bacchus on the shores of the Tiber
1t is very probable that in continuing
the excavations, other rooms will be dis
covered Those already found indicate
the usual form of an ancient Roman
house, which consist of an interior court,
called the peri-stylc, which was open to
the sky, surrounded by columns, and to
which the rooms inhabited by the family
had access. The bases of three columns
are seen here, and beyond these is cor
ridor one hundred feet long and eighteen
wide The room where the paintings
were found is on the right of this passage.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-04
Good Humor in the FamiE
Irhe Household.

Good humor is rightly reckoned most
valuable aid to happy home life. An
equally good and useful faculty is sense
of humor is the capacity to have little
fun along with the humdrum cares and
and work Of life. We all know how it
brightens up things generally to have a
lively, witty companion who sees the ri
diculous points of things and who can
turn an annoyance into an occasion for
laughter. 1t does a great deal better to
laugh over some domestic mishap than to
cry or scold over it.
Many homes and lives are dull because
they are allowed to become too deeply i'm
pressed with a sense OF the cares and re-
Sponsibilities of life to recognize its bright
and especially its mrthful side. Into such
household, good but dull the advent of
a witty, humorous friend is like sunshine
on cloudy day.
While it is always oppressive to hear
| persons constantly striving to say witty
or funny things, it is comfortable, seeing
| what brightener a little fun is, to make
an effort to have some at home. 1t is
well to turn off an impatient question
| sometimes, and to regard it from hu,
morous point Of view, instead of becom.
| ing irritatcd about it. "Wife, what is the
reason ! can never find a clean shirt"
exclaimed good but impatient husband
after rummaging all through the wrong
drawer. His wife looked at him steadily
for amoment, half inclined to be provoked
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-04

81 say, Charley" said a young swell the
other day, "I've struck new sort Of a
prospective fatherinlaw. You see got
mashed, terribly mashed, on little one,
and she asked me to call. So went down
the other evening. The governor came
to the door,I thought it was all up with
me. Expected the traditional boot, you
know;but he was very gentlemanly,asked
me into his library, chatted on politics
and trade, set up the cigars had bottle
of wine opened and did me proud. In
vited me to call again, too. But hang me
if I had chance to set eyes on the girl.
Singular, wasn't itp
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-04
Electricity.
iExchange.)

Mr. Arthur Gilham lectured in New
York the other evening on "The Wit and
Humor of New England" Mr. Gillian
began by saying that the gravest animal
is the ass, the gravest bird is the owl, the
gravest fish is the oyster 1t is the fools
only who are always serious. Gravity is
often the very essence of imPosture.
Gravity of demeanor is no test of mental
capacity. There are people who think
they are pious, when they are only bill
ious. Most Of you can call to mind per-
sons who never made any attempt at
mirth. l have seen some as inconvinci-
Bile as the old lady at Concord: "lIave
you given electricity fair trial for your
com plant, madam" asked the minister,
as he took tea with the old lady. "Elec-
trictyi" said she. "Well, yes, l reckon |
has. l was struck by lightning last sum
mer, and, hove out the window, but it
didn't seem to do me no sort Of good"
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-04
Editorial Spinnings.

A Fenian invasion of Ireland has just
been laugurated by the Colorado potatobug.
Mosquitoes feel great respect for camp
meeting people because when they bite them on
one chez k they turn them the other also
A refrigerator car has been placed
on the track between indianapolis and Torre
Haute for The purpose of utilizing the (s)cream OF
the locomotive.
The constitutional right to bare arms
is guaranteed, says an exchange, to every pretty
woman. The constitutional right to bare necks
will b. the necks encIoachment insisted on.
The Detroit Free Press wants $25 to
teach how to hold an ear OF green corn gracefully.
The way to do this gracefulIy-and we don't even
ask 25 cents for the fomula-is to sandwich it be-
tween Il couple or three spooniuls OF Lima beans.
In this form, ii You are well raised, you can hold
the suCcotash made from as many as two ears OF
corn in the most graceful manner in the world
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-04

well enough to be discharged, when sud-
denly one morning yellow fever
symptoms of the most violent type
were exhibited and in five hours the
patient died. Over three weeks, twenty
three days in fact, had elapsed after the
vessel had arrived at the port of New
York before the disease developed itself,
and then as intermittent or malarial
fever, from which it lapsed suddenly into
the worst type of fatal yellow fever. The
New York papers are, therefore, discus
sing whether yellow fever is other than
an intensified development of malarial
fever, and the conditions under which it
is possible for the latter to blossom into
the deadly Yellow Jack of the South and
of the tropics.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-04

The new combination method of oper-
ating in stocks which Messrs. Lawrence u
Co., bankers, n. Y, have inaugurated, is
attracting unusual attention in financial
circles, BY reason Of its remarkable success.
A customer in Providence invested nine
times. and made over 5000 in three
months, by using from $50 TO $500 capital.
By this system orders from thousands of
customers, in various sums, are pooled into
one immense capital and operated as a
mighty whole, thus giving to each share.
holder all the advantages Of vast capital and
shrewdest skill. Profits are divided every
thirty days. Any amount from $40 to
$75, 000 can be used ia Messrs Lawrence u
Co.'S combinations with equal proportion
ate success. $l5 will make $15 profit in the
month. 5000 will return 81, 600 or s per
cent. on the stock, and so on as the market
varies The new circular gives two un-
erring rules for success, and shows how any
one can operate proftably. Mailed free.
Stocks and bonds wanted. Government
bonds supplied. Apply to Lawrence & Co.,
bankers 81 EXCHANGE Place, n. y.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-04

Mr.. J. w. Edwards, large planter in
the canebrake region at Alabama, says
in letter to the Selma Times, that the
common notion that it takes a boil OF
cotton six weeks to mature after the
bloom drops from fhe stalk, is an error.
He says that from the latter part of June
to the 10Th or goth Of July it takes a
boil of cotton thirty days to become
fully grown after the bloom drops from
the stalk, and from then on to the 18th
of September it only takes from twenty
to twenty-five days for boil of cotton
to get grown from the time the bloom
drops
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-04

MARGARET CREGAN, stewardess OF the
bark Wallace, lately from Havana, died
last week in Brooklyn, n. Y, of yellow
fever. Her case presents many points OF
great interest. The vessel on which she
reached New York had no sickness on
board during the voyage, but seventeen
days after arriving one of the crew was
taken down with what appeared to be
and was pronounced remittent fever,
from which he soon recovered. Margaret
Cregan the day he left the Hospital was
taken with the same disease, and after a
few davs' Treatment was thought nearly
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-04
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The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-04
TO BE CONTINUED.

Let theDelaware and Maryland peach
growers prepare to tremble, for the past
two or three years they have been setting
out more than 100000 trees in the Hud-
son River Valley, and the prospects of
rich crops are so encouraging that the
GOOD work of planting still goes on. All
along the Hudson the farmers are peach
mad, and soon the dwellers in the me-
tropolis will be peach-glad over fresh
fruit at low prices.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-04

KENTUCKY has an election to-day.
An election is not an uncommon occur
renee in the Old Commonwealth, yet one
never fails to attract great attention in
the State. This is not because of any
anxiety as to the result, for Kentucky is
"soIid," but there is kind Of innate
feeling of patriotism over the river that
makes every man determined to devote
election day to saving his country not
witbstanding the fact that from his own
standpoint the country is sure to be
saved anyway. The election to-day is
for Governor, Lieut.. Governor and other
State officers and for members OF the
Legislature. OF course the whole Dem
oeratic State ticket will be elected by
the usual Kentucky majority, but it will
be at least week before the returns are
all in.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-04
Spirit Of the German Papers.

llG NulhslIeullNlsl
Butterworth and Campbell are two Re-
publcans, but they do not love each other
like brothers.
The Investigating Committee has shown
that the election law was handled in cor
rupt manner.
THE Volksbatt.l
The English have once more, to all ap-
pearances, been jubilant too early. The
CATER King Cetawayo is not yet destroyed.
The Democratic Convention, which meets
next Thursday in our city, will decide the
fate of big Conventions.
IThe Free Presse.l
We must regretfully announce to our
readers that Mr. Christian Moerlein, one Of
our Senatorial candidates, has found it nee
essary, on account Of i'll health, to decline
the nomination for membership of one of
the highest legislative bodies Of this State
after the same had been SO honorably con-
ferred on him.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-04

COMMANDER CHEYNE; of the Royal
NAVY of Great Britain, who contemplates
an aerial voyage to the North P"Ie, should
enter into correspondence at once with
Prof. Grimstead up in Canada. The lat
ter gentleman has invented steering at
tachment for balloons which will, sooner
or later, be the death of him, as it dis
plays a wonderful propensity for lodging
off in different direction entirely from
that designed by the aeronaut. 1t has
frequently threatened to drown the bold
professor in the lake.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-04

IF isn't probable that Mr.. R. R. Spring
er wants nomination for the Senate
Ii he does he should have it and the
whole vote of the county. He might be
nominated by the big Democratic Con-
vention, and also put upon the Republi-
can ticket in place of Mr.. Moerlein, who
has declined. Mr.. Springer, not being in
any sense politician, should receive the
support of both parties if he is willing to
serve the State in such capacity as Sen
stor from Hamilton County.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-04

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, our Minister
to Spain, confesses that there is nothing
to do, and he is doing it to the best of his
ability. St. Petersburg is getting along
quite well without an American Minister,
as St. James undoubtedly could also, and
the question naturally arises; What is
the need of those foreign missions any
how? Let us put up transatlantic tele,
phones, and run the whole business al
Washington.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-04

Blanche Tucker Mime. Macchetta) has
recovered four thousand francs damage in a
Paris Court in suit against NJ. Brasseur,
manager of the Nouveautes Theater, who.
after having engaged her for the role Oh
lydia in "Fatinitza," deprived her OF 1t
without reason. The verdict shows that
Mme Macchetta's case must have been
very strong one, for French Courts seldom
lose al opportunity to decide against for
eigners.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-04

Down at st. Louis the demand for ac-
eommodations at the City Work-house is
30 great that they are pardoning out old
prisoners to make room for the new,
Over one hundred were discharged last
Saturday for this reason alone.