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The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-04
CHER Y PICTORIAL.
Ayers Cherry Pectoral,
sor Diseases of the ThrOat and
Lungs. such AS Coughs, Colds,
w NhOOping Cough, BroH.
caitis, tsfhs and
CONSUMPTION.

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which have won the
confidence OF mankind
ar d become household
words, among not only
one but mary natiOns
must nave extfaordina
ry virtues. Perhaps 10
one ever secured SO wild,
n reputation, or main
tained 1t SO long ~
Ayes Cherry Pectoral
1t has been known t.
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nod 50 les of maryeloit,
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-04
RAILROAD TIME TABLES
Corrected to Accord With City Time.

CINCINNAT SOUTHERN RAILWAY,
Depot, corner Mclean ave. and Gest street.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-04

BALTIMORE a OHIO. VIA pARKERsBURa.
Depot, Pearl and Plum.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1879-08-28
Moman,s Escape from Wolves.

In the year lS49 died in the town of
Greene, Me-, an old man named Thom-
as, who had a thrilling wolf story of
his own to tell, though the experience
was too early for his memory, he being
at the time baby in arms. MIR. George
j. Verney relates the adventure in the
Lewistown Journal. Mrs. Thomas was
a fisherman's wife who lived in the
town of Brunswick, Me-, where Bow
doin College now stands. At one time
when her husband was in port, but
could not come home, she started on
foot to Harpswell, distance of ten
miles, to see him, carrying her young
est child in her arms. Returning with
load of fish on her back as well as the
burden of her babe, she heard wolf
howl in the for est, and terror quickened
her pace, although she was already fain
to sink with fatigue.
She was midway of the five miles of
unbroken woods when the howl of the
wolf again smote her ear, and this time
other voices, one after another, Joined
in. The pack had gathered on her
trail
She must climb a tree, one would
say; but she did not. She did not even
throw away her fish.
The wolves gained upon her moment
by moment, the great gray wolves of
the North, that stand as high as a man
when they rear. 1t was mile and a
half to the nearest house when she first
caught a glimpse of the approach of the
demons
She had for the last two miles walk
ed at her utmost speed: it was now
time to run. Yet still held firmly her
babe and her fish.
A quarter of a mile more, and swift
ly as she lad passed it, the wolves
were within few yards. She could
see their white teeth and hear their
| labOring breath above her own. She
Ioosened and threw down single fish,
and ran. The pack discover ed rare
game, and fought together for its pos
session.
By the time it was eaten the brave
woman had got a quarter ola mile in ad-
vance; but the pack were soon at her
heels again. Another fl h checked them
and their snarls and yells,as they again
fought each other for bite of the saw
ory fresh Goldfish, hurried the labor
ious flight of the weary woman.
Her baby, annoyed by the shaking it
had received from the rapid pace, at
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1879-08-28
Antwerp from IA Church SpIre.

After wandering through the cathedral
and its chapels we ascended the spire to
have a view of the city. Five hundred and
fourteen stone steps lead to the top, and the
view repays the climbing. You look down
on the narrow winding streets and the
houses with their small courts, the people
look like children. the parks and gardens
stretch out as far as you can see to the blue
sea-like horizon of Flanders and Holland
The Scheldt looks yellow and SILENT the
vessels asleep on It's breast, the spires of
the churches rise up below you, the old
houses by the quay lean down to the water
and the guide shows the house of Charles
the Fifth, the old Spanish houses and the
tower near the water of the days of the III
quisition-and no one knows how old it is
and the bells and chimes are all ringing
for the Fete Dieu, and you go down to find
the crowds in holiday attire, pouring from
house and church. The houses are hung
with garlands of paper roses and lighted
candles and images of the Madonna and
saints. Old women with long cloaks and
broad tapping lace caps count their beads
as they stand waiting with candles in their
hands, and through the streets where the
procession passes they are sprinkling white
sand, and over that daisies and green leaves.
The crowds line the narrow sidewalks, the
police clear the streets, not a horse or
wagon to be seen, and amid the Ginning of
a thousand bells the procession leaves the
cathedral and comes slowly down the
streets. A band plays solemn grand
march, chorus of male voices follow, then
come the officials aud dignitarles of the
city in black suits, barred heads, white
gloves and carrying huge lighted candles
then the altar boys in scarlet and white
swinging incense, procession of priests in
full robes, bearing banners and crucifixes,
and then golden canopy upheld by four
priests and under it the archbishop carrying
the host, children dressed in white throw
flowers before it and the people all kneel as
IL passes
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1879-08-28
what HIs Wife Wanted.

AT the farmhouse gate the other
morning, Mrs. Whitehall said to Joseph
as he was ready to drive into town:
Remember, now, what | told you.
| want spool Of thread, No. 60, ten
yards of calico with dot in it, aud a
yard and half of brown drilling to
| line the waist"
Joseph drove into the city as straight
as bee line and as happy as an old gi-
| rafle when the circus is out He sold
his butter and eggs, was on his way to
a dry goods store when he met a man
who once came very near marrying his
sister, This was reason enough why
they should drink together, and they
| drank. When IA man meets fellow who
might have been his brOther-in- law if a
mule hadn't kicked the prospective
| bride across the dark river, he can't
tell when to stop drinking. Farmer
Whitehall couldn't remember whether
he imbibed seven or seventeen glasses,
but the result was the same. When he
finally got ready to do his trading he
entered Il store and said:
"Shir, | want shixty spools of dots
wiz waist in 'em !"
That was as plain rs he coHld make it
in any of the half dozen stores he en-
tered, and by and by he suddenly dis
covered that he wasn't in the right
mood tor trading. He found another
saloon and more beer, and it was even
ing when he entered a iewelry store
and said:
"Shir, want yardan' half of dots
wiz shiXty in emp
He was turned out, and late in the
evening he fell down on the street, too
tired to go further. AS the officer rails
ed him up he murmured:
"Shir, | want ten yard drillin' to line
'er shpool thread wiz"
He was quite sober when walked out
for trial, and, moreover, little anx-
ious to know what had become of all
his vest buttons and one coat-tail.
''Do you feel better?" kindly asked
his honor, as he looked down at the
prisoner.
"No, sir-I feel worse" was the an
Swer.
"Nlce time you had rolling round in
the street last night"
''Squar'" began the man, as lie faced
around, this is the fust time l ever
made fool o. myself with both eyes
open! I've got 'leven dollars down
here in my vest, and you kin take it all
if you'll let me go. I'll bet cucumber
the ole woman didn't sleep wink last
night, and she'll put one O. the boys on
hoss and send him up the road after
me this mornin.' 81
Then yon plea g'~an5 an Idior 70
bootr'
do you want to dust right out for
home?"
"Do /? Why | can't hardly stand
still. | want TO meet the boy as fur out
as kin, and I'll tell him | got upset."
"Can you remember what your wife
told you to get?"
81 kin. She wanted sixty yards of
waist lining, a yard and "a half of dots,
and ten spools of calico, and I'll get
'em as go out"
"Well, you may 60"
"Thankee! Whar's my hat-good-
bye"
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1879-08-28

had not the slightest feeling of friendship
for him. He came to her one night with 1
pitiful, false tale of her fathers dishonor
Marry ne now, this hour, and shall say,
your parent from felon's fate. Refuse
me, and he will be in prison before another
day, said her cruel suitor. She was scarce.
ly more than child, and she believed him,
and in her terror consented An hour after
her marriage her father was brought home
dying, and his last words were a protest
against Horace Chichester disgraceful act
and unwarrantable accusation. She be-
lieved her VOWS to be no longer binding,
and refused to see or speak to her husband
over again. Though he never held her in
his arms or kissed her lips, though she has
steadfastly resisted his claims, he has pur-
sued and hunted her To-"
"To death! !" Numbered an awful voice
at the open door.
For one moment | stood motionless be-
fore that savage apparition, and then |
flung my arms around my poor Edith.
But was too late. There was sharp re-
port, smoking pistol was dashed down at
my feet, and, with wild shrek, the crazed
Chichester rushed out of the house, through
the moaning pines, on towards the river.
Edith locked her sweet arms around my
neck.
"I He has killed me, Philip" she sighed
family, and with her lips against my check
she died.
That was the end. My love-life was
over forever.
| understood now why my poor girl had
SO abruptly left the operate troupe that
night first saw her-she had seen Chich-
ester as she drove past the gate where we
were standing together, and it was from
him she was fleeing. The picture in the
dim old parlor was an ideal piece, and WAS
in the house when he bought it.
Chichester's body was found in shallow
of the stream, with the white water-lilles
drifting over his upturned face.
1t was well for me that he was found
thus, for l know not what rash thing /
might have done in the first agonies of my
grief, with poor Edith's young life calling
upon my love for vengeance.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1879-08-28
StrOn Tea

General John Beatty, on one occasion
when on long march regaled himself
with what he supposed to be tea, but
was in reality, tobacco juice, and had
been concocted from a paper Of chew
ing tobacco which the General had
handed to the servant by mistake. The
General thought once or twice that the
"tea" seemed slightly impregnated
with flavor of tobacco, but attributed
it to the fact that he mad been smoking
more than usual for some time before,
and that the tobacco taste was there
fore not in the liquid but in his mouth.
When the General returned from his
march, he happened to mention to his
servant that the tea tasted like tobacco
juice, and was astounded at receiving
the reply, cit is terbacker juice, sir! !"
"Why, you must be an internal fool
john" said the somewhat horrltied
General, 'to give me tobacco juice to
drink - "Can't help that, sir: you
gave me paper o. terbacker and tole me
to make tea of it. Did jest as you tole
me sir" The reasoning was conclu-
sivc, and the General was obliged to
content himself with pouring the rest
of the "tea" out of his canteen.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1879-08-28
REVENGE

The fairest action of our human life
Is SCORING to revenge an injury
For who forgives without further strife,
His adversary's heart doth to him tie
And it's q firmer conquest truly said,
To win the heart, than overthrow the head.
III we q worthy enemy do find
To yield to worth, it must be nobly done
But if of baser metal be his mind,
In base revenge there is no honor won.
Who would worthless courage overthrow,
And who would wrestle with worth ess foe ?
We say our hearts are great, and cannot yield
Because they cannot yield, it proves them
poor
Great hearts are lashed beyond their power
but seld
The weakest lion will the loudest roar
Truths school for certain doth this same allow,
High heartedness doth sometime teach to bow.
A nobler heart doth teach virtuous scorn;
IT, scorn to owe a duty over long
Z To scorn TO be for benefits for5orne;
To scorn to lie to scorn to do a wrong;
To scorn to bear an injury in mind
To scorn free born heart, slave like to bind
But if for wrongs we needs redress must have.
Then be our vengeance of the noblest kind ;
DO we his body from our vengeance save,
And let our hate prevail against his mind
What can 'gainst him greater vengeance be
Than make his foe more worthy far than he
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1879-08-28
The Locust.

The Hebrews had several sorts OF
Ocusts which are not known to us.
! The old historians aud modern traV-
elers remark that locusts are very nu-
merOus in Africa, and in many places
of Asia-that sometimes they fall like
cloud upon the country, and eat up
everything they meet with. Moses
describes four sorts of locusts. Since
| there was prohibition against using
locusts, it is not to be questioned that
these insects were commonly eaten in
Palestine and the neighboring coun-
tries. DR.. Shaw, Niebuhr, Russell and
many other travellers iR the eastern
countries, represent their taste as
agreeable, and inform us that they are
frequently used for food. DR.. Shaw
observes that when they are sprinkled
with salt. and fried, they are not un-
like, in taste, to our fresh-water cray
fish. Russell says the Arabs salt them
and eat them as a delicacy. Niebuhr
also says that they are gathered by the
Arabs in great abundance, dried, and
kept for winter provisions. The raw
ages of the migratory locust have been
At particular times, so extensive as to
lay waste the vegetation Of whole dis
tricts, and even kingdoms. In the
year 593 of the Christian era, these in
sects appeared in such vast numbers as
TO cause famine in many countries.
Syria aud Mesopotamia were overrun
by them in 537. In S52 immense
swarms took their flight from the east
ern regions into the west, ard destroy
ed all vegetables not even sparing the
bark of the trees nor the thatch of
houses, after devouring the crops of
corn, grass, &c. Their daily marches
each and IL Is said that their progress
was directed with so much order that
there were regular leaders among them
who flew first and settled on the spot
which was TO be visited at the same
hour next day by the whole legion.
Their marches were always undertaken
at sunrise. In l14l, incredible hosts
afflicted Poland, Wallachia, and all the
anjOining territories, darkening the
sun with their numbers, and ravaging
all the fruits Of the earth. The years
l747 and 174S, afforded a memorable
instance of the ravages of these insects
in Germany and other parts of Europe
as far north as England.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1879-08-28
Something That's Foolish.

To think the more man eats the fat
ter and stronger he becomes.
To conclude that If exercise is good,
the more violent it is, the more good
is done.
To imagine that every hour taken
from sleep is an hour gained,
To act on the presumption that the
smallest room in the house is large
enough to sleep in.
To argue that whatever remedy
causes one to feel Immediately better, i:
good for the system, without regard tc
ulterior effects.
To eat without an appetite, or to con,
tinue to eat after it has been satisfied
merely to crafty the taste.
To eat hearty supper for the pleas
ure experienced during the brief time
it is passing down the throat, at the
expense of a whole night OF disturbed
sleep, and weary waking in the morn
ing.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1879-08-28
NO. "a.


One day the Emperor was riding by
a window, Through it he SAW a tailor at
work. Being inclined to have some
sport, the Emperor stopped opposite
the window which was open, and cried
out
"What is your employment, my fine
fellow ?"
"I am a tailor, SIR" said the man.
The reply was so appropriate that
the Emperor took the Cross of the Le-
gion of Honor from his own breast, and
made him a Typographical Engineer
on the spot.
In the earlier part of spring, Napo-
leon was in the habit of rising early and
walking in plain dress by the side of
the Seine. One morning in the course
Of his perambulations, he encountered
Jne of the fraternity of washerwomeL
commonly known as laundresses. See
ing her drinking something, the En-
perOr said:
"What is that you are drinking,
madame?"
Water" said she.
"Water?" said the Emperor.
Eyes; one must needs drink water
when one can get nothing else."
The Emperor said nothing at the mo-
nlent, but the next day the old woman
was surprised upon being informed
that his Majesty had been so pleased
with her exhibition of contentment,
that he had assigned her a pension of
hundred thousand francs per year.
A farm laborer was walking with his
shoes in his hand along the road, when
1t happened that the Emperor was
passing.
''Why do you not put your shoes
upon your feet, my good fcllow?" he
said.
"Ah! may injure them on the peb-
bles of the road" said the peasant.
"Why, then, by avoiding that, you
may injure your toes," said the EN-
peror.
"True, sir, but they will get well of
their own accord again, while a shoe
out OF repair, Will cost something TO
mend"
Napoleon admired his economical
philosophy so much, that he immedi-
appointed him Minister of Finance to
the Empire, with the title of the Due
de Sabot.
Immediately after the battle of Aus
terlitz, Napoleon was riding over the
field of battle, giving directions as TO
the wounded and dead. In his pro-
gress he saw a camp follower. who
appeared to have been -WOnndedi in thA-
"You appear to having been doing
soldiers duty" said Napoleon.
sob! pitch plaster will make it all
well in a day or two"
The Emperor. struck with the intre-
pidity of the man and the originality of
the reply, made him a Marshal of the
Empire on the field, and ever after held
him in the highest respect.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1879-08-28

length cried Justify, calling the wolves
to renewed pursuit. In vain the poor
mother tried to soothe her infant, but
another fish was followed by a fresh
flight and precious delay of the pack.
Again and again the action was re-
peated, until at length the barking of
two huge dogs alarmed the wolves,
while the almost exhausted mother ran
past the friendly brutes to the door of
the farmhouse, thrown open to receive
her.
The great dogs are trained to their
duty, and no sooner was the fugitive in
the house than they also retired in good
order TO the same safe stronghold, leav-
ing the foiled wolves to rage outside,
and fall before the guns that were
speedily brought to bear upon them.
The weary mother found safety and
rest, but whether she saved any of her
fish tradition does not relate.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1879-08-28
Wonderful TenacIty of Life.

Thirty three years ago, an Egyptian
desert snail was received at the British
Museum. The animal was known to be
alive, as it had withdrawn into its shell,
and the specimen was accordingly gummed,
mouth downward, on to tablet, duly Ia
beled and dated, and left to its fate. In
stead of starving, this contented gastropod
simply went to sleep, in quiet way, and
never woke up again for four years, The
tablet was then placed in tepid water, and
the shell loosened, when the dormant snail
suddenly resuscitated himself, began walk
ing about the basin, and finally sat for his
portrait. Now, during these four years,
the snail had never eaten mouthtul OF
any food, yet he was quite as well anc
fiourishing at the end of the period as he
had been at its beginning.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1879-08-28

DIR, England, of Newark, New Jer-
sey, lately took five lizards from the.
stomach of a colored woman in that
place. When called upon the doctor
exhibited two of the lizards, preserved
in alcohol. One is four inches in length
and the other about two and one-half
inches. They are of light mud color,
and are perfectly formed. The larger
one is half an inch in diameter at the
thickest part, near the shoulders and
head. DR.. England said that when he
drew the large one from Lucy Davis's
throat she screamed SO loudly that
score of colored people fOcked into the
room. When they saw the lizard
crawling on the floor they stood with
mouths agape and eyes starting from
the sockets. He never saw such ter
rified set of people in his life. Lucy
Davis's case, DR. England added, was
an unusual one, although lizards had
before existed in the stomachs of hu-
man beings. He tempted the largest
lizard up in Lucy's throat by putting
decoction on her tongue. When the
head of the lizard appeared, he seized 1t
with an instrument and quickly pulled
it out. "When L was student with
the late DIR. Z. p. Whetmore of Brook
lyn," said DR.. England, 81 assisted In
somewhat similar and very peculiar
case. DIR. Whetmore was summoned to
attend lady living Lear Flatbush. lie
took me with him. We arrived at the
farm in the afternoon, and saw the pa
tient. DR.. Whetmore told her not to
eat anything that evening, and he
would attend to her the next day.
Early the next morning the old doctor,
without saying anything to me or the
lady, procured pan of fresh, warm
milk from the barn. He carried the
milk into the house, and told the lady
to sit in chair near the window. He
then bandaged her eyes, and made
me hold the pan of milk close to her
mouth and nostrils. In few minutes
the lady began to breathe as though
she was being smothered. DIR. Whet-
more, who had been anxiously looking
down her throat, suddenly inserted an
instrument, and in few seconds pulled
out a milk snake. The lady went into
convulsions, but soon recovered. The
snake was as beautiful specimen of a
milk snake / ever saw. 1t was nearly
two feet IN length, and half an inch In
circumference. 1t was of bluewater
color, with cream-brown spots. Th3
lady recovered her health rapidly. DIR.
Whetmore lad not said what was the
cause of her illness until he pulled out
the snake"
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1879-08-28
Read This, Girls,

Learn to darn stockings neatly, and
then always see that your own are in
order. Do not let button be off your
shoes minute longer than needful.
1t takes just about a minute to sew one
on, and oh, how much better a foot
looks in trinity button boot than it
does in lopsided affair with all the
buttons off. Every girl should learn TO
make simple articles of clothing
We know little Miss of seven who
the whole of blue calico dress for her
self, and pieced large bed quilt. She
was not an Over-taXed child, either,
but merry, rOmping, INDUCED, only
daughter. But she was "smart," and
she did not die young, either. Indeed
we have seldom known children "too
smart to live" Very few die of that
complaint, whatever their grandmOth-
ers may think. So never be afraid Il
bit OF OVERRIDING the business. Help
all you can and study over the business
daily. Once get into the habit of look
ing over your things, and you will like
it wonderfully. You will have the in
dependent feeling that you need not
wait for any ones convenience in re-
pairing and making, but that you can
be beforehand with all such matters.
The relief to your weary mother will
be more than you can ever estimate.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1879-08-28

How TO spend holiday: First, get
your holiday.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1879-04-08

Austria, England. Russia, Turkey
aad Italy have consented 10 take part
in the mixed occupation Of Ronmelia.
Italy has made senie reservation,
There will be no Commander.in,C Chief
Each nationality will have its own
commander The object ef the occn
patton is to prevent conflicts between
the Turks and Bplgariaus.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1879-04-08

PRANK heNyuN, one Of the ncwspa.
per pioaeers Of this coast, died when
within one days sail Of Guatemala,
Ccntral America, TO which place he
WAS goiug far The benefit Of his health
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1879-04-08

'lng 1900 tons Of iron for the
Northera Pacific railroad viii be
shipped from tho East ia few days
Work on tie road is 10 be commenced
az the head Of navigation on the Co
lua,bia aud extended east as rapidly
AS possible.