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The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-04
Sentimental and Tragic F1irts.
Home Journal

How much mischief these sentimental
Hirts do in their day! They give you the
impression that you and only you are the
one sweet woman whose love is needed
for their happiness. Your touch can heal
them, your smile rejoice, your love render
blessed. You give in to the fond illusion
one of the most seductive to true wo-
man--and find that you are just taken as
an eXperimentalist takes cat or dog
for vivisection; and that YOU are only one
of MANY who have been so taken before
You to illustrate that point of female Gre
dulitv and woman soft -heartedness which
the flirt has set himself to learn by all the
methods given to man.
Or take the tragic firt from the other
side of the house, beautiful little woman
with the big ewes and the melodious voice
who sings sad love songs as if she felt
them, and around whom melancholy
clings as graceful garment, how many
men has she not captured and drowned in
the unfathomable abyss of her vanity.
She looks all sorrow, and her life has not
a cloud; she seems all sentiment, and no
neither mile stone is harder, more prosaic
she gives YOU the impression of one seek
ing consolation, and the merriest little
grig who dances all night in pink and
rose buds is not more,l light of heart, more
free from care. She is a sham all through
out, and she attitudinizes-she does not
feel But clever men believe in her, and
good ones fall down and worship her, and
she rides on the crest of the wave in the
worlds esteem, while her sister, who dis.
dains falsehood and coquetry alike, gets
only scant admiration, aud her heart
which never deceived human being, is dis
regarded as a common kind of thing
worth little love and less endeavor.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-04
Why Bees Work In the Dark.

A lifetime might be spent in investi-
eating the mysteries hidden in beehive
and half the secrets would be undiscov-
cred. The formation OF the cell has long
been celebrated problem for the mathe
matician, whilst the changes which the
honey undergoes, offer at least an equal
interest to the chemist. Every one knows
what honey fresh from the comb is like.
1t is a clear yellow syrup, without trace
ef solid sugar in it.
Upon straining, however, it gradually
1csumes crystalline appearance; it can
dies, as the saving is, and ultimately be-
comes a solid lump Of sugar 1t has not
been suspected that this change was due
to a Photographic action; that the same
agent which alters the molecular arrange,
ment of the iodine Of silver on the eXcit-
ed collodion plate, and determines the
formation of camphor and iodine crystals
In bottle, causes the syrup honey to as
sumo crystalline form. This, however,
Is the case. M. Scheibler has enclosed
honey in stoppered TASKS, some OF which
he has kept in perfect darkness, while
others have been exposed to the light
The invariablc results have been that the
summed portion rapidly crystallized, while
that kept in the dark has remained per
fectly liquid. We now see why bees
work in perfect darkness, and why they
are 50 careful to obscure the glass win
iews which are sometimes placed in thei1
hives. The existence c. their young de
pends upon the liquidity Of saccharln'
food presented to them; and if light wer'
allowed access to the syrup it woult
gradually acquire more or less soli'
Consistency; it would seal up the cells
and in all probability prove fatal to tn
inmates of the hive.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-04
Stephen Girard's Tactics,

A man who had just set up in the hard
ware business, and who had been a clerk
where Grard had traded, applied to him
for share Of his patronage. Girard bought
Of him, and when he brought in the bill
found fault and marked down the prices.
"Cask Of nails" said he, "which | was
offered for SO and so, you have charged So
and,so, and you must take it of"
81 can't do it," said the merchant.
"You must do it," said Girard.
~ can not and will not" said the young
merchant.
Girard bolted out OF the door, apparent,
ly in rage, and soon after sent check
for the whole bill. The young man began
to relent and say to himself: perhaps he
was offered them at that price. But it is
all over now; am sorry did not reduce
the bill and get it out of him on some
thing else. His trade would have been
worth a good deal to me-"
By and by Girard came again, and gave
him another job. The young man was
very courteous, and said:
~ was almost sorry did rot reduce
your former bill"
"Reduce bill" said Girard chad YOU
done it, ! would never trade with yor
again, | meant to see if you had cheatec
me-"
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-04
Magazine Pay for Contributions.

A writer in a New York magazine
thirty-fve years ago says: The history
of the monthlies for the last few years
forms a chapter by itself of American
progress. 1t is but very short time
since dollar page OF the North Amer
ican Review was considered sufficient for
articles by Edward Everett. The old
New York Mirror paid $500 year for
"Pencilings by the way" On. P. Willis
the republication of which has paid the
author $1,000. think the burst on
authorland of Graham's and Godev's lib
eral prices were like sunrise without a
dawn. They began at once paying their
principal contributors $12 page-neary
thrice the amount paid by English maya
zines to the best writer's, and paying 1t,
too, on the receipt OF the MSS, and not,
as in London, on the publication of the
article These prices have not been
maintained. Six dollars a page would
now be an unusually high price. The
leading magazines, however, with the ex-
ception of the Atlantic Monthly. pay on
the acceptance of the MSS, but in some
cases it is scarcely safe for contributor
to accept these terms, as the amount OF
print it will make may be under-estimat.
ed The leading English magazines pay
from So to $3.50 a page. Blackwood anc
London Society are exceptionally gooc
pay. The Quarterly and Edinburg pay
ordinary contributors guinea page, bu
sometimes raise these rates fifty per cent
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-04
What is Put Into Letter Boxes.
ROstOu Herald.)

The carriers who collect the mail from
street boxes sometimes find queer depos-
its therein. Loose silver coins and loose
postage stamps are among the principal
discoveries, while carrier the other day
brought in bank book containing SIS in
bills which he had taken from lamp
post box.
The most remarkable instance of absent
lnindness in this direction was the case,
not long since, of a young man who daily
carries two eathern bags-one for mail
and one for money, &c. He deliberately,
in fit Of abstraction, walked up to box
in Boston post office, and emptied the
contents of one bag, containing sever
al bank books and bills and checks
amounting to thousands of dollars, into
the mail box, and did not discover his
blunder until he went into the bank and
handed the receiving teller bunch OF let
tiers.
That Young mans face, it is said, grew
so pale as to frighten every one who saw
him rushing through the streets, eyes dis
tended, and heart humping loudly in hii
wretched bosom. He was made happl
er and wiser man on receiving at the bus
mess office the bank books and money, If
place of which he gladly rendered hi
bundle of mail matter.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-04
Profits OF Authors.

1t is said that the late G. w. M. Rey.
nolds had made more money by his sixty
or seventy cheaply sensational novels
than many of the most distinguished
authors in Great Britain, His earnings
from his stories have been estimated as
high as 10000, which may be an exag'
Grafton, although that would not be much
more than $4,000 novel, and some of
his novels are reported to have brought
him in $1,000, $4,000, $4,000, and even
SI2 900 apiece. Tyndall, Darwin, Hux-
ley, or Carpenter mas, we venture to as
sert, never made one,third as much by
his life long devotion to science. Mat.
thew Arnold, considered one OF the most
cultured and intelligent authors in Great
Britain, could not count, it is said, tIo
600 as the direct product OF his pen
Carlyle, ranked by many as the frs
thinker OF his time, and by all as mas
ter mind, has, after career of continua
activity and the publication of forty Of
fifty volumes, acquired, in his eighty
fourth year, an income of little more thar
fI,ooo. Robert Browning, held by
number of critics to be the first OF livinl
poets, would not have been able to sup
port himself had he not a private fortune
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-04
A ConGding Tabby.
(Nature.)

In 1877 was absent from Madras for
two months and left in my quarters three
cats, one of which, an English tabby, was
very gentle and affectionate creature
During my absence the quarters were oc-
cupied by two young gentlemen who de,
lighted in teasing and frightening the
cats. About week before my return, the
cat had kittens, which she carefully con-
ccaled behind book shelves in the library.
On the morning of my return saw the
cat, and petted her as usual, and then lett
the house for about an hour. On return
ing to dress found that the kittens were
located in a corner of my dressing-room,
where previous broods had been deposited
and nursed. On questioning the servant
as TO how they came there, he at once
replied, "Sir, the old cat taking them one
by one in her mouth brought them here
| do not think that have heard OF more
remarkable instance of reasoning ane
affectionate confidence in an animal, anc
l need hardly say that the latter manifest
alton gave me great pleasure. The tran
of reasoning seems TO have been as iol
lows: "Now that my master has return
ed there is no risk of the kittens being in
iured by the two young savages in tn
house, so | will take them out for m
protector to see and admire, and kee
them in the corner in which all my foi
- mer pets have been nursed in safety"
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-04
A Musical Prodigy.
peoria Call.

Many readers of this paper WILL re-
member that little daughter of George
L, Bean, of this city, exhibited last year
a remarkable genius for music She had
never received any musical training
whatever, but would seat herself at the
piano, and play simple tunes from mem;
ory, with correct harmony and in good
time. Acting on advice from good mu-
sicians, including Mr.. F. M. Reinhart
they have not undertaken to force her
musical education, but have allowed her
to do as she pleased in regard to playing
She is now about four years old, perfectly
healthy and vigorous, and can play a6on
fifteen tunes, which she has learned BY
ear. Her fingers are too small to reaci
the full chords, but she plays correctly tn
air and bass of each tune. She is mucl
given to outdoor sports, but will Otter
come in from her play, sit down at tn
piano, and amuse herself for an hour il
playing airs she has learned by hearing
her sisters play.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-04
Flowers.

There is no decoration which house
can have so beautiful as flowers. A few
flowers about room, and magazines and
books on the tables are guarantees of re-
finement and lady-like habits, such as
nothing else can give. Much of the ef-
feet of flowers, however, depends on their
arrangement. The color of the vase in
which they are placed is of the first inn
portance. Gaudy reds and blues
Should never be chosen, for they conflict
with the delicate hues Of the flowers.
Bronze or black vases, or dark green,
pure white or silver, always produce a
good effect, and so does straw basket,
while clear glass, which shows the CRATE
full claspng of the stems, is perhaps the
prettiest of all. Delicate flowers, as lilies
of the valley, sweet peas, should be placed
by themselves in slender, tapering glasses
violets should nestle their fragrant purple
in some tiny cup; with no gayer flowers
to contradict their soft velvet hues, Flow
ers should not be overcrowded; mon-
| strous bouquet made up of all of the
flowers that grow cannot fail to be ugly.
| If you venture to mix them, be careful
| not to put side by snie colors which clash.
Scarlets and pinks spoil each other; SO
do blues and puppies, and yellow and
mauves. If your vase or dish is very
large one, to hold great number Of
flowers, it is good plan to divide it into
thirds or quarters, making each division
perfectly harmonious within ITSELF and
then blend the whole with lines of green
and white, and soft neutral tints.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-04
A Base Proposition.
detroit Free Press.l

A Detroiter who has the reputation Of
being hard pay was waited on the other
day by man who began:
"Mr Blank, hold your note for SIS,
1t is long past due, AND wanted to see
what you would do about it."
MY note? All! yes, yes; this is my
note For value received / promise to
paw, and so forth. Have you been to the
note shavers with this?"
Il have, but none of them would have
it,"
"Wouldn't, eh, And you tried the
banks?"
"Ycs sir, but they wouldn't look at it"
"Wouldnt eh: And / suppose you
went to a Justice to see about suing it?"
al did, but he said Judgment would
not be worth a dollar"
Did, Ell? And now what proposition
do YOU wish to make9"
"This is your note for SIS. Give me
Ss and YOU can have it."
Five dollars! No, sir! have no
money to throw away, sir!"
"But it is your own note"
"True sir, very true, but Pm not such
an idiot as to throw away money on
worthless securities, no matter who signs
them. deal only in first class paper, sir,
and when that note has negotiable value
will be pleased to discount it. Good
dav, sir-,looks like settled weather
again"
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-04
Mistaken Publisher.

Many years ago young poet presented
himself 10 a Paris publisher with the
manuscript of his first volume Of verse.
The latter glanced over the verses and re-
turned them, declaring that the time was
,eculiariy unfavorable for the publication
Of poetry, and he mus, decline the under
taking. The poet placed the manuscript
in his pocket and prepared to take his
leave, his aspect grave, and at the same
time full of quiet assurance.
"You are wrong because am man
Of genius" he said. II would have signed
q contract with you for the issue Of my
future book. You reject your own fer
tune"
"Many thanks You are too kind,
fepled the other, with ironical politeness
The poet departed. The publisher re
fected; he was impressed, not by thu
merit of the verses but the GOODNESS AM
confidence of his visitor. He rose to re
call him, but the poet had disappeared
The young man was Victor Hugo, ant
the publisher, now dead, told the story
What must have been his sentiment
when the crowd waited and carriage
filled the street from dawn until noon, ar
ticipating the first copies of Lies Mis-
cradles" given BY the hand OF riy'
business house?
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-04
THE DAILY STAR
GRAINS OF GOLD.
Gathered from Number of Exchanges
that are Judges of the Article.

Gathered from y Number Of Exchanges
that are Judges of the Article.
Good taste is the flower of good sense.
A real satisfaction and worth having is
to do ones duty.
One smile for the living is worth doz-
en- tears for the dead.
Pleasant and good manners must be
made up Of petty sacrifices.
Experience is a torch lighted in the
ashes of our hopes and delusions.
Hope softens sorrow, brightens plain
surroundings, and eases a hard lot,
Mean souls, like mean pictures, are
often found in good looking frames.
Work is the weapon OF honor, and he
who lacks the weapon will never triumph,
The heart is book which we ought not
to tear in our hurry to get at its contents.
There is nothing that so rehneS the
face and mind as the presence of good
thoughts.
Harsh words have many a time alien
ated child's feelings and crushed out all
love of home.
1t is easy 10 pick holes in other people S
work, but far more profitable to do better
work yourself
AS long as hearts beat as long as life
exists, in whatever age, iron or golden,
you will find love.
Envy is passion so full Of cowardice
and sham that nobody ever had the conf
aence to own its possession.
tr,n ,,;a,u of l;fa he pron6 th q
gou have work in the worlds busy path
and do it well and honorably.
Some people dream such lofty thought:
that not the strongest wings of speech
rould ever touch their lowest thought.
Life is too short to nurse ones misery
Hurry then, across the lowland, that yol
may linger longer on the mountain tops.
People are apt to fall in love with those
who are beautiful at sight. But to retar
love, one must have truth, tenderness ane
constancy.
The keenest abuse Of our enemies vii
not hurt us so much in the estimation OF
the discerning, as the injudicious praise o
our friends.
The chief art in learning is to attempt
out little at a time The widest excursions
Of the mind are made by short flights, fre
quently repeated.
Opportunity is the flower of time, ant
Is the stalk NAV remain when the flowe
is cut off, so time may remain with VI
when opportunity is gone forever,
Abstemiousness and frugality are the
best bankers. They SOW handsome in
tercst and never dishonor draft drawn
upon them by their humblest customer.
Some persons move through life as
band of music moves down the street
ninging out pleasure on every SIDE
through the air to every one, far and near
that cares to listen.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-04
Character Flaws.
New York Telegram.)

What pity it is that some OF the stron-
gest and, in many respects, charming of
characters, should be veined by certain
flaws that no time seems able to remove.
Perhaps one cause of this non-renoval is
that the nature in whom they thus appear
make no effort to accomplish it. Most
people are sublimelv satisfied with them
selves, and, naturally, pass through life
without one well-directed and long contin-
ued effort to get little further from the
stupendous imperfection from which they
actually suffer.
There is many rich and indolent wo-
man in the land WHO, believing herself the
chosen and annointed of the Lord, spends
her entire time between the bed, the rock
ing chair, and the lounge, reading one
novel after another until Mrs. Wood
Miss. Braddon and Mrs Southworth, long
ago exhausted, and the lesser novelists OF
their school pretty well run out, they look
askant at literature and wonder whence
their further supplies must come; just as
some people, OF another turn of mind,
grow agitated at the prospect OF the coal
supply giving out during their generation
Yet even such disgrace to the higher or,
der of moral nature, as the literature
| droneS lust enumerated, have some ster'
ling points. They are generous, they are
patient in suffering (strange as it may
seem), they do not backbite their neigh
bors, and chastity itself-a thing which
cannot always be said Of women who lead
more active eXistences Ssses
But we are speaking rather OF people
whose characters, taken as whole, are
not unadmirable, yet who exhibit errors
and weakness that disqualify them from
being held in perpetual esteem Thus
the man who, so far as the eye OF the
world can see, leads, in the main, rather
unblameworthy life, disgraces himself
with fits of passion, and is whirled ava,
in the cyclone of his own ill-governec
instincts. He has not got himself under
command. Strong as his judgment or
certain points may be, it does not give
perfect guide to his emotions. Thus ne il
frequently given over TO gusts OF feelings
which are not justified by facts, and hi
over active imagination bestows on ar
unmeant word or phrase morbid wealth
of significance from which the utterel
would have shrunk appalled,.
Look, too, at the millions OF generous
and excellent men who mar themselve
with blasphemv and obscenity of speech
These pollutions CT the lips have beer
theirs from boyhood, and it is seemingl,
impossible for them to free themseve
from the taint. Yet it would be absurd tt
deny that they are not only what the bet
ter part of the world justly entities "splen
did fellows" but that they often have
longing for and an appreciation OF tina
ideal purity of expression which the,
never attain.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-04
Women Ewing Women.

The eying of women by women is one
of the most offensive manifestations OF
superciliousness now to be met with in
society. Few observant persons can have
failed to notice the manner in which one
woman who is not perfectly well'bred or
perfectly kind hearted will eye another
woman whom she thinks is not in such
good society, and, above all not at the
time in SO costly a dress as she herself is
in.
1t is done where-at parties, al
church, in the street 1t is done by wo
men in all conditions of life. The very
servants girls learn it Of their mistresses
1t is done in an instant. Who can not re-
call hundreds of instances of that sweep
of the eye which takes in at glance the
whole woman and what she has on, from
top knot to shoe-tie? Men are never
guilty of it, or, with such extreme rarity
and then in such feeble and small souleG
specimens of their sex, that it may be sci
epicene. But women of sense, of some
breeding, and even of some kindiness ol
nature, will thus endeavor to assert SUI
periority upon the meanest of all pre-.
lenses and inAict wound in manner
most cowardly, because it cannot be re-
sented, and admits of no retort.
If they but only knew how unlovely
how positively offensive they make them
selves in SO doing; not only to their silent
victims, but to every generous hearted
man who observes their maneuvres they
would give up a triumph at once SO NEAR
and so cruel which is obtained at such ;
sacrifice on their part. No other evidence
than this eyeing is needed that woman
whatever be her birth or breeding, has {
small and vulgar soul.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-04

(Baltimorian.)

If the world possessed more such
Young ladies as the one we are told OF by
the Home Journal, published at Perry
Ga, we would probably have fewer vic
tins of intemperance to fill our Jails,
alms-houses and lunatic asvlums. 1t
seems that in Crawford county, near Fort
Valley, few days since a young man ex-
pected to marry very estimable young
lady. We are told that the inviyed guests
had assembled to witness the ceremony,
and participate in the festivities; the cler-
s;man who had been selected to solem-
nize the rites was present; the table was
spread with the expected wedding feast
and the fair young bride, with throbbing
heart, anxiouslv awaited the arrival OF the
Young man who was to be her all that
husband could promise.
At a late hour, with sturdy steps, he
reached the dwelling. His appearance
but too plainly told that he had violated
the pledge which he had so sacredly
vowed he would keep-to drink not an
other drop Of the intoxicating draught
The maiden, in bridal array, firm and res
olute, rose to her feet, and with an irwin
chile determination manifest in her coun
tenance said: "Ill never, never marry
vouw Confusion and CONSERVATION en-
sued. Many friends interceded, and earn
estly entreated the young lady to retrac
tho words which would prevent the wed
ding the bride groom expectant PLEADED
with all the vehe;nence and eloquence o
a hopeful lover but the fair maiden wa
unrelenting, and would natechange he
determination. A day or TWO subsequen
she embarked on a train for southwe'
Georgia, and made tour without tn
bridegroom. Who can tell the years o
misery and probable degradation she ha
been saved by such course3