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The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-30
NEW TREATMENT OF CRIMINALS.
a Proposed Method by which scountrel.
May BE Utilized.

brooklyn Star)
Two very interesting applications of
science to what may be called social evils
are being discussed abroad. One is the
utilization of criminals by anatomists.
1he extreme difficulty which society has
IN hnding out mode of punishment for
law-breakers which shall be of some
practical use to the community they war
against, has been met by proposition in
England to turn them over to the medical
students for experiments. 1t is not un.
aerstood that vivisection in its extreme or
fatal degrees is included in this scheme;
out the intelligent reader will see in
nash how largely these irredeemable ras-
calls could be made to contribute to socie.
ty, II their bodies were passed over to the
domain and free will of science.
The objections to the scheme, it is held,
are purely sentimental ones, The advan-
tages claimed are utilitarian, economical
and Humanitarian. The murderer who
has forfeited his right to live might be
made TO live for the benefit of his fellow
man and his death turned to the good of
posterity, with much less pain or discom-
tort or public scandal than inheres in our
present mode of punishment. Thus, in
case OF murder OF the first degree the
cuiprits brain might be taken out, and
flne opportunity afforded to study the
automatic animal. If his crime were
man slaughter, he might have hole cut
IN his abdomen and fitted with a glass
window through which his visceral move
ments might be observed. This alone
would be Of incalculable value to society
at time when sweet milk and wedding
cake play the unexpected tricks OF fusi
oil and ground glass. In ordinary cases
OF felony they could fracture his back,
and ii the system were brought to pertec-
ton, bring on graduated paralysis. Moth
ing could be more interesting than this.
Burglars might undergo compound frac-
lures of the limbs, and for repeated Of.
fences have them reset by experienced
students. Sneak thieves and common
culprits might be made to undergo trans
fusion or trepanning Or plebotomy Abor-
tionists would afford fine subjects upon
Which to try the germ theories, and few
cases of vitriol- throwing ]udiciously
treated with hydrophobia would throw
deal of light upon the mysterious disease
The other advanced idea contemplates
the use of anasthetics as a punishment.
Recent experiments tend to show that
certain newly discovered drugs will sus-
pend animation and sensibilily indefinite
ly. 1t is proposed therefore to etherize
criminals and suspend their animation
during the term Of their sentence This,
it is asserted, is much more rational than
suspending the criminals themselves.
They can be packed away in proper store
houses, on shelves, out of mischief, and
being marked with tags, can be taken
down when their time is up and they are
called for, busted off and delivered This
scheme breathes the very spirit of utility,
economy and humanity that actuates our
age. 1t moreover has the great advantage
of being labor-saving and of hurting no
body's feelings.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-30

A great deal of talent is lost to the
world for the want of little courage.
Every day sends to the grave number
Of obscure men, who have only remained
in obscurity because their timidity has
prevented them making the first effort,
and who, if they could have been induced
to begin, would, in all probability, have
gone great lengths in the career of fame.
The fact is, in order to do anything in
this world that is worth doing we must
not stand shivering on the Drink, and
think of the cold and danger, but lump
in and scramble as we can. 1t will not
do to be perpetually calculating risks and
adjusting nice chances, 1t did very we'll
before the flood, WHEN man could con.
suit MS friends upon publication Tor one
hundred and fifty years, and then live to
see its success for six or seven centuries
afterwards; out, at present, man waits,
and doubts, and hesitates, and consuts
his BROTHER, and his uncle, and particular
friends, till one day he finds that he is
sixty years of age; that he has no time
left to follow their advice. There is such
little time for oversqueamishness at pres.
ent, the opportunity SO easily slips away,
the very period of his life at which man
chooses to venture, if ever is SO confined,
that 1t is no bad rule to preach up the
necessity, in such instances, of little vio-
lence done to feelings, and of efforts
made in defiance of strict and sober call
culation. >-~
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-30
How to Act in a Sick Room.
New York Times.l

Nothing requires more care, Judgment
and circumspection than the simple act OF
visiting a sick room. A capital book
could be written on this subject, warning
people OF the dangers of being brusque
and stupid, There ought never to be
more than one spare chair in sick room,
says an authority, and nurse who knows
what she is about would do we'll to place
an ice pitcher on that chair,so that no one
could sit in it. The most absurd thing a
person can do who calls on sick man or
woman, is to refer back to something
which, in their Imagination, was the cause
of this illness, "the cucumbers of last
week, or the soft crabs of the week be-
fore" Religious admonitions, delicate
point, though they may save the soul
sometimes, if carelessly administered
certainly hurt the body. Mr.. Brckley,
who has written careful book, which he
calls "Notes on the Care of the Sick" :"
says that he "looks with disgust on the
person who speaks to the patient as if the
illness was distinct punishment for some
grievous sin" and follows it up by send,
ing some book, with note containing
these words; 81 hope you will prayertul-
ly study this little book which send you"
Doctors themselves often act in exact
contradiction to their theories, "I must
insist on the most perfect quiet in the
house; and avoid all noise," says Escula-
Plus. Then the physician goes down
stairs quietly enough, but in the hall for
gets all about the patient, for he closes the
front door with loud bang, and instead
of moving off softly with his horse and
wagon, rattles his equipage all he can
over the cobble stones. Doctors, some
times, are as much at fault as visitors in
SILK ROOM
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-30
Natures Forces to Take the Place Of
Natures Products.
indianapolis Herald,

Now they are making mill stones OF
glass, that grind more easily, run more
completely free from heat, keep the flour
cooler, and wear longer than buhr stones.
They make a drer grist, leave ii looser,
and separate the husk more thoroughly
from the grain.
For some time past they have been
making car wheels and boats of paper,
and first rate substitute for ivory of pa
per and camphor which they call cellu-
loid. 1t makes the best of collars and cuffs
as we'll as billiard balls, buttons, knife
handles and everything that ivory will
make.
They are getting ready 10 make light
without oil, and heat without fuel, power
without steam, and perfect communica-
ton by sword of mouth" without the in
tervention even of writing apparatus.
May we not nationally look for the day,
and not far in the future, when the forces
OF nature, its mysterious agencies, evading
all analyses that can disclose more than
their modes of operation, will take the
place of its material products, the coal and
oil and force Of water and propulsion of
wind-eXcept in politics-which now light
and heat the world and do its work.
If electricity can be made to replace ar
tificlal light, il can certainly be made to
replace artificial heat, and very probably
can be made to replace all the forms Of
power we now use. If it can, then we
may dismiss our fears of ever exhausting
any natural product that is necessary to
our comfort or industrial development.
For we shall need no more of them. That
is, for the processes of manufacture. The
raw material of manufactures are differ.
ent thing, though ever in this direction
invention and discovery promise to relieve
us In no small measure of our dependence
on the materials now in use. The best of
lumber can be made of pressed straw, and
straw is material as inexhaustible as the
capabiity of agriculture. AS long as we
can raise grain we can make lumber that
will free US from dependence on the fast
fading forests. Having lumber without
wood better material for many uses
than iron without smelling or mining, in
comparable light without oil or gas, per-
feet heat without coal or wood, infinite
power without steam or water, depending
on the forces and not the materials OF ma
ture for all material use and develop.
ments, we shall certainly have made
long stride in advance not only OF ali thai
has been done, but all that has been
dreamed, till very recently.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-30

"The concerted wisdom of few brill
liant leaders" is Mr.. Howard's ideal of gov
ernment. He is not alone in the notion
that great men are necessary for the pros
perity and safety of community. And
yet since the world began what has the
concerted wisdom of brilliant leaders done
for mankindf The prosperity, and even
largely the safety, of nations has actually
been wrested from those brilliant leaders
whose wisdom, concerted or otherwise, is
so radiant in many peoples eyes.
The simple right to enjoy in security
the products of ones own labor has been
acquired solely by the stubborn courage
and persistent purpose of the people, in
the face of monarchs, statesmen, priests,
and other brilliant leaders. The purpose
of the men whom Mr.. Howard admires
has always from the first been to keep
down the people and extend the power of
the state. There are, only two things
that the concerted wisdom of rulers has
ever been called upon to give the world,
and these two things their united intellect
has never been able to grasp--one being
to let the people alone in their faiths and
industries, and the other to establish po-
lice that will maintain order. The great
men whose names shed so much luster on
the past have disdained a simple task like
this; they have preferred to restlessly in
trigue for the extension of boundaries, and
so have plunged the nations into disas-
trous wars; they have endeavored to es-
tabish or overthrow faiths, and in SO do
ing have bestowed upon the world her
itage of wrong and oppression; they have
schemed to augment their own resources
by every possible device in taxation, and
so impoverished the commonaltv. They
have done these things in the past, and
are busy doing them to-day.
The only countries that are perfect and
prosperous are those in which the people
have bound down their brilliant leaders,
and succeeded in controlling affairs by
an aggregate OF commonplace opinions
while the supreme wisdom of Bismarck
has filled Germany with discomfort, and
the administrative talents of the czar have
given to Russia choice crop of conspir-
acies and assassinations. Ten thousand
evils have sprung from the meddling wis
dom of statesmen, but not one genuine
good. The blessings that have come up
on mankind have been the elevation of
common life, the growth of arts, and the
spread of education, and these things the
men in high places have resisted with all
their power. "Of one thing we may be
sure" says a writer in recent English
magazine, "that the world has been too
much governed by persons whose talent
has lain chiefly in taking care of them
selves. There have alway been too many
people to regulate society in their own
interests, whereas the welfare of the world
lies in the direction of self-government.
Humanity has been too much sat upon
by rulers, heaven-born and devil born-the
latter class chiefly prevailing. What is
wanted is increase in the general capacity
of self government. The r-seeing pray
er of Robert Browning should be put in
all the churches
make more giants, Cod
But elevate the race at once"
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-30
"PositiveIy Shocking"

There is beautiful pellucid lake in
certain county in Tennessee which is noted
as much for leeches as for the beauty of
its clear water and surrounding scenery.
1t is an impromptu bathing pool for all
the boys in the neighborhood, except on
Sundays, when they went to church, lying
about on the grass and telling stories,
which were occasionally interrupted by
the loud tones of the preacher. The sec
ond warm Sunday this spring four pretty
romping girls staying together at farm
house near the lake, and when everybody
started to church they allowed that they
would stay at home and go bathing in the
lake. which they did to their entire salts
faction. They swan and giggled, ,splashed
like mermaids and nymphs, and then sat
on the bank like frogs, and then splashed
and swan and gigged some more, and
calculating their time SO as to get to the
house before the church-goers returned;
they presently crawled out Of the water
to dress; but what was their CONSERVATION
to discover some dozen or so black things
attached to the snowy forms of each one
of the nymphs,
They yelled with 4o-gir power, and
tried to pull the leeches off, but the var
mints had too good taste, in more senses
than one, to be pulled off, They stuck on
faster the more the girls screamed. Their
fright got the better of maidenly modesty,
and the four fair damsels cut for home
just as they were, in Tennessee bathing
dresses, which means nothing at all, 1t
happened, howevertha Brother Ebenezer
Crawford was sick that day, and the ser
vices were Short so that the four Eve-like
fugitives came out on a main road and
met twothrds of the congregation. Their
relatives did not recognize them in that
slight attire of leeches, and, naturally
thinking it was female lunatic asylum
broken loose took after them pell-mell
Away they went over bush and briar
wood and bramble, the whole congrega-
ton, headed by the deacons after the four
girls AT last they ran in some hay
g., ,'-"ks, and it was only then that the di-
1en,n, % ,-as discovered. The chase re-
turned and foui- old ladies went out and
brought the girls in.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-30

The truth is that these too frequent
unhappy marriages" are the offspring of
ignorance quite as much as of actual sin
Or wrongs. Fools, and especially vicious
fools, have no right to get possession of an
honest woman's life and soul which they
cannot comprehend and the elevating in
fuence Of which they throw away even
more by stupidity than by willfulness. A
woman, by her sex and character, has
claim to many things besides shelter, food
and clothing She is not less woman
for being welded; and the man who is fit
to be trusted with good wife recolects
all which this implies, and shows him
self perpetually chivarous, sweet-spoken,
considerate and deterential. The fools
and brutes who abound among us may
think such demands hard; but they are
not near as bad as to live the cat,and. dog
life, missing the dearest possibilities of
human intercourse.
What right has a man to expect happi-
ness in household who brings no sun.
shine into it? What right has he to look
for the graces and rehnements of early
love when he violates them by rough
speech, i'll manners, and the disregard of
those little things which the selt-respect
of a wife is built and maintained3 The
cync who rails at marriage is generally
one and the same with the thoughtess
egotist who flies into the presence of his
wife careless, stubborn and sour tempered,
though he never went to his mistress ex-
cept on his best behavior The fate is
horrible which poor faithful girl may
endure by encounterng in him whom she
weds moi mere actual cruelty or injury,
but stupid incompetence to understand
woman's needs, dull forgetfulness of the
daily graces Of life and oblivion of the
fact that while men have the world wom-
en- have only their home. These gross
nesses of masculine ingratitude do not,
indeed, often lead to visible catastrophe,
nor grow into absolute tyranny; but they
equally tend that way. They drag down
wife's soul to the point where she must
despair they change the sublime mean
ing of marriage to vulgarity and weari-
ness; they spoil the chance of that best
and finest of all education which each
man obtains who wins reasonably good
, woman for his companion, and they cost
more to million households than money
or repentance can ever pay back.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-30
A PROOF READER.
What the New Orleans Times Wants, anS
What 1t Expects to Get,
New Orleans Times,l


What 1t Expects to Get,
New Orleans Times.]
In the advertisement columns of tho
Times, Sunday, appeared the following
want:
vXTANTED-An intelligent, well educated i'm
wv dustrious proof-reader, either married or
: single. Must be thoroughly temperate. 4
good position for a number Address
Comp, Times Office.
Now, innocent as that unostentatious
card appears, it was productive of more
trouble than anything which has appeared
in the city press for many day. There
were no less than TIA letters received up
to Sunday night and on Monday the num-
Der was so great that they could no: be
counted up to time of going to press.
Samples of the lot are as follows.
"Mr. Comp-I am a proofreader OF
some experience, though my mother was
dutchman. am well eiucated in the
Unitd Stats, SO hope you will find me aU
right. ! am widower."
"DEAR SIR-I speak German, French,
English, Portuguese and Spanish, Have
been civil engineer, doctor and lawyer
of considerable repute; also an editor and
a politician. AS proof-reader l know |
would be success, although l confess I
never tried It,"
"HoNoRABLE SIR-Will you give me
sling at your proofs for day or twoa
If don't make it red hot for the boys
down stairs and white hot for the boys up,
count me out. l am Sanscrit, Chinook
and Kanaka proof-reader.
81 am J. c."
And so on.
Now, not one person out Of ten thou
sand has any idea what proof. is
or ought to be. So, for the benefit of
those who haven't as yet put in their ap-
plication, we will give the standard quail.
tications required:
l. A competent proof-reader should be
well.eyed, to enable him to understand at
first glance sentence so mixed up by the
|. C.-intelligent compositor--that no
one else in the wide world, not even its
author would be able to understand or
recognize it.
2. He must be SO unfamiliar with Shaks-
peare, French Latin and common prov.
erbs as TO be able, conclenciOusly, to
change and ruin any ignorant but well
meaning gentlemen who run the editorial
rooms.
g. He must be quick at punctuation,
and be able to instantly detect the exact
place where comma may be inserted so
as to completely alter the sense OF SEN
tence, and make the author foam at the
mouth and tear his hair the next day,
A. He must be possessed of calmness,
GOODNESS and precision, so that he may
gently, but firmly, meet the excited expos.
tulations of the city,telegraph and man
aging editors with that steadfast stare
which alone can render them speechless
and idiotic.
5, He must have grammar and the die
tionary at his fingers ends, that when he
comes to particularly choice sentence
he may be able either TO make it ungram-
matical at stroke, or so change word
as to completely ruin the sense.
Any one possessing these qualifications
is fitted for the place-none other need
apply.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-30
sCIss0RED sCINTILLATIONs.
When the moon gets full it keeps lat
hours New Orleans Picayune.


hours New Orleans Picayune.
A clock and business concern have to
be wound up when they run down,
The man who went beyond the limits
of the law took a trip to Texas Boston
Post.
The man who finds pocket-book with
cash in it doesn't look at paper for three
weeks -[Puck.
Stealing march, in fact several Of
them-robbing music store Baltimore
Every Saturday.
No sensible mother puts high heeled
shoes on her Children Pttsfeld Sun.
No; she uses slipper Boston Post,
Advice to some would be wits; "a lit
tie wisdom now and then is relished by
most foolish men.-IOil City Derrick.
The saying, "the better the day the bet
ter the Decd doesn't apply to convey
ance of property on Sunday Boston
| Post.
"Man wants but little here below"
wherever he may roam, and when he calls
for lager beer, he wants but little foam
Cory Herald
The gentlemen and ladies of Auburn
Prison celebrated, The proceedings open
ed with the patriotic air, "Sweet Land OF
Liberty. Buffalo Express.
"At what age were you marred?' asked
she, irquisitively. But the other lady was
equal to the emergency, and quietly re-
sponded, CAT the parsonage"
One grocer asked another as Colonel
- man to be trusted'" ~ think
you'd find him So" was the reply. "If
you trust him once you'll trust him for
ever. He never pays"
Wives of great men oft remind US,
We should pick out wives with care;
So we may not leave behind us
Hall our natural crop of hair.
--.lNew York Graphic.
A hand-bill announcing a temperance
picnic was conspicuously headed N. b.
Take notice, suppose" said a man who
stopped to read it, "Oh, no." replied his
friend, mo Beer."-[Cin. Sat Night,
"When | wath little boy" isped a
very stupid society man to young lady,
"al my death in life were thentered on
being clown" "Well, there is at least
one case of gratifed ambition" was the
reply.
"To die and have everybody read your
age on the coffin plate!'' cried a young
lady who had been dangerously i'll for
some days. "Its too much!" and she in.
continently had good cry. She began
to improve from that moment Boston
Transcript.
A Kansas farmer purchased a revolver
tor his wife, and insisted on target prac.
tice SO that she could defend the house in
case of his absence. After the bullet had
been dug out Of his leg and the cow
buried, he said he guessed that she'd
better shoot with an axe.
A rural bride Of considerable beauty
went to indianapolis on the HONEYMOON
tour Her husband was manifestly proud
OF her good looks. While they were 90.
ing about the city she was struck in the
face by falling sign board and her nose
broken The attending surgeon said that
she was disfgured for life. "Tust nv
darned luck" the husband exclaimed;
property always goes to ruin in my
hands, = N. Y. Post.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-30

Statesmanship in this country can have
no higher end nor aim than to keep labor
employed, for 1t is the essential factor OF
prosperity; indeed, without it there can
be no prosperity. 1t is necessary that
Pleasures especially designed to give
laboring men employment should be
brought forward, but It is important that
laws shall not be enacted calculated to
depress labor and thereby reduce its
wealth. producing capacity.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-30
The Light for Rainy weather.

One beauty Of an electric light is that it
burns as well in rain storm as in the
finest of weather One Of the large hotels
at Saratoga has its grounds lit by electric
ity, and the effect of the light on the rain
drops is described as singularlv beautiful.
This is a new plea in favor of lighting by
electricity,
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-30
THE ROOMS WIDTH.

think i ] should cross the room,
Far as fear,
Should stand beside YOU like a ,ho,ob,
Touch you, dear!
Like fancy. To your sad heart
1t would seem
ihat my vision passed and prayed you,
Or my dream
Then you would look with lonely ewes
Lift your head
And you would stir. and sigh and cav
"She is dead
bafned by death and love, lean
Through the gloom
y Lord of hfei am forbid
10 cross the rooms
tEhzabeth Stuart Phelps in SUNDAY Afternoon
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-30
brigham Young's Grave.

y. I4NIf LNEt ITIDBHt.J
The most God .forsaken spot In Utah,
so tourists tell us-for Mormon nor Gen.
tile never visit it's Brigham Young's
grave. The lot seems to be the recepta-
Gle Of old trash, and the grave looks as
though nineteen Iorn widows had forgot
ten to mourn over it to any alarming ex-
tent.