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The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-02
MISS MULOCK.
The Light and Dark In this Authors
Life.
(Christian Union.

christian Union,
She was obliged to write for her daily
bread, and, that she might forget how
miserable she was, she wrote great deal
Of course, with all this practice and with
all her vast experience in sorrow-for her
pen was one actually dipped in tears--she
wrote better and better, till finally this re-
tiring, griefstricken woman awoke to
find herself famous. Her first novel,
"The Ogilvies," was very successful, and
was published in IS49, when Miss Mulock
gas only twenty-three, but her great
masterpiece, "John Halifax, Gentleman"
did not appear until 1857. In 1864 pen
sion of sixty pounds year was awarded
Miss Mulock.
All this fame and unqualified success
doubtless assuaged her grief and helped
to make life endurable, but to such low
ing heart and such quick sympathies, be-
reft of home and without a relation, her
life was still very sad and lonely. But in
1865, Captain George Lille Carik an Off
Ger in the English army, who had been in
the Crimea, met Miss Mulock, and al.
though some years her junior, addressed
her and succeeded in winning her hand.
They have proved most congenial com
panions, and their married life has been
all they could wish with but one excep-
ton. The woman, whose love for chill
dren amounts almost to passion,a and who
wrote "Philip my King" has been denied
the happiness of feeling baby fingers up
on her checks, Or of ever hearing herself
called mother. This is severe sorrow
but even this pain has been partially as
suaged. Strangely enough, one dark,
rainy night, while she and her husband
were speaking of children and how much
Joy they bring to SO many dwellings, there
came loud ring at the bell and then a
furious knocking.
On opening the door, lying upon the
sill they found basket enclosed in many
wrappings. When they were removed
they discovered baby few hours old.
The child was wrapped in one roll after
another of India muslin, and on its breast
was pinned note begging Mrs. Carik to
be kind to the little waif thus brought to
her door, and assureing her that no bad
blood flowed in her veins. Tenderly she
lifted the little thing in her loving arms,
and her heart opened as warmly to take
in the poor little deserted creature. They
called the child Dorothea, God given, and
she is now their legally adopted daugh.
ter whom no one can take from them, moi
even their parents who so cruelty deserted
her. The little girl is most tenderly at.
tached to the only mother and father she
has ever known.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-02
The Charm Of True Marriage
Sunday Afternoon.)

Our advanced theories of divorce and
free love, making the matrimonial rela.
! ton merely partnership to be dissolved
at pleasure, whatever else may be said in
their favor, strike deadly blow at an
element in it which was meant perhaps
to be supreme above all others. What is
the sweetest charm Of all true marriage,
what the greatest advantage, what the
most priceless happiness, s,take life through,
which it brings to the human heart? Not
the flush and splendor of its early love;
not the richer developement which it
brings to the character; not even the
children who are gathered around its
shrine. No, but the intimacy and relia-
bility of its companionship; the fact that
it gives those who enter in it, each in the
other and through all scenes and changes,
near and blessed standby.
Marriage in some of its aspects is,
doubtless, the source of an immense
amount of unhappiness, crime, injustice,
blight and down-dragging, one of the
most perplexing institutions society has
to deal with-only the blindest sentiment
alist will deny that. On the other hand
however-and this is not mere sentiment
but sober fact-of all the evidences of
Gods goodness to be found in this lower
world, all the proofs that he cares for us
not only with the wisdom of Creator,
but with the interest and love Of Father.
there is none quite equal to his sending
human beings into the arena of life, not
to fight its battles, win its victories, and
endure its sorrows alone, but giving them
as they go forth out OF their childhood's
home, relation in which each two of
them are bound together with the closest
of all ties, live together under the same
roof, have their labors, their property, their
interests, their parental affections all in
common, and are moved to stand by each
other, hand to hand and heart to heart,
in every sorrow, misfortune, trial and
stormy day that earth can bring. 1t is
an ideal, if not always realized in full,
which is tasted even now, amid all that is
said about marriage miseries, more wide.
ly, perhaps, than any other happiness.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-02
Sensible Talk.

Emily Huntington Miller has been CIV
ing some sensible talks, which deserve
the attention of every young girl in the
land. She says:
"What better is she for education, if she
persists in Stiffness, and loudness, and OBJ.
trusive manners? Her researches among
the treasures Of science, and familiarity
with the thoughts Of genius, are Of no
value if they cannot furnish her with sub
jects of conversation more mighty than
the gossip of society, the scandal of the
day, and the probable intentions of young
men who never had an intention in their
lives, and are not capable of one until
their brains acquire more solidity. Her
artistic accomplishments are absolutely
worthless unless they teach her how to
beautify and adorn her home, how TO dis
tinguish the false from the true, how to be
in her own person an embodiment of that
grace and purity and chaste beauty which
the world worships in the marble and
canvas Of the old masters; unless they
teach her radical adherence of all the
hideous distortions of fashion; of out
ward show, with inward untidness; of
tawdry ornaments, obtrusive fnery, and
unclean trailing tatters. or what avail is
it that she knows every law of her own
body, and can trace for you with scientific
accuracy the working of every organ, and
the linked steps Of each wonderful proc
ess Of life, if she lives in daily violation Of
them all; laying a murderons hand upon
respiration and circulation; lunching at
midnight upon fruit, cake and pickles,
and dreaming unutterable things in a
room with all the windows Theoretically
sealed",
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-02
Facts About the Human Body.

The average man measures about five
feet three and one-half inches.
The weight Of an average male adult is
I4o pounds.
The human skeliton consists of more
than 200 distinct bones.
There are more than 500 separate mus
cles in the human body, and an equal
number of nerves and blood vessels.
The skin contains more than two mill
ion openings, which are the outlet for an
equal number of sweat glands.
Each perspiratory duct is one-fourth OF
an inch in length, which will make the
aggregate length of the whole about nine
miles.
Every adult man has fourteen hundred
square feet of lungs; or, rather, the mu-
cous membrane lining the air-cells of his
lungs, if spread upon smooth, plane
surface, would cover an extent of four
teen hundred square feet.
About two thirds of pint of air is in
hailed at each breath in ordinary respira-
ton.
The full capacity of the lungs is about
three hundred and twenty cubic inches.
A man breathes about eighteen times a
minute, and uses three thousand cubic
feet, or about three hundred and seventy
five hogsheads of air per hour.
The weight of the heart is from eight
to twelve ounces. 1t beats one hundred
thousand times in twenty-four hours.
An amount of blood equal to the whole
quantity Of the body passes through the
heart every minute.
The stomach daily produces about nine
pounds of gastric juice for the digestion
of the food; its capacity is about fv'
1ints.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-02
Central Christian Advocate.)

Boys do great many thoughtless and
foolish things "for fun that mortify
them very much in the remembrance, To
have been caught in somebody's melon
patch, or stealing a neighbours choice
fruit, or taking gate off its hinges, or
crawling under showman's tent, or
playing any kind Of trick to the injury
of another, and that has to be accom-
plished in a sneaking way, won't seem
very smart if you ever grow to be a man
OF sense. You will hate it, and wonder
that you ever thought it sharp.
Don't fatter yourself that the worst
thing about mean act is being caught
at it or found out. You can't be low, or
vicious, or tricky, without somebody
knowing it, and it does not take long for
good many to find it out 1t takes ex-
traordinary talent and deception to have
good reputation concealing a bad char
acter, and it is never worth trying for.
The way to seem to be trustworthy is to
be trustworthy. There was never yet a
boy who was manly, honest and worthy
Of confidence, that people did not find
him out and give him his due.
You can't afford to trif1e with your rep
utation. If you descend to indecent and
immoral conduct you will soil your char
acter and hurt your prospects, no matter
what your friends may do for you, or
how you may try to conceal from good
people that you do these things. Just SO
long as you allow yourself to practice the
habits that are condemned by pure, up
right, straightforward people Of integrity
whether you do it openly or on the sly
you will make no progress in the forma
ton OF fine character, or in building ur
good reputation. So, when you arc
tempted to any low, tricky, dishonest
mean or unworthy act, stop long enough
to think what the effect is going to bt
) upon your own soul, your own mind
your own reputation, if that is YOU
, strongest motive, and don't do it.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-02
ReacOusheld,

Lord Beaconsfeld is always delighted
when somebody roots up sentence out
of one of his novels and finds prophecy
in it. He himself occasionally points OUT
justification for new application Of a re-
mark he has made in his novels.
Some one was talking with him about
the extraordinary spread of the conspiracy
which has terrified the authorities of
Russia. "Yes," said Lord Beaconsfeld,
"when good many years ago, l wrote
that the world was governed by secret
societies, was laughed at. But people
seem to be coming round to my view"
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-02
Home Adsrnment Pays.

Other things being equal, country
farm house, with an abundance of shade
and fruit trees, with shrubbery and vines,
and small fruits and bloom of flowers
about, will always command much
higher price in the market than one bare
of these attractions; SO that time and
money spent in these Improvements
make ample pecuniary returns. And if
this were not so, rosy, cheerful home is
far more restful and refreshing to the
weary worker than bleak, barren and
dreary one. One gets paid as he goes
along, for his toll and his struggle, when
he sees his trees coming into fruit, his
vines laden with grapes, his currant and
raspberry bushes heavy with luscious
fruit, and tastes the bounties his industry
and forethought have secured.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-02

After man, upon some raw and gusty
night, when everything is as dark as tho
shadow Of fate, has run across swaying
clothesline with his chin and neck, you
never can convince him there is any truth
in all this nonsense about death by hang
ing being SO opleasant.-(Burlington Hawk.
Eye.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-02

1t is stated that two men who have lived
within three miles of each other in the sea-
coast town of Rye, N. H., for 50 years.
never saw each other until last November
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-02

A recipe, called "a Cure for Bed
bugs" has been received at this office
We don't propose to publish it. What
the modern housewife bankers after, il
not "cure" for bedbugs, but something
that will make 'em sick.
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-05-08
Ellsworth.

Sunday schools were organized in both churches on Sunday last. They are omitted, winters.
 Week before last, Miss Carrie Savage, only daughter of James Savage, died very suddenly at her home after an illness of less than two days.
 Miss Ida Peck, who has been sick for a long time, is now thought to be past recovery. Some time in March, Mrs. Mix, of Wolcott- vile, was sent for and came to see her. She had been unable to even sit up without faint ing away, but in a short time after she came, she had her up walking around, and for few days her health seemed to be improving very fast but, after a while, she grew worse and is now as bad or worse, than ever before
 Mrs. Hale another ''heallng woman came into the place, last week, and operated on several of the people, we can not tell at present with what success, though most seem to have lost faith in it.
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-05-08
DOMESTIC.

Five Union Veterans have been discharged by the Sergeant-at Arms and Secretary of the United States Senate, as has also brother of the late President Wilson.
 The prosecution has summed up in the Tal- madge trial, and the Court decided to consult in private
 The Lower House of the Pennsylvania Leg islature has resolved to give an official welcome to General Grant.
 The Commmittee on the Causes of the De- pression in Business expect to visit San Fran cisco after the adjournment of Congress.
 Governor Robinson has vetoed the New York Code of Civil Procedure and the Civil Code.
 Mrs. Sarah J. B. Hale, for long time edi- tor of Godey's Lady's Book, is dead
 The Government paid $1. 104 per ounce for silver III San Francisco last week.
 Dr. Luke F. Blackburn has been nominated for Governor by the Democrats of Kentucky.
 A National salute was fired at Chicago in honor of the veto by tic President.
 At New York, last week, the Union Tele graph Company was incorporated with a capi- tai of $10, ,0000 000 it has about fifty miles of llne in operation and aid is probable from sev- eral railroads, which will extend It's lines to all the main cities
 The Republican States Central Committee of Missouri declares Grant it's choice for Pres ident in 19SO :
 Well-informed Cuban merchants estimate the sugar crop at $50, ,000,
 A convention in the interest of labor in the Mississippi Valley is in session at Vicksburg.
 Secretary Sherman has made a speech at Mansfield, Ohie, on Finance and the Election laws.
 The Brooklyn Presbytery has acquitted Tal- madge.
 Forty students were graduated from the Un- ion Presbyterian Theological Seminary on Monday evening.
 The Stanley Court Martial closes this week. Appearances are against him.
 A fire at Newport in some large barns has de"troyed fifty horses.
 The Grand Trunk Railway freight sheds at Stratford, Canada, have been destroyed by an explosion of dynamite; about fifty freight cars were smashed and two men were killed outright.
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-05-08

consumption! We notice, further:core, that the cures detailed are said to have nccnrr I chiefly ia Wolcottville. Does any cler :5' ';.1a1:, physician, or other careful or competent cX- aminer in that place, endorse Mrs. Mix's claim of miraculous power? We have looked with much interest to the paper published in that place for some statement regarding the wen- derful facts which Mrs. Mix says occurred there. Is Wolcottville another Nazareth to deny it's more than prophet?
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-05-08
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
FOREIGN.

Great Britain.-Hanlan won the boat race on the Tyne, defeating Howdon easily.
 It is expected that peace will soon be made between England and Afghanistan
 Mir. Lorillard's PappoOse has won race at Newmarket.
 Dr. Butt, the Irish Home Ruler, is dead.
 There has been a serious riot in Cork.
 Germany.-N hundred and forty-nine dwellings were destroyed by the fire at Oren- burg.
 The Exhibition has been opened.
 RussiG. Wholesale arrests are being made in Russia.
 The Russian revolutionists have published an appeal to the army.
 Lieutenant Dubrovin, of the Russian Army, has been hanged for Nihilism
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-05-08

The Springfield Republican has been muIcsed in s1. OO0 for telling what has proved to be in the main the truth about the Rev. M. LothrUpis abuse of his family. The majority sf the jury, fl seems. favored a mere nominal verdict. but they were finally led into compro- mise which takes thousand dollars out of the treasury of the Republican besides costs and expepSeS
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-05-08

Twe-thir1s of the bond holders of the State of Tennessee have concluded to accent the terms of compromise offered by the State viz: 90 cents on the dollar, and 4 per cent interest. The Governor has called popular election on August Eth, to give the people of the state an opportunity to express their ap- proval or disapproval of this settlement No doubt the state could easily pay in full if it would, but the Repudiation cry is SC loud that creditors have decided to accept their half loaf instead of mo bread"
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-05-08

ItaEy.-Garibaldi intends to remain on the mainland
 The Minister of Finance expects a surplus this year.
 Tarhey.-The Czars letter to the Sultan is very friendly
 Chi6.-The Peruvian fleet is threatening Valparaiso.
 Persm.-The earthquake in Mlanch, on March 22d, killed 922 persons.
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-05-08

The Attosney-Gen- of New York has decid- cd thai where money is leaned outside the srate- and the securities taken therefuC are kept outside the state. resident of New York cannot be taxed upoa sz1ch investments at home. So it is the residence Ros of the nd-belder. but of the bond which is hereafter to determine its place of tzxztiou-
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-05-08

4 new grand telegraph company is projected by Jay GOuId. and others, it is said. They PguPuse to start with a capital of SIC. GOO, GOO and will run lines along the Pennsylvania and Erie ruaGiz. and thence over intermediate roads to the Central Pacific
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-05-08

One of the most fearful murders of the week was committed by an Adventist named Free man, at Pocasset Mass He Killed his little daughter in the expectation, shared by his wife and the rest of the Adventists, that she would be raised from the dead on the third day.
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-05-08

Ts& Canadian parliament has single Green hacker, wFsO made speech, recently, in which he aired the peculiar views so s'ften heard in p7IiticzI contests nearer home, of late years.
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-05-08
New Preston.

Dogs have become beautifully less the past week. How their mortal coils" have been shuff1ed off for them, and how peacefully their jaws do rest from their labors! G. c. Whit
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-05-08

Tou Se0u draws siOO, 900 salary as presi- den. of seven railroads He would sacrifice half his income, and probably more than half of his political power, by becoming president 0F fh.e Ccffesi States
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-05-08

The SAa FrsnciscO city treasurer killed him. self. Last week He had embedded S20, 900 of the city's money. He was foreigner, which srrpgufs for his taking the thing so much to heart
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-05-08

There is painful newspaper rulnor to the effect that James Gordon Bennett is proposing to hunt the Royal Bengal Tiger in his native Indian lair. We view the project with appre- henson. On the one hand nothing could be more mortifying to the Royal Bengal Tiger than to be bagged by James Gordon Bennett. On the other hand, if the Bengal should bag Bennett, what pages and quintuple sheets of the New Y York Herald would be devoted to eulogies of their bogus martyr to science!
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-05-08

NEW MILFORD does itself credit by per fermance of HI. NJ. s. Pinafore" on Thursday and Friday evenings of this week. The cast seems to be srtong one, with Col. Blinn as the Rt: Hon. Sir Joseph Porter K. 0. B. First Lord of the Admiralty, Mir. John F. Tread we'll as Ralph Rackstraw. Able Seamen; Miss Nettie Baldwin, as Josephine; and Mrs H. $. Mygatt as Little Buttercup. MT. A. H. Ten Broeck is Director and Mrs. Wm. B. Allen Pianist
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-05-08

The parties sill continue maneuvering for position &t Washington The Democrats, af- ter much caucus palaver, seem to have deter mined not to adhere to their rash plan of tack ing partisan legislation to the supply bills. They have now offered a separate bill forbid- ding the use of the army at elections. which wIH probably pass the House today (Wednes- dayl The Republicans have determined in cArcus Q oppose this measure. and will use their influence with the President to have it vetoed It is uncertain wha. course the Pres ident will take
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-05-08

Every Farmer Take Notice! Saue Agents Commission! Send the exact depth of your we'll on 8 postal card, to J. H. IVES, Dan- bury, Conn.,, and see what he will do for you Oldest established Rubber Bucket Pump ma- ker Tn the State.) 49-3m
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-05-08
NOTICE.

hereby forbid all persons trusting my wife .T.oui- ga o. Cook after this date as shall pay debts contracted by her. RALZY R. COOK.
 Harwinton, May 5th, 1879. 6-3w
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-05-08

The U. s. Supreme Court have affirmed the constitutionalty of the Thurman funding bill, which sets aside one quarter of the net earn ings of the Pacific railroads as a sinking fund with which to pay the government bonds is- sued in aid of those roads. On the present income of the roads, the sulA thus reserved will amount to about four millions a year, and would seem sufficient to secure the government heavy blow to Mir. Jay Gould.
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-05-08

SSznEey tries Africa again, as guide and in- trru<vser of Belgian expedition.
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-05-08

Queen Victoria detests high heels and tie backs, but what fires up the royal anger past endurance is the bang" It is even reported that female who appeared banged" in her presence, while since, was sent to Coventry till her hair could grow, after the manner of the Jewish ambassadors who, owing to brevity of side-whsker and coat-tail, had to lie over for a seasen in Jericho.
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-05-08

furce ef GOO Chinamen are building the Suurhern Pacific at the rate of three miles