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The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-09
A Fortune in Waiting.
indianapolis Herald.1

1t is said that eight sensational papers
published in New York have an aggre-
gate circulation of $4,000 copies. These
papers are filled with trash and vile stuff
that is not fit to be read by anybody, but
is, for the most part, read by boys and
girls throughout the country. Many sim
liar papers are published in other cities,
and have large circulations. No line OF
business is more profitable than publish
ing this sort of literature. 1t is said that
the proprietors of one Of these publica-
tons clear $4,000 in single year.
Yet it is known that boys and girls can
be interested in books and papers which
produce no demoralizing effect. They
will read stories like jules Verne writes
which, though startling and unreal, at
least have the merit of stimulating in
quiry in the direction of scientific sub,
jects, and perhaps furnish a stimulus
that will prompt to something more SOL
i'd Here is hint for those who desire
the suppression of this vile sensational
literature.
The boys and girls will not read dull
books and papers but they will read what
ever is bright, spirited and attractive
There must be large proportion OF i'm
agination and small amount of fact
mixed together to make an inviting dis!
for the young. This is fact and nc
amount of criticising or complaining is
going to change it. The thing to do is te
humor this taste; give it green apples, bu
those which are not tinctured with dead
ly poison. If boys and girls are such
large buyers of the kind of literature
which pleases them; It will pay mora
and conscientious publishers to study il
what legitimate ways they can be pleased
This is the line OF study which the pub
fishers of clash" papers have pursued
with such profits to themselves, but the,
have not exhausted the subject, let u
hope, by any means. The best way t.
break down their business is, not to stol
with condemning it, but to run in opposi
ton to 1t. There is fortune awaiting
the publisher who will issue paper 10
Young people that will be at once as en-
tertaining as the "fash" papers, and at tn
same time be elevating and instructive
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-09
The Shabby Umbrella.
[Boston Transcript

Strange how ashamed man will be OF
| shabby umbrella-one of those slouchy,
corpulent affairs, with the bleached out
covering divorced from third of the rib
tips, and shoe string clasped around its
waist in lieu of long vanished elastic! !!
How he will hide it as far as possible un-
der his arm, run it up his coat sleeve, tuck
it away beneath the folds of his coat, keep
it between himself and the wall, and when
he gets in the car how careful he is to
dispose it in the darkest possible corner p!
And if, perchance, anybody spies 1t out,
how Quick is he to head off criticism by
explaining that it is the one he keeps in
the of1ice--so convenient to have one there
YOU know, one that you know nobody
will steal-ha! ha Or maybe he will go
a step further-the lying rascal-and say
he borrowed it, and if he didn't return it
old Grimshaw would never forgive him
ha ha! But when the clouds lower and
the raindrops begin to patter, who SO at
ease, so enved, so proud and happy, as
the man with the shabby umbrella, as ne
stalks along between rows OF unprotected
men and women, with his despised um-
brella dripping its liquid harvest indis-
criminately on the just and unjust' Veri-
ly, there is nothing in this life wholly
good or wholly bad. ....
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-09
Libel Suits.

Many suits for libel are brought against
the newspapers, but 1t is very seldom
tha. they result in anything but annoy
ance to the publishers, and bill for attor-
news, fees. The Pittsburg Leader has re-
Gently investigated the matter in that
city with the following result: The
Leader has sustained three or four suits
of this kind during its existence aud has
paid between $500 and $500 altogether in
getting out of them.
The Commercial Gazette has been sued
a number of times, but has yet to pay the
first dollar to any one suing it. The
Chronicle is nineteen years old and has
paid S31o2s In the settlement Of the va
rious hbel suits brought against 1t. The
most important suit the Post has ever had
is still pending. The Dispatch has at
tanned the ripe age of thirty-three years,
and has been sued for damages to the
tune of about $7,oooooo but has managed
to get off for the rather moderate sum OF
800, all told. The Freiheits Freund has
been twice sued for libel, in one case pay
inc two hundred dollars by way of com
promise and in the other suffering YER
dict for six and a quarter cents. .t.
1t thus appears that the Pittsburg press,
during the last thirty years, has paid less
than 5000 in the settlement of all the
libel suits that have been brought against
it This is pretty good evidence that the
newspapers generally know what they are
talking about and are not governed by
anv malicious spirit in what they publish
Furthermore it is the uniform experience
of publishers that honest and we'll l-mean-
ing people are satisfied with an explana
ion and correction when any incorrect
statement has been made, while the fel
lows who never had and never will have
ten cents worth of character to lose rusf
into the courts with libel suit for $Io
900 damages. ....
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-09
GRAINS OF GOLD.

The devil can cite scripture for his purpose,
An evil soul, producing holy witness,
Is like villain with smiling cheek;
goodly apple rotten at the heart;
o, what goodly outside falsehood hath!
Merchant of Venice.
Public Opinion is second conscience.
A spur in the head is worth two in the
heel. -.t
The most manifest sign of wisdom is
continued eheerfulness.
There is no friend to man, so true, so
kind and SO good as woman.
The wise and prudent conquer difficult,
ties by daring to attempt them.
A sweet temper is to the household what
sunshine is to trees and flowers.
The type of lofty thought oft twines
around a truth to touch the sky.
Those who trample on the helpless are
disposed to cringe to the powerful.
Married life often begins with rosewood
and mahogany and ends with pine.
Words have double weight when there
is man and character back of them.
1t is the best proof of the virtues of a
family circle to see happy freside.
Life is toe short to be worn out in petty
worries, frettings, hatred and vexation,
Adversely does not take from us true
friends; it only dispels those who pretend
to be such.
The grandest Of heroic deeds are those
which are performed within four walls,
and in domestic privacy.
No soul stands without any disguise;
there is always veil, however transpar-
ent, between it and the rest Of the world.
The pebbles in our path weary us and
make US footsore more thae; the rocks,
which require only bold effort to Sur
mount.
If you hoard one talent which the expe-
riences OF life have bought, you are as
truly miser as though you boarded a
hundred talents.
Cunning leads to knavery; it is but a
step from one to the other, and that very
slippery. Lying only makes the differ
ence; add that to cunning and it is kna-
very.
Laziness grows on people; it begins in
| cobwebs and ends in chains. The more
business a man has to do, the more he is
able to accomplish, for he learns to econ
omize his time.
No statue which the rich man places
ostentatiously in his window is to be COM
pared to the little expectant faces pressed
against the window pane, waiting for ID
ther when his days labor is done.
In the love of brave and faithful man
there is always strain of motionless ten
derness; he gives but again those beams
of protecting iondness which were shed
on him as he lay on his mothers knee.
If you are leaning on any body, stop it.
Start yourself in business, and don't wait
to be started, Look up a job of work
yourself if you are out of employment,
and don't wait for your friends to find it
for you.
No work, however menial, can make an
honest poor man lose his sef-respect Do
whatever you can get to dc, and do ii SC
we'll that your employer will see that you
are fit for something better, and the time
is not far off when you will begin to rise
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-09
Grew the Wood for His Coffin.
Wheeling Nv. Va.l Register.l

A remarkable story is told of the late
Capt. Stone, Of Moundville, who was bu-
ried at the beginning Of this week.
Thirty-five years ago he came from
New Orleans to Moundville to make his
home, and brought with him two seeds Of
a mohogany-like tree that fourished near
his former-home. These he planted, re-
marking to his family that he would have
his coffin made from the tree. One CT the
seeds died, but the other fourished and
grew. From shoot 1t became sapling
and finally, in the course of thirty years
grew to fine tree. About eighteen
months ago a severe wind-storm passed
over Moudville and Capt. Stone fount
his tree laid PROSTATE. He had it dried
sawed into lumber and sent to Pitts
burgh firm. In a short time it was return
ed to him in the shape of beautiful cof
| fin, and for four months is was preserved
in his residence. About two weeks agt
he contracted sickness that eliminated
in his death and, his desire being fulfilled
he was laid away in the coffin he plantet
thirty-five years ago. .t-
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-09
A Decline In Beans
N TDanburv News


Some one living on the second floor of
the double tenement on Nelson street
placed pan of baked beans in window
10 cool A few minutes later the horse
attached to coal cart backed in front of
the place, and refused to go. The driver
laid on the lash, but the animal would not
move OH. 1t WINGED and jumped about
h the agony from the blows, but it would
not advance. A portly gentleman pass
Ing on the walk, saw the trouble, and stop
ped, He was in sympathy with the ami
nal, and indignant with the man. He
expostulated with him, told him to use
mild means, to try suasion, that he ought
to be ashamed of himself for treating
dumb beast in that manner; that if he did
not relent and cease his brutal conduct
fearful judgment would overtake him.
At this juncture a little girl came to the
window to see what was the matter, and
she must have hit against the pan of
beans, for almost Immediately it slid from
the window, and while the benevolent
gentleman was telling the coal man of
the judgment to come, the pan descended
bottom upwards on his own devoted head,
deluging him with its contents, taking his
breath, and knocking him down on his
hands and knees, The shock was so
great and SO unexpected that the unfortu
nate man was completely bewildered, and
crawled away as fast as he could, knowing
not where he was going, but instinctivelv
seeking to get out of danger. He was a
dreadful looking spectacle when he got
up. He was beans the entire length of
his person. They streamed down his
back and legs, and the oily substance drip
ped from the brm of his hat, while the
crown being knocked in, pound piece of
pork, clotted with beans, rested securely
IN the hollow thus formed.
The driver silently watched him until
he got on his feet and then shouted at
him
"If you hadn't stuck your nose In other
peoples business I'd come there an help
scrape you off, but now, cuss you, you can
scrape yourself"
A woman who saw the accident invited
The unhappy victim into her yard, where
she helped him get off his coat, removed
his hat and emptied it, and gave him a
shingle to scrape off his pants with, and
performed other kind Offices suggested by
her sweet, womanly nature.
1t is pleasant to see such things, to find
those whose hearts are full of tender sym
pathy, and whose hands turn to helpful
Acts.
The little girl didn't come down after
the pan until the portly gentleman had
rot out Of the neighborhood.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-09
The Little Sweep.
TChild's World,1

Several years ago an effort was made
to collect all the chimney sweepers in the
City of Dublin for the purpose of educa-
ton. Among the others came little tel-
low who was asked if he knew his letters.
"Oh, yes, sir" was the reply.
"Do you spell?"
"Oh, yes, sir" was again the answer
"Do YOU read?" .... ..,.... 81.
ooh, yes, sir"
"And what book did yon learn from?"
ooh, never had book in my life,
SIR" ..
"And who was your school -master?"
"Oh, l never was at school,
Here was singular case: boy could
read and spell without book or master
But what was the fact? Why another lit,
tie sweep, little older than himself had
taught him to read by showing him the
letters over the shop doors which they
passed as they went through the City
His teacher, then, was another little sweep
like himself, and his book the sign boards
on the houses. What may not be done
by trying9 .., .o...
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-09
Doesn't Want to Become a Bad Boy.


A bright-looking boy, IL years old, who
said his name was Tommy McEvoy, went
alone into the Jefferson Market Police
Court last evening and to Justice Morgan
said Judge, your Honor, want to give
myself up" "Why, my boys" asked the
court +Because," replied the lad, 81
hain't got no home and don't want to
live in the street and become bad boy"
"Why don't you stay at home" "l amt
got no home Fathers been dead nine
Years, and mother died before that" "But
where have you been living sinceF
"With my aunt. She lives in Forty first
street. But she gets drunk. And she
won't let me stay indoors. To-day she
chased me out and said if ever came
back she would do something awful to
me. I'm afraid of her, and SO I've got
no home. Nobody will take me in be.
cause l amt got good clothes and dom
look nice. can't get any work, and
can't get anything to eat unless l beg o.
steal 1t, Then the cops III take me in.
don't want to get arrested. ! DON'T wan
to steal, nor to be bad boy. Won't yol
please send me somewhere where
/ can learn something and get to b
man9 There's places like that, ain
therei" The Justice told the boy there
we're such places for good boys, and tax
ing the little fellow under his protection
promised to find him horne in SOM
| pood Institution, .rH
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-09
The Process and Cost Of Manufacture Of
Artificial Ice.
Augusta gal Chronicle.l


The Arctic ice company are now turn
ing out between ten and twelve thousand
pounds of ice per day, which they are un-
der contract to deliver at half a cent per
pound.
The process employed by the company
is said to be the cheapest known to sci.
ence at the present day. The cost OF
manufacturing ice here is only eighty five
cents a ton, or about four cents and
quarter hundred pounds. AS it is sold
in bulk at ten dollars ton the margin OF
profit is nine dollars and fifteen cents on
each two thousand pounds. This is ahead
Of California gold mining.
The ice comes out in huge oblong
blocks, q inches in length and IL inches
square. There is space in the freezing
chest $50 to speak) for four hundred and
eighty of these blocks, amounting in
weight to thirty thousand pounds. AS it
requires 70 hours, however, from the time
the water is poured into the cans until it
is turned out again in solid form, only one
third of the quantity is produced daily
1t is the intention of the company to
double the capacity of the works in
very short time. The blocks in the new
chest will be only six inches thick, and as
they will freeze much more rapidly than
those of double the thickness, the daily
production will be correspondingly great.
The process by which the freezing is
accomplished requires about fifty pounds
of LIQUID ammonia to be stored in very
strong iron cylinder, and this is connected
with coil of pipes immersed in tank,
of strong brine; into this brine galvanized
iron cans holding pure water are placed
and these cans are of the size of the
blocks of ice which are formed. The liq-
uid ammonia is allowed to flow through
these coils, and it gradually becomes gas
eous, and in becoming so abstracts from
the water SO much heat that it speedily
freezes. A powerful steam pump forces
the gaseous ammonia back into the iron
cylinder again, thus liberating great heat
which is disposed of by cold water drop
ping upon the coils of pipe, through which
the ammonia passes on the way 10 inc
condenser. The process is continuous
one, and if the pumps. and coils 90 not
leak there is no loss, and the operations
may 90 on SO long as the machinery
lasts.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-09
Necessity of Amusement.

There are, even now, some old fogies.
who would have men and women work
from morning till midnight, day after day,
week after week, and year after year,
without relaxation, or amusement Of any
sort. But just as man is merging into
the machine, and learns to 60 his rounds,
like horse in bark mill, in a sudden
fit of perversity he dies Just as you get
him to believe that riding and fishing and
walking and fencing, dancing, attending
the theater or concert-room, in modera-
ton even is waste of time, you have to
send for the doctor, or the undertaken, or
the superintendent of a lunatic asylum.
The philosophy that would adjure limo.
cent recreation would also take away the
spring and youth, the former from the
seasons, the latter from human life. The
fact is human nature Graves relaxation
and excitement and we are rapidly wax
ing up to the fact. AS people we have
been overworking ourselves, for eight OF
nine generations, and the system is begin
ming 10 tell upon us. The careworn look
of our citizens exhibits the sad story at
glance-we require more holidays; oul
recreations are too irregular, too few and
far between. We stand in earnest neet
of invigorating sports and of plenty o
healthy amusements. We should b.
more Intellectual even, if we devoted les
time and thought to the culture OF th'
intellect; we should become more many
sided, less fantastical, and should enjoy
healthier old age. Those people VIII
turn their faces against rational amuse
ments had better blot out the sunshiu
andstrip the earth of its flowers. Recre
alton is essential to perfect health an
happiness. s-9
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-09
Stars and Kisses.
Harrisburg Patriot.l

As he sat upon the steps in Pittsburg
last Sunday evening he claimed the right
10 kiss for every shooting-star. She at
frst demurred, as became a modest maid
en-, but finally yielded. She was even SO
accommodating C, as to call his attention to
the flying meteors that were about to es' e,
zane his observation, and then got to 'call,
ing" him on lightning!bugs, and at last
got him down to steady work on the light
of lantern that a man was swinging az
: DEPOT in the distance where trains were
switching. i,
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-09
Teachers VS.. Kitchen Girls.
lSterling QllJ Gazette.l

The kitchen girl can save more than
the teacher. Lady teachers in Sterling
receive on an average about $40 per
month, which for nine months amounts to
$500. Fifty-two weeks board at 45o
$234; forty weeks washing at ST., $40
clothes, $ioo; incidental expenses, $40
total, $3o4; salary, $500; loss, $34 kitch
en- girls, fifty-two weeks at Y2, $Io4
board, nothing; washing, nothing; clothes
$50; incidental expenses, $40; balance
$44. The above figures will show a bal
afice in favor of the kitchen girl OF w
per annum. ~
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-09
FOundered Farmers.

Danger comes from sudden straining OF
one muscle or set Of muscles,so as to injure
their tissue and cause lameness, says the
Herald of Health. Few escape this.
Then add to this the injury of overwork.
Overworking is simply working after
the strength has been reduced SO low that
it is painful or wearing to move. 1t is
working after the nourishment in the
blood has been mostly used up. tits like
keeping mill going when the steam is
low, or when the water in the dam is near
ly out. In such cases not only the mus
cles suffer, but all the organs of the body.
Overwork at last, no matter what kind it
is, produces bankruptcy of the body,
which is worse than any kind of bank
ruptcy, bad as they all are.
In the care of the muscles old colds
and rheumatism. These make people
stiff and lame. They take away the nat
ural elasticity which gives SO much pleas
ure, and substitutes worn out, tired, ex-
hausted feeling, which borders on pain,
and is often more difficult to bear. How
very careful the owner of fine horse is
that he shall not take cold. He knows il
it does it will founder, and after this it
will never be good stopper. ..
Our whole country is full of foundered
men and women, who are stiff, lame
rheumatic, old in feeling, inelastic Mos
of them might have preserved their elias
ticitv to old age if they had taken proper
care of themselves AS rule farmers dc
not bathe as they should. The daily batf
is to them quite as important as to any
class. Il requires but few moments tt
take it and when followed by friction
fortifies the skin against colds.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-09
Something of an Ash Pile.

New York steamboats, throw two nun
dred and fifty tons of ashes into the rivers
and harbor daily. The Herald fears that
the harbor will be shoaled in time by TINS
and the deposits of garbage, and is max
ing war upon the habit. The Herald. Is
far-s seeing and proyident.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-09
A Rich Carpet.

About three weeks ago large carpet
in the adjuster's room Of the San Francis
CO mint was taken up for the first time IN
five years and burned for the purpose o.
reducing the accumulation of filings. The
value of bullion obtained was $1,000
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-09
THE DAILY STAR
PROGRESS.

They who walk upon the upland
Must expect to feel the breeze:
All the warning winds Of nature,
Suns that melt and SHOWS that freeze.
But how great the compensation
In the fairer, broader view:
In the clearer air surrounding,
In the wide expanse of blue.
tF youths Companion.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-09
Liver, Stomach, Heart,
and Kidneys.
A Positive Cure Wholly without
Medicine for the Following ALI
lnentS: l.t -.

OF THE LIVER.
First and foremost Malaria. whether IN
form of Fever and Ague, Dumb Agus, Ins
termittent Fever, Chills, Blood Poisoning
or any Of Its dra shapes; Liver Complaints
Of all kinds; Jaundice Biliousness, Psin b
the Side, Aching Bones, Liver Spot, sta.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-09

Dyspepsia, in oil its phases; 1ndigesaon'
Headaches, Periodical Nausea, Nervous II
ritability, Loss of Appetite, Heart Burn.
and, in short all arrangements OF tAs
Stomach. .....