davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-25
An Originator of Styles.
fBoston Herald.l

The ladies of this city are now becom'
ing the exponents OF a style of dress at
once unique and exclusive. They have
their "Worth," whose designs are original
and whose work-rooms are carefully
guarded, so that patterns and combina-
tions may not be duplicated and become
common.
On the other hand, the fastidious Gus
toner naturally expects, and, indeed, de-
mands, that what she has bought at a
goodly price shall remain her own, and
be resold to the next conner. Before long
we shall doubtless have the creations of
this local dictory of fashion decribed-in
fact it is so 'said-as we now have those of
Worth, Pignot, etc. by the Paris CORE,
spondents. Until then, his most novel
effects will lose one half their value, as
they will not unfrequently be ascribed to
his great Partisan rivals. At all events,
at Nahont, Newport, Swampscott and
Saratoga there may be seen, during the
summer season, many beautiful toilets
which have been made in Boston, but
which have by no means local air.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-25
Poor Girls.


Unlike many foolish Christians, the
Jews teach their children, girls as well as
boys, some occupation by which they
may earn living. An exchange incul.
Gates similar practice upon all parents
The poorest girls in the world are those
who have never been taught to work.
There are thousands Of them. Rich par
ents have petted them; they have been
taught to despise labor, and depend upon
others for living, and are perfectly help
less. If misfortune comes upon their
friends, as it often does, their case is hope
less.
The most forlorn and miserable women
upon earth belong to this class. 1t be-
longs to parents to protect their daughters
from this deplorable condition. They do
them a great wrong if they neglect it.
Every daughter ought to be taught to
earn her own living. The rich as well as
the poor require training. The wheel of
fortune rolls swiftly round; the rich are
very likely to become poor, and the poor
rich Skilled to labor is no disadvantage
to the rich, and is indispensable to the
poor Wel-to-do parents must educate
their children to work. No reform is
more imperative than this.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-25
Poets Children

The fates of the English poets are rath'
er peculiar. Shakespeare and Milton each
died without son, but both left daugh-
ters, and both names are now extinct
Shakespeare was soon so. Addison had
an only child, daughter, a girl of some
five or six years at his death. She died,
unmarried, at the age of eighty or more
Farquhar left two girls dependent on the
friendship of his friend Wilkes, the actor
who stood noblv bv them while he lived
They had small pension from the Gov
ernnent, and had long outlived their ia.
ther and seen his reputation unalterably
established. Both died unmarried. The
son and daughter Of Coeridge both died
childless. The two sons Of Sir Walter
Scott died without children-one ofetwc
daughters died unmarried, and the Scots
of Abbotsford and Waverlv are now rep.
resented by the children OF daughter
How little could Scott foresee the sudder
failure Of male issue' The poet of the
"Fairie Queen" lost a child when very
Young bv fire when the rebels burned his
house in Ireland Some Of the poets hac
sons and no daughters. Thus we read Of
Chaucer's son, of Drvden's sons, of the
Sons of Burns, OF Allen Ramsey's son
of Dr. Young's son. Ben Johnson sur
vived all his children. Some, and thost
among the greatest, died unmarried-But
ler, Cowley, Otwav, Prior, Pope, Gray
Thomson, Akenside, Shenstone, Collins
Goldsmith and Rogers.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-25
NEW TREATMENT OF CRIMINALS.
A Proposed Method by which Scoundrei
May BE Utilized.
brooklyn Start

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.
The extreme difficulty which society has
in finding out a mode of punishment for
aw-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-
derstood that vivisecrion in its extreme Or
fatal degrees is included in this scheme;
but II intelligent reader will see III a
flash now largely these irredeemable ras-
Gals could be made TO contribute to socie
ty, if 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 Sho
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
posteritv, 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
culprit's brain might be taken out and a
fine opportunity afforded to study the
automatic animal. If his crime were
man slaughter, he might have hole cut
:. L. II, GttaJ x.,it, ,rloec
window through which his viscera 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 fusil
oil and ground glass. In ordinary cases
of felony they could fracture his back
and if 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 pebotomy. Abor-
tionsts would afford fine subjects upon
which to try the germ theories, and few
cases of vitrol throwing ]udiciously
treated with hydrophobia would throw a
deal of light upon the mysterious disease.
The other advanced idea contemplates
the use OF anasthetics as punishment.
Recent experiments tend to show that
certain newly discovered drugs will sus-
pend animation and sensiblity indefinite
ly. 1t is proposed therefore 10 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, anc
being marked with tags, can be taker
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 actuatcs oul
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, 1879-09-25
Success.
Unknown Exchanged

Purposes, however wise, without plans,
cannot be relied on for good results.
Random or spasmodic efforts, like aimless
shots, are usually no better than wasted
time and strength. The purposes of
shrewd men in the business of this life
are always followed with carefully-formed
plans. Whether the object is learning
honor, or wealth, the ways and means are
all laid out according TO the best rules
and methods.
The mariner has his chart, the architect
his plans, and the sculptor his mode
and alias means and condition OF sue
cess. Invention, genius, or even what Is
sometimes called Inspiration, can do little
in any department, Of theoretic or practi
cal science, except as it works by well
formed plan. Then every step is an ad
vance toward the accomplishment OF th'
object. Every tack of ship made accord
ing to nautical laws keeps her steadil,
nearer the port. Each stroke of the chis
el brings the marble into closer likeness o
the model. No effort or time is lost, to-
nothing is done rashly or at random.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-25
Chiltiren's Laughter.

How it riPples across the fields and
echoes along the ll-side, as musical IS
the distant church bell pealing over the
grassy meadows, where the brown viii
lage darlings are gathering butter-cups.
There are no sounds so sweet to the
mothers ear, except perhaps, the first
isping Of an infants prayer. Chidrens s
laughter how dull is the home wherein
its music once ioyously echoed, but now
is heard no more. How still is the house
when all the little ones are fast asleep, and
their pattering feet are silent. How easily
the fun of child bubbles forth Take
even those poor prematurely aged little
ones bred in the gutter, cramped in un-
earthly homes, and il-used, it may be,
by drunken parents, and you will find
that the child nature is not entirely
crushed out of them. They are children
still, albeit they look SO haggard and wan
Try to excite their mirthtulness, and ere
long a laugh rings out as wild and free as
if there was no such thing as sorrow in
the world. Let the little ones laugh
then; too'soon, alas they will find cause
enough to weep. Do not try to silence
them, but let their gleefulness ring out in
gladstone peal, reminding us of the
days when we. too, could laugh without
sigh.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-25
Unhappy Marriages.

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
duence of which they throw away even
more by stupidity than by willfulness. A
woman, by her sex and character, has a
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 recollects
all which this implies, and shows him.
self perpetually chivalrous, sweet-spoken,
considerable and deferential. 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.d dog
life, missing the dearest possibilities OF
human intercourse.
What right has man to expect happi-
ness in a 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 wife is built and maintained? The
cynic who rails at marriage is generally
one and the same with the thoughtless
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 encountering in him whom she
weds not mere actual cruelty or injury,
but stupid incompetence to understand a
woman's needs, dull torgetfulness 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 mus
despair they change the sublime mean
ing of marriage TO vulgarity and weari
ness; they spoil the chance OF that bes
and finest of all education which eacf
man obtains who wins REASONABLY y goot
woman for his companion, and they cos
more to million households than money
Or repentance can ever pay back.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-25
Editing a Newspaper.
Monmouth (Ill.) Atlas.l

We never could see the virtue of the
boast which is SO often made by the pa
pers and magazines that so large por-
ton of their pages is original. Such
originality is often maintained to the det-
riment of the paper. The best exchanges
of our acquaintance are by no means
those which have the greatest amount Of
original matter. There is more of edito-
rial tact and talent required TO make prop
er and practical selections than is put in
requisition BY the production of the vaunt-
ing original papers, that seem to consider
originality the only requisite for good
periodical. A good newspaper is always
dependent upon other resources than its
own. And the boast of periodical that
it is entirely original is too often like the
boast of library if it should claim tc
have the production Of only one author.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-25
The Future Of the New England Farmer.
[Litchfield Conn Enquirer.1

N~S'''''
What is to become Of the New England
farmer, is aquestion ef deepening inter
est. For half century he has at best
stood still, his cousin the city merchant
his brother the village manufacturer, and
his son the western farmer, have been
monopolizing that wonderful American
prosperity Of which we never tire OF
boasting. The New England farmer has
not even held his own. A constant de-
cline in numbers, and large substitution
Of thrifty foreigners for decaving native
stock, is among the note worthy features
of rural New England. All this went on
up to '73. What has happened since?
All at once it was discovered that our
stiles we're over-populated and that our
manufacturing towns were overstocklng
the markets. Unemployed thousands
have been obliged to leave city and vii
iage for places where they could earn
| living; but scarcely man of them has
| found his way into rural New England
Kansas, and other western states, are be-
ing apidly filled up, but the reaction from
mercantile and manufacturing enterprise
has done nothing to benefit the districts
former wears had drained. In the mean
time land was never lower in New Eng
land, during the present century, than it
is to-day; farming was never more unpro-
ductive; nor the prospect for the future
more gloomy. Must our history be one
of steady decline in vital force, far beyond
that indicated by our decline in popula
tion until the wave shall finally set back
from an over populated Westi
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-25

kAtIanlC MontnlyJ
One Of the special dangers and defects
of preaching in this country is connected
with the popular liking for oratory in
the pulpit, the demand for what is called
eloquent preaching. The common
American idea of pulpit eloquence is low
and sensational. IL means chiefly rap
id and emphatic utterance Of sonorous
sentences, with something extreme, para
doxical and violent in the thought pre-
sented, though not much thought is re-
quired.
People demand of preacher that he
shall arouse and excite them, and they
enjoy with a kind of voluptuousness the
temporary stimulus and thrill of emotion
which the preaching causes. 1t results
from the laws of mental action that preach
ing OF this kind does not inspire conscien-
cousneSs, nor tend to practical moral ac.
tivity. 1t necessarily produces and fosters
mental conditions which are extremely
unfavorable to spirituality of character
and life.
The APPETITE for eloquence, working with
other tendencies of the age, has helped to
make the preaching in this country dra-
matte and entertaining, but, in large meas
ure, unspiritual. This, l think, can be
rightly regarded only as calamity, a ten
dency opposed to the interests of religion,
adapted to weaken and subvert it, and to
lead the people who are Influenced by it
into region where religion will be inpos-
sible or regarded as unnecessary. ThisGs
opa oF tl,e y,,oct i,npo,tart atnoDo tha IN
favorable tendencies Of the age. 1t has
made preaching "more interesting and at
tractive to Masses" but this has been ac-
complished by sacrificing much that is
essential in religion itself.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-25
(Danbnry News.)


A laundry man went into hardware
store the other day with bag. He said
that it contained clothing that was to be
washed, but the party leaving it had fol
gotten to leave the key. He wanted =
key for it. A box holding several quarts
of KEYS was given him, and he sat down
and tried them. He tried them all. 1t
was very warm day, and he grew con
siderably Interested as the time advanced
Not one of the keys would fit, although
all were fairly tried.
There was another box of the same arti
cles, and he was given them. Some
would almost do it, coming SO near it as te
give the impression that the right one hao
finally been found; but they would mis-
erably fatten out at the climax. When
the last one had been used he rose wea
rily to his feet, and prepared to search
another store. The dealer took hold o.
the bag, glanced at the lock, moved a Slide
and the bag opened, as it was not locked
When the laundry man saw what hat
happened, he said out loud, "Every hear
knows its own bitterness" and pulling
his hat down over his eyes, he sailed iron
the store.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-25

NChSllSu aPSiJ
The London Lancet is constantly find.
ing out something or other to make peo
pie nervous. Some time ago it showed
that the consequence of getting ones
head "shampooed" at a barber's was an
attack of typhoid fever. So people gave
up being shampooed, especially the peo,
pie with bald heads. Then it discovered
that every house was filled with sewer
gas, and that they were all going to be
poisoned. Then there was death in the
milk, and that was banished from the ta-
BILE.
Next the Lancet discovered that coup
lie of glasses of wine dav were fatal to
the constitution, and it followed this UP by
announcing that the water of London
was very dangerous, SO that at this mo
ment it left nothing whatever to drink
Then it clearly proved that Jam -tarts were
bad for the health, but most people who
had tried them in sufficient quantities hac
found that out before. The reason as
signed by the Lancet was that the jam ir
the tart was dectored
Having thus deprived us of the two
chief articles of sustenance, jam tarts anc
| milk, the Lancet wishes us to leave of
wearing clean linen. 1t saws that tn,
laundresses live in "inlected" places, ane
that we run the risk Of catching small
pox and scarlet fever from the clothe
they bring home. The same way witt
tailors, SO that the only really safe cours
now open to us is to go without food ant
without clothes. In this condition W
must not go indoors for shelter for fear 0
sewer gas. Never was Christian peopl
reduced to a more miserable plight. Is
not just possible that what we want il
the present day is little less science ant
little more common sense?
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-25
EVENTUALLY.

o sluggish and silent sea,
Where never barque hath sailed.
o shores Of the realm TO be,
When the summit of hope is scaled:
In the vastness Of Time, shall we,
When the day-star on high hath paled
Abide by that desolate sea,
Where never barque hath sailed.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-25

A young lady was recently buried at
Brighton, England, under romantic cir
cumstances. The day of her interment
was the day originally fixed for her mar
riage, and her friends complied with her
dying wish that she should be drawn to
the grave by the horses which had been
engaged to convey her to church. To
the catafalque there were attached four
grays, whose heads were decked with
floral rosettes of white and red gerani-
ums, and the coffin was covered with a
white and amber silk pail. The car
riages which followed were also drawn by
horses eaparisoned similar to those which
drew the hearse.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-25
Certainly Not in Some Cases.

A Michigan lady wants TO know whether
or not it is honorable for young man to
stand idlv bv and watch girl pass out of
her teens into the twentes and so on
down to the shady side of forty, still bear.
ing her maiden name.-N. Y. Post.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-25

He alone is wise who can accommodate
himself to all the contingencies of life;
but the fool contends, and is struggling
like a swimmer against the stream.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-25

Philadelphia stands at the head of the
morocco trade of the United States. 1t
has thirty-two firms, which do business
of $4,000 600 annually.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-25

The notion that ice purifes itself by
the process of freezing is not based upon
trustworthy observation. On the contra
ry, it is utterly wrong in principle to take
for consumption from any pond the wa
ter of which is SO foul as to be unfit for
drinking purposes
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-25

Tennyson has been known to rewrite a
poem thirty times, before being sufficiently
satisfied with it to give 1t to the printer.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-25
RAILROAD TIME TABLES
Corrected to Accord With City Time.

CINCINNATI SOUTHERN RAILWAY.
Depot, corner Mclean ave. and Gest street
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-25
HOTELS.
PLANT ERS' HOUSE,
ST. LOUIS, Mo-,
KELSEY l. STICKNEY, Props,
MOUNTAIN HO II = Il ,
Cresson Springs, Pa.

~ j. UNGER (of Seventh Avenue Hotel,
Il. Plttsburg), Superintendent. Opens June
10th. Top OF Allegheny Mountains, $500 feet
above level of the sea: pure mountain water and
medicinal springs; three mile drive within the
grounds with ample livery facilities; table first
class, and supplied from Philadelphia and Pitts
burg markets; accommodation for 400 guests;
amusements of all kinds. Music by Fehlngs eel
ebratee orchestra from Philadelphia. All trains
stop, East and West For particulars, address
ELIAS J. UNGER, Seventh Avenue Hotel, Pitts
burg Pa. je7-3m
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-25

The sos p. m. and 9:53 p. m. traI connect
Jackson and Portsmouth.
BALTIMORE OHIO. VIA PARKERsBUBa.
Depot, Pearl and Plum.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-25

The campaign in Ohio seems to have
settled down to brag and bluster Each
party is bombarding the other with big
Imaginary majorities, and it looks now as
though the battle would turn on the
simple question of noise. Victory will
probably perch on the standard of the
party which can first secure Eli Perkins
and turn him loose with his statistics.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-06-07
PERSONALS.

MAJOR john d. ADAMS, of Little Rock, is
registered at the Peabody.
SPL. HILL, of Trenton, Tennessee, and R.
E. Dunlap, of Humboldt, are at the Pea
body.
COLONEL W. A. ROBERTS and daughter,
OF Holly Springs, are stopping at the Pea
body hotel.
Mr.. ED RANNEY, of Louisville, was in the
Taxing District yesterday, and was warmly
welcomed by his friends.
Miss CARRIE DAVIS, daughter of Mr.. f.
5. Davis, has returned from Kentucky,
where she has been attending school.
Mr. JOHN RYCHEN, the printing ink man
ulacturer, of Cincinnati, is In Memphis on
business. He goes from here to Little Rock.
Miss ELLIE RoGERs, of Louisville, who
has been spending several months with her
aunt, Mrs. +. S. Davis, left for home last
evening.
Mr.. GEORGE STURGEs, agent for Scott &
Brownies New York chemical works, Is In
the city, attending to the advertising and
other business OF the firm ne represents.
Mr.. LOUIS DALTRoFF leaves to-day for
Cincinnati to attend the saengerfest. He
also goes as a representative member of the
Howard association, to assist Colonel Ed
mondscn IN the distribution of the History
of the Yelloi0 Ferer Epidemic.
john l.. SAFFARANs, formerly Of this city,
died at his home IN Gallatin, this State, on
the morning of the fourth. Death caused by
wound through the body, received at the bat
tie o, Shiloh, while acting as captain OF COM
pany c, Second Tennessee (knox Walker !,
regiment, infantry.