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The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-19

SUPERINTENDENT OF THE CENSUS
General Walker estimates that the in
crease of population of the United
States during the decade 1S7Q-SO will
reach at least ten millions. 1t is thought
by many that this estimate is far too
low. The last decade showed a low rate
of increase of population. This was not
to be wondered at. There was good
deal of killing going on during the pc
riod of 1S60-70. Homes were broken up;
domestic life all through the land for
five years was in condition in
consistent with a healthy increase
of population. The lowest previous rate
of increase was 32.69 per cent, which
would give population of 81, 1853, lO2 in
1880. The average rate of increase for
the past nine decades has been 1884 per
cent, which would give 81 ,413,732. But
this ratio, which was increased by the
immense immigration of past years, can
hardly be expected to continue. The
commercial depression, it is thought, has
been detrimental to large increase OF
population, but it is expected that this
will be more than eounteracted through
the agency of the society to encourage
marriages Let matrimonial picnics like
that at Inwood Park last Sunday week
once become popular and all previous
calculations will be of no account.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-19
The Man From the Rear Car,

A couple were occupying middle seat
in the ladies' car, having got on at way
station. Probably attracted by the invisi-
Bile fascination which never fails to bring
about contretemps, a gentleman from a
rear car came in and took a seat immedi-
ately behind the pair There was shock
of surprise as his eyes first fell upon them,
and deathly pallor overspread his coun-
tenance But this was for an instant only.
Then flush succeeded, and a queer smile
began to play around the corners Of his
set, determined lips. An hour passed.
The billing and cooling went on, and the
man was patient and evidently an inter
ested listener. The people in the car be.
gan to perceive that something unusual
was going on. Finally the man leaned
forward, and with that peculiar smile still
lowering about his lips, and said;
al beg pardon, but you seem to be en-
joying yourselves immensely"
The lady rose with stihed scream, and
wheeling around confronted the stranger
with a pallid face, and great staring eyes
Her companion was less disconnected
He, too, had risen to his feet, and stood
uneasily looking at the intruder, flushing
and paling by turns.
"My God, it has come at last!" walled
the woman.
The stranger was cool and impurtera
BILE:
"You did not expect to see me, did you!
"lIeaven knows did notw exclaimed
the lady, from whose eyes the tears hat
already began to trickle.
"Well it's not unusual. People offer
meet under peculiar circumstances.
suppose you are on your bridal tour'"
The lady covered her face with he
hands and sank back into her seat. Sh
had already begun 10 sob Historically.
II happened along this way by mer
chance" continued the stranger, II an
going West to Leadville | thought
would try to do something for the chill
dren, inasmuch as you have left us. Bu
trust you will not let this accidenta
meeting disturb your enjoyment"
The woman was moaning in ablee
misery.
II wish you all sorts of happiness, an
will no longer intrude upon you. Ihi
ladies and gentlemen" facing around
the spectators, "is my runaway wife an
her lover. They are very nice people,
and then turning away he stalked ou
leaving the guilty couple alone in the
humiliation and shame. At the aext ST
ton they quit the train.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-19

Counterfeting the currency OF the
country is more extensively carried on
than is generally supposed. There is a
large number of men, women and chill.
dren engaged in the business, 1t has al.
most become national industry. Two
causes combine to make it so extensive
one, the difficulty of capturing counter.
feiters, and the other, the small number of
men who are specially employed in the
detection Of that class Of criminals.
Every coin issued by the Government
has been counterfeited, and every issue of
legal tenders, and almost every issue of
National bank notes has been similarly
dealt with. There are more counterfeit
coins made than counterfeit notes, and
more counterieits Of National banks are
put on the market than OF legal tenders.
| The readiness with which coins can, be
counterfcited, and the small capital re-
quired to enter into the business, is the
cause of the magnitude Of such opera
tions. Five or six dalars is enough to
! get man up in the business Of making
spurious coins.
Coin counterfeiters direct their atten-
ton chiefly to the quarter and half dollar
silver pieces, though they by no means
confne themselves thereto The outfit
for the work consists OF a few genuine
coins, some antimony, lead, type metal
pulyerized glass, small galyanic battery
a crude milling machine, and moderate
supply of plaster of Paris. With the
plaster of Paris they make models-very
perfect ones-of the coin. Sometimes ir
one mold there will be cavities exactly the
size of all the silver COINS with the i'm
preston of one side on one-half of the
mould, and the other bearing the tat
smie of the reverse. The base metal
antimony, lead, type metal, and pulverizet
glass-though tin is sometimes used-i
melted and poured into the mould. Whei
sufficiently cooled the metal is taken out
The coin has dingy, rough, and not a
all deceiving look. 1t is smoothed with
knife as far as possible, the rough edge
being cut off. 1t is next run edgewis
through a small milling machine, whicl
generally consists of two small cogge'
wheels. This makes the notches aroun
the edge.
All that is now left to give the coin
pretty decent appearance as genuine NOR
ey is coating of silver. This the cour
! terfeiter secures from genuine coins. Tn
genuine coin, subjected to the action
the battery, soon loses some OF its silve
Before it is sufficiently dissolved to total
deface it the coin is taken out Enoug
genuine silver is in this way procure
. from single piece to plate dozen cour
! terfeits, and the original looks after I'll
i operation as if it was but little worl
: and can readily be passed.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-19
The Cincinnati Star.


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The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-19
Editorial Spinnings,

The way to propose is to propose.
Sara Bernhardt has husband to match
each costume.
What is the difference between fish
ing smack and an omnbus2
The down on the thistle is lighter, GER
tainly, than to be brought down on d watermelon
rind.
The money paid for horse is the
smallest item in the expense OF running horse
pital.
A colored debating society of this city
is discussing whether it is car-wrecked for rail
road engineer to ditch his locomotive
The man who recently advertised for a
wife desires that no husband whose wife is not
good looking will answer the advertisement.
care those choice oysters?" asked Viii
lkins of the restaurant waiter. II tlhnk they he,
for noticed the last customer in chaw his oysters
hsself."
A man in this city has an autograph
letter from the man in the moon, who wants
change for silver dollar. He would like it in
quarters.
The reason why Jack wouldn't eat his
supper was because the watermelons he hooked
out of that market wagon did not set well on hil
stomach
The recent election in Kentucky seems
to relieve any apprehension as to the result mex
year. The chances are in favor of the Democrats
carrying the State at that time.
A st. Louis lady who has quadruplet'
will name them Onery, Dry Ickery, Ann witt
the possibility of continuing another season witt
Fillesy Fallesy, Nicholas, John.
Chicago law is mockery. A man was
put in prison for remarking that he wanted anoth
| er mans liver. A woman there wanted some
bodys heart, and nothing was thought ofit.
The Chicago Journal asserts that DR.
Blackburn, Governor elect OF Kentucky did in
feet clothing with yellow fever and small pox AM
send it into the Northern States during the wal
This is quite explicit. The Governor might noN
institute suit (of infected clothing) against tn
| Chicago newspaper to get even.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-19
Spirit of the German Papers.

Secretary OF Finance, Mr.. Sherman, will,
according to the telegraph, leave to-day for
Ohio to combine with Mr.. Shurz in work
ing for the Republican ticket. Before his
departure Mr.. Sherman was interviewed as
to the condition of our finances, and on
this occasion stated that he is expecting a
rise in the price of silver.
IThe Volksblatt.l
The suspension of the bank of G. H..
Bussing & Co. must create considerable ex-
element, owing to the peculiar circum-
stances connected with it-during last week
bank robbery not yet cleared up, and
now, eight days later, the suspension of
the bank on account of that loss, which
soon swelled from 81 900 to $4,000. A few
additional explanations on these points
would be desirable and will undoubtedly
be made. 1t is pitiful that the creditors Of
the Archbishop are again caught by this
bankruptcy. A portion of the money col
lected for them was deposited in the bank
and will probably prove loss
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-19
A Blind Racer.
buffalo Courier

Sleepy Tom is a bay gelding, twelve
OR thirteen years old and has been seven
years on the turf. He is completely
blind. He is now the property of Mr..
Joe Medill, of Chicago. Mr.. Phillips
still drives him and can get more speed
from him than any other man can, be-
cause he talks to him continually and is
understood by the horse. Without sight
this wonderful flyer risks his safety upon
the slender bit Of iron in mis- mouth,
played upon by the hand Of his master,
and confding in this alone, rushes around
a track at railroad speed.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-19
HAPPY THOUGHTS.
In Our Hours Of BrOoding Care We
May Ponder Their Truths.
fCompiled for Detroit Free Press3

Compiled for Detroit Free Press)
Honor never gives aims but awards
justice.
Children are earthly idols that hold us
from the stars.
1t is weak and vicious people who cast
the blame on fate.
A weak mind sinks under prosperity as
we'll as under adversely.
When our hatred is violent it sinks us
even beneath those we hate.
The foundation of domestic happiness
is faith in the virtue of women.
Ambition often plays the wrester's
trick of raising man up, merely to Hing
him down.
A mother breads no memories-those
shadows have all melted away in the dawn
of baby's smile.
In the man or woman whose childhood
has known caresses there is always fiber
of memory that can be touched to gentle
issues.
Worldly friendship is like our shadow;
while we walk in sunshine ii sticks close
to us, but the moment we enter the shade
it deserts us.
| No man can be brave who considers
pain to be the greatest evil of life; nor
temperate who considers pleasures to be
the highest good.
Smiles are to life what the sparkles are
to wine, or scintillations to the diamond,
intensifying its beauty and clothing it in
all the superb hues Of the rainbow.
The golden moments in the stream of
life rush past us, and we see nothing but
sand; the angels come to visit us and we
only know them when they are gone
Few nights are so dark that no stars
are TO be seen; the thing is to look them
out and keep ones eyes on them, and
make the most of what light can be dis
covered.
By loves delightful influence all the
injuries of the world are alienated, the
bitter cup of afiliction is sweetness, and
fragrant flowers are strewn along the
most thorny path of life,
, !, Generous and noble emotions, vivid
, feelings and active exercise in the pursuit
of some noble object, rarely fail to give
grace to the movements and a rarer
charm than beauty itself to the face.
Our loves should be like the days, more
beautiful in the evening; or like the
spring, aglow with promise; or like the
, autumn, rich with golden sheaves, wher
good works have ripened on the field.
Nemesis is lame but she is Of colossa
stature, like the gods; and sometimes
: while her sword is yet unsheathed sh'
stretches out her huge left arm and grasp
, her victim. The mighty hand is invisible
|, but the victim totters under the dir
clutch.
The human heart loves flowers. Th
! Persian in the East delights in their per
! fume and writes his love in nosegays
|, while the Indian chief Of the far Yves
), claps his hands with glee as he gather
:, the abundant blossoms--the illuminate
= Scripture of the prairies.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-19
BRIGHAM Y0UNG's SONS wIFE..
She visifs 4 Friend In New Jersey, and
Tells Of Her Strange Life.
New York Sun.,

new 1ork sun.
Libbie Garfield, the first wife of John
w. Young, the eldest'son of the deceased
Mormon prophet, Brigham Young, was
in Newark last week visiting former
schoolmate. On Saturday afternoon she
started for Salt Lake City. She has a
petite figure, profusion of black hair,
brilliant black eyes, an olive complexion,
and is an intelligent and pretty woman.
She is a native of New Jersey,but she first
met Young in Philadelphia, where her
parents now reside. She hesitated long
time before she consented to become the
wife of a Mormon. Her parents are
Presbyterians, and she was an adherent of
that faith, She at length married him
with the understanding that he would not
marry a second wife She lived happily
with her husband until the death of her
father, who decreed on his death bed that
Mormon apostles subsequently confirmed
this decree, and Young obeyed.
When his wife heard that he had de.
cided to marry again she separated from
him. Since that time she has frequently
visited her parents in Philadelphia, al
though she has fine home in Salt Lake
City. While visiting in Newark, Mrs.
Young said that her husband had always
treated her kindly, and that she pitied
him. He did not want to marry a second
wife, but was forced by the polygamists
to do SO, in order to show the Mormons
that he was true deciple of his father.
Mrs. Young also said that her life in Salt
Lake City had intensified her hatred of
polygamy.
When she separated from her husband
they parted good friends, and he has ever
since been anxious for her welfare. She
has large farm in the suburbs of Salt
Lake City and has the custody Of her
children. Her husband is now living in
Arizona with his second wife, whom he
never appears with at public receptions
During the years that Mrs. Young lived
with him he seldom attended a public
assemblage without her, and when Jay
Gould, Sidney Dillon, and other conspc
uous men visited Utah, he introduced
them to her. When she started from Sal
Lake City last February to visit her par
ents he sent an agent to her with money
lest she might need it before her return
She said that he frequently wrote to her
and that she believed that he felt the pair
of their fated separation as much as she
In the past few weeks she stopped witt
her friends at Atlantic City, and she re
turns to Salt Lake City to superintenc
the collection and shipment of the WOO
from her many head Of sheep. She per
sonally manages her farm. She expect
to return east next fall, and after shor
stay, go to Europe. The names of he
boys are Brigham, Richard, John, an,
Tot" the baby.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-19
sCIssOREp sCINTILLATIONs.

The knobbiest part of the house is the
door.
Needs looking into-a telescope.-[Syr-
acuse Herald.
A stern necessity--A patch on fel-
lows pants Elmira Gazette.
"This can't be beat" the man said
when he bought the porcelain egg.
Many so-called "self made men" relieve
their parents of fearful load of RESPONSE
Wheeling Leader.
Kentucky has father of thirty-seven
children. He once lived in Rhode Island,
but had to move out of the state.-[Ex.
Mistress: Bridget, didn't you hear me
call' Bridget: Yis, mum; but ye towld
me the other day niver to answer ye back
and | didn't.
Strange that it wearies mans legs so
much less to stand up in front of bar,
than it does to stand up by workbench.
-[Syracuse Sunday Times
When you are losing money, the most
economical thing YOU can do is to take in
partner. That is the way careful busi,
ness men do Modern Argo.
When an honest hen is laying the
foundation for family and doing all the
hard work, some absurd rooster is ready
to do the crowing.-[New Orleans Plea
yune.
An exchange inquiries, docs hanging
prevent murder?" 1t certainly does.
Who ever heard of man committing
murder after he was hanged?-[ Buffalo
| Express.
Observe any number of trees growing
in the woods or the orchard, and notice
how few are exactly perpendicular. There
is only one tree which always grows ex
actly plum.
George Eliot got $4,000 for her last
novel. We expect people would pay us
that much, too; if they could be convinced
that it real was the last one Norris
town Herald.
Rain is real, rain is earnest;
We would not stop it, If we could;
Dust thou art, to dust returnest,
Was surely written Of the mud.
[Stubenvile Herald,
Elevator Boy Ito woman who has rid
den three times from bottom to top of the
building)-%ell, where do you want to
get out" Woman-"Well, indade, dim
not quote shure, but lave me as near the
Ould Colony Depot as ye can"
An exchange tells of girl who ran
away from her rich lover on the night
she was to have been married, and lit Out
with good looking poor fellow whom
she loved. Don't believe it; but if it i:
true the millennium is just at hand Gold
en- Era.
"Mistakes in Courtship" was the sub
ject of clergyman's discourse in this city
on Sunday. 1t seems to us that it isn't Sc
much in courtship that people make mis-
takes Courting's all right. It's the sac
awakening from the rosy dream tina
hurts, Moral-Keep on counting.
At an evening party one lady was max
5 ing an asp of herself in the matter of an
other, of whom she said vehemently
that there wasn't such another in the Cit
S for everything that was unladylike or un
womanly,
"Sh-sh, my dear" whispered frien
to her; "you are forgetting yourself"
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-19

NEXT to her joy that the dispatches
announcing her death are untrue will be
Mrs. Nellie Grant Sartoris' delight in
reading the eulogistic obituaries prepared
in her remembrance by the journalists of
America. And in this connection it may
be observed that the ordinary editor is
not usually disappointed when he learns
that the subject of an obituary upon
which he has wasted brains and time and
sympathy has failed to appreciate his eff
fort by dying according to announce
ment The undertaken who has prepared
the casket, the sexton who has excavated
the grave, and the preacher who has
written the funeral sermon perhaps feel
grieved when informed that their labor
has been in vain, and in some cases might
feebly complain, but the all enduring
editor never. He simply breathes an in
audible sigh and files the obituary away
for future use.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-19
Wicked for ClergYn.en.

II believe it to be all wrong and even
wicked for clergymen or other public men
to be led into giving testimonials to quack
doctors or vile stufs called medicines, but
when a really meritorious article made OF
valuable remedies known to all, that all
physicians use and trust in daily, we should
freely commend it. therefore cheerfully
and heartily commend Hop Bitters for the
good they have done me and my friends,
firmly believing that that they have no
equal for family use. l will not be without
them." Rey. -, Washington. D. G.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-19

A sTREET-cAR drivers wife New
York makes a piteous appeal through
the Sun to the officers of the road, on
which her husband isengaged. She says
that he begins work at 7 in the morning
and does not get through until o'clock
the next morning, being allowed only
fifteen minutes for dinner and ten min
utes for supper in the meantime, and
this, three hundred and sixty-fve days
and some odd hours in the year. The
poor wife begs that committee of kind
ladies and gentlemen may appeal to the
President of the company to shorten the
hours of labor so that she may have
the society of her husband occasionally
and enable their children to become at
least partially acquainted with their ia
ther. The woman seems to think that if
the hours of labor were lessened the men
would be more capable of performing
their duties. This physiological principle
Is allowed to hold good as to mankind in
general, but it has no bearing upon the
cases Of street railway employees. The
exigencies of the service ano
IMPOVERISHED condition of the com
panies has led to the breeding of
hybrid race of humanity that need bu
little sleep, less rest and no time to mas
ticate their food-in endurance eros
Between Comanche Indian osethe ole
school and grizzly bear. This develop
ment is very fortunate thing for stree
railway enterprises, and enables them tt
pay dividends.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-19

BUTLER is afoat in his little boat and
for once his weather eye has deceived
him. He counted on reaching Boston
in advance of the recent storm, but the
gale that swept down from the North
probably found him in some cave on the
coast of Maine.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-19

The Russian Nihilists are remarkable
for the completeness with which they
work. Recently they blew up town
with powder and waited around with fire.
brands for it to come down, when they
burned what was left.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-19

The Pennsylvania juryman seems to
have been educated to his business. Yes
terday four murderers were convicted in
that State and sentenced to be hanged.
Let other States import few Pennsyl-
vania Jurors.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-19
Languor, Its Cause ana Remedy.

LhnguOr9 lts SNuvc Ahu A~cAAASNy'
The cause of languor, when it is not the
immediate or indirect consequence of posi-
tive disease, is traceable to debilitating
temperature. Persons living in warm,
moist climate are peculiarly subject to it.
Diminished physical vigor and an indispo-
sition to active exertion are its character
istics. Sometimes it is accom- panied by un
due relaxation of the bowels, and by dys-
peptic or bilious symptoms. A reliable
remedy is Hostetter's Stomach Btters, a
strengthening and Alternative medicine de-
rived from the purest and most efficacious
vegetable sources, with pure spirituous
basis, pronounced BY eminent physicians a
mild and wholesome stimulant The Bit
ters foremost of American tonics, is large
ly used in the tropics, where the climate is
very productive of debility, malarial fevers,
and disorders of the bowels, liver and di-
gestive organs.