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The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-29
She Took Him at His Word.

A capital story is told Of Kentucky
girl who agreed to elope with lover
whom the parents had refused to admit
to the house.
She descended the ladder In the night,
and started with him on horse back,
"Now you see how much love YOU"
she said; "you will always be true, kind
husband, won't you?"
He gruffiy answered, "Perhaps may
ard perhaps not"
She rode on in silence a few minutes,
then she suddenly exclaimed: "Oh! what
shall we DO? have come away and have
left my pocketbook "Then" said he,
tive had better go back and fetch it."
They were soon again at the house, the
ladder was again placed, the lady mount
ed, while the iIlnatnrcd lover remained
below. But she DELAYED to come, and so
he gently called: "Are you coming?"
when she looked out of the window and
said: "Perhaps | may, and perhaps not"
and then shut down the window.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-29
Duration of Animal Life.

The average age OF cats is fifteen years
of squirrels and hares, seven or eight
years; of rabbits, seven; bear rarely ex-
ceeds twenty years dog lives twenty
years, a wolf twenty, fox fourteen or
sixteen, lions are onglived, the one
known by the name of Pompey living to
the age Of seventy. Elephants have been
known, it is asserted, to live to the age of
400 years.
When Alexander the Great had con-
quered Porus, King Of India, he took a
great elephant which had fought valiently
for the king, and named him Ajax, dedi-
Gated him 10 the sun, and let him 90 with
this inscription: "Alexander, the son of
Jupiter, dedicated A jax to the sum- The
elephant was found with this inscription
on $50 wears after. Pigs have been known
TO live to the age of twenty, and the rhi-
noceros to twenty; horse has been
known to live to the age OF sixty-two, but
averages twenty-five or thirty; camels
live to the age OF 100; stags are very long
lived sheep seldom exceed the age of ten
COWS live about fifteen years. Cuvier
considers it probable that whales some
times live 1000 years. The dolphin and
porpoise attain the age Of thirty; an ca
gle died at Vienna at the age of lo4 ra-
vens frequently reach the age Of 100;
swans have been known to live 300 years
Mr. Mallerton has the skeleton of a swan
that attained the age OF 300 years. Peli-
cans are long-lived A tortoise has been
known to live to the age of lo7 years.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-29

The more spirited journals in the West
very properly resent the inclination that
men who have neither the wit nor the en-
ergy to get on in the East will succeed in
the West The Denver News SAYS:
"This is conspicuously good country
for brainy and energetic Young men lust
starting in the world, but to succeed here
they must have the ability that would in.
sure success at home With that their
progress with US is likely to be more rap.
i'd But middle aged people who have
had a start, especially in the professions,
and failed, seldom get on their legs again
in new State. There is screw loose
about them, as general rule. All they
can do is to drift from pillar to post, hunt
ing for community that will appreciate
them until the grave closes upon their dis
appointed and emhttered lives"
The News is undoubtedly right when il
declares that men who cannot obtain q
footnold in their native homes, where
they have the advantage of relatives,
friends and life acquaintanccs, delude
themselves when they take it for granted
hat upon the rude frontier their feeble ca.
pacities will be in great demand and that
bv conccding their week spots they can
become eminent in their respective
walks
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-29
JudiciOus Advertising
lSaturday Magazine.l

A man was denouncing newspaper ad-
vertising to a crowd of listeners. Iast
week." said he, ~ had an umbrella stolen
from the vestibule of Church.
1t was gift, and, valuing it very highly,
| spent double its worth IN advertising,
but have not recovered it,"
"How did yon word your advertisement"
asked a merchant. "Here it is" said the
man, producing slip cut from news
paper. The merchant took it and read,
Lost from the vestibule of the
Church last Sabbath evening, black silk
umbrella. The gentleman who took it
will be handsomely rewarded by leaving
it at No. "A San Fernando street" Nov"
said the merchant, ~ am liberal adver-
tiser, and have always found that it paid
me well. A great deal depends upon the
manner in which an advertisement is put
Let us try for your umbrella again, and, if
you do not acknowledge then that adver-
tising pays, will produce YOU new one
The merchant then took slip of paper
from his pocket and wrote, "If the man
who was seen to take an umbrella from
the vestibue of the--Church last
Sabbath evening, does not wish to get in
to trouble and have stain cast upon the
Christian character which he values so
highly, he will return it to No.-San Fer
nando street. He is wel-known."
This duly appeared in the paper, and
on the following morning the man was
astorished when he opened the front door
of his residence. On the porch lay at
least dozen umbrellas of all shades and
sizes that had been thrown in from the
sidewalk, while the front yard was liter
ally paved with umbrellas. Many of
them had notes attached to them saving
that they had been taken by mistake, and
begging the loser to keep the little affair
quiet. -
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-29

A man in Bridgeport, Conn, has invent
ed a very simple but ingenious machine
for ironing shirts.
1t consists of an iron framework about
five feet long, three feet wide and two and
a half high. On the top of this frame.
work is attached the iron, which is a hol-
low cylinder or roller, sixteen inches long
and eight inches in diameter. This is
provided with arms at each end, and be
ing attached to crank, when in motion
it rides back and forth on the framework
The cylinder is heated by gas. An al
tachment called the bosom board is con
nected at the end of the frame by hinges,
The operator standS at the end oI the
frame and operates the machine very
simply. The shirt is placed over the
board the same as when ironed by hand,
being drawn tight and smooth. The board
is then thrown in its place with the bo.
som upward. The heated cylinder pass
es over and finishes the work. The ma
chine is capable of ironing from five to
six hundred shirts a day.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-29
An Interesting Story,

An interesting story in connection with
the new silver dollar has lust come
to light at Philadelphia. The secret has
come out, through the Record newspaper
as to who the young lady was that sat to
Mr. Morgan, the designer as model for
the head which appears on the coin.
|. The lady who has thus been raised to
fame, and whose name will be chronicled
in history, is Miss Anna w. Williams, re-
siding with her widowed mother at 1oa,
Sn, ~" Garden street. in this city. In
1876, when Mr. MOI '.ai sti was making de-
signs for the coin, he was int. t.Noueea 10
the lady by Mr.. Thomas Eakins, frieh."
of the family. He desired to have true
representative of American beauty em-
blazoned upon the coin, and the profile of
Miss Williams appeared to him as the
nearest approach to it he had seen.
The lady, who is of a very modest and
retiring disposi.;roh, was induced to sit,
and after four or five interviews, sufficient
sketches had been secured to proceed with
the work. The artist wrought up the face
atterward to its present appearance, as it
is shown upon the coin. 1t would be i'm
possible to recognize in it any resemblance
to Miss Williams The grecian nose and
delicate lips had their foundation in her
features, but the full rounded chin resem-
bles more that of the wife OF Mr. Morgan.
Miss Williams is a blonde and considered
quite beauty. She is teacher in the
girls department of the House of Refuge,
and about eighteen years Of age. This
sets at rest the numerous stories which
have been in circulation as to whom the
face OH the coin belongs TO.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-29
THE DAILY STAR
THE BOATM-AN.

maiden sits in tlny bark,
Singing so sveetly,
The boatman he is grim and dark,
Rowed SO aeetly.
The stream Is narrow, the banks are fair;
"Rest thee good MASTER
Idle her longing, vain her pray'r,
he rows the faster.
Anon, they float on river wide,
mighty nver.
Instead Of flowers by the water-side,
Pale aspens quiver.
And 10, woman where sat the maid
Who sang so sweetly;
The boatman, grim and undismayed,
Still rows tleetly
On and on, till they reach the sea
That flows forever;
And DRIFT away on the ocean free,
Returning never.
And vain 1t is for earthly eve
To follow thither;
And vainly mortal tongue may cry,
"Cone-Wbither. whiiher!"
.lLondon Society.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-29
Hon. John Cessna,

Under date March 3D., rs, writes: .
In the space Of twelve hours my rheu-
matism was gone, having taken three doses
of Durang's Rheumatic Remedy. My broth
er, J. B. Cessna, of Bedford, Pennsylvania,
was cured by a similar amount.
JOHN CESSNA,
Member of Congress from Pennsylvania. I"
1t cures the worst case in the shortest
time. Sold by all retail and wholesale
druggists in Cincinnati Write to r. X.
Helphenstine, Washington, D. G., for his
40page pamphlet .r
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-29
A Life for a Kiss.

A good deal Of satisfaction is expressed
here over the fate Of DR.. Spencer, den
tist, recently shot dead for kissing NO
man in Mississippi, while she was under
the influence Of ether. Women want 10
know it when they are kissed, and the
fool who does not appreciate the fact
ought to die.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-29
Farmers Get Fooled

When they buy Butter Powders and col
ored salts and big bottles of cheap coloring
stuff, if they expect to get as good q Batter
Color, as the Perfected Butter Color made
by Wells, Richardson Il Co., Burlington,
vt The others have tried to initiate the
excellence of this, the original color, but
have wholly failed. Farmers should use
only the " Perfected" Sold by druggists
and merchants generally.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-29
[South Bend Herald j

Running a newspaper almost entirely
to local gossip indicates one of two things
"a limited local circulation, or an editor
without the ability to discuss matters Of
public interest.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-29

All who joy would win must share it.
Happiness was born twin. The vine
that bears too many flowers will trail
upon tie ground,
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-29

The ABB q. M, 1853 a. m. and 403 p. m trains
connect for Yellow Springs and Springfield. The
Church Train leaves Loveland Sundays at GI0
a. M, and returning leaves Cincinnati at 1853 D. IN.
CLEVELAND, MT. VERNON AND COLUMBUS H
Depot, Front and Kilgour \
Cleveland Express. =. .......... 1853 a. m. 1853
CINCINNATI AND MUsKINGUM VALLEY.
Depot Front and Kilgour. 4
GAINESVILLE Ex Ex..............l0:4S g. m. 253 p m. l
Circlevle Ac.................. 400 D. m. 11:0S m,
CINCINNATI AND EAsTERN-BATAVIA NARROW .
GAUGE.
Depot, Front and Kilgour.
Winchester Ac.....,......... 1853 a. m. 6:63 p. m
Winchester Ex............ 4:03 p nj. 9:0S a. m
KENTUCKY CENTRAL n
Depot Eighth and Washington, Cc 'ingtOn. 4
Lexington Ex... ................... 7:15am 610 M
Lexington Ac... .....,............. 2:00pm $50 mi
Maysyille Ex.....-...........,.. 200 pm 11:30 mi
Butler rAc........................ 655 pm 7:1b o mi
Lexington Night Ex...m....l2:00p m 1870 inl
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-29
RAILROAD TIME TABLES

Corrected to Accord With City Time.
CINCINNATI SOUTHERN RAILWAY,
Depot, corner Mclean ave. and Gest streea
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-29

BALTIMORE a OHIO, VIA PARKERsBUR0.
Depot, Pearl and Plum.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-03-27
A PrOtean Burglar.

Here is little story about the English
burglar Peace. 1t has always been a
cause of wonderment how he contrived
successfully to elude the police, although
he was seldom absent from his we'll
known haunts. A number of his visit
ors were discussing this point in the Shelf
field Jail the other day, and Mr.. Peace
was greatly gratified at the expressed adj
miration of his ingenuity. Said the affa-
BILE assassin: "Do you want to know
how lodged the Bobbies?'' and on re-
ceiving reply in the affirmative, he said,
"Well, will tell you.'' Then he asked
| them to turn their backs to him. They
did so, and were astonished to find that
Feaee completely altered the expression
OF ms face, and so protruded his chin
ana curied his lips that in ordinary cir
cumstances it would have been impossi-
bic to recognize him, especially as he had.
by the peculiar cOntortion of the features
forced the blood into his face until he
looked like a mulatto.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-03-27
The Use OE.TObaccO.

A good deal of excitement was produced
lately in an Ohio village, when an old and
reverend deacon in the church, a model
in good words and works. was attacked
with what appeared to be delirium tre-
mems. The attack was renewed again
and again, and finally the deacon died.
The disease really was, as stated by the
physicians, similar to naGniG-G-pOtW, but
had been produced by the excessive use
of tobacco, which had slowly but thor
oughly penetrated his nervous system.
The superintendent of the Pennsyl-
vania Insane Hospital, in his last annual
report, states that he has carefully tabu-
lated for many years the causes of insani-
ty in his patients, and finds intemperance
the highest on the list. First, intemper-
ance in the use of liquor, secondly. of to-
bacco, and thirdly, of opium and chloral.
'sThe earlier in life,'' he says, ''that
boys begin to use tobacco, the more strong
ly marked are its effects upon the nerves
and brain. Statistics obtained from Eu-
ropean schools show that lads whose stand
| ing had been good in their classes before
they began to smoke or chew, were in
variably found, after they became adj
dicted to either habit, to fall below the
school average
If young men would at least refrain
from the use of tobacco until after the
age of twenty-five, they would probably
never acquire the habit of using it; or, il
they did, it would not gain so secure OF
deadly hold upon them, because theil
constitutions would be better able to re-
sist it.
There is no temptation to young girls ir
tobacco, but the use of narcotics, ,anodynes
''drops'' and chloral, to which many wO
men are becoming addicted, is even more
perilous to body and mind.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-03-27
The BLOODY Career of the Zulu Chief.
tain, CeGYWaYO.
English oncial Correspondence.

English Offcial Correspondence.
It is no exaggeration to say that his his
tory from the first has been written in
characters of blood. / do not refer mere
ly to the long chronicle of his butcher
ies-from the slaughter of his brothers
and their followers, early in his career,
down to the more recent and indiscrimi-
nate and wholesale destruction of all the
unmarried women who attempted to
evade his orders, given in sudden fit of
caprice, that they should accept as hus-
bands the elderly unmarried soldiers of
his army, the massacre being subsequent
ly extended to all the relatives who took
away for burial the exposed corpses of
the slaughtered women-but take his
character from his own account of him
self. 1t was sent little more than two
years ago to the Lieutenant Governor of
Natal, who, on hearing Of the massacre
of the girls, wrote to remind him Of what
had very recently passed between him
and the representatives of the Natal Gov
ernment, Sir T. Shepstone, in the way of
promises of more merciful rule on the
occasion of his installation as King, ex-
pressing hope that the Lieutenant Gov
ernor might learn from him that the re-
ports which had reached him were incor-
rect. Cetywayo replied, E'Did ever tell
ShepstOne? Did he tell the white peo.
pie made such an arrangementP Be.
cause, if he did, he has deceived them
do kill, but do not consider yet I have
done anything in the way of killing
Why do the white people start at nothing
I have not yet begun. l have yet to kill
it is the custom of our nation, and -shal
not depart from it. Why does the Gov
ernor of Natal speak to me about my laws
Do go to Natal and dictate to him abou
his laws? | shall not agree to any law
or rules from Natal, and, by so doing
throw the great kraal by which I govern
into the water. Ny people will not lister
unless they are killed; and, while wish
ing to be friends with the English, d.
not agree to give over my people to b
governed by laws sent to me by them
Have not asked the English Govern
ment to allow me to wash my spears
since the death of my father, Umpandl
and they have kept playing with me al
this time, and treating me like child
Go and tell the English that shall nov
! act on my own account, and if they wis
me to agree to their laws, 1 shall leav
and become wanderer; but before 1 g
= it will be seen that l shall not go withou
having acted. Go back and tell the whit
men this, and let them hear it we'll. Th
Governor of Natal and are equal. He
Governor of Natal, and am GoVerno
here"
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-03-27
Effects of Railway Accidents.

Accounts of railroad accidents frequent
cars were badly damaged, the passengers
escaped without serious injury. Yet
many persons can recollect instances of
men whose health steadily declined after
they had passed apparently unharmed
through some mishap to a train, and
whose sufferings were terminated by
death more or less sudden. Some light
has been cast on cases of this kind by
paper read last month, before the Medical
Society of the King and Queens college
of Physicians, Dublin, by DR.. McSwiney.
In railroad collision there may result to
passenger % shock merely, or ~ con-
cussion, or (3) confusion of the cerebro-
spinal system. In shock the functions of
the nerves are impaired, and the action of
the nervous system is thus lowered. 1t
has been found that great confusion and
! injury, either temporary or permanent,
| to the nervous functions sometimes follow
from a shock to the cerebro-spinal system,
when the soft cerebral and spinal mass is
struck violently against the bony case in
which it is inclosed. That slight blows
often cause serious results is now we'll es-
tablished. An apparently trifiing injury
to the back or sacrum may give rise to an
inflammatory process, which may, after
the lapse of years even, end fatally. And
often, a slowly creeping-on paralysis will
ensue upon a shock to the cerebrO-spina
center, when at first no i'll result was ap
parent. In such cases, the seeming con.
t tradiptiQn may sometimes be noticed that
: whereas the more severe and dangerou!
! phenomena often result in the very cases
r in which injury appears to be trifling
/, on the other hand, it occasionally occur
e that the seYerest primary LESSONS presen
Il to observation only slight and unimport
o ant symptoms.
A San Francisco woman wrote to tn
Post: ''My husband knocks me dow
with chair or something every fe'
:. hours, and last week locked me up in tn
= cellar while he went shooting. When h
returned, after five days absence, he re
leased me with the remark, Great God
- amt you dead yet?' Yesterday | detec
80 ed him putting arsenic in my tea. VIII;
shall I do about it?" TO which the Po
- replied; ''You must win your husban
: by kindness. Hiding behind the door
- under the bed will only make him wors
Plat your hair like trunk handle,
- that he can drag you around the flo
more easily ,and work him satin-quilt
- club-holder to hang on the bed post. Il
~ great thing is, the proud consciousness
- having performed your duty. Do IL
- and all will be well in ten or fifteen yea
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-03-27
war and Temperance.

New York Observer.
On the Sabbath evening before the ad-
journment of Congress, the Congressional
Temperance Society met in Washington.
Senator Ferry, the retiring President, in
troduced the Secretary of War as the new
President. The Secretary, DIR. Chicken
ing, said the first President of the Society
was the Hon. Lewis Cass, Secretary of
War, Addresses were made by Mr.. Nc
Crary, Hon. Messrs. Ferry, Monroe,
Brewer, and VIM. p. Dodge. The Secre-
tary reported among the events of the
week past, President and Mrs. Hayes
temperance reception, and similar occa-
sion under Vice-Regal auspices at Otta-
wa, when presidents and marquises, q
queens daughter and other no less hon
orable women, set an example of fash
ional receptions without wine.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-03-27
s1pp1ngs of Punch

A pretty girl won musket in a lottery.
When they gave it to her, she asked
'fDon't they give a soldier with it?''
Madame K. ran away. Monsieur had a
great idea. He announced that he had
won fifty thousand francs in the Lottery,
and behold, Madame returned to his 1ov-
ing arms.
Wages that have not come down.-A
clergyman recently aroused his sleepy
audience by asserting in the most positive
manner, that, notwithstanding the hard
times, the wages of sin have not been cut
down one iota.
Fat cook with conscious bushes to the
lady who wants to engage herr: GAS to
there bein' no followers allowed, mum,
you might recollect as you've been single
yourself, and girl as is rayther snowy
in figger can't help 'em coming about.'
''Is'nt it funny?'' he exclaimed, as he
leaned back in his seat at the theater, and
wiped away the tears that the laughter
provoking comedian had produced. eyes,
1 should say So" responded his fair COM
panion, 'fit's one of her sisters old ones
made over" His jaw dropped into his
lap as he turned his gaze upon the young
lady in front, whose personnel his partner
had been studying.
Young Smythe-What? not skating,
| Mrs, Marrable?'' Mrs. Marrable "a fas-
cinating widow of over nine and forty,
who doesn't look it)-''No, Pm too old for
that sort of thing Young Smythe-
'''Too old? What do you call too old,
Mrs. Marrable?'' Mrs. Marrable (mod-
estly, -"Don't you call Gwenty-eight too
old, Mr.. Smythe ?'' ''I do.2
gentleman. who has just had family
tomb constructed, takes his wife to the
cemetery, and she recoils with horror on
beholding cut in the stone s'To the mem
ory ofmy beloved wife-eternal regrets. D
'FRut am not dead 20 she cries. 81 know
it, darling, but wished to please you by
showing you what my affection would
lead ME to say when you die.''
Madame c., dressmaker, has great
deal of trouble with her sewing girls. The
other day one of them came to her to say
"Madame, 1 fear that I will not be able
to work much longer. think am get.
ting blind.''
"Why, how is that? You seem to ge
along pretty well with your work.
s'Yes; but 1 can no longer see any mea
on my plate at dinner''
Madame G. understood, and the mex
day the young ladies were served will
very large but very thin pieces of meat.
"What happiness exclaimed our Miss
'fIy sight has come back. 1 can now Sc,
better than ever"
elbow is that Madamoiselle ?''
''Why, at this moment I can see tn
plate through the meat.'