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The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-02-03
An Eccentric Clergyman,s VIII.

Among the papers of the late Rev
William M. Parry, of Worcester, Mass.
has been found will bearing date Jun.
l6, 1879, and beginning with these words
IL die, whensoever and wheresoever thai
event may come, in the simple faith that
Jesus of Nazareth is my God. / be-
queath to my Christian friends, whohave
stood by me in the work of the Lord,
through evil and good report my un-
speakable and everlasting love. To my
enemies, / bequeath my forgiveness" !"
He appoints Charles A. Bowker Tone of
his Deacons his Executor, with John L.
Peters in case of Mr.. Bowker's death.
After paying his debts, he directs that
the remainder of his estate be applied to
continue services in the Tabernacle Con-
gregational Church.
His books he gives to Mrs. E. N. Eddy,
one of his parishioners, and with whom
he had made his home some time before
his death. All his sermons, manuscripts
and papers, letters, &C., are to be
thoroughly burned, unread. He forbids
any announcement of his death in any
newspaper, and requests the papers to
take no notice Of his death. He directs
that, after death, he be placed in box
of unplaned boards, dressed in his poor
est clothing, stockings, drawers and shirt,
and no other garment, and Immediately
nailed up; that no one be allowed to
look upon him at his funeral; that there
be no flowers, no minister, and no public
notice of the funeral, and no other re-
ligious service than the reading by Dea-
con Bowker, or some other member of
his church, of Psalms xiii and &c, and
the singing of his favorite hymn, "Lead
kindly light" and that no strangers be
allowed to attend the funeral.
He then provides, "That, after the
above exercises, l be taken in an express
wagon, or any other cheap conveyance,
to be inferred in any lot or place or par
eel of ground that any member of nv
church will, for the love of God, give
me. l am not ashamed to ask this, for
my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ had to
be under similar obligation, and to be
favored with like disposition after his
death; that no head-stone, floral wreath,
or other sign be used to mark the place
of my burial, as my Lord and God needs
no such reminder Of the place where my
dust reposes." He then denies his wife,
whom he separated from some time be-
fore his death, any participation in his
funeral, and gives detailed directions for
the settlement of a mortgage.
Mr.. Parry's widow has filed petition |
to be appointed administrative Of his es-
tate, declaring him "intestate," which is
dated December 10th, 1879, and another
petition, dated January 9th, 1880, is filed |
by Linda l. Murphy, Eliza N. Eddy, |
Elizabeth s. Scott and Mary A. Thayer,
who claim to be creditors, asking that |
Charles A. Bowker be appointed admin
strator. These matters will be heard in |
,he Probate Court February 18th.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-02-03
Seals, Sea.LfOns and Fishes.
fSan Francisco CALI

It is reported from Sacramento that
the Committee on Fish and Game in the
Legislature have recommended the re-.
peal OF the law protecting seals and sea.
lions. This law was adopted to prevent t
an onslaught by firearms or otherwise
upon these animals at Seal Rock, near
the Cliff House, in order that visitors to
that hostelry may witness the spectacle
they present in repose or of their gam.
bols in the sea and on the rocks. The
| fact has, however, become patent that
unless these animals are killed at the en-
trance to the Golden Gate or on the bay,
and unless, also, the law is more ripidfy
enforced against the Chinese fishermen,
angling in the bay will beno longer a
profit or pleasure.
A few years ago the long Oakland
Wharf would be lined with hundreds of
ladies, gentlemen and children, on pleas
ant afternoons, angling with rod and
line, whose labOrs were always rewarded
by liberal "catch." The case is differ
ent now. A clone fisherman" may occa-
sionally be seen on the wharf, but none
OF those pleasant parties which at one
time made the scene so animated and in
viting. This is because the fish have
become 30 scarce that bite very rarely
rewards the labors of the patient angler.
The seals and seaAlions, growing bold
because Of the immunity they enjoy
from danger, are now found very plenti-
ful near the Oakland Wharf, as elsewhere
throughout the bay, and there can be
but little doubt that it is owing to their
presence and that of their Chinese allies
that the fish have become 10 scarce. All
the efforts Of the Fish Commissioners to
keep up the supply will be futile unless
their hands are strengthened by little
]udicious legislation, and now is the time
to apply the remedy. .T
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cash, know all about housework and thi.
is leap year."
Eyes, know, but for heavens sake
don't ask me to marry youp he replied
as he saw the drift.
"See here" she continued, looking him
square in the eye, "Pm a straight girl,
wear a No. 2 shoe and / like the looks Of
you" I'
Eyes, but don't-don't talk that way
to mep
Stranger, it's leap year and Pm going
to pop! Will you have me or notr'
I-Pm already married." he faltered.
"Honest InjunT
Eyes" ....
"Well, that settles me and / won't
ride. I'll take cut across the field over
to old Spooners He's got four sons and
a fool nephew and I'll begin on the old
man and pop the crowd clear down to
the idiot, for I've slummixed around this
world just as long as Pm going tol Good
by, sir-no harm done p -
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only make the hours infinitely heavier.
Of course circumstances and the people
you meet, and their habits and varying
dispositions will show you when and
where to make liberal exceptions to these
rules, but don't talk never, never talk,
on the train to man who doesn't want
to talk and only keeps up his part of the
conversation from courtesy. And if you
can't tell when man doesn't really want
to talk with you, my son, you had better
get position as teacher in some asylum
for the deaf and dumb and learn to lose
your voice entirely as fast rs you can.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-02-03
SotherMss Joke On GUS. williams,
New York LetterJ

| New York Letter.l
The other night SOtheru was given q
supper by John Mccullough, at a hotel
in this city. Mckee Rankin, w. E.
Sheridan, Gus. Williams and the mem.
bers of Sothern's company, with few
Others, were the invited and happy
guests. They were happiest before they
got through. They were not happiest in
in the morning. Williams leveled the
broadsides of his wit and Jest at the
party and captured them all, much to
the disgust of Mr.. Sothern. Mccullough
didn't get chance. The reformed vari-
ETY. man told stories, worked off new
stock of puns, cracked jokes, sung songs
and made recitations, and amused the
body of the party amazingly. A few
nights following this Mr.. Sothern gave a
terrapin supper, to which were bidden
nearly the same guests .eH
Mr.. Williams was there. Eated by
his previous successes, he prepared for
even greater feats as humorist. He
sought out during the day long role of
Jokes on terrapin, and searched the pages
of history for the records of terrapin.
He loaded himself to the waters edge
and below with a cargo of humor, and
when the proper time came he proceeded
to unload: The first joke excited look
of surprise; the second he hoisted out
fell fiat as wafer, and the third did not
agitate smile. He spoke on, but with
no better success. He could not get
laugh, not a smile, only polite attention.
He became embarrassed. Evidently his
audience were not with him. He sub
sided, and the flow of small talk glided
on. Sothern had provided for his sup
preston as revenge, and, with Mr.. Nc
Cullough, had made a personal request
to each guest to join with them in re-
ceiving Mr.. Williams quips and witt
of which were really bright
with stolid Indifference. Mr.. Williams
has not announced a repetition of his
lecture on the antedeluvian life of the
it is we'll.
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so much wool were "too good" for the
general market, and he has since used
cotton only" That journal also states
that the first successful power knitting
machine, modification of an old Eng
lish invention, was the production of
young eabinet-maker of Albany, about
the year 1881. The device proved so
efficient that small factory for the
manufacture of knit goods, was soon
started at Cohoes, New York. Both the
inventor and his patron conducted the
new business so well that they not only
made their own fortunes but laid the
basis of a vast industry.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-02-03
LEAP.YEAR SUNK.
A Michigan Girl who Means to Get
. q Husband. 5tn.
detroit Free Press. l


Detroit Free Press 81. 9
A Detroiter who was out in the country
the other day to look after some poultry
got stuck in mudhole, although having
a light buggy and a strong horse. He got
out, took a rail off the fence, and was try
ing to pry the vehicle out, when along
came a strapping young woman, about
twenty-six years Of age. She halted, sur
veyed the situation, and said: 'fr
"You stand by the horse while heave
on the rail, and don't be afraid Of getting
mud on your hands and boots" ~,
Their united efforts released the yehi-
Gle and the DetroiteY returned thanks
and asked her to get in and ride. She
hcsitated, looked up and down the road,
and finally said: ',s ~ -',l Z -
Stranger Pm blunt spoken. Who
are YOUR 10 a-sI4T7 si',T7
He gave his name and residence, and
she continued: ~. ~
Tm over twenty-five, worth $500 in
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-02-03

A new and simple way Of producing
colored rings, which seems capable o1
some interesting applications, has been
recently brought to public notice by NJ.
Guebhard. A saucer filed with not
very pure mercury is all the apparatus
required. Then clear off with piece of
card or paper the thin pellicle Of oxide
and dust, breath on the bright surface
and magnificent system Of colored
rings is given by the film of condensed
moisture then formed Instead of the
four or five ''irisen" described by New
ton six or seven can be we'll made out,
and the thickness of the film increasing
from the border inwards, the order Of
hues in reversed. tr. .r.tt..nnq.
Still better effects can be got by drop
ping volatile substances (as petroleum
oily on the mercury surface, instead of
breathing on it; but the most remarka-
BILE results are had with collodion. d.
luted with ether, this gives pelicles on
the mercury, which may be detached
after their thickness and colors have
been regulated at willy and transferred
to paper. M. Guebhard has utilized
these effects in study of the sounds of
the voice. Vowel sounds uttered above
the moistened mercury surface produce
characteristic ring figures which throw
new light on the nature of the vibrations
involved. The vibratory state, indeed,
for vowel sounds appears to be often
very complex, the figures presenting
groups of several ring-systems, indicating
several centers of percussion. 1t is to be
hoped this method will be fully tested
and utilized in elucidation of the action
of the voice.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-02-03
ADVICE TO A YOUNG MAN.
Rnrdette On the Accomplish ment Of
Keeping One,s Mouth Shut.

/
Keeping Ones Mouth Shut.
Burlington Hawkeyef
Did you ever sit down. Telemachus,
and contemplate for an hour or two.
the beauty Of silence? You will appre-
ciate its beauty and it's blessing, my son,
as you grow older. Sometime when
you want to think and the bore who is
with you wants to talk; sometime when
your ears have been dinned into partial
paralysis by the man who always will
talk to you in railroad car; sometime
when man has been talking politics to
you when he knows you hate politics;
sometime when he has been telling you
all about himself, or trying to find out
all about yourself, then you will know,
my son, how beautiful is silence.
How like benson it comes to soothe
your ruffled spirit, falling on your tor.
tured soul softly as the twilight shadows,
and you love her with a love that ID ador-
alton, and on the altars of your grateful
heart you burn before her noiseless shrine
the voiceless incense of your worship.
All through your life, my boy, cultivate
flashes Of silence. Now and then an hour
of contemplation is worth week of talk.
The friend Won love is all the dearer to
you when you sit and hold his hand if that
is his gender, my yson) and can say nothing
to him. When you meet q stranger, my
son, who can talk eleven hours a day,
avoid him if you can, and don't shoot
him if you can get rid of him by any
lawful means. And, one parting word,
Telemachus, Don't talk to man in a
railroad car. He is never, at least rare
ly, thankful to you. Railway converse
tion is always tiresome; the listener has
to strain his ears to hear, the talker has
to strain his voice to speak; If you speak
too loud everybody can hear you; IL you
speak too low you can't hear each ether.
Never talk to people on q train, strangers
or friends, unless you have something to
say, and then say it and close your shell.
Don't, don't, don't talk in the mere ef-
fort to pass away the time. You will
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-02-03

Ladies who are inclined to flirt will be
interested in this item. George Brooks
and his wife were prisoners in the Chat
tanooga, Tenn, Jail, he being confined
in q cell and the woman allowed the
liberty Of the corridors. She persistently
firted with an adjacent horse-thief, and
although her wretehed husband could
witness the performances he was powerless
to prevent it. The novelty Of the situa-
tion did not atone for the torture it in
ficted, and he committed suicide.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-02-03
An Old Doctors Advice.

1t was this: "Trust in God and keep your
bowels OPEN" For this purpose many an
old doctor has advised the habit ually COS
tive to take Kidney-W -Wort-for no other
remedy 80 effectually overcomes this con-
dition, and that without the distress and
gripping which other medicines cause. It
is a radical cure for piles. .......'.. ..-
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-02-03
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The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-02-03

kidney-Wort is natures remedy for Kid.
ney and Liver diseases, Piles and Constipa.
ton.
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( READ THE TESTIMONIALS.

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TX PMeE, ONE DOLLAR PEA seTTlE. "
10 selS ~ all D,.wsstsss. N5
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The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-02-03
RUSSIA EALvE.
REDDINGs8
Russia Salve!

What a Distinguished Merchant,
Thinks Of 1t. .,.'
.y. NEW YoRK, August ., is7a
MEssRs. KIDDING d Co.--GentE In all kinds of
wounds and Inflammation Of every kind /
consider your Russia 6alve the best remedy have
ever used seldom ever use anything eise in INV
house or stablea Respectfully yours, =
--Is + II. B. CLAFLIN
Worth street New Yofk
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blondes by engaging the services of a
native scholar named Mira Mohammed.
Besides establishing the fact of the ex-
istence of blondes and their relative
number, the Persian doctor gives the
additional information, that after the
lapse OF one or two generations blonde
children appear in what are nominally
brunette families. This is manifestly the
result of remote mingling of races.
Long ago, as tradition has it, white men.
sheitans or demons, came from the North.
no doubt as conquerors. The brunettes
still retain an aversion 10 blondes, al.
though born among themselves, and tic
blondes, who feappear at intervals, retain
somewhat of the characteristics Of their
ancestors who have disappeared as a
race, In being more impetuous and
adfoit, and less lymphatic in tempera-
ment, than their fellow-countrymen.
Knit undergarments are now made for
the most part OF cotton, and it is simply
mere conventionalism to call them
"fsnnels." At first they were made
wholly Of wool, but as the Scientific
American says, "it is probable that at
present fully one-half of all the knit
shirts and drawers made In this country
is manufactured from cotton exclusively,
and where any wool Is used 1t forms very
small. proportion Of the weight Of the fab.
ric. We know Of one manufacturer who,
two years ago, made mp a lot Of goods in
which be put 20 per cent. of wool, But az be
found it difficult to get more for his goods
than others obtained for ell cotton arti.
cles, he concluded that fabrics containing
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1880-06-03

Nauy diseases are herei tus. tan>dnp.
tion, rheumatism, govt, insanity are extn
pie. Som f,rmitrS far mtsg generations
arc annoyed more or less, 81 isarG rs N the
d1gesttr- or9uas, the stomach aasf the Lcer
Among domestic amin ii, the sane here.iG-
larry law prevails. Contracted feet, ring
oone-, SPAWN aud either maladies OF which
the hsrse i subject are heredtt,rs Some
diseases OF sheep and cattle are also trans
missIble. This tendency 70 certain traits
and conditlonsi i not limited /" diseases o.
deformitles. good qualities are luherlteQ.
IEorjt., strength, and endurance. batE, form
and berutV, ar n<urNg frtH>ai4ttni from oat
generate ION to another. Fatness aud lean
ness. hardness and witness Of muscles,
working hard and living long are all here
ditary. An interesting hereditary law Is,
that certain qualities 81 mlnd and body re-
appear at certala periods nj life
All the females Of a certain family
became insane al y years OF age for a.
mans generation a the ancestry can be
traced.
Tnese are striking illustrations OF what
we see on a SIN tlier - lle. Tney are enough
to show that parents may exert a good or
bad Influence upon the uealtn and cnarac-
ter oftbeir children. They may All the
mother TO retIi-e that her herfh aud chdrdc-
ter hdCs IN Influence HpOa nc H.tad ant body
or her chi{rea. States OF mint aud condl-
toms OF her body may he banded down IL
posterity.
Her conduct during CESSATION cNerts a
decided effect on the chitd. An hthitual
| state of mind and body, a good or bad
temper. sound or poor health. tNcrt a pos
tive influence ontne coming enid. Greu
and oood men are usually the children OF
aren't and oood mothcrs > The healthy
motbar has nealrhy children The sweet
tempered mother nas sweet tempered cnil-
dren. This may not he always true, De-
cause other mt lence- modify the results.
The coming mother, then. should DO
what she can To secure mental, moTal, aud
physical health during her period 81 gesta
ton. This period i supposed 10 he iui!er
Ofdanger. Bun 1t the coming mother re-
cards tue laws OF heath. avoids laactlvIty,
and excuses and induigtnces. She should
realize .hat a relation exists between her
own conduct and health and the proper
growth Of her offspring. New born Infants
may have good health, but time may show
that disease, contracted during CESSATION.
NAV be latent for months ana years. And
SO it is with moral traits of character. They
are developed by circumstances As rul !,
it is true that the health OF the child l. st
cured by the health comfort and cheerful
ness Of the mother. Her health may not
demand au unsual supply OF food. Sne
should eat as much as she can well digest,
apd not as much rs her appetite may crave
a moderate amount OF food, moderate ex.
er.ise. chterfulness, and the cultivation OF
noble traits of character, Will usually IN
duce the best results. Securing the vita
Influences of the sun, the invigoratlnS
flences of fresh air, moderate eating, ex-
nrcisio9, and sleeping, have good effects.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1880-06-03
Two Verses for Young Girls 20 Heed

U%nthinking, idle, wild and young,
| laughed aud danced, and talked and sung
And proud Of health, Of freedom vain,
Drea ned not of sorrow, care or pain;
Concluding, in those hours of glee,
That all this world was made for me.
But when the hour Of trial came,
When sickness shook this trembling frame,
When folly's gay pursuits were DER,
And [ could sing and dance no more
1t then occurred, how sad 'twould be
We're this world only made for me.
Princess Anaei0.