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Year: 1878

The London Lancet says: "Few people
know the value of lomon-juice. A piece of
lemon bound upon corn will cure 1t in q
few days; it should be renewed night and
morning. A free use of lemon juice and
sugar will always relieve cough. Most
people feel poorly in the spring, but it they
would cat lemon before breakfast every day
for week-with or without sugar, as they
like they would find it better than any
medicine. Lemon juice, used according to
this recipe, will sometimes cure consumption:
Put a dozen lemons into cold water and
slowly bring to boil; boil slowly until the
lemons are soft, then squeeze until all the
juice is extracted; add sugar to your taste
and drink. In this way, use one dozen lem
ons day. If they cause pain, lessen the
quantity and use only five or six day until
you are better. and then begin again with .
dozen day. After using five or six dozen
the patient will begin to gain flesh and enjoy
food. Hold on to the lemons, and still use
them very freely for several weeks more.
Another use for lemons is for refreshing
drink In summer. or in sickness at any time.
Prepare as directed above and add water and
sugar. Both in order to have this keep well,
after boiling the lemons squeeze and strain
carefully; then to every half pintof juice add
one pound of loaf or crushed sugar, boil and
stir few minutes more until the sugar is
dissolved, skim carefully and bottle. You
will get more juice from the lemons by boil
ing them, and the preparation keeps better.
Year: 1878

Delegate Maginnis has introduced in the
House of Representatives bill providing for
fourth Judge of the Supreme Court of
Montana. The following is the text Of the
bill:


Sec. l. That hereafter the supreme court
of the Territory of Montana shall consist of
a chief justice and three associate justices,
two of whom shall constitute 81 quorum, and
they shall hold their offices for four years and
until their successors are appointed and quail
flied. They shall hold a term annually at
the seat of government of said Territory ;
but ho Judge shall sit at the hearing of any
cause in said supreme court which cause was
heard or tried before him.


Sec. 2. The said Territory Of Montana
shall be divided into four judicial districts,
and district court shall be held in each dis
trct of the Territory by one of the justices
of the supreme court, at such time and place
as may be prescribed by law; and each judge,
after assignment, shall reside in the district
to which he is assigned.


Sec. 3. That an additional assOciote JUS
tice of the supreme court of said Territory OF
Montana shall be appointed in the manner
now provided by law, who, until otherwise
assigned as now provided by law, shall hold
district court, at such times and places as
may be prescribed by the governor of said
Territory, within and for the county OF Gus
ter and such other newly organized counties
in said Territory as may be attached thereto
for judicial purposes; and said district shall
be known and designated as the fourth judi
cial district of said Territory.


Sec f. That the additional associate JUS
tice hereby provided for shall be entitled to
all the rights, privileges, and to the same
compensation, and shall be subject to all the
provisions of law applicable to the present
associate justices of the supreme courts of
the Territories, except as otherwise herein
provided.
Year: 1878

Some years ago, when the writer was a re-
porter upon an Eastern paper, 1t devOlved on
him to write for the same edition an account
of the presentation Of gold-headed cane to
the Rev. DR.. Nudge, the clergyman of the
place, and description of a new hog-killing
machine that had just been put in operation
at the factory. Now, what made the Rev.
DR.. Nudge mad was this The inconsiderate
buccaneer who made up the form got the two
locals mixed in frightful manner, and when
we went to press, something like this was the
appalling result:


''Some of the Rev. Mudge's friends called
on him yesterday, and after brief consulta-
ton the unsuspecting hog was seized by the
hind legs and slid along the beam until he
reached the hot water tank. His friends ex-
planned the object of their visit and presented
him with handsome gold-headed butcher,
who grabbed him by the tail, and swung him
around, and in less than minute the carcass
was in the water. Thereupon he came for
ward and said there were times when the
feelings overpowered one, and for that reason
he would not do more than attempt to thank
those around him for the manner in which go
huge an animal was cut in fragments was
astonishing. The doctor concluded his re-
marks, the machine seized him, and, in less
than it takes to write it, the hog was cut into
fragments and worked into delicious sausage.
The occasion will be remembered by the doc
tors friends as one of the most delightful of
their lives. The best pieces can be obtained
for fifteen cents per pound, and we are sure
that those who sat under his ministry will be
rejoiced to hear that he has been so hand
someiy treated


Mad! Well, about one o'clock that morn
ing the office had been abandoned by every
man but the advertising clerk, and he ascend
ed to the roof and robed himself in boiler
iron. so that he could not see the clergyman
tearing around down in the street with his
congregation, all wearing the panoply of war
and carrying butcher knives and things. The
next day we apologized. but the doctor stop
ped his subscription. Indianapolis Times.
Year: 1878

Rev. w. H. H. Murray in the Golden Rulc.l


Amuse your boys if you wish to keep them
ut home. Play whist with them. What
l hear some one Of you say, why, am
member Ut DR.. So-and-sO's church." Well,
let him 70 to the dogs for once: let your
church 70 to the dogs, and save your boy
from gong. When l was young man at
college there was deacon's SON there at the
same time, aud he told me he learned to play
''oid sledge" On the hay-mOw when his father
was reading commentaries. 1t is Il fact, and
not matter OF laughter, and that same young
man died drunkard and gambler. He
lived in the Connecticut valley, and could
give you his fathers name it was so dis
posed. bob" t,ld me more than dozen
times if his father had only played some kind
of game with him-''if be had only been hu-
man with me, Deacon Murray" said he, 81
should have been church member just as
you are" want you to understand was a
deacon then. | think ''Bob' was right. So
l say to you play whist with your boys; play
dominoes or checkers--in fact, any pleasant,
healthy game. Read poetry with them, for
boys like poetry; if not, read bear stories.
Get him to read to you and here let me say
that this is one of the best possible ways to
keep your boys at home. and one of the most
beneficial in its effects. Teach them to feel
that you are dependent upon them for CON-
pany. So l say to you, make your home
happy in a way that boys like, and not in the
way that some churches like. Boys are
worth more than church forms, for boys are
germs of angels, or else they are the seeds
out of which devils spring, If felt that
my boy would eat peanuts in church, that he
would so to sleep because he was not inter-
ested, should spend one-halt of the day un-
der the hedges or by some running spring. l
should preach to that boy in way that would
make him forget his peanuts and sleeping in
church. The running spring should remind
him of that fountain of living water which
flows from the throne of God If there was
a bit of sea, it should remind him of that sea
of crystal before the throne of God. If there
was an empty acorn, it should remind him of
the temple of clay out of which the spirit
has departed. All things should be service
to God. The fields and the skies should be
the church. and that boy should be made
follower of Christ in that way, because he is
best adapted to that kind of service.
Year: 1878

Out of the silences make me song,
Beautiful, sad and soft and low:
Let the loneliest music sound along
And wing each note with wall Of woe.


Dim and drear


As hopes last tear.
Out of the silences make me hymn,
Whose sounds are shadows soft and dim,
Out of the stillnesses in your heart
A thousand songs are sleeping there
Make me but one, thou child of art,
The song of hope in last despair,


Dark and low,


A chant Of woe,
Ont of the stillnesses, tone by tone,
Soft as a snowflake. wild as a moan.
Out of the darknesses flash me song,
Brightly dark and darkly bright;
Let ii sweep as lone star sweeps along
The mystical shadows of the night,


Sing it sweet,
Where nothing is drear, or dark, or dim,
And eaTth-songs melt into heavens hymn.
Year: 1878

A MASSACHUSETTS railroad has been plum
ing itself on the idea that it had the narrow
est gauge in the world, and had the smallest
cars of any steam railroad. Now Cincinnati
steps forward and shows railroad that is
hard to beat in the line OF smallness. It is
ten and half inch gauge, laid in the usual
manner, and the motive power is q locomo-
tive of the prevailing pattern, whose boiler is
three and half feet long, and driver eight
inches in diameter. The engine draws ten
der and five cars, each car running upon four
wheeled trucks and holding two people.
Year: 1878

An elegant oval cameo brooch, owned by
Mrs. Hayes, y memoir of her silver wedding,
has been received from New York. The
brooch is set in plantinum, with four very
fine diamonds, one at each end df the oval
setting, and one at each side of it. A medal
lion of the President Is cut upon the cameo.
Year: 1878

AS unit in interest with the
growing prosperity of our State, and
more especially of that portion known
as South Florida, which, forsooth, has
fallen far short of its Just proportion
of public allowances, being less esti-
mated according to its high scale of
merit than its northern boundary, al
low me, through your paper, to pre-.
sent to the public (by way Of intro
duction to the foreshadowing Of i'm
portant future events) a few dots re-
lative to that portion of the above
named county called Crystal River.


In the last two years the mercantile
business of this place has increased
three-fold, being an emporium from
the necessities ofthe adjacent country
in the total absence of railroad facili-
ties. The building up of the town
has been retarded because of unset
tied rights to the land. The old citi-
zens who composed the population of
the town and its vicinity up to the
present time are not in arrears, III
moral point of view, to those of older
settled places. They are church
going people and pay the preachers.
The education Of their children is
prosecuted with a zeal that might
adorn the highest ranks of civilization.
1t is true they have no base ball club
nor debating society, but they have
Sunday School.


Having given you fair specimen
of the old settlers, allow me space in
which to note few facts relative to
our new settlers. We are having
weekly accessions to our county gulf
coast from the state of Pennsylvania,
and, to say the least, fernando may
feel proud of the acquisition. All of
her old citizens should extend the
Welcome hand and tender such infor
nation as may be necessary to secure
them desirable homesteads.


The members of this colony appear
to have plenty of money, and the
good feature about it is with the ex-
Year: 1878

ception of one preacher, one doctor,
one merchant, one cigar manufacturer
all farmers, each of whom possessing
a goodly share of intelligence, indus
try, and perseverance.


The new immigration seems to COM
prehend the great truth, that the
State Of Florida needs a railroad, to
run through the southern portion of
the State from Live Oak, along the
gulf coast, to unite at Tampa and St.
Johns road, in order to bring her
fine lands into notice, thereby increas-
ing her farming, vegetable, and fruit
growing population, open to the
Northern W estern and Middle States
the great fish interest Of her south
western border, which extends from
the east bank of the Waccassa river
as far down the coast as Cape Sable
in one vast and unbroken chain of
mullet, added to which is the famous
green turtle and A No. oysters that
interline her coast, thus affording an
inexhaustable source of food that
could be made available to the United
States. Superadded to this bountiful
provision Of nature in the oil, the
guano, and sponge, which, when prop
erly utilized, will figure no small item
of revenue to the Government. Such
a route would not only present these
valuable natural considerations, but
would tnrn the tide of immigration
from the West and secure to the
farmer rapid and reliable transporta-
ton for his fruit and vegetables and
staple products, all branches of enter
price would be open to Northern cap
ital, saw mills and lumber yards rear
ed at every station, towns would
spring up on every hill, gigantic man.
ufactures would loom up on every
stream, and the unwritten volume
would be open to the eyes OF the
world.-T. S. WINN in, florida Dis
patch,
Year: 1878

"We are not pressed, let us eat at
leisure, for we always have time to
die and tell me what you eat and
will tell you what you are" No
nation on earth, except, perhaps, the
upper ten among the Swedes, spend


SO much time in the taking care of
their inner man as do the French.


After a tedious tramp through the
Trocadero, with my pockets filed


with notes, but with an empty stom-


ach, / am seated in an easy chair in


Cafe Anglais for the purpose Of
satisfying cfaving appetite. The


qarco1s has taken my order; it is


brought in and am happy. l will


not describe my own dinner it being


entirely la Washington, but the en-


ioyment of those around me. Two


elderly diners have leisurely taken
their seats-my mind is full of medi-
tation-Their looks indicate that
they have been preparing themselves
since breakfast for the repast of
the day in gentle out of door
exercise They selected a table
near the window in order that the
sight may be pleased with the pass
ing promenaders at the same time
that their taste is gratified with nour-
ishment-the soft voiced waiter after
having placed the bills Of fare before
them quietly retires, knowing that
they need time for reflection. Their
sight is not so good as their palates.
and they have resource to the mona
Gle, or eye glasses, to scan, as Mahom-
idan does the Koran, the choice bit
of literature which the waiter LETT
with them, and thus taste the happi'
ness of anticipation. To the gour-
NETS this is the preliminary pleasure
of dinner, and is counted on as one
of its features. Having carefully
read through the bill of fare, from
pottage to dessert, noticed quite q
serious discussion as to the selection
a discussion that rather sharpens than
dulls the fine edge of their appetite
were they seated in the Foreign
Affairs Department on the opposite
side of the Seine, they might be
taken for diplomats discussing the
Eastern question or the shooting Of
Emperor William. The programme
has at last been agreed upon which
the smoothly gliding waiter takes to
the room of plenty in the rear, which
pours out its treasures year IN and
wear out before the most critical
clients of the old and new worlds.
The wine is more quickly chosen,
Year: 1878

by McLin are in the main untrue, and in
detail unworthy of credit. Bell contends that
no fraud was committed at III TIE polls of
which he was clerk. Prominent Republican
members of Congress, and leaders now in
Washington only regret the present agita-
ton because they think it may hurt the
party in the approaching campaign and will
furnish material for Democratic bluster and
buncombe.


The Suns Washington special says McIin's
confession had a startling effect upon mem
bers of Congress. The demand for an in
vestigation is unanimous on the Democratic
side. Men like Hewitt, who had believed
the decision of the Electoral Tribunal to be
final, admitted that this last discovery left
no possible course open but vigorous and
searching inquiry. The demand is echoed
on the Republican side of the House.
Year: 1878

Special to the Star. .r. ~a ..sz


REPEAL OF THE BANKRUPT LAW.


WASHINGTON A pril 26.-The bill to repeal
the bankrupt law was debated by the House
at considerable length. Quite a number of
members wished to modify the Senate act
of repeal Others, like Generals Ewing, of
Ohio, and Hvmton, of Virginia, were
wholly opposed to repeal, Mr.. Ewing
spoke very strongly against the bill, argu-
ing that a period of great and unexampled
commercial distress was the time of all
others wnen there ought to be bankrupt
law. Some of the members, and especially
those from the East, favored a
permanent bankrupt law. When,
however it came to voting on
the amendments, the temper of the House
was most signally manifested in favor of a
repeal clean and unqualified. Every
amendment or substitute was rejected by a
large vote, save one, which was offered by
Mr.. Knott, of Kentucky, designed to per-
feet the bill, and to make more certain the
act of immediate repeal, which, by the
phraseology OF the Senate bin, had not been
left as some thought, entirely free from



doubt. The vote on the passage of the bill
was taken by yeas and nays, and showed an
overwhelming vote for repeal. The bill
goes back to the Senate, but as it is I'M
changed in substance, there is little reason
to doubt that the House amendment will
be promptly concurred in.


THE STEAMBOAT BILL.


The representatives of the steamboat in
terest advocating the House Steamboat Bill
now pending in the Senate Commerce Com
mittee have assurances that there will be
action early next week. This will give time
to act on the bill, which during the last
Congress passed the House, was favorably
reported by the Committee, and only failed
for lack of time. There is good prospect
this year. There is some fear that Mr..
Conkling will oppose the bill; and, if he
should do so, twill take a strong effort to
pass the bill.


THE SINKING FUND.
The Ways and Means Committee yester-
day had up the bill to suspend all pay
ments to the Sinking Fund for five years
No final action was taken. but it is under
Year: 1878

With many people the raison. d'efre
of book IS to be borrowed the own
er owns it that he may lend it, and
the borrower is il no way bound to
take care that he returns it as be got
it-if, indeed, he returns il at all
For bringing cut any latent selfish
ness there may be in the character,
there is nothing like borrowed book.
The man who will be as careful of
your horse as of his own, who will
make 4 point Of sending back your
ogereoat scrupnlously brushed and
viii evea remember to return your
umbrella, will not have the self-denial
to refrain from reading your book
over a Ere or under buttered toast
When you see page decorated with
q complete solar system of grease
spots. you may depend on it the book
has been lent that was never the
doing Of It's lawful owner Jagged
edges tell the same tale; the book
borrower, trusted with an unent
book, viii cut the leaves with any
thing that comes TO hand; but in
general be acts on the principle that
fingers were made before paper knives
In days gone by, when lamps and
patent wicks were not so common,
the point Of the snufers was favor
tie substitute. One Of the mysteries
connected with book-borrowing is
the rsge for making marginal notes
which it seems TO deyelope. That =
man shoGld mark passages for future
reference in his own book is intelligi-
BILE bat why be should be so psrticu-
lar in marking book which be will
probably never set eyes on again, is
beyond conjecture Nor is it easy TO
see why he cannot keep from expires
sing strong opinions, ike STUFF
rubbish" "bcsh,r ''true poetry"
'eapitalr and 80 forth, which su-
thOrs in his own possession never
seem to call for. This is one Of the
tricks that lending libraries are apt
to confirm into habits, and it is prOba-
bic only a survival Of the passion for
dsubiDg and scribbling in books
which is one Of the less agreeable in
stincts of childhood.
Year: 1878

A great deal of discomfort arises
from gover-sensitiyeness about what
people may say Of you or your ae-
lions. This requires to be blunied.
Consider whether anything you do
will have much connection with what
they will say and. besides it may
be doubted whether they will say
anything about you. Many unhappy
persons seem to imagine that they
are always in an amphitheater with
tie assembled world as spectators /;
whereas all the while they are play
ing TO empty seats. They fancy. 100
;hey form the particular theme Of
every passer-by. If, however, they
must, listen to the imaginary conver-
sations about themselves, they might
at any rate, defy the proverb aud,
Insist npon hearing themselves well
spC ken Of
Year: 1878

A German physician recommends
powdered quinine very highly as y
local application for Hesral9ie tooth
ache. The sufferer should dip I'm
ger into fresh water snd then into
quinine powder, and rub it thorough
" on the gEm in the neigbborhood OF
the painful tooth. The application
shoald be repeated two or three
times in succession The bitter
taste Of the medicine should be borne
as long as possible. Or. Darvars
tried this remedy first on himself,
and then on numerous other personss
among the number were many who
had tried other remedies in vain IL
invariably produced a rapid sllevis-
tion Of the pain
Year: 1878

Acertain doctor, struck with the large
number of boys under fifteen years of
age smoking was led to inquire into
the effect the habit has upon the gen.
eral health. He took for his purpose
thirty-eight boys, aged from nine to fif-
teen, and carefully examined them; in
thirty-seven Of them he discovered in
furious traces of the habit. In twenty
two there were various disorders of the
circulation and digestion, palpitation of
the heart, and more or less marked
taste for strong drink. In twelve there
was frequent bleeding of the nose, ten
had disturbed sleep, and twelve had
slight liberation of the mucous mem
brane of the mouth, which disappeared
on ceasing from the use Of tobacco for
some days. The doctor treated them
all for weakness, but with little effect
until the smoking was discontinued,
when health and strength were soon
restored. Now, this is no "old wife's
tale," as these facts are given under
the authority Of the British Medical
Journal.
Year: 1878

There was once found, says the Inyo
Independent, a pair of field glasses in
the desert near what Is known as Death
Valley. The glasses are supposed to
have belonged to Hahn, a lost guide of
Wheeler's Expedition. They were
brought into one of the interior towns
by an Indian aud purchased from him.
The most singular fact connected with
them is that every object within range
of where the glasses had been lying for
a year or more is distinctly photograph
ed upon them. We have heard of such
phenomena before, but this is one of
the most remarkable instances we re-
member. Both object glasses are COW
cred with perfect and beautiful photo
graphs or etchings of desert shrubs,
stems, branches, leafstalks. Leaves and
leaflets are distinctly marked, as if laid
on by a master hand. There is no mix
ture or confusion of one plant with an
other, each having a clear border of un-
marked glass, rendering it probable
that the sun or Lightning photograph,
or whatever it may be, was received
through theseye-glass. These pictures
seem to occupy position about the
center of the object-glasses, but a little
nearer the plane than the convex side.
Year: 1878

| A singular instance of the ingenuity
of birds was noticed at Detroit the other
day, where two robins were seen to be
toiling away alta small toy basket which
had been left in doorway. Evidently
thinking it would make a palatial nest,
the birds wese pulling and dragging it
along over the grass, but were unable to
get hold of it in such way as to fly
off with it. They accordingly left it,
but soon returned with a string about
eight feet long, which they drew through
the basket, and each taking one end in
its bill, flew briskly away with the bas-
ket hanging on the swing, between
them.
Year: 1878

Another shocking marine casualty is
reported. An explosion occurred in
the hold of the Allan Line, bound from
Liverpool to Quebec. The vessel was
at the entrance of the harbor of Lon
donderry when the explosion occurred,
and but for this circumstance the loss
OF life must have been fearful.