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Year: 1879

It is incomplete digestion of the en- tire quantity of food crammed into the stomach during business h0ars, and when the mind and vital forces are completely swallowed up in the con temptation of money-getting, which forms favorable soil for the prOpaga- tion of disease You rob Peter to pay Paul.

 Not freedom from anxiety only, but absolute rest of both body and mind, for half an hour, should precede the midday meal.

 The Impalite if not barbarous habit, fostered by many Americans to the ln- tense disgust and subject to the rldicuie of travellers from abroad, Is the un- seemly haste in which some persons rush away from the dinner table with their mouths crammed with food, and with strangulation imminent complete the process of mastlcation, and deglnt- tion en route to the counting room or work shop. a Let us hasten slowly Life is sufficiently long tor all needfui purposes If not stunted by improper practices

 A genial, companionable, and even temper, enriched by good humor, and q lively anticipation of the feast, VIII be the most provocative of those con ditions on which digestion depends

 The most prolific source of disease now affecting my countrymen, may DC traced to full midday dinners.

 It is not so much the quality of the food you eat as the quantity which invites diseases. Nlne-tenshs of my fellow-men engorge themselves with with double the amount Of food most favorable to longevity. The hermit m1ser lives more fully in accord with natures laws than we.-Prets0R Ssossi. N. D.
Year: 1879

The King of Bavaria, who, if he were

 not king, would be adjudged luna

 tic, and probably shut up in an asylum,

 is attracting the attention of the gossips for his eccentric, unique way of enjoy ing an opera. He has it performed exclusively for his own benefit and en- tirely in his own presence. He is es- pecially fond of the Maid of Orleans and, without regard to expense, has had magnificent scenes painted for 1t, and special decorations made. The whole is gone through with the same care and brilliancy as if the theater was crowded. and the scenes are even more magnificent than at any public repre- sentation. That of the Cathedral at Rheims, executed for the scene of the coronation, Is said to be @ masterpiece of decorative painting, of splendor and richness which defy description. But the King allows no spectators. Even the director of the theater is not allowed to be present. One day, al though hidden in an obscure corner of a distant box, the King noticed him, and was very angry and ordered him away. The director is obliged to sit in one of the wings of the stage in order to see the performance. For the most part the King is pleased with the ac- tors but he insists upon their being textually exact. One day one of them said '' or '" instead of '' ''and," and the King, stopping the performance, sent an indignant rebuke by 8 servant who stands always behind the royal box. On the other hand, after scenes which greatly charm him, he sends. costly presents. If the whole representation has pleased him, he has been known to rouse the actors from their lodgings at 2 o'clock in the morning, and give them bracelet, breast-pin, ring or cross. The most interesting feature of it all is that the poor, hard worked, al most brutalized Bavarian peasants have to pay for the indulgence of this crazy nonsense Detroit Free Press.
Year: 1879

SLAVERY IN AFRICA.-The idea that

 slavery in Africa disappeared with the abolition of the foreign ave-trade, an

 idea which seems to be prevalent both in Europe and in America, is neverthe- less a mistaken one. Slavery not only exists, but its evils are very much az

 gravated by the fact that for want of foreign market the supply is in excess of the demand. The value of the slave has depreciated until the preser- vation of his life and health has be- come matter of no consequence tohis owner. The increased and growing export trade of Africa is the product of slave labor. The slave, not so well fed or cared for, is raising groundnuts in some distant part of his own country, as far away from his home and his kin as though he were cultivating sugar on a Cuban plantation. It is safe to say that money and sympathy expended upon the negro slave has in no wise ameliorated his condition. On the contrary, the trade which was made and abolished at sea has added to its cruelties the thousand times greater evils of transportation overland through the jungles and where hundreds perish by the wayside from famine and exposure Ne1o Fork Herald Vest Coast Letter.
Year: 1879

The bridesmaids of the Princess Louise Margaret had to pay some what dearly for the honor of appearing in this capacity. These young ladies were informed that, in order to insure uniformity, their dresses must be made for them by a modiste who charged them fifty guineas each, and that they were to be coiffed by one artist. In addition to this they were each required to give check of fifty guineas to buy a present for her royal highness.
Year: 1879

Human happiness has no perfect se- curity but freedom freedom none but virtue; virtue none but knowledge; and neither freedom nor virtue has any vigor or immortal hope except in the principles of the Christian faith, and in the sanctions of the Christian religion.
Year: 1879

GOLD AT 2s5 The prem ium Of gold
reached its highest point in July, 1864,
when gold was rated one day at 285,
making the value of the greenback dollar
period Of national gloom, the tremendous
crisis when citizens and the Government
itself came nearest to despairing of the
Republic. In those dark days steam was
kept up on n Government vessel in the
Washington Navy Yard, on which the
President and Cabinet would have en-
barksd with the public archives had the
rebels under Early forced their way into
the capital. Lee, sorely pressed by Grant
at Petersburg, had sent Early aro1nd
into Maryland, and it was owing to mere
luck and accident that Washington was
not captured and the Government put to
fight. Grant had despatched he Sixth
Washington, and by fortunate co onci-
dence Gen. Emory, with the Nineteenth
corps, which had been ordered from New
/


Orleans after the failure of the Red River
expedition, had just arrived at Hampton
Roads, and debarking, it was sent up the
Potomac to follow the Sixth. But even
that timely assistance would have proved
unavailing if Elr,y had not quaied in
the very pinch of the crisis. On the
morning of the 11th of July his van was
close upon the Notifications covering the
northern approach to Washington, and in
the afternoon the Confederate infantry
had come up and was arraYed in front OF
Fort Stevens. They were slightly de
Tended, and Early might easily have
made dash into Washington and driven
out the Government if his vigor had been
equal to his opportunity. The capture of
Wa, ,hngton and the flight of the Govern


mert would have led to the immediate
recognition of the Confederacy by France
and England, and the war for the Union
would have been failure. On so slend-
er a thread hung the destiny of the ma
ton 1t was in that trying time that
gold reached its highest price of 285, and
the greenback dollar was worth only 35
cents. From the calm waters in which
we now find ourselves, with gold Mt par,
it is interesting, and, even at this distance,
most exciting, to look back upon the
dangers we have passed.-N Y. Heratd.
Year: 1879

| LAUGHED HERSELF TO DEATH One
of the most extraordinary deaths thai
ever was chroniced in this city occurred
recently, and is now the talk of the town
| The circumstances are as follows Mr.
Joshua Walker is respectable colored
man, residing on Fillmore street, and
married a short time since young wo
man of excellent character, and who was
not quite twenty years of age. Joshua
proved worthy husband, always looking
after the household comfort. A short
time ago he purchased some fresh pork,
which he intended to salt down for the
coming cold weather. Recently he went
to the cupboard for the purpose OF OBJ
tanning salt, with which to make q brine
for the picking, ard took from jar
what he presumed was the required arti-
Gle, thereafter proceeded to the cellar to
shout her household duties, did not notice
what the hu sband was about, but when
she came down from the chambers made
the discovery almost Immediately that
Joshua had taken a quantity ofgranulaied
sugar to salt the pork. She did not rave
and get mad, but possibly had she taken
that turn she would not now be lying
cold in death Instead she set out to a
hearty laugh going to the spot where her
husband was. Her laughter continued
for some time, there being not the least
cessation. She laughed and laughed and
laughed, her presumed merrment getting
more boisterous each moment. Finally
the hus band became alarmed and sent
out for assistance, and soon his landlord,
Deacon Henry Hazard, arrved, witness
ing in few minutes the poor woman's
departure, it is hoped, for the better land
She had positively laughed herself to
death The husbands horror at this ex


traordnary result of his innocent mistake
can be better imagined than described. .
He was warmly attached to his new wife,
and it is fitting, in drawing the veil over
this terrible scene, to say that they were
both exceedingly worthy persons, and
that the husband has the sympathy OF
scores of people in this his hour oftrouble.
Providence journal.
Year: 1879

HEAD DowNwARD FOR TEN Hours.
A couple of nights ago young man
named Adams, living near the railroad
between here and Columbia, was riding
on horsebock in gallop down the railroad
track. The night was not very dark, and
the young man presumed upon his knowl-
edge OF that part of tho track and his
ability to see anything dangerous before
getting to it, to indulge in fast riding
But this time he had risked too much, for
he came upon a deep culvert without no.
ticing it IN time to stop his horse. The
animal made a noble effort to hold up, but
its fore feet went down, and the rider was
thrown several feet forward over the ami
malls head. In falling one foot passed
between the iron rail and sill that lies
beneath it, but separated by the thickness
of the cross ties, thus hanging by the
ankle. In this perilous position he hung
for two or three hours, when he heard in
the distance the heavy rurnbling of an
advancing freight train. BY this fear was
converted into frenzy, for he WAS not able
under the circumstances to know wheth,r
the weight OF the cars would pass over
any part OF his foot or make his situation
msre painful. But the cars came and
passed without bringing any more pain,
or anybody to hear the piercing cries that
he sent forth for assistance. lie halloosd
himself to boarseness during tho night,
but 10 aid came until morning, when he
was found and taken from his situation
nearer dead than alive. lie was at once
taken TO house near by and remedies
applied until he began to show signs Of
Improvement, since which time he has
been gradually getting better. and has
now only to nurse his ankle and foot
which will be useless to him for sometime
yet.-HouSton Telegram.
Year: 1879

ITHACA, May 6.-Last evening the students OF
Cornell university serenaded President White
on the eve OF his leaving the country. In his
reply he alluded to the rumor that Cornell unit
yers1ty has lost In point OF numbers He states
that the loss had been very slight, and had boon
sion, which had been raised SO much that not =
third OF those who used to be students here
could be admitted. He said that the last three
years had been years OF steady progress IN
everX respect, and that Cornell was never 90
strong as now.
Year: 1879

SENATOR SAUNDERS telegraphs to the Omaha
(Neb.) Bee that the assertion OF the democratic
paper in that city that he contracted to support
the Union Pacific Company on condition that
Its friends supported him for the Senate is q
alSehOOd.
Year: 1879

FALL RIVER, Moss, May 6.-The movement
towards strike OF the spinners meets with no.
acknowledged that the mills could not possibly
afford to pay their hands more than at present.
The manufacturers claim they are paying more
where In New England Should strike bo0in
all the mills win probable shut down and remain
closed until other help can be secured
Year: 1879

The LoNGsHoREMEN's STRIKE at New York
continues. The men say they would sooner 90
west or south than take the terms offered An
italian green hand was struck by striker yeS


terday with stone, but not badly hurt. Fifty
men employed at $12a$l5per week by the White
star line have quit work until the company
promises not to cut down their pay after the
strike Is over. An unusally large humber of
vessels are In port, and it is difficult to see how
they are to sail unless the steamship COMPANIES
surrender, but this the latter say they win not
Year: 1879

UNDERGROUND TELEGRAPH.-The Western
Union Telegraph Company have purchased from
for the United States for system OF under
ground telegraphy by means Of wires insulated
In cotton and laid In wrought iron pipes filled
with petroleum to protect them from moisture.
The price paid Is stated to be $3.50, 900.
Year: 1879

III sNlDEh.
Dare to say, No, when tempted to drink;
Pause for a moment, my boy, and think;
Think of the wrecks on life's ocean tossed,
For answering, Yes, without counting the cost
Think of the mother who bore you in pain;
Think of the tears that will fall like rain;
Think of the heart-ah how cruel the blow;
Think of her love, and at once answer, No.
Think of tkc hopes that are drowned in tht


bowl
Think of the danger to body and soul;
Think of sad lives once as pure as the snow
Look to them now and at once answer, No.
Think of manhood with rum-tainted breath
Think how the glass leads to sorrow and


death;
Think of the homes that, now shadowed with


woe,
Might have been heaven had the answer been


No.
Think of long graves both unwept and un-


known,
Hiding fair hopes that were bright as your


own,
Think of proud forms now forever laid low,
That still might be here had they learned to


say, No.
Think of the demon that turks in the bowl
Driving to ruin both body and soul;
Think of all this as life's journey you go,
And when you're assailed by the Tempter say,


No.
Year: 1879

From the Louisville Commercial


About seven years ago William Elking-
ton was living in England, but unfortu-
nately his wife became insane and was
sent to the asylum. She had not been
there long, before he received news of her
death. The body was sent to her relatives;
who together with her husband mouned
over the remains as those of Mrs. Elking
tour. Shortly after the funeral he wa
married again and came to this country
Finding work in this city, he moved here
and went to housekeeping, and, to hel in
financial matters, his wife took man
named Penny to board. Two children
were born to bless their union, but as usu-
al a change came into their little heaven.
The green-eyed monster jealousy took
possession of Ellington, he thinking that
Penny had won the affections of his wife,
and IN fact such was the case. A few
weeks ago Ellington received word that
his wife in England was still alive, and
that the body buried was that of another
inmate from a distant part of the country.
This settled matters, and his wife left him
and went to New Albany, where she al
owed Penny to call on her. They became
engaged and would have been married
last Wednesday had it not been for Elk
ington receiving word that his wife died
last month, and that he had become the
possessor OF some property, but this good
news caused her to return to her husband.
They were to have been remarked next
Tuesday. Yesterday morning, while Elk
ington was at work at one of the presses
in the Bromaker-Moore paper mill, the
large iron lever which he had in his hand
was caught in the cog-wheel and twisted
from his hands. The handle of the lever
struck him on the head and knocked him
senseless, in which condition he was re-
moved to his home on Fifteenth street.
DR.. George Griffiths was called to dress
his wounds, and found tina. he had receiv-
ed a severe concussion of the brain; his
jaw was fractured, deep cash cut on the
right forehead over the eye, and his body
and arms were badly bruised, but it is
thought he will recover.
Year: 1879

IT is often asserted that the resumption
dollar will 20 twice as far as the green
back dollar of 1866 would. To test it,
take $50 and try to pay 800 bond Or
mortgage given in 1866 and due in 1879
lawful money.
Year: 1879

If man voluntarily bind himself to his
neighbor, it is his right his liberty is his
own property; but the right Of the neigh
Dor to hold such liberty a moment against
the will of the owner, sheuld not be recog-
nized by any law.
Year: 1879

A MAN who should erect his house on
the ice, to secure a solid foundation,
would display as much wisdom as a people
do who base their domestic medium of ex-
change on portable and exportable coin,
expecting a safe and permanent founda-
tion.
Year: 1879

THE millions upon millions of inter
national transactions are carried on with
the use of less than per cent. Of legal
tender. The debt system is their main
dependence, their chief stock in trade.
Year: 1879

WINNIPEG, MAN, May "a detachment of
local militia, under the command OF Col o.
borne Smith, left here yesterday at ] O'Clock
and arrived at Cross Lake at O'Clock D. M.
They took four days. ratiOns and one hundred
rounds OF ammunition to each man. Mr. White
head sent large sum Of money to pay OF the
strikers. The general impression is that no
serious trouble need be feared, unless caused
through Misrepresentation by the men OF the
object OF the military.
Year: 1879

an Attempt to Wreck Train.-Satur-
day evening colored man living near
Chester discovered on the Richmond and
Pctcrsbur" road between Chester and Port
WaIthal Il heavy iron rail about ten feet
long placed across the track and securely
fastened to the siIis. He at once went TO
work to remove it, and had just done so
when Il train came by. Fortunately it was
discovered and removed before night, fol
had it remained until after dark the result
would have been different.
Year: 1879

Special Dispatch to the Register.


WELLsBURG, June Is.


A most distressing accident occurred
here, this afternoon, by which Johnny
Robinson, about six years OF age, son OF
Gabriel Robinson, met his death by the
discharge OF a self-cOcking pistol with
which he was playing. The particulars
of the sad affair are as follows: The
father had been using the pistol for kill
ing rats, and had hid it on the top shelf
of clothes-press, and the little fellow
being alone in the room, managed by
the aid Of a chair to Chamber up TO the
shelf and secure the pistol, and while
playing with it, snapped the trigger
and discharged the contents into his
body, near the region OF the heart His
mother, who was in an adjoining room,
hearing the report, Immediately ran in,
and the little fellow met her at the door
with the exclamation, Mamma, I'm
shotw She picked him up and carried
him out in the yard, but only TO find
life extinct. The parents have the SYM
pathy OF the entire community. I.
Year: 1879

WOOSTER, O., June l6.-The fifth day
OF the Lutheran Synod was devoted TO
the Board of Publication. The society
report very satisfactory TO the Synod on
the efforts made to bring the society
and the SYNOD into closer relations, and
allow the Synod TO have a larger control
of the affairs Of the society.
Year: 1879

Editor Of The Star:-Believing that you would
not Intentionally misrepresent facts, wish to
call attention to the wrong impression likely to
be conveyed by your editorial article OF We'd
nesday On the above subject. 1t is LrCe, that
Congress apparently abolished three orga lied
surveys that existed by acts OF appropriation
alone: and 1t Is equally true that It left the War
department untouched I'm its right to make sur
yeyS, as 1t has done for more than fifty years. in
the interest OF its own administration. 1t be-
comes, then, a fair question OF economy whether
it shall employ already organized means, or
make its necessary surveys under the inconve-
niepce and added expense OF different prepara.
t10ns. The consideration OF this question OF ad-
ministration does not, In any respect, contem
plate undoing the work OF Congress-; but, on
the other hard, OF doing the work
the army. But as Congress did not at its last
on recoDnaisances and surveys for the author
lied military purposes, the Secretary of war
properly asks for needed fiscal aid to be given
In time TO use the material and personnel now
In hand. Whatever work of the kind may be
done in the west, 1t is hardly necessary to say,
must be done mostly west OF the Tooth meri-
dian, and entirely west OF the Mississippi river,
for there rs where the needed Information Is to
be sought, and the Objectionable meridian is
not to blame. II such work as the army Is still
authorized to do in the line OF survey and re.
connaisance should be utilized for more OF the
government than is represented by the War
department, it would hardly be condemned by
THE STAR, or any one not having purely selfish
interests TO subServe. JURIsDICTIoN


April 10, 1879.
Year: 1879

Two YOUNG GIRLS OF Wilmington, Ohio, were
sllly enough to follow the members OF q min
strel troupe to Lebanon a few days since and
put up at the same hotel. They enjoyed their
escapade ard appeared at the concert In the
evening. Their extreme youth and stylish ap-
pearaGce attracted the attention OF the hotel
clerk, and with fatherly care, late at night he
locking tie door, Before morning the clerk
was aroused by the arrival OF q carriage con-
tainng the brother and sister of one of tue girls
with the intelligence that her father was on his
death bed consequent upon the rash act OF his
daughter. Reused to sense of their guilt. the
girls were soon on the way back to the homes
they had so rashly abandoned. ed.-[Phila Star, 10.
Year: 1879

WtHf1c1F.1i A11S1t1s ct tHe ftuUs
hight, by a very decisive vote, adopted the the
minority report on the salary question, thus
leaving all salaries at the same rates as those
now established. The order to divide the state,
county, and city taxes, which is virtually an
abolition OF the poll tax as prerequisite for
voting. was adopted without division. The
council adjourned at las this morning.
Year: 1879

THE SMALL POx IN NEW YoRK.-A few days
ago child In New York tenement house died
OF small pOx. The authorities cleanSed and dis
infected the premises, hoping to destroy the
germs OF disease, but two more cases are now
reported in the same house. The health on1cials
are using every precaution to prevent the
spread Of the disease,
Year: 1879

NEW YORK APp0RTIONMRNT BILL. PASSED.
Both houses OF the New York legislature on
Wednesday passed q legislative apportionment
BILL Whilst lot entirely satisfactory to the dem
Ocrats 1t received their almost unanimous sup
port, as being more liberal than anything yet
offered them. The chief opposition to It came
from the extreme republlcans
Year: 1879

CURIOUS CASE OF MISTAKEN IDKNrrrY.-Not
long ago man was run over and killed by the
cars at Evanston. In the neighborhood OF Chica-
Hill, q resident OF South Bend, Ind, who had
been at work on farm at Wfnnetka, five miloo
from Middletown. The widow ana daughter
were fnconsolable and quite broken down after
Hin came accidentally TO his DEATH and the
burial In the graveyard at South Bend. Sew.
eral days later Mrs. Hill mustered up energy
enough TO 60 to Winnetka for her last husbands
enectS. Lo and behold when she approached
the farm house there was her husband quietly
At work In the barnyard. She tainted several
times and could with difiiculty be induced to
believe that IL was only very strange case OF
mistaken identity. As for Hill himself, &c was
the first he had heard OF his own death.
Year: 1879

A Washington young lady Of the
mature age Of six, after tho story
Of the creation and the fall Of man
had been related, and the young
lady had been mcditating for some
time on tho moral ofit, suddenly
broke out with: "Annty, after
Adam and Eve disobeycd God,
why didn't He kin 'em and begin
over again ~