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Year: 1879

While within few years past little din
ing rooms and restaurants have sprung up
on almost every street, the famous Eu-
rorean Hotel and Restaurant of Hunt &
Clark, on Vine street. between Fourth and
Fifth, continues to be the only first-class
and really prosperous institution of the
kind in the city. They have the facilities
and means to accommodate and please
the people, and they are ever watchful
and pains taking in doing so. They
always have the luxuries of the
season in advance of all compet-
itors and are careful to have the best
of everything ANY one wanting good
meal will find an opportunity TO satisfy
every want from the bill of fare at Hunts


The rooms, which are handsomely fur
nished and pleasantly located, are rented


at very reasonable prices SO that one can
stop at Hunts for day, week or month
or any length Of time, enjoying all the ac-
commodations without having to pay the
stereotyped expense of regular hotel. 1t
Year: 1879

National Associated Press to the Star.


BROOKLYN, Dec. 3.-Last evening, while
some wOrkmen were laying twen-
ty-incb main to connect with the
forty -eight-inch main from Prospect Hill
Reservoir, the cap was taken from the large
main OH the suppOsiti9n that the water had
been cut off, when volume OF water i'm
mediately burst forth into the street and in
a moment the adjoining streets were inun-
dated, cellars overf1owed and and every
thing portable carried away by the rush OF
water. Millions of gallons of water was
emptied into the streets and men, women
and children compelled to fly for safety.
At late hour the water had not been cut
off and was making its wav down town, do
ing great damage. A number of factories
and foundries were compelled to stop
work.
Year: 1879

Daniel Mcfarland, who was sentenced
to the Work-house for beating his child, is
not an inmate of that institution. The
sentence of thirty days hangs over him,
but is suspended on condition of his giving
up custody of the child to the Children's
Home and not interfering with it again.
Year: 1879

The Western White Lead Association
met again to day in executive session at the
Grand Hotel and discussed matters of bus-
ness connected with their Association, but
took no action upon any of the subjects
discussed. The meeting of the Association
is more for social enjoyment than for the
transaction of business.
Year: 1879

THE MEMORIAL TO BAYARD TAYLoR-a fine
gray marble slab, containing medallion of the
traveller and writer, with an appropriate in


scrfptton-was unveiled at Cornell University.
OF the senior class, making the presentation
H-~A0So1oa
Year: 1879

Mrs: w. w. Wood, wife OF Chief Engineer Wood,
OF the q. s. navy, who resides at 40 Sd street
northwest, had her satchel containing q one
notes, snatched from her hand by q negro, who
ran out OF the alley on f street. next TO Wesley
chapel, and seized 1t as she was passing there
last night The bold scoundrel Quickly ned
through the alley after obtaining possession a
his booty, and made his escape The police
authorites oner reward OF SIS for q clue to
the Villain and recovery OF the money
Year: 1879

route ia not necessary to rapid transit, and
tbe people of New-York will never give up
that splendid street for the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF
a corporation.


Still another thing. The elevated roads
should remember that their prosperity depends
largely upon the good will of the community
and that this good viii has been strained to
the utmost by their virtual coniiscauon OF
property for the construction OF their
lines. Not even the vast endowment OF the
Pacific Railroad by the United states was
more generous, in proportion, than the ehdo"-
mcut of the elevated roads by the citizens OF
Ney-York. They have given these companies
outright franchises worth millions OF dol
lars Now let the companies recognize the
fact that they are receiving munlhcent re-
turn upon the capital invested, that the great
objects of rapid transit are already attalhed'
and that there is no public object when war
rants the further cOniiscation OF properly
IN the crowded business region downtown.
With the Metropolitan Road running to South
Ferry and the New-Yolk Road to the Cliy
Hall, and both roads running also on the
West Side, there will be sufficient facliltles
for ropid transit if both companies are
properly managed. II is not necessary
TO ruin New-York in order to 1--we III IT..
Let the companies he satisfied with their GOOD
fortune. and not seek to grasp too much; and
LET our representatives in the Legislature
watch keenly every bill bearing upon this SUD-
iect up to the last moment of the session.
Year: 1879

The marked attention paid to the speech Of
Mr. Conkling on the Army bill was fully
iustifpd Ly an address of unusual power
and appropriatcncss. 1t was well said at the
close of the speech that " the entire debate Is
" q partisan political enterprise begun after the
faction of "A caucus If there ever can be
justification for speech exclusively of a
nortical character, such a speech was justified
in this case by the conduct of the Democratic
majority in both houses Yet the address Of
Nh ConkhuS was exceedingly pertinent 10
show that the section which contributes
only an insignificant fraction to the sup
mort of the Government now attempts to
dictate as to all governmental eXrendl-
lures. 1t was especially appropriate to
show that the object of this attempted
dictation was 60 push still further the unrat-
ul8l and excessive mastery OF tlat section,
through party caucus, over the Government
which 50 recently the men of tha, section tried
to .stroy. As long as the J. ocIatic ron
rescntatiycs from SOu,hoT A,oo form a
majority in u DcmOc. caucus, and the
Democratic party blanc "bcys It. dictates
OF q caucus and controls . majority In l"tl
houses of Congress, so long q minority the
people of the United States Will rule the ma
iority. The aim of the legislation proposed,
as MIR. Conkling clearly showed, is TO enable
that minority to iutrcnch itself i'll power by
the aid of corruption and faud. Resistance
to such an effort is justiGablc, not only from
partisan motives, but it IL the rightful asscr-
ton by the majority Of TIE people of their
desire to retain a proper share IN the govern
ment OF the country.


In respect to the use Of military force by
the President for the enforcement of the laws,
the speech Of Nh. COnklng WAS an able and
Year: 1879

why there is always such difficulty in getting
members of the Tammany Society to accept
positions in the Order-ofArrest Department,
and why there is such a general reluctance
among politicians to take nomination Tor
sheriff. Something should be done for Mr..
Reilly; there should be a subscription, and
dinner, and perhaps a monument.
Year: 1879




There arc two or three points in the story Of the
horrible mining disaster at Wilkesbarrc worth
noting for the credit of human nature. The two
bows. Clarke and Mckinney, who went in half u
mile 10 warn their comrades that the roof was fall
ing and who wero buried with them, knew that they
went at the peril of instant death he work of cX-
cayating during Thursday and Friday was carried
on at the risk OF their HFes by the men engaged
falling roof inside. we are told. sounded like the
pernetual roll Of distant thunder Yet tho work did
not ceoe, NIGHT or dav for an instant and hundreds
Of earer men were standing ready to take the
places of those who were exhausted. Yet il is out
of lust such men as these that Molly haguires have
been made within the last two brutal, bloody years
Il mining history ia Pennsylvania. The Wilkes
Year: 1879

The japanese make very curious and
handsome kind of copper, by casting it
under water, the metal being highly mel
ted and the water also being hot. The re-
suit IS a beautiful rose-cOlored tint, which
is not affected by exposure to the atmos-
nhare.
Year: 1879

Among the places much-frequented by
tramps is the alley back of the market
house, where these able bodied loafers as
semble and spend their days in holding up
the rear walls and fences and watch an op-
portunity to steal. AS soon. as night comes
on they repair to the police station for lodg-
ings, and as there is no rock-pile to send them


to they are left to roam tue streets at will.
Last evening about O'Clock, as Officer Wes-
colt was near the market house, he saw
two hard looking citizens y loafng
around, and as they could give no
good account of themselves he took both of
them by the collar and started for the sta
Year: 1879

Another very remarkable instance,
we are informed, says an English pa
per, has just, come to light as to the
preserving or petrifying effects of nj
trate of soda. A well-known and infiu-
ential city firm, who have extensive
connections with South American
planters, miners, ETC., have recently re-
,ceived from Peru curiosity In the
shape of what may be termed q crystal
ized female body, which as their CORE
spondents advise them, was some short
time since discovered by set of miners
at Pisague, in that country, completely
imbedded in one of the great nitrate of
soda deposits peculiar to the district.
The body is described as having the
appearance of petrifed mummy, and
is stated to be in singular state of
preservation. This curiosity has al
ready been seen by some of our best
known naturalists and analysts, and it is
believed that the woman, who apparent
ly was of middle age, must have perished
through accident or design at o remote
period of the past, as some even go SO
far as to say 1000 or 5000 years ago.
That her death was violent there is lit
tie room to doubt, inasmuch as when
discovered the body was in recum-
bent position, partly on the side. with
chest slightly crushed as if through a
severe fall, the legs drawn up, and the
fingers and toes contracted. The hair
is in most perfect state, and maintains
its contact with the skull in peculiar
ly astonishing manner, and the mouth
is open displaying the teeth and
tongue, which are plainly visible. The
extremities are remarkably small and
perfect, even the nails being in their
respective places. The hair on the
head, we should add, appears to be
plated in very peculiar manner, and
is of great length and thickness, though
in some parts detached, owing to part
of the skull having been DESTROYED.
Year: 1879

Some of those chaps who wear their
elbows down thin leaning on saloon
counters have an artificial fly with
fine thread attached to the back, and
sometimes these toys can be handled to
the amusement of small crowd. When
an unknown man, yesterday, fell asleep
in saloon on Michigan avenue, the
young man with an artificial fly was
there. He took position behind his
victim, who was lying back in his chair,
and presently the fly alighted on the
strane er's nose, walked up the bridge
and down, and settled for moment on
the tip end. The sleeper never moved
a finger. The fly went over the old
road, dove into the corner of the left
eye, galloped over to the right, and
came down to the grand stand on the
dead run, but the sleeper slept on. 1t
began to appear that he was used to
flies, and so the game was changed. By
sticking pin through one of these toys
you can make quite bee of it, the pin
being the stinger.


When the "bee" descended on the
strangers nose everybody expected to
see sudden start, but it did not come.
After a iab at the tip end the "bee"
crawled along up, waiting for develop
ments and getting in an occasional
sting, but not even sigh escaped the
sleeper. The young man with the in
sect was getting tired when the stranger
lazily opened his eyes, slowly rose up
from his chair, and coolly remarked:


"Now, then, if you have got through
fooling with my nose, I'll fool with
yours for awhile!"


1t isn't likely that particular young
man will ever dangle artificial flies any
more. He was doubled up, straight
ened out, choked, mopped, and slammed
SO thoroughly that his appetite will run
to chicken broth and arnica for some
days to come. When the cyclone had
passed, the stranger called for gin
drank it, and said to the white-faced
crowd on the bench:


Gentlemen, if any more of you see
anything peculiar about my nose cal
around and let me know!"-Detroii il
Free Press.


The Chinese Question in California.


The people of California propose tt
show the unaninity of sentiment il
that State on the Chinese question a
the coming election in September
Ballots are to be furnished to tn
electors, pursuant to law passed b.
the Legislature at its last session, bear
ing the words "For Chinese Immigra
ton" or Against Chinese immigration,
and by these they are to signify thei
respective opinions on the subject. 1
memorial setting forth the result is t.
be prepared by the Governor, and prop
erly attested copies are to be sent 1
Messrs. Hayes and Wheeler, to eac
member of the Cabinet, to the Senator
and members of the House of Repre-
sentatives, and to the Governor of ever
State and Territory,
Year: 1879

The official envelopes of all the de-
partments at Washington have print
ed notice on the front forbidding their
use for any private purpose. The no.
tice is in the following words, with the
name of each particular Office inserted,
in lieu of Treasurer of the United
States:o
Year: 1879

The Cleveland Leader tells the follow
ing pleasant story OF a half dollar: "A bad
penny always returns. IL is said but one
instance Is recorded where = silver half
dollar returned TO its possessor after cir
culation OF twenty years. A man living in
Canton, o., bad in his possession about
twenty-five years ago a silver hall dollar
with the date 1873, and that being his natal
year. he cut his name on it and thought To
retain II as a relic; but few years after he
paid it out BY mistake, and Tor twenty years
il look its course In the general circulation.
A few days ago he sent his little daughter
to neighboring town on an errabd, aud
upon her return she gave him some change,
and with it was the identical half dollar
witb mis- name cut on"
Year: 1879

"A lively runaway took place
last Sabbath afternoon. Thomas
Farral's team escaped from him
while driving out near the Loupe
bridge, making the dust fly freely ;
while heading north, after crossing
the railroad track near Anderson's
stock yards they whirled rapidly
through the house yard gate, around
the barn and through the garden
twice, finally hauling up at the
kitchen door of Anderson's dwell.
ing, no damage done except the
breaking down of couple of nice
fruit trees in Mr.. AS. garden.
Year: 1879

Last Friday night a terrible rain
storm visited Albion, Boone county,
which raised the waters in the Bea-
yer causing considerable damage to
the owners of property in the Beaver
valley. We regret to learn that the
dam and race at the mill of Sacket
Il Crouch were injured considerably
and will take at least 5000 to make
the necessary repairs. 1t is reported
that several farmers in the valley
have lost growing crops by wash
outs made by the high waters, and
that many of the bridges are dam
aged and approaches washed out.
Year: 1879

EDITOR JOURNAL: AS a matter of
information for parties complaining
of the high local tariff of the Union
Pacific r. r., l give herein COM
parison of the L. p. with that of
other roads. That of the road now
absorbing the attention of your
readers will be most desirable, the
A. & N. The following table will
show the local tariff of both roads
for like distance, as near as prac-
ticable giving distances and rate per
Year: 1879

cious drug for the qualification Of
morbid appetite for siimulants is
costly luxury, and that, conse-
quently, the habit of opium.eating
Is almost necessarily confined to
the intelligent and the refined, the
question of enacting such laws as
will prevent its abuse is being Sc
rlously agitated, but up to this
time nothing definite has been
reached on the subject. Once &C.
quired the habit is incurable. For
the drunkard there is hope, but for
the confirmed opium eater none.
Having acquired a fondness for the
besotting drug, the victim must eat
or die, and hence the necessity for
such restrictions in Its sale as will
prevent persons procuring a suffi-'
Client quantity to create that appe-
tite. But just where to begin is the
question, for the opium eater soon
learns to know that there are va.
riety of forms in which it can be
used to produce the same result. 1t
may be taken ia its pure state, or
In the form of Munn's elixir, or as
laudanum or morphine, and the
hyperdermic injection is also used.
Under these circumstances all at
tempts to control It by law must
prove as abortive as those made to-
reform men by legislation. An
able writer on the subject says:


"If philanthropy and law have
failed to alb olish alcoholic drunk
enness, law will assuredly fall tn
abolish opium eating. for law is a
gauze barrier against the attack of
money, and the druggist who will
not sell the most profitable article
Of his stock because legislature
forbids, is a man above the average
of tradespeople. If fsuch law were
passed, a special policeman would
have to be placed in every drug
store to watch the druggist, and a
detective to watch the policeman
but who should watch the detect
i've? Even detectives will take
money, drink whisky and eat
opium.


"rhe spread of the habit is es-
p ciaIly to be deplored because it's
victims are, as rule, persons
whose intellect, means and POSI-
zion, If controlled by principles of
reason and usages of sound morals,
would be Of benefit to society. Only
the medical profession can check
the evil by compelling druggists,
under the pain of exposure and
the withdrawal of patronage, to
cease selling 1t; and by exercising
In their practice caution which is
alarmingly absent now-which,
while employing opium when alb.
solutely necessary and emitting it
whenever possible, will gradually
curtail the vice."
Year: 1879

The use Of opium In the United
States has become much more
prevalent than ever before. The
s,Ies Of tha drug in it's various
forms have Increased enormously,
and unless something is done to
check the disgusting and debasing
practice, fears are entertained that
IL will become much more general.
Close inquiry into the subject has
revealed the fact that women are
moro addicted to the use of opium
than men, and that in consequence
Of Its cost, its votaries are mainly
among what are knewn as the bet
ter classes of society.


Various speculations are in.
dulged in regard to the causes
which have led to the alarming
growth Of this dangerous habit. By
some 1t is attributed to the great
Influx of Chinese. By Others it Is
laid at the door Of physicians, who
lay the foundation for it when
they administer opiates for the pur-
pose OF soothing pain. 1t is said
that cases in which opium eating
has become q fixed habit can be al
most infallibly traced to the door
Of the doctor, who prescribes 1t In
cases OF nervousness, and In such
attractive forms. with such sooth-
ing effects and 80 perseveringly
that, before the patient is aware of
the danger. the desire grows into
longing which becomes next to in
satiable.


In view OF the fact that the use
of this useful a. well As pernl-


|I"
Year: 1879

TEE action Of the d mocratic
County Committee, as detailed In
our local columns, will meet with
universal appreciation. The en-
dorsement OF, and pledge to stai d
by, the new Constitution, is hearty
and unequlvocal, Withdrawing
that matter from all controversy
so far as the Democracy Is con-
cerned. The meeting was unusaIly
harmonious and 1t was made note
worthy by the attendance of every
member of the Committee.
Year: 1879

IN Iowa landlord bound his ten
ant with east iron leasing con-
tract, which provided that the
rents, ''whether due or to bccomc
due, shall be a perpetual lien on
any crops and other personal pro
per'y ., the lessee, whether tie
same be exempt IRON execution OF
not" TIE 'egal force Of thls clause
was made the chief issue in y law
suit. It was argued that a contract
making subject 10 seizure property
which the statute declared to be
exempt from execution is contrary
to public policy. THIS is the f.st
ease Of the kind which has been
before The iora oour.s, and the
Iowa Supreme Court recently
decided to the effect that the -
tract was valid.
Year: 1879

The following is the first verse OF a
sonnet recently composed by u highly
respectable but intensely practical young
man on the board of trade who is en-
gagged to marry one of the most fascina-
ting twenty-year-old butterflies. The
h. r. but i. p. young man does not pro-
pose te load himself up for life with a
mere fashion-plate, however, and at tie
suggestion of his mother resolved to dis
cover whether or not his girl would be
of any account in case he suddenly found
himself several thousand bushels short
on q kiting market. So he indited this !:


Can my darling wash the dishes!


Can she scrub the kitchen fioor7


Will she keep on mendirg stockings


When she hears the baby roarf


Does her nose detect bad butter,


With which grocery stores abound?


Tell me, darling, do your shoe-strings


Make half-hitch or 20 round?


If the answer is satisfactory society
circles will soon be electrified by the an
nouncement of the approaching nuptials.
-Ckicago Tribune.
Year: 1879

The use of the bicycle has become as
much of n rage in England as pedes-
trianism in this country. There are a
hundred or two clubs in that country for
the cultivation oft as a means OF loco
motion, and long journeys are made on
this tireless horse. Some extraordinary
feats have recently been accomplished.
At contest in London one man, in six
days Of eighteen hours each. covered the
enormous distance Of l,404 miles, and
the second man made only fourteen
miles less. The winner, In single day
of eighteen hours, made 2el miles,
nearly fifteen miles an hour. This is
equal to the swiftest steamers. on the
Atlantic and beats some railroad trains.
At the same rate man might roll over
the distance from New York to Albany
in ten hours. The roads in this country
are uniformly 30 bad that the bicycle Is
of comparatively little use, but on
smooth roads. such as are sometimes
found, they might be employed to great
advantage. They are coming into use
in the vicinity Of Boston.-Meso YORK.
Observer.
Year: 1879

Sometimes, my son, you WILL Want 10
whistle. Do not entirely repress this
desire to aspirate your feelings in sibi-
liant strains of wheezy music; merely
modulate and regulate it. Go off into
the woods five or six miles from any
habitation, if the desire comes upon you
during business hours, and whistle there
until tn birds nake you ashamed OF
your poor accomplishment. Do not
yield to the temptation too readily, lest
you become addicted to the habit and
become slave to it, and 60 whistling
around even as a man who has lost a
dog. There are men, my son, who can
whistle musically; once in u while you
find men whose whistle is pleasant to
the ear. and soothing to the soul, but
you only find one of these men every
three or four thousand years, and they
die young, son; they die very young.
You will observe that the best whistler
is he who whistles least, and practices
in solitude. The poor whistler, who
flats on the high notes and gasps on the
lower ones, and wheezes in the middle
register, is the man who whistles at
all times and in all places. Whistle all
you will in solitary places, son, If it
pleases you. whistle in the night as you
90 home, if you will, for CHEEKY whis-
tie in the dark is pleasant sound unto
the listening soul Of the belated passen-
ger, but when you come into the assem-
blages and the business haunts of men.
unpucker your musical lips and shut up
your whistle in your heart. And if ever
the temptation comes to you to whistle
against the edge of a card, crush it out,
if the effort kills you. Whistling is not
a lofty nor yet a useful, although it is a
universal accomplishment. Though
You practice hundred years, and though
you whistle never 80 whistley, my son,
yet the commonest switch engine that
ever scared o human being deafcan beat
you at it. The great and good were
never great whistlers, son. George
Washington never sat in afriend's office
with his foot on the window sill, whist
ling "Grandfather's Clock" against the
edge ola card. Strive to emulate George
Washington, and, although you may
never be first in war. first in peace and
first in the hearts of your countrymen,
yet fame will not forget you if they can
write upon your tombstone that you
never whistled your countrymen into
convulsions of incorporate but fruitless
ofanity.-Burlington Raaukeye.