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Year: 1878

Many people of modest means would
be glad to have more house plants than
they have room for indoors, and yet can
i'll afford the expense Or care Of a green
house. To such we would suggest to
build out from the south side of the par
lor or sitting room glass structure
about eight feet square, with double
windows, SO arranged as to be entirely
removed In summer, when a canvas
awning should take the place of the
glass upon the framework, and will
form an agreeable shelter from the sun
in summer.


1t should be entered from the sitting
room by long window reaching the
floor and shutting tight; this will be
closed when smoking the plants to kill
insects, or sweeping the sitting room;
at other times it will be kept open to
warm the conservatory by the heat OF
the stove in the sitting room. This
heat will be enough for the health of
most plants except in very severe windy
nights, when a small oil stove should
be kept burning in the conservatory,
which will cost only two cents per hour,
and will only be needed for fewnights
in the winter.


If the house is heated by furnace in
the cellar, it may be quite easy to carry
hot-air pipe into the conservatory, or
steam-pipe; and if the house is sup
piled with water, hose should be pro-
v1ded to reach the conservatory, so as
to give the plants frequent sprink-
ling, which will greatly improve their
health, and will give pleasant and
healthful moisture to the air in the sit
ting room.


Persons unfamiliar with greenhouses
will be astonished to see how much
more healthily plants will grow in a
place like this than in an ordinary sit
ting-room, the air of which is too dry
and dusty for vegetable life to endure.
The temperature of the sitting room is
also too hot for the health of most
plants.-Ploughnan.
Year: 1878

The disposition to sportiye exercise
shown by nearly all young animals is


not altogether the result of a mere aim
| less exuberance of spirits. Of the pur-


pose of this natural instinct the Seien-


tltic American has this to say:


Play is an instructive faculty, inhe


rent in all animals. It is as much an


instinct as the desire to seek food when
hungry; and to regard it as mere aim


less and tritiing species of exertion is
total mistake. The gambols of child
emerging from babyhood, or of a kitten,
are due to precisely similar reasons. At
this period of life the purpose of play in


man and brute is the same; in after
years the difference vastly widens
through the Introduction of the intel
lectual element in the actions of the
child, and of course its total absence in


those of the brute. The games and


playthings of youth are not those of
childhood; but the play of an old dog
though more rarely Occurring-iS new


ertheless the same as that of a young


puppy. The object of play in young


life is exercise. It is the peculiar exer-


else which Nature prompts the organ


ism to undertake; and it may be said
that it is the only possible form of ex-
ercise which is at once attended by
pleasure, and is able to mould the frame
of the growing animal in the direction
of its perfect development. Its antith-
esis is task work, which, though it may


not involve one tithe the exertion, new.


ertheless passes quickly into fatigue.
and thus results in straining some mus


cles unduly' while others are left COM


paratively undeveloped. In play alone,
the instructive sense of physical need
gets full scope; its spontaneity and aim


lessness are therefore only apparent,


and It's nature and amount are deter


mined by the sense of pleasure in the


exercise itself; while Oh the other hand,


strictly natural limit is imposed on


all undue exertion by obedience to the


sense Of fatigue. The result is an equa-


BILE and harmonious development of
muscular energy and nutrition in every


muscle and fiber; and it is one attaina-


BILE in no other way-certainly not by
any prescribed routine of exertion-or


save by obeying natural instinct.
Year: 1878

King Kalakua said to a correspOn-
dent of the San Francisco Chronicle:
1.-The labor question of this kingdom is
of serious import. Owing to the de-
crease of the native population, en-
ployers have been compelled to resort
TO such labor markets as were open to
them. If it were possible to procure
Polynesian laborers, they would be
welcomed by the Hawaiian people, be-
cause they are of the same race and
blood as ourselves. My government
has been ceaselessly active III trying TO
procure congenial emigration to the
kingdom, and if the success has not
been equal to the wishes, the efforts
were laudable and noble. l wish my
race to live and perpetuate themselves.
l wish to see the old native legend
about the children playing along the
highways practically realized. l wish
to see realized the old legend about
the old men and the old women rejoie-
ing over the pride of the young man.
hood and the young womanhood of the
nation. If fate means to blot out OF
existence the Hawaiian race, l shall
war against fate to the last hour. No.
we must not perish"
Year: 1878

A gentleman visited an unhappy
man in Jail awaiting his trial. "Sir,"
said the prisoner, tears running down
his cheeks, Il had good home educa-
ton; it was my street education that
ruined. used to slip out of the house
and go off with the boys in the street.
In the street learned to lounge; in the
street l learned to swear; in the street
l learned to smoke; in the street l
learned to gamble; in the street learn
ed to pilfer. Oh. sir, it is in the street
The devil turks to work the ruin of the
young"
Year: 1878

No attempt should be made to put a
colt to work before he is three or three
and half years old, and it would be
far better to exact no work, beyond
gentle exercising before he is at least
five years old. Although this may not
seem to be profitable at first, it will
prove so in the end, since the year or
two lost in early life will generally add
six years to a horses working time.
Year: 1878

FASHIONABLE TAILOR ALL GOODS
IL made by the subscriber are warranted TO hit
the form Prices, reasonable, and am bound TO
please those who give me their custom. Shop
on York Street two doors West of the Windate
Hpuse
Year: 1878

New York, Nov. 14.-There is some
apprehension that parties who distrust
the stability of resumption will make
especial efforts to get gold notes into
their possession before the first of jan
uary, with view to locking them up,
and so promoting speculation in gold.
1t is suggested that in order to prevent
this Secretary Sherman may use his
option and cease issuing such notes al
onpa
Year: 1878

these independents may hold separ-
ate caucus to dictate the selection Of
speaker and other officers.


Prominent greenback leaders urge
that their only hope of success lies in a
new political organization. especially
as the recent elections show that the
East repudiates them. and their avail
able alliance must be with the West.
Year: 1878

No MAN wants to be legislated out
of a situation, and that is why the
good fellows in the Indian department
are sore over the general tone Of the
army officers reports. That depart
ment Is uniformly written down.
Year: 1878

National Associated Press to the Star


CHICAGO, Aug. 8.-There was report that
one hundred of the leading boot and shoe
manufacturers of this city whose workmen
are on a strike were contemplating the in
PRODUCTION of Chinese laborers to supply the
places of the strikers. They were inter
viewed by reporter, and deny that they
have given any thought to the introduction
of Chinese workmen. They say their stock
on hand will last three or four months, and
they are not anxious about employing any
kind of help until that is exhausted.


A representative of the press of this city
who is with the Northern Pacific excursion
and yesterday passed through the wheat
district in Northern Iowa and Southern
Minnesota, in regard to the crops, of which
there has been so much discussion, tele
graphs that there will be fully one-half a
crop in that region. There will be full
yield in Northern Minnesota, and the crops
of the State is estimated at sixty million
bushels,
Year: 1878

Florence GoldSbOro is her name
From rural regions hence she came
To introduce her little game,


This maid from the Scioto.
She threw her pinback in the fire
And dressed herself in male attire,
Then TO a druggist she did hire.


This maid from the Scioi0.
When thus in male costume arrayed,
So fair lad this maiden made
That she increased the druggists trade.


This maid from the SciOtO-
But ah she fell in wicked WAYS
And sought to make little raise,
So she goes up for many days,


This maid from the SciOto
Charles Jackson made bet with Jamcs
Kelley and by winning, lost. He won the
wager, but lost several ounces of blood
which James let out of him with razor. 1t
was a wretched razor hacked, rustcd ard
broken, but it was razor enough for Charles
Kelly is bound over in the sum of $500, anH
his razor is forfeited.


Stand them up in solemn rows,


All the vags,


With their torn and tattered clothes,


And their rags.
Some are pale and some are thin.


Some are fair;
Some are deeply marked with sin


And despair.
Send them out upon the pike


To recruit


Let them loaf there as they like.


And eatfruit
Year: 1878

National Associated Press to the Star.


New YORK, Aug. 8.-The Bishops will
convene in Grace Chapel on the 2Sth TO
consider the caH of Bishop McCoskey, of
Michigan. The accusations of immortality
against the aged Bishop, his resignation of
his Office in the Church, and the fact of his
recent departure for Europe, have all been
widely published In reply to questions on
Year: 1878

In ancient Greece they had q proverb
that ran thus; "To dispute on the
shadow of an Sss." This took rise from
IN anecdote which Demosthenes is said
to have related to the Athenians to
excite their attention during his defense
of criminal which was being but mat
tentively listened to. "a traveller" ne
said, "CnGe went from Athens to Megara
ON hired ass. 1t happened to be at the
time of the dog days, at noon. He was
much exposed to the unmitigated heat
of the sun, and not finding so much as a
bush under which to take shelter, he
bethought himself to descend from the
ass and seat himself under its shadow.
The owner of the donkey, who ac-
companied him, objected to this, decIar>
ing to him that when he let tue animal
the use of its shadow was not included
in the bargain, The dispute at last
grew SO warm that it got to blows and
finally gave rise TO an action at law "
After having said so much, Dem0sthenes
continued the defense of his client; but
his auditors, whose curiosity he bad
piqued, were anxious TO know how the
Judges decided on so singular a case.
Upon this the orator commended severely
on their childish injustice in devouring
with attention paltry story about an
ass shadow, while they turned q deaf
ear to a cause in which the life of a
human being was involved. From that
day when man showed a preference for
small and contemplate sub
jects to great and important ones, he was
said to dispute on the shadow of an
ass"
Year: 1878

WASHINGTON, Oct. IA decision has been
made at the Interior Department in reference
given the plan Of the auperintendent Of the
springs to do as he desires with what is known
as Hot Hole spring used gratuitously by
those unable or unwilling to patroniae the
other springs. and to conduct Its, waters to g
lower level where. after use BY. the filthy end
diseased they will not percolate through the
porous soil and contamnate the other springs.
This change WILL therefore. be made notWith-
standing the opposition Of some settlers.
Year: 1878

aud humanity demanded q glorious
sacrifice and gloriously they granted il.
Their country mourns them dead, but
TO humanity they are living still.
Through the long corridors OF time
their voices shall re-echo, for the deeds
OF great lives speak in tones that never
die. While we give to them the laurel
wreath. let us remember that peace
also has her victories. They died TO
save the land. Let us so live as TO
mako the land worth living for. Let
justice ever stand on guard, remember
ing that the citadel of our nations
strength is in the breast Of each Amer
can. Let honor be the battle-fag and
sturdy manhood defend IT, A spark OF
truth and justice burning in every citi-
zen's heart will enkindle flame of free
dom that shall subdue the world.
Year: 1878

Ben. BurLER's Fish MAcHISE.-This
is a story told by Ben. Butler TO a
friend during n recess in the last drag
ging days OF the Potter investigating
committee. Said Benjamin, with a
husky intonation and a heavy, long
breath: This whole thing reminds me
of a machine invented by a Delaware
friend OF mine. IL was an eating ma
chine. Ii took mp the meat or fish, as
the case might he. upon the table and
threw the meat into the mouth OF the
eater. shooting the bones over each
shoulder a. the same time. But," add
ed Butler, with a wheezy twinkle, "the
inventor turned the machine the wrong
way one day aud sent the bones all
down his throat, aud killed him. II
seems TO me that for several days in
this committee the bones have been go.
ing all the wrong way. Wsstin8t n
Letter.
Year: 1878

original color, iChh The gloss ana
freshness Of youth. Thin hair is
thickened, falling hair checked, and
badness often, though not always,
cured by its use. Nothing can re-
store the hair where the follicles are
destroyed, or the glands atrophied
and decayed. But such as remain
can be saved for usefulness by this
application. Instead of fouling the
hair with n pasty sediment, it will
keep il clean and vigorous. Its
occasional use will prevent the hair
from turning gray or falling off,
and consequently prevent badness.
Free from those deleterious sub
stances which make some prepara-
tions dangerous and injurious 10
the hair, the Vigor can only benefit
but not harm il. IL wanted merely
for
Year: 1878

The man who desires to compile
complete catalogue of his friends can
make the work authentic by trying to
borrow S. in time OF adversely. He
won I need to buy large memorandum
beck.
Year: 1878

put into tub of cold water suffic-
ent to cover the skin, saa let it
soak in it over night, or twelve
hours; now hang the skin over a
pole to drain; when well drained,
spread or stretch carefully on q
board to dry. 1t need not be tackled
if drawn out several times with the
hand while drying. When yet a
little damp, sprinkle pulverized salt
petre and alum ian. ounce each
mixed together) on the flesh side,
rubbing it in well. 1t is now to
hang up in the shade two or three
days, the flesh side in until perfect
ly dry. When entirely dry, scrape
the flesh side with p blunt knife to
remove any scraps of flesh. Trim
off all projecting points, and rub
the flesh side with pumace or rotton
stone, and with the hands. Pre-
pared in this way, it is white and
beautiful, suitable for door mat,
and also nice for the feet IN sleigh
or wagon in cold weather.
Year: 1878

LAST year Witnessed the compile
tlon OF two important railroad con-
nections in this northern country
the Brainerd branch and the Glyn-
don cut-off-and the impression is
strong founded tha. this year will
see under construction, at least, the
line between the Junction and Ash
land and the line between Crookston
and Fort Garry. That these two
roads will be built, and that soon,
there is not doubt, for they are
sibly'required, TO fill up the
most important gaps in the railroad
system Of the northwest.
Year: 1878




In another column will be found
the official copy of two resolutions
adopted by the county board at a
meeting held on last Monday. These
resolutions are of the highest i'm
portance to delinquent tax payers.
They show that during the present
month this class of unfortunates
may recover their property on
specially easy terms, to wit: All
property held by the county for the
taxes of all years prior to 1876 at
the face of the liens, without inter
est, payable in county orders; and
for the sale of 1877 for the taxes of
1876, the face of the liens-ten per
cent in cash, the balance,in town or
county orders.


The board very justly reserve
these easy terms to the owners for
the space of thirty days, so as to
give them ample time to come for
ward and square up. This we
would advise all to do at once, and
while they can purchase county
orders at low figures. After the
first of March individuals having a
surplus OF county and town scrip on
hand will be very likely to invest it
in tax liens, and the owner will, too
late, find that his only release will
be in paying all cash and twenty
five per cent interest.


AS we understand it, this action
of the board has in view three
objects First, the retirement of the
large amount of county and town
paper now afoat, by absorption in
to tax liens. Second, the affording
of an opportunity to owners who
have been unable to pay, to settle
their taxes on easy and just terms.
Third, the return to the tax roll of
the large amount of property which
has been withdrawn from taxation
by reason OF its having been deed
ed to the county.


1t is argued by many that this
kind Of management by the board
simply offers an inducement to
owners to neglect to pay their taxes;
that after their property has been
through the mill four or five years
they are allowed to recover it for
less than the cost of the original
tax, thus doing an injustice to the
prompt payer. We grant that these
arguments are in a measure correct,
but when a disease that is knaWing
the very vitals oat of the patient, is
to be cured, it is wise to adopt a
remedy, a radical one that aims at
his hearts blood, if circumstances
seem to require it; and if anyone
can suggest a better medicine for
one of the symptoms of the sick
man Douglas county, we would
like 10 hear from him. The floating
debt once called in, taxes would be
lighter, expenses Of all kinds de-
creased, and that great but seem
ingly unavoidable recourse-thei issu-
ing of five dollars in orders to pay
a debt of two in cash, would cease
forever.
Year: 1878

DEATH slackens with the dull
times, and even the undertakers
and physicians suffer. This is dem
onstratable by statistics, and the
reason assigned is that the enforced
moderation and decrease of excite
ment brought about by hard times
promote longevity. This reason
seems to be sound, and the fact is
a consolatory reflection.
Year: 1878

SIMPLE METHOD FOR TANNING
LAMB SKIN WITH THE Wool on
Make strong soap-suds, using hot
water; when it is cold wash the
skin in it, carefully squeezing it be-
tween the hands to get the dirt out
ofthe wool; then wash the soap out
with clean cold water; next, dis
solve alum and salt, of each half a
pound, in a little hot water, which
Year: 1878

The sunflsh has repeatedly injured
tho submarine cable between Portugal
and Brazil and along the cast coast of
South America. Splinters OF bone
have been found thrust into the cable
through the several coverings so deep
rs to effect tho electric wires. A small
species of marine animal also appears
TO devote its special attention toward
boring and destroying cables. Whales
have likewise caused great damage to
cables. a short time ago tho cable In
the Persian gulf ceased to work. Ex-
animation was made, and 1t was found
that whale, which was entangled In
the cable, had broken it. The animal
was covered over with parasites, and
in its efforts to free itself of them by
rubbing its body against the cable, the
cablo was broken, and one OF the ends
then cOiied around the whale in such q
way that it was unable to free itself,
and was thus Suff0cated.
Year: 1878

vessels into fiag-shfps, and appointing
Admirals in profusion. The Mediter-
ranean fleet has not less than four
Admirals Mt this moment, counting
Rear Admiral Luard at Malta, who
is styled sssecond In command In the
Mediterranean" as one; while the
channel squadron, which, since the
withdrawal of the Shannon, consists
OF but three vessels, is commanded by
two flag officers-in the proportion,
that is, of one Admiral to vessel and
a half.


The interior of a modern turret-vessel
has been likened to the works of a
watch, and the simile is q very good
this case examine the "works'' with
the same facility. Armed with can
die, we have to take particular care
not to stumble over the little tramways
with their trolleys which intersect the
dark space in all directions, as if it
We're coal mine. The bulkheads,
which subdivide the vessel, constitute
so many engine-rooms, in which groups
of workmen are busy by the light of
smoky taltoW candles. Their energy
wakes and their movesment quicken
perceptibly at the sight of Capt. Moss
gold lace cap, as he passes ON his tour
of inspection. The Admiralty has
ordered the vessel to be out of hand
by midsummer, and it will require
considerable pressure to bring about
this end. The various engines are all
on board, but there is a good deal of
finishing work still to be done. The
hydraulic apparatus for loading and
spOnging the guns-fOr this will not
be done by hand-still lacks something
hafnr0 r. 10 vN1nfn opN6 tho cor
may be said of the airpumps and other
machinery necessary for the charging
and discharge of the fish torpedo. A
pair of electric lights are to come on
board, and the mechanism for driving
the electro magnets Is not yet in its
place. On the other hand, the mighty
engines that move the ship are pro-
nounced in good order, and the steam
steering gear is ready for use. The
system of auxiliary engines, which is
met with at every turn, engines for
pumping, ventilating, feeding, start
ing, steering, etc., has been finished
and tested, but their maintenance in
a serviceable condition will be obvi-
ously one of the chief cares of the
engineers ON board. In a word, tho
Dreadnought is an example of the
most modern battle-ship in which
cranks and pistons, valves and cylin-
ders take the place of the bone and
muscle of our blue-jackets. Whether
it is wise thus to dispense entirely
with human energy and substitute
for it pulseless mechanism is, of course,
a moot point, for, if machinery can
not be wounded, it is obvious that n
gunner is more easily replaceable in
action than a broken chain or leaky
valve. Fortunate it is for us that we
do not rely alone upon clock-worlz
ships, like those of the Dreadnought
and Thunuerer class.
Year: 1878

Tho Phonograph Company havo
been long dcvising and have now de-
viscd IA scheme Of speculation with tho
wonderful talking machine. At first
they thought of selling tho machines
ut 800 II piece to all who would buy,
to do what they liked with them.
Then the company changed Its mind
and resolved to send out tho machines
for exhibitions with obligated agents.
These were to pay one hundred dollars
for the loan of II phonograph machine
for three months for the purpose OF
travelling cxhibitfons-the agents to
charge twenty-five cents admission
and to give the company twenty.f five
per cent Of the gross receipts into the
bargain. About eighty agents are
now under instructions and In training
for this new branch OF the show busi-
ness, and we may expect to have them
phonographing around pretty soon.
Barnum has offered 8 900 cash for a
machine and has not been able to pur-
chase one yet. The company believe
there is big speculation in II rs a
show and they want to reap about all
the profits.
Year: 1878

THERE is good deal of sound truth in
these words of the Shoe and Leather Re-
porter: The barrier to resumption, which
seemed insuperable in 1873, was the gigantic
bulk of the corporate and individual indebt-
edness with which the country was burdened.
Sixty per cent. of this has been cancelled in
one way and another. A small part of it has
been paid; the remainder has been sponged
out by insolvency and compromise. The
debtor class, in whose interest legislative re-.
lief has so long been urgently invoked, have
extricated themselves from their embarrass-
ments by compounding with their creditors.
There is more property by several hundred
million dollars than there was before the
panic, but 1t is not rated so high as 1t was
then. Everything was measured by fic-
titlo1s standard at that time; now by real
one. Money was scarce and dear then; there
is great deal less of it in existence at pres
ent, and yet it is plenty and cheap. In every
thing that constitutes real wealth the coun-
try is vastly better off than it was when it
appeared. from superficial view, to be at a
high tide of affluence.