"star" meaning "cop" - wearing a star badge? (not a movie star, I presume) 
Hadn't seen the term before. Was it common everywhere, or just in SF? 

Ben 



----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert H. HIRST" <[log in to unmask]> 
To: [log in to unmask] 
Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2013 9:58:21 AM 
Subject: Re: Countercultural Twain 

Sept. 18, 1865, San Francisco Dramatic Chronicle: 

It appears that a "Hasheesh" mania has broken out among our 
Bohemians. Yesterday, Mark Twain and the "Mouse-Trap" man were seen 
walking up Clay street under the influence of the drug, followed by a 
"star," who was evidently laboring under a misapprehension as to what 
was the matter with them. 



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