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The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-07-30
The Ant.

Altogether ants live very comfortably,
and "keep house" in a methodical
fashion. 1t is well-known fact that
ants collect i'm their nests certain species
of aphis or wood-louse, from which they
draw honey, keeping them, in fact, JUS.
as we do cows There Is also species OF
red ant which does no work for itself, but
makes slaves of black kind. Certain
remarkable species of beetles are rarely,
if ever, found excepting in ants nests !;
they are blind, and apparently helpless,
giving no secretion of any Use to the
ants, yet they are tended with much care:
Although these beetles are never found
except in ants nests, yet there are many
communities which do not possess them.
II, however, one Of them should be
placed in community where it does not
belong, IL is Immediately killed and eaten
while the ants from the same nests are
kindly received. Probably some ants are
more highly civilized than others--ol
they may have more feeling Of reverence
! for the beetles.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-07-30
The old man looked at the gunner.
Il - L.


" Approach" said he. m
The gunner moved forward step. The
old man turned toward the Count du
Boisberthelot, detached the cross OF Saint
Louis from the captains uniform, and
fastened it on the jacket of the gunner.
Hurrah |" cried the sailors.
The marines presented arms. The old
passenger, pointing with his finger toward
the bewildered gunner, added, snow let
that man be shot,"
Stupor succeeded the applause.
Then, in the midst of silence like
that of the tomb, the old man raised his
voice. He said:
"a negligence has endangered this
ship. At this moment she is, perhaps,
lost. To be at sea is to face the enemy.
A vessel at open sea is an army which
gives battle. The tempest conceals, but
does not absent itself. The whole sea is
an ambuscade. Death is the penalty of
any fault committed in the face of the
enemy. No fault is reparable. Courage
ought to be rewarded and negligence
punished"
These words fell one after the other
slowly, solemnly, with sort of inexora-
BILE measure, like the blows of an AK upon
an oak.
And the old man, turning to the
soldiers, added, "Do your duty"
The man upon whose breast shone the
cross of Saint Louis, bowed.
At sign from the Count du BOisberth-
eliot, two sailors descended between decks,
then returned, bringing the hammock
winding sheet. The ships chaplain, who,
since the time of sailing, had been at
prayer in the officers quarters, accompa-
MED the two sailors. The sergeant de,
tached from the line twelve marines
whom he arranged in two ranks, six by
six. The gunner, without uttering a
word, placed himself between the two
files. The chaplain, crucifix in hand
advanced and stood near him.
"March p said the sergeant.
The platoon moved with slow steps to
ward the bow. The two sailors who car
ried the shroud, followed.
A gloomy silence fell on the corvette
A hurricane moaned in the distance.
A few instants later there was flash
a report followed, echoing among thu
shadows; then all was silent; then came
the thud of body falling into the sea
The old passenger still leaned bacl
against the mainmast with folded arms
thinking silently. 49,.
Boisberthelot pointed toward him will
the ferefnger of his left hand, and salt
i'm low voice to La Vieuville:
"The Vendee has found headP'
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-07-30
GENERAL INFORMATION.
FLORIDA alone is without a daily news

FLORIDA alone is without daily news
paper.
THE custom returns show that the
use of tobacco is decreasing in Eng
land.
THE Keystone in each arch of the
East River Bridge at New York will
weigh ten tons.
ONE hundred and sixty thousand pill
grims are said to have visited the tomb
of Mahomet this year.
THE Provident Institution for Savings
i'm Temple Place, Boston, is the oldest
savings.bank in America.
A QUARTER of century of mining
has relieved the Pacific coast of sixteen
hundred millions of gold.
FOREST, Illinois, has q much priced
relic, consisting of fence rail cut by
Abraham Lincoln in 1889.
TIE Bank of England never reissues
its notes. As they come in they are
laid aside, kept seven years and then
burned.
WISCONSIN has been experimenting
with maple as a substitute for steel rails,
and is not altogether satisfied with the
general results.
CANADIANS drank over eighteen mil
lion gallons of intoxicating liquors last
year---over four gallons and half to
each man, woman, and child.
A NEW kind of stone is said to have
been discovered near Frankfort, Ken.
lucky, which when ground and mixed
with oil, makes excellent paint.
AT the late General Conference OF
the Methodist Church, held at Lynch
burg, Virginia, it was decided to abolish
the order of deacOns in the ministry.
AMONG the importations recently en-
tered at the Custom House, Chicago,
was an invoice of holy acater from the
grotto Notre Dame, Lourdes, France.
INDIANAPOLIS makes a fourishing
exhibit of her growth since 1860. In
that year the population was 18,OOO
and it is now estimated at $4,000.
THE farmers of the United States an
nually expend $2O,000,O00 in reaping
and moving machines. The annual pro
duction is now estimated at about l25,
600 machines.
The popular way of clearing off the
infant population nowadays, is to give
the children the wrong medicine. Gro
ton oil for castor oil and creosote fol
valeran are the latest substitutions.
A CLERGYMAN settled over Con
gregational church in Boylston, Mass.
is accused of having forged a certificate
of his ordination by the MethOdists, ant
of preaching other mems sermons as hi
own. These little things are making
trouble i'm the church.
A SERIES of experiments made by th'
Industrial Society of Mulhouse appear
to oppose the view that the process,
consuming smoke is economical, and t
show that the condition of utmos
economy of fuel is not simply t
burn the smoke, but to burn completed.
the gases, and that with only tn
f quantity of air strictly necessary.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-07-30
SENSR AND NONSENSE.

A LADY's foot has been likened TO 10
comotive merely because it moves IN ad-
vance of train.
"WHAT," said teacher to pupil
"makes YOU feel uncomfortable after you
have done wr0ng?" "My pap's big
leather strap" feelingly replied the boy.
A CHINAMAN thus describes a trial in
our courts: Gone man is silent, another
talks all the time, and twelve wise men
condemn the man who has not said
word"
WOMAN is like ivy-the more you are
ruined, the closer she clings to you. An
old bachelor adds, "Ivy is like woman
the closer it clings to you, the more you
are ruined"
A COUPLE of burglars at Piper City,
Ill.,, after working half the night in blow
ing open safe, found it empty and un-
locked Then there probably was another
kind of blowing.
A KENTUCKIAN protests against law
for muzzling dogs at just the time OF year
when book-agents, life-insurance men,
and lightning-rod nuisances are loose on
the community.
A PRECIOUS boy of eight summers at
tributes the death of pet gold hsh, ms
sisters idol, to the fact that it couldn't
take a Joke. He used to catch 1T occa-
sionally with bent pin.
WHEN devoted wife holds her hus-
band out at arms length by his sore ear,
and saws she wouldn't crush worm, he
realizes. all at once, how fearfully and
wonderfully women are made.
TT only takes three hours and about
half cord of wood to put millionaire
into very small glass bottle. The only
difficulty to be apprehended Is the inev-
liable increase of family jars.
AN Irishman, seeing a vessel very
heavily laden, and scarcely above the
waters edge, exclaimed, "Upon my soul,
if the river was but a little higher, the
ship would 60 to the bottom"
AFARMER saw an advertised recipe to
prevent wells and cisterns from freezing.
He sent his money, and received the an
swer: "Take in your well or cistern OH
cold nights, and keep it by the fire"
THEY have Cremation Club at Glen
wood. Iowa, the object of which is to ed
ucate the public sentiment to a preference
for the pyre. The President of the club
has named his last baby Cinderella"
AN interesting little boy, timid when,
left alone in dark room, was overheard
to say in his loneliness, 30 Lord, don't
: let anybody hurt me, and I'll 60 to churcm
| next Sunday, and give you some money
Ye piggie he is pretty fowle,
And WOndrOus good to eat
I Hys ham Is good, lykewyse hys jowle
And exc hys little feete
But though you try thousand years,
throw you still will faye
To make silk purse Of hys e'uc,
q Or wissel OF hystayle.
Y THERE is said to be clergyman In
f Georgia who has thirty-two children. lie
: can probably feed and clothe them with
r out much difficulty, but we can't see how
he contrives to thrash them as much as
G they deserve, unless he does it by ma
G chinery. -
: HARD luck seems from the outset tt
. have attended that "first white Chile
! born i'm Kentucky" He keeps dying
!, He dies as often as st. Paul did, if it wa
!, that erratic proselyte who died daily, H'
a is at it again. Tie got out of the fesf
n once more last Thursday.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-07-30
A PrOdigal.

The Louisville Courier-JOWOdl gives
some further particulars Of the career OF
Samuel Mcdonald, now confined in
prison i'm Baltimore charged with the
murder of Berry Amos: Young Nc
Donald at the age of twenty-one was an
extraordinary specimen OF manly
beauty. He was over six feet tall,
straight as an arrow, broad-chested and
muscular, yet as graceful and agile as an
athlete. A wealth of flaxen hair ana
broad, fair forehead, deep blue eyes, a
noble mouth, with features perfectly
classic in their Outlne--he wasa perfect
type of the Anglo-SaxOn. Add TO TINS
the exuberant spirits which always at
tend good health and that nameless mag
netism which 30 few men possess, and the
possession may he the best or the worst
of Gods gifts, he was most enJoyaDie
companion, the life of the social circle,
and as much admired by men as he was
adored by women. Shortly after he had
attained his majority he came out to
Terre Haute, Ind, on visit. He re-
turned to that pleasant city a few months
afterwards, bought him farm in the
vicinity, stocked it with the finest horses
and cattle, and there inaugurated series
of dissipatipns which shocked the goodly
little city to its centre. He was soon
ostracized from the society of the town.
and direful stories are told OF the ex'
cesses into which he then plunged. Ihere
WERE were two 'p gamblers from the East whom
he had brought Westwith him, and it il
said that there were still more disreRnta % at
HE companions of another sex who livec
in the same house with him. From thi
rendezvous he would take frequent hunt
ing excursions into the neighborin'
prairies of Indiana and Illinois, the re
turn to be always celebrated by dc
bauch. Wine flowed like water in thi
hunting ledge, as he called it., and card
followed the wine on the table. 1t wa
said by those who professed to know tina
young Mcdonald spent over one hur
dred and fifty thousand dollars the mrs
: year he lived in Terre Haute. Here n
; has since lived, and we are told tina
D most, if not ALL of his original patr
y n. .ony has been squandered."
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-07-30

BY GEORGE LUNr.

Yon car Of fire, though veiled by day
Along that field of cleaning blue,
When twilight folded earth in gray,
A worldwide wonder few.
Duly In turn each orb Of light,
From out the darkening concave broke;
Ewes glowing herald swan in light,
And every star awokc.
The Lyre re-strung its burning chords,
Streamed from the Cross its earliest ray
Then rose Altar, more sweet than words
On music's soul could say.
They, from old time In course the same,
Familiar set, familiar rise;
But what thou art, wild, lovely hame,
Across the startled skies?
Mysterious yet, as when II burst
Through the vast void OF nature hurled,
And shook their shrinking hearts, at first,
The fathers Of the world.
No curious sage the scroll unseals-
Vain quest to bafiied science given
Its orbit ages, while II wheels,
The miracle of heaven.
In natures plan, thy sphere unknown,
Save that no sphere His order mars,
Whose law could guide thy path alone,
In realms beyond the stars.
Gods minister We know no more
OF thee, thy frame, thy mission still,
Than he who watched the flight, Of y0re,
On the Chaldean hill.
Yet thus, transcendant from thy blaze
Beams light to pierce this mortal clod
Scarcely fool on thee could gaze,
And say, There Is no God
Boston Adre1ist
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-07-30
THE LANGUAGE OF THE HEART.

There Is love that speaketh,
But Is not heard aloud;
It's sacred language breaketh -"
Not on the busy crowd.
IT'S heard In sacred places
Its sorrow to disguise;
Ills writ In anxious faces
And meditative eyes.
IL ever comes TO render,
Kind thoughts when fond ones
It's tones are sweet and tender,
'Tis the language Of the heart.
No art OF man can teach us
This secret speech Of love;
Though here its tones may reach us,
They echo first above.
'Tis heard in gentle praises
In pleadings soft and weak;
IL tells i'm silent gazes
What lips could never speak.
With strong electric hectness,
Its holy breathings start,
No speech can match Its sweetness
The language Of the heart.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-07-30

THE arches of the st. Louis bridge are
of iron. The immense hollow blocks
were cast in Pittsburgh foundry. So
nicely was the work done that every
block fit; but the keystone, which weighs
many tons, had expanded, owing-to the
heat, and was an inch too long for the
vacancy. The solidity of the work was
such that no clipping or cutting would
surmount the difficulty. In this dilemma
the keystone was wrapped in over thirty
tons of ice, where il remained twenty
four hours. When uncovered, IL was
found that the cold had contracted the
keystone to such size that it dropped
to its place in the magnificent arch, ex
actly filling the space required.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-07-30
How n Chinaman Buries.

During one of my visits to Singapore,
the death of wealthy Chinese merchant
occurred, and / was one of the foreign
crs fortunate enough to receive an invi-
tation to the funeral. 1t was said to be
one of the grandest pageants ever seen in
Singapore, and there were certainly ten
or twelve thousand people present-as
motley concourse of nations and cos
tunes rs can be imagined. Passiag
through the crowd, / made my way to
the spacious apartment where the body
was laid out, robed in garments of heavy.
white-fgured Grape, plenteously adorned
with natural flowers, from among which
peeped out the costly gold buttons that
served as fastenings to the breast and
sleeves of the jacket. The entire outfit
had been made years before by order OF
the owner, and in precisely the same
fashion as those worn by him in life, as
the Chinese use no shroud or special
burial suit for their dead. The coffin
too. had been in his best parlor for twenty
wears or more, and he had doubtless Otter
laid down in it to ascertain whether II
would still fit him, as he had grown some
what corpulent with his increasing year.
and luxurious living. So universally d'
the Chinese recognize the propriety of thi
forethought that handsome coffin is con
sidered very appropriate present from
dutiful son to an honored parent on an.
festal occasion; and one often sees II
well-furnished houses two or three hand
somely decorated cofiins occupying con
spicuous positions in the reception room
OF the family. The design is not to kee
death always in view, but simply, a
among us. men make their wills, to b
ready when needed.
"HERE now," said the policeman, @
he separated two fighting women, out o
Valley street, "Heres enough of thi
what do you mean by it % "Mush
thin" said the one with red hair, tn
wur the cause of it: SEE she to M
: sez she, That's foine morning tn
morning, Mrs. Muldoon,' sez she; 81
e l to to her, sez i, That's true fur you
I sez I; Phawt hav yez in yer basket, 81
!, she; Liver sez 1t schmells,' ~
e she; ct don't sez I 1t do, sez sh'
o Yer liar sez I Yer another, SEE sh
r Phwat ~ sez L; Whoop!!' sez sh
e and then yez come along, an that wastl
cause Of t."
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-07-30

THINK.-Thought engenders thought;
Place an idea upon paper-arother will
follow it, and still another, until you
have written page. You can not
fathom your mind. There is well Of
Thought there which has no bottom.
The more you draw from it the more
fruitful il will be. If you neglect to
think yourself, and use other peoples
thoughts---giving them utterance only
you will never know what you are capa-
pie of.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-07-30

WEEDS in lawns and yards may be
killed by cutting close to the ground and
then apply few drops Of oil of vitroil
to the cut surface of the plants.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-07-30

BREACH of promise suits in England
furnish the papers with an endless sup.
ply of entertaining paragraphs. One OF
the latest cases occurred in Scotland,
where some months ago a Miss Agnes
Brady sued John McElhennan for breach
of promise, but before the case came up
for trial, the matter was compromised by
paying to Miss Brady sum of money
large enough to soothe her wounded feel
ings. Soon afterwards McElhennan's pas
sion again bubbled up to the surface, and
for a second time he proposed and was
again accepted by Miss Brady. But be-
fore the marriage knot could be tied, the
swain had again changed his mind and
married sombody else. Miss Brady had
entered another snit, claiming $4,000
damages, and this time refused to com
promise.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-07-30
Who are the Dunkers.

Some of the leading papers of the
country made singular blunders recently
i'm giving notice of Convention OF
Dunkers. held in Illinois. The Cincin-
natl Times gives brief sketch of their
history:
The origin of the society, or, more
properly, the church, dates back to the
Christian era, but the first congregation
organized in America was at German
town, Penn, i'm the year 1921. They are
denomination of Baptists, and emf
grated to this country from Germany,
hence the name, German Baptists, which
is the proper name. The nickname,
bunker, or Tunder, is from the German
word, 7aufen, to dip. The Seventh-day
Baptists originated from this denOmina.
ton about the year 1929, by Conrad
Beissel, at Ephrata, Penn. They veal
a very plain, but neat dress, being tenn
perate i'm that as well as in all Other
things; as regards shaving, it is left
optional with the members; but they
are not allowed to change the cut of thu
beard to follow the ever-changing fash
ions.
The men and women do not live il
seperate habitations, as they are not con
fined to mOnasteries and nunneries, but
OH the contrary, are scattered over tn
land, from the Atlantic to the Pacific
and are more numerous than is general
supposed by those who have but littl
, knowledge of the sect. having over on
thousand five hundred ministers, wit
quite large laity Zone hundred an
fifty thousand, according to report.
: National Conference held in Illinois;
and, instead of marriage being di
/ approved of, as has been reported, it
, held more sacred than it is by most otht
/ religious denominations. The only cas-
| i'm which it is disallowed is when one {
I both of the parties has a husband or wi
{ living, whether divorced or not.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1874-05-09

EARLY MARRIAGES Early marriages
are not by any means invariably happy
ones, though truth compels US to admit
that we have known brilliant exceptions.
The following clipped from an exchange
bears directly ON the subject: "She
stood besides the altar when she was but
sixteen. She was in love; her destiny
rested on creature MS delicate as herself.
She looked lovely as she pronounced the
vow. Think OF vow from auburn hair,
and poutlng lips, only sixteen years
old ! She stood by the washtub when
her twenty-hfth birthday arrived. The
hair, the eyes, the lips. were not calcu-
lated to excite tho hcalt. Five cross
young ones were rolling on the floor, and
some crying, some breaking things. She
stopped in despair and sat down, and
tears tgicllcd down her once plump and
ruddy check Alas, Cora, early mar
iiages are not just the rosy thing they
look to be. Better enjoy youth ut home,
aud hold lovers at proper distance until
you have muscle, limb, and heart enough
to face frowning world and family. 1t
your Clanny' really cares for you, he
can wait two or three years, make lots oi
presents, take you TO concerts, and SO on
until the time comes. Early marriages
and early cabbages are tender produc-
tions."
Weekly Trinity journal., 1874-05-09

ONE ON BlTz' TRICKs.-l was fire.
quently in the habit OF visiting tho differ
ent markets in New York, surprising
the vcnders aud adding notoriety to my
name. One day, in tho Washington
Market, observed Quaker lady look
ing at pair OF chickens she was holding
in her hand, was soon by her side in
quiring the price of them.
"Seventy- cents, sir," she replied.
3" But think sixty sufficient. They are
not large"
The chickens here declared, in mourn
ful strain, that they died for want of food
aud water. The Quakercss dropped them
IN CONSERVATION.
These teathcred imps-I would not
cat them were they ever so sweet and
fresh"
Why, madam" said the man, whose
face Redeemed at what the chickens seem
ed to utter. DO you suppose they are
alive and can talk ?"
" Did thee not hear them with thine
ears ?"
" Certainly We can speak so you need
not presume to pass US of for spring
chickens when we are tough with age"
AT this the Quakeress shook her head
and hurried away. Just then passer-
by saluted mo rs Signor BIitz." This
discovery caused the poultry dealer to
exclam in loud aud excited tones, "Sold,
by thunder |"
Weekly Trinity journal., 1874-05-09

ARTISTIC LIEs.-We once saw in a
large wooden church edltice, an arch, APP
parently supporting tho pulpit recess,
which contained the semblance Of four
different kinds of marble, most beautifully
variegated. A critical eye must have
discerned the unitncss OF such costly
device in a building SO cheap, and in the
absence of other evidence must have CON
cluded it was an architectural lie. SO
indeed it was. Mr.. Rusk.n has been
most emphatic in denouncing such craft
mess, especially among christians. There
it was, an arch Of soft wood, painted into
the exquisite complexion OF marble, taken
from s0me quarry Of envimble renown !
a mere frescoe is no lie, for no one sus-
poets it to be more than it is. So if paint
be laid thickly upon a lady's face, it Is
quite as obvious as the stains which betray
the piliering Of an unwary child. A wig
is easily detected, however gracefully
disposed, and hair dye must always want
the native gloss and hue Of the once lux
uriant clusters of youth. We cannot
say as much Tor the false curls that have
been shorn from the dead, or sold by the
INDECENT living, and made to adorn the
heads Of those who are bald, or vainy
dissatisfied with what nature has pleased
to bestow. The niIdcst expression which
can be used, will designate them as artistic
lies. Lies, because they convey false
impressions; artistic for the sake Of II
mpimentary adjective. 1t is high time
for respectable women to quit these de-
ceptive and almost disgusting arts. They
are defended on the ground that we should
strive TO please as far as possible. Never
by the use Of lies. Never while in so
doing, we are likely to deceive. Let
not age be ashamed of its silver, nor
plainness of its excess. Rather let prom
inent virtues atone for physical defects
aud win that true praise, which, to mere
comclness must forever be denied. .-F0ot-
hiH 1idiH0s.