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The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-06-18
Ancient Pottery.

Mr.. Charles Newton, keeper of Greek
and Roman antiquities at the British
Museum, recently visited Athens in
order to examine the objects excavated
by DIR. Schliemann near the supposed
site of ancient Troy; and on April Both,
he read a paper upon the subject at
meeting of the Society of Antiquaries
in London. He says that Schliemann's
pottery is older and ruder than any
discovered at Rhodes, Cyprus or ancient
Germany, and can not be classed as
Hellenic or even -Phenocian. In
deed, all Schliemann's works of art are
both non-Hellenic and pre-Hellenic. The
same is true of the gold and silver orna-
ments and vessels. They are all ruder
than the rudest specimens of the Hellenic
period. Prof. Max Muller said that his
conclusions were like Mr.. Newton's. In
Homer Trojans are different from Greeks,
but they are not barbarous; their armor
is worth taking; their gold ornaments
preferable to the Greek. Settlements
relics are not Homeric. Their discoverer
makes mistake in believeing that the
articles he has dug up are from the city
and times of Priam.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-06-18
Salaries of Clerks.

A correspondent of New York paper,
writing on the subject of Trades for
Boys" gives his own experience in reply
to the complaint of clerk, who receives
only twelve dollars per week, and has a
wife and family to support. He says:
"At six entered printing office and
worked through the various grades to
journeyman; at twenty-one / had saved
thousand dollars out of my wages, and,
with fellow-workman, with a similar
amount, started business. After eight
years of steady work, we were able to
draw three thousand dollars year each
from the business, and twelve thousand
dollars worth of machinery and material
all paid for. If had followed the ex-
ample of the boys who left school when 1
did, whose career / had been able to
trace, might now be enjoying a twelve
dollar clerkship."
There is nothing remarkable in this
experit nee, except that too few of the
young men of to-day can point to such a
record. The path is open to all but few
have the resolution and patience required
to tread it. But although every me-
chan.c does not save money enough to
start i'm business for himself, they all have
trades that are not likely to become so
much overcrowded as the occupation of
clerks, book-keepers, Office attendants,
copyists and statesmen. Hence they gen.
orally obtain work with little difficulty
at good, and sometimes high wages. The
market for labor of all kinds Is under
the same unwritten law as the market
for food while there are fifty applicants
for each clerkship, the wages Of clerks
will be so low that little money can be
saved for the improvement of the clerks
condition in life. And the supposed
Responsibility" of the calling, as COM
pared with that of mechanic, can
scarcely compensate any one for the loss
of such opportunities for advancement in
life as are open to all industrious, skilled
mechanics.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-06-18
Clean Teeth.

If you will only keep your teeth clean
they won't decay. The wonderful dem
tifrices which are sold at fabulous prices
are greatly inferior to a simple mixture
of soap and prepared chalk, with little
of something like orris root; but the es-
sential articles are soap and chalk. The
druggist will prepare you enough for
quarter of dollar to last long time.
When you go to bed, with broad, soft
toothbrush go through the mouth thor
oughly. If disposed to bad mouth,
you may repeat the dose in the morning.
But the principal article for keeping the
teeth clean is a tooth-pick, soft goose
quill, which you must use after eating,
no matter though it is piece of apple,
and, if convenient, after the pick use a
mouthful of water to rinse from the
teeth what the tooth-pick may have left.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-06-18
The SartOrises.

"Gath," writing to the Chicago Tri-
bune of Miss Grants marriage, says:
"Let us now suppose the young people
at home in the most craggy part of South
England. What next? First, acquaint-
ance-making; riding over the place eat
ing the beef; acquiring the queer, half
wild sporting habits Of the natives; a
round of visits to the other Sartorises,
until all the family has sufficiently dis
charged its devoirs to the bride. Then,
weary of eating, making family acquaint-
ances, and trying on the new clothes, a
run up to London, and dinner at the
American Legation and elsewhere. AS
to the Queen and what she will have to
say, or the Lord Chamberlain, or any
body else, that is a subject of more
bother here than i'm England. 1t is not
probable that Mrs. Sartoris, as long as
her father is President, with our diplO-
matte service at his command, will suffer
any rudeness when none can be intended.
The etiquette of royalty is always subject
to the caprice of politics. Mr.. Disraeli
is the Queen Of England. There is,
happily, nothing in the mind or rearing
pining for the ponderous recognition of
some Pigment Of authority. fear that
she will rather suffer under the fleshy
materialism of English women, and
think of the chirpy and gushing girls
she knew between Pennsylvania avenue
and Michigan avenue, Chicago. After
London, there is Paris, as close to Wers-
Ash House as st. Louis to Springfield.
Again, the Sartoris people will have
abundant American society; and so,
through the whole of General Grants
majority, the high society will be Amer
lean, the business of life English. 1t will
be after the expiration of the Presidents
term, when maturity and perhaps
children have come to this couple, that
their lives will be more distinctively
English, and the ocean wider between
Nelly and her native country. She has
done thus much: taken her full and only
ticket in the lottery of marriage. Her
father was opposed to foreign match, on
no other score than her own happiness,
being himself attached to America and
the people. That he has informed HIM
self of the bridegroom's surroundings,
habits, and prospects, through our min
listers and consuls, there is no doubt.
Had he been possessed of the idea of
Cesarism, so much talked about, he
would have hunted higher connection,
methinks, than an English commoner
but he always was disobliging when we
writing fellows struck a real good sensa-
ton. Miss Nelly is married in her con-
dition, to one of competence, to one she
was strongly in love with. We have
thrown a good many shoes after her for
good luck, and hope we shall have no
occasion to throw our boot after her
husband"
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-06-18
PnAcil and SCISSORS.

JOSH BILLINGS says that Goldfish is as
good as an umbrella to keep one dry.
WHY are clergymen like railway por-
tersY Because they do good deal OF
coupling.
LOOKING two ways for Sunday
Scrutinizing in duple directions for the
Christian Sabbath.
The most popular Judge in Missouri
just now is the one who has decided that
a woman is not an old maid until she is
thirty-fve.
If there is one time more than another
when woman should be entirely alone,
it is when a full line of clothes comes
down in the mud.
The Sioux City Journal describes one
of the bellies of a ballroom as a graceful
little toad" She must have shone par
ticularly in the hop.
CENSUS OFFICER =" What age, madam,
shall put DOWN." Madam (after some
refectiOn)- What have you put down
for the lady overheadT
A GEORGIA negro who bet ten dollars
that General Washington commanded
the Federals at Bull Run, handed the
money over with the remark, "Well, dis
yere hist'ry business is all mixed up any
way"
AS two children were playing together,
little Jane got angry and pouted. Johnny
said to her, Look out, Jane, or III take
a seat up there on your lips" ''Then,"
replied Jane, quite cured of her pouts,
I'll laugh, and you'll fall Off"
Two hundred people in a Colorado
town recently turned out in body to
look upon bedstead with casters, it being
the first ever seen in the country. The
possessor had his hat over his left ear,
and was for time greater man than
the mayor.
A PARTY of young men dined sumptu-
ously at a restaurant in Atlanta, and
each one insisted on paying the bill. To
decide the matter, it was proposed to
blindfold the waiter, and the first one he
caught should pay the bill. He hasn't
caught any of them yet
For escorting home from singing
school a maiden twice his own age an
Iowa boy was forced to turn the grind
stone sixteen consecutive hours. And for
the fun the boys father got out of this
part of the performance the court invited
him to deposit twenty dollars.
AN old lady hearing that young
friend had lost his place on account of a
misdemeanor, exclaimed, "Miss De-
meanor! Lost his place on account of
Miss Demeanor! Well, WELL Pm afraid
it's too true, that there's al us woman at
the bottom of mans difficulties"
"THERE," soliloquized an old topper in
Davenport, Iowa, "see what all this tenn
perance crusade praying has done; first
busted the Lindell Hotel tank in ST..
Louis, and now overfOwed the whole
South with water. If the women keep
on we'll have another flood, certain"
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-06-18
General Information.

IT is the opinion of the shipping agents
that the foreign travel will be thirty or
forty per cent. less than 1t was last year.
A THOUSAND children have been taken
to the gas-works in Hartford, Conn.,, this
spring, to be cured of whooping-cough
by inhaling crude gas from the retort.
Pennsylvania gave the United States
the first turnpike road, railroad, water
works, locomotive, hospital, law-school,
public. museum, music hall, and free Ii
brary.
AN alarming disease is prevailing in
some parts of Jefferson county, NewYork,
among the dairy cows. In appearance it
resembles what is known as the lung
plague. The animals die within three or
four days after the attack.
A FRENCH doctor says that vapor
bath, at temperature of one hundred
and forty-four degrees, on seven consecu-
tive days, will cure hydrophobia. Why
not boil the man at once?
The authorities of the Mint in Eng
land are about to coin large quantity of
halfcrowns, none of which have been
coined since 1S48, when they were
abolished by royal proclamation.
A FRENCH custom-house officer, pos
sessed of aninquiring turn of mind, no
ticed the arrival of large herd of
rocking horses, thought he would see
what those animals livedOn. He opened
several, and found their little stomachs
full of cigars.
A NEW material is now used for mar
tingale rings, knife handles, combs, ETC.,
which is called "celluloid." 1t is to all
appearances as hard as iron, and, when
cold, possesses great strength and tenacity,
but it is as infammable as finder, and
burns more readily than pitch.
AMONG the hosts of minute forms of
life inhaled into the lungs in the atmos-
phere we breathe are certain microscope
cal creatures which become the living
fish of our blood; but as it takes 75, OOO,-
600 Of these to make the bulk of grain,
we need not be much alarmed at the pis-
catorial visitation.
The following days of the week are
those set apart for public worship in the
different nations: Sunday, by the Christ
ians; Monday, by the Grecians; Tues
day, by the Persians; Wednesday, by the
Assyrians; Thursday, by the Turks; and
Saturday by the Jews--every day, in fact,
but unlucky Friday hangman's day"
the world over.
In an article upon the crop prospects
of the western farmers, the st. Louis Re
publican says it does not "recall spring
in a period of dozen years that gave a
more cheerful promise of abundance than
the present" 1t is too early to make any
predictions about the corn crop, but of
the fruit, the growing wheat, and the
conditions of the meadows, conjectures
can be made.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-06-18

THE Two ANeELs.--A traveller who
spent some time in Turkey, relates a
beautiful parable which was told him by
a dervish; and 1t seems even more beau
full than Sterne's beautiful figures of the
accusing spirit and recording angel.
Every man," says the dervish, "has two
angels, one on his right shoulder and one
on his left. When he does anything
good, the angel on his right shoulder
writes 1t down and seals it, because what
is well done is we'll done forever. When
he does evil he waits till midnight. If
before that time the man bows his head
and exclaims: Gracious Allah, l have
sinned, forgive me 7 the angel rubs out
the record but, If not, at midnight he
seals it. and the beloved angel on his
right shoulder weeps."
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-06-18
Not a Candidate.

An Evansville man has proved himself
a satirist, though probably at the time he
uttered the words which have since made
him famous he was unconscious of the
singing sarcasm contained in the few
syllables referring to a prominent feature
of American life. He had fallen into q
ditch on the outskirts of the town in
such manner that he was unable to ex-
tricate himself. A hnd-hearted pedes-
TRAN helped him to his feet, and after
the thing had been accomplished, our
hero said, GAIL right hic I'll vote for
YOU" The stranger looked at him doubt
fully, and wished to know what for.
"Wha' Office We running FORT" az
None at ALL" was the answer. Not a
"No; why7" "Why--
Cause don't know as any
man d. hic--help mother as you did
'thout bein' candidate"
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-06-18
A vo,,uo man in one If tho psnoh.co

A YOUNG man in one of the Penobscot
River towns in Maine, recently supposing
.himsel, to be upon his death-bed, quietly
arranged his earthly affairs, so far as he
was able, and then astonished his weep
ing friends by the choice of an auctioneer
to conduct the funeral services. There's
Mr.. - down to Bangor" he said,
"he's an easy, fluid talker, and l alters
liked to hear him. I've had dealin's with
him, SAN alters found him TO set out
thingI Jest about as they was. He's the
man want TO talk to my funeral" But
the young man recovered after all,
and the auctioneer lost the chance TO
declare him "gone."
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-06-18
Productions of Timber.

. Is timber to become scarce in the
United States? We think not. We have
made extensive observations in the New
England and the Middle States, and we
are brought to the conclusion that forest
trees are on the whole increasing. Two
causes tend powerfully to this result
the extensive introduction of coal for fuel,
and the superior advantages for agricul-
ture in the West. A fire can be kept
much cheaper in New York with coal
than in Connecticut with wood. Fami-
lies in the large towns in the Eastern
States can not afford to use wood for
fuel. And the profits in agriculture
among the rocks of New England are so
light that farmers can better afford to
produce wood than corn and potatoes.
The rougher and more uneven parts of
these States are to be extensively given
up to wood-growing as branch of in
dustry. Another cause will tend largely
to increase the supply of wood or timber
the increasing tendency to use indie
structible materials in the structure of
buildings. The supply of iron and stone
can not fail in any period of time, that
we can at present conceive. The ma
terials for bricks are inexhaustible, and
arts are already known by which any
kind of worthless stone cound be ground
and moulded into concretions; or sand
and clay may be converted into artificial
stone to supply any conceivable demand,
and these arts are in their infancy, and
may be susceptible of indefinite i'm
provements. The great prairies of the
West, where there is no native timber,
l. r n
more valuable kinds of timber, so that
the demands on timber-producing regions
will he greatly reduced. Another cause
still may be mentioned-the increasing
use of imported woods for many kinds Of
ornamental work, and also for the more
useful, where durability and beauty are
to be combined. On the whole, we may
dismiss our fears for many generations
to come, that our supply of timber will
be exhausted.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-06-18

FRUIT CAKE-By sitting -four over
the raisins and currants and rubbing
it over them well, there is no
trouble from the sinking of them in the
cake.
BAKING HAM--Most people boil ham.
1t Is much better baked, if baked right.
Soak for an hour i'm clean water and wipe
dry. Next spread it all over with thin
butter, and then put it in deep dish,
with sticks under it, to keep it out Of
the gravy. When it is fully done, take
off the skin and matters crusted on the
flesh side and set it away to cool.
CoCoANUT CAKE.-Two cups of Cocoa
nut, four of -four, two of sugar, one
half cup of butter, one of milk, three
eggs, one tcaspoonful of soda, two of
cream tartar.
BEEFsTEAK OMELET.--Three pounds of
raw steak, chopped fine, six crackers,
rolled very fine; four eggs; two table
spoonsful Of melted butter. Put upinto
shape, butter tin, and bake; basting
often; add little salt and pepper.
CREAM PIES. - To make two pies.
Three. eggs, two thirds of a cup fine gran
ulated sugar, one cup of -four, one tea
spoonful of cream tartar and one-half
teaspoonful Of soda. Take the yolks of
the eggs and the sugar and beat the
whites and add. Put the cream tartar and
soda dry in the -four. After it is all
mixed put in little water to thin IL.
Bake on tin plates and split, filling with
q thick boiled custard.
SANDWICHES FOR PARTIES Chop fine
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-06-18
At the Vatican.

A correspondent from Rome describes
visit to the Vatican: "The gorgeous
Swiss Guards, who look like nothing else
under heaven, and are probably the most
snowy soldiers on the face of the globe,
filed back at our approach like shattered
rainbow, and we were Immediately lost in
the labyrinths of the palace. We climbed
stairs that seemed cut out of solid mar
BILE quarries, for there was nothing to be
seen but marble in some shape or other
Again and again we were met and passed
by guards; priests and monks in robes of
many fashions and colors, pass us; the
place was alive with people, and yet none
of them seemed familiar to my eyes. We
entered one room, passed into others, all
of them having their separate uses and
most of them in charge of officers, who
looked as little like the last lot as posi-
BILE. Finally we came to court, one of
the twenty, where were carriages, and
footmen in livery, but how they ever
found their way thither dare not con-
lecture. Beyond the court the chambers
were more splendid than the last. New
guards and pages, in new uniforms and
liveries, moved to and fro through the
endless suites of rooms, and kept every
thing in gentle state of connection.
Here we left our cloaks and hats. Here
we took our rosaries and tokens in hand,
and pressed from one chamber to another,
perhaps waiting few moments in each
room while my companion spoke to gen.
tlemen in waiting, clothed in crimson
satin and looking very impressive indeed.
Rooms that were frescoed to the very
floors finally gave place to rooms hung
with splendid tapestries of inestimable
value. 1t began to look like business.
The chambers were heated with the great
brazen pots of Goals, such as one meets
with in all the Italian galleries and in
the churches, when the churches are
heated at ALL These braziers look little
heathenish, and are none the less inter
esting for that reason. They are big
enough forhuman sacrifices, some ofthem,
but they are seldom hot enough to hurt"
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-06-18
A policeman in Detroit heard that a

A POLICEMAN in Detroit heard that a
citizen of twelfth street had been badly
injured, and he called at the house to
obtain particulars He found the man
lying on the lounge, with his head bound
up, and his face badly scratched. He
asked: "What is the matter? Did he
get run over, or fall down stairs?" "No,
not exactly" replied his wife; "but he
wanted to run the house his way, and l
wanted to run it my way; and there he
,oV
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-06-18

A TEXAS railroad superintendent re-
fused to give hardshell preacher pass.
The preacher humbly remarked that he
was nothing but poor worm of the
dust, and the superintendent replied that
railroads never passed worms.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-06-18

AN exchange says: Compare the pub
Usher of newspaper, who has to go all
around the country to collect his pay,
to farmer who sells his wheat on credit,
and not more than bushel to any per-
son. If any farmer will try the expert
ment of distributing the proceeds of his
labor over two or three counties, with an
additional one to two or three distant
States, for one year, we will guarantee
that he will never, after that years ex-
perience, ask publisher TO supply him
with paper year or two without the
pay for IL.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-06-18

The following advertisement recently
appeared in an English paper: "St.
James Church. - On Sunday next the
afternoon services will commence at half
past three and continue until further
notice"
Los Angeles daily herald. [volume] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1873-1876, 1874-02-14

crease being nearly unanimous. The
passage of n bill to increase the salary
of this official would seem to be hardly
consistent with the generally ex-
pressed desire to cut down the salaries
of all County officers" When the
county of "Orange" shall have been
created, which will be in two years at
the farthest, the School Superinten-
dent of Los Angeles county, with a
salary of $1,000 or $4,000 per year,
would have soft thing.
The irrigating bill of Senator Bush
was also read, but time forbids my
giving the comments at present. The
feeling that it was entirely too verbose
was, however, painfully manifest.
garnuY3sAlaUER9..
Why is the stamp at the postoffice
jim your eity.spslled Los Angeles in
stead Of Los Azlgelss? 7 think
there is room I6f Improvement in
photography. }. >. I.
compton, February ~, 1874.