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The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-04-23
4 Smart GravestOne PeddIer.

Mr.. John L. is q man i'm the
marble business, smart ut his calling,
and has sold and put up more grave
stones than any other man in Somer-
set county, Maine. Some years ago,
when he first went into business, there
was considerable competition around
him, and hewas obliged to look sharp
for every chance. He kept himself
posted on the obituary column of all
the local papers. The news Of death
was sure to call him to the bereaved
family about rs soon us his team
could carry him there, and after con-
sOling tho mOurners he would grad
ually come around to his business,
and he rarely left without engaging
to furnish the grave-stOnes.
Hearing that old Mr.. b had
"lost his wife," away up in the town
of Embden, he was soon on the spot.
He found the old man i'm the field,
trying to plow with his CXen with
out driver--a feat easily accom-
plished with cattle that are trained,
but BIS 'critters" were wild and
bothered him considerable. Here
was q chance for John his boyhOod
had been spent on Il farm, and he
quickly took the gOad and set the
plow to moving right merrily, with
old B holdidg the handles
Round the lot they went, John driv-
ing the oxen and trying to draw the
old man into conversation, but he
was crusty, and replied only in
mOnosyllables.
Finally, John remarked to the old
fellow that he understood that he
(B-) had lost his wife; and then
commenced to pour out phials ofsym.
pathy for b, that his years OF
practice i'm gravestone selling had
given him; hut still the old man
would only grunt i'm reply. At last
John came to the main question, as
they stopped a moment for the cattle
to breathe, at the corner:
"WOuldn't you like to engage q
nice set Of tOmbstOncs for your
wife ~
"NOv' fairly snortcd the old man.
"Iet the miserable skunk that has
RIM a,cdU ,riH her pay for the grave
stones / won't ~
So John resumed his seat in the
buggy, and returned to the solacc d
his hOmc.-HtDper's DrUwe1.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-04-23
Skin Grarting.

DIR. Bells method OF skin grating,
as performed in numerous cases at
the Royal Inflrmary. Edinburgh,
has proved very successful. In pro-
curing portions of skin for this pur-
pose he takes them from some sound
portion of the patients body, prefer
bale from the arm. A piece of skin
Is pinched up by n pair of common
catch-forceps, and cut Of to the re-
quired size with n pair of scissors.
The piece Is divided into smaller
pieces about the size of q grain oil
rice, and Is planted among the gran
ulations of the ulcer by means of q
probe, one small piece being sufficient
for about n square inch Of surface.
Over each of the gratis Is laid a gutta-
percha tissue, half square inch In
size, previously dipped in some anti
septic solution. The ulcer Is then
covered by two layers Of similar
pieces Of guttapercha tissue, placed OH
each other In an imebricated manner
and over these q dressing Of intisep'
tic gauze and q bandage this dress
ing il not removed for two or three
days, when IL is replaced as ut first
To insure success, before grating the
ulcers should be free from fct0r, and
the dressing changed under spray.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-04-23
Destructive Powder.


Corrosive sublimate is disastrous to
ants. A little of it sprinkled across
one of their paths I'm dry weather has
a most surprising effect. AS soon as
one of the ants touches the white
powder it commences to run about
wildly, and to attack any other. ant
it comes across. In couple of hours
round balls Of ants will be found all
biting each other; and numerous in
dividuals will be seen bitten COM
plctely i'm two, whilst others have
lost some of their legs or antennp.
News of the commotiOn is carried to
the lOrmicarium, and huge fellows,
measuring three-quartcrs of an inch
in length, that only come out of the
nest during migration or an attack
on the nest of one of the working
columns, are seen stalking down
with a determined air, as. If they
would soon right matters. AS soon,
however, as they have touched the
sublimate all their statelincss leaves
them; they rush about; their legs
are seized by some of the smaller ants
already affected by the poison; and
they themselves begin to bite, and in
short time become the center O
fresh balls Of rabid ants. The subli.
mate can only bc used effectively In
dry weather.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-04-23
characteristics OF the Greeks.

a writer says: "The Greeks are the
most intellectual and enterprising Of
the subjects of the Sultan, particularly
those of SciO and Samos and COnstan-
tinoplo. They learn all trades, arts,
and professions, and like the Amer
leans they rove the wide world over
i'm pursuit Of gain. Greek commercial
houses, employing millions of capital,
are to be found in the chief cities of
England, Russia, Egypt, Persia, the
East Indies, and even the United
States. They live like princes abroad,
dispensing profusely their. hospitali-
ties, and always remembering re-
generated Greece i'm magnificent
legacies' for the establishment of
institutions Of learning and benefi-
cencc. They glory i'm their descent
from the master people OF antiquity
and in their noble tongue, and are as
intensely patriotic as the compatriots
of Maltiades and Themistoeles theni-
selves. Love of liberty and knOwl-
edge is consuming passion with the
Greeks. 1t is this that has enabled
them to preserve their nationality un-
harmed, amid the general wreck OF
people and dynasties in the East, and
to emerge from the gloom and dis.
asters Of ages of suffering from foreign
cOnquerors, to the bright dawn Of q
future resplendent with revivine
learning, with political and industrial
progress, and with new achievcment'
In art and science"
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-04-23

The advantage Of newspapers arc
every day developed, and new and
before unsuspected uses for them are
occasionally discovered 9fWitnees
what befell a gentlemen and yhis wife
recently in Holy Land, While they
were travelling toward Jerusalem,
they were beset BY bandits, and rob
bed not only of their money and bag
gage, but even of their sclothing
In which they were, standing,. or
rather kneeling, for mercy II they
had been going to the Garden OF
Eden, It would have been all well
enough but how were they to- enter
the ancient City ofsthe Lord In a
state of primitive nudity9 In this
horrible emergency they begged back
from the plunderers a copy OF the
London Times. Was there ever such
luck before? For they received not
only the usual copy of the great
journal, but 1t SO happened that there
was supplement-, which was irst
the thing for the lady. Thus clothed
with advertisements, leading articles,
foreign correspondence, the money
market, and the Parliamentary debates
they entered Jerusalem panoplied
against all fierce Musselmen--for
these religionists, it will be remem-
bered, respect every square Inch OF
paper, since haply the name or GOD
may be-written thereon. 20,
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-04-23
Keep the Birthdays.

Keep tho birthdays. They belong
exclusively to and arc treasured
among the sweetest memories of
home. DO not let anything prevent
some token, be ii ever so slight, to
show that it is remembered. Birth
days are great events to children
For one day they feel they are heroes.
The special puddings are made ex-
pressly for them; new jacket, new
trousers with pockets, or the first pair
ofboots is donned, and big brothers
and sisters sink into insignifcance
beside "littlc Charlie" who is "six
to-day" and is soon going TO be q
man. Fathers who have half n dozen
little ones to care for are apt to forget
birthdays they come sooften. Some
times they arc too busy, and some
times they are bothered but IL they
only knew how much such souvenirs
are cherished by their children years
afterward, when away from the
hcarthstone, they have none TO re.
mind them that they have added one
more year to the perhaps weary
round OF life, or to wish them, In the
good old fashioned phrase, "many
happy returns of their birthday
they would never permit any cause Il
step In between them and parents
privilege.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-04-23
FACTS AND FANCIES.

In Utah q criminal condemned
to death may choose whether he will
be shot or hanged.
The German Empire contains
about 1880 Catholic priests, 1000
monks, and $1,000 nuns.
"A Cincinnati belle, upon being
asked her fathers profession, said he
embalmed pork she believed. He
was hOg-packer.
There are still some old people
living in the mountains of Kentucky
who have never seen grain Of tea or
coffee in their lives.
The ceremony of cremation was
recently put in practice in England,
upon the body of Lemontinia Smith,
a famous gypsy oracle.
--Itit-pr that the principle
of steam navigation of the canals will
be applied in various improved forms
puring the coming season.
"A bank lock, which works by
clock-work and can't be opened cX-
cept at certain hours, even by the
owners, Is one of the latestinventions.
The average Congressman seems
to think the only way TO earn his
salary is by speech-malsing. There
was never worse mistake.
-"Many childred are raised with
the bottle, but many more deserve to
be raised with the boot" remarked
Quiz, on discovering that his land
lady's hopeful had been shaving the
cat with his new razor.
2 Metals may be made to adhere
to glass by a cement composed of
powdered litharge, two parts; dry
Whitehead, one part; boiled linseed
oil, three parts; mixed with Onepart
of copal varnish to thick paste.
The journalists will have their
fun, as witness the following from
Cincinnati paper A favOrite
amusement ut Laramie is slashing Off
strangers ears. One blow is enough
for all except Louisville. ears"
-"Dwellers In crystal palaces
should refrain from the propulsion of
irregularly shaped particles of granite
Is the way in which q
editor puts the English
proverb about stones and glass houses.
OF the iron produced annually,
England produces more than one
half of the whole amount..sNorth
America about one fifth, France
about one twelfth, and Belgium one
these four cOnstitut-
ing the great iron-producing countries
of the globe.
"A man in mill in Plumes, CAL,
felt tug at his coat-tail. He looked |
around and saw that il was being |
drawn in by cog-wheeis. He grabbed |
4 post and held on with all his might |
while the coat was slowly torn from
him. The struggle was n hard one
but tho man won.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-04-23
Laws for the Million.

A note dated on Sunday is void.
"A note obtained by fraud, or from
one intoxicated cannot be collected.
III a note be lost or stolen, it does
not release the maker; he must pay
it.
An endOrser of note is exempt
from liability if not served with no.
tice of its dishonor within twenty
four hours of its n0n-payment.
A note made by minor is void.
Notes bear interest only when so
stated.
Principals are responsible for their
agents.
Each individual in partnership is
responsible for the whole amount of
the debts of the firm.
Ignorance of law excuses no one.
1t is fraud to conceal Il fraud.
The law cOmpels no. one to do i'm
possibilities.
An agreement without consider
alton is void. ,-.
Signatures in led pencil are good in
law.
A receipt for money is not legally
conclusive. ~ f'a
The act of one partner binds all the
others. -..t % ,...
a contract made with a minor is
void.
A Contract made with a lunatic is
void. Ht tl.I,i g.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-04-23
Being Ladyllke.

We all know know, says a writer
in U0W TO EcOnOmize Like q Lady,
that being "unladylike" is the phrase,
but then, what Is being ladylike p
In what does this ladylikeism consist,
which is striven after by so many :!
This is question which does not
bear much talking about like plum
the bloom comes off even as we ham
die it; it is a difficult task to define,
though not, perhaps, to feel. 1t may
he an Old-tashiOned, even an almost
obsolete prejudice, but / am inclined
to think that lady doing any NOR
tai thing that it is convenient and
necessary, and which is also fitting,
that as woman she should do, IL is
truly ladylike; and, further, that
anyone who is ashamed to do this is
not quito worthy to be so considered.
1t is to be feared, however, that this
view of the world is fast dying out, :
for nowadays it seems that to do any
thing that woman should not do
to be masculine, loud, independent
is considered "the thing" but to be
simply useful, to he Independent i'm
the way of doing just what comes to
hand without worrying about what
people think, is alas by many con-
sidcred rs singularly unladylike and
wanting i'm style. Women, such as
these last, are unfortunately, brought
into disrepute by, and cOnfounded
with, those who affect to despise and
think little of the worlds opinion,
setting it ut naught, as it were, byan
affectation of independence, but who
would, nevertheless, be the last to
ma Ike themselves really useful. With
such as these before the eyes, one is
almost inclined to make excuses for
that old-fashiOned phase of vulgarity,
fine ladyisni, which foolish and ri
diculous as it is, is less Objectionable
by many degrees than the boldness of
our present manners.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-04-23
instant she held him in her arms with
q wild cry.

instant she held him in her arms with
wild cry.
so, Harry, my husband! you not
dead, you have come back to me?'
His passionate kisses on her face,
his strong arm and throbing heart
answered her as no words could have
done. He had come back from the
imprisonment amid the wild, and
western mountains, from perils and
dangers, and death itself.
For a long time after she had heard
his story and had fully assured her.
self that he was flesh and blood, and
not spirit, us she had mt first believed
him, she lay quietly weeping on his
bosom; then she arose with a solemn
tenderness, in her eyes, and leading
him to the little couch, drew aside
the curtains, revealing little face
flushed and dimpled in slumber, and
the small chubby fists fast clincned
together.
Harry Merlin looked on without a
word then bending down, he kissed
the little sleeper with IL Joy and thank
fulness in his soul too deep for utter
ance.
Ard on this stormy night, after
weary months i'm Imprisonment amid
barbarOus hOrdes, after enduring trials
and hardships, and almost death, this
was how Harry came home.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-04-23

1t is IL great art to make a good
kite. 1t should be shaped evenly so
as to balance well. The stick should
be Just strong enough for the size Of
the kite without being too heavy.
The paper should be of proper light
ness and strength. The f0nr cords
that start from the four corners should
be gathered into one and attached at
Just the right point to the holding
cord, so as to insure its proper angle
against the wind. And, above all
(or rather below ally, the tail should
be long enough and heavy enough to
balance the teetery object in. the air
and make 1t sail like thing Of life,
A tail too heavy or too light for its
length, or too short for It's weight,
whichever you please, Is sure to make
trouble in kite-fying: Now, boys,
whenever your kites flop and "don.t
co." you may he sure that sne Il
wrong I'm one or more OF the above
mentioned points. .--i&. MichoSas.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-04-23
The Heart Photographed.

An apparatus for recOering the va
riatiOns of the pulse Visible Is one of
the novelties of French ingenuity
There Is n camera, in which, by
means of clock-work, sensitized
glass plate is pushed in front of
narrow aperture exposed to the light;
and in this aperture there Is placed
q glass tube, In which column of
mercury may rise and fall as In a
thermometer. Now, by attaching to
the wrist rubber tube, filled with
mercury, in connection with the tube
of tho apparatus, the beating OF the
pulse Is received OH this artificial
artery, and the pulsatiOns arc trans
mitted to the recording apparatus
The column in the tube acting as a
screen, light can penetrate the aper-
ture only where the column Is def
cient; consequently the prepared
plate becomes black under the in
fiuence Of light everywhere except at
such places where the column inter.
cepts it. AS the column rises and
falls with each pulsation of the heart,
these black lines on the prepared
plate, pushed regularly forward, will
be longer or shorter alternately, and
will be successfully photographed as
being lines perpendicular to column
base, the heart thus being made tC
register photographically Its own pull
sations. These Photographic repre-
sentations can be so magnified as tt
be rendered visible across q large
hall, and the apparatus may be mod
ifled so as to register the variations o
respiration and similar physiological
and pathological phenomena.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-04-23
ALI SORTS.


All flowers .of speech spring from
tulips.
Isn't it about time for another rev.
olution In Mexico?
Napoleon w. has been dubbed the
Imperial Barkis." ,aa ~ rod
Thomas Cordes, a native of South
Carolina, is a member OF the new
British Parliament. 49,, ,,r
An English lady Is going to expend
1000 ON an aqueduct to supply Je-
rusalem with water. ,lo.,s ,liRr
a Hayanna paper says that Amer
lea must be taught lesson, and Spain
must be the teacher.7'1 7Ia s19vFE
.AGerman professor has undertaken
the, tasksiOf counting the hairs on a
buffalo rober one, by ene,a o4h'.'si
Horace Greeley,s estate is turning
out to. be more valuable than was
.supposed.I sItHis' now estimated at
$l2o,OOO. ysHaas7 oil i.r si .1sl
Queen Victoria is now in the fifty
seventh year OF her age. She has
nine children and twenty-one grand
children f&dvAd - sSAFoS
I, A clergyman removing from one
city to another, marked a large box
!S%a,a Something's 5aS his sermons o Keep dry"
10 They who know tBe5 truth, says
COnfucius, are not equal to those who
revere it; and those who revere 1t are
not equal to those who take pleasure
init. - ..,r r.
A material called white coal, con-
sisting OF felted vegetable flbres like
peat, has recently beens discovereCi'in
Australia, 1t burns easily, with Il
light flame. Large tracts are over
laid with this deposit,sit requires no
mining, and is already used in large
quantities for fuel.
A Boston tailor having remindeda
debtor that he hadn't paid anything
on account for a long time, and that
he (the tailor must havesoine money,
as he was very short, received this
eeiSed. Il you sUOa are psry short why s
don't you sell one Of your horses 2"
A young man having put CROWN
piece into "the plate" in an Edin-
burgh church by mistake instead of a
penny, asked to hayeit back, iwasIre-
fused. In once, in forever. "Aweel,
aweel, !" grunted he, '"I will get credit
for it i'm heaven" "Na, ma, !" said
Jeems, the door-keeper, "ye'l get
credit only for the penny We meant to
gi'e."
A mans leg which had been neatly
by locomotive at New
ark, New Jersey, recently, was
carried by the engine to Bristol,
Pennsylvania, (about one hundred
miles), and when the engineer dis
covered the limb on the cowcatcher,
he kindly inquired by telegraph all
along the line whether anybody had
missed leg. Newark answered
Eyes," and the leg was promptly re-
turned. 1t was too late, however, to
be of any service, for the former
owner was dead. But, then, it was
an exhibition of touching tenderness
on the part of the engineer who took
1t off.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-04-23

ny MARY FORREST.

love 10 sit I'm the twilight,
When the fire is old and dim,
And hear I'm the click OF the embers
tale that is ghostly and grim;
To trace In the feathery ashes
The faces and forms Ofthings
Thnt come To my nightly visions
Ana stir up my soul with wings.
To feel, as the shadows creep closer,
A thrill In the tranced air,
Like the breath OF a brooding spirit,
The wrath OF q wrestling prayer.
When the heart of the midnight ls beating,
Weird time with the watch In the wall,
And pillowed on my heart, is dreaming
The thought that Is dearest OF all.
love To lie low I'm the darkness
And hear the storm-spirts go by,
With wrench ut my wlndow-shutter,
Anda wailing, eldritch cry.
To gatherstill closer my thought so true,
In the face of the scurrying foe,
And go maundering down the river of sleep
With all the sweet voices know.
l love the thin cry os the cricket
On the heath or the lonely moor;
The woodpecker's rat-a-tap tapping,
Like Death, at the Oldest door.
There's spell I'm the knell of the falling leaf
And, ofall the days I'm the year,
] love the red, ripe carnival time
Old dautumn makes over his bier.
There's music for me I'm the soughing pines
And the great, throbbing heart OF the sea
Has a rythm that kindles each fibre and
And bafnos the breathinme, Z
All sights and sounds In this kingdom on
earth,
Have touch or tone that is sad,
But the saddest sights and sounds know
Are the sights and sounds that arc glad.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-04-23

"A GENTLEMAN was once making
inquiries In Russia about the method
of catching bears in that country. He
was told that, to entrap them, a pit
was dug several feet deep, and after
covering il over with turf, leaves,
etc, some food was placed on the top.
The bear, if tempted by the bait,
easily fell into the snare. "But," he
added, IF four or five happen to get
i'm together, they will all get out
again" "Ifow Is that?" asked the
gentleman. "They form a sort OF
ladder by stepping on each others
shoulders, and thus making their
escape" "But how does the bottom
one get out?" "Ah! these bears,
though not possessing a mind and
soul such as God has given US, yet
can feel gratitude, and they won,
forget the one who has been the chic
means of procuring their liberty
Scampering off, they fetch the branch
OF tree, which they let down to theiI
poor brother, enabling him tospeedily
Join them In the freedom In which
they rejoice"
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-04-23

WITH women, love Is q business |;
with men, business Is love. This
does not mean that women are mer-
cenary in love, or that men deal in
the spirit of love in their ordinary
business. It means that love Is to
women, yet more than to men, an oc-
cupation, absorbing, that which fills
and uses mnch Of life; that to men,
business fills and uses much Of their
life ir much the same way. As human
life Is at present ordered, this appor-
tionment Of activities Is unavoidable
and appropriate,
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-04-23

TEMPTATIONS are file which rub
off much of the rust of our self-confl-
dence.
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