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The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-07-02
Some Weather Signs.

an. Quad" a humorous writer on the
Detroit papers, enumerates the following
rs among the most reliable weather
signs:
If pear-trees blossom before the Goth
of March, and you notice the cows and
horses rubbing themselves against the
meeting house door, and the top rail of
the fence casts two separate shadows, it
argues we'll for the coming wheat crop.
If the clouds all move one way during
November, and big girls 60 barefooted,
and tin peddlers are numerous, and your
wife wants new pair of shoes, and plum
trees grow the most branches on the we
side, the next year will be prof.
thunder-storms and lightning-rOd
If pumpkins are frost-bjtteH(
they turn yellow, and hoAse-rent &C.
and catnip-tea has abitter taste, and
saw-logs show an inclination to roll up
hill, the potate-r6t is sure to follow.
If there are high winds in February,
followed by warm rains, and cattle refuse
to-lick salt, and red-headed girls are con-
spicuous, July will be cool month.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-07-02
Victims OF ODium.

A reclaimed victim of opium sends to
the Cincinnati Commercial his prescription
for the cure of the dreadful habit. Ar,
guing that the aver ,ge victim uses of tho
drug what is equivalent to twenty grains
of, morphine day, he counseis the prep
aration, by competent physician or
careful druggist, of go grains of NOR
phine, % grains of belladonna, and 45
grains of quinine. Divide this into
ninety pills, each of which will contain
three grains of morphine, and begin by
taking three pills day. The nine grains
of morphine thus taken, with their adj
mixture, 90 as far with the patient as
did his previous 20 grains day, owing
to the peculiar effect of the belladonna
in the combination. Lower the quantity
of morphine in each successive batch Of
the pills until two grains per diem are
reached, and then lessen the proportion
of belladonna and, perhaps, add small
dose of nux vomica. The cure is saidt,
be almost certain, but too much care cai
not be exercised rs to the quantity ant
quality of the belladonna, which is
deadly poison in anything over cautious
ly small doses
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-07-02
LOndOn's Parks.

A London correspondent says: "The
great glory of the metropolis is its at.
tractive and spacious parks, as import.
ant in sanitary point of view as they
are delightful to the eye and enjoyable
as drives and promenades for the crowd.
ed pOpulace. Statistics are not brought
up to the present date relative to the
number of inhabitants, but / believe,
with its floating population, London con.
tains four millions of souls to-day. Hyde
Park, st. James Park, Green Park, and
Kensington Gardens all lie very close to-
gether, and are kept in faultless con-
dition. Here and there flock of hun.
dred sheep may be seen quietly feeding
beneath the immemorial trees, as unmO-
Tested i'm the midst ofthis great Babylon
as though in the fields of Kent and Wor-
cestershire, forty miles away. The parks
already named are in western London
Regents Park is further to the north
Victoria and Finsbury Parks further to
the east and Battersea Park, opposite
to Chelsea, lies in southerly direction.
The last-named locality contains beau
grounds ever saw. Hyde Park occu-
pies about four hundred acres of ground,
and is nearly ten times as large as Bos-
ton Common, while the smallest Of the
parks named, as near as / can Judge, is
fully twice its size. Hyde Park, the "a
nous daily drive of the wealth and fash
ion of England, will not, however, COM
pare in beauty or attractiveness with
the Central Park of New York, the Bots
de Boulogne of Paris, or the Prater of
Vienna; nor can London equal in the
elegance or character of its horses or We
hicles, or Z" turnout" as they are termed,
either the French or Austrian capital.
Though equestrianism is the nearly uni
versal resort of Englishmen for exercise,
yet | have seen among the thousands
who frequent the park but very few
good horsemen."
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-07-02

She comes down to the depot in an ex-
press wagon three hours before train time.
She insists on sitting on her trunk, out
on the platform, to keep it from being
stolen. She picks up her reticule, fan,
parasol, lunch-basket, small pot with a
house-plant in it, shawl, paper bag with
candy boquet, (she never travels with
out One,) small tumbler, an extra vail,
and chases Historically after every switch
engine that goes by, under the impress
sion that it is her train. Her voice trem-
bles as she presents herself at the restaur-
ant and tries to buy ticket, and she
knocks with the handle of her parasol on
the door of the old Toulouse, in vain
hopes that the baggageman will come out
and check her trunk. She asks every
body in the depot and on the platform
when the train will start, and where it
will stand, and, looking straight at the
great clock, asks: "What time is it
now?" She sees, with terror, the bag
gageman shy her trunk into car where
two men are smoking instead of locking it
up by itself in large, strong, brown car,
with Bad order, shops" chalked on the
side, which she has long determined to be
the baggage-car, as the only safe one in
sight. Although the first at the depot
she is the last to get her ticket, and once
on the cars she sits to the end of her
journey in an agony of apprehension that
she has got on the wrong train and will
be landed at some strange station, put in
close carriage, drugged and murdered,
and to every male passenger who walks
down the aisle, she stands up and presents
her ticket, which she invariably carries
in her hand. She finally recognizes her
waiting friends on the platform, leaves
the car in burst of gratitude, and the
train is ten miles away before she re-
members that her reticule, fan, parasol,
lunch basket, verbena, shawl, candy,
tumbler, veil, and boquet are on the car
seat where she left them, or in the depot
for the life of her she can't tell which.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-07-02

Captain King, of Texas, has an inclosed
pasture of 10000 acres, though he owns
about 10000 acres of land in Nueces
and Duval counties. The entire stock
held by him at the present time is $4,000
head of cattle, 10000 head of sheep, and
10000 head of horses. He overstocked
his inclosed pasture to such an extent
last fall that he was compelled to turn a
great many out con the range" again,
although he sent 1000 head to Kansas
and slaughtered 1000 head more for their
hides and tallow. He disposes annually
of about 5000 head of cattle, either by
sale or slaughter, Notwithstanding which
his stock is steadily on the increase. He
has recently purchased another ranch in
Cameron county, on which he has 10000
more head of cattle, and attached 10
which is about $1,000 acres of land. He
is making extensive experiments i'm the
improvement of the stsck of the State,
having imported great many head of
the finest Kentucky cattle to intermix
with the native grades. The improve
ment of horse stock is also commanding
much Of his attention.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-07-02
The comprehensive Garment"

When men desire to put on water
proof coats, or to wear their trousers
supported by suspenders instead eta strap
or buckle, they quietly do 80 and say
nothing about it. A woman, however,
no sooner feels desire to lay aside her
corsets, or to fasten her stockings in a
novel manner, than she calls convention
of other like-minded women, who, after
having chosen their president and secre-
tary, resolve that, though their lives
should pay the forfeit, they will aban-
don corsets and garters forever. One
would fancy, to read the proceedings of
these conventions, that brutal and ty-
rannical communicated ready to punish
with imprisonment and the gallOws all
women who venture upon any new ar
rangement of their underclothing.
Whereas the truth undoubtedly is that
the community does not care in the
least how the "dress-reformers" dress
themselves, and would hear without a
throb of interest the news that they had
determined to encase themselves from
head to foot in bomb-prOofiron armor.
A "dress-reform" convention was held
at Boston last week, in which the usual
ICICC w NNai EaitOiT
though the heavens should fall, was he
roically expressed. The convention,
however, differed from other previous
conventions, inasmuch as it was made the
occasion of the exhibition of an entirely
new sort of feminine dress, which reflects
great credit upon the ingenuity of its in.
ventor. This marvellous invention COM
bines cOrsets, stockings, carriers, boots
ear rings, and parasol, besides other mys.
FERROUS articles with whose very names
we are unfamiliar, in one single and com.
prehensive garment. Moreover, this
garment is waterproof and can be worn
outside the old fashioned, ordinary dress
as well as beneath it. In case ola sudden
rain Overtaking the wearer in the street
she has only to remove the COmprehen
sive Garment" from its original position
and put it on outside of her bonnet, boots
and skirt, to successfully defy the mos
violent thunder-shower of which our eli
mate is capable. The man who woult
refuse to recognize the utility of this gar
ment and the wisdom of its inventor il
obviously unfit to form an opinion OF
any but the most vulgar prosaic sub
jects.
The convention warmly applauded thu
Comprehensive Garment" and viii
doubtless adopt it before the meeting ad
journs. The delegates can rest assured
thst no possible objection will be made
to their so doing. Indeed the interes
which lady arrayed in the "Compre
hensive Garment" during brisk shower
would create would bea positive boon t.
the public. In the way of an entertain
ment we have had no street show to com
pare with it, and the best of our theatre
would suffer severely by comparison will
so novel and entertaining an exhibition
| -D0jIU GyuDLic
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-07-02
The Growing Crops.
From the New York World.l

The crop prospects in the Middle
States-west, to include OhiO---are good
for wheat, with local exceptions. Spring
grain of all kinds looks well on the
ground. Corn planting is completed,
and but little replanting has been done,
the early planted coming up and stand
ing we'll. Grass, as a rule, is reported
exceptionally good as compared with the
promise at the same date the past two
seasons. Potatoes are receiving the at
tentions OF, the Colorado potato beetle in
Ohio Western Pennsylvania, New York,
and its appearance as far east as New
Jersey and Massachusetts has been noted.
To what extent it will effect the crop it
is impossible to predict, but inexperience
in the modes of destruction which have
been applied successfully i'm the West and
the neglect of hand picking, by which
means it has been successfully fought on
some farms may well cause apprehension
for the safety of the crop.
> In New England it is too soon to deter
mine what the small grain crop will be
and it is of not much importance in the
general economy, for the percentage of
this class of products grown there is
small. 1t is gratifying to note, however,
how uniformly favorable are the reports
concerning the grass crop. Fruit also,
as in the Middle States, promises to be
abundant. The more northern of the
Southern States gives us good reports of
the wheat crop, which will soon be ready
for the harvest. The recent frosts in
jured it very little. Fruit is abundant !;
corn promising, and the area planted in
the Southern States in the aggregate, is
much greater than for many years. Con-
corning cotton little complaint is heard,
with local exceptionshere and there. There
is no general apprehension expressed that
the crops of the South Ofall kinds, unless
it be in the flooded districts, will in any
sense be failure, or that there will be
any marked depreciation in quantity and
quality. OF course it is too soon to assert
that no disaster can come to them, but
the general tone of farmers and farm re-
ports throughout the country is hopeful,
quite as much so as any year the past de-
cade. Although the season was back
ward, whenit did open the ground was
in excellent condition, which is consider
ed by good farmers "half the BATTLE"
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-07-02
Billings Proverbs.

Thare liz no kind ov vittles that will
phatt man so fast az klear Conscience.
hav seen people so awkward that it
seemed as tho they must be labouring
under an attak Ov the rumatism.
Gravity liz generally kind Ov koun-
terfit, which man cheats himself with,
and tries to cheat others with too.
Envy liz the bitterest pashun ov the
harte; it liz even more subtle than re-
venge.
Adam waz bad egg. He had no
ambishun, no hope, no revenge, no en-
ergy, no pashun, no caushun, no judge
ment, no nothing, except wife, and she
waz too mulch for him.
A gift liz a debt, and it would be better
for us if we were obliged bi law to i'm
mediately repay it.
hay made cluss kalkerlashun on it,,
and find that, with whisky at six cents
glass, man will drink up good farm,
and fetch up in the poor-house in just
thirteen years and four months.
When man liz too mulch in luv to be
jelous ov ennything, he haz got the dis
eaze az natral az the hickcups.
This liz about all the difference thare
1.-THE yung run into diffikulty's with
their eyes shut, and the old with their
eyes open.
Yu kant liv and di happy, mi yung
friend, bi serving the devil; this haz
been tried by as smart men az the world
haz ever produced, and proved to be a
profound failure.
Coquetry IL allwazz cured hi luv, but
prudery never liz.
Wize men are just az apt to overshoot
the mark as phools are, but l hav allwuzz
sed that it liz a respektabel miss for either
Ov them to make.
If man kan stand sudden prosperity
without making hiz he'd swim he haz got
the right Kind ov stuff in him.
A lazy man allwuzz thinks he works
harder than emmy one else, and j guess he
IL more than half right.
Falling desperately in luv IL an old
fashioned complaint; folks don't do it
emmy more, it amt fashionable.
1t IL eazy to gro old, but to gro old and
not gro tedious amt so handy.
If kant hay but two things on me that
don't pinch let it be mi shirt kollar and
mi boots, if you pleze.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-07-02
POstOmce Rules.

Never buy any stamps. Hand your
letters to the Postmaster. If you are out
of change tell him you will hand 1t to
him the next time you are in. 1t won't
be necessary, however, to do so, as three
cents are nothing.
When you hand in your letter, do not
forget to tell the Postmaster to be sure
and have it go. If you do not give this
warning, he may keep it in the Office.
Always remember to call the Post
master and hand your letters to him and
not put them in the letter-box. If you
do the Postmaster will not have so much
to do, and you will thereby encourage
laziness. Remember that the Postmaster
would consider IL very unkind to have
your letters stamped by any one but him
felf. He will be pleased also to put wrap
pers on papers and back them for you oc-
casionally, or oftener. Especially when
he is busy distributing mail.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-07-02
Useful Information.

.GLYoERINE and lemon juice will aid i'm
removing tan from the face.
RHEUMATISM and govt can be cured
by the free use of asparagus.
q COLD in the head can be cured by in
haling hartshorn seven or eight times in
five minutes.
CAYENNE pepper is death to bed bugs.
Dust the bedsteads, crevices and inches
we'll with the condiment.
To swEETEN tainted meat barrel, after
washing and scalding to remove grease,
fill with fresh soil and let it remain a
week or ten days.
To CLEAN black silk, cashmere or al
paca, take teaspoonful of borax to a
quart oftepid water and apply with a
black WOODEN rag or nail brush.
IL is said that the fumes of sugar
snuffed up the nose will cure ordinary
cases of neuralgia. Put small quantity
of sugar on hot shovel and try it.
THE best thing for cleaning tinware is
common soda. Dampen a cloth and dip
in the soda, and rub the ware briskly,
after which wipe dry. Any blackened
or dirty ware can be made to look as well
as new. Z r..fE .tl 4
HERE is China cement. Take a thick
solution of gum arabic dissolved in soft
water) and stir in plaster of Paris till OF
the consistency of thick cream; with q
brush spread it neatly on the broken edges
and stick them together. Let them lie
for several days.
TREAT felons with hot water. No cut
ting, no blistering, no anything, but inn
merse the finger, hand, or even the whole
arm if necessary, in water as hot as can
be borne, until the pain is gone and the
core is loosened and drawn from the bone.
When rusty nails have produced wounds
the same course has been pursued.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-07-02
A Sad Affair.

There Is young man connected with
this road who, i'm the eyes of the girls
is looked upon as an Adpnis and fol
some time past has been paying marked
attention to a young lady living in the
aristocratic portion of the city. Last
week she celebrated her eighteenth
birthday and was the recipient of many
handsome presents. Among them was
the one from our young friend, and it is
only proper to say that, although it was
not so handsome or so costly as some OF
the others, it was appreciated by the
young lady more than all the rest
Desiring to show her appreciation of the
gift in something more than words, she
purchased for him beautifully orna-
mented bottle of Lubin's favorite extract
of Jockey Club" and had it nicely
packed with perfumed cotton in love-
of-a-box, together with a delicately-
worded note expressing her delight at
his kind remembrance of her, and beg
cling his acceptance Of the accompanying
small present, as a token of her friend
ship. She then gave the package to her
father with strict injunctions to have it
speedily and carefully delivered. Now
Tile OH ReIUleIlen, ike ndny IdJneTs Vi
the present day, did hot look with favor
upon our friends suit, he being only a
poor clerk, and thought it would be agood
opportunity to cool the young mans
ardor; so, before the package was dis
patched to its destination, it was sub
jected to. a little doctoring." We were
present when it arrived A beam of joy
seemed to light up the young mans cOun-
tenance when he recognized the we'll
known chirography, and a slight tremor
was noticeable in his hands as he pro-
ceeded to unite the dainty parcel. But,
alasl the spell was of short duration, for,
upon opening the box, he discovered
not the exquisite little bottle of perfume
which his lady-love had thought would
prove such an ornament to his toilet
but dirty-looking bottle labeled "Worm
Medicine" The joke was too good to
keep; but for the sake of the young
mans feelings we mention no names. It
is needless to add that he Immediately
discontinued his calls upon the young
lady, and now, wears a melancholy air.
He is as solemn as a gate-post, and moves
along like hearse on end.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-07-02
Courtesy.

Nowhere is well-bred courtesy, or the
lack of IL, more observable than in travel
ing. On the steamboat and in the cars,
the quiet observer readily detects those
who have been educated under refined
influences, or those, who without special
cultivation, are possessed of native polite
ness. 1t is not education alone, nor high
social position, nor costly trappings, that
makes one a pleasant travelling cOmpan-
ion. There must exist a kindness Of
feeling toward strangers, general recog-
milton of equal rights in the comforts
and conveniences provided for the public,
and quickened .discernment for the
needs Of others. The gentleman who
spreads out his luggage on couple of
seats in the cars, and persistently reads
a newspaper, determinately unconscious
that others who have paid as much as he
has are looking in vain for seat, is as
truly illbred as the country girl who
noiselessly eats her pint of peanuts,
scattering the shellson seat and floor, re-
gardless of the annoyance she gives her
neighbors. In this democratic country
we travel in public conveyances too
much as though they were our own pri-
vate carriages. How often the eleventh and
twelfth passengers in a city omnibus, who
know that they haye full claim to seat,
are discomforted by the outspread gar
ments, the immovable attitudes and
black faces of those who happen to have
entered the stage before them. Common
civility demands that movement be
made to give room until the complement
is filled. out; afterward, courtesy and
generosity will often prompt to atten-
tons which justice may not require. 1t
is surprising how much the comfort and
pleasure of any journey, whether long
or short, is enhanced by those little
nameless courtesies which are offered in
stinctively and unofiicially to strangers,
by refined, well-bred travellers, and per-
sons in whom native tact and delicacy
almost make up for the lack of the ed
ucating and refining influences of good
society.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-07-02
General Information.

A SHIPMENT was made the other day
from Portland, Oregon, of ship load of
Chinese corpses for superstitious inter-
ment in the flowery kingdom.
ST.. LOUIS claims to have built eight
hundred new buildings since January /,
and the greater part of these are two
story brick, costing from $1,000 to
$4,000.
THERE were million acres of rice
lands in cultivation in North Carolina at
the outbreak of the war of the rebellion
now there are hardly one-fourth as
many acres.
THE Seventh Day Baptists in this
country reports ninety churches, one
hundred and ten ministers, and $500
communicates. They are nearly all
close communion.
KUMoRs are abroad that Mr.. Disraeli
is about to wed the widow of the sixth
Earl of Chesterfield. The lady is very
clever and very agreeable; she is also
younger than the Premier by some
years.
A CURIos mode of trying the title to
land is practiced in Hindostan. Two
holes are dug i'm the disputed spot, in
each of which the plaintiffs and defend
ants lawyer put one of their legs, and
remain there until one of them is tired,
in which case his client is defeated.
New YORK has five classes of bishops,
each of whom exercises authority as
such-Roman Catholic, Protestant Epis-
copal. Reformed Episcopal, Methodist
Episcopal and Moravian. Boston has an
additional variety in a Syrian bishop
whose orders are not denied by students
in canon law.
GEORGE w. CHILDs, of Philadelphia
has the manuscript of Dickens Mutual
Friend" in his possession, having pur.
chased it for 81 $50 in gold, from Lon.
don critic, to whom it was given by the
great novelist. Some of the pages are
said to be scored through and through
with laborious corrections.
THERE seems to be a growing convic
ton that it would be cheaper to feed the
Indians than to fight them. 1t is there
fore proposed to put them on reserva
tiOns and try the experiment. This
policy looks like war of determination
in disguise, for sustaining them in idle
ness will be virtually killing them with
kindness.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-07-02

KEEP 1T FROM THEM.---Don't give
liquor to your children. Possibly you
can do it with safety, but the chances are
against it. One Of the first literary men
in the United States said to a writer,
after speaking on the subject of temper
ance '"There is one thing which, as you
visit different. places, 1 wish you to do
everywhere: that is, entreat every mother
never to give drop of strong drink
TO child. have had to fight, as for my
life, all my days to keep from dying
drunkard, because was fed with spirits
when child, and acquired taste for
il. My brother, poor fellow, died a
drunkard. / would not have child of
mine take drop Of liquor for anything.
Warn every mother, wherever you go,
never to give drop TO a child.