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The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-06-11
Obituary Poetry.
When little jeremiah Snopkins died,
the editor of the Waterman received four
yards and half of obituary notice, with
This hepinninp.

When little jeremiah Snopkins died,
the editor of the Waterman received four
yards and half of obituary notice, with
this beginning:
Our home Is sad; we mourn, alas,
For the loss of our little Jerry,
Who took to eatin' garden sass
And went off with the dysentery.
A correspondent of the Philadelphia
Ledger vehemently demanded to know
what the editor of that journal thought
the policy of this Government toward
Spain should be, and he is reported to
have replied:
On little James too brief career
The curtain sadly drops,
She waltzed away to paradise
From eating celery tops.
A Kansas City tombstone pays the fol.
lowing beautiful tribute to innocence:
With yell and whoop
He died of the Group.
An inscription OH tablet recently put
up in rural church is amusing. 1t ends;
He was neglected by his doctor,
Treated cruel by his nurse,
His brother robbed his widow
That makes the matter worse.
There must be some mistake in this
extract 1t is altogether too high com.
pliment to be deserved by any merely
human being:
An honest fellow here Is laid,
His debts in full he always paid
And what's so strange, the neighb0rs tell U.S.
He brought back borrowed umbrellas
A New York stonecutter received the
following epitaph from German, to be
cut upon the tombstone of his wife:
"Mine wife Susan is dead If she had life till mex
Friday she'd been dead shust two weeks. AS tre'
falls so must Ii STAN"
An Arkansas graveyard furnishes the
following epitaph on wife:
She washed the children,
Fed the fowls,
And made her home
Resound with howls.
Some papers have peculiar style o
obituary notices, which must touch sur
viving friends deeply. Here is sample
"a Kalamasnoozer named Godfrey poked himsel
into the knuckly Joint Of a shaft, which wound hin
up at the rate Of two hundred revolutions per min
ute. Being short man, the execution was rapid
The following is the latest obituary:
Here lies inferred Priscilla Bird
Who sang on earth till sixty-two,
Now up on high, above the sky,
No doubt she sings like sixty, too"
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-06-11
Ancient Toilets.

The jews appear to have been early
characterized by a prediction for snowy
dress, for cosmetics, jewelry and perfumes,
and for the care which they bestowed on
various operations of the toilet partic-
ularly those connected with the hair.
According to Moses, the art of working
i'm silver, gold and precious stones very
early reached state of considerable ia
cility and excellence, as these substances
were then commonly manufactured into
ornaments to decorate the person. Abra-
ham, we are told, twas very rich in cat
tie, in silver, and in gold;" so much so,
indeed, that he paid flour hundred shek-
els of silver, current money" for
"burying-place" for his family. The de-
scription given us of his chief man.
servant presenting a golden earring of
for the hand, of ten shekels' weight of
gold," to the beautiful Rebekah, as she
tripped with her pitcher to the fountain,
may serve to illustrate the usages, taste,
and progress of this period as may also
servant subsequently " brought forth
jewels of silver, jewels of gold and raj
ment, and gave them to Rebekah;" and
"gave also to her brother and to her
mother precious things"
When the Israelites begged Aaron to
make them goods" which should ego
before them," he replied, Break off the
golden earrings which are in the ears of
your wives, Of your sons, and of your
daughters, and bring them unto me-"
The magnifcence and luxury of the
reign of Solomon were so remarkable
that they have since formed the burden
of proverb. Perfumes and spices, al
ways highly priced and expensive articles
among the Jews, came into almost gener-
al use during his reign. Continent
(pomade) and perfume rejoice the heart"
he sung; while, in another passage, he
informs us that "myrrh, alOes and Gin
namon" were used as scents by the
courtesans of his day. These substances
are also mentioned by the Psalmist : "All
thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes,
and cassia." The singular fate of Absa-
lom, another son of David, was occasioned,
according to popular belief by the fine
ness and extreme luxuriance of his hair.
The transit of another century in the
history of the Israelites places before us
distinct notice of the use of skin cos
metics. We are told that the "proud
Jezebel," when preparing to meet King
Jehu, painted her face" lin the original,
"put her eyes in painting and tired
her head"
Many other notions, of an equally di-
rect character, are to be found in the
books of the Old Testament.
In the later periods of the history of
the Jews, as may be CLEANED from both
sacred and profane writer's, the predilec-
ton for dress and jewelry, and the arts of
the toilet, continued undated, and, sur
viving the vicissitudes of time and
change, continues still to characterize
this remarkable and scattered race.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-06-11
General Information.

THE United States have $4,000 miles
of telegraph.
NEVER scare off a fly with club when
feather will do as well.
1T is stated that the bayonet is to be
abolished in the German army.
The orange growers of Florida are
suffering from a blight known as the
black fungus, which discolors the orange
and threatens to destroy the orange
groves.
THE present year being generally &C
cepted as the four hundredth anniver-
sary of the introduction of the art of
printing into England, the craft propose
to celebrate the event.
DURING the present year eighteen
States will elect Governors, thirty-five
Congressman, and twenty-five United
States Senator'S, besides the vacancy yet
to be filled in Louisiana.
WHAT was said of the late Mr.. Wei
come Farnum is applicable to many men
now living, He accumulated consider
able wealth in his regular business, but
lost it all in other enterprises"
If every farmer would have a little
flower garden under his windows, or in
sight of them, he has no idea how much
dearer his home would become to him,
or how much more lovely to others.
In Sweden, out of 3S5, 900 children OF
school age, only 9,131, or three per cent,
are instructed. OF the 100000 voters
in the United States, more than 1,00O,-
600 can not read the ballot they cast.
THE great increase in the consumption
of salt pork in England has excited much
attention in medical and business circles.
The imports show about double the
amount this year over corresponding
dates last year.
ONE ponnd of cheese has as much
nutritious food as two and half pounds
of meat. The foreign market for Amer.
lean cheese is such that the demand will
always be equal to the supply if the
quality is maintained.
WILD coffee trees have been discovered
growing in California. This valuable
crop is likely to be added to the other
products of the State, which now yields
gold, wheat, barley, tobacco, tea, live
stock, and all the fruits of the tropic and
temperate zone.
AN English chemist, officially EN-
plOyed to detect authorizations, reported
forty faulty samples out of q hundred
and seventy. Arrowroot was mixed
with starch, coffee with chickory,
milk with water, mustard with -four and
tumeric, vinegar with sulphuric acid and
oil of vitroil.
CONNECTICUT is in great need of a law
to prevent the employment of children
in factories. At the immense Baltic
Mills, late the property of the bankrupt
A. & w. Sprague corporation, it is said
that children not over four or five years
of age are put to work for the benefit OF
their French Canadian parents.
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Disinterested Attachment.

A little story was told to w lately
which seems to be worth repeating.
Some time ago a child, i'll with hip dis
ease, was brought into certain asylum
in New York-a little girl of five years
old, who, from fright or weakness, cried
bitterly on her admission. Another girl,
little Swede of about nine, heard her.
Is she crying because she has left her
mother?" she asked the matron. "No;
she has no mother; she is an orphan"
"Her friends, then, may be?" "She
has no friends; she has nobody in the
world to take care of her, unless she finds
one here" Jenny, the little Swede,
stood for minute or two soberly looking
at the stranger. She was not pretty
child, nor attractive in any way, being
homely, diseased and ill-tempered. 81
think / will take care of her." said
Jenny, gravely. CPL be a friend to
her." and she went over to the stranger
then and there, and began to soothe and
humor her. The matrOn, thinking il
only passing childish outburst, paid nc
attention to it, even when she found that
Jenny had secured a seat at the table
next to the child, and had managed Il
have her placed in the bed next her own
in the dormitory. But when the story
was told to us, year afterwards, the
little girl had never failed once in hel
selfimposed trust AS far as was practi
cable she took the place of mother OF
elder sister to the child who, still lame
and suffering, needed constant attention
and care which the matron and nurses
could not give. She cut and prepared
her food at meals, humored her peeivsl
fancies during the day, and at night was
in the habit of lying down half dressed
to be ready to spring up at moments
warning, and she passed many a night
it was discovered, holding the child's
head in her arms or soothing her. On
any holiday, or when visitors came
Jenny's first anxiety was to make hel
little charge presentable, just as fond
mother would do; and when the children
were once given an excursion, or an after
moons romp in the grounds, Jenny had
an excuse to account for her not going
and actually, although her tears chOked
her, she being but a child, would have
stayed, patient and cheerful, beside the
lame child, who could not go, if her de
ception had not been found out. The
singular part of the story was, too, thai
the child was not lovable nor grateful
one, but peevish, jealous and tyrannica
toward her poor little nurse, who apol
ogized for and made the best of her II
others, after the habit of mothers. There
were many other children in the asylum
prettier and more winning, but Jenny
was true to the one whose only recon-
mendation was that "she had no friends
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-06-11

MINERS in Nevada tell us that the di-
visibility of quicksilver is so great that
particles of It float down the clearest
streams, invisible to the eye, and yet
large enough to contain still smaller par
ticfes of gold or silver, or of both. The
presence Of the floating metals is shown
by deposits made on copper vessels, sunk
in the streams where, in few months,
hundreds of dollars worth of quicksilver
is collected. In photograph galleries
silver and gold float off in the water
used for washing pictures, and are gath
cred by provident workmen to be again
used in the making pictures. Infinite
ly small as the particles of precious
metals are that float i'm clear water, invis-
ible to the eye, they have, in the aggre-
gate, great commercial value, and are, to
some extent, typical of the invisible
particles of ones income that are care
lessly allowed to float away on the stream
of waste, when, with little care, they
might be made into deposits" Of an ag-
gregate value that would surprise even a
statistician.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-06-11
Household HELPS.

MOUNTAIN Dew PUDDING. - Three
crackers pounded or rolled fine, one pint
of milk, yolks Of two eggs; bake half an
hour; beat the whites of two eggs to a
stiff froth; add one cup of sugar, pinch
of salt. Flavor with lemon, pour over
the pudding, and set in oven and deli
cately brown.
GOLDFISH BALLS. - Two cups mashed
potatoes; one cup of Goldfish chopped fine;
the whites of three eggs beaten very
light; then, after mixing well, drop a
tablespoonful at time in boiling lard
and fry quickly. Let the fish boil slO,oly
from twenty to thirty minutes, before
being chopped.
WHEAT GEMs.---Two eggs, three cups
of -four and pinch of salt. First beat
the eggs well, then add two-thirds of
the milk, then the -four and salt, then
the rest of the milk; stir quickly and
bake in the gem pan in hot oven. Fill
or baking powder not necessary.
CORN BREAD.--One cup of lard melted
i'm pan; stir into this one quart of corn
meal; two eggs; two large spoons of
sugar, and the same of flour; two tea
spOonsful of baking powder; salt to taste;
stir into this sweet milk enough to make
a moderately thick batter; bake in the
hot gem pans in a hot oven, and if they
are not pronounced splendid, you have
failed to make them right.
SALT PORK. - For the benefit of those
who are obliged to use salt pork, the fol-
lowing plan improves it wonderfully (:
(f,xS 81 nil ha f.pr
breakfast the evening previous, and soak
till morning in sweet milk and water.
Then rinse till the water is clear, and fry.
IL is very nearly as good as fresh pork.
For a change, rolling it in corn meal is a
good imitation of fresh fish.
CLEANING OLD CoRKs. Cover the
corks with water. When we'll soaked,
add half pound of sulphuric acid to
every gallon of water, and stir up well
with a stick. Leave the corks, then, and
after twenty four hours pour off the
liquid, and wash several times with water
until all the acid is removed. Neutral
izing the acid with an alkali is not to bt
recommended, as it totally spoils the
fresh color of the corks.
REMOVING DANDRUFF. solution o.
cOuulOn DOTax is certainty the very DeS'
wash for cleaning the head from dandruff
II is the main ingredient in the shampoo
ing washes, to which perfume is added
but do not make 1t too strong. Certain
constitutions can not stand this. A
strong solution of borax will attack tho
scalp in such manner as to cause som,
of the hair to come out. But in any
case borax will injure the health no NOR,
than washing with good soap, and it i
better than many kinds of inferior soap
CARAMELs. - One cup sweet milk, ont
cup molasses, one and q half cup brown
sugar. Boil together fifteen minutes
then add butter the size of a large wal
nut, rolled in a tablespoonful of flour
In the meantime bake half cake o
Bakers chocolate, add IL to the other in
gradients, and boil till thick; then add
large tablespoonful Of vanilla; try IL n
molasses candy, and when sufficient,
boiled, butter some pans and pour IL in
When nearly cold, cross it of in littl,
blocks.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-06-11
Cards..

A Frenchman it was who catered to
the frivolous side of human nature by
inventing playing cards. They were in
tended as pastime for the demented
monarch, Charles the vi. Hearts"
represent courage and valor, in war /;
diamonds represent pike heads for
halbert end, weapons of defence;
"spades" represent quarrels shot from
arbalists weapons Of attack; "clubs"
represent prudence, the trefoil leaf sug-
gests forage. Each has its king valiant,
experienced leader, each named after
men of renown in ancienthistory-David,
Alexander, Caesar, and Charlemagne.
Four squires are given to four kings
Lancelot, Ogier, Renaud, and Hector.
Each king has his favorite dame-these
are not queens These danes indicate
that the wife is nothing in herself, but
derives force and splendor from her
husband. The "ace is above and be-
yond all, and represents cash, the sinews
of war. The other cards, from two to
ten, represent bodies of troops of various
strength.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-06-11

THE extent to which doctors differ is
amusingly illustrated by three or four
phampiets now before us, of which the
main object is to advertise some patent
medicines, and which only contains sug-
gestions regarding diet. One of these
cautions people against eating any kind
of fish whatever, whether fresh or salt.
Another cites the case of patient who,
when on the verge of the grave from
dyspepsia, was recommended to go and
live in light house, from which he
emerged thoroughly recovered after six
months diet of fish exclusively. The
same authority interdicts the use Of
hashes of all kinds, thereby virtually OBJ
literating boarding-houses, but, oblivious
of the treacherous trichina, recommends
as a wholesome esculent, ham, either raw
or boiled. A third authority upsets q
fourth, who recommends hard-boiled eggs
as most easy of digestion, by averring
that eggs to be digestible at all, should
be eaten quite or nearly raw. To hyp-
ochondriac a careful perusal and COM
parison of these conflicting recommends
tions must be highly assuring.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-06-11

THE GATE CLosED.---Some people live
sixty years without learning when to
KEEP their mo uths shut. Indeed, the
older they grow the wider their mouths
open. Carlyle somewhere says that what
people have need to learn is the art OF
silence. A man or woman who is a great
gabbler at forty-fve is ahorrid creature
whether the propensity is hereditary OF
acquired, it is simply awful. This age
shows an unnatural Development Of
tongue. There are two things this gen.
Grafton needs to learn--when to say moth.
ing; and when TO say anything, to say II
well.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-06-11
Magnificent Jewels.

The sale of magnificent diamonds be-
longing to Mile. Duverger, the actress,
drew together immense crowds at the
Hotel Drouot, i'm Paris, recently. The
jam was perfectly terrific, and as usual,
the greater number of persons present
had no intention of buying, but were
brought hither by mere curiosity. The
magnificent necklace, which contained
twenty-seven large diamonds of the
purest water, was the first article sold. 1t
was not disposed ofin one lot, but divided
into fourteen, which produced the sum
of 10000 francs. The earrings, which
were composed of two superb solitaires,
with pendants, each formed of single
pearl-shaped diamond, were sold for
$4,000 francs, while single large rectan-
gular diamond brought $4,000 francs.
The total for the first day was 300, 200
francs. On the second day, among the
most remarkable "lots" disposed of were
A ring of five brilliants, 440, 900 francs;
one of five rubies, 5000; bracelet OF
diamonds, with eleven sapphires, 49,
900 francs; one of brilliants, with five
emeralds, 1000 francs; pair ofshoulder
ornaments, composed of pearls and dia-
monds, 10000 francs; three circular orna-
ments, with large central diamond, 3d.
600 francs; a Sevignc in diamonds, with
large sapphire, $4,000 francs; the silver
and silver-gilt plate in fortv-eight lots,
$4,000 francs. The second day produced
208,6 $50 francs The oldest part Of the
sale was the disposal of the morocco and
velvet cases which had once contained
those sparkling treasures, and which, in
several instances, were stamped with the
coat-ofarms of the noble or royal donor
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-06-11
Rash WagerS.

A propensity to bet is the grand char
acteristic of Englishmen; of course you've
heard the anecdote of the young noble
man whose physician pronounced his
death-warrant. "He can not live twelve
hours" quoth the follower of Esculapius.
"Bet you ten guineas I'll live twenty"
said the supposed dying man. "DoneW
And Sir Invalid lived, and married, and
told the story to his children. So much
for that. Wagers, however, do not always
produce such beneficial results, and many
man has bitterly regretted the folly of
an unadvised moment. In this country,
the eve of a general election is great
provocation to foolish wagers Carried
away by the enthusiasm of the moment,
men, so-called solid men, have been found
agreeing to perform feats i'm the event of
the failure of their candidates, that would
better accord with the character of a
clown in a circus. Wheeling an oppo-
nent in barrow through public thor
oughfare, to the intense admiration of the
small boys, as penalty of ill-success,
has met with considerable favor. Riding
the loser of a wager around bar-room
on "all-fours" like donkey, has also
been much approved of; and we have
occasionally heard of cases in which
bachelors, without any well-defned no
tons of the duties and responsibilities of
married life, have agreed, if not released
from their obligation by the success of
their nominees, to go into other districts
than those in which they resided, call at
each house, ask if it contained marriage
able ladies, and, if so, whether they would
be willing to unite in wedlock with the
person seeking the information. Now,
these several forms of wagers, while they
tend to place young and old men in very
ridiculous positions, are, at the same
time, not calculated to be fatal to those
indulging them. They have, however,
the effect of making foolish persons more
foolish, and in this way lead to deplorable
results. Not long ago there was reported
the case of coal miner, who had made a
wager with friend, that he would walk
six miles, after days work, and drink
half gallon of whisky before going to
bed. The unfortunate man drank the
whisky, and was found dead on the fol-
lowing morning. If men who spend
time in arranging the preliminaries for
such foolish experiments would only
pause for a moment and think of the
possible consequences, we can hardly
believe that they would consent to run
the risk that thew do.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-06-11

A STATE Editorial Convention is to be
held in Columbus, Ohio, on the 9th
inst. The papers of the State are taking
considerable interest in the matter, and
present indications are that the attend
ance will be quite large.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-06-11

FRENCH RAREBIT.--Taket three ounces
of cheese, cut it in small square pieces,
and set it up to fry with little piece OF
butter; when your cheese begins to melt
have three eggs beaten up with salt and
pepper; pour them upon the cheese
stir and roll IL into sort of muff and
take it of. The whole operation should
not consume over one or two minutes.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-06-11

THERE is nothing which contributes
more to the sweetness Of life than friend
ship; there is nothing which disturbes
our repose more than friends, If we have
not the discernment to choose them
well,
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-06-11

The total grange membership in the
United States Is now estimated at $780,
600.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-06-11

The two indescribable colors are in
visible green and blindman's buff.