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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-06-29
E. Y. DUTTON,

CUCCEssOR TO F. P. CHENEY, WILL CONTINUE
to sell a Large Variety of Sewing and Knitting
lNachines Orders solicited.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-06-29
L. L, WOOD. ,JR.

d MANUFACTURER OF WOOD, METAL. GLASS,
w Canvass and Paper Signs. Banner, Scene,
ornamental Painting, &c. Proprietor Of Woods Star
usnes5 Directories
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-06-29

4 ". 4. IODILDOLNI
DEALER IN DRY GOODS, GROCERIES, FLOUR
salt Hats Caps, Boots, Shoes, and Ready Made
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-09-17
Fire.PrOOf Paper and Ink.

The loss of valuable documents which
has attended the large conflagrations of
the last few years will cause general in
terest to attach to an incombustible paper
and fire-proof ink recently patented by
an English inventor. Though the paper
is not regarded as absolutely indestructi-
bic by fire of any degree of ferceness, it
is yet claimed that, under such circum-
stances as fire in houses, factories, or
other buildings, ordinarily incombusti-
ble." The pulp, which is manufactured
in the usual way is composed of vegetable
fibre, one part asbestos, two parts; borax,
one-tcnth part; and alum, two-tenths
parts. These ingredients, having been
previously ground and finely divided, are
brought to the consistency of pulp by
the addition of water in proper proper
ton. Not only can writing paper be
thus manufactured, but coarser sub
stance for the bindings of books or the
enclosing of manuscripts. The fire-proOi
ink can be used i'm either writing or print
ing, and is made according to the follow
ing recipe. Graphite, finely ground, %
drachms copal, or other resinous gum,
IL grains sulphate of iron, two drachms;
tincture of nutgalls, two drachms; and
sulphate of indigo, 8 drachms. These
substances are throughly mixed and
boiled in water, and the ink thus OBJ
tained is said to be both fre-proof and in
soluble in water. When any other color
but black is desired, the graphite is re-
placed by an earthly mineral pigment OF
the desi cd hue
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-09-17
Singular Recovery of a Prayer.BOOk.

The Peekskill Messenger relates the fol-
lowing: In the year 1862 young gen.
tleman of our village residing in the
South was conscripted in the Confederate
Army He had in his possession a book
of common prayer presented by his
mother in 1856. The corps to which our
friend was ordered marched for Corinth.
After remaining in Corinth from March
to April 8, 1862, his corps was ordered
to Shiloh, and before going into the fight
the men were ordered to pile their KNAPP
sacks, with other surplus articles, in a
neighboring field. The action lasted from
Sunday morning until Monday night,
ending in complete rout of the Con-
federates, when, of course, the knapsacks
were left behind, the property of the
Federals, and in our friends knapsack
was the prayer-book. After a lapse of
eleven years, a gentleman of our village
visited Macon, Ga, with his wife land while
there attended church for the purpose of
witnessing wedding. While seated in
q pew, awaiting the arrival Of the bridal
party, the lady picked up prayer-book
to find the marriage ceremony, and Incl
dentally turning to the fy-leaf found
written thereon, Charles, from his
mother, Sept. 3, 1856 while in the cor
ner were the initials, &C. f. S. On the
next leaf was written, 'Abner p. Whit
tie, Macon, Ga, 1865, given to him by a
Yankee soldier The lady recognized
the initials, and determined, if possible,
TO restore the book to its original owner.
Accordingly, Mr.. Whittle was waited
upon, and at first declined returning the
book, because it had been given to him by
Northern soldier to whom he had shown
considerable kindness while sick. Finally
he was induced to part with it, and the
book found its way to the hands of its
original owner in Peekskill."
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-09-17
Teaching Deaf Mutes to Speak.

A correspondent, referring to the par
agraph in last weeks Notes about M.
Rota's method with deaf mutes, says:
" Perhaps | took a greater interest in the
statement than / otherwise would, from
the fact that l am myself teacher of
deaf mutes, and am even now returning
from visit to New Jersey, where went
for the purpose of accompanying one of
my pupils home from school. The pupil
referred to is the daughter of Henry E.
Lawrence, of Bayville, Ocean County,
N. j., and is more than twenty-one years
of age. She is a congenital mute, and
at the time of entering my school, on the
25th of last March, had never spoken a
word. On meeting her father last week,
after a separation of little over four
months, she said clearly and distinctly.
Papa, l am glad to see you. How do
you doT Those were the first words her
father ever heard her speak. Since her
return home, hundreds of the neighbors
and acquaintance Of the family who
had formerly known her as deaf mute,
have heard her speak and many have
spoken to her, with feelings of astonish-
ment not easy to describe. The question
of teaching deaf mutes to speak is one
that has deeply interested me for several
years, and am prepared to prove to any
one who will take the trouble to investi.
gate, that in some cases at least it is sue.
ceeding admirably" The writer, in
verification of his remarks, mentions the
names of several prominent persons who
have witnessed the result of his method
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-09-17
Hard Water Is Wholesome.

DR.. Letheby, after devoting many
years to an investigation into the prop
critics Of the water introduced into Eng
lish cities, and to a study of the sanitary
reports on the subject, comes to the con-
clusion that moderately hard water is
safer and more healthful than soft water.
Hard water is not only clearer, colder,
more free from air, and consequently
more agreeable to the eye and to the
taste than soft water, but is less liable to
absorb organic substances, to sustain the
life of zymotic organism, or to exert
solvent properties upon salts of iron or
upon leaden conducting pipes. The lime
salts exert beneficial influence upon the
animal economy and even protect the
system from dangerous outward in
fuences. DIR. Wilson, of Edinburgh, has
also collected much valuable material
on the subject, and comes to the same
conclusions as DIR. Letheby. He takes
the ground that the human body requires
for its nourishment and support a supply
of certain mineral salts, among which
carbonate and phosphate Of lime play an
important part in building up the COLA
pactness of the bones and in other
functions. We usually observe phos-
phate of lime in our animal and vegetable
food, but not from the water we drink.
Carbonate of lime, however, is not con-
tained in adequate quantity in our solid
food, but generally obtains in spring and
well water.
1t has been incontestibly shown that
in mountainous districts, where the water
is more or less hard, the inhabitants ex-
hibit the best physical development. On
the other hand, it is believed THAT in
large cities the mortality is inversely as
the hardness of water supplied to the in
habitants. A water which contains
about six grains of carbonate of lime to
the gallon is suitable for use in all house.
hold purposes. As drink and for cook
ing food, such water offers the necessary
carbonate of lime for the support of life
in the simplest, most natural and most
easily digested form, and is at the same
time more agreeable, fresh and sparkling.
1t is evident that our preconceived pop
ular notions on the subject of hard water
need revising, and that it may be better
to use such water than to have recourse
to rain or ice water.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-09-17
An Actors Life.

A writer in the atlantic Moathlu saws:
" The actor should sink his individuality
forever; unless he is equal to this sacri-
flee he is only half an actor lie with
draws from the public and becomes
medium through whose genius the crea-
tions of the poet are born again; but the
moment his inspiration ceases he is moth
ing more than the least of us. Yet so
distinctive is his calling that it seems a
breach of the proprieties to meet him in
common life; he looks out of place when
he enters the auditorium, and talks out
of place when he seeks to be natural
among everyday men. What is more
Earring than to see a tragedy queen,
whose death agonies have held an audi
ence spell-bound, step out before the cur
tain and smile temporary farewell to
the applauding house? strove to pre-
serve my integrity by keeping aloof from
the public save in my professional call
ing; l avoided the lounging places where
many of my comrades passed much of
their time in familiar intercourse with
people who were not Of us; l walked
among unfrequented streets, and courted
solitude. l remember little riverside
saloon that tempted me to loiter one glo-
rious morning, when / was wandering,
book in hand, my attention divided be-
tween the exquisite spring landscape and
my tedious study; there was such a
cOmely woman sitting behind such a
clean bar, and not customer in sight
besides myself. ] ordered glass of beer
and seated myself on rustic bench out
under the willows. The morning was
positively seductive, the river close at
hand flowed musically onward, the beer
was good; / dreamed over stage copy
of Louis XI. until was sick unto death
of my cues, and fell to thinking about
the vicissitudes in the acter's life. With
infinite labor he builds up his reputation
for his pains he becomes the idol of the
hour; yet in the midst Of his triumph
he is subject to reverses, and has to fight
his way to success in every new cOmmu-
nifty he visits. While he is yet young
and aspiring, a new star glimmers in the
horizon, whose charming splendor al
ready threatens to cast him in the shade;
he outlives his popularity, and unless his
tenacity is uncommon, he descends from
his high estate and plays the ancient in
good earnest, with the pitiful prospect of
at last making his exit from the stage of
life to the mournful music ofa little faint
applause. Some actors never rise; the
lower rounds of the ladder are crowded
with aspirants upon whose head and
shoulders is borne the burden of success
the success that they are concerned in,
yet not permitted to share. But actors
are necessary adjuncts to the complete
isolation of a star performer they are
the shadows in the picture that heighten
the lights; and for the most part they
are entirely worthy of their Obscurity
by reason Of a negative talent that is
only servicable in filling in the spaces"
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-09-17
Religious Items.

In England, general, particular, open,
and close communion Baptists are mutu-
ally recognized as belonging to one and
the same denomination.
THE statistics of the Presbyterian
Church South show II synods, GA Pres
byteries; ministers and licentiates, 1,056
churches, 1,764; communicates, los, ,956
being an increase of $4,000 for the year
closing August /.
THE CongregatiOnalists Of Vermont
are making such arrangements that none
of their installed pastors shall have less
than nine hundred dollars.
SEVENTEEN Methodist preachers, be-
longing to one family, two great grand
children, ten grandchildren, and five
children of the late Luther Peck, of Sy-
racuse, are to have gathering at the
residence of Mrs. Bishop Peck, in that
city, in October. That family of Pecks
are undoubtedly in the succession.
The General Convention of the Pro-
testant Episcopal Church will convene
in the city Of New York on the 5th of
October. The meeting will be held in a
large hall of Cooper Institute. Chief
Justice Waite is expected to read a paper
on some subject connected with ecclesi-
astical law.
THE journal Of the late Episcopal Con-
vention of Massachusetts,, shows 1872
clergymen, 104 churches, and 1892
communicates. The combinations of
the year were 1,037, and the contribu-
tions for diocesan and outlaying objects,
$5l1 ,446.35.
THE little Congregational church at
Whitehall, Michigan, owing to peculiar
train of disasters, is likely to be sold for
debt. 1t is very neat edifice, COM
pletely finished and furnished, but hav-
ing a small membership of females alone
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-09-17
A Forgotten City.

The late Lieutenant GARNER discovered
last year in Cambodia the ruins of a great
city, Angcor. These ruins are Of extraor-
binary magnificence, both in point of
extent and of architectural splendor.
The sides of the principal temple measure
no less than two miles and quarter in
circumference, and the remains of
endless roads, buried in forests and
jungles, contain monument after monu-
ment, "each, if possible, more astonish-
ing than the preceding" The architec-
ture and sculpture of this forgotten city
exhibit very advanced knowledge of
the arts, and the great temple is described
as the masterpiece of some unknown
Michael Angelo. Angcor must have
been one of the greatest cities on the
globe and yet of history no account re-
mains. Nothing is known of the past
save that Chinese traveller, in the year
1902, mentioned its splendor, and that
three hundred years later in was referred
to by Ribodoneyra as an ancient ruin.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-09-17
A London Fog.

A writer says: "I never saw but one
full-blown characteristic London fog. l
was in the National Gallery one day,
trying to make up my mind about
Turner, when this chimney-pot meteor
came down. 1t was like a great yellow
fog taking possession of the world. The
light faded from the room, the pictures
ran together in confused masses of shadow
on the walls, and i'm the street only a
dim yellowish twilight prevailed, through
which family twinkled the lights in the
shop-windows. Vehicles came slowly out
of the dirty obscurity on one side and
plunged into it on the other. Waterloo
Bridge gave one or two leaps and dis
appeared, and the Nelson Column in
Trafalgar Square was obliterated for hall
its length. Travel was impeded, boats
stopped on the river, trains stood still
on the track, and for an hour and hall
London lay buried beneath this sicken-
ing eruption. say eruption, because a
London fog is only London smoke,
tempered by moist atmosphere. 1t ID
called fog by courtesy, but lampblack
is its chief ingredient. 1t is not wet like
our fogs, but quite dry, and makes the
eyes smart and nose tingle. Whenever
the sun can be seen through it, his face
is red and dirty; seen through a bona
fde fog his face is clean and white"
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-09-17
Stealing n Very Rough Ride.

When the train from the west rolled up
to Perry-street depot, yesterday, one of
the wheel saunders discovered bulky
object among the bars and timbers of the
postal car At first he could not tell
what it was, but he poked in with a stick,
when it bent sideways, and in moment
human form came creeping from be-
hind the wheels. He was so completely
covered with dust that it was impossible
to tell whether he was black or white,
but after he had wiped his face he proved
to be a colored man. He got into the
place where he was found at Brooklyn,
one hundred and thirty miles west of
this city, and all that distance he sat on
an iron strap not two inches wide, with
his back against the upright at the centre
of the truck, his body leaning forward
so that his head almost touched his legs,
which were bent nearly double, and his
hand rested on bar in front of him.
There he rode, subject to n continuous
Jolt, enveloped in endless whirls of dust,
with the pelting of little pebbles which
constantly fly upward when train is in
motion. When asked how he stood such
ride as that he replied: al declar,
Mis'r it is tough but I'd held thar
clar to Chicago eff we hadn't fotched me
out" Then it was ascertained that on
Thursday night he rode in that way from
Council Bluffs to Brooklyn, but was dis
covered at the latter place and made to
give up his free ride. But he watched
his chances on Friday night and resumed
his journey.-Ddrenport Iora) Gazette.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-09-17
Vessels ON Rollers.

M. A. Huet, a French engineer,
holds it to be a mistake to make
ships force their bulk through the
water, meeting thereby the large op-
posing surface of water and a sliding
friction over the whole of their immersed
surface. This, NJ. Huet holds, is as great
a mistake as if we were to dsmount our
railway carriages from their wheels and
drag them like sledges along the rails.
He puts forward the theory that vessels
should be mounted on rolling drums; that
these drums should give principally the
power of fotation, and that they should
be given round as paddles to move the
ship forward. We should in this way
have floating locomotive, mounted on
its supporting wheels or rollers. The
vessel would offer no resistance but a
rolling one TO motion, and the whole OF the
supported weight ofthe ship would housed
as pressure to give adhesive frictional
effect to the rollers. In this way nj.
Huet affirms that velocity equal to that
of our railroad trains might be attained
mt sea.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-09-17
SENSE AND NONSENSE.

MoHAMMEDANIsM has been defined as
"that blessed religion which makes peo-
pie wash themselves"
A STOUT old woman in Detroit got
mad lately because photographer
wouldn't let her fan herself until she had
her picture taken.
AS soon as the few colleges now hold
ing out shall join the regattas, there will
be no country like America for young
man to get an education.
NEXT to music, nothing SO powerfully
tends to soothe the savage beast as to see
the young man who parts his hair in the
middle showing baby-wagon on Sun
day.
The farmer who hung up an old coat
in his field to frighten birds away and
afterward found a young brood in one
of the pockets has lost faith in scare
crows.
WHEN any one out West relates cir
circumstance that takes more than two
men to believe, they interrupt him by
asking if he had photograph of the &C.
currence.
A WASHINGTON widow, who is the
happy possessor of $40, 900, is reported to
have received and declined eight offers of
marriage from discharged clerks in one
day and two nights.
A LITTLE boy was asked about the
story of Joseph, and if he knew what
wrong his brethren done in disposing of
him, when he replied, " l suppose they
sold him too cheap"
"KATE, l understand you have ac-
cepted situation as governess. Rather
than that, would marry widower with
six children" Yes, dear Sophie, and
so would l, but where is the widower?"
THIS is how it happened in Southwest
Missouri:
He found rope and picked 1t up,
And with it walked away,
1t happened that to tother end,
horse was hitched they say.
They found tree, and tied the rope
Unto swinging limb,
II happened that the other end
Was ssomehow hitched to him.
GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN has been
heard from. lie wants to know how it is
that the Associated Press and all the
newspaper people are at large. He was
put in the Tombs for printing the allega-
tions of the Beecher scandal, and now
there is nothing else in the papers, yet
everybody goes free. He inquiries the
mysterious reason of this.
"WHAT is bull-head luck?" asked an
exchange. In the oil region a man who
eked out an existence OH scrubby, stony
hills, ate hoecake and slapjacks, run on
the river, when barefooted nine months
in the year, took his girl riding behind
oxen, and then sold out to some wise (O
spectators for 100000 cash, comes
near enough to satify the ordinary
TUusciWe Herald.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-09-17

AN ingenious projectile, invented by a
Russian officer, Is now claiming the at
tention of military scientists. The seq
aroch, as il is called, is an elongated
shell, the head of which is completely
spherical; a round shell upon the end OF
an iron cylinder. The two parts are
united by comparatively slight thick
ness of metal. When fired, the sczaroch
leaves the gun like an ordinary shell but
when it bursts, the cylindrical part alone
flies in piecess while the spherical head
continues its flight intact and may
ricochet for hundreds of yards further.
The advantage of such shell against
artillery, for example, is very great.
After bursting and scattering its frag-
ments among the guns of the enemy, the
head goes on to plunge into the infantry,
still further back. 1t is to he used In
Russia, however, only for cannon of mod
crate size.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-09-17
Lightning Rod.

Any lightning rod agent who may see
this paragraph, is cordially invited to
call on Mr.. Norman Thayer, who resides
about five miles northwest from Central
Square, Oswego county. Mr.. Thayer
has been, until recently, the owner of
one of the finest barns in that part of
Oswego county. Feeling a natural
anxiety for the safety of that large barn,
Mr.. Thayer allowed lightning rod
agent to erect rod on it. Shortly after
ward came along another agent. He saw
at glance that the rod already up would
protect only the middle of the barn
could Mr.. Thayer leave the northern
gable Of his property unprotected from
the terrible lightning of the north? Mr..
Thayer could not. The agent put up a
rod at the north gable. Another agent
got the job of putting up rod at the
south end. Four more came along dur
ing the season and put rods on each Of
the four corners. Two more put rods up
from the caves on each side, and the
last agent put up lightning rod ut
large;" sort of short-stop, to play wher-
ever il could do the most good. After
all the agents had gone away, the light
ming came, and without consulting Mr..
Thayer it knocked the rods six ways for
Sunday-yes, ten ways for Sunday, and
set the barn OH fire. Now, barn, horses,
hay, harnesses, etc., are ashes, and, faith
full in death, the lightning rods squirm
over the ashes and invite further disas-
ter. All lightning rod agents ought to
go and see Mr.. Thayer-because he Is
sure to kill them at sight.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-09-17

A STORY is told of Prince Bismarck at
Kissingen that one day returning from
the baths he passed through field where
the men were cutting the harvest, and
after some conversation with respect to
the crops the Prince took upa scythe and
began to cut the corn. This he did SO
well the owner of the implement, seizing
the Princes hand, said that he perceived
he was thorough farmer. The Prince
replied that when he took matter in
hand he wished to perform it creditably,
or he would let it alone altogether. He
then departed, leaving the peasant ignor-
ant of his name. When, some time later,
they learned who their fellow-laborer
was, the owner of the scythe was de-
lighted, and declared he would preserve
the implement all his life. 1t is said
that an English traveller offered him a
considerable sum forit, but the man said
he was willing to show it, though he
would never part with it.