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The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-07-16
Matrimony Remarkable.

No marriages are more curious IMAM
those in which the bridegroom has proved
TO be of the same sex as the bride. Last
century there lived awoman who dressed
in male attire, and was constantly going
about captivating her sisters and mar
rying them On the 9th of July, l777,
she was tried at criminal court in Lon
don for thus Disgusting herself, and 1t
was proved that at various times she had
been married to three women, and de-
frauded them of their money and their
clothes" The fair deceiyer was required
by the Justices to give the daughters oil
the citizens an opportunity OF making
themselves acquainted with, her features
by standing in the pillory at Cheapside !;
and after going through this ordeal, sne
was imprisoned for six months, In lTf;
a woman went counting woman, dressed
as a man, and was very favorabiy re-
ceiyed. The'lady to whom these atten-
tions were paid was much older than the
lover. but she was possessed of about one
hundred pounds, and this was the at
traction to her adventuresome friend.
But the intended treachery was discov,
cred and, as the original chronicles OF
the story saws. "the old lady proved toe
knowing" A more extraordinary case
than either of these was that OF wv
women who lived together by mutua
consent as man and wife for six.and-thirty
wears. They kept a public house, ant
the "wife," when on her death-ped, 10
the first time told her relatives the lac
concerning her marriage. iy. g
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-07-16
The Magnetic Cycle.

Mr.. Charles A. Schott,, of the Coast
Survey, has recently made an examlna-
tion of the secular changes in the mag
netic elements based on all the Observa-
tions taken at Washington since $50. he
finds that the declination or variation OF
the compass changes periodically in such
n way that it will return to its present
value in about two hundred and forty
wears. The dip of the needle is now
slowly diminishing, and has continued to
do 40 since 1910, its annual change being
very nearly uniform. The total magnetic
force is very slowly increasing, although
at present it is nearly stationary. IL
reached its minimum about twenty-five
wears ago, and after having increased un'
Iii the present time, Is probably. now
about to diminish. Mr.. Schott thinks
plausible the hypothesis that the OBJ
served secular changes are produced by
thermal changes in the earth's crust
manifesting themselves as disturbance
in the distribution of terrestrial magnet
ism. These thermal changes must b'
considered as having a slow rate, bu
operating on vast scale, explaining tn
similarity of secular change extending
over thousands of miles, and continuing
perhaps, for hundreds of years. The,
are mixed, progressive, and periodic. u
character. Thus the influence whic
produced the increase of west declinatio
on our Atlantic coast was first recognize
in the northeast, extending in time t'
wards the southwest.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-07-16
Gabbllng Mt Concerts.

This grave matter of disturbing public
entertainments by talk has been treated
quite too leniently heretofore, as sort
of privileged question. 1t Is not such,
but comes under the familiar head OF
nuisances generally. For so gross an in
fringement of private right there is a
remedy, and we look to sec some person,
held in such esteem by the community
that his motives will not be questioned,
proceed to vindicatc this private right in
as emphatic a manner as did the late
David Henshaw, in the matter of voting
by printed ballot The man who pays
for a seat at public concert is entitled
not to the occupation of the seat merely,
but to the quiet enjoyment of it. He is
not called on to spend the evening In
keeping his neighbors in order. This il
guaranteed him either by the parties
selling the seat or municipal law. II
this Is not 80, then the old system ofhead
punching and personal violence will bt
revived. Sensitive people will not much
longer submit to paying the now rolling
prices of the popular entertainment witt
the chance or even the possibility OF sit
ting next to some bore of an elbower. wh'
beats time with his heels through tn.
pianissimo sentiment, and giggles will
insane but audible delight at every her.
outbreak of, to him, unfathomable pa'
| a;np
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-07-16
housekeeping I'm Paris.

1t is very easy to keep house in Paris,
for, Notwithstanding their extravaganza
i'm dress, their domestic expenses are
small. You give small party there, and
the refreshment consists of a little cake,
and a cup of tea or glass of wine, and
every one is satisfied. People have come
together to talk and enjoy themselves;
the ladies wear pretty gowns, and do not
get them soiled with spilled salad, or
spotted with cream. In Boston or New
York. for the same number of people, a
caterer is called in who turns your house
topsy-turvy, and empties your. pockets
or if you can not afford that, lady tolls
ali day in her kitchen, and is too tired to
wear anything but the most CHASTITY OF
smiles in her parlor in the evening. No
French family makes its own bread-the
bakers do it for them, and do it better
than they could themselves. Tall, slender
loayes, yard long, actually stand round
in corners, like walking sticks. The tirs'
meal of the day is alwaysa roll and coffee
taken i'm ones chamber, and it isnot unit
noon that you get comfortable meal o.
meat and eggs. Dinner is at night, and {
little food goes great way. There i
always first q thin soup, then a portion
of fish, then some sort of stew, and thel
some solitary vegetable, with no accom-
paniment of meat. After this you &c
Slices of meat or fowl, with lettuce. Th
dessert is trifling. You see a great man
fat Frenchmen; and you can not hel
wondering what they grow fat on, unit
YOU notice that they all have a geod time
and an excellent opinion of themselves
Thereupon you conclude that they Hour
ish upon fun and self-esteem no cor
temptible substitute for pork and pies.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-07-16
ssPilate's Wife,"

Gustaye Dore's new painting with the
above title is described by the London
Academy as wonderful drama on can
vas. The picture represents Plate 8
wife standing on staircase with an angel
on her left hand the right wing OF the
angel is ruddy with the reflected glow
of the torches in the deserted bed room !;
the left is purple with visionary light.
He is opening her spiritual sight to the
scene of the morrow in the pr@torium
where plate appears, and to much be,
side. Pilates wife and the vngel stand
at the top oft picture, at the specta-
tors left hand; the scene in the pr@to-
rum faces them; above, and nearer &c
them on the left, is balcony, where the
oppressed of all ages seem to be stretch
ING their chained hands to the great vic
tim of oppression; below at the bottom
of the right side ofthe picture, Is gor
peous, agitated grosp Of oppressors; be
tween them il the procession to Calvary
which transforms itself into another pro
cession. which seems meant for the eter
nal crusade of humanity, with warrior
in mail, and prelates with cleaning Gro
siers, marching up to a cross that gleam
amid the hierarchies OF heaven.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-07-16
wasted Power.

In every family there is power to let.
In the development and use ofthis power
lies the true secret Of SUGGEST Parents
are apt to think that their cares will
cease when the little ones grow up, but
every year enlarges the responsibility
they have assumed. The physical needs
of the children demand time and money,
but when their mental powers awake and
expand, the real care of parents COM
mences. And Just at this point many
parents shrink from their plain duty, and
place their highest privileges IN the hands
of strangers. Is it right to believe that
n mothers whole duty lies in the adorn-
mcnt of her daughters person, or that a
father has performed his when he has
paid his sons bills and notices his physi-
cal growth II is so easy to select a
school for the child, let others teach it,
and leave the nolding of its character to
chancel But IL is hard, unceasing
care to watch the opening mind, read the
thoughts, and study the best interest OF
the little form that holds an immortal
soul.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-07-16
Shad Fishing in Florida.

A Florida correspondent says: One
lively feature of st. Johns River is the
shad-fishing, which begins about the lst
of December and is over by the lst OF
April or Nav. The shads are caught
in nets, drifting with the tide. Some
of these nets are of a very great length,
spanning the river from shore to shore
and if these fish are on their way up
the river, some of them are pretty sure
of having their gills entangled in the
meshes; and it must be understood that
shad are caught only OH one side
of the net---the lower side---as the fish
ascend the river; rarely that a straggler
happens to take wbirl round and Is
caught in the upper side of the net.
The two great fishing centres OH the st.
Johns are Mayport, near the mouth,
and Yellow Bluff, about nine miles up
the river. Yellow Bluff has by far the
larger amount of business, shipping an
nually about fifteen or twenty thou
sand dollars worth Of shad to Savan-
nah. and thence to northern ports. Let
it not, however, be supposed that it is
an easy matter TO engage in this busi-
ness, which is profitable enough to the
principals, who hire men to catch the
fish, and pocket the biggest profits. AT
Yellow Springs there are two OF these
shad kings, having their platforms, theil
boats. their ice-hOuses, and their agents
in Savannah. Nevertheless, an ex
perienced fisherman can some day.
make a hundred or even two hundred
dollars: but the worst of all weather
is precisely the best for shad-fishing
When the wind howls furiously and th'
rain beats down piteously is the time
that shad are taken in large numbers
Comes fair weather, the nets will b.
seen on on the large reels or strung
upon the racks, and repairing goes OF
quietly and industriously, in the mids
}, of hosts of sand flies, even though tn
month be January or February. !
net costs about hundred dollars, an
a good Connecticut boat as much more
It requires two men in boat for shao
fishing---one to play out or haul in tn
net, and the other to manage the boa
I would say to him who in imagini
, tion might be captivated with this o.
cupation - Don't engage in it. 1t
\ when the piercing cold northwest win
E drives furiously over the drenchin
2 waters, be it night or day, that II
3 rugged fisherman must be on duty
1 ali night, all day. 1t is when the thu
), der and lightning, and pouring raj
s render all nature fearful; it Is VINE
n the gale sweeps everything from u
Is river but the shad-boat's that the shi
3 are ascending the stream in great schoo
[f that the fisherman must be out In :
d oiled suit, that the game must be caugi
,e or not caught at all.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-07-16
GENERAL INFORMATION.

THE cotton crop of Tehuantepeo,
Mexico, has been destroyed by hail.
A BUFFALO merchant bought and
sold million pounds of dried apples
last year.
THE last census of Buffalo shows over
/ 400 Williams, each one of whom is, OF
course, Buffalo Bill.
The woman suffragists in Michigan
want money. In this they are singularly
like the rest of their sex.
THE sale of the works of the late Sir
Edwin Landseer, which recently took
place in London, realized nearly $367,-
500
RUSSIA has 1891 cotton factories of all
kinds employing 175,000 workmen, and
producing annually goods worth 62,OOO,-
900 roubles
A SOLDIER of the war of 1912 died re-
Gently in Harrison County, Ind, and
was buried in coffin made from a tree
he had himself planted.
THE most fashionable of Saratoga
cottages rent for $4,000 for the season OF
three months. Others bring 50, 800, others
| TWO tuOuSdu', tH,i oo VII NS"" W. -'~
hundred.
BRIGHAM YOUNG has begun to be made
a grandfather-in-law. In few years il
will be necessary to calculate the
Prophets family connections by geomet
ric progression.
AN achievement of telegraphic science
in China lately is method by which
messages may be sent not only in tho
Chinese language, but printed in it,
intricate characters.
ONE pint of whisky cost jury il
Sullivan, Illinois, about three hundred
dollars the other day, eleven jurors hay
ing been fined by ferOcious judge w;
each for drinking in the jury room.
UP to the time of Queen Elizabeth
chimneys in England were the exception
rather than the rule. The great castle
and abbeys were provided with then
more than two centuries before the be
ginning of her reign; the manor-house
We're furnished with them in the reign
lust preceding hers, while the houses o
} the yeomanry were long way behin'
the fashion.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-07-16
Mr.. Giles's Home.

"You have done the chores, haven't
YOU. wife ?' said Mr.. Giles, coming in one
night about sundown.
"No, dear, had supper to get land the
baby was so cross"
"You haven't been setting supper all
the afternoon, l hope"
"No; l had some washing to do, and
the windows to clean, and pies to bake,
and"
ooh, stop that, please. To hear you
talk one would think you had more than
your share of work. Pm sure there is no
man tries harder than do to save his
wife steps, and this is all the thanks get
for it. Don't 60 to contradicting me.
Give me the milk buckets; if Task you
to milk, YOU will have dozen excuses.
/ want Katie to go with me, to keep the
hogs off while l milk"
aKatie goes, and her father keeps her
three-quarters of an hour, and then tells
her she can 90 and take care of the baby
while her mother attends to the milk. In
about five minutes Mr.. Giles come in to
supper. His wife isdown in the cellar.
"Say, wife, isn't supper readyT'
"In Just minute"
"Just minute! Everything is done
in lust a minute. Another night l sup
pose will have to come in and get sup
per for myself, after working hard al
day. If you tried as hard as l do tt
make home pleasant, we would get along
a great deal better than we do. You arr
always behind with everything, and thei
YOU grumble because you have 50 mucf
to do. Well, supports ready ut last, Is IT
1t is about time, think"
They sit down to the table.
40 Lord, we thank thee for this an'
all other blessings; feed us with tn
bread of life and save us in heaven
Amen. Is this the best table cloth yo'
have got ;? 1t is? Why don't you bu.
another? Amt got any money? Wha
did you do with the money you got 10
those eggs?"
Bought hat for Katie"
"Bought a hat for Katie, and me neeo
ing don't know how many farm implt
ments? Inever knew such extravaganc
in my life. 1t would please me exceed
ingly if you would consult me abou
. such things after this. guess I'll 60 I
bed, Just patch that rent in my coat
and, oh ] wore hole in my socks u
day. You must either mend or get m
out clean pair. There is chicken !
the barrel by the hen-house; | want thu
, for my breakfast. Come, children, con
= and kiss papa. Goodnight, and don
D forget to say your prayers.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-07-16
l,onmon Sense from Beecher.

Some one asks Henry Ward Beecher:
"What can we do for friend for whom
we have prayed long time, and all that
we can say or do only makes him more
determined 10 have his own wayT To
thiscomprehensive and ingenious inquiry
Mr. Beecher answers: Nobody likes 10
live in an atmosphere Of incessant re,
proof Ifyou want to win his heart ana
melt his opposition, do not darken ms
life by making him. feel, even by your
looks or air, that You arc groaning over s
him as q miserable sinner. Make life
cheerful to him; make your own love
for him source Of joy; let your piety pe
full of sweetness and light; show the NJ
most appreciation of his good qualities
and be patient. The case, as you stat'
IL, Is not very bad one"
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-07-16
How the Trains Come and Go.

The gentleman in charge received us
very politely, but before we'had hardly
thanked him we heard the sharp and
rapid ring of bell overhead. 1t was
marked "Ninety-sixth to Seventy-ffth
street." "You see," said the operator,
"there's train coming in, and 1t wants
to know ifwe'are ready for it," "But how
does it ring that bell ?" "By electricity"
was the reply. "This is Halls patent,
which works like charm" In few
minutes another bell rang. 1t was mark.
ed "Sixty-frst to Fifty-sixth street,
''The train now reports itself again" said
the operator, "and this renews notice
either to prepare for it or to signal it to
stop" He touched telegraphic ma
chine and then said: "This throws up
the signal to come in" And sure enough
in few minutes the train arrived. One
hundred and forty trains arrive and de-
part i'm a day, including the Central,
Hudson and Harlem, and the New Ha-
ven roads, and hence the signal service
is one of incessant activity. The opera
tor informed us that each road has four
starting bells, of different keys, all OF
which were rung by electricity. Three
started passenger trains, and one ordered
out the cars as soon as emptied. You
see," said he, 'this train which has just
come in. The passengers are gone, and L
want to know if the baggage is taken
out" He touched stop and rang a
bell (as he said) six hundred feet distant.
In n moment bell overhead struck
twice. Baggage is out" he said /;
"otherwise he would have struck once,
and would have waited. l must order
the train out. DO you see the locomo-
tive lust ahead? Well, now see it move. !"
He touched a stop, and saw a letter Il
displayed at a window in a side building.
"He hears bell ring also," said the op.
orator. The engine backed down and
hitched to the empty car, and u disap.
peared. :,
"I shall now send him out" said the
operator, as he touched another stop
and the empty train at once moved for:
ward and left the depot. The letters \
w Ct may add parenthetically) deslg
nate the locomotives of the Harlem
Hudson River, and New Haven roads
and are the signals to back down ano
connect with trains.
"I am now about to send out pas
senger train," continued the operator
"A nall uOuT dSO L loti uNn e"ASS w ~
the doors and let the passengers pas
from the sitting room to the "ers- fSuV
1 si,aiiif ali soon close that very door; bu
, first must stop checking baggage" A
small knob was touched by his finger
"Now," said he, "the next trunk tha
comes must wait for another train
There, another touch with his finger
the baggage car is hauled out and switch
ed on to the right track. Five minute
more and she is off. Here goes the close
the-door-bell, touch, no one passes il
, after this. Now l say, All aboard ! 7"
l touch, and we hear the distant voice Q
} the conductor echoing through the vault
5 ed roof. "Now it moves" anothe
t teuch. and the rumbling motion was i'm
/. mediately perceptible, and in few me
1 ments the train left the depot.-N !
. Cor. Troy Times.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-07-16
A MARYLAND Millionaire.

A correspondent writing of the dwell
ing of a Baltimore millionaire's residence,
saws: "Rivaling this residence is
country seat, before whose windows, to
please the children, one bright Christmas
a playhouse sprung up in one night by
yeritable magic i'm their delighted eyes,
aud a picturesque house at Newport,
where princely hospitality is dispensed
all summer long. The owner OF all this
began life with one suit of clothes and an
umbrella, and when his clothes got torn
he mended the rent with piece OF the
umbrella. He drifted finally to q far-off
vast empire, whose climate and scenic
barbarism would have terrified less brave
men. and across the plains of perpetual
snow he laid the narrow iron path of the
locomotive, quickening the icy deserts
with its terrific life, as warm fresh blood
would flow through frozen mans veins:
If it had been accident, his success would
have stopped there being genius, that
was but the beginning of his work. To
day the mechanical studies and pursuits
and experiments that would be most
mems labor, are his recreation. He II
was who contrived the famous subma
rine Cigar boat, 40 called from its shape
and which might have been the proto
type of Verne's 'Nautilaus.' His hous'
Is ventilated and heated bya process Q 2
his own invention, whose ingenuity !
astonishing and its results perfect. III
nresent work is mammoth organ, II
whose new mechanism he hopes to owe,
come some awkward defects hitherto to-
Grated because believed to be unavoida
BILE. Like the stern brick wall shelterin
his estate, he has built closely guarde
barrier of reserve around the simplicity
the nconventionality, and the kindl
ness of his private life. And as the ie'
fortunate visitors tread lightly on III
soft grass and pass the flowers, caref,
lest they should abuse the privilege,
those who, more fortunate still, have el
; joyed his courtesy, respect the delicate
ience he 50 scrupulously guards"
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-07-16
PENCIL AND SCISSORS.

Tn the list of articles advertised Tor
sale by auction in a Broadway dry goods
store, are nine wire women. sya'
WHEN You are hunting for stars, which
should YOU try to find first? The dog
star and pointers Of course. ''S
A CLERGYMAN in this State who're
Gently had a donation party, has beans
enough to last him twenty years.
TT is more difficult to frame an excuse
than an oil painting, though they are
both works of the imagination. -N
AN old lady advises young girls who
want to remember anything towrite 1t
down and paste it on the looking-glass'
THE old gentL man who spent for
time in endeavoring to hatch colts from
horse chestnuts, is now euftivating the
egg plants with view to raising chick
ems from it. ..u...., ~ st.,spT
A WITTY moraiist says that "many
man thinks it's virtue that keeps him
from turning rascal, when it's only a full
stomach. One should be careful, and
not mistake potatoes for principle"
AMAN who recently attended a lee.
ture on the " Antiquity of fIntoxication,
pot home about O'clock a. M, and told
| his wife he had been to hear some re.
marks ON the "Intoxity of Antiquation."
THE firs.. ..,p,hhotographer pho has opened lIai, his
saloon in Truckee, Nevaeas,e Nevada, eSa nag nee.
shot at by a miner who insisted on hav-
ing his picture taken by lamp-light, as he
was going away early in the morning.
A BOY entered one of the Boston book
stores the other day, and asked for " ou
Know how it is Yourself" With some
difficulty it was ascertained that. he
wanted Charles Reade's "Put Yourself
in His Place."
A UTICA paper says: "A COW OH
Corn Hill kicked the pump over yester-
day and broke her leg. The cow must
die, but the milkman hopes to be able TO
continue in business. He thinks ne can
repair the pump"
"How's business now," inquired one
merchant of another, the other day.
"Dull. fearfully dull" was the reply
'"Tbe fact is, nobody buys anything now
hut provisions aud whisky--the bare nee
essaries of life, as it were."
A SENTIMENTAL young man, in speak
mo TO his fathers coachman of a neigh
boring family, remarked that "they were
happy until sorrow suddenly came ant
left her traces there" The coachmar
looked puzzled, but finally RESPONDED,
"Indeed, sir, an what did she do With
the rest of the harness 2"
2 Don't lay me the river bank,
a Amid the fragrant flowers
: Nor where the grass is watered by
l The early Summer showers
. But put me in the kitchen-range,
/ And open wide the damper,
. And then my vaporous remains
e Can up the chimney scampef.
!; A MAN in an adjoining county died re
: Gently, who had taken his county paP.e,
+ for twelve years without paying for i,
Upon the day of his burial, the kind
a hearted, forgiving editor called to Sc
e him for the last time, and stuffed liner
duster and couple of palm-leaf fans int
y his coffin.