The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-09-30

Ihree 10 four per cent. per annum.
A GENTLEMAN in London has sued
neighbor for keeping bantam cock tha
crowed in the morning at four o'clock $
habitually and vigorously that the re
covery of his wife, who was in delicat
health, was retarded by the noise. Th
defendant submitted that he was strictl,
within his legal rights in keeping fowls
and that he could not prevent tn
plumed biped from chanting his swee
song. The Judge suggested to the de
fendant the propriety of abating the nui
sance.
A FRENCH girl of great beauty ha
taken the veil under romantic circum
stances. During the Prussian invasion
Mademoiselle de la Tour was insultec
by German officer at her fathers cha
teau, whereupon she killed him with {
knife. She was surrendered to the Ger
man authorities, court-martialed, anC
condemned to be shot, but by the inter
cession of the Crown Prince, was par
doned. She now ends the story by shut
ting herself forever from the world in 8
convent.
The failure of the British Government
telegraph system to pay expenses will
we hope, discourage great deal of the
unwise clamor made in our own country
for railways, telegraph lines, and other
conveniences underpublic control. There
is well founded impression in England
that the government telegraph operators
were severely worked and poorly paid,
and the official records show that the
business done was enormous, yet the es-
Inmates for the current twelve-month
show deficit of more than million
dollars.
1T appears, as the result of some in
teresting experiments recently made in
Berlin, that while bar of ordinary
bronze was utterly incapable of bearing
a strain amounting to ten tons to the
square inch, bar of phosphor- bronze
bore this strain applied as tensile more
than 100000 times before giving way. A
second bar of the same phosphor.bronze
actually withstood 1880 applications
of load of twelve and one-half tons
to the square inch without fracture. This
article has now come into extensive use
in Europe for the great bearings of the
plates in general rolling mills, and for
conical gearings in universal rolling
mills. 1t has also been applied with
great advantage not only in the making
of pinions, but in the driving axles of
mills, in the latter case tie superiority
seeming to depend, not on the hardness,
but on the great resistance, the arbors in
the phosphor-bronze twisting much less
than forged iron, and not breaking like
cast iron.
A LETTER to the London Times, dated
Catara, Dalmatia, September 8, says the
of the insurrection in lower
diminishes on near ap-
proach, while in Bosnia there is nothing
worth mentioning except a panic and
with an exodus of women and
children. In that part of Herzegovina
lying west Of line drawn from Nikskik
to Mostar, the insurgents appear only as
bands without coheence, discipline, or
purpose. They are even without COM
with the eastern portion of
the province. The Herzegovinian parts
Of these bands are more inclined to pill
laying and petty thieving than fighting.
Even the foreign volunteers, who make
the fighting nucleus, suffer from their
predacious propensities. They number
in all apparently between one thousand
and two thousand, but majority are
usually absent during the fighting, and
only reappear when there is some booty
10 be taken. Of the bands nominally
1nder Jubobvatics not above three hun
1red men mean fighting.
JUDGE GILBERT, of the Supreme Court,
It Brooklyn, has rendered a decision in
he civil rights case wherein William F.
Johnson, colored, sought to compel the
principal of a public school to admit his
on, instead of sending him to school
for colored children. The Court
lolds that the common schools are a
,ublic charity, that benefits conferred
y them are free gift from the State,
nd, like every other donor, the State
nay prescribe in what manner, and upon
What terms and conditions the gift may
,e enjoyed. In conclusion the Judge
aid that the statute, by guaranteeing
quail privileges, does not confer the right
o enjoy them in common with any class
4 persons, orin any particular school, and
hat nothing has been shown from which
can be inferred that the relator has
cen deprived oftbe equality ofprivilege
o which he IL entitled. The motion for
mandamus was denied.
In recent address before the Smith
onian Institute, DIR. Lincicune gives the
slowing interesting report of the curious
tile balloon spider and its work, and
ne account will be received by our read
n, we trust, with special interest in
lew of recent illustrated account of
,rtain "insect wonders" al once OBJ
,rved," says the writer, zone of these
'iders at work in the upper corner of
n outside door-shutter. She was spin-
ing gossamer, Of which she was forming
balloon, and clinging to her thorax was
cluster of minute young spiders. She
nished up the body of the balloon,
nd threw out the long bowlines, which
ere Tapping and huttering in the now
entity increasing breeze. Several min
tes before she got ready for the ascen-
on she seemed to be fixing the bottom ,
nd winding her hammock. shaped hal
on; and now, the breeze being suit
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