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The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-06-17
Women Soldiers.

Wonderful stories of women soldiers
come out from time to time. This is one
of them:
Therese Sutter died in Paris in 1861,
at the age of eighty-four. In 1868 she
enlisted in the Legion Allobrogienne,
employed at the siege of Toulon, and
there distinguished herself for bravery.
Her vituperative powers were something
remarkable. The First Consul remem-
bered an attack that woman made upon
him with her tongue when he was a
colonel of artillery. After TIE capture
of Toulon, Therese entered the Fifteenth
Dragons and took part in the campaign
in catalogue. When the decree was is
sued banishing women from the armies
of France an exception was made in her
favor on account of her bravery. She
was in the Italian campaign, and in
1900, after five years. service, received a
pension of 200 francs, with which she re-
tired to Montelimar.
Entering the service again, she took
part in the campaigns of 1905, 1906, and
1910 i'm Spain, where she was captured
by guerillas. She was sent to Lisbon,
and thence made her way back to
France, by way of England. She arrived
in 1914, and entered the service immedi-
ately. 1t was not until after Waterloo
that she decided to retire. In the course
of her exploits she had been once
wounded by firearms and four times
with the saber; she had five horses killed
under her, and, single-handed, she at
tackled a patrol of cavalry, which had
captured General Roguey, and released
her commander. After Waterloo, The.
rese, who had married M. Sutter, entered
the Hospital of Enghein, where she lived
Oh her modest pension until it was largely
augmented by Napoleon iii.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-06-17
A Chinese Inn.

A correspondent of the Syracuse Jour
nal gives the following picture of a
Chinese inn: A Chinese inn is peculiar
institution. They have no furnished
rooms with fires or lights. You drive
up to an inn, which, by the way, is
through the wall into courtyard, where
donkeys, mules, and carts are congre-
gated. Perhaps some one will come out
and ask what is wanted; if to stay all
night, you will be shown into barren
room, frequently without furniture, never
any bedding, and on one side place
called kang, which is simply raised
platform, under which fire can be built
to warm the stones which cover the top,
and also secures the room from accident
by fire, and is the only heat you can get.
When you retire, your bedding, which
you take with you, is placed on top the
kang, and with the warmth of the stones
will allow you to sleep quite comforta-
bly,. Old temples, in fact many good
temples, receive travellers. The charges
are moderate-at such places in the coun.
try one tiao to cart. Our party Of
nine carts, in going to the great wall,
paid at one temple, with all our servants,
one dollar. Prices vary, as the Chinese
are in the habit of asking four times the
value of thing, especially of foreigners.
A fair charge for accommodations at a
first class Chinese inn is about two and
a half tiao per day; this for one room.
To the natives one tao less per day.
The foreigner is expected to give more
than the natives, and generally finds it
more To his interest to submit to a slight
squeeze than to fight the question.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-06-17

The clerk of merchant at Osaka,
Japan, went to Kioto on business of his
employer, and received one thousand
yen to carry back to Osaka. Having
been detained longer than he expected,
he missed the steamboat, and being
anxious to complete his journey as
quickly as possible, took jinrikisha, in
tending to travel through the night and
reach Osaka before daylight. On ar
irving at a village few miles from his
destination, about three a. M, man
with drawn sword stopped the vehicle
and demanded the one thousand yen,
stating that he had seen the youth re-
ceive il at Kioto. After some demur
the clerk took the money from his bosom,
and was about to hand it to the robber,
when the jinrikisha coolie snatched the
bag and made of, leaving the vehicle,
the clerk and the robber in the middle
of the road, the two latter as speechless
as the former. .
The knight of the road, finding himself
foiled, departed in the direction opposite
to that Of Osaka, to which city the youth
hastened, after abandoning his first
thoughts of jumping into the river. On
arriving at the house of an uncle he ac-
quainted that relative with his adven-
ture, and expressed desire to die. But
he was spared, for 1t was discovered that
the coolie, instead of running away with
the money, had taken il to the police
station. He was appropriately rewarded
with share of the money he had so clev-
erly saved.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-06-17
How to Burn Coal.

A very common mistake is made and
much fuel wasted in the manner of re-
plenishing coal fires, both in furnaces
and CRATES. They should be fed with a
little coal at time, and often; but serv-
ants, to save time and trouble, put on n
great deal at once, the first result being
that almost all the heat is absorbed by
the newly put on coal, which does not
give out heat until it has itself become
red hot. Hence, for awhile the room is
cold, but when it becomes fairly aglow
the heat is insufferable.
The time to replenish a coal fire is as
soon as the Goals begin to show ashes on
their surface, then put on merely enough
to show layer of black coal covering the
red. This will soon kindle, and as there
is not much of it an excess of heat will
not be given out.
Many also put out the fire by stirring
the crate as soon as fresh coal is put on,
thus leaving all the heat in the ashes
when it should be sent to the new supply
of coal. The time to stir the fire is just
when the new coal laid on is pretty we'll
kindled. This method of managing a
coal fire is troublesome, but it saves
fuel, gives more uniform heat, and pre-
vents the discomfort of alterations of
heat and cold above referred to.-Hdps
Journal of Health.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-06-17
Spider.Web Power.

A correspondent says: I found the
following interesting facts in the biog-
raphy OF Professor Mitchell, given in
"Mitchels Astronomy of the Bible"
Professor Mitchell, when director of the
Cincinnati Observatory, wished to make
the astronomical clock record its beats
automatically. A small cross of delicate
wire was so arranged that IL would rise
and fall as the pendulum swung back
ward and forward, provided it could be
in some way attached to the pendulum.
The amount of power required Of the
pendulum to give motion to the delicate
wire across was almost imperceptible.
The difficulty was to procure fiber suf-
ficiently minute and elastic to constitute
the physical union between the top stem
of the cross and the pendulum. Various
materials were tried, among others hu-
man hair, the very finest that could be
obtained, but this was too coarse and
stiff. Finally an appeal was made to the
spider, and his web, perfectly elastic and
pliable, proved to be exactly the thing
required. One single spiders web ful-
filed the duty of lifting the wire cross
every second of time for three years |!
How much longer IL might have faithfully
performed the same service we do not
know, for IL became necessary to break
this admirable bond to make some
changes in the clock.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-06-17
A French Love Tragedy.
Paris Correspondent st. Louis Globe. !

lFHFis correspondents OF. Louis ulODe.
The wedding was to take place on
Christmas Day. Three weeks before
that date the aflianced husband sought
out Minnie, and told her he had deceived
himself; that he could not and would
not abandon her; that he loved her ten
times more than he ever could love the
other woman. Minnie was happy, and
yet she was wretched. She declared she
ought not to keep him. Finally he told
her that he did not believe his betrOthed
really loved him. This shook her reso-
luton. She said no more. She de-
termined, however, to see and judge for
herself. She had learned where the fair
Bostonian was residing, and making
some ingenious excuse gained an inter
view without revealing her true charac.
ter. She found the American lovely
that she was we'll nigh heartbroken at the
neglect of her lover; that she knew he
had had mistress; that she suspected
he was still bound by his old attachment; !;
that she was the barrier between her and
happiness. The grisette went away. She
saw the artist no more, but she wrote him
a long letter, telling him how much he
had wronged the beautiful girl he was
engaged to; that she worshiped him
and would make him happy. The next
day Minnie was dead in her lodgings,
asphyxiated by charcoal. She had de-
liberately destroyed herself to insure the
happiness of another woman, and that
woman her rival.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-06-17
A New Life.Saving Apparatus.

Captain J. b. Stoner, the inventor of
the India-rubber life-saving suit, made
practical exhibition of his apparatus in
New York Bay on Monday afternoon.
Captain Stoner, Mr.. George l.. Strana-
han, and three young ladies-Mrs. Susan
Moore, Miss Gahnor, and Miss Katie
Whitney, the latter little girl of eleven
years old-each put on suit and jumped
overheard into the water, where they re-
mained about one hour and half. The
apparatus consists of an India-rubber
suit, entire, from the feet to the head,
with only one opening, which is at the
breast. The feet and arms are also in
closed, and the opening at the breast is
so fastened as to be perfectly water-tight.
Only the hat and shoes have to be re-
moved before putting on this suit. Out
side of this, a rubber jacket, with twelve
air tubes, is put around the waist of the
person, and fastened to the body with
strong cords or tape. These twelve tubes
are more than are required, half that
number being sufficient to keep person
afoat, but provision is thus made for
possible injury to any of the tubes, each
one being distinct from the others.
Around the ankles are placed iron
weights, ring like, but very loose and
fastened to the suit, thereby bringing the
weight equally upon the whole body, in
stead of the feet alone, and preventing
their being uncomfortable. They are to
keep the feet down, and the body floats
upright in the water. A rubber p0ntoon
bag, for food and other necessary articles,
is provided, water-tight, and will contain
food and water sufficient for long time.
A tin flagstaff, in sections of one foot
each, the whole five feet in height, with a
red signal flag, is also provided. This
rests on a rubber pontoon or buoy, filled
with air. Both this and the food-bag
have their own separate support in the
water, are no burden to the person. They
are fastened to him by a string, and may
float several feet away. An air pillow,
which can be inflated in the water, is also
provided back of the head, upon which
the swimmer can sleep comfortably. The
clothing underneath being dry, no dis
comfort is caused by the temperature Of
the water. When Captain Stoner and his
companions were taken from the water
their clothes were found to be perfectly
drv
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-06-17
NUMBER 7.
A Frightened Pupil.

DR.. James Addison Alexander, OF
Princeton, was scholar of marvellous
learning, and teacher of unsparing
severity 10 idlers His sarcasm was an.
initiating, and his class stood i'm great
dread of it. One of his pupils, Rev.
James Park, of Nashville, Tenn, gives
an amusing account of his first recita-
tion.
rose promptly, very, at the call of
my name, with quickened breath and
bounding pulse. DIR. Alexander's spec
tacles were wonderfully bright, yet not
so bright as the eyes looking through
them. He asked question 1 answered |;
he smiled several students Uttered. A
second question, followed by the answer.
DIR. Alexander smiled more perceptibly |;
all the class snickered, and / broke out
in sweat.
A third question was answered sew
eral students guffawed Rap, rap, rap,
on the desk, and, with an indignant
voice, DIR. Alexander called out, "Order
in the class see nothing to laugh at"
And then to me, "That will do SIR" /
sat down in state of terrible excitement,
perplexed, confused and ashamed, sup
posing had exposed myself to the con-
tempt and ridicule of the class, and re-
solved to start home the next day.
l found afterwards that it was the
frightened tone of my answers that had
amused the class. The first answer was
given in full voice, tremulous with
agitation the second, in tone loud
enough to be heard at forty yards; and
the third, as if was trying to drown
the clatter of mill.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-06-17
The Wonders of the Microscope.

Here is a list of some of the wonders
seen through a microscope: Insects of
various kinds can be seen in the cavities
of a grain of sand. Mold is forest OF
beautiful trees, with the branches, leaves,
flowers, and fruits. Butterflies are fully
feathered. Hairs are hollow tubes. The
surface of our bodies is covered with
scales like fish. A single grain of sand
would cover one hundred and fifty of
these scales, and yet a single scale covers
five hundred pores. Through these mar
row openings the sweat forces itself out
like water through sieve. The mites
make five hundred steps second. Each
drop of stagnant water contains world
of animated being, swimming with as
much liberty as whales in the sea. Each
leaf has a colony of insects grazing on it,
like oxen on meadow. A speck of po-
tatoe-rot, the size of pin.head, contains
about two hundred ferocious little ami
mails, biting and clawing each other
savagely. The male mosquito is
decorated with plumes like those of
some tropic bird. The eye Of the COM
mon house-fy is cut into facets, as dia-
monds sometimes are.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-06-17
Prescription for Drunkenness.

There is curious prescription in Eng
land for the cure of drunkenness, by
which thousands are said to have been
assisted in recovering themselves. The
recipe came into notoriety through the
efforts of the father of Rev. Newman
Hall and Capt. Vine Hall, commander Of
the Great Eastern. He had fallen into
such habitual drunkenness that his ut
most effort to reform himself proved un-
availing. At length he sought the
advice of an eminent physician, who
gave him prescription which he fol-
lowed faithfully for several months, and
at the end of that time he had lost all
desire for liquors, although he had for
many years been led captive by u most
debasing appetite. The recipe, which he
afterward published, and by which 20
many have been assisted to reform, Is as
follows:
Sulphate of iron, FIVE grains; mag
nesia, ten grains; peppermint water,
eleven grains; spirit of nutmeg, one
drachm; TO be taken twice day. This
preparation acts as tonic and stimulant,
and so supplies the place of the accus-
toned liquor and prevents that absolute
physical and moral prostration that fol-
lows a sudden breaking off from the use
of stimulating drinks.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-06-17
The Chinese Held to be the Original
Inhabitants or America.

The attendance at the regular meeting
of the Academy of Sciences, says the San
Francisco Chronicle, was larger than
usual The time,Of the meeting was
principally occupied with the reading of
carefully prepared paper by Charles
w. Brooks, on "The Origin of the CHI
nese Race" the object of the writer be-
ing to prove that the first Mongolians
came from some part of this c0ntinent,
probably Peru. The Argument may be
succinctly stated as follows: Central
Asia has hitherto had the credit of being
the cradle of mankind. Scientists say
America is older, geographically, than
any other part Of the earth's surface.
Therefore, in natural process OfevOlutiOn,
the aboriginal man must have appeared
on this hemisphere in the vicinity of the
first rocky elevation. The Chinese peo-
pie are unlike any other people on the
continent of Asia. They are hemmed in
by mountains, and the great wall on
their northern and western frontier.
They have had no communication with
other Asiatic peoples from time imme-
mortal. According to this tradition,
their first progenitors landed on the
southern coast Of China. In looking for
the place whence they might naturally
have been brought by favoring winds
and currents, our attention is turned to
Peru. The records of that country show
animmense antiquity. Their civilization
was extremely ancient, and the remnants
of an almond-eyed race resembling the
MOngolian are found in the Peruvian
mountains, and also about the head
waters of the Amazon. Peru had an i'm
mense population 1000 years before
Christ. Early in the history of the
world, the Peruvians possessed knowl
edge of the solar movements, the marin
er's compass, and hieroglyphics, or picture
writing. An armed vessel or an invader
might have gone in sixty days from Peru
to the southern coast of China. Chinese
records show that 1858 years before
Christ, FO XII, a stranger king, introduced
the recondite knowledge possessed by the
Peruvians to the Chinese. The lower
roots of the Peruvian Telegraph are con-
nected with the two hundred and sixteen
radicals of the Chinese language. These
writings appear all through Asia, and as
far west as the Pyramids.
The suggestions of these facts, and the
many inferences to be drawn from them,
were elaborated with much specification
of detail. 1t was shown that while Peru
had at one time IL 200, 900 of inhabitants,
her industries had died out and her pop
ulation disappeared, China had gone on
increasing her population indefinitely,
aid achieved high degree of civiliza-
ton. The paper was listened to wit:
interest, and applauded at the close.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-06-17
TRUTHS AND TRIPLES.

IT has been said that we can earn
genuine manhood only by serving out
steadily and faithfully the period Of boy
hood.
THERE are eight millions of German
speaking people in the United States,
and they have three hundred newspa-
pers and periodicals in their own Ian
guage.
OUR true business in life is to make
the most of the means and opportunities
we have-not to neglect small advan-
tages merely because we can not have
large Ones Il
How nature delights and amuses, as
by varying even the character of insects;
the ill-nature of the wasp, the sluggish
ness of the drone, the volatility of the
butterfly, the slyness of the bug.
In China, liquor is distilled from the
flowers of the chrysanthemum which is
regarded as an elixir vitae, and in the
Chinese pharmacopeia a powder of the
leaves is prescribed as a cure for drunk
enness.
MANY readers judge of the power of
a book by the shock it gives their feel
ings, as some savage tribes determine the
power of their muskets by their recoil
that being considered best which fairly
prostrates the purchaser.
SPRING is a beautiful piece of work,
and not to be in the country to see it
done is the not realizing what glorious
masters we are, and how cheerfully, mi
nutely and unhaggingly the fair fingers
Of the beautiful season broider the world
for us.
A GENTLEMAN from New Jersey was
taken by friend, the other day, to see
the place where the Penn treaty tree once
stood. When they reached the place,
the friend pointed to the ground and
remarked that it was the exact spot
where William Penn had stood when he
engaged in the memorable transaction
which has made him famous i'm history.
The Jerseyman looked at the place for a
while, walked around it a few times
slowly, punched his cane in the groun
once or twice, and said, "H'mp an
Hap and "Very interesting, veryw
Then he thought for few moments, and
said, "But where did the son stand when
William shot the apple off his head?
"MoRE than thirty years ago." wrote
an old friend of the Duke of Wellington,
4" was driving down through Hertford-
shire with his Grace; it was beautiful
summer evening, the sun was shining,
and everything looked fourishing and
joyous. The Duke was very silent for
quarter of an hour or twenty minutes.
At the end of that time. he said, will
tell you what have been thinking of;
have been contemplating this beautiful
country, and have been thinking what
curse war is. Suppose ! had to take
military possession of this country; l
should have to lay low every beautiful
thing you see. Take my word, if you
had seen but one day of war, you would
pray Almighty God that you might
never see such thing again."
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-06-17
Mr.. Beach.

Mr.. Beach is an old man, as he appears
in the street, but when he rises in court
he looks the very embodiment of strength.
He stands perfectly erect, his sparse
white hair, large, clear-cut face, and
cold, gray eyes held well open, making
striking figure. The effect is almost
statue-like. In the trial Mr.. Fullerton
did most Of the talking, and when the
spectators saw Mr.. Beach arise they
knew something important was to come.
This dramatic effect of his interference at
any part of the trial was always pre-
served, and was borne out by all the sur
roundings. He has strong, hooked
nose, and his appearance is generally de-
scribed by a reference to the eagle, but in
his manners there is suggestion rather
of the roaring lion. His speech begins
with the first syllable. He has no ex-
planation, and no PREDATORY mannerisms
of voice or gesture. The articulation of
the first consonant goes clear and dis
tinct, but without undue stress, to the
farthest corner of the gallery. 1t is i'm
possible not to give attention. Before he
opens his lips the spectators are made TO
feel that something of Importance is to
be said. He assumes perfectly erect
position from the first, and never leaves
his pose. He has knack of throwing at
times a terrible significance into his
words that renders them independent of
ordinary gesticulation. There is often
bending Of the body, but it is slight, and
the movements of his hands and arms
never transgress very limited range of
gestures. His method of attack is to
strike hard and often. He gives his au-
dience the impression that he is impa-
tient of all forms of Jfnessing. His voice
is strong and unsympathetic, and he has
little of the power to win his listeners by
what is sometimes called personal mag
netism, but his attack is irresistible. He
gives the impression Of brushing aside all
immaterial circumstances as If they were
cobwebs, and of being anxious only TO
come to the important points of the ar
gument. He will leave point only TO
come back to it again and again from
new directions and with new facts and
inferences, until the listener thinks his
opponent counsel is without an inch of
ground to stand on.-New York Graphic.
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ALL women, says Mr.. John Weiss, run

ALL women, says Mr.. John Weiss, run
after their thoughts more eagerly than
men. Men deliberate more. Women can
deliberate, but when a plan is laid they
cross fields and brooksrthey are avani-
comies. With them what is worth doing
should be done on the spot. A woman
can shame man into valor by scorning
his love, when the man no longer be-
lieves his own ears. Blonde women are
less affected by the fears Of night than
others, irrespective Of education. They
will run up and down lonesome stair
cases without a light, with only warm
heart for candle.