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The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-03-18
Pretty well for n Hog.

1t seems almost incredible that such a
dull, stupid creature as hog should
have had the presence of mind" which
the following incident from Western
paper gives credit for:
A very curious incident occurred yes
terday, by which hog took free ride
across the river bridge. II was about
halfpast three o'clock that freight train
was approaching the city, when hog,
weighing about one hundred pounds, was
seen on the track at the west end of the
bridge. It did not get out of the way
soon enough, and the pilot of the engine
struck il. Instead of knocking of, how
ever, the sloping front of the pilot caught
his porkship and rolled him right up
upon the little platform in front of the
boiler. There he rose and sat looking
round, and was, by this time, out over
the bare ties, where, if he had jumped
off, he would have gone down To
the water. lie evidently saw
this, for he remained on the
front of the engine, and rode all the way
across the bridge. When the engine ar.
rived on this side the hog sprang nimbly
off upon the platform, near Mr.. Twadell's
watch-house, and, after grunting its salts
faction at is narrow escape, it moved off,
1t was slightly hurt in the side and one
leg, but will recover.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-03-18
Not Preiudiced.

Mark Twain found it necessary to give
a description of an acquaintance once,
and especially desired that nothing in
his description should be understood as
indicating prejudice against the sub
ject he should endeavor to confine him
self to bare facts; and this is the array of
facts:
A long-legged, vain, lightweight viii
lagc lawyer, from New Hampshire. II
he had brains in proportion to his legs,
he would make Solomon seem failure /;
If his modesty equaled his ignorance, he
would make violet seem stuck up; If
his learning equaled his vanity, he would
make Won Humboldt seem rs unlettered
as the back side of tombstone If his
stature were proportioned to his con-
science, he would be n gem for the mi
croscope il his ideas were rs large IA his
words, it would take man three months
to walk around one of them; Ii an audi
ence were TO contract to listen as long as
he would talk, that audience would die
of old age; and il he were to talk until
he said something, he would still be on
his hind legs when the last trump
sounded, and he would have check
enough to wait till the disturbance was
over, and go on again.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-03-18
A Pilfering PuDpy.

A New York correspondent writes: /
was wading about this week to buy cages
and dropped into cellar in Amity
street, where man keeps birds and dogs
and monkeys. There l made the ac-
quaintance of q newly imported Scotch
terrier of marvellous sagacity and per-
feet education. But, alas, misdirected
intelligence He has been for years the
accomplice of London thief, whose
little game was played by this dog. He
is taught and trained to recognize a
pocket-book in ladies hand, to jump
and frisk about her, then to seize the
pocket-book and run his master catches
him up and secretes him under his coat
and joins the hue and cry after the dog
down some street. At last he was drop
ped upon, the little game discovered,
and in the court the little dog was
principal witness. A lady was walked
past him bearing loosely pocket-bOok /;
up jumped the dog, seized it and carried
it directly to his master. The master
was sentenced and the dog exiled. He
certainly did some astonishing bits OF
thieving in my presence, stealing small
package from my muff that lay on a
chair; but must refuse to accept one
story the celler-keeper told me. That a
lady called to buy bullfnch and laid
her pocket-book and handkerchief on a
low shelf. Turning after while she
took up her property and left the place,
but returned in a moment, saying that
her pocket-book was empty that had
contained $50 bill and several smaller
ones. Search was made and the wad dis
covered under the edge of mat, well
chewed and carefully placed there by the
dog. This was to much, and If the man
had only told me the dog had offered the
money to buy his freedom and 20 into
business for himself, 1 should have
recommended him directly to the
Beecher trial as suitable witness.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-03-18
A Denarted Giant.

On the 26th oflast month James Murphy,
celebrated Irish giant-as large though
by no means as ferocious as the famous
Kilmeny OGobble Kilmore died in
Baltimore. He was born mt Waterford,
Ireland, in q low station of life, though
his accretive abilities afterward gave
him very high standing-eight feet in
his stockings. His father was n small
farmer, but he himself, by patient in
dustry, came at last to weigh three hun
dred and fifty-one pounds before he went
the weigh ofall flesh. His parents brought
him to this country, and for three years
he travelled with Barnum, being looked
upon as one of the greatest curiosities in
the world, and visiting nearly every
place in the Union, from Maine to the
extreme West and South. He then
travelled with circus to give 1t weight
and standing, and finally went to Balti-
more, where he kept restaurant up to
the day of his death. He was hand
some fellow with coal black hair and
brilliant eyes; his hands were cnor-
mously large, and the city of his adop-
ton will use his shoes as dry-docks, or
rent them in sections as tenement-houses
for the poor and helpless.
Lives Of great men all remind us
We may make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands Of time"
Daily Graphic.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-03-18
The Late Rear Admiral Bell.

Rear Admiral Charles ii. Bell, a veteran
officer Of the American navy, died re-
Gently at New Brunswick, N. j., at the
age OF sevcnty-scven years. lie was born
in New York State, August Is, 1898, and
was appointed midshipman in June, 1912.
Being wartime he was soon called to ac-
tive service, and was assigned to Com
modore Decatur's squadron which sailed
from port in 1918, and was blockaded
several months at New London. In the
summer of 1914 he was transferred to the
squadron of Commodore Chauncey on
Lake Ontario, and served with that gal
liant commander until the close of the
war. The young sailor next went with
Commodore Decatur's squadron to
Algiers in 1915, and did his part in bring
ing the Dey to terms. In 1920 he re-
ceived his commission as Lieutenant,
and some years later was with the sloop-
of-war Erie, of the West India squadron,
after which he was transferred to the feet
on the Pacific coast. Returning he was
raised to the rank of Commander, and
served successfully with the squadron on
the Brazilian and African coasts. He
received his commission as Captain, 1854,
and commanded the frigate Constellation
of the Mediterranean squadron from
1856 to 1858. He was appointed Com
mandant of the Norfolk Navy.yard in
1860, but about year later he was placed
in command of the Pacific squadron,
with which he remained until toward
the close of the war, when he was en-
gagged in special duty on the James
river. He was made Commodore in
1862, Rear Admiral in 1866, and was
subsequently placed on the retired list.
His last active duty was as commandant
of navy-yard from 1866 to 1868. The
late Rear Admiral had been sixty.two
years and eight months in the American
naval servicc-a term exceeded by that
Of few other officers.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-03-18
Chinese Thieves.

In most of the seaports of Asia arc
found numbers of Chinese, who are not
by any means the best specimens of the
people of the Flowery Kingdom. Many
of them are thieves, and, though very
cowardly, make up for their lack of cour
age by their skill and cunning. Mr.. j.
Thompson says:
The Malays have told me of cases
where, as they averred, the cunning
Chinese thief passes to the doorway o.
the house to be pillaged, and tosses in q
handful of rice impregnated with some
aromatic drug.
This drug soon sends the inmates into
deep repose, from which they will sci.
dom awaken till long after the robber
has finished his undertaking, and that in
the complete and deliberate style which
suits the Chinese. For | must tell you
that they at all times object to vulgar
haste, whatever be the business they are
pursuing; and they prefer, if possible, to
avoid sudden surprises and unexpected
attacks. The slightest sound will make
them take to cowardly flight, dropping
their booty and their neither garments,
il any, in order to facilitate their escape.
But when they have daring burglary
on hand, they go quite naked, with the
body oiled all over, and the queue coiled
up into a bob at the back of the head,
and stuck full of needles at every side.
The following adventure with Chi
nese burglar beiell a friend of mine:
About midnight, as he lay awake in
his bed, with the lamp extinguishcd and
the windows open to admit the air, he
saw dark figure Chamber over his win
dow-sill and enter the apartment. He
kept himself motionless till the thief, be-
lieving all to be safe, had stolen into the
center of the room. He then sprang out
of bed and seized the intruder. Both
were powerful men, and a furious strug-
gle consequently ensued. But the rob.
Der had the advantage, for his only COW
ering was a coat of oil; so that at last,
slipping like an eel from the grasp of his
antagonist, he made a plunge at the
window, and was about to drop in the
garden beneath, when his pursuer, with
a final effort, managed to catch him by
the tail. The tail, stuck full of needles
and, alas a false one, too, came away by
the weight of the fall, and was left, q
worthless trophy, in the hands of the
European.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-03-18
A Sea Monster That Lives on Oysters

Old oceans aristocracy are luxurious
fellows. One of these gentry with hard
Greek name takes his oysters not merely
"on the half-shell," but the whole shell.
In a sketch Prof. Lockwood, in the Popular
Science Monthly, thus introduces him and
describes his habits:
We are seated in boat, and, gliding
through the phosphorescent sheen, soon
near the oyster-bed. 1t is a moonlight
night, about the close ofsummer. Hark
what singular sound is that? Boom /!
boom boom Almost sephulchral, and
strange to say, it comes from beneath the
waters. One would think they were
Nereid's groans.
The oystermeD, whose capital lies in
vested there, hear it with sad forebodings
of loss, which they cannot well sustain.
1t is one of school of visitors who come
with marauding purpose.
The fisht rmen call it the big drum.
This drum.fish is known among natural.
lists by the name Pogonias chromis. The
acknowledged beat of this scamp is the
Gulf Stream, from Cape Cod to Florida
and terrible fellow is this Pegonias, for
he Is recorded as having attained the
great weight of eighty pounds. One OF
twenty-five pounds would be but an
ordinary affair.
Their mouths are furnished with pave
ments of hard teeth. a little rounding at
the top, and set together exactly as arc
the cobble-stones Of the old city high.
ways. The function of these dental
pavements is to crush young oysters,
which after being crushed are thus
swallowed, shells and all.
As these monsters come in shoals, they
sometimes inAict serious damage on an
oyster-bed. Not long ago, at Ksyport
N. j., visit of this character cost the
oyster-planters some $4,000. Said can
eminent naturalist" No fish has teeth
strong enough to crush oyster-shells.' y
This Is certainly a mistake. / believe
that oystermen regard three-year-old
oyster as comparatively safe in this re
spcct, and their apprehensions appertair
to the younger beds
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-03-18
Robert Humphreys Little Joke.

One Robert Humphreys proved rather
queer customer to a saloon keeper in
Jersey City last week. The bar-keeper
coming down to open the saloon to Gus
toners, saw Robert Humphreys, a very
dissipated person, leaning againsta lamp
post outside the saloon, evidently wait
ing for morning drink, which is a
necessity for the habitual drunkard.
The liquor man opened the door of the
place, took his position behind the bar,
and waited for Robert to come in.
Robert, he knew, would take whisky;
whisky Is fifteen cents drink, and
Robert would contribute ten cents to the
profit of the concern. But Robert con-
tinued to lean against the lamp-post out
side, and the bar-keeper was led to Won
der if the man wasn't hard up and wasn't
able to pay for the drink.
The sun came out over the roofs of
the houses and streamed down upon the
man leaning against the lamp-post, but
he did not move, and the man who sold
whisky looking out intently, discovered
that Roberts eyes were closed. This ex-
planned why the man had not come in
for his drink; he had actually fallen
asleep standing, reasoned the bar-keeper.
1t is tantalizing to dealer in any class
of goods to have probable customer in
sight and be unable to reach him, and
the gentleman who mixed drinks began
to feel injured that the one outside
should not be awakened by the clatter of
passing teams and the noise of people on
the sidewalk, and come in. Other
customers came and wentinto the saloon,
but Robert Humphreys stayed outside
leaning against the lamp post.
Finally the bar-kecper, in disgust, gave
up expecting him, and then Robert
Humphreys came in. Three men brought
him in; they said they believed he
was frozen, and laid him down by the
stove to thaw. After they had gone the
bar-keeper examined Humphreys and
found not only that he was dead, but
that he had been dead for some time.
There, in Jersey City, in broad day
light, with the roar and hustle of life
around it, with pedestrians brushing
against it, a corpse had stood leaning
against lamp-post unmolested during
all the morning. The joke that Robert
Humphreys played upon that saloon
keeper was complete, and the men drink
ing at the bar during the remainder of
the day had something to talk and
laugh about. 1t was quite droll.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-03-18
The Five Great Exhibitions.

The London Times says: The great Ex-
hibition of 1851, held in London, was
opened on the lst of May, and remained
open for payment for one hundred and
forty-one days. The number of visitors
was 6,O49, 1875, and f424, 322 was received
for admission. The Exposition Univer.
selle of 1855, ut Paris, was opened on the
10Th of May, and remained open two hun
dred days, Sundays included. The num-
Der of visitors was 5,162, $40, and f12S,-
099 was received for admissions. The In
ternational Exhibition Of 1862, in Lon
don, was opened on the 1st of May, and
remained open one hundred and seventy
one days. The number of visitors was
6,211, ,103, and f40S, $50 was received for
admissions. The Exposition Universelle
for 1867, ut Paris, was opened on the 1st
of April, and remained open two hun
dred and seventeen days, Sundays in
cluded. The number ofvisitors was no less
than 8,S05, $50, and f420, 725 was received
for admissions. The Universelle Exhibi-
ton of 1873, at Vienna, was opened on
the 1st of May, and remained open one
hundred and eighty-six days, Sundays
included. The number of visitors was
GAO, 500, and f206,478 was received fol
admissions. Thus the total number oi
visitors at the five great international
Exhibitions was 32,059,097, greater
number than the entire population ol
the United Kingdom enumerated at the
census of 1871, and e1 ,5SS, 164 was re
ceived for admissions. The " Progress
Medal" as it is termed in Vienna, fol
the greatest number of visitors in one
day, belongs to the Exposition Universellt
of Paris, 1867, when 1923 persons
passed through the turn-stiles on Sun
day, the 9th of September then comes
the London great Exhibition of 1851
with what was then thought the extraor
binary number of 109,9I5, on Tuesday
the 9TH Of October, for days before tn,
close lastly, London in 1862, with 67,
S9l on Thursday, the Both of October
We wait now for the great Exposition IL
Philadelphia in 1876.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-03-18
A Real Puzzle.

1t may bother the constructive inge-
nuity Of many Of our readers to draw
the above diagram without lifting the
pencil from the paper, and without go
ing over line twice.
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WOULD YOU he YOUNG AGAIN1
BY LADY MARIN.


Would you be young again
So would not l.
One tear TO memory given,
Onward I'd HE,
Life's dark flood forded DER,
All but at rest on shore,
Say, would you plunge once more,
With home so nigh?
II you might, would you now
Retrace your way?
Wander through stormy wilds,
Faint and astray?
Nights gloomy watches fled,
Morning all beaming red,
Hopes smile around us shed,
Heavenward--away.
Where, then, are those dear ones,
Our Joy and delight?
Dear and more dear, though now
Hidden from sight.
Where they rejoice to be,
There Is the land for me
Fly, Time, fly speedily;
Come, life and light!
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-03-18

THE mania for spelling matches is
spreading as rapidly as the crusade fu-
rore did year ago. A village in which
one Of these tests Of familiarity with the
unabridged does not occur is not large
enough to justify the establishment Of a
weekly mail.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-03-18


Gallant old Grip! 1t was a rash thing
for any dog to do, and in few moments
it was only too evident that he had met
more than his match.
As for the two ponies attached to the
sleigh, one would naturally have sup.
posed that the screams, yells, bowling,
ETC., 80 close behind them, would have
started them on the widest kind of a
"run," but their Quaker training from
colthOod had been adverse to that sort OF
thing, and they seemed contented with /:
series Of fat and futile kicks, rears and
plunges, of no earthly consequence to
anybody but themselves.
What had they to do with fighting
panthers 2
Poor Grip!
He had done his best, and he had done
it well, but the long, sharp claws were
too much for him, while even the frantic
blows which old Merriweather was strik.
ing with the butt of his whip did as much
harm to him as to his adversary.
1t was just as Hetty Merriweathel
gathered sense enough to spring out oi
the sleigh that Grips dying hold was
looscned and the panther sprapg fiercely
after her. The old Quaker's fighinp
blood was up, and he followed most un
finchingly; but that was an OLE man with
hickory whipstalk in such fight al
that, even in defense of his own childY
Grip'had disabled one hind leg for hi,
conqueror, or it might have gone hard
with poor Hetty just then. As it was
she seemed to have lost even the power
of fight, for she turned and faced heI
terrible enemy, with her pretty hands
outstretchcd almost NJ IL she meant u
grapple him, in an utter extremity o
helpless terror.
A grapple, indeed, ii would have been in
another instant, and a hand.to-hand strug
gle IL was; but form better fitted for II
than that of the now pale and shrinking
girl bounded suddenly in between tn,
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1875-06-16

cAsnkoSA ~Wtsa s&AoAkA III OitAy COluuOa bCIloo
and decency are respected in their selec-
ton. What the South, and especially
Louisiaha. needsis, lpt force bills, but
peace, hduAtry snd less taxation.'"
The kctsl here Get e 9TH have all along
been fspiliE nongh b candid sand in
tclkgcnA obscrvers. 1t has .b8en, how
ever. the interest of party to d,stort,
misrcprcscnt and blackcn everything
connected with the South and its people,
and -ws- fear, in spite of the testimony of
such men MS Nordhon, Kelley and Stock
ing, the same slnndcrs would he rcsortcd
TO again if political interests of certain
kind would be promoted thereby. We
arc quite willing to leave future contests
in the South to be fought, as indicated
by the Tribune, by 1.-THE Democratic and
Republican parties, stripped of war
prcjudices and race troubles, and each
standing on its own merits" There
could be no proposition fairer and more
just in itself, and it deserves general
acceptance,
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1875-06-16

CONSERVATIVES VICTORY IN NEW HAMr
SHIRE. 'The ST. Louis Republican de-
clares that the New Hampshire imJmgIo
has been partially. settled. 1t is worth
while to note that, after all the fuss made
by the Republicans, the Supreme Court
settled the difficulty in; the Senate in
favor of the Democrats, by deciding that
under no circumstances were tho con-
testing Republicans, entitled to)the seats
they claimed. The revolutionary mno-
rity of Republicans who seeded from
the Senate and sought thereby to compel
n comprothiAe' aftor the fashion cstab-
lished ly Acknowledgement Williams, in
Alabama, two years, ago, have been
roundly ccnsuredl BY thu most respectn-
BILE newspapers of their ,ownrrhty, MS
well, ns .Ppintealy rebuked bSxhesSu-
preme. Courts Of the State rpm all
we have :hsep able to asccrtaihS Judge
that there ives p conspiracy Mths part
of the Repubhcaps TO- ieroatc iSonf nfhBiod
and aqaFchyi with a view to calling In the
intervention; Of the Eederaf d1vcrn-
mcnt, which was .sigpelly thwarted by
the tact md patience of, the Demo-
Gratis. The next result sten}s to he
moral victory for the a'DemocratS
in comparison to which the election
of their Governor by the Republican
majority in the House will! prove 4 bar
rem success. The New Hampshire Re-
pubhcans have shown themselves to be
as violent and revolutionary as their
brethren in any drngoon-ridden State of
the South. They have shown themselves
capable, for the snke of obtaining Office,
Of: haSarding the peace Of the State: The
Demoomts, on the other hnnd, have ap-
peared ali conservatorsi of the peace and
abidsrs of the la*. They have steadily
refused to be provoked into violent men-
sures by the violence of the Republicans,
and, whenever their real Or supposed
rights have BEEN arbitrarily. nssailcd or
denied, they have uniformly responded
byappeals to the courts. The situation
in New Hampshire has been such that
the Democrats might mt any moment
have plunged the State in turmoil, an
archy and perhaps bloodshed, by simply
initiating the tactics Of the Republicans
The fact that they have taken the oppo-
site course, taken together with the fnct
that the contested points have been de-
cidcd in their favor by the courts, will
not be lost upon the people of tha'noun-
try. Hence, -We. say thc, New Hampshiro
Demoea eats hsvsRainea IN. I6orsl ssactory
Of vAstlyEreater weight tfiHX 7'fcw' hun.
dred majority ut the polls. could possibly
have possessed.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1875-06-16

l, is truly wonderful, the variety and
ingenuity Of the convenicnccs for the
observation-disclosures Of varied patterns,
inkstsndss possessing. unmberless = nth
vantages, letter files, each one lthe best.
envelopes Of Size and qualities infinite.
1t is almost bewildering to enter the
large Broad street store of Walker,
Evans & Cogswell, in Charleston, md
see the number of these attractions.
Here you lind the largest stationery
stock South 81 Baltimore, and you only
have two troubles first. sufficient cash
and, second, the difficulty in deciding
among the many things offered, each
equally suitable TO your wants Mt
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1875-06-16

a VISITING DOC. "A Nahant dog has q
taste for visiting. lie goes down to tho
depot and steps aboard the train, with
out the customary little ceremony at the
ticket Office, and when it reaches the
right to"n he bounds oil and pays u visit
to some family friend of his master. He
never makes II mistake about the town or
tmin, and is such a fine intelligent fol-
low, lac always meets with welcome. He
usually spends two or three days on his
trips, and no doubt he picks up conbi-
derable dog lore in his travels.
The New York Tribune says the '.indi-
cations. as they present themselves to
thinking men. are that the political re-
volution will be consummated in 1876,
and the Democratic party will come into
power in the naticn.'