The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-07-29

employed by the doges in weaving gifts
for Eastern monarchs, and required four
teen thousand hands, is being revived by
the Brothers Angino. The secrets of the
old workingmen who produced stuffs OF
extraordinary richness have died with
the inventors, but the present efforts
have been most successful.
The recent flood in France is said to
have been the most remarkable visitation
of the kind recorded this century. A
district as large as the State of Maine
and as populous as New York was del,
uged by unprecedentedly violent and
long-continued rain storms, Occasioning
loss of life and destruction of property
at which the imagination is paralyzed.
To meet calamity thus vast in its ex-
tent and unprecedented in its violence,
all the resources of French charity and
French administrative skill must indeed
be taxed to their utmost.
AT the college regatta at Saratoga, this
year, Cornell University bore off the
prize. The news of the victory aroused
the most intense enthusiasm at Ithaca,
NY. The great fre.bel and other bells
were rung, the University chimes pealed,
bombs and fireworks were exploded,
guns fred, and the business places and
buildings festooned with the national
and University colors, and bands paraded
r the streets. 1t is curious to notice that
no college has won two years in success
sion. The first year Amherst Agricultu-
raj bore off the prize the next, Amherst;
the third, Yale; last year, Columbia, and
now Cornell. The time this year is not
so good as last-16:53i against 16:42!.
OUR rifle team have been doing too
well abroad. After beating the Irish
teams, and obtaining triumphant ova-
ton, they went to Wimbledon, England,
to shoot for the grand prize offered there.
The English, however, appear to have
been afraid of them, and refused to allow
them to shoot against the English team,
but offered to give them chance against
a new team to be selected from the Eng.
lish, Scotch and Irish teams. This was
equivalent to a challenge to contend
with the best picked shots Of the United
Kingdom. Colonel Gildersleeve declined
to shoot under such circumstances, and
the Club was therefore excluded from
the grand contest. The conduct of the
English Club, under the circumstances,
may be regarded as virtual acknowl
edgment of defeat.
AN extraordinary mania has arisen
among the inhabitants of a number OF
villages in Western Prussia. They have
firmly made up their minds that their
Emperor has lost ten thousand children
at cards with the Sultan, and that large
number of Turks are, in consequence, to
be sent among them to kidnap their chill
dren on their way from school. The
school teachers are supposed to be privy
to this infamous plot, and are understood
to have five thalers promised them for
every child abducted. There have been
scenes of tumult and violence in conse-
quence, and much difficulty is expert
enced in allaying the excitement. If
there has been any denser ignorance than
this since the deluge, there is, at any
rate, no historical evidence of it.
A PosT-oFFICE agent travelling in Tex
as tells of the successful use of the gall
of a rattlesnake as an antidote for the
bite of that reptile. In the case spoken
of relief was almost instantaneous to the
patient, who was writhing in paroxysms
of great pain, rapidly swelling and be-
coming purple. A gentleman of Texas
who spent several years in California and
New Mexico, says he saw the same
remedy successfully used among the In
dians in the latter country. In one in
stance an Indians dog near the camp
was bitten in the nose by large rattle
snake. The Indian Immediately opened
the reptile and administered the gall.
The cure was rapid and effectual.
SAN Francisco experience reports
that a Chinaman accustomed to opium,
when deprived of it by poverty or i'm
prisonment, is the most pitiable wretch
imaginable. His state isworse that that
of the drunkard in the delirium tremens.
He can neither sleep nor think, and,
when waking, trembles as with an ague.
II deprived of the poison long enough,
his complexion turns to CHASTITY white,
and his stomach will not retain food.
When this state is reached, the only
remedy which can save his life is the
drug itself. The warden of the county
Jail has often been compelled to procure
opium for the Chinese prisoners. In one
case, where it was proposed to discover
If abstinence would not work cure, the
mans lips and tongue dried and cracked,
and his voice became so hoarse as to be
inaudible, but when opium was furnished
him he soon regained his health.
THE highest mountain in the world
has once more been discovered. IL Is