The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-12-23

ihE heAt CenUennial anniversary o
Importance, and necessarily the last on,
of the present year, is that of Montgom
ery's unsuccessful attack on Quebec, De
cember 81, 1775. The brave commando
lost his life in the attempt, and the affai
will be remembered as an example O
misdirected .valor.
A WRITER in Land and Water, speak
ing of Australian snakes, says: "In it
fiercest rage if snakes eye meets tn,
eye of man it is instantly calmed; nc
magnetic exertion is required a man hal
simply to keep his eye on the snake, and
it is entirely at his mercy. Snake charm
ing is extremely easy with Australian
snakes" 1t would be very interesting
to sec how far this is true of American
serpents.
The year just closing has been remark
able for the number of disasters on ses
and shore. The losses of the Schiller
the City of Waco, the Vanguard, the
Pacific, and the Deutschland on the
ocean, and the foods in England and
France, the famine in Asia Minor, and
the burning of Virginia City, and the
fearful colliery explosion in the Swarthe
Main Mine, make fearful catalogue
Our readers may recall other disasters to
swell list unusually long and dark.
EDWARD A. Stokes, who shot Fisk, has
been for the last two months confined to
his bed in the hospital of Sing Sing with
Asthma and chills and fever, contracted
in the prison. His constitution appears
much broken, his hair is almost white,
and his form is bent and attenuated.
His term of imprisonment, by stretch
of the law, will expire next September,
but his counsel claim that it should end
by the 9th of January.
BASE BALL playing is added to the
causes of crime. At least two convicts,
sent from Portsmouth to Columbus, as
cribed their troubles to over.devotion to
the game. 1t was not too much love for
base ball. but too great indisposition to
work, and disregard for Others rights,
that did the mischief. Idleness is the
mother of many vices, and it makes lit
tie difference whether the lazy man be-
comes addicted to base ball or to any
other amusement for which he has
neither time nor money to spare.
VERIFY France is a wonderful coun-
try. With all the incubus of heavy war
expenditures resting upon her, she
cleared off her Indebtedness to Germany
with such ease and rapidity as to make
Bismarck regret he had not asked for
more. And this has been done without
crippling her resources. Now the Minis
ter of France informs the Assembly and
the world that the revenue since the
commencement of the present year, is
$22, 100000 in excess of the estimates.
The financial vitality of France is sim
ply without precedent.
THE "tramp" convention at Colum.
bus, Ohio, disapproved the furnishing of
transportation from one place to another.
"Giving food to a vagrant without la
bor," they said, " il TO encourage him in
idleness. Offering work to the honest,
poor man is not to insult him he will
gladly labor for his food, and his hearty
endeavor to render the quid pro quo will
distinguish him from the undeserving
poor man, the tramp, the vagrant. After
the separation of the touchstone labor,
let the vagabond receive his due in Di-
vine and human law; let him not eat !;
let him be arrested as vagrant, and
labor be enforced from him let compul-
sorry education in the Divine law, in the
sweat of thy brow, etc., be given him" )"
They therefore resolved to recommend
the establishment of workhouses, 80 that
the vagrants may be compelled to pay
their way through life.
IT is, perhaps, not well known that
Plus TX is very fine musician. As a
young man he cultivated his taste for
music very assiduously, and his voice was
magnificent. Even now II is very sweet
and powerful; and when His Holiness
sings at High Mass, all are struck by the
superb manner in which he executes the
Gregorian chant. The Pope has always
been distinguished patron of music
and it is to him that Rome owed the
Aourishing condition of her conservatory
of music. He has always noticed with
Difference the masters in music, as Cap
poci, Rossini, and Gounod, and his special
choir sang the funeral mass for the re-
pose of the famous prima donna, Carlotts
Marchisio, at her death. Plus TX is a.
present much interested in the grea
church music question, which is so widel,
discussed in the musical world. He dis
approves Of the use of profane music il
churches, but, at the same time, recent,
expressed his opinion that, as a rule
what is usually called sacred music wa
dull and dreary. He thought that sacre,
music should be dramatic but not theat
rical. l3tt.I
A NEW trial is to be had if Mr.. Kasso,
insists on it. In his. suit for 800 90,
worth of libel against the Des Moine
(Iowa) State Register, half of the agree
ing jury wanted to give the ex-Coneress
man one cent damages, but the other
would not agree TO it-some thinking 4
too little and some too much.