The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-08-17


the starters having dropped the flags
the judges had no right to interfere.
Judge Wilkes gave his dicision in favor
of Passion.
A RECENT issue of the Glasgow Neus
contains letter from John Stevenson,
in which the latter states most positively
that Robert Fulton was Scotchman and
born in the county of Ayr, instead of
being as heretofore claimed, of Irish
parentage and American birth. Mr..
Stevenson, who is grand nephew of
Fulton, says the latter concealed the fact
of his Scotch birth as much as possible,
as he was afraid of being prosecuted by
the British government on account OF
having offered the invention of torpedo
to the French. Mr.. Stevenson adds that
other relatives who remember him are
still alive.
THE cause of the Servian outbreak
was, of course, the incongr1ity of the
populations that are crowded together
under the Turkish flag, especially in the
forced contiguity of hostile religions.
The immediate occasion was the question
of taxes which underlies all revolutions.
The Porte tried to levy tribute on the
people of Herzegovina and Bosnia. This
has always been regarded as unjust by
the Christian subjects of the Moslem, and
they rebelled, even as the Moors rebelled
against contributing to the revenue of
that "Christian dog" Philip of Spain,
and the Jews objected to paying tribute
to the " "infidels " at Rome.
Al. PAYER, the eminent Arctic ex-
plorer, referring to a certain day on
which the thermometer indicated fifty
eight degrees Fahrenheit below zero,
says that 80 great an amount of cold par
alyzes the will, and that, under its infu-
ence, men, from the unsteadiness of their
gait, their stammering talk, and the
slowness of their mental operation, seem
as if they were intoxicated. Another
effect of such cold, mentioned by M.
Payer, is a tormenting thirst, which is
due to the evaporation of the moisture
of the body. 1t is unwholesome, too, to
use snow to quench the thirst, as it brings
on Inflammation of the throat, palate,
and tongue; besides, a temperature of
thirty-five and half 10 thirty-eight de-
grees below zero, Fahrenheit, makes it
taste like molten metal. Snow eaters in
the North are considered as feeble and
efIeminate in the same way as is an opium
eater in the East.
AN ardent foe of vivisection having
contended in the London Fortnightly
that Harvey, by mere meditation, and
without experimenting on the living
subject, could and should have made his
famous discovery of the blood's circu.
lation, the British Medical Journal refutes
such notion by quoting Harvey's own
words, when telling the story of his
great scientific triumph: Devoting my
self to discover the use and utility of the
movement of the heart in animals. in a
great number of vivisections, found at
first the subject so full of difficulties that
! thought for long time, with Fracas-
tor, that the secret was known to God
alone. Finally, from redoubled care and
attention, by multiplying and varying
my experiments, and by comparing the
various results, / believed had put nv
finger on the truth, and commenced un-
raveling the labyrinth.
In the north of Turkey, which it en-
ters as a wedge, is the important State
of Servia. In extent it is about one
third the area of Pennsylvania, and in
population it numbers less people than
New York and Brooklyn. On the north
of Servia is Hungary; on the west and
south is Bosnia; on the east Bulgaria
and Wallachia. The people are all
Serbs of Slavic origin, excepting about
100000 Wallacbs, $4,000 gypsies, and
$4,000 Turks and other peoples. The
surface is broken by branches of the
Carpathian Mountains in the northeast,
of the Balkan in the southeast and south
and of the Dinaric Alps in the west. In
the center and along the banks of the
principal rivers are extensive plains
The Danube and its tributary, the Save,
flow on the southern frontier and receive
the DRAWINGS of the country by several
streams, the most importantof which are
the Drina, Morava, and Timok. The
principal towns are Belgrade, the cap
ital, Kraguyevstz, Semendria, Uzhitza
- Gl.Lot1