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The Lake County star., 1876-07-27
Something New About Pears.

Mr.. p. T. Quinn tells the following
story in his "Rural Topics" in Serb
ner: A few years ago, a gentleman liv-
ing in the suburbs of New York, anxious
to have large pear trees that would bear
fruit soon, contracted with a tree agent
for some Bartletts, the price of which
was fixed at ten dollars apiece. The
trees came in due time and were set out.
In two years from the time of planting
they bore small round russell pear that
hung on the tree until late in October.
About this time the very same agent
made his appearance, and, being re.
minded of the contract to furnish Bart
let's, he asked to be allowed to examine
the trees and fruit, the latter still hang
ing on the trees. He examined both
carefully, and, turning toward his vic
tim, said with stern expression, Well,
sir, when sold you those trees, sup
posed you were a well-read, intelligent
man: but now l am of different opin-
ioD." This very singular remark brought
forth the query, "Why?" from the
owner. "Why!" was the response from
the agent, "to think Of mar of culture
at this day and age who does not know
the fact that Bartlett tree never bears
Bartlett pears the first year." The gen.
tleman admitted his ignorance, and the
peddler left, master of the situation
Some weeks after the victim made in
quiry of neighbor if he was aware o.
this strange phenomenon in horticulture
Since then this tree agent has not made
his appearance in that section of th'
country
The Lake County star., 1876-07-27
Lime.Water for Burns.

The readiest and most useful remedy
for scalds and burns is an embrocation
of lime-water and linseed oil. These
simple agents combined form a thick,
cream-like substance, which eflectually
excludes the air from the injured parts,
and allays the inflammation almost in
stantly. A case is recorded where a
child fell backward into a bath-tub of
boiling water, and was nearly fayed from
her neck to below her hips. Her agonies
were indescribable but her clothing be-
ing gently removed, and the lime and
oil preparation thickly spread over the
injured surface, she was sound asleep in
five minutes. Subsequently, the parts
were carefully washed with warm milk
and water three times day, the oil
dressing renewed, and the little patient
rapidly recovered. Though all the
scalded skin came of, she did not have a
scar. This remedy leaves no hard coat
to dry on the sores, but softens the parts
and aids nature to repair the injury in
the readiest and most expeditions man.
ner. This mixture may be procured in
the drug stores, but if not thus accessi-
BILE, shake lump of quicklime in waAer,
and as soon as the water is clear, mix it
with the oil and shake it well. If the
case is urgent, pour boiling water over
the lime, and it will become clear in five
minutes. The preparation may be kept
bottled in the house, and it will be as
good six months old as when first made.
The Lake County star., 1876-07-27
The Hog BOuncer.
IScientifc Americana

The above is the name of simple de-
vice invented by the cattle-yard men of
West Albany, N. Y, to induce hogs to
move, from the cars in which they are
transported, into the yard. Pigs, as a
rule, are not of accommodating disposi-
tions; and when it comes to prevailing
upon car load of them to move along
upon narrow gangeway, the first ones
that start upon the plank are apt to de-
cline to proceed further, and so block the
egress of the rest. This necessitates an
astonishing amount of patience and beat
ing, besides unlimited strong language,
and of course often delays cattle train
for some time. The new invention for
persuading the animal to pass on is the
og bouncer, made by bringing one end of
the gangway plank to q firm support |;
then under the other end, two double car
springs are placed. A powerful lever
and spring catch complete the device.
Before the car-door is opened, the plat
form is carried down 80 as to compress
the springs by the lever, and the catch is
hooked. The hogs are then allowed to
pass along the platform, and, so long az
they move along properly, the plank is
undisturbed; but as soon as crowd con-
gregates and vociferously objects to going
further, the catch is sprung. One end
of the platform lies about three feet up.
ward, and the result is shower of living
porkers, shot over the heads and upon the
soft bodies of the drove. They are sci.
dom injured, but vastly astonished; and
it is needless to add that the blockade IL
at once dispelled. The drovers find this
device, ridiculous as it is, very useful in
saving time and trouble, especially when,
as often is the case, large numbers ol
cattle trains are arriving and leaving.
The Lake County star., 1876-07-27
beware OF Opiatcs.

Tn order to induce natural and health.
full sleep such methods are to be adopted
as will abstract an excess of blood from
the brain. This may bo accomplished
by exercise, which draws off the blood to
the more weary organs; while we'll
ordered digestion demands the blood
that keeps the brain in too great an ac-
tivity for the stomach, where it is
needed. To sleep well, too, according to
DR.. Ferrier, one mnst, If possible, rid
himself of all care, anxiety, and disturb
ing thoughts as the natural Sc ,son OF
repose approaches. A brisk walk toward
the close of the day, and when the brain
has been overtaxed, is commended 10 us.
But DIR. Ferrier warns us-apd it would
be we'll If he could be heard everywhere
and heeded--from opiates as dangerous
ground" They do not produce sleep sc
much as torpor. If you can not gel
sleep by methods which nature itself In
dicates, he rays, it is full time to call in
the family doctor.
The Lake County star., 1876-07-27
Female Society.

1t is better for you to pass an evening
once or twice week in lady's drawing
room, even though the conversation is
slow, and you know the girls song by
heart, than at a club, the tavern, or a
pit of the theater. All the amusements
of youth to which virtuous women are
not admitted, rely on it, are deleterious
in their nature. All men who avoid fe-
male society have dull perceptions, and
are dull, and have gross tastes, and revolt
against what is pure. Your club swag-
gerers, who are sucking the butts of bill.
lard cues all night, call female society
insipid. Poetry is uninspiring to a
jockey; beauty has no charms for blind
man; music does not please poor beast
who does not know one tune from an.
other; but as pure epicure is hardly
tired of water sauces and brown bread
and butter, protest can sit for whole
night talking with a well-regulated
kindly woman about her girl Fanny, OF
boy Frank, and like the evenings enter
tainment. One of the great benefits
derived from woman's society by man
is, that he is bound to respect her. The
habit is of great good to your moral man,
depend upon it. Our education makes
us the most eminently selfish men in the
world Thdckerdy.
The Lake County star., 1876-07-27
The Rifle Movement.
Galaxy for April

Since the Dollymount victory, the
American rifle movement has made still
more rapid strides. The California, Ne
vada, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Massa-
chusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island
Rifle Associations have been founded,
and possess handsome ranges. Baltimore
has just started its club; New Orleans
has another Mobile and Montgomery,
Alabama, have followed suit Richmond
has its coterie of marksmen, Saratoga its
club, while the line of the Hudson River
Railroad counts at least four ranges, at
Yonkers, Irvington, Poughkeepsie, and
Hudson. The sport has fairly "taken
hold"
1t only remains to say few words as
to the international matches of the pres
ent year, and our chances therein, to
close the subject, without wearying the
unprefessional reader with dry details OF
technical points. The contests for places
on the American team of 1876 have just
closed, with the following result. The
team will be composed of eight men, all
good and true, with reserve Of four. We
are no longer compelled to rely on the
"immortal six" The only members Of
the teams of 1874 and 1875 who will
shoot in the team of 1876 are Dakin, Full
ton, and Yale. The rest will be new men.
Bodine rests on his laurels, Gildersleeve
has shot his way into a popularity that
has made him judge, with salary OF
$4,000 a year; Coleman has gone to
work at his law books once more; Hep.
burn is satisfied to make that queen oi
weapons the " Creedmoor Rifle" without
spending his time shooting it. The team
of 1875, coon to be famous, will comprise
strange names, and the average proper
ton Of the possible score which the whole
team can be relied on to make is shown
in the preliminary contests to be at least
eighty.three per cent. The Irish, in
their constests at Dundalk, and the
Scotch ut Cow Glen, have 80 far made ar
average of eighty per cent. only, but il
must be remembered that the contests
we're shot in wind and rain storms, Will,
the Creedmoor trials have been in beauti
full summer weather. The indications
are that the contest will be closer thar
the figures seem at first sight to warrant
and that the scores of 1876 will exec
those previous years as much as those o
Dollymount excelled all that wen
| before,
The Lake County star., 1876-07-27
A Lover OF Science.
country
Huntington Hawkeye.l

A Burlington naturalist, last Sunday,
while investigating the causes and effect
of the poison Of wasp sting, nobly de-
termined to make Of himself martyr to
science, and accordingly, handed his
thumb TO an impatient insect he had
Gagged in q bottle. The wasp entered
into the martyr business with great
deal of spirit, and backed up to the
thumb with an abruptness which took
the scientist by surprise. He was so
deeply absorbed in the study of remedies
that he forgot to make any notes of the
other points in connection with stings,
but his wife wrote paragraph in his
notebook, for the benefit of science, to
the effect that the primary effect of a
wasp sting is abrupt, blasphemous and
terrific profanity, followed by an intense
desire, fairly amounting TO mania, fol-
ammonia, camphor and raw brandy.
The Lake County star., 1876-07-27
TOM sCRIBBLEs.

Tom Scribbles was bankers clerk,
On salary rather small,
SO that he seemed for ever short,
Though he was very tall.
OF handsome form and winning ways,
He loved TO cut dash
He kept the bankers cash accounts,
And often kept his cash.
One day the banker said to him.
Dear Sir, the thing is queer
And though I'm buying stock all day,
I've never much In store.
In fact know, beyond doubt,
With me you've been too free,
And as you give me drafts for checks,
I'll check your draughts on me.
You must have thought me very blind,
Your errors not to see
But took note OF you, and find,
You've taken notes Of me.
Your services need no more,
Yorr tricks will never do,
You long have made the change for me,
I'll make the change for you.
Another matter, sir, 1 feel
To speak Of would be right;
Although your habits are so loose,
They often make you tight.
And when you should be at your work,
With all your might and main,
The figures which you try to pen
Are all penned In your brain.
In hopes that you would alter, sir,
I've kept you here this long;
But though you do write well at times,
You're often doing wrong.
To tell the truth, can not now,
A word speak in your praise
Yet tits not strange took with you,
You have such taking ways.
You're at discount now, and
No interest take in you;
Your time is up-I'll not extend
You're more than overdue.
Alas for Scribbles, there he was,
OF friend and place bereft;
And as he could not stay and write,
He turned away and left.
-Indianapolis Herald
The Lake County star., 1876-07-27
Material Inducements to MatrimOny.


Married at ST. Bernard's Church, John
Mcmahon, of Waterville, aged sixty
seven years, to Ann Kenny, OF Cohoes,
aged fOrty-nine years. j..
The above marriage was the result OF
love at first sight. The boy came to this
city with some of his farm products ON
Saturday evening, and while enjoying a
cup of "social bored" met relative OF
the girl. The innocent country boy said
he had lived since he was born without
a better half, and had at last resolved to
procure one, regardless of cost. His
companion, who is an ex-city officer, said
he could procure the necessary better
half. and the two men repaired to the
house of the girl above mentioned. The
ex.city officer gave an introduction to
the parties, whereupon the country boy
asked the city girl out in the ya-d, and
the following conversation ensued:
Boy-Say, sis. would you be after mar
ryin' met
Sis-I might, If sufficient inducements
was after bein' offered.
Boy-How would fresh eggs, new milk,
fresh butter, fat pigs, tomaters, taters,
cabbige, corn, sweetapples, cowcumbers,
and nice, quiet, aisy horse to drive to
town wild whenever you want to cum2
Sis-Ihem's good inducements, an l
guess I'll take 'em an you.
Whereupon they embraced and were
made one at st. Bernard's Church last
evening,
The Lake County star., 1876-07-27
TT has been freouentlv argued ths

IT has been frequently argued that
men ought to live for hundred years,
according to the general law of animal
creation that life should extend to five
times the period required for growth.
Many of the insect tribes mature and
fructify in a few hours and die before
nightfall. A dog grows for two years
and lives eight; horse grows for five
years and lives twenty-five an OK grows
for four years and lives sixteen; a camel
grows for eight years and lives forty
and man grows for twenty years, and,
could he maintain as regular habits and
as even diet as other animals, would
probably live one hundred.
The Lake County star., 1876-07-27

The International Typographical
Union is making good progress in the
work of erecting monument to Horace
Greeley. The granite work of the base
will be com pleted by the middle of next
month, and the bronze figure IA colossal
bust) will be cast by the 1st OF Septem-
Der. The first proposal was to make
type-metal statue, and several thousand
pounds of old type were received for the
purpose, but il would not stand exposure
to the weather for any length of time.
The total contributions thus far received
toward the monument amount to $3,-
233.76,
The Lake County star., 1876-07-27

GEORGE SAND, although she never
during her lifetime professed any relig-
ious belief, and died without receiving
the last sacraments, was nevertheless &C.
corded burial with the rites of the
Church, and in consecrated ground, by
the Roman Catholic Archbishop OF
Bourges, Monseigneur La Tour d'Au-
vergne, the funeral ceremony being con-
Quoted by the priest of Nohant Vic, on
the application of her son, Solange Gle
singer Sand.
The Lake County star., 1876-07-27

AN important discovery has been
made by London physician, who was
baffled by the sickness of gentleman
and his wife. They complained Of nausea
and vomiting, for which no ordinary
causes could account. At last the de-
spairing doctor examined the highly
glazed, delicate green calico lining of the
bed curtains, and lonnd 1t to contain a
large quantity of arsenic. 1t appears
that this poisonous calico is sold in large
quantities.
The Lake County star., 1876-07-27

LETTERS from Spain state that the
vineyards and cereal crops in Andalusia
are marvelously productive, and prom
ise yield of barley unknown. for one
hundred years. In Ciudad Real and
Badajoz the cereal crops have been wholly
destroyed by the locusts. In Badsjoz
10000 arobas (an aroba is twenty-five
pounds) of locusts have been burned
with petroleum in trenches. This show,
the fearful extent of the plague. Nor,
than $1,000 troops were occupied ir
their destruction.
The Lake County star., 1876-07-27

"THE FATHERS were not old men.
The average age of the signers of the
Declaration on the Fourth of July, 1776,
scarcely reached forty-fve years-John
Hancock, the President, was but thirty
nine years old,
The Lake County star., 1876-07-27

The New York courts hold that the
sender of postal card is responsible for
any chance publication of its contents,
Notwithstanding post-ofiice employees
are forbidden to communicate the con-
tents of such card. A libel, therefore,
written on a postal card is actionable,
they hold, if it accidentally falls into the
hands of any person other than the one
addressed.
The Lake County star., 1876-07-27

REV. CHARLES f. CHENEY, of Chicago,
is the natural successor of DIR. Cummins
as senior Bishop Of the Reformed Epis-
copal Church.
The Lake County star., 1876-07-27
TRUTHS AND TRIPLES.
-RUMoR is a pipe

-RUMoR is pipe
Blown by surmises, jeaousies, conjectures;
And of 30 easy and SO plain q stop,
That the blunt monster with uncounted heads,
The still discordant wavering multitude,
Can play upon 1t. Shakespeare.
GIRARDINA, when asked how long it
would take to learn to play the violin,
replied: "Twelve hours a day for
twenty years." This will prove dis
couraging intelligence to those persons
who live next door to young men who
have just commenced wrestling with a
fiddle.
THAT was shrewd girl, and not de-
void of sense either, who remarked,
when the girls were making fun of her
short skirts, and affected to be much
shocked at the exhibition thereof st a
party: "If you'd only pull up yours at
the neck where they ought to be, they'd
be as short as mineW She was not
troubled any more.
HERE is a passage from the last letter
traced by the hands of George Sand,
which is singularly like to saying of
Goethe on his deathbed: am not one
of those who shrink from submission to
great law and rebel against the end of
great German that he broke long
silence by this wise and consolatory ut
terance: "After all, this death is 30 gem
eral thing, it can not be an evil thing"
PETITION TO TIME.
Touch us gently, Time!
Let us glide adown thy stream
Gently-as we sometimes glide
Through quiet dream.
Humble voyagers are we,
Husband, wife, and children three;
One Is l0st-an angel, fed
To the azure overhead
Touch us gently, Time!
We've not proud nor soaring wings;
Our ambition, our content,
Lies In simple things.
Humble voyagers are we,
Ger life's dim, uns0unded sea,
Seeking only some calm cline;
Touch us gently, gentle Time!
A LADY in Bedford, who lived near a
church, was sitting by the window listen
ing to the crickets which were loudly
chirping, the music from the choir re-
hearsal being family audible, when a
gentleman dropped in familiarly, who
had Just passed the church and had the
music full in mind. "What noise they
are making tonight" said he. "Yes,"
said the lady, and it is said they do it
with their hind legs"
ARCHBISHOP WHATELY did not de-
spise pun-in fact he rarely let an OPP
portunity pass without perpetrating one,
and sometimes at jolly dinner, would
himself make the worst pun of the even
ing. He thought gardening danger.
GUS indulgence for lunatics, because they
might grow madden. And it is to
him we owe the valuable information
that Noah's Ark was made of gopher
wood, but Joan of Arc was Maid of
Orleans.
AVOID all boastings and exaggerations,
backbiting, abuse, and evil speaking,
slang phrases and oaths in conversation,
depreciate no mans qualities, and ac-
cept hospitalities of the humblest kind
in a hearty and appreciative manner;
avoid giving offense, and if you do
offend, have the manliness to apologize;
infuse as much elegance as possible into
your thoughts as well as your actions;
and, as you avoid vulgirities you will
increase the enjoyment of life, and grow
in the respect OF others.
The Lake County star., 1876-07-27

JAPANESE lacquer is said to be sub.
stance extracted from a tree. 1t grows
in the north of Japan, and the gum is
prepared and sent to all parts of the
country. 1t is rank poison while soft.
Many people cannot endure the smell,
or pass workshop without suffering. A
great deal of skill is required in making
the gum harden and set. When set it is
waterproof and perfectly harmless; it
stands heat, and is tough and hard.
Wood, leather, metal, and paper fabrics
take lacquer easily.
The Lake County star., 1876-07-27

The people of Colorado, having &C
cepted the constitution recently pre-.
pared for them, only two or three minor
acts remain to introduce her into the
sisterhood of States. There will then be
six States west of the Missouri River,
Oregon, California, Nevada, Colorado,
Nebraska, and Kansas, all of them hav-
ing population of only 1,220,9l7, or
about the same as the State of Virginia.
Truly Congress has been generous in ad-
mitting these States in the Union so far
as their population is concerned.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1876-07-21

siderable time to prospecting at St.
Croix Falls, also looked over the IN
dlcations of copper deposits near
this village, and the Potsdam sand
stone quarry here. Prof Chamber
lain, chief Geologist, is expected
here this week
LATER.
Prof T. G. Chamberlain, Chief
Geologist Of this State, ACCOMPANY
led by L. G. Wooster and Edwin
Hill, assistants, came up on the
Knapp Wednesday and joined Prof.
Strong at St. Croix Falls. Prof.
Strong will work from this place in
Polk, Burnett, Douglas and Bay
field counties, giving special atten-
ton to the copper bearing rock.
while Wooster and Hill, will work
in st. Croix, Pierce and Dunn coun-
ties, star ting from this place Prof
Irving and Prof G. E. Wright, the
Michigan iron specialist, will take
the Penoka range in Ashland county
and follow that range as far as il
can be traced, probably in a south
westerly direction. In August Prof
Chamberlain will join the party an6
complete the work of the year
About one-half of the appropriation
for this year is being expended in
the counties Of the St. Croix valley
and alorg lake Superior.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1876-07-21
How Our Jerry Stopped a Fight

Hon. J. NJ. Rusk represents the
adjoining districtin Congress. The
following in regard to him is from
the Philadelphia Times:
1t was strictly North Carolina fight, and
a practical eXemplifcation Of Southern chiy-
airy, which Wisconsin, in the person of the
muscular Representative Rusk unceremoni-
ously stopped at the Ebbitt House in Wash
ington. 4 North Carolina editor having
written something disrespectful of Repre-
sentative Waddell, of the same State, was
recently caned by the latter while in Will
mngton. Cassaday, the editor in question
was in Washington on Saturday, and meeting
Waddell and his brother in the hotel a TRAN
gular fight ensued, which was not conducted
in the equitable manner of that recorded in
''Midshipman Easy" In fact the two broth
ers knocked down the newspaper man, and
were jointly and severallv proceeding to
pound him with their canes when Gen. Rusk
interferred and pulled them away. There
seems TO be no provision in the North Caro-
lima code against two mems attacking one, or
continuing to beat him after he is down, and
the valiant pair enragcd at the interruption,
turned ferceIy upon the sturdy Rusk, but he
didn't look like healthy man for even two
10 tackle. and when he cOOly informed them
that no two men should combine forces
against one while he was around, and tn at hf
had no apologies to offer for his Interference,
they accepted bis explanation and apOlogized
for their heated words. And this proves thai
even chivalrous North Caroliniacs know
when discre ton is the better part Of valor.