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The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-12-07

VIRGINIA (Nev.) Enterprise: The
Piute Indians encamped in the south
eastern suburbs of the city are preparing
for winter. Out of all manner of scraps
of lumber several families have con-
structed huts somewhat resembling the
cabins of the whites. During stroll in
that part of the town day or two since
we noticed one brave mounted upon his
shanty, where he was industriously en-
gagged in mailing in place tin roof, the
tin used being obtained by pulling to
pieces old oil cans. The shanties are
provided with hinged doors, and we
observed that one was fastened with
formidable looking paddock. in two
places we noticed considerable flocks of
chickens of all sorts and sizes. This
shows that the Indians have some notion
of acquiring property, and that they
find fresh-laid egg a coed thing to have
about the camp. AT all the camps was
seen a large stock of dogs and consider
able number of sorry.looking ponies.
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Edgiva looked alarmed. Mrs. Whittier
said with a snap:

Edgiva looked alarmed. Mrs. Whittle
said with snap:
Beg pardon, Mr.. Jorkin."
Loo-lookrorlirain, eh !"
That was worse. Edgiva was backing
toward the door. l thrust the fire ball il
the other cheeck,-How they glared!
tried the other side.
els it toothache, Augustus ?" sale
Edgiva. "Your face is swollen"
"No-no sh-sure YOU"
A wild attempt to laugh-a gulp-s
gurgle and plunged headlong into the
bedroom. l had swallowed Aunt
Bamber's pill was dead man.
heard them 60. On the staircase Mrs.
Whittier said: "Shocking-and 60
early in the day! Come away Edgiva." /"
And Littlebee-the urderer4-said,
solemnly: Shocking, dear madame
shockingp
! don't know how long lay there.
only reused myself when Littlebee-
that fiend Littlebee-entered the room.
Villainp roared.
" Boshp he answered. "The pills all
right"
"What! am not poisoned p'
" Nothing in it but ginger. wanted
to teach you lesson"
l fell into his arms. l was moved to
tears.
But do you know that when called
at the Whittlers', Mrs. Whittier sent
down word that she was surprised at my
effrontery. And when l tried to see
Edgiva, was told she was engaged
MIR. Littlebee was with her.
He calls there every day.
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Science and Common Sense.

How shall we learn science by mer
common sense?
First, always try to explain the un
known by the known. If you NEE
something which you have not met be
fore, then think of the thing most lik,
it which you have seen before; and tr,
if that which you know explains the ont
will not explain the other also. Some
times it will sometimes it will not. But
if it will, no one has right to ask you
to try any other explanation.
Suppose, for instance, that you found
dead bird on the top of cathedral.
tower, and were asked how you thought
it had got there. You would say, 'sOI
course it died up there" But if friend
said: mot SO; it dropped from bal
loon, or from the Clouds" and told you
the prettiest tale of how the bird came
to so strange an end, you would answer |:
mo, no, l must reason from what /
know. l know that birds haunt the
cathedral-tower; / know that birds die !;
and, therefore. let your story be as pretty
as it may, my common sense bids me
take the simplest explanation, and say
it died here" In saying that, you would
be talking scientifically. You would
have made fair and sufficient induction
(as it is called) from the facts about
birds habits and birds deaths which
you knew.
But suppose that when you took the
bird up you found that it was neither
jackdaw, nor a sparrow, nor swallow,
as you expected, but humlning bird.
Then you would be adrift again. The
fact of it being a humming bird would
be new fact which you had not taken
into account, and for which your old
explanation was not sufficient; and you
would have to try new induction--to
use your common sense afresh-
saying, 81 have not to explain merely
how dead bird got here: but how
dead humming- bird"
And now if your imaginative friend
chimed in triumphantly with, "Do you
not see that / was right after all? Do
you not see that it fell from the clouds
That it was swept away hither, all the
way from South America, by some south
westerly storm, and wearied out at last,
dropped here to find rest, as in sacred
place? what would you answer, "My
friend that is a beautiful Imagination
but must treat it only as such, as long
as l can explain the mystery more
simply by facts which ! do know. Idonot
know that humming birds can be blown
across the Atlantic alive. / do know
that they are actually brought |
across the Atlantic dead; are stuck in
ladies' hats. l know that ladies visit
the cathedral; and, odd as the accident
is, l prefer to believe, till get better
explanation, that the humming bird
simply dropped out of lady's hat"
There, again, you would be talking COM
mon sense; and using, too, sound induc-
tive method; trying to explain what
you do not know from what you do know
already.
Now, ask you to employ the same
common sense when you read and think |
Of geology. y.-Rev. Charles Kinsley.
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CuriOsities Of the Directory.

Goulding's New York City Directory
just issued, contains 264,7 names, be.
ing IL ,115 more than that of last year $
volume. Some very curious names may
be found between its covers, as, for in
stance, there are fifty-three Banks and
only seventeen Bankers, two Tubbs with
one BOttum. The different colors rep
resented are Blue, Brown, Gray, Green,
Black, White, and Purple. Then there
are two Doctors, two Quacks, and two
Ducks; Snow, Rain and Wind, Spring,
Summer, and Winter. The name of
Smith occurs over twenty-three hundred
times, the Mes occupy one hundred and
eight columns, about eighty names to
a column. There are a Trout, twenty
three Salmons, and two Suckers; two
Schools and one Sehoolhouse, with one
Schoolmaster; Kings, Dukes, Princes,
and Lords in abundance, and one King
dom; Pie, five Hens, and one Pigeon,
three Sparrows, two Lions. and Mule,
with thirteen Riders and only one Horse
man; twenty BARRIERS with a single
Shaver. George Washington's name
occurs nine times, that of Thomas JET.
ferson once, John @. Adams twice, and
Benjamin Franklin three times. There
is one Gent and one Melady, and forty
five Churches and eleven Deacons, with
five Pastors. OF Pitchers there are five,
and of Bowles twelve. East, West,
North and South are to be found Turks.
High, Low, Rich, and Poor; Lovely,
Dancer, Pin and Needle. OF the diff
ferent nationalities there are Dutch,
French, Irish, and Welsh, and
John Germany, who sells beer. There
are March, June, July, and August;
three Onions, two Segars, Albany and
Boston; Copper, Iron, and Brass,
Butchers, Long and Short, Lambs, with
four Heads: two Doctors, thirty.seven
Wise, and three Mott. Cain, Abel, and
and Adam are numerously represented.
There are six Courts, thirty-one Judges,
and one Lawyer, with forty-two Cases.
Pincus Pincus is barber, and Anson
House keeps hotel.
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NUMBER 80.
Ruhning In Debt.

Idwell on this point, for l would de-
Ter others from entering that place OF
torment. Half of the young men in
this country, with many old enough to
know better, would 60 into business
that is, into debt-to-morrow, if they
could. Most poor men are 80 Ignorant
as to envy the merchant or manufact urer
whose life is an incessant struggle with
pecuniary difficulties, who is driven to
constant shining" and who flom
month to month, barely evades the in
solvency which sooner or later overtakes
most men in business; so that it has been
computed that but one man in twenty
OF them achieves a pecuniary success.
For my own part would rather be
convict in the State prison, slave in a
rice swamp, than to pass through life un-
der the harrow of debt. Let no man
misjudge himself unfortunate or truly
poor, so long as he has the full use of
his limbs and faculties, and is substan-
TALLY free from debt. Hunger, cold,
rags, hard work, contempt, suspicion,
unjust reproach, are disagreeable, but
debt is infinitely worse than them all.
And If it had pleased God to spare
either or all my sons to be the support
of my declining years, the lesson which
l should most earnestly seek to impress
upon them is, "never run in debt"
Avoid pecuniary obligations as you
would a pestilence or famine. If you
have but fifty cents, and can get no
more for week, buy a peck of corn,
parch it and live on it, rather than owe
a dollar! Of course 1 know that some
men must do business that involves a
risk, and must give notes or other obliga-
tions, and do not consider him in debt |
who can lay his hands directly on the
means of paying, at some little sacrifice,
all ne owes; l speak of real debt-that
which involves risk or sacrifice on one
side, obligation and dependence on the
other-and say from all such, let every
youth humbly pray God to preserve him
evermore.-Horace Greeley.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-12-07

The carnonfa tree, a species of the
palm, which hourishes without culture at
Bahia, Rio Grande del Norte, Brazil, is
OF immense value. The roots possess
properties similar to those of the ssrsa-
pariila; the trunk furnishes superior
fiber, as we'll as a flower similar TO
maizena,; the pulp of its fruit is very
palatable; and the only nut, when roasted
and pulverized, is good substitute for
coffee. The trunk when young yields
wine, vinegar, saccharine matter, and
a species of gum resembling sago; the
leaves produce wax from which excel
lent candles are made, and the full
grown wood is adapted TO the manufac-
ture of musical instruments, drain pipes
and water conduits.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-12-07

The aeronaut Wise, who has made a
good deal of study Of electrical phenom-
ena, expresses belief that lightning rods
are useless in electrical storms, but that
metal roofs are an absolute protection. He
says that during recent storm several
hagsta6s were shivered down to the point
of contact with the metal roofs, when
the damage ceased, the fluid dispensing
over tho expanse Of metal. This CORES
ponds 10 hundreds Of other cases that he
has examined, and he declares his con-
viction that "the lighting rod, as a
protection in itself, il Of no more value
than a bodkin would be to ward off the
ball fred from Columbiad."
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THE TWO BOOKS.

little sparrow twittered near my door,
And TO my ear
The meaning clearer came than e'er before
And Brought me cheer.
"Not one of us without our Fathers care
Falls TO the earth;
Why doubt his fonder care for you, who are
Or far more worth 2"
A soaring eagle In his lofty fight
Gave me q thought,
Which to my weak and falt' ring soul bright,
Fresh courage brought.
Know ye not, they that wait upon the Lord
Strength shall renew
Shall mount on wings as eagles? This his Woid
Has promised you."
Ihus humble sparrow and the prouder bird
Sweet comfort givs;
AND i, reminded of Gods faithful word
More trusting live.
And throughout natures varied forms OF life,
Where'er look,
l find them all with references rife
To that dear Book,
AS though. this earth companion volume were
To sacred page,
w here man beholds the illustration fair
From age to age.
National Repository for January.
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TRUTHS AND TRIPLES.

BEAUTIFUL lives have grown up In
the darkest places, as pure white lilies
full of fragrance, have blossomed on
Shiny, stagnant waters.
They wondered at the short colIec-
tions in Missouri church, and inyesti-
gated to find that one of the collectors
had tar in the top of his hat.
Too many embrace religion from the
same motives that they take companion
in wedlOck-not from true love of the
person, but because of large dowry.
A New YORK firm advertises Good
watches for fifty cents" And now no
man can offer good excuse for not
making his wife a valuable present at
Christmas.
A WESTERN woman having been
spoken of as having zone foot in the
grave" cruel commentator remarks
that there must be a big hole out there
somewhere.
"DID you do nothing to resuscitate
the body?" was recently asked of Bos-
ton witness at Coroner's inquest.
Yes, sir; we searched the pockets"
was the reply.
MEN are more mindful of wrongs than
of benefits, and it is but just that it
should be so; as he who restores deposit
deserves no commendation, but he who
detains it blame and punishment.
The origin of electing members by
ballots came from the Grecians. When
a member was to be elected, each MEM
Der threw small crumb of bread into
basket, carried by servant on his head,
and whoever differed, fattened the pellet
at one side. Fortnight comes from the
Anglo-Saxons, who counted time by
night, and means fourteen night.
OUR BABY.
of all the darling children
That ever q household blessed
We place or baby for compare
With the fairest and the BEST
She came when last the violets
Dropped from the hand OF spring;
When ON the trees the blossoms hung
Those cups OF odorous incense swung
When dainty robins sing.
How glowed the early morning
After night of rain,
When she possessed our waiting hearts
To go not out again.
{" Dear Lord" we said, with thankful speech,
Grant we may love Thee more
For this new blessing in cup
That was so full before I"
CCOfsNlh rdtueT hOOuy uSCu 10 De
the delight and guide of York, Maine,
the seaport town which disputes with
st. Augustine the honor of having been
the first city in America. In its ancient
meeting house he administered his cele-
brated rebuke to his tardy prisbioner,
stately Englishman. And, o good
Lord" prayed the worthy parson,
- among thy other kind dispensations,
cure thy servant who has just entered
thy house of that ungodly strut"
The needle is at this day worse
death dealing implement than the sword.
For while the sword rests in its scabbard
throughout nearly all Christendom, and
when it is used, only cuts off few men,
the needle is actively piled by vast null
titudes of women, the present and pros
pective mothers ofour race and it bows
down, weakens and blights their physi-
cal frames, causing them to bear families
Of puny and hort.lived children. And,
how large part of the "stitch, stitch,
stitching" that produces this deplorable
result is for vanity, rather than necessity
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-12-07

CLARET drinkers have not a cheerful
prospects ahead. The last vintage has
put great premium on adulteration,
and an immense rise in the prices of all
the finer wines Is predicted by next
month. All Bordeaux wines, in fact,
have recently risen in prices.
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MAIDENHOOD.
BY ANNIE n. AMMAN.

What happy star shone on her birth?
What grassy corner OF the earth
Grew daisies for her baby feet
10 dance between, since they repeat.
On all the fowerless ways they passI
That breezy motion Of the grass?
What brook bewitched her to its brink.
And drew her fresh lips down 10 drink
It's music, while II slipped unseen
Its happy cadences between?
So sweet and glad the voice that slips
From ambush of her maiden lips.
What winds upon the hills gave room
10 her, and buffeted to bloom
Her rounded cheeks, and nader her hair
a flying sunshine In the air?
FOR still, like sun-gleams on rose,
her wayward color comes and goes
what graybeard tree upon the down
Taught, as she sped, her floating gown.
ana whispered through his ancient girtb
The long dumb sorrow of the earth
For the sweet pity In her eyes
Almost their gladness overlies.
-ScTtbner for December
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-12-07

The American Baptist Missionary
Union reports $50 mission churches
planted In Europe, with a membership
Of more than 81 900.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-12-07

The lowest temperature in the Arctic
Seas recorded by Captain Ross in 1920,
was fifty degrees below zero; by DIR.
Kane in 1858, seventy degrees; by DR..
Hayes in 1861, sixty-two and one-half
degrees; by Captain Mares in 1876,
seventy-two degrees. A Russian trav-
eler named Niverotf once registered
seventy two degrees at Yakoutsk,
Siberia.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-12-07

MANS proper drink, according to the
Phrenological Monthly, or rather one of
Its contributors, is no drink at all. Moth.
ing liqiid is to be thought of but water,
and even that is tabooed except some
little time before or several hours after d
meal. necessity compels the swallow
ing of 1t, at these grudgingly allowed
periods, the water must be very pure,
rainwater preferred. Otherwise, all per-
sonsin health must moisten their mouths
with fruit onlv
National Republican., 1876-07-03
swEDENBoRaIAN.~o
Tho New Jerusalem Temple Exercises.

Owing to the extreme heat yesterday the at
tendance at the New Jerusalem Temple, tSve-
denborgiau,) North Capitol street, Capitol Hill,
was small. The text was from John vi:32 'And
ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall mako
you free" The pastor said: There ere but TWO
limitations to perfect freedom, viz. ignorance and
viciousress. If all men knew what is right, and
would resist the natural disposition to act from
the love Of self all men would be free. The truth
is able to make men free and will do SO; 1t is but
question Of time. The text is not only an enun-
citation of an abstract proposition, but is also a
premise and prophecy. Any man who will may
Of his understanding and win and life.
The freedom which the individual can FIRST
reach, and which is the very first need Of every
perious dominion Of self. 1t is great blessing to
be free from the dominion Of the tyrannous, of the
wicked, of the unTeasonable-in word, of the
selfish appetites.
We can at once begin to be recipient of this
blessing. Not to the perfect measure of its full
ness, as 1t is experienced In Heaven, hut to the
capacity Of enjoyment Of the deIiverance OF the
dominion of self as determined by mans will or
desire for that deliverance. 1t is wholly ques-
dcnce. The Lord is always in the affection of de-
livering man from evils Man must be willing
and show Willingness by cooperation. One must
time knowing and acknowledging that the will
the understanding and the power to do this are Of
shn eHm ns ne fe a9ne @ So b Woa idsa ge tee
man may be saved from his sins and sinfg}tIy
denotes while he sits supnely waiting, ,dpic 10th |
ing for himself, is not only false, bp-is slowly
pernicious. Ont Of the ChrstiaR' Of righteous |
century that old and eytlndor and warmth
evaporating, as the rays human mind. '-
into the dark va lle'oy which the dominions Of
Man must notlly overthrown in his own soul,
long and EaEfy is once gained over come evil |
seh-lovet IA attitude of resistance to that ten
but Whist still be maintained. The stock of the |
terry plant may remain in the soil of the natural |
ma though the outgrowth from it has been |
,Pped of. So evils which have been once or |
vice or even many times defeated and appa- |
,ntly overcome still need watchful care In the |
the price of liberty"
National Republican., 1876-07-03
ALMOST ANOTHER CASE.
The Centennial Anniversary.

The observance Of the Centennial anniversary
of American independence will not. in this city,
extend beyond few demonstrations, and these
will he conducted in such quiet manner as to
excite little interest outside their respective
organizations.
At the Metropolitan NJ. E. Church, corner Of
FourAnd-a-half and streets northwest, there
will be services held tonight until midnight when
the Centennial will be ushered in with singing and
the Ginning of the bells. For tomorrow pro-
gramme has been adopted as follows: Reading Of
the Declaration OF lndei endCnce, by Colonel Fred
Grant; and original poem, by L. A. Gobrght, esq.
short addresses by Hon. William Lawrence and
DIR. Newman. and singing by the Sabbath school.
At FOrd'st'pera House, at noon, tho Oldest In
hPssSanIA will give proper and impressive obserV-
anee to the day and occasion. The President,
members of the Cabinet, and other prominent
persons have been invited, and the House of Rep
teen to represent that body. DIR. John b. Blake
will preside. Mr.. ii. n. Easily will read the
Re ReelaFation Of 4pdePendence after Ehifh Mi
are invited, and the old men expect to see MANY
ot Their friends, including ladies, present.
At Mount Pleasant the residents will meet at
B1kers Grove and the following programme
Will be carried out: The Declaration Will be read
by MIR. W. c. LpscOmb, IT, and an oration will be
delivered by Hon. @. Wiley Wells, Of MississipnI
General Banks and a number of other members
congress will be present and will participate in
the exercises.
The District Commissioners have made reouisi-
tion on General S. V. Benet, chief of Ordnance
4. 5. a, Tor ammunition for the use OF the orpan
lied militia OF the District of Columbia, as fol-
lows: Three hundred ten-pOund salutinr cart
rldSes and nye hundred friction primers, to be
turned over to Major J. r. Hanneman, command
ing District OF Columbia artillery CORDS II is prO
posed TO fire one hundred guns at sunrise one
hundred al noon, and one hundred at sunset
National Republican., 1876-07-03
o. JENNA.
She Wants to Celebrate, and is Reminiscent


To the Editor of the National RepublfcGn:
SIR: Well, did you ever? Here We are being
slowly but surely baked into as crispy condition
as the avalanche of persPiration, pouring out OF
s5TaoO7 pores of the surface drainage Of the
human female body, will permit, without even the
encouraging prop given to our limp but patriotic
souls. that our glo-o-rious Fourth-the Centennial
Fourth of July-is to be celebrated in any man.
ner worthy of the oecaslou and all, forsooth, be-
cause Congress could not devote ten minutes Of
time to the passage of joint resolution, reported
tavorabIy in committee, giving the Commission
ers Of the District the authority to eNpend one
thousand dollars, belonging to the taxpayers OF
or course, everybody everywhere else has made
ample preparations to blow Off their limbs burn
down their neighbors' houses, and h!l the ar !,
and other evidences of true patriotism. while here
we have no such safety-valve to our "feelinks,"
peals to our lively Imagination and in the mbibing
congenal drinks which will soothe but not intoxi-
cate.
the Fourth of July used to be celebrated in
Washington. when Betsy Ann and her own Hez-
ekah John both inside Of their best est clothing, hing
their eyes on wondrous revolving wheels OF nreI
which sometimes refused to reVolve-sky ascend
ing rockets with whole considerations OF stars
tumbling out of their latter ends; Roman candles
in a glare of light that made the whole audience
look like animated ghosts in fashiona ole attire,
ton delineated in spots-green, Kissing spots
seated with apparently little TO sit upon) on
literally "fery steed," (also in spots) and above
ali the legend, "Our Country" in garnet, white,
and blue, which generally bursted In some unac-
countable way before the orthodox moment, leay-
ing the letters SO unconnected that the most ac
compIished spelling bee could not distinguish
their Significance
And then there was the Marine Band sand
wiching the '.Mockng Bird" and other tantures
between each piece Of fireworks, and the "Ah!
Ah's!' of the urohins, who would insist upon
trampling under foot our iounces and exploding
fre-erackeIs beneath our very dresses. Added'I
this the swaying and cheaply. amused mob Sc
q small boy poised on the shoulder of e'.-tacci-
bonedIct-whOm every one in the rds Kind, to
cretly wishing would tumble off 'all these de-
dents were to be looked for. eegeneracy OF the
be encouraged )-recoller1lew hat curls over |
lights make us Sigh ne one side Of the mark of |
PRESENT times, s5..'%e record our desire to live
even more tb1entennia1-providingt there is no |
a psrenttSii1y and financial s.uneSpended bal
until m only to see that proper preparations
Ic-nade in time for Washington celebration in |
SO; and may all the good and patriotic, like |
lrselves, be there to see and admire for them |
lives. O. JEMINA
WASHINGTON, July 2, 1876.