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The Lake County star., 1876-06-01
Shad by the Acre.

The result of Seth Green's experiment
of raising shad in Lake Ontario is sue
cess. Four years ago several hundred
young shad were turned loose near where
the Genesee river empties into the lake,
and for two years nothing was heard of
them. Suddenly, however, they turned
up down at the end of the lake, near
Sackett's Harbor, and 80 miraculOusly
have they multiplied that. schools of
them, acres in extent, are found every
where there. At Oswego, last spring,
they collected around the new govern
ment pier by millions, and when a tug
steamed near, in the haste to get away
from the unknown monster, they leaped
from the water in clouds. They are
about eight inches long, and are as lively
as fish can be. In the spring and fall
millions of them die, fact that seems to
augur i'll for their successful growth, yet
the number that die is not to be COM
pared to the number that live. The fish
ermen say that if these shad grow to any
size their occupation is gone, for the fish
increase with such astonishing rapidity
that they must become so common as to
be sold for comparatively nothing; more
over, they can be caught at any time of
the year except midwinter, and there
fore will not command the price paid for
them in the two short months in which
they are now marketable. The lake
water is so cold all summer that its fish
are always in prime condition.
The Lake County star., 1876-06-01
Singing Slang.

As a newly engaged commercial
traveller was about starting on drum.
ming" trip from his place in Chicago
the other day, he suddenly turned to his
employer, grave old merchant, and in
quired, "I say boss, what shall l 90 if l
get out of 'soapP" "Soapp said the
old gentleman "wby, save your sam
ples. and then you won't get out" But
I mean what il / should get out of
grease p" continued the young man.
"Grease2 grease 2" pondered the old
man, why, you don't need any grease
you're not working for lubricating
estab-" ooh, but you don't understand
me-" chimed in the youthful employee,
rather embarrassed !" mean wha. shall
/ do If | run out of spondulix-
stamps--wealthT "Spondulix stamps? I?
wealth 2" echoed the mystified merchant,
looking at the young fellow over his
glasses, 10 see II he had gone crazy.
" Yes, currency greenbacks," explained
know?' A light seemed to dawn on the
old merchants mind at this moment, for
gazing upon the creature before him
with n look of mingled contempt and
pity, he broke forth, "Young man, l
rather guess you needn't go out, for
don't believe our class of customers
could get along very we'll with YOU
they all speak English. Step up to the
desk and that man there will settle with
YOU" And that is the way the high
toned kid got" bounced "-all through
the pernicious habit Of " singing slang"
The Lake County star., 1876-06-01
Chinese Immigration.

In his speech on the Chinese question
the other day, Senator Sargent drew
most repelling picture of the condition
of those people in California. When he
said that unless some restrictive measures
were put in operation California would
become an Asiastic Colony, he probably
exaggerated the matter. There is no
question, however, as to the growth of
Chinese immigration. Since 1868 there
has been a gradual increase in the num-
ber who annually reach our shores. In
that year 10, $50 reached San Francisco,
of whom 256 were women. Last year,
despite the fact that the anti-C Coolie ele-
ment had become most threatening, the
number that arrived was 1S,44S. In
January of this year, LIT arrived; in
February, 1897 In March, 1872. Since
1868, 100,049 reached San Francisco
direct from China. That number does
not by any means give fair estimate OF
the number of Mongolians on the Pacific
slope, for tens of thousands have come
from the various South American ports.
Senator Sargent says there are 10O,0O0
Chinese in California alone; $4,000 OF
whom are in San Francisco. This is a
very large proportion considering their
nature, in population of 100000, at
which the local authorities estimated the
population in February.-Ne,o York Com
mercial Advertiser.
The Lake County star., 1876-06-01
Are There Diamonds i'm Arkansas? ?

The Little Rock Gazette says: Several
times within the past few years gold and
silver have been discovered in southwest
Arkansas. The country through Sewer,
Howard, Little River, Polk and Pike is
very hilly, and in the near future rich
and paying mines will be discovered.
This time, however, we do not refer to
minerals rich and rare, but to genuine
diamond. We cannot give the locality
where found, for the reason that it has
not been made public. Mr.. H. @. Will
hanson and Mr.. Toland called at the
Gazette Office and showed the beauty to
us. 1t was dressed and set in ring in
New York, under the direction of Mer-
mod, Jaccard & Co., of st. Louis, who
place its value at $75, and pronounce it
genuine. Our Little Rock jewelers. also
pronounce it genuine, and estimate its
worth at from $65 to $S5. When found
in the rough it weighed one and one
halfcarats, and lost three-eighths in dress
ing. The diamond is very brilliant, and
when placed beside the Hot Springs
brilliants fairly dims their luster. The
diamond is not the property of Mr.. Will
Hanson, but is owned by friend, at
whose request the place where it was
found is kept profound secret. 1t was
a "big bonanza" and we trust that
Arkansas will show up many more of the
precious stones.
The Lake County star., 1876-06-01
Population and Area OF Brazil.

BY partial census of the population
of Brazil, made in 1872, it was estimated
that the entire number of inhabitants
was 1916, 1928. The number of square
miles contained i'm the twenty provinces
of the empire is 8, ,275,3 1926. In 1850 the
number of slaves held in the country was
estimated at 100000, but after the law
for their gradual emancipation was passed
in 1871, this number gradually decreased.
According to an official return published
in NAV. 1874, there were at that time
only 1,0l6, ,262 slaves, distributed over
the whole empire. The population of
Brazil is made up of an agglomeration of
many races. While 1t remained a colony
of Portugal but few women accompanied
the emigrants to South America. The
earliest European settler intermarried
and mixed with Indian women, and af-
terward an extensive intermixture Of
race occurred with the Africans who
were brought into the country as slaves.
In the Northern provinces the Indian ele-
ment preponderates, while in Pernam-
buco, Bahia, Rio de Janeiro, and Minas,
the negroes are numerous. AT the chief
seaports the chief part of the population
are Of European descent.
The Lake County star., 1876-06-01
NUMBER 5.
Centennial Anthems.

The rendition of the national airs by
Thomas Orchestra, at the opening OF the
Exposition, must, from all the newspaper
accounts, have furnished very thrilling
scene. 1t must be remembered that
thousands of people were there severed
by thousands of leagues from their native
land, and one must have been in that po-
sition himselfto recognize the full force
with which the favorite airs ofone's own
nation strikes upon the listening ear.
The Washington March, the grand
Kaiser Hymn of Austria, and the
stirring Volkslied of Denmark-music
of the old ea-kings-brought light into
eager eyes and upturned faces that it
must have been pleasant thing to see.
They say the countenances OF the EN-
perOr and Empress of Brazil were rich
study when the first strains OF the
Brazilian Hymn burst unexpectedly
upon their ears. But the most interest
ing moment, was when the French and
German selections followed each other.
There is not such national anthem, the
world round, as the far-famed Marseil-
laise. There is the flavor of rich, strong
wine, the throb of riotous pulse, the
wild rush and elan of forlOrn hope, in
every bar of its thrilling music. Well,
it brought up the French sympathizers
in the vast assemblage to fever heat,
while the many Germans stood solemnly
silent, and inclined to anger. The next
Natien on the programme was Germany
herself, and Of course all of her lovers
were waiting for the inspiring Wacht
am Rhine" the first notes of which
would have wakened the slumbering ex-
citement into fury of applause. 1t
would, however, have furnished too
much fuel to the already warm fire of
national rivalry, and was justly omitted,
the beautiful "Was ist des Deutschen
Vaterland " being substituted, and steal
ing over the excited multitude like
sweet messenger of peace.
The Lake County star., 1876-06-01
Present Appearance OF Victor En-.
manuel.

Rome correspondent St. Louis Globe
Democrat: Any body would know Victor
Emmanuel from his photographs, which
are so abundant on both sides of the sea.
He is, you know, the opposite of hand
some. There is something satyr-like in
the features of his face, and yet it is not
in the least repulsive. Though coarse, it
is strong and virile. His nose, broad,
short and turned up, is extremely ugly;
his mouth is very large and his jaw
animalish in its heaviness. There is
good deal of the bulldog in his visage,
but not much in his character beyond
courage and adhesiveness of purpose.
His eyes, his goatee, his mustache (Which
is enormOus) and his hair are jet black,
not silver thread being visible any
where. Ifhis hair was curly he might
readily be mistaken for a mulatto, since
his complexion is as dark as that of a
Malay. He is fully six feet high, very
broad-shouldered, thick.chested and mus
cular-quite the sort of man one would
picture for soldier, a soldier who, unlike
the Athenian youths of old, would not
fly from battle for fear of having his
beauty marred.
The Lake County star., 1876-06-01
VOLUME Nv.
HUsKING.
By FLORA MARCIAN.

Stacks of the ripened corn are spread
In the barn high
Old-fashioned lanterns overhead
Mild fantasy
Throw out, their fickering hints Of light
Making the dark
Appear more palpably to sight;
But blooming girls
Outshine the lanterns and make bright
With their blonde curls.
The huskers sometimes find an ear
Of bright red corn
Miracle OF the harvest year,
A stranger bonn.
The brotherhood OF golden maize
Does look In scorn
On colors new, erratic ways
Among the corn.
But all the boys do search for this
Red pirate ear;
The girl who draws it must kiss
Give her love dear.
In cheerful search for one ear red
This company
The long bright FURNISHED ears outspread-
A sight to see.
And so, in fun and cheerful talk,
The evening goes;
The corn Is stripped from husk and stalk
Red as rose
The young girls blush with exercise
That Is half play;
At nine o'clock the mother wise
Calls them away.
To the farm kitchen, large and clean,
Where pumpkin-pie
With feather-light doughnuts are seen
Piled brown and high
Sweet feast TO close the holiday;
How well prepared
From one plate eating lasses gay
With lads are paired.
-Nao York Graphic.
The Lake County star., 1876-06-01
Punishment OF a Wife.Whipper.

An Attica Qnd.) man, who was
brought before the Police Court for whip
ping and ill-treating his wife, was fined
$40, but he would not pay it, and said
he would die before he would work on
the streets. So the Marshal got very
large cannon-ball, chained it to his leg,
and locked it around lamp post on
streetcorner; after letting him stand
there all forenoon, he next rolled store
box into the street and placed chair on
it, and the man, ball and all, on top Of
It, and let him sit there all the afternoon,
with placard with these words on it /:
"He whipped his wife," The man took
1t very coolly and philosophically, and
made no answer to the jeers of the boys
and the scorn of the people.
The Lake County star., 1876-06-01
LETTER from Berne mentions the

A LETTER from Berne mentions the
discovery near Sonceboz, at the entrance
to the valley of the Bernese Jura, OF
grotto in the form of gallery, the open
INC to which was concealed by thicket.
II is about one hundred feet long, from
six to eight wide, and from twenty to
thirty high. Beautiful stalactites, some
three feet long, hang from the roof and
the extreme end is decorated by nature,
and forms a sort of chapel, with columns,
cornices, etc. This retreat was inhabited
by q family of badgers.
The Lake County star., 1876-06-01

BAsHFULNEssi is not 80 much the effect
of an i'll education as the proper gift and
provision of wise nature. Every stage
of life has its set of manners that Is
suited to IL and best becomes it. Each
is beautiful in its reasen; and you might
rs we'll quarrel with the child's rattle,
and advance him directly TO the boys
top and span-farthing, as to expect from
diffident youth the manly confidence of
riper age.-Bishop Hurd.
The Lake County star., 1876-06-01

THE age of Ex-Governor William Az
len, of Ohio, which last autumn was the
subject of so many jokes on the part OF
the Republican press, Is now reported to
have been proved 10y record in his FAM
lily Bible TO be only seventy-three
years.
The Lake County star., 1876-06-01
The POetess g Una.0

The New York Graphic says the
poetess, Una," wife of Mr.. A. Ford, of
the Irish World, was a writer of rare
merits and stood in the foremost rank
of those highly gifted minds of whom
her country has just reason to feel
proud. She was genuine poet, and the
simple, healthful Outpourings of her
muse were at once delightful and re-
freshing, especially in our day, when
even laureates write "poetry" which
ordinary mOrtals cannot understand.
Mrs. Ford was born in Ireland in 184l,
and came to the United States when a
mere child. From early youth she had
the advantage of refined culture and en-
nobling associations. Educated in ST.
Martins Convent, Ohio, she was highly
accomplished, and shed an intellectual
light around the admiring circles in
which she moved. Her poems are all
distinguished by purity, simplicity. and
earnest thought. Her style is cbaste,
vigorous, graphic, and natural, and her
poems are replete with passages of
singular delicacy and beauty. She sung
of scenes, affections, places, and people
with fervor that attaches to them the
feelings of all who read her sweet
numbers.
Propriety and gracefulness of language,
accuracy, vividness and unity of thought,
correct and impressive imagery, all lend
their charms to her productions.
She never failed to make poetry a
channel of truth as we'll as pleasure, and,
while pleasing the fancy, to awake the
thinking faculty. Another lesson which
she rarely failed to teach was the un-
reasonableness of that gross selfishness
which subserves all the nobler qualities
of the mind to mere personal interests
and makes man look on his brother with
jealousy and. distrust.
Right and freedom were the informing
principles of most of her efforts. Her
sympathies were ever with the oppressed
and wronged, and, though passiOnately
devoted to her motherland and race, yet,
when Justice or truth was in question,
she never narrowed her mind or confined
her feelings to any land or people. Her
love of humanity was ever broad, deep,
and comprehensive. And although her
poems are characterized by much re-
ligious sentiment she was free from even
the shadow of bigotry or prejudice, an
article which some of our authors deem
necessary for the sale of their works in
this enlightened and tolerant age.
She did not write~merely for the idle
relaxations of literature, but for the
nobler purpose of conveying wholesome
lessons and inculcating sound truths.
She was, while loving the ideal, emf
nently practical, and believed that it is
our duty to take the present for what it
is worth, and look to the future rather
than the past. While fondly remember
ing the land of her birth its many
glOries and the memories that cling
round it, she was intensely American,
as many of her finest poems testify. Her
love of virtue was earnest and sincere,
and in her private life she scrupulously
practised the duties she inculcated in
her literary productions. She was
modest and unpretentious, and won the
love and admiration of all who came
within the circle of her acquaintance.
Apart from her high natural gifts, her
death is sincerely regretted by all who
had the happiness to know her.
The Lake County star., 1876-06-01

The ages of sixteen Shakers who have
died recently are given in recent issue
ofthe Shaker, from which it would appear
that longevity is characteristic of the
life led by the members of this COM
munity. Leaving out the exceptional
case of one of these, who died at the age
of thirty-fve, the average is over seventy
eight years.
The Lake County star., 1876-06-01
UNsUNG.
BY T. n. ALDRICH.

As sweet as the breath that goes
From the lips OF the white rose
As weird as the elfn lights
That glimmer OF frosty nightly
As wild as the winds that tear
The curled red leaf In the air,
IL the song I have never sung.
In slumber, q hundred times
I've said the enchanted rhymes,
But ere open my eyes
This ghost Of poem flies;
OF the interfiuent strains
Not even note remains;
know by my pulses beat
II was something wild and sweet,
And my heart is strangely stirred
BY an unremembered wordl
strive, but strive In vain,
To recall the lost refrain.
On some miraculous day
Perhaps II will come and stay;
In some unimagined spring
may find my voice, and sing
The song have never sung.
June atlantic.
The Lake County star., 1876-06-01

TAILoRs are said to be like some of
their customers; they sponge first, and
then cut.
The Lake County star., 1876-06-01
Paris Represented at the Exposition.

tOlivc Logans Philadelphia Letter to New York
Graphic.l
Have you ever been in PARISH If not
you can 20 now. It's here. (Whati is mt
hereO A nice-looking blousard from
the Faubourg st. Antoine-but he ap-
pears to have left his blouse at home-is
as busy as bee from morning till night
building the City of Paris over by the
Restaurant des Trois Freres Provencaux.
On the border of the beautiful lake where
the fountain FLASHES, he has been allotted
sizable kitchen-garden patch of ground,
and there he is planting Paris in solid
chunks-the buildings, the streets, the
parks, the triumphal arches, monuments,
bridges, statues, everything. Isn't that
fascinating factY He has got the city
almost done now.
As passed by to-day, he was giving
bis attention to the wall Of Paris->solid
stone, mind you-which he had got all
laid out in the precise shape it takes in
all its irregularity as it surrounds the
town, and was solidifying it with mud on
the inside, stamping the soft clay into
the shape he wishes it to remain and
harden in baking in the sun.
1uc IelNSI GCluC WluuS tuIOukh
city, its channel bare as yet, but he will
let the water in as soon as he gets all the
bridges fastened in place and the islands
hardened into shape.
Every slope of the streets of Paris-the
rise of the Boulevard where it bends at
the beginning of the Montmartre divi-
sion-the climbing streets at the steep
hill at Montparnasse-the winding ups
and downs of the Belleville quarter
everything is there.
The Champs Elysees and the Tuileries
Gardens are represented by smooth
spaces thickly planted with evergreens
and studded with statues.
The Vendome Column is recognized
where it stands about two feet high, !
Judge in the Rue de la Paix. The
buildings are exact models in every inn
portant instance, and the houses which
line even the most Insignificant streets
are all patterned after the real houses ol
Paris.
All this of course, in little-in very lit
tie space, for it would be out of the
question to build all Paris, even within
grounds so spacious as these, without
reducing the copy considerably.
The industrious blousard strides about
in his Paris like Brobdingnagian giant
taking stroll through city of Liliput.
Ten steps carry him from the Bastile to
the Madelaine. He places one foot easi.
ly behind the Arc de Triomphe, while the
other toe nestles in the shrubbery by the
Jardin Mabille. A better way for one
who has never been there to get good
idea of Paris could hardly be found on
this side the ocean, while those who are
familiar with the French capital, lingei
delightfully."- on the edge of the thousands
city and point out the various features
with enthusiastic recognition to Their
untraveled friends.
The Lake County star., 1876-06-01
MINOR TOPICS.

PLoN-PLoN, otherwise known as Prince
jerome Napoleon, has finally been elected
to the Assembly, from Corsica. His sue
cess was only rendered possible by the
emphatic refusal of the Assembly to re-
ceive M. Rouher, and by the latter's
Withdrawing his opposition to Prince
Jerome.
The Lake County star., 1876-06-01

In 1849, Prince Torlonia, the great
Roman banker, advanced 2O0, 900 francs
to Neapolitan on diamond 30 large
and limpid and piercing i'm the polish of
its many faces that none but the keenest
connoisseur could distinguish it from the
famous Regent" At the Hotel Drouot
in Paris, that self same "precious stone"
was sold, early in April of this year, for
twenty francs fifty centimes, or about
four dollarsl
The Lake County star., 1876-06-01

NOTWITHSTANDING the alarm. about
the fruit crop, it is probable there will be
an average yield throughout the West.
Some of the early varieties of peaches
are undoubtedly cut off, but there will
be a plentiful supply of the more valuable
qualities, and as many pears and apples
as the country will be able to consume.
The lack will be supplied from the East
and the West.
The Lake County star., 1876-06-01

CHERRIES were known in Asia as far
back as the seventeenth century.
The Lake County star., 1876-06-01

A. COMPUTATION of the time required
for the formation of a seam of coal has
been made by Mr.. E. A. Wunsch, of the
Glasgow Geological Society, based upon
his own observations in the Isle of Arran.
He thinks that as many as twenty gen.
erations Of trees are compressed into
three or four inches of coal there, and
that eighteen centuries are requisite for
the formation of one foot of coal.
, 1876-04-22

4 PARRor SroGY Ny father was
an old gentleman who was very regu-
lar ia h!s habits. Every evening IL
was his custom to take a stroll after
Tea 10 visit some old friends by the
name of Tate, who lived in the next
street. Before leaving the house he
would open the door OF the dining
room where he used to sit, and would
say aloud, Only going down to Tate'5.
Now it happened one evening that
P3]ly's eape door was left OPEN We
sometimes let hlm walk about the
room when be was very good as 4
preat treat. This evening We sudden
ly missed him from the room, and
could not think where he had gone.
We all set to work and searched the
house high and low; DO Polly could
we find. So at last my father left, as
usual, TO pay his visit 10 our nelgh6or
leaving US sill looking for our pet
What was his surprise upon turning
tie corner of the street 10 see Polly
Quietly waddling down the middle OF
the road. "Why, Polly" said he
"where are you going?" Upon Which
Master Poll cooked up bis little heal
on one side and looked up and ra'!,
"Only going down TO Tate's. s."-L'd'
1ynI Christian
, 1876-04-22

BEIKNAP SKETCHED.- Belknap was q
great, tig, soft-slded, gushing animal a
creature ineffably fond Of good dinners, pref
ty women, old Kentucky whiskey and fine
c;g,rs. He had certain bluff, frank and
e,sv way; e sort of haii-rude, hali-genial
5opboV,is. and. when dressed IN good suit OF
oIo,bes. and with his coat tightly buttOued
up q certain presence and front OF personal
dignity, 50 TO speak-an Of which commend'
"a him 70 The presen, occupant of the White
House SIS great msn- intellectually be
WAS nothing, dull, driveiing, stupid SOFT Of
fsIIow. with good nature enough 10 pass
f,r gruialiry, and good Looks enough to pass
Tor The semblauce of respeCtability- Tie
AR o4ieers of the army were simply dis
,usted at his appointment. They have sl-
- been accustomed 10 find at the civil
"a If the department in which they serve
, who were gentlemen not only in those
a,c.s-,ries Of geniilty which any fellow can
oo,,s from tsilors, boot-mskers and bar
hers provided he has the cash to pay or the
a, 20 stand them of, bat gentlemen also
:: H. higher sense of honorable impulses,
fsir intelligence and reasonable culture ihe
6r.t class OF qualifications, 'o-~i', those iur-
n;sbsd by the tailor, bOot-maker and barber,
Belknap possessed in as eminent degree as as
Ia have been found; bnt as 10 the last
- and most important requisites o. Mt
- -. !, would have been difficult to find a
- more utterly, nay, more singulariy des-
- of ,bs1n in any wslk OF life above those
on,ipsrily described as vicious and vulgar