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

Hebrew ladies, true to the instincts of
their sex, carried luxury into every de-
partment of their dress; they were par
ticularly dainty as TO their sandals and
latchets, which were made of colored
leather; dark-blue. violet and purple
were favorite cOlors. The ankles were
decorated with bracelets of gold or
dainty silver chaius and rings, with
tiny silver bells. Hair-nets and head
bands were in great request. The latter
were made ofgold or silver, and worn un-
der the net, extending from one ear to the
other. Earrings were also much thought
of; we are tod of some that weighed at
least one thousand seven hundred shekels
of gold, and were so large that man
could easily put his hand through them.
Some of the women wore several rings
with little bells attached to them. They
were generally made of horn or silver.
But the most popular ring was the nose
ring. The left nostril was pierced for the
purpose, and ring made OF ivory or
metal was put through it. Bracelets
we're favorite ornaments, and were gen.
orally worn on the right arm. Some of
them were exceedingly large, so that
they reached up to the elbow. Rings on
the fingers were worn chains of fine
gold, or strings of pearls with little silver
balls or small tinkling bells, worn round
the neck.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-08-17
Carrier Pigeons.

An interesting lecture on the utiliza-
tion of the homing or carrier pigeon was
given at the Geological Gardens, Regents
Park, recently, by Mr.. Tegetmeirr After
describing the origin Of the pigeon voya-
geurs, the methods of training for The
long concoms, or races, the powers of
fight, extending to five hundred miles a
day, the lecturer described the details OF
the pigeon posts used during the siege OF
Paris, and stated that at the present time
every fortress and fortified town in Ger.
many was provided with flights of trained
pigeons by which communications could
be sent into town If invested by a hos
tile force. He then proceeded to describe
the latest application of the homing
faculty of these birds-namely, the es-
tablishment of communications from
light ships to the shore, 80 that by the
use of the maritime code of signals two
or three letters stamped on the wing
would convey the intelligence that assist
ance of any kind was desired, and would
provide a means of communication wher
no other method was available. The ex
pertinent is being tried, in the first in
stance, at Harwich, and az soon as suf
ficient stock of birds has been reared, il
is proposed to keep relays on board the
adjacent lightships, 80 that in case of {
second wreck like that of Cbe Deutsch
land, requests for assistance could be i'm
mediasely conveyed to the authorities a.
Harwich.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-08-17
Custer as q SchOOl.BOy.

John Ogden IN Ohio State Journal.
He was often in mischief and squab-
bles in the neighborhood and school.
But he would never attempt to conceal
the part he acted. He was the "pink "
of honor. never knew him to talsify.
He was too brave to lie. He would
not even attempt to palliate his guilt.
When taken to task Tor misconduct he
would usually say:
81 know it was wrong, Mr.. Ogden, but
l could not help it,"
"Could not help itT
"No, sir; wanted to do it."
"But could you not restrain your i'm.
pulsesi"
"Don't know, sir; never tried"
"But don't you think you ought to
tryg
like trying"
His logic was overwhelming-at least
his teacher had to accept 1t as such.
As illustrative Of that impulsive brav.
cry which has cost the country one oi
its most effective fighters, relate from
memory a little incident that occurred
in the neighborhood of the school:
He and some of his fellow students at
tended a country singing-school one
night. The young men of the neighbor.
hood had probably heard of his cham.
pionship in a fight, and, / suppose, wished
to test bis mettle, or, perhaps, rather To
insult him in a situation where he could
not defend himself. He was sitting neaI
a closed window when a young man out
side slipped up beside the window, and
looking in, made hiueous face at him
The light fell on the distorted features
but moment. The next instant there
was a crash--a yell of pain. The win
dow was badly spoiled--so was bad fac,
outside. A well-directed blow from tn,
boy Custer had done both.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-08-17
He Drove Him Ont.

A story is told of an auctioneer who
was provokingly annoyed while in the
exercise of his profession by the bids OF
fellow whose sole object seemed to be
to make sport for the buyers, rather than
himself to buy.
At length, enraged beyond endurance,
the knight of the hammer, looking
around the room for champion to
avenge his wrongs, fixed his eye upon a
biped of huge dimensions, very mon
arch in strength, and cried out:
NARROW, what shall give you to put
that fellow out?"
az take one fife. e.dollar bill w was the
answer.
"Donel donel you shall have it."
Assuming the ferocious, knitting his
brows, spreading his nostris like lions
and putting on the wolf all over his head
and shoulders, NARROW strodc up to the
aggressor, and seizng the terrified wretch
by the arm, said to him in whisper
that was heard all over the room:
"My good frin, you 20 out NIT me
gif you half the money"
"Donel done 70 said the fellow.
Hurrayl hurrayp shouted the audi
euce.
The auctioneer had the good sense tt
join in the laugh, and coolly forked ovel
the V.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-08-17
Progress of the Plague In 1876.

The Paris Academy oil Medicine, says
Gahgnani's Messenger, has received
letter from DR.. Tholozan, dated Teheran,
May "a, on the state of the plague in
Mesopotamia, Arabia, and the adjoining
countries. This distinguished physician
has been for the last ten years keeping
statistical register on the subjec;, from
which we learn that small epidemics
broke out in those localities and ia A frica
in the year 1867, 1871 and 1874. 1t had
nearly died out in 1875. About the 1st
of January of the present year the plague
reappeared il Mesopotamia. 1t began in
an Arab camp near the Tigris, at about
two days journey to the south of Bagdad.
Shortly after it made its appearance at
Hillay; toward the end of February, it
reached Kiffil, and, still travelling north
ward, it arrived at Bagdad on the 10Th OF
March. To give an idea of its virulence
there, from the 18th to the 18th of April
five hundred and sixteen cases and three
hundred and thirteen deaths occurred
and from the 18th to the 25th there were
ninety cases and sixty deaths per day.
A further increase occurred in the first
week of May, when the daily average
was one hundred and sixty cases and
one hundred and twenty deaths. From
the 10th to the Goth it had decreased
throughout the whole of Mesopotamia,
and DR.. Tholsozan predicts that it will, as
usual, disappear during the heat of the
summer. He suspects, however. that the
&c. rs of the pestilence. after rem lining
dormant during the season, will revive
in October and commit fresh ravages
during the winter. The disease respects
no altitude; it will spread quite as well
over cold and dry table lands as oyer low
and marshy districts. Mountain chains
are no protection against its progress, but
deserts are, because of the difficulty of
communication across them. Thus, while
the Turkish and Persian authorities have
established sanitary cordons to the north
and south of the infected districts, the
west and northwest are left open, because
there the desert offers far better protec-
tion than any human power can devise.
1t has been remarked in Mesopotamia
that the plague had a marked tendency
to generate focuses of infection, first
case being followed by several more in
the same house. Quarantines were, at
the date of the letter, in active operation
in the ports of the Persian Gulf
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-08-17
Where the "Spelling Reform" Would
Take lis.
tRichmond Dispatch,


1t would be easy enough to have a
new and improved method of spelling if
all people who speak English could
agree upon one method Of pronouncing
every word. Let ussuppose, for example,
that historical orthography were dis
carded, and philosophical photography
commenced upon Its ruins. How would
"horses" be spelled 2 1t is certain that
it would have no "r" in 1t in Virginia,
where not one person in dozen ever
uses an or" in that or any similar word.
How would tomatoes be spelled? In
one place, "tomahtoz," say in New En-
gland but in Virginia, exactly the same
pronunciation would call for the spelling
atormartoz," &c the or" in such positions
in this State being always on an "h." In
another locality it would be spelled
"tomaytoz; in another, "tomattoz," and
soon shading off into a hundred diff
ferently.spelled words. These are but
illustrations, but they show how the
scheme would work. In hundred years,
there would be no two States OF the
Union which could understand each
Others written language.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-08-17
The Cotton Market.

The news from the South and South
west gives promises Of one of the most
magni icent crops of cotton ever pro-
duced. 1t is too early yet, Of course, to
count with any certainty upon he yield;
but it is certain that very la'ae area is
planted. aud the growing season is ex-
ceptioDally fne, and the plants are vigor-
Gus aud healthy. Should the weather
continue favorable for about a month
longer it is probable that the largest crop
ever picked in the United States will be
harvested.
There are many causes that tend to
lower the price of cotton and are now
bringing it down, but the feeling is that
it has not yet touched the lowest point.
The New England manufacturers have
been considering a measure for forcing
down the price at once to the lowest
point, instead of waiting for its slow de-
cline. Some of them have favored
total suspension of work in their fac
ts;ies, thus to precipitate the downward
tendency of the raw material. Dimin-
ished consumption would lower the
price as efectually as increased supply,
and the great supply of the new crop
would keep it down to healthy staple
prices.
The prices of cotton were greatly in
nated by the war, and in their rise car
ried up with them the prices of flax,
hemp, and wool. We have never been
able to get back to ante-war prices, but
the tendencies are all in that direction.
The New York Bulletin points out several
facts which lead to this conclusion:
Not only here, but in all the countries
of Europe and in the great Asiatic mar.
kets especially India, business is still
$, o,,ect to very severe depression. In
England, the chief manufacturing coun-
try, there is reaction in progress like
that through which we have passed in
this country, which is likely to produce
before it is sconsummated a far more severe
depression of business than exists there
at present. The India market on which
Manchester is SO largely dependent, is
thrown into such a condition of derange-
ment through the depreciation of silver
tha there is no telling what disaster to
the common goods trade may arise from
that cause. With such influence affect
ing all the great markets for cotton
goods, and with every prospect of a full
average crop of cotton, II would seem in
evitable that further material decline
in the price of cotton must occur; and
this prospect appears the more certain
from the fact that the crisis of depression
in the European and Asiatic markets
has not yet eliminated, and that the
point at which affairs may be expected
to take favorable turn is distant.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-08-17
TRUTHS AND TRIPLES.

A LIAR is tolerated when he tells what
we wish to believe.
~ WISH was pudding, mammal
"Whyw "Cause / should have such
lots OF sugar put into me-"
The individual who called tight boots
comfortable defended his position by
saying they made man forget all his
other miseries.
BE what you are. Ape no greatness.
Be content to pass for what you are
worth. A good nickle is better than a
counterfeit dollar.
THOSE only deserve a monument who
do not need One that is, who have
raised themselves monument in the
minds and memories of men.-HazliH.
THERE are many recipes for getting
rid of the currant worm, but there is
nothing so sure in its results as to blind
fold him and back him under pile
driver.
THIS is the season of the year when
undertakers have "spotters stationed at
the corners of the Streets taking down
the names Of men who lug home water
melons.
CUsTER's death-its exact manner and
time-was predicted by medium three
years ago. He had the moral courage
not to boast of his prophecy till it had
been fulfilled.
DETROIT Free Press: Boston has
opened war on unlicensed dogs. Can
dog get a license for himself? Is he to
blame that he has no license? Then,
doesn't it follow that the dogs master is
the one to be shot?
A MAN never really understands the
doctrine of total depravity till he has
worn pair of white pantalOons to pic
mic, and sat down on custard pie.
An event of this kind will simplify a
whole system of theology.
Do LEWIS may blow around about
the virtue of oatmeal, but hot biscuit
9TH bit of white clover honey skIr-
mishing around on top of it will ever
maintain hold on the affections of the
American people.
The Turks are trying to compel the
citizens of Bucharest to take an oath on
the Koran. See here! Isn't it about
time to give that Bucharest ?-Grophic.
TcbJy ROOu lOI IulS ScdoOu VI buC yCdIs
We feel like en-Koran that one.-PhiLa-
delphia Bulletin.
AUGUST.
Silence again. The glorious symphony
Hath need of pause and interval Of peace,
Some subtle signal bids all sweet sounds cease,
Save hum Of insects aimless industry.
Pathetic, summer seeks by baZonrv
OF color to conceal her swift decrease.
Weak subterfuge Each mocxing day doth fleece
blossom and lay bare her poverty,
Poor middle-aged summer Vain this show
Whole fields of golden-red can not offset
One meadow with a single violet
And well the singing thrush and lily know,
Spite of all artifce which her regret
Can deck In splendid guise, their time to 60
August Atlantic.
NoRRlsTowN Herald: A young man
wants to know why, when he walks out
into the country with his girl, all the
flies and other insects circle around his
head and annoy him, and completely
ignore the presence of the young lady.
The insects certainly show very bad
taste. 1t looks as if they prefer beer
and whisky to honey and sugar.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-08-17

AN item in the papers states the fact
that the Bank of England clips every
light sovereign it receives, and that one
machine weighs three thousand an hour.
1t does not state the interesting fact that
the machine is an automaton, the SOW
ereigns being put in hopper like grist
at a mill. The light ones drop on one
side. the full-weight ones on the other,
and the machine never makes mistake
II is very simple. The full-weight SOW
ereign bears down balance 80 as to droI
the coin on one side-the lightweight,
fails TO bear it down, and it falls on the
other side. In 1876 the bank weighed
f22, ,10O, 900 worth of coin, and rejected
100000.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-08-17

LONDON has long appreciated the de-
STABILITY of shade trees in sanitary points
of view, but has labored under the dis
advantage of having such smoky at
mosphere that trees could not be made to
grow. 1t is suggested now that the plane
tree, judiciously cultivated, will thrive,
no matter how smoky the atmosphere,
and an effort will be made to encourage
the planting of such trees.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-08-17
A COUNTRY EDITORS TROUBLES.
BY PARMENAs MIX.

The typos all had pocketed their rules,
There were but three upon the paper then)
Surveyed the " Colonel" who with busy pen
Was dashing off a leader for his sheet,
Entitled Dullness at the County Seat"
Twas Saturday and six O'Clock. The boys
Were waiting for their slender weekly pay;
Alas that bugaboo which so annoys
The country printer and 0bstructs his way.
II types could set themselves his course would
AS calm and pleasant as summer dream.
half an hour passed by-still toiled the scribe
Ideas seemed to flow with wondrous ease
Still, If we might believe current gibe,
Which limited that the writer crossed his t's
With sweeping lines that ran across the sheet,
His Pen' alas produced more chat than wheat
The clock struck seven. Then the typos all,
With muttered threats of quitting then and
Filed slowly out into the dingy hall
And started down the well-worn Office stair.
just here whistle from the sanctum sent
A thrill OF hope through each and back they
went
"wsll, boys" began the SCRIBE "pm pained to
That prospects are not iattering tonight
I've failed to raise single cent to-day,
And, consequently, funds are rather tight
This crushing news undoubtedly will fall
Upon your aspirations like pail.
But bear up bravely-what is that you said
I'm owing you heap Of money now
A truer statement never left your head,
I've used you badly, that must allow,
But think Of Job and meekly bow to fate
I'm short, just learn to labor and-t0 wait.
"I must confess that sincerely grieve
To see you placed in this unlovely strait,
But toss your heads and make your friends believe
That lots OF lucre prompts your buOyant gait;
Don't leave me, gents-cOntinue still to strive
You've money coming and-it may arrive"
Then spoke the typos, almost in a chsrus:
This W. worsin If for iof man without the stamps
We fail to see 1t, Colonel, In those lamps
We've lived on hope, with now and then cracker,
For three long weeks, and durin' all that time,
By jinks we've had to do without tobacker,
And we've concluded that we'd better climb"
The door here opened and robust party
Came in, who, pulling out his pocket-book,
Exclaimed in tones encouraging and hearty;
There, that's my bill, l reckon-please to
He didn't stop to read the Colonel's leader,
Or pocket some exchanges on the sly,
That's like gentleu an-(how's that for high p
The Colonel raised his patrons timely favor
"A six months bill for an ADVERTISEMENT,
And said, in tones that had of pride SAVIOR;
Here, take 1t, boys "-he gave them every
cent
When nom the place the printers had departed
This plaiut came from the weary man Of news
All, me poor, patient wife will feel down.
When go home without the childrens shoes I"
Detroit Free Press.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-08-17

FULTON Times: An Indian is not Q
bad looking man. It's the war-paint
that makes him look hideous. Nothing
else in the world could give him the same
awful appearance except pair OF linen
pants,
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-08-17

Liberal minds are open to convic-
ton. Liberal doctrines are capable of
Improvement. There are proselytes from
atheism, but not from superstition.--
Junius.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-08-17
THE BIRD IN THE BRAIN.

BY MRS. 8. NJ. b. PIATT.
In legend of the East there sits
A bird with never mate
Out OF the dead mans brain II fits
Too late for prayer too late,
Repeating all the sin
Which the beating heart shut In.
Little child Of mine, that kiss and fold,
With your fower-like hand at my breast,
Already within this head all gold
That bird Is building nesti
May II give but one brief cry,
Sweet, when you come to die.
My lord the King, that shadowy bird
BroOds under your crown, fear;
Take care, sir priest, lest you whisper word
That heaven were 10th 10 hear
Ermine nor lawn will II spare
All, King, ah, priest, take care
Oh, half-saint sister, so cloister-pale,
That bird will be at your bier
Though you count your beads, though you wear
your veil,
Though you hold your cross right dear,
When your funeral tapers come
Will the weird Of wing be dumb!
Poor lover, beware OF the bud OF the rose
In the maidens hand at your side
She has some secret, the dark bird knows,
Which her youths fair hair can hide;
Turn, maid, from your lover, too
The bird knows more than you.
Atlantic Monthly.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-08-17

JUDGE WILKES, of Toledo, has rem
dered decision of interest to turfmen,
at least in the dominion. Proceedings
had been instituted against the managers
of the race meeting at Oshawa for recov-
cry of purse claimed to have been won
in the two-mile dash by Passion. The
horses were started by flags, but the
judge rang the bell for recall. The
rider of Passion, knowing it to have
been the case. went over the course and
claimed the money, maintaining that
the starters having dropped the flags
the judges had no right to interfere.
Judge Wilkes gave his dicision in favor
of Passion.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-08-17

THEY manage the drug business, also,
better in France. A druggist in Paris
was recently punished by the courts for
failing to test or analyze the contents of
the phials aud packages handed down to
him by his predecessor. At about the
same time New Jersey druggist was
putting up laudanum for harmless
syrup and will probably escape with a
scoldipg from the Coroner.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-08-17
MINOR TOPICS.

COARSE brown paper is sent out to
Cuba by the twenty thousand reams, and
comes back to us in the shape of excel
lent sugar. But this is world, as Nh.
Sampson Brass remarked, which has its
diurnai revolutions, and such other &C.
centricities, but nobody raises cane about
the sugar.
, 1876-05-04
SCHENck.
ADDITIONAL TESTIMONY BEr0Hx TIE FOREIGN
CQA11TTEk,

ADDITIONAL TESTIMONY BEruHx TIE FOREIGN
cohN1TrEK.
WASHINGTON, o. G., May 3-At the meeting
Of the Committee on Foreign Affairs to-day. in
tho matter Of Con. 6c!lenck. bin counsel said
II the Committee should be Of tho opinion that
certain correspondence OF Park Hchonck. and
Fiaher WAS proper to be considered, ho would
waive al objection, md Leave tho Committee
perfectly free to ACT It WIS decided by tbs
Committee TINT the papers which hnve alrcady
found their WY INTO PRINT should not bo re-
ce!ved - evidence, bu. il Gen. 5chanct desired to
make statement he waa At hbersJ to do 70.
F1aher auch Information ~ he poaseased, Il VIZ
UTTERLY UNTRUE
he Lad any etock operations with him, A TO Duncan,
be did not know who he wAs. Hchenek said he never
allne atuck. aud anch sharcA were nsvrr sold. The
nss Of Sthencks nAmc by fshgF was without author.
ity.
again introduced, Mr.. Hewitt said he bad Iten repre-
sUnted In tho Associated PTcrs rrIort axyng 5csteF
Day the interlineailons were ta fatkt handwriting.
whereas be said they 1tfein achencks handwriting.
made abatement in support Of portions Of hs former
testimony. lie said ho tho original cttcr resig
Company; At least II 70 purported 70 be. Thare
reference In 1t 10 the mine hharts but Rtat.d
he resigned only because hs did 10 giro his
Ss I'D u IL sh
and an Ro!ng to ha.e better frnta hshenct" /"
The impsesaon Of witness that Park wrots tho
rrrks manuscript There VIA nothing abont which
he was more poattEs than these two letters Of resigns
ton.
u 4. 1onn.on gave his testimony, and corrotpr.ted
tlou.
Adjourned