The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-09-14

ward her and himself disarmed her. He
asked her what motive she had for such
an attempt, and she stated that she was
named DObrovolska, and had causes of
complaint against his Government. The
Prince handed her over to the police,
and judicial investigation has been
commenced"
THERE are frequent illustrations of
the fact that constant and long-con-
tinued brain-work does not interfere with
longevity and that constant use does
not impair the mental caliber. Yer
boeckhoven, the famous painter of ami
mails, forms n noteworthy example in
point. He is over seventy-six, and he
continues to paint from eight to ten
hours day. while his pictures still COM
mand the immense prices that they have
done for many years, small painting,
consisting of lit of landscape and
few sheep in the foreground, bringing at
least six hundred dollars. He lives in
Brussels, and his studio and many apart
ments in his house are filed with valu-
able studies and pictures.
UNDER the general name. of "pOul-
try" there was sold in Paris, in the
course of 1875, $3.50, ,779 chickens, 2,1O6,.
6lO tame rabbits, 1,5S3,317 pigeons,
7O6,3S9 geese, 695,64S ducks, 479,S16
turkeys, 125. $50 kids, 2S,66O lambs and
sucking pigs, 1896 guinea fowls, 2O,O14
kilOgrammes (about % tons) of goose
rlfssrs, 11,6l7 kilogrammes (about II
tons) of cocks combs, 9,308 kilogrammes
tneariy 10 tons) of ducks livers and 121
kilOgrammes (mOre than cwts.) of
chickens kidneys. Altogether, the
game and poultry sold during the year
represented a weight of 21,064 $50 kilo-
grammes (more than 2l, 900 tons), which
is equivalent to an annual consumption
of about 25 pounds for each of the
1851 900 inhabitants of Paris.
PEOPLE may be surprised to hear that
more letters pass among the people of
Switzerland than of any other country.
In year they carry on a correspondence
of twenty-three letters for each inhab-
liant. England comes next with twenty,
then the United States with nineteen.
France holds the ninth rank as letter
writing people. In telegraphy, also, the
Swiss beat us easily. They forward
eighty-one dispatches for each one hun
dred souls-a monstrous advance over
England's fifty-four. We should con-
ceive, however, that two.thirds of the
telegraphic business in such country
would be between foreigners. Holland
sends fifty-one dispatches for one hun
dred souls, Belgium forty-seven, the
United States thirty-two, Germany
thirty-one. France again comes in low.
She holds the tenth place among thir-
teen quoted. Russia is last, with one
dispatch per one hundred souls.
IT has recently been discovered that
the aniline die, known as fuchsine, or
magenta, is largely employed by dis
honest wine-growers in France for i'm
proving the color of claret, and masking
its dilution with water. Unpleasant
symptoms have been observed to follow
the use of this medicated beverage; and
NM. Feltz and Ritter have accordingly
made some experiments in order to
ascertain how far the added cO!oring mat
ter ought to be blamed for them. They
found that half a gramme of fuchsine in
solution, taken on an empty stomach,
caused deep redness of the ears, intense
itching of the mouth, and slight swelling
of the gums. The wine was stained of
deep red color. When the dose was re-
peated day after day fer fortnight,
diarrhca and albuminuria were developed
in addition to the above symptoms.
When fuchsine was injected into the
stomach or veins of dog, it produced
effects similar to those observed in the
human subject; when the dose was suffi-
ciently large, or frequently repeated,
albumen invariably made its appearance
in the urine; and this symptom wasfound
to be due to a peculiar degeneration OF
the cortical substance of the kidneys.
The New York Worlds Paris CORES
pondent says that lime. de Balzac, the
widow of the great novel-writer, has just
finished her new hotel, which stands on
the site of the little Church of st.
Nicholas, the church being removed to
make room for IL. When the workmen
were demOlishing the entrance they
found buried beneath the steps two skele-
tons, which, on being submitted TO medi-
cal investigation, we're found to be those
of man and a woman. No trace in the
archives of the church was to be found
that would give clue to the identity OF
these human remains. With that
singular irreverenoe which seems to form,
part of the character of even the most
devout French person, Nine. de Balzac
caused the choir of the church to be left
intact, and has transformed it into a
spacious drawing-room. The hotel for
merly occupied by Balzac himself is next
door TO the new ediice, but the works
upon the last have 30 much damaged the
foundation of the older residence that il
is no longer considered safe, and its
tenants have all left it. Nine. de Balzac
will not com'ent to its demolition, how
ever, but will repair it and keep it vacant
as memento to her illustrous husband.
THE reason that Bishop Wiley ex-
changes with Bishop Foster and goes to
Cinci nnati, is that the climate of Gin.
cinnati and vicinity agrees with the
former better than that of New England.