The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-08-10

sitting In farmhouse about three miles
from Girgenti, with five companions, be-
fore table covered with fine wines and
cigars. Three of the brigands turned
out to be "the two Cavalieri Trainiti and
the Baronello Celauro," men mixing in
the best society of the island, and, it is
supposed, paid by the brigands for CIV
ing them information.
MRS. JANE GREY SwIssHELM, in a let
ter to the Chicago Tribune, describes a
visit to the Bank of England, and COM
pares its dingy, almost shabby, appear
ance, with the palatial banking-houses
erected in this country. She continues: /:
So long as the American people trust
their money to folks because they have
magnificent banking.houses or other
places of business, splendid residences,
retinues of servants, high. stepping horses,
glittering coaches, flashing diamonds,
gauzy laces, rustling silks, shimmering
sitins and sweeping velvsts, so long do
they prove that they belong to that class
of animated nature which was made to
be eaten, and have no right to complain
when the eaters eat them"
HowELLs, of the atlantic Monthly,
needs special attention from the ladies
who have charge of the Woman's De-
partment at the Centennial Exposition.
In recent letter he says that the special
building, built and managed by the
women for the express purpose of show
ing what women can do, is the dustiest
one on the grounds. Conceding the truth
of Mr.. Howells's criticism, the women
ought either to show that their mission
is of too much Importance to permit of
their wasting time on such trivialities as
dust, or that it is part OF their mission
to show that woman's work can be done
without chat unceasing fuss about dust
which is generally supposed to be char
acteristic of the sex. If they show the
latter they will establish claim to eter-
nal gratitude from hundreds to whom
house.cleaning is a terror.
IT isa curious fact, when the cultiva-
tion of the age is remembered, that the
English are not book.buying people.
They are supposed to read, but they do
not buy books. Outside a small class
it is very rare to find family with five
hundred books in the house, while men
making thousands year would think it
gross extravaganza to spend guinea
week on books. 1t is possible, expe-
rienced Librarians tell us, to keep
library fully of English literature for
three hundred pounds sterlinga year. but
the number of individuals who attempt
to do it is inconceivably small. Book
buying is considered luxury; it is one
of the luxuries first retrenched, and
year of depression means to all but first
class firms year without profit.
SEBAsToPoL has been in ruined and
dismantled condition since the close of
the Crimean war. 1t does not now con-
tain more than nine thousand inhab-
itants, who are scarcely able to exist up
on the remnants of the once fourishing
commerce Of the port. The life of the
community shows signs of reviving of
late, some military vessels having been
constructed on its new slips. Forts Con-
stantine and Catharine are still standing,
badly battered with cannon balls. Eorts
Nicholas and Alexander and the Quar-
antine are completely dilapidated, some
hundreds of dwellings having been built
with the stones which once formed their
ramparts. The principal public build
ings of the city are all destroyed. The
reconstruction of the Notifications is
among the possibilities of the situation
should complications with England
ensue.
JERSEY Cry has mayor who COM
prehends the wants of his constituents
and the duties of his office. Mayor Sled
Ter is not merely municipal fgurehead.
Finding that hundreds of laborers have
been thrown out of employment by the
prostration of business, he proposes to
do sdouble good by setting them to work
in building a road thirteen miles long,
from Bulls Ferry round to Bergen Point.
This avenue has been talked about for
years, and finally the Legislature has
authorized its construction whenever the
people shall decide to build it. Mayor
Siedler sees the importance Of giving un-
employed laborers something to do to
keep them from want and dissipation
and vagrancy till better times begin,
and the economy of taking advantage of
the low prices to complete public i'm
provement which will more than pay for
itself by increasing the population and
raising the value of real estate. Other
cities might initiate his example.
The Pail Mall Gazette, in reviewing
an article in the Magdeburg Gazette on
the Russian army, says that the introduc.
tion of universal liability to military
service in Russia has proved far less eff
fective for the purpose of increasing the
forces of the empire than was expected
Instead, he says, of the army of $780,.
600 men which it was thought would
ultimately be produced by the new
scheme, it has now become evident that
the largest force Russia can dispose of on
peace footing is 10000 officers and
100000 men, and on war footing 40.
600 officers and 200, 900 men. Accord.
ing to the official reports, the number OF
men in European Russia who were liable
to military service in the year 1874 wa,
100000. OF these 10000 were to form
the contingent for 1876; the number &C
tually raised, however, was 145, 900
Only three and half per cent. OF tb,
total number of those liable did moi
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