The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-11-30

tinople the Emperor and Empress of
Brazil received hundreds of petitions for
aid, written in a great variety of Ian
guages and dialects. On leaving they
distributed one hundred lire among
some of the petitioners, and sent two
hundred and fifty dollars to charitable
institution.
MONSIEUR ERNEST FEYDEAU, the de-
lightful French novelist, has just been
travelling in Algeria and publishing a
book about3s. His summing up of the
Arab character is good-humored. He
describes the natives as of a simple,
marvel-loving nature, easily pleased,
careless, free-handed, pleasure-loving
and childish in manner. Neither moral
nor religious consideration can keep him
from feasting or fireworks. The native
has certain wit of his own-a wit which
delights in the practical part of joking;
and he has keen appreciation of the
wit in others. Indeed, he relishes good
thing 80 much that when he has heard
once he instantly cries out, Encore!
encore" and wants to hear it again.
THEY have captured fish in Florida,
near Cedar Keys, which the inhabitants
have given the name of the "carpet-
bagger." 1t has the head of catfish,
the body of an eel, and the legs of a
lizard. 1t is allied to the screw-fsh, we'll
known in Florida, and whose habits have
been the study of Pratt, of Palatka. In
the summer time, when the st. Johns
yields its beautiful grasses, it swims up
and unscrews its head, which, by the aid
of four well defined legs, goes out on the
banks and eats the sweet grasses. When
winter comes it goes back, screws the
tail on, and makes the waters of the
lovely st. Johns its home. Naturalists
have designated it as belonging to the
family of Spiratus Archinadeus.
The Political Correspondence publishes
letter from its st. Petersburg cores
pondent, which summarizes the reforms
Russia intends to demand of the Porte,
as follows: First-Disarmsment of the
entire population of Bosnia, Herzegovina
and Bulgaria, without distinction of
creed. standardization of irregular
troops. Third-Transfer to Asia of Cir
cassians settled in Europe. Fourth
The language of the country to be intro
duced in public Offices and tribunals.
Fifth-A native Christian to be ap-
pointed Governor by the Porte in each
province, and the appointment of per-
manent Commission OF Supervisors, COM
posed of Consuls of the Great Powers.
The letter also mentions as reforms to
be demanded those specified in dis
patch from Vienna.
A FEW evenings ago, among the pas
sengers who returned to Easton from the
Centennial, were number of ladies
from that place, one of whom had pur-
chased a good-sized toy balloon. An
Easton paper says: When she alighted
from the train at this place the crowd
was so great that she was jammed in,
and another lady was pushed against
the balloon, when it burst with loud
noise. The lady who had caused the
explosion fell into the arms of com
panion and declared that she had beer
shot. Her cries attracted the attention
of the male passengers, who fearing that
some one indeed had fired a pistol, be
came very much excited, and for while
it was feared that the rush to get out o
the cars would result in some one get
ting trampled under foot. The cause o
the alarm was finally explained, and tn
supposed wounded lady was escorted t
her home without delay.
IT is said that the date of the discoy
cry of the art of making glass is un
known, the oldest specimens bein
Egyptian, among which are some Q
opaque glass bearing the name of tn
Queen Hatash, of the eighteenth dy
nasty, 1445 b. @. Transparent glas
does not appear earlier than about 70
B. c., when bottles were made of it. A
Sdon and Alexandria glass works wer
in operation in the time of Strabo an
Pliny, and, according to Theophrastul
the art of cutting and gliding glass wa
practiced 27O B. @. Among the mo:
celebrated of the ancient works in glai
is the Barberini or Portland vase, foun
in the tomb of Alexander Severus, wh
died A. ID. 235. For many centuri
there seems to have been no advan'
made in this art, and no mention
made of glass having been used in vii
dows in England until the twelfth Gel
tury, about which time the manufactu
was also introduced at Murano, De'
Venice, where it was successfully pros
cuted under the fostering care of Il
government.
The Vienna correspondent of the Lo
don Times says: Advices from the Ru
sian frontier announce that freig
traffic on the railway lines from u
Polish frontier southwark has be-
stopped, the roads being required for Z
transportation of military stores. Lar
hospitals are being established, and
the physicians in South Russia ha
been invited to enter the army. Turk
is also preparing. She intends to CT
centrate FIVE army corps Of forty the
sand men each in Bulgaria, and "
merely leave sufficient to maintain
fensive on the side of Servia and Nj
tenegro. Four English officers OF (
gineers have been engaged by the Po
to superintend the strengthening a
arming of the fortresses of the Danu
A contract has been signed for provisi'
ing Widdin for eight months for gsI
son of fourteen thousand men. 7
armament of Widdin is complete.