The Lake County star., 1876-06-08

stSotihuio III Couhty VI tOWH uccIiuSS Ill
over the land, on the next Fourth OF
July, and listen to addresses commemO.
rative of the occasion and prepared with
special reference to local history, copies
of the same to be filed in the Congress.
sional Library. Such addresses, pre-.
pared with care, might be made very
interesting, and a source of valuable
information to the future historian.
The spontaneously generationists have
found hard nut to crack in some ex-
periments by Mr.. Worthington Smith.
The experiments of others have been to
boil water, assume that no living germs
could possibly retain life under this heat,
and then point to the living organisms
that subsequently appeared as a product
Of spontaneity. This view has been
weakened by observations of various par.
ties, that the blue mold in bread ap.
pears after the spores have been baked.
Now Mr.. Smith comes with some expert
ments with spores boiled in Theoretically
sealed tubes, which afterward came out
alive and well.
JUSTICE JOSEPH j. WHITE, of Rich
mond, Va, has just completeda a penciled
portrait of Henry Clay, which is pro-
nounced very successful effort. He
has presented the illustrious statesman
at mature age, but whilst his eyes were
still enkindled with intellectually, and
his countenance beamed with the dig
nifty and magnanimity which character
lied him. The cadaverous expression,
which various artists have portrayed, +,
does not appear in this likeness. 1t
neither fatters nor disparages the proto-
type, but presents him as he appeared
in his prime. Justice White will con-
tribute this picture to the gallery of por-
traits in the State Library.
ONE of the charms of st. Augustine,
Florida, is the number of feathered
songsters.' Among the wild thickets of
its neighborhood the mocking bird finds
its chosen home. Blackbirds are abun-
dant; there is snowy redbird which
has a peculiar song, and martins are nu-
merOus. Florida has likewise the eagle,
the turkey buzzard in great numbers,
cranes, herons, pelicans, the great wood
pecker, flamingoes, roseate spoonbills,
and the lovely and graceful snake-haw
or blue darter, with wings spreading
three feet, soaring over the moccasin.
infested swamps of Florida. Deer and
wildcats and other game are abundant,
and panthers may be found at short no
tice, and the fishing is extraordinary.
The carpet on which the Sultan daily
prays is kept in order by several per-
sons whose joint salary is 800 year.
The Sultan's doctors and apothecaries
cost $l4O, 900 year. Whenever any of
the Sultan's wives falls ill, or rather un-
wei, she is at once sent away from the
Sultan's palace. His third wife fell sud-
denly most dangerously i'll recently, and
could not in common decency be re-
moved. The Sultan constantly refused
to see her during all her illness. She
died during the night, and the instant
he hear of her death he quilted the
palace snd refused to return until after
her burial. When physicians are sum-
mOned to the palace they enter the harem
with the old ceremonial. First comes a
eunuch brandishing very large saber /;
then comes the doctor, followed by two
other eunuchs, armed to the teeth
Clergymen are never admitted.
The debate on the Amnesty question
was opened in the French Senate few
days ago, and the floor and galleries
were crowded with members and specta-
tors. Victor Hugo introduced the reso-
luton for complete amnesty, and ad-
dressed the Senate. He urged that,
under the Republic, the right of pardon
was prerogative of the Assembly. This
right should not be abdicated, and could
only be exercised in the form of an am
nesty. He drew an elaborate compari-
son between the Commune and the coup
detat. Napoleon's crime, he declared,
was greater than that of the Commune.
yet the Magistracy swore allegiance to
the I'd of December, while it decreed
transportation, the galleys, and shooting
against the Commune. The hour had
come to stigmatize the coup detat by
voting on. amnesty full and complete.
M. Hugo was listened to with deep at
tention, and at the conclusion of his
speech he was congratulated even by the
opponents of amnesty. M. Tolain said
"The government finds that there is
nothing to reply to in M. Hugo's speech" ;"
The motion was then rejected almost
unanimously, about eight Radical Sen.
ators voting for it.
Is it not somewhat remarkable that
our two worst murderers, Pomeroy and
Piper, have gratified ther tastes on little
boys and girls, and young women? Pome.
roy said he thought cit was strange that
he never attacked man." and Piper car
perhaps explain why, when the " whisky
and opium" " fit was on, he always chased
young woman or baby girl to mur
der. But there il in Piper's case, and
in Pomeroy's, another element of crime
that has done its perfect work-perni
cious literature. Piper says that he
took the bat into the tower, intending
to murder somebody" and then, as the
evidence has shown, while the baby vic.
tim was prattling in the Sunday-school
he was reading book that revels in
blood and murder, fit preface to the
deed. Some boys read bad books and
remain unbarmed; but some, we know
read them to grow worse, and Piper and
Pomeroy will stand as examples of thi,