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

AN apparatus for reviving persons
nearly drowned is exhibited at Paris. |
The body of the patient is put in an air |
tight vessel, with his head protruding. |
A pump then draws the air in and out, |
of the vessel, which tends to make his
breast heave and his lungs move, as in
breathing.
THE London architect states that the
practice of cutting valuable pictures out
of their frames is becoming general.
Not long since all the paintings in man.
sion at South Kensington were thus re-
moved, no clue to to the thieves being
left. They are believed to have been
stealing the pictures for the American
market.
THE "'76 stone house." at Tappan,
which was village tavern at the time
of the capture of Major Andre, and in
which he was imprisoned until he was
hanged, is fast crumbling. The wooden
piazza is 80 decayed as to be unsafe to
step upon. The room where Andre was
confined remains the same as when occu-
pied by him.
| News has been received from Cairo
that Mr.. Gessi, a member of Colonel
GOrdCn's staff, succeeded in circumnavi-
eating the Albert N yanza, during March
and April, in the little thirty. eight ton
steamer Khedive. The lake proves to he
about one hundred and forty miles in
length, and fifty in width. Its banks
are covered with dense forest, and the
southern extremity is very shallow.
The Oneida New York; Union says
A little daughter of Smith Hubbard, OF
Oxford, was found in the garden picking
and eating potato bugs. This greatly
alarmed her parents, who believed the
potato bug to be poisonous. But she
expressed her liking for them, and said
that " they cracked like peanuts" The
bugs did the child no harm.
DIR. B. w. RICHARDSON has deter.
mined, from observations on man and
other FLOODED animals, that the
increment of heat which proves fatal is
from Ito to 120 Fab. above the natural
temperature of the animal In the hui.
man subject steady elevation of tenn
perature to 1902 Fab. indicates fever
, an elevation of 1862 indicates danger
above that, great danger. At 1902, IL
above the natural temperature (98), the
condition is fatal.
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Z 2,700,0 900 square miles. Most of it il
about 800 feet above the sea level, but
, portion covering 10000 square miles
, is below the sea level. and project fol
, inundating it from the Atlantic Ocean IL
: seriously talked Of The size Of this des
l ert may be better understood, when We
state that its area is more than two
thirds at of the entire territory of the
United States.
Benin & WAGNER have published
. their annual review of the population O.
the globe, in which they give many new
s and important data, and especially a new
: and complete measurement of the areas
of the inhabited earth, and the density
1 of the populations. For Europe, the
g area is 100000 miles; population, 1903,
0 100000. Asia, $4,000, 900 square miles
1 population, 799, 100000. Africa, $500,
900 square miles; population, FOG, 000, 00(
g America, 10000, 900 square miles; popu
lation, "a, 100000. Australia and Poly
l nesia, 100000 square miles; popula
: ton, 100000.
r Two young men and their wives at
tracted attention in Liverpool by thei
| incongruity. They were French, ant
| WCbC VII lhCii IOuis hC huoudhu
e were peasants, with appropriate manner
: and clothes. The wives were fashionably
4 dressed, and had the air of education
and refinement. The party were SCOT
n arrested by the police upon information
p from the girls parents that they haC
e elOped from boarding school. They
e had planned to come to America will
e their oddly chosen husbands
AN electric pen has been invented. L
consists of a small electric engine on thu
top of holder, which is used as pen
The machine works needle that pierce'
the paper. making from five to six thou
s sand holes minute, and is moved sc
fast that it does not drag or scratch
! the paper The piece of paper is placed
! in frame, where the holes are filled with
! ink f; then sheet of paper is put under
it, it is rolled, and perfect fac simile O
the writing is obtained. These fac sinaile
can be produced at the rate of five o.
! six minute.