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The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-01-04
Useful InHOrnnatiOn.

REMEMBER that lemons can be kept
sweet and fresh for months by putting
them in clean, tight cask or jar and
covering with cold water. The water
must be changed as often as every other
day, and the cask kept in cool place.
REMEMBER that mirrors should never
be hung where the sun shines directly
upon them. They soon look misty,
grow rough or granulated, and no longer
give back correct picture. The amalgam
or union of tinfoil with mercury, which
is spread on glass to form lOOking-glass
is easily ruined by the direct, continued
exposure to the solar rays.
AN innocent method of destroying
cock-roaches is to place bowl or basir
containing little mOlasses on the h0Ol
at night. A bit of wood resting one enc
on the floor and the other on the edge o.
the vessel serves as bridge to cOnduc
the insects to the sweet deposit. One
in the trap its slippery sides prevent re
treat, and thus cOckrOaches may b.
caught by thousands.
The majority of country people eat
ing fruit, eat the skin. Their children
eat it in the same manner, and seen
never to have been taught that the skill
of fruit-be it apple, peach, pear, plum
or grape-should never be eaten, es
peclally if uncooked. Fruitskins are 8
difficult of digestion that there
probably not more than one stomach in
hundred capable of performing tn
difficult task. The skins are TO frui
what shells are to nuts, hides tOanimali
and husks to grain. To Oblige or allow
child to eat his apple or pear unpeeled
uukind and wrong, for it is no questiO
of daintiness, but of health.
THERE are three modes of KILN
fowls. Some advocate sutfOcation, cleve
men among them. Others cut til
throats. A third party breaks the necl
1t is said sufocation is the bes
as the bird loses no part of i
properties; but when death is caused b
this process there is a dark color whiC
is unpleasant and suggestive. Whe
the Threats are cut the flesh is beautiful
white, but the meat is dry and suggesti'
of dead sawdust. When the neck
broken, the dislocation being perfect,
: the fowl is held by the legs, the hes
being downward, all the blood runs to Il
distinction Ct the vertebae, none +
mains in the body, and the juiciness
: the flesh is retained.
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A TJsrp,I. MILK-PAu-Haye a pail

A USEFUL MILK-PAIL.-Have a pail
of heavy tin with very heavy wire
around the top, 80 the pail can't spring
when full of milk: then have a cover
to set on top of the pail, with fange
about three-fourths of an inch wide to
project down into the pail to keep the
cover in place: also have 1t concave one
inch, then have funnel made to put in
the center, three inches at bottom, seven
at top, three and a half high; also a
ring under side of funnel and cover one
inch wide also ring that will just slip
over the one just mentioned, so that you
can put on linen strainer If you choose.
A wire strainer is to be soldered in. at the
bottom of funnel. This makes about
the most complete arrangement for
milking ever saw or heard Of l have
used it about two years, rnd wouldn't
like to have to get along without it.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-01-04

The uncertainty which has long pre-.
vailed regarding the first settlement of
New Hampshire has just been cleared
up by John s. Jenness, the local his.
torian of Portsmouth, who has dis
covered early colonial papers which fully
establish the day and date of the land
ing of the Granite State "pilgrims,'
and show conclusively the priority Of
Portsmouth over Dover. The brig
Jonathan" of Plymouth, England
was the "Mayfower," and Odiorne'
Point (now in Rye) the Plymouth Rocl
of the Piscataqua settlements.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-01-04

The Boston Daily advertiser mentions
can organ specially constructed by the
Mason & Hamlin Organ Company for the
celebrated DIR. Franz Liszt is now on ex-
hibitien at their warero0ms. The instru-
ment is to be used in the List concerts
in Europe. 1t is constructed in many
respects on an entirely new principle,
and is in all respects truly wonderful
instrument. It's quality of tone and
power are simply surprising" 1t is GER
tainly great compliment to these Ameri.
can makers that the great European
musicians send for their organs.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-01-04

MERCHANTS GARaLNa OL.-This
very useful article Is now receiving the
very highest Communications from the
press, and multitudes of witnesses who
have tested its efficacy. 1t is considered
as one of the very best remedies, and in
its refined, purified state it is regarded as
enc of the most powerful liniments for the
removal of rheumatism, neuralgia, and
the sufferings arising from sprained joints,
bruises, etc.-Aylmer &C.. W. Times, Feb,
rs, 1857.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-01-04

SINCE our last issue we have heard of sew
eral persons who have used Durang's Rheu.
matte Remedy for rheumatism; and all pro.
nounce II success. II comes to our market
highly recommended; aud as 1t is the only
reliable remedy now in use, it will have
large sale. 1t is taken internally. Price
| $1.00; six bottles, $500.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-01-04

THERE can be no mistake about II,
" Matchless" plug tobacco takes the lead.
Old fine cut chewers say 1t gives better salts
faction and is cheaper than fine cut You
can not be imposed upon, as each plug mas
the words Matchless p. L. Co.. on a WOODEN
tao. Try IL once and you will always chew
it. Manufactured by the Pioneer Tobacco
Company, New York.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-01-04

PIMpLRs on the face, rough skin, chaPped
hands. saltrheum, and all cutaneous afec-
tons cured, the skin made soft and smooth,
by the use Of Juniper Tar Soap. That made
by Caswell, Hazard 4 Co., New York, is the
only kind that can be relied on, az there are
many limitations, made from common tar
which are worthless.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-01-04
FARM AND PRESIDE.

FARMERS DIsEAsEs.-In view of the
intelligence of the farming class and of
their families, we trust that a quite lit
eral quotation of the opinions of forty
six physicians may be of some service as
a text and as a preventive. The cues.
ton given out was, "What causes tend
to injure the health of farmers and their
families 2"
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A Universal Remedy.

"BRowN's BRONCHIAL TRoCHEs" for
Coughs, Colds and Bronchial Affections
stand first in public favor and confidence |;
this result has been acquired by test of
MANY wears.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-01-04

A Valuable ilN.-By an arrangement with IN,
sample package of Transfer Pictures free. Sene
3.cent stamp for postage. They are hghy coiore o.
to Initiate the most beautiful painting. 4g's ganted
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-01-04

"HEALTH Corsets, and why not? Hasn't
there been evil enough yet from the old style
of corset?" DR.. Warmers Health Corset is
approved by all physicians. Price by mail
$i.75. Warner Bros, 76S Broadway, N. Y.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-01-04

AT our request Cragin & Co., Philadel.
phia, Pa, have promised to send any OF
our readers gratis ION receipt of 16c. to
pay postage) sample Of Dobbins' Elec-
trio Soap to try. Send at once.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-01-04

If your horse is lame, sore or CALLED, you
wash the part with CASTLE soap and warm
water, rub dry, with a clean cloth, then
apply the Liniment, rub in well with the
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-01-04

EVERYTHING about Sanford's Radical
the prescription of one of our ablest physi.
clans, and is prepared by one of the largest
and most reliable drug houses in the United
i States
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-01-04

HAVE the readers of this paper ever used
any of Parsons Purdgative Pils 2 II not, why
moi? they are the best family pbysic, besides
being the greatest anti-bilious remedy there
20 In th;a country.
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ala F.shiOned ways.

1t used to take twelve hours to dye the hair, and
then IL looked ridiculous. Now, In fifteen minutes
TURKS Hair Dye will give you beautiful glossy bIach
ray st., N. Y.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-01-04

PARTISAN ladies have taken to dyeing
their pet dogs. One dame goes further
che dyes her pet horses, driving four of q
brilliant magenta.
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MULTIPLY 9S7654821 by 45 and see
what strange set of figures you will
get.
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ST. NICHOLAS FOR JANUARY

Will also contain a paper by Horace +. Scud.
der, "Great Grandfather's Books and Pic
tures," with fac-simile reproductions from
the "New England Primer" and Webster's
old "Spelling. Book" "Budge's Visit to the
Centennial" by the author of "Helen's
Babies" and "The Modern and Madi@val
Ballad of Mary Jane," with silhouette draw.
ings by Hopkins, will be found amusing and
entertaining. Besides
CHS OWN MASTER"
By Trowbridge, there are shorter Stories
and Poems, Rhymes and Nonsense Verses,
Historical Sketches, a Fairy Tale, Comical
Pictures, Pages for Very Little Folks, etc.,
etc. In short, this is the New Years mum
Der of that magazine of which The London
Daily Neaos said, ave wish we could poin
to its equal in our own Periodical Litera
ture."
Send one dollar for trial subscription
beginning with the November number, ant
including the splendid Christmas Holida.
number, with William Cullen Bryant
"Boys of My Boyhood," and the New Year
number, with William Howitt's Letter to
Young Naturalist" and the February mum
Der, which will have
"a TALK WITH AMERICAN BOYS"
BY Tom Hughes, that earnest, honest, strong
hearted Englishman, who is known all owe
the world as the friend of the school.boy.
Subscriptions received by all booksellers
Sold by all news.dealers. $500 a year,
cents number.
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FUN FOR THE NEW YEAR,

Will charm everybody both old and young
Among the more notable papers will be
found "Lstter to Young Naturalist" by
William Hewitt, the poet, and "The Starr
for January" by Prof. Proctor, the astron
Omer.
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A Months for n Dollar !

ST. NICHOLAS for January, with its CHEEKY
greeting on the cover, its exquisitely beauti
full frontispiece, the wonderful variety in its
pages, and its
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-01-04
STOCK MARKETS.

OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Common 70 medium, "a
"a rs good butchers qualities, S4@4 TO- Sheep,
SLa5c for common 70 extra. Hogs-C0mmon
TO GOOD light IS 1906 s6 fair 70 choice heavy, - 90
~YNDIANAPOLIs.-Cat Prime 10 extra BUTCH
sr., "a 5O01I: fair TO common, e2@2 So Sheep
Gond sbippIng, 90 75a3 50. Hogs, IS COOS rs.
RITFFAIO.-Beef Cattle-Ten carloads Of COM
mon grades were upsold. Shipping grades, "a 500
rs per 100 Ibs butchers CATTLE % S0l So stock
err $s 6O@l 20. Sheep-Medium 10 fair sheep, 90 30
6 62% per 100 lbs best sheep, averaging 1O2 10 iO7
lbs, al 81 TC15 IS; three cars feeders, % 7s@S
Hoss-Yorkers, commonest light to fair grades at
IS 5@5 so per 100 lbs. good TO best grades IS Goa
rs four cars Of medium TO fair heavy hogs, IS Is
@6 no premium lots Offering; light pigs, "a 500
AIS.
NEW YORK.-Beef Cattle-Fair to extra steers,
g1z@1O5zc.; inferior 10 medium steers, 7H@9xc.,
with very poor stays down at 6hc Sheep-Sales
were made Of common 10 prime sheep, 4@611c. per
h.; extra sheep, 6k@61<c.; and small but choice
premium wethers, averaging 5A lbs., at DC. Hog
The market is reported dull for live hogs at $50
EAST LIBERTY, PA.-Beef Cattle-Best cattle,
s6 per 100 lbs; medium 10 good cattle, u 1906 90 ;
common 10 fair cattle, sl@4 50. Begs-Sales we're
made Of Workers nj IS coos 10 per 100 lbs Phila-
delphia hogs, ssa6 Is. Sheep-Ssles were made at
81 75Ca4 75 per 100 lbs. -,
WOOL In Boston, fine heeces are scarce, with
the most desirable lots held for an advance on cur
rent rates Ohio and Pennsylvania neeces, 4s@6oc.;
wisconsin and Michigan heeces, se9!2c.j combinG
and delaine feeces, +S066c. Pulled woods were
scarce and prices Arm; supernne and extra, w0%ec
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-01-04
The Markets.

CINCINNATI-Flour-Qu Quotations range as fol-
ss is ss;s1 .rns ds s9. g ss@S
superSne, 81 s5@5 30 Rye flour is quiet and steady
at "a 1904 65. Buckwheat heur, 81 1898 rs.
red is held at 81 soSl a; hill, 81 s5@i Is. Corn,
rye No sg 0s; prime 70 shose
Western, tO@s0c. Hay, Ne. timothy, Sll@ls.
Mess pork, SIG 90. Lard, 1oH@1o1sc. Cotton, $40
'IEDIANApoLIs-F lour-City fancy, sc 7Sa7 so,
city family, 90 1896 so; country family, s69
s, S Low srsdeS 81 1'g gss Aye
offered at 81 20@1 49, and 81 209l IS for choice
Hay sS@io. lard, the market Is stroIg at i0Xc for
prime steam; WoolaDealers offer Is@2sc. for un-
washed 22@25c. for heece-washed 33@35c for TUT
washed. BURY, 6@1Oc. less.
family, .s5@6 so. Grsinawheat, q so@i 40: Corn,
Mess pork, Sic So. Lsrd-Terce ioiz @iossc.; fes,
ilA@llhc. Cotton, l1%c.
M white WABASH &C. wn nS,ts MisS
gan is held at q q; No. white Michigan, q 40
s. amber ae n,dn %nasr No.
winter, 81 20 rejected red winter, 81 IL; No. am
Der Illinois, 81 50. Corn, high mixed, 47c new
aS %esern &C.. new Yellow, ae 81 White
Western, 5Oc.; damaged 42c; rejected 45c. new re-
jected, 1870. Oats. No. Western held at S5c No.
Western, SIS; white Western &c.; Michigan,
| NEW YORK.-F1our 2, 50 50@l so
superHne Western and State, $596 Is; common to
| good extra and Western State, IS 5096 IS good
TO choice Western and State, IS 70C95 75; common
| to choice white wheat Western extra, IS 8098
| fancy white wheat Western extra, 81 0f@8;
extra Ohio, IS t0@7; st. Louis, IS 60@8 rs
Minnesota patent process, extra good to prime and
choice to double p s extra SoD So Rye flour
Wheat, 81 149i 40; rye sO@s3c.; barley. 6sc.@
81 O9lI; corn, 63@6i1c.; oats, Ss@52c. Mess Pork,
new. $i7 so. Lard, $40 so@io IS. Cotton, 1850
| II 5-16c
| PHILADELPHIA. - Flour - Western extras,
| IS Iowa, Wisconsin, and Minnesota extra fam
| lily, IS 1897; Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana
family extras, 50 26@7 rs Grsin-Wheat-Penn.
| @i So Rye Pennsy lvania, 77@s2c. Corn, new
white Western, 5i0561ac.; mixed Western, on sail
56@5sc.; old yellow Western, 60@6ic.; new yellow
Western, 540l57c mixed Western, on steamer, 52(9
Sic. OATS fair and choice white Western, S80142c
Petroleum, refined, Sic; crude In barrels, TIC.
| MEMPHIS.-Flour- The market 10 firm and
prices are higher; extra fall grades, $G@6 25 and
mixed Western, 67@ssc. in storei white Western,
Western, sls@20. Provisions Is steady
| new mess, SIS. Lard 10 firm; In fierce, lie. PEI
| h.; in kegs, 12c. Bulk Meats are firm shoulders
6<c per h.; clear rib sides, SIC, and clear sides
| &c. Bagying is quoted at 121z915c. per yard.
| BUFFALO.-Grain-W Wheat Is In good milling
demand sales were made of $500 bushels of North.
western at 81 %; No. Milwaukee club, 81 81 No.
Milwaukee club, 81 81; No. white winter, 81 SIG
AZ. Corn is quiet and prices firm; we're made Of
5000 bushels Of new, In two lots, at 64c. Oats are
retailing only. Rye 10 neglected. Barley is neg
| lected.
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The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1877-11-08
Sitting Bull.
Correspondence New York Herald

Correspondence New Y ork Herald.
Chief Sitting Bull is full bIooded
Teton Indian, the Teton being a branch
of the great Sioux Nation. In stature he
is rather inclined to be stout than tall ;
perhaps in his moccasins he will measure
five feet eight or nine inches weight
about 10 pounds. His age is about forty
eight; his hair little gray, his eyes dark
and his whole appearance that of a full
bloOded Sioux on the war path. He is
brave, ambitious, clever in the Indian
fashion only, active and, in the Indian
creed, somewhat tanatical. He has long
cherished the conviction that he is or
dained as the Indian who must wrest
from the whites the country Of his fathers
He has great and almost immeasurable
hatred toward Americans, as distinguish
ed from Europeans OF Canadians. He is
even expert in detecting who are from
the United States and who are not, and
instances are not wanting in his bloody
and savage career where he has shown
wonderful patience and humanity, often
with his own hand protecting captives
toward whom he took liking or whom
be regarded with SO much contempt as TO
let free for the sake of showing the cap
tive how little he esteemed him. OF
course he is polygamist, having three
squaws in his tepee who are his wives ac-
cording to the Indian code, but he has
more constancy than Bear Spirit, his
brother in law, chief OF the 1anktonS,
and other associate chiefs. His "prlyate
life" is described by half breed hunters
who have long been acquainted with him
~ ha aypp111nt lppnr6jntr n tho India n
code. His great ambition seems to be di-
rected in military way y-to become a
great soldier-and he intends even yet to
carry out the Indian policy, "America for
the Sioux"
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1877-11-08

John Bean of Warner, n. H.. recently
lost COW in singular manner. 1t en-
gagged with another COW in a friendly bout
with horns, when Mr.. Beams COW was
thrown, and her horns being entanged
with those OF her opponent her neck was
instantly broken.
Hon. Zachariah Chandler OWNS and
manages a farm in New England and
another in Michigan. He declares that
farming is truly an intellectual pursuit.
Twenty years of public life, he says, have
not diminished his love for what in boy
hood had been his delight.
Mr.. Dalrymple is called the wheat king
OF Minnesota. He is half owner of 1900
acres OF wheat in the Red River Valley.
and has 1900 acres on his farm at Cottage
Grove, Mimi, and is half owner of farm
OF 10000 acres in Dakota. His profits
tins year are estimated at $50 600
The exports of fresh beef mutton and
live stock this year to October Is are
valued at so, ,549, 900 as against 81 ,755,-
900 for the same period last year. The
export OF butter is $4,000, 900 lbs against
|,UWJ,UHl last year; of cheese, IS 900, 600
against 52,0O0,O 900. These are all impor-
tant factors in the balance of trade and
III the revival of business and industry.
Amos Boynton, of Plymouth, Vt, raised
from one hill of squashes $50 pounds.
Two weighed respectively ~ and "
pounds, and the rest over 30 each. And
this is what MiddleseN, VI, man raised
from garden patch containing 30 rods
OF land 9o bushels of turnips, 30 of beets,
3 Of carrots, 3 Of tomatoes, , Of cucum-
berS, 80 SquasheS, , bushels Of corn and
beans-in all l57 bushels besides melons
and other ''small tryn
The st Johnsbury, Vt Cale,lonian is
responsible for the following: 'Last sum
mer Hiram Russell of this town planted
to cut il up and use it for fodder The
rows were put about 2!!X2 feet, and when
he hoed it, he did not thin it at all, but
let it grow thick When the time came
for cutting it up, he found so much sound
corn that he thought he would husk it
instead of using it for fodder corn. He
began husking, and kept on husking,
until he measured out seventy bushcl
baskets full of sound corn. He then had
the piece of land measured, and found
there was only quarter of an acre. If
sound ears Of corn to the acre, let him
speak. The land was rich. Does not
this indicate that the average farmer
thinS his corn too much or plants too far
apart ~
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1877-11-08
How He Wrestled with Pumpkin.P Pie.
From tho FIgaro.l

He entered bakery recently. He didn't look
like neat and tidy old man about ready to join
the angels but he resembed an old man who had
slept i'll d barn and was about ready to join big
dinner.
Il think he said. as he looked around. 81
| think I'll take a huckleberry-pi
The woman behind the counter replied that she
hadn't seen pie of that sort for six months,
What is collateral to huckleberry pie F! asked
the man as he looked into the showcase.
She didn't know, and he said he thought pump
kin was and that he would take pumpkin pie
She handed one down. and as he took out his knife
and cut into it, she said
"A shilling, if you please
"Change a note, | spose ;" he queried, as he
took in a twelfth part of the pie at one bite.
es, sir.
Have YOU any objections of feeling down my
boot leg and pulling up a I'll note Z" he asked as he
cut the second piece
She said she had, and she Furthermore limited
that he hadn't FL note for the past ten years.
"Oh, yes | have" he pleasantly responded, as he
cleared his mouth. Il was looking into a brokers'
window yesterday, and over forty such
notes"
There was one more mouthful of pie and rs he
swallowed it the woman called out
Now, want the shilling
so do l." was his quiet answer; but haven't
got it
IN call my husband and have you kicked :" she
exclaimed.
You will call II young vigorous man and have
him beat aud bruise an old man like me, weak III
the legs, near gone with consumption, and only
barely able to stand up That cTushe5 what little
spirit had when began on that pie.
" ou should have told me that you had no
money"
More abuse-nore recrimination-bo hoo
he sobbed shedding tears as large as beans
Don't make much noise she chlded
There YOU 90 again, heaping more anathcHaS
on these gray hairs. Oh, what cold. cold world
is this boo hoo"
He sat down by the stove and began t. weep and