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The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-02-01
The Territory of Huron.

The Washington correspondent of the
New York Tribune writes 1t is not prob
able that ambitious politicians will
move up to the proposed new territory
of Huron, with the expectation of com
Ing back in a few years to the United
States Senate. The Territory will have
only a handful of people inhabiting the
valley of the Red River of the North, in
the vicinity of Pembina, and another
handful at Bismarck, the present termi-
nus of the Northern Pacific Railroad, a
small frontier town on the Minnesota
border. If the estimates of General
Hazen and other military officers of the
value of the lands in the territory be
correct there is no prospect of rapid
settlement. The creation of the Terri
tory grows out of the pressing need of
local government, and especially of
courts of justice. Litigants who now
have to go from Pembina to Yankton,
the capital of Dakota, to bring their
cases before the Supreme Court of the
Territory are in about as awkward pre-
dicament as the people of New York
would be If they had to conduct their
law business in New Orleans. At the
same time the future of the Territory may
not be considered hopeless, since 1t has
already as many inhabitants as Mime
sofa had when ex-senator Ramsey went
to st. Paul to organize the Territory !;
and Minnesota a. that day was thought
to be as uninhabitable as Huron is now.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-02-01
Home Htnla.

MoLAssEs CAKE.-Onec cup of molasses,
one-half cup of lard, two-thirds cup OF
sour milk, one teaspoonful of saleratus,
one egg, taree teacups of -four, one tea
spoonful of essence of lemon bake in a
pretty quick oven.
YORKSHIRE PUDDING. Take eight
tablespoonfuls of -four, one quart of
milk, little salt, and four eggs half an
hour before the meat is done put the bat
ter in the dish after the meat is taken up
brown little more. Serve as side dish
with meat.
ELLIE's CAKE.-One cup of white
sugar, one-half cup of butter, three eggs,
two-thirds cup of sweet milk, two and
one-half cups of -four sifted, two tea
spoonfuls of yeast powder, stirred in the
flour; bake in three layers in jelly tins;
spread each layer with any kind of jelly
or chocolate ice.
Potato BREAD. - To make potato
bread, either sweet or white, take one
fourth of the amount of flour used, and
replace it with that much boiled pota-
toes mashed very fine. If white potatoes
are used, put piece of clean lime the
size of hickory-nut in the water. If
sweets are used, put piece of charcoal
in the water.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-02-01
English Wife.Selling.

As has been stated, wife-selling was
frequently practiced during the last
century, and the dissatisfied husbands
frequently sold" as we'll as their wives
One tickle wretch was deservedly pun
ished. Having parted with his spouse
for quarter of guinea and gallon OF
beer, he was disguised to hear, a few
weeks afterward, that she had, by the
death of relative, come into little
fortune of two hundred pounds. Only
few years ago, bachelor in easy cir
cumstances, living ut Dittisham, a viii
lage on the banks of the Dart, took
streng fancy for the wife of one of his
neighbors; and after some negotiation,
it was agreed between him and the hus-
band, that he should take the lady for
fifty pounds, her baby being thrown into
the bargain; and the newly-mated pair
soon set of on a sort of wedding-trip.
The husband, however, found he had
been sold, for, after having delivered up
his wife, his customer went off without
paying for her, and the deluded scamp
was left lamenting. In 1866, carpenter
who had sold his wife, hung himself upon
her refusing to return to his repentant
DOoOul, Oh tuO PiCd IhaU ouC wac PCi-
fectly satisfied with the result of his
trading. Although the women generally
consented to these singular transfers,
they sometimes rebelled. One woman,
wife of tavern-keeper, refused to be
delivered over to her purchaser, and the
disappointed wife-buyer was obliged to
depart as wifeless as he came; while, to
render his disappointment more mortify-
ing, mine host declined to refund the
earnest money. Another young man,
finding it impossible TO live comfortably
with his spouse, resolved to give some
body else the chance of doing so, by dis.
posing of her at public auction. Not
being successful in finding customer in
his own Deighborhood, his wife suggested
that he should try Newcastle. They went
there; and the wife so contrived matters
that certain gentlemen employed in his
Majesty's service-very pressing service
introduced them selves to the husband,
and he found himself one fine day lfe
on board frigate bound for long
cruise on distant waters; and so the
tables were turned, and instead OF
getting rid of his wife, she got rid Of
him.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-02-01
Soap on the Stairs.

An elderly gentleman residing on
Main Street was, until Friday last, in
clined to favor female suffrage. His
wife had prudently delayed moving until
after the first, SO as to take advantage
of the fall in house rents. The house
to which they moved had a tremendous
steep flight of stairs and an Oilcloth hall.
The wife had the stairs scrubbed down,
and left the soap on the top step. Her
husband was up stairs, with basket
full of clothes pins in one hand and
clock under the other arm, when his
wife, who was down stairs, saw a mouse,
and shaking her skirts madly, bounded
upon the table, and let off a series of
shrieks beginning in ZZZ above the clef.
Her husband, thinking that the house
was on fire, at the very least, started to
run to her rescue, and stepping on the
piece of soap she had so thoughtfully
left on the stairs, sat down vehemently
at the top of the fight, and slid down
with the speed of thought. Fire
flew from his false teeth rs he struck
the edge of each step, volleys of clothes
pins were discharged into the air and
fell rafting and rebounding on to the oil
cloth, and the clock shed its inwards
over the universe. The injured husband
had little time for reflection, when he
reached the glare Oil-cloth and shot across
it with scarcely diminished velocity, lit
orally making the oilcloth and the seat
of his pants smoke with friction, and
finally bringing up against the door with
a violence that threatened to burst the
side of the house. The fearful concus
sion startled his wife, who turned back
somersault from the table into tub of
soap-suds, in which she was so tightly
fixed that she had to perform hand
spring and canter on ali tours like tur-
tie, with tub on her back and cataracts
of suds inundating her. Meanwhile the
hired woman fell off the step-ladder with
crash like a pile-driver. and Jared
down most of the plaster cornice. When
the mans wife had sloughed her tub, she
sauntered slowly into the hall, and re-
marked: "Well, men are the clumsiest
and the hall had just been washed
too" Her husband did not say much,
but he thought good deal; and now,
he says, Just let Susan B. Anthony come
and lecture here again, and If no other
man has the courage to hiss he will, SO
help him Jasper Packlemerton.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-02-01

for sponges is early in June, and they
cease their operations in October. July
and August are the least favorable
months for their calling.
In the month of April sponges begin
to cast of their shoots and eggs, and
these, detached, float away until they
find hard substance to which they can
adhere. When once they are firmly fixed
on ahard substance, they cling it, live,
grow, and are nourished by the water
passing through and through them, until
the hand of man tears them of, and
brings them up to the air and light.
How sponges propagate has puzzled
naturalists, as some do 80 by eggs, Others
by shoots, which they cast off, and, as
said before, float away in search of rocks
to which to attach themselves. No
doubt the disputed point arises from the
different species of sponges propagating
in different ways, rs, beyond all doubt,
both from shoots and eggs young sponges
are reproduced.
1t has also long been a disputed point
whether sponges are to be considered
living creatures or not. The ancients all
believed them to be living creatures;
then, later on, they were pronounced by
learned men to be vegetable produc'
ton; but science has quite decided them
to be living creatures, possessing animal
life of low order.
The manner in which they are fed and
nourished is extraordinary. Examine a
living sponge in its home in the water,
and you will see rapid stream of water
issuing from its large orifices, bearing
with it number ofminute particles from
its interior. Water has been absorbed
through all the small openings with
which its surface is studded, and after
traversing the many passages to which
these openings lead, is thrown out into
the canals, and by them conveyed
through the greater adits into the open
water.
The use of this stream is manifold il
conveys nutriment to the cells which are
the sponge, and also serves for the pur
pose Of respiration, besides assisting ma
terially in the propagation of the sponge
Though science has discovered 80 much
about the life of sponges, it has nevel
yet been able to find out how they die
which they undoubtedly do, even though
ungathered by mans hand.
In ancient times doctors used to burr
sponge, and administer it as medicine II
their patients. 1t was supposed to cur
scrofulous diseases. We of the presen
generation are wiser, and have discov
cred far better things to do sick peopl
good.
Surgeons now find it useful to sto]
bleeding. They plug up wounds wit!
it, and wash the sores with it, and in al
these outward applications it is invalus
BILE. If by any means, any person, b.
accident, should happen to swallow
piece of sponge, it would prove fatal ur
less it were expelled. 1t never digests O
passes through the system, but remain
lodged, growing and swelling internally
until its victim succumbs to its fata
power. Some children are very fond Q
biting things with their teeth, but the
should be careful to avoid sponge.
Now, dear young friends, get you
maps, and find out where all the diffel
ent places are situated that l have name
as the home of the sponge.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-02-01
THE MANUFACTORY.

The Estey Organ mandatory is well worth
visit to any interested in mechanical and art
progress. The works are situated on an eleva-
ted plateau, overlooking considerable portion
of the village of Brattleboro'. They consist Of
eight main slate covered factories, which are
forty feet apart, three stories high, one hundred
feet long, and from thirty to thirty-eight feet
wide. Near by is a gas house, which supplies
not only the factories, but some portions of the
village with Illuminating gas of excellent quail
ity. A steam fire engine, named 81. Estey,"
is kept constantly ready for use and may be
manned at moments notice by drilled COM
pany of the workmen. A perfect system of
speaking tubes and electric bells establishes in
Simultaneous communication between the office
and all parts of tho premises. Over five hun
dred workmen are employed, and every care is
taken to secure for them health, comfort and
safety, as well as a perfect and economical
working Of the establishment. Many Of the
little rooms occupied by the tuners are made
charmingly cozy with pictures and flowers, ar
ranged to suit the taste of the occupants. The
cheerful hum of machinery mingles with the
chirpng of thousands of reeds, and sends forth
a not discordant' song of industry which pene-
trates many Of the pleasant homes Of the work.
men.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-02-01
The Black Hills Mines.

The Chicago Inter- Ocean says that a
gentleman now visiting Chicago, direct
from the Black Hills, gives it as his
opinion, based on a careful computation
of all returns known, that there was not
less than 100000 worth of the gold
taken out of the hills last year. Of this
amount over one thousand nine hundred
pounds of gold dust, or nearly a ton, was
taken out by the Wheeler Bros. in
Deadwood Gulch between May and
September. This is from the gulch
mines exclusively; it is expected quartz
and gulch mines will yield treble that
sum during 1877. A number of quartz
mills are in process of construction, and
many more are on the way TO the hills.
No railroad has yet made any progress
toward the Black Hills, other than those
already established, but several projects
are just now being discussed, although
nothing definite has been done. There
are numerous stage lines connecting the
gold fields with the outer world, and
making the trips from the railroad to the
hills in from four to six days. The
indications are that there will be fresh
stampede" in the spring. No man
should 90 there to work in the mines
who is not practical miner, and man
who cannot do well at home need not ex-
pect to pick up nuggets in Deadwood or
any other Black Hills camp.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-02-01

HATCH's UNIVERSAL COUGH SYRUP has
been in use Is years, and has always been
warranted to cure, and is now sold by over
5000 druggists, who say they seldom have a
bottle returned. Many of the best physi-
SLAMS in the country prescribe it as the best
remedy for coughs, colds, and GROUP within
their knowledge. Pleasant to take, sure to
cure, and should be sold by all druggists. 1t
should be in every family, especially those
with croupy children. Try it and you will
always keep it. Two sizes--50 cents and
81. Put up by d. w. Hatch & Co., James.
tom N Y
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-02-01

A PRACTICAL authority on house.
painting states that paint applied 10
the exterior of buildings in autumn OF
winter will endure twice as long as when
applied in early summer or in hot
weather. In the former case IL dries
slowly and becomes hard like glazed
surface, not easily affected afterwards by
the weather, or worn of by the beating
of storms. But in very hot weather the
oil in the paint soaks into the wood at
once, as If it were sponge, leaving the
white lead nearly dry and ready to
crumble of. This last difficulty, how
ever, might in a measure be guarded
against, though at an increased expense,
by first going over the surface with raw
oil. Furthermore, by painting in cold
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-02-01

On the death of one of Eugland's most
eminent physicians, all his effects were sold
by auction, and among other things was a
sealed packet, marked "Advice to Physi-
cians," which brought great price. The
purchaser on opening the packet, read as
follows: "Keep the head cool, the DO wells
open, and the feet warm" II physic is
necessary, Use Parsons Purgativc Pills; they
are the most scientifically prepared pill that
has appeared in the last hundred years.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-02-01

COOP ADvICE.-If there is any of our
readers who doubt the wonderful curative eff
fects of Durang's Rheumatic Remedy, let
them write to any prominent person in Wash.
ington City, where it is manufactured, and
they will learn that 1t will do even more than
is claimed for it. Sold by all retail drug.
gists, and at Wholesale in all large cities.
Price 81 90
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-02-01

A METHODIST preacher belonging to
the New England Conference, man Of
excellent character and good preaching
ability, has received from the station he
serves, thus far in the year, for the sup
port Of himself and family, the sum Of
sixty dollars, and another of rare en-
dowments as preacher will obtain,
when his full salary is paid, the sum of
two hundred dollars for the years work.
These facts are given TO show the strin-
gency of the times. The Herald thinks
that the average human nature is not
equal to a patient endurance of such
severe strains.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-02-01

IT is said that Ezra ID. Winslow has
been in constant communication with
friends on this side of the water, endeav.
oring to arrange with his creditors, that
he might return home and escape prose-
cution. but his Boston counsel told him
the government indictments could not
be Withdrawn.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-02-01
A few TESTIMONIALS.

all parts of the world have visited the
stem Recommendations
cheap h Many that sound and read well
present therefore, order
which tina
that
dhunan achieves
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-02-01

THE GRAND CENTRAL HOTEL, New York,
has redu ced prices to suit the times. The
traveller can now stop at frst.class hotel
for $3.50 to So per day. This is the largest
hotel in the city, and Mr.. Powers has taken
the proper step to keep it full. We recon.
mend the travelling public to give the Grand
Central trial.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-02-01

THERE can be no mistake about 1t,
"Matchless" plug tobacco takes the lead.
Old fine cut chewers say il gives better salts
faction and is cheaper than fine cut. You
can not be imposed upon, as each plug has
the words "Matchless p. L. Co" on a
wooden tag. Try 1t once and you will al
ways chewit. Manufactured by the Pioneer
Tobacco Company, New York.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-02-01

hands, saltrheum, and all cutaneous affec.
tons cured, the skin made soft and smooth
by the use Of Juniper Tar Soap. That made
by Caswell, Hazard q Co., New York, Is the
only kind that can be relied on, as there are
many limitations, made from common tar,
which are worthless.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-02-01
THE
ESTEY ORGAN.
The Instrument, the Makers,
and the Mandatory at
Brattleboro', vt.
THE
TIE INSTRUMENT.

Few people in the civilized world to-day,
among those who are interested In music and
the forms of musical expression, have not
heard of the Estey Organ, and smaller still is
the number of those who do not after practical
acquaintance with the superior merits of that
noble instrument, cheerfuly concede the proud
claim of its makers. that
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-02-01

The California Methodist are mani
testing considerable ill.feeling over the
fact that neither of the Bishops will take
up his residence among them. The
Christian Advocate, of San Francisco,
says that "not one-fourth of our men,
bership west of the Rocky Mountains
ever saw Methodist Bishop"
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-02-01
For Throat Diseases

And affections of the chest, "Bro,on's Bron.
ctial Troches" are of value. For Coughs,
Irritation of the Throat, caused by cold, or
Unusual Exertion of the vocal organs, in
speaking in public, or singing, they pro-
duce beneficial results
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-02-01

WE received a very pleasant letter OF
thanks from our old friend Kendall, since
his return home, for a bottle OF johnson:
Anodyne Liniment which we gave him, and
which he says has entirely cured him OF the
troublesome and dangerous cough he had
~
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-02-01

AT our request Cragin & Co., Philadel.
phia, Pa, have promised to send any of
our readers gratis on receipt of 15c. to
pay postage) a sample of Dobbins' Elec-
trio Soap to try. Send at once.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-02-01

AMERICAN Standard Shot, Of superior fin.
ish, also lead pipe and sheet lead, manufac.
tured by the Colwell Lead Co., successors to
the New Lead Co., SO Center Street, N. Y.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-02-01

one operative supplied the demand FOR Turr's Hair
Dye. To-day IL requires hfty men and girls, with
improved machinery, to do ~. The demand IL not
confined to this country, but extends to all parts Of
the world.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-02-01

THE President of Michigan University
says the women who go there are able,
without injuring their health, TO rival
the men i'm scholarship.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-02-01
from HERR RUBENsTEIN, Director of the Imperia
/ the Musical Society at Moscow

really
noble charming and has the
qualities added
not
innyu cces il
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-02-01

the st. Petersburg
sympathetic On no other
produced chOke sound the lower registers
smla toa fine
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-02-01

"DIED of hard drink" was the YER
dict of an intelligent jury upon the body
ola man killed by falling icicle.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-02-01

CATARRH, unless checked in the early
stages, leads TO dangerous diseases Of the
throat and lungs. Taken when the symp.
toms first appear, Sandford's Radical Cure
for Catarrh Is instantly effective.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-02-01

heard Batteboro,
which resembles
harmon
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-02-01
wILB0Rs O0MPOUHD OF
PURE COD LIVER
OIL AND LIME. 4

WiibOr's Cod Liver OF and Lime.-Persons
who have been taking Cod Liver OIL will be pleased
20 learn that DR.. Wiibor has succeeded, from dlrec
Tons OF several professional gentemen In combin
is pleasant TO the TASTE and Its effects In lung COM
plants are truly wonderful. Very many persons
whose eases were pronounced hopeless and who had
taken the clear oil for . long time without marked
effect have been entirely cured by using this prepa-
ration. BE su q and got the genuine, Manufac-
tured only BY A. %. WILB0R, Chemist, Boston.
Sold BY all druggists.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-02-01
Ten Years Ago

Patentees and inventors should read adver.
tisement OF Edison Bros. In another column.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-02-01
THE EAkIR'S PACK.
Denig's Cough BaIsani

No medicine yet has ever been sold
Is equal to this for the cure of cold
All difficult breathing and tiehtness Of chest
Is promptly relieved and the patient has rest.
Have you cough or cold1 Don't hesitate to try
Denig's Cough Bslsam, IS cents a bottle. Sold by
Druggists. Allston n Davis, Chillicothc, o., Pro-
prietors.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-02-01

Mess Et Co., and been charmed with
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-02-01

noble and the greatest
delighted with them
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A LUCRATIVE BUSINESS.

OF WE WANT 500 MORE FiRST-CLASS
SEWING MACHINE AGENTS, AND 500
MEN OF ENERGY AND ABILITY TO LEARN
THE BUSINESS OF SELLING SEWING MA
AcTER AND QUALIFICATIONS OF the
AGENT. FOR PARTICULARS, ADDRESS
Wilson Sewing Machine Co.. Chicago.
s27 4 sss BROADWAY. New York. or New orlean Il.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-02-01

SAENS Composer Pianist and organist OF
Nadele AR
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the Cottage OF uy
smaller
smaller should be highly
mnd@ 81 NrDHN0N'' o'e"H"
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late concerts fully concur the
in
~ - H., Dretor of Mush
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from DoANE, Eminent Composer and
Director, Cincinnati, OIL
combination and durability construction
TIN Estey Organic seen"