The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-02-12
ALL SORTS.

Beecher gets 1888 a minute whel
he lectures.
When is young lady like a whale
When she's pouting.
| Twenty-three cars loaded with gold
and silver passed through Davenport.
Iowa, last week.
The annual consumption of quick.
silver In Nevada Is estimated at near.
ly 1000, 900 pounds.
An iron will, silvery voice, plenty
OF brass, and a mOdicum of tin,
win golden opinions.
The Rugby School, of England, has
been prominent educational estab-
lishment for three hundred years.
Experiments with single-track
elevated railway have been made In
Philadelphia, and pronounced success
full.
In 1906 the trade of st. Louis con-
sisted solely of fox skins, coon skins
and bears grease, and amounted to
$77,971.
Prof. s. p. Langley describes, in
the Pittsburg Gazette, spot on the
sun which covers the enormous area
of 900, 200, 900 square miles.
1t Is said that, in spite of all pre-
cautions, not steamer leaves Liver
pool for New York but "stowaways',
are discovered when clear of port.
A company of British capitalists
have recently invested 1000, 900 In
water power at Augusta, Ga., for the
purpose Of manufacturing cotton.
Words are things; anda small drop
thought, produces that which makes
thousands, perhaps millions, think.
1t was an expressive remark of a
practical man regarding the fine lady
of the period, recently:-"She doesn't
know enough, sir, to bile hot water"
During the Khiva expedition the
Russian soldiers were fed chiefly on
biscuits composed One-third of rye
flour, One-third of powdered beef and
one-third of saurkraut.
Love Is like war in this, that a
soldier, though he had escaped the
week complete on Saturday night,
may nevertheless be shot through his
heart Sunday morning.
A pack of wolves in Sherbourne
Co., MIMI, chased couple of lawyers
five miles, and the New Orleans Ire
publican thinks it showed a lack of
professional courtesy.
The new King of Saxony isa salary
grabber. He wants his miserable
pittance raised from $645, 900 to ST.
600, 900 a year. He thinks he could
make more at some other business.
The idea of introducing the Ger
man spiked hemlet into the French
army has sensibly been abandoned.
The troops swore they would never
wear them, and that settled it.
A firm of Louisville swindlers adj
vertised to send perfect watch, war
ranted to keep exact time for one
dollar and twelve cents. On send
ing the money, the victims received
a small sun-dial, worth about ten
cents.
"HOw fast they,build houses now I"
said H.: "they began that building
last week, and now thew are putting
in the lights" Eyes, answered his
friend, Tand next week they will put
in the liver"
The first vessel of the future Rus
sian Black Sea fleet, the monitor
NOvgOrOd, resembles a huge circular
Iron kettle, of more than three hun
dred feet diameter, and only rises a
foot and a half out of the water.
Old gent-"You don't mean to tell
me, waiter, that you can't give tooth
pick w Waiter-"Well, sir, we used
to keep 'em, but the gents almost in
variably took 'em away when they'd
done with 'em."
The tomb of Petrarch has been late
ly opened at Argua, in North Italy.
The body was not i'm good preserva-
ton, but 1t was sufficiently shown
that Petrarch was robust man, with
head of medium size.
In reports of bank defalcatiOns, ETC.,
irregularities" is not now the correct
word to use. You must say the poor
fellows accounts got confused. Pro-
gressive age, this. We shall soon
have no stealing at this rate.
A company has been formed in
France to attempt the utilization of
the power of tides. The first will be
made in the neighborhood OF st. Ma
10, where there is a rise of nearly
eighty feet, the water overlooking
many miles of flats.
That cruel hoax about biologists
bride who broke open an Arkansas
boulder, and drank the water in the
middle, and turned Immediately into
stone, was nothing but q dodge of
real estate spectators to get some
poor Arkansas lands on the market.
A distinguished German surgeon
named Esmarch has invented a pro-
cess whereby amputation of the limbs
may be performed bloodlessly by APP
plying elastic bandages to the limbs
above the point of operation. The
method has been successfully tried in
England.
Last week, in Ohio, a young lady
died from what a round-head doctor
said was "heart klot, or embolism OF
the main fiue of the heart" but she
revived in an hour and 1t was found
| she had temporarily chOked by a chew