The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-12-10
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Ex-PREsIDEST THEIRS is lying i'll at
Nice.
SPINNER has been Treasurer fourteen
years.
A. H. STEVENS is an eighty-pounder
Congressman.
The ex-Queen of Spain is to send her
diamonds to London to be sold.
The total value of all the effects of the
late DIR. Livingstone, the African traveller,
is sworn to as under 81, 800.
GERMANY has just launched her
seventh first-class iron-clad, and will have
another aAoat by next April.
MRS. A.W. RANDALL, widow of the late
Postmaster General, has made her first
appearance, it is said with success.
LORD LyTToN has been appointed
British ambassador at Constantinople,
succeeding Sir Henry George Elliott.
JONES and Sharon, the two United
States Senators from Nevada, are said to
have incomes exceeding $4,000, 900 each.
Two Italian physicians are said to have
discovered liquid which instantly stops
the flowing of blood from any kind of a
wound.
Mr.. GLADSTONE is said to have re-
ceivcd 9100 from the proprietors of the
Cotemporary Reriew for his article on
Ritualism.
TILTON has offers of from $500 to
81 900 per night for lecture efforts, but
declines all attempts to get him before
the public.
VICTORIA is writing another life of
Albert the Good. She prefers doing this
to having it out with the other mother
in-law in London.
Dion BOUCICAULT is against Sunday
theatrical performances, not on religious
principle, but because actors require one
day of rest in the week.
Tom HOOP, editor of the London Fan,
died recently. He was the son of the
late Thomas Hood, the celebrated poet,
and was born on January 10, 1885.
THE Geological Garden of Cincinnati
was recently the recipient of a package
weighing $50 pounds, containing live
specimens of all but three kinds of native
American snakes.
FRANCE and Russia will in future take
annually from the population 10000
more men than hitherto, and the Cologne
Gazette says this will compel Germany to
make corresponding increase.
THE Rev. Robert Collyer has been done
in bust by WIlliamW. Starr, of Boston,
and the work is pronounced very lifelike
This is remarkable, considering that the
sculptor had never seen his subject.
THE Michigan ladies worked like
beavers for the cause of Woman Suffrage
at the polls. Coffee, cold meats and other
refreshments were everywhere provided,
but the refractory voter wasn't hungry.
Mr.. BLANCHARD JERRoLD says that If
Ire were not an Englishman he would be
a Russian, for the reason that to England
or to Russia belongs the empire of the
world. Mr.. Jerrold must be in blissful
ignorance concerning the land of Bis
marck, and certainly has never heard our
own eagle scream.
REV. ISAAC ERRETT, of the Chicago
Christian Church, is business like
preacher. At a meeting of the icoDgre-
cation he said: "Ishould like to continue
as your pastor another year, and will stay
if you will pay me five thousand dollars.
/ can not stay for less; and / would like
an answer right away" He was engaged.
The former residence of Maximalian,
in Mexico, is in ruins. The modest es-
tablishment was once brick cottage,
Overgrown with vines, and densely sur
rounded with guava and coffee trees.
The grounds were left nearly as wild as
nature made them, with only enough of
the interlaced branches cut away to let
in light and air.
JAS. HALLow, of West Dudley, Mass,
has for fifty years made it the sole aim of
his life to get ga home of his own" So
fixed was his mind upon this idea that
it almost amounted to mania. He
worked necessarily and saved his earn
ings parsimoniously until, a month ago,
he was able to buy farm. He took
possession, and died twenty days after
ward. as
The banks of sewer at Providence,
Rhode Island, caved in upon workman,
the other day, and, as no one saw the
accident, he would have been killed had
not four grayhounds seen the occurrence
and commenced to dig and howl for help
They were driven away, but returned
and their persistence leading some mer
to dig at the spot, the man was rescued
unharmed.