The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-03-05

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Octagonal watches are getting fash
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Several museums have Horace
Greeley's old armchair. -" ''''~
Lazy husbands are known out west
as stOve-watchers. e..
aAH the carpet scraps In Stewart's
store are made into slippers. gr-e
A third Alpine tunnel Is proposed,
to pass under st. Bernard.
st. Louis has 100000 children, OF
whom $4,000 never go to school. - .
Queen Victoria is said to be writ
Ing book, the scene being laid in
Germany.
"A vessel Is about to be launched at
Quebec, having iron nlasts made I'm
that city. =,
A Richmond paper complains of
the large number OF Virginians who
are leaving their native State.
There are more than 1900 persons
In Maines over the age of ten years,
who can neither read or write.
Mr.. Peter Fisher, OF TT. Collins,
COL, shot mountain lion the other
day that was six feet and a half In
length. . W.T.
In China, two people OF the same
surname dare not marry. The Smith
family would suffer in that country.
An OswegO woman sdvertises that
she has purchased shotgun and will
shoot any man who gives her hus-
band liquor. .u.E t..I s.r,.,-
The simplest kind Of burglar-alarm
Is to throw newspapers loosely on the
stairways and near the doors and
windows. -.t....a ,s-.t ,,,i,.. ,.,,.,
Thirteen silver bricks have been,
presented to the public schools of
Virginia City, to be awarded to the
best scholars. ....q ~ &C
The Rhode Island Legislature be-
lieves that a State Prison convict
should have one-tenth of his earn.
iDgs when discharged. 3..t. -.
There Is an establishment I'm Paris
whose sole business Is to make over
and re-curl feathers. The business
done Is enormous. h''-
The fashionable exodus to Europe
will begin this year as early as April.
The number OF visitors is expected
to be very large. Ht 3'ds h1R ,y9n9s
AcOokery school has been estab-
lished among several aristOcratlc la
dies in London, who agree to take
homeland eat what they cook. or
Six-penny kilograms are to be in
trOduced in England, and half-penny
letter postage. AS rule, the papers
do not approve of tho new plan.
There is a number of semi-dOmes-
ticated beavers in the mill-pOnd at
Mazeppa, Minn. and the people are
disposed to protect them as pets of
the village. r.
A Chicago man wrote to Agassiz
that he had an apple which he had
preserved for ffty-three years, and
when Agassiz wrote for he said IL
was the apple Of his eye. a.' o.I 90 y
A French paper points out how tho
passion for gambling Is shown i'm this
country, so that even In wedding
notices it is necessary to state that
there were mo cards." 40, ,s.r.. ~.
He that hath trade, hath an es-
tate; and he that hath 4 calling, hath
a place Of profit and honor. a plow-,
man on his legs is higher than a gen.
tleman on his knees. ~'" "'
Andrew Jackson was accused of
bad spelling, but John Randolph de-
Tended him by declaring that "a man
must be fool who could not spell
word more ways than one." /. !. .te5I
Jones considers that, i'm view of re-
cent developments, the only safe
course to pursue Is never to write a
letter and. never to burn it after
wards. A man is then comparatively
safe. M p. .t1i.' - -.'.' -
AfOrtune Is said to be still waiting
for the man who shall introduce Han
som cabs into our large cities and
carry one or two people anywhere
within two miles for twenty-five
cents.
The London Economist finds an ex-
PLANTATION of recent panics in the
theory that "the wealth of the world
has been Increasing much faster than
the creation Of good securities to put
It in."1 p.o.-.,f r..r.. t..i.-4
The difference in natures was well
illustrated at the depot this morning.
Two sisters met. ooh, my dear sis
terV said one exhaustedly, as they
embraced. you've been eating on
IONS" said the other, calmly and
iearlessly. 5ban 3d ra.aB a45 a'oa IA.
A Southern paper explains its poll
Icy In Q few terse words :-"The di-
rect incisiveness of some of our OBJ
servatiOns, past, present and to come,
may make people vince; but we pre-
fer that method to the platitudlnous
course of some Others" rs igai lHi
The ,Pekin Gazette Is the oldest
journal In the world. It Is printed ON
a large sheet of yellow silk, and ap-
pears in the same form, with the
same characters, and ON the same
kind of stuff it did q thousand years
ago. The only change is the writer's.
Three quartz lodes are being
worked in Alaska with good results.
Gold is plainly visible throughout
the quartz in all of them. Speci-
mems OF the ore assay all the way
from 800 to 81, 500 per ton. The lOdes
are from three to SIX feet in width.
A New Bedford paper tells q story
about q shopkeeper, who advised u
lady customer to buy two mohair
switches instead of one, as the article
was becoming scarce. He said that
the man whom he hired to hunt NOES
had only caught two within fort
night. "HA ~ ' F.. 'elF" ?
An invention was tested at Titus
Vile, Pa, lately, by which, IL Is
claimed, the speed Of locomotives
and ocean steamers can be increased
three-fold, ut less cost than ut pres
ent.. No other information Is youch-
safed regarding It, save that its name
Is the New Double Exhaustlng Steam
Engine. H'pip naa 1niiH9 V1Eiu1
An Illinois journal says: = "a
daughter Of II. w. Porter, residing
near, Monmouth, while making her
bed, the other day, discovered rat
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