The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-12-03
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


CHARLES III. CLARKE is the name of
the gentleman who writes as "Max
Adeler."
AN English writer claims to have met
"a great many American ladies who
were seven feet high"
In spite of the Bacon business, Will
liam Shakespeare has succeeded in getting
himself elected to the Delaware Senate.
AN enterprising citizen of Burlington,
Vermont, is writing the life of Brigham
Young, in anticipation of his early de-
mise.
COUNT Won ARNIM seems to be man
of documents, the discovery Of fresh
batch having caused his arrest second
time.
PRESIDENT GRANT received Mr.. Toole,
the comedian, at the White House the
other day, and attended his performance
in the evening.
"The Life of Bishop Norris" written
by Bishop Clark, and revised by Rev.
John F. Mariay, will soon be issued by
Hitchcock and Walden.
JOHN BRIGHT has written a letter ex-
pressing his disapproval of compulsory
vaccination, declaring the law monstrous,
and fit only to be repealed.
AMELIA, Brigham Yeung's favorite
companion, has recently been interviewed
regarding her liege lords health. She
says he is good for ten years yet, if not
for longer lease of life.
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DIR. LYON PLAYFAIR, well-known
English physician, declares that all par
ticles of the human body change once
every six weeks, instead of every seven
years, as hereto fore held.
GEORGE w. CHILDs, of Philadelphia,
has assured the Baltimore Teachers AS
ISOLATION that he will give the balance of
the amount needed for the erection of a
monument to Edgar Allen Poe.
THE house where Franklin lodged in
London is decorated with slab bearing
the fact, and the dates of his birth (1706)
and death (1790), with the titles which
he adorned, of printer, philosopher and
statesman.
THE funeral of William Allen, the
founder and for twenty-three years the
General Secretary of the most powerful
Trades Union, that of the Engineers, &C.
CURED recently in London in the pres
ence of several thousand.
THE Williams family are destined to
take fully as large place in the new
Congress as the Washburns did in times
past. Alabama, Delaware, Indiana, New
York and Wisconsin send one each, and
| Miohiuon tWn-tntaI cauan
COLONEL WILLIAM WILSON, who raised
the famous corps of New York roughs
and criminals, known as Chilly Wilson'S
Zouaves," at the beginning Of the war,
died at New York City last week. He
fought CALAMITY throughout the war, and
has since lived quiet life.
In letter which Speaker Blaine has
written to the Portland Press, he states
in decided terms that under no circum.
stances would he accept the Senatorship
and expresses his opinion that Maine
would consult her best interests by re-
turning Mr.. Hamlin to the Senate.
MARK TWAIN and j. II. Twitchel
started to walk from Hartford to Boston
Their progress is explained by the follow
ing dispatch:
MANCHESTER, MASS, Nov. 10, 1874.
To James Redpath, So Broomfeld street:
We have made thirty-ive miles in les,
than five days. This demonstrates the thins
can be done. Shall now finish by rail. Die
you have any bets on us?
SAMUEL l.. CLEMENS.
THE State of Nevada will be repre-
sented in the next Congress by the TIVE
richest Senators of the country. Jone,
and the newly-elected member, William
Sharon, who will succeed Stewart, o
Emma mine celebrity. Jones' income i
reputed to be over 100000 annually
and it is thought that Sharon's even ex
ceeds this amount. Ten years sine,
J Jones was poor man in San Francisco
but by his skillful operations in mimi!
matters he became immensely rich in
brief period.