The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-10-29
GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.

THERE is married couple at Lyndon,
VT, whose ages are 1O3 and 96 respec-
lively.
The California vintage this season is
estimated at 10,0OO,0 900 gallons, against
100000 last year.
ABOUT one-half of the French wines
sold in this country are made, bottled,
and boxed in New York.
WRITERS of indecent matter on postal
cards are subject to fine of not less
than 800, nor more than $4,000, for
each offense.
"PoMo" is the abreviation suggested
for postOffice money order. 1t is made
up of the initials of the four words rep
resented.
The new Keble College Chapel, at Ok
ford, England, is to cost $500, 900, all of
which expense is to be borne by one
man, Mr.. Gibbs.
FOUR steamers on Lake WinnepisseO-
gee were recently seized by the United
States Marshal for not being properly
provided with life-saving appliances.
The Illinois Southern Railroad has
been sold, without power of redemption,
to the first mortgage bOndholders. 1t
brought $500, 1000, nominal price.
"MIcA scales, stained with iron rust"
is the verdict of Professor Winchell,
State Geologist of Minnesota, on the
"gold" found in the Black Hills.
The foreign resident population of
Paris is made up as follows: 1000 Ameri-
cans, 1000 Englishmen, AZ 900 Germans,
$4,000 Belgians, and 10000 Swiss.
The production of wine in Southern
Australia is an important branch of ag-
ricultural industry. The production last
year has been estimated at 1885, ,47s gal
Ions.
THE Brooklyn almshouse received
thirty-four foundlings last year, and only
six are alive at present. This wholesale
way of making little angels Of found
lings is to be investigated.
The Wabash and Erie canal, running
from Toledo down into Indiana, is likely
to be abandoned. The company which
has held it under lease for the last eight
years, has lost $15O,OOO by it.
The peach crop in the Green-river re-
gion of Kentucky is reported as being
larger than was ever known before, and
the peach brandy distilleries are working
up'to their full capacity.
IT is less than fifty years ago since the
world began to build itself railways, and |
now it has $4,000 geographical miles of
them, equal to construction of two |
miles day since the beginning.
1T is stated that the construction of |
the outer girdle Of forts for the defense |
of Paris will be commenced next No
vember, and that they will give employ
ment to nearly two thousand workmen.
WILLIAM CAxToN, the prototype
grapher of England, published his first
book in that country in or about 1476,
and it is proposed to celebrate the four
hundredth anniversary of that interest
ing event in connection with the Ameri-
can Centennial at Philadelphia.
BISMARCK, it is said, has set his heart
on the union of Spain and Portugal, and
has already begun his arrangements
for bringing it about. Portugal is not
greatly pleased at the prospect, and is
getting up a good deal of indignation
over the proposition. The union will
not be consummated without considera-
BILE resistance.
THE surface of Egypt capable of being
cultivated is about 7,264,640 acres (or
II, 1851 square miles), of which about
4, 1926, 900 are actually under cultivation.
Steam is now used in irrigation by.all
the large landowners, but the small cul-
tivators have still most primitive mode,
using, where oxen or camels are not en-
ployed turning the wheels, leaky baskets
to raise the water into channel, whence
it flows in rills over the land.