The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-11-11
GENERAL NOTES.

"A DOG weighing only tnree ounces Il
astonishing the fanciers of Troy, New
York.
The Director of the Mint, DIR. Linder
man, estimates the gold and silver pro
duction of the country next year at one
hundred million dollars.
AT Uniontown. Pennsylvania, James
Wyatt, a hotel clerk, shot and danger
ously wounded his brother William, the
ball entering his left eye.
A BARREL of -four weighs 1876 pounds
a barrel of pork, 200; barrel of rice,
600; barrel of powder, 25; firkin OF
butter, Sc; tub of butter, "a.
THE annual value of the coffee crop,
according to an Amsterdam authority,
purchased from first hands, is one hun
dred and twenty-five million dollars.
THE appearance of American cotton
goods in the markets of Manchester, as a
rival of English prints, is an event of no
small significance. 1t is an attack upon
the enemy's stronghold. ia4
A DANE has invented an arrangement
to take the place of crutches, by which
the cripple can 90 fast or slow and up
aad down stairs without touching his
feet to the ground or working but one
arm.
? WHEAT, beans and clover-seed, sixty
pounds, to the bushel corn, rye and flax
seed, fifty-six buck wheat, sixty-two; bar
ley, forty-eight oats, thirty-fve; bran,
twenty; timothy seed, forty-eight salt,
eighty-five.
A FEW days ago carriage was precip-
itated into the Schuylkill river opposite
Manayunk, Pennsylvania. The vehicle
contained five persons, three of whom,
Henry Getler, his mother and child,
were drowned. James Miller and wife
were rescued.
THE standing army in Prussia, war
times, 100000; France, 1860, 1000;
Russia, 100000; Austria, $4,000;
Italy, 100000; Spain, 100, 900 Belgiume
$4,000; England, $4,000; United States,
$4,000. Roman Catholics in the United
States, 100000.
A COMPANY from New York, which
recently bought seemingly worthless
piece of land at North Stonington,
Vermont, lately blasted a rock which
turns out sixty dollars in gold per ton,
and if deeper blasts show similar results,
they will begin mining operations at
once.
SOME time ago a little girl in West
field, New Jersey, while playing, dropped
her mothers silver thimble into the
chicken-coop. Some days afterward two
of the chickens were killed, and in the
gizzard of one Of them was found the
lost thimble, finely polished, but not in
jured. ,A-zs
SIXTY drops make a drachm, eight
drachms an ounce, four ounces q gill,
four gills pint, sixty drops table
spoonful, four teaspoonfuls tablespoon
full or half an ounce, two tablespoonfuls
an ounce, eight tablespoonfuls gill, two
gills coffee cup or tumbler, six fluid
ounces teacupful.
AN investigation into the manage
ment of Ludlow street Jail, in New
York, has brought to light some strange
doings. A regular bar is maintained in
the establishment, kept by one of the
prisoners, at which whisky and beer are
freely sold to the inmates, who not un-
frequently get very drunk.
KENNEBEC Journal: Daniel Webster,
convict in the State prison, died last
week, while Charles Sumner, the propri-
etor of drinking saloon in Bangor, has
got into trouble for throwing tumblers
and bottles at his customers. In this
city, Henry Clay has been repeatedly in
durance vile on account of his fondness
for forty-rod whisky. Does any one
know what Rufus Choate has been up to
lately?
DIR. ISAAC I. HAYS is very sure that
the North Pole and the open sea which
surrounds it, in his belief, can be reached,
and evidently would like to have another
chance of trying his skill. In letter to
the New York Herald he says that the
Pandora ought to have wintered in some
safe Arctic harbor instead of returning
to England, and during its enforced de.
lay have sent out men to survey the sur
rounding land districts and hunt up rel.
les of Franklin's expedition.