The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-11-25
j GENERAL NOTES.

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: CHINA Is getting ready for war. Her
preparations consist in marching
soldiers around the towns and blowing
horns. 30 n sfa
A FARMER in Oxford county, Maine,
tried to drive bear out of his garden,
thinking it wasa calf. He left a yard of
pantaloon cloth in the bears mouth.
DURING the last three months one thou
sand four hundred and forty-six horses,
sixty-seven donkeys and FIVE mules were
killed in Paris for public consumption.
LAST month 20, 1873 900 postal cards
were issued by the Postoffice Depart
ment-the largest issue, by at least fifty
thousand, ever made in the same time.
p THRlNew, York Eoening Express says
We understand that the result of the late
competition between the Gable Com
panies is that both have agreed to charge
the same rate--seventy-ive cents gold
per word. r Ns.r J.a ud FFII~
WHEN your child puts penny into
its mouth instead of its pocket or the
contribution box, give it castor oil at
night and whites of eggs three times a
day, avoiding all acids, until specie pay
ments are resumed. f~u.s ..ft ..r IN
INHABITANTS of the planet Mars
can make the tour of the world there dry
shod in forty days if they have accom-
plished rapid transit. The land is not
divided off into islands as with us, the
amount of water being barely enough to
form lakes. - sTctf
The Hartford Conn C0mant has Just
announced the one hundred and twelfth
anniversary Of its birthday, coupled
with an invitation to its original SUBJ
scribers to call at it's office and receive
congratulations and obtain a copy of
the newspaper for 1876 free Of charge.
A MAN in. Springfield, Mo-, ventured
to expostulate with his wife in regard to
some points in the architecture of shirt
that she was making for him. BY way
of reply she seized an AK, and buried
the blade in his skull. He has no use for
the garment now, but this brief domes-
tic lesson should be remembered.
The official figures show that the re-
cent vote in Iowa was the largest ever
cast in that State. The aggregate is
21S, ,921, over IL 900 greater than that of
1872. Kirkwood, the Republican candi-
date for Governor, received 125, ,069 votes
against 93,32 cast for Leffler, his Dem
ocrat opponent, and 52S scattering.
Kirkwood's plurality is, therefore, 81, ,745.
DISPATCHES received at Washington
announce the discovery of two new
planets of the twelfth magnitude in
Europe, one by Palisa, at Berlin, in right
ascension three hours north, declination
eighteen degrees seventeen minutes, mo-
ton south and one by Paul Henry, at
Paris, in right ascension two hours
thirty-eight minutes north, declination
fifteen degrees twenty-five minutes, mo-
tion very slight. a
THE airy philosophers may have a
new idea of condolences. The girl who
was murdered and chopped up in Len
don the other day was Harriet Lane, and
the man who murdered and chopped her
was named Wainwright. 1t will be re-
membered that in the battle of Galveston
Harbor, during the late war, the cutter
Harries Lane was in the Charge of Com
modore Wainwright, who was wounded
and afterward ruthlessly murdered on
her deck. ., .............l .....
CAPT. JOHN BROWN, of the British
army, while passing through Eighth
street, near the University place, New
York City, saw his shadow in the window
of b. v. Noises store, and not lik.
ing the appearance of the man,
whom he supposed was following
him, he struck at the offender with his
stick and broke a pane of glass worth
about two hundred dollars. He was
locked up in the Mercer street police
station for being drunk and disorderly.
A SHOCKING accident recently occur
red at King 4 Rust's mill, on the Saginaw
Valley and st. Louis Railroad. Jonas
Botsford and wife went to neighbor's
named @. s. Pratt to spend the evening,
leaving two children, a boy eight and a
girl four years of age, at home. During
the evening Botsford's house was dis
covered on fire. Pratt was first to reach
it, and in the endeavor to save the chill.
dren was burned to death, as was also the
little girl. The boy escaped. Pratt
leaves wife and one child.
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