The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-10-21


while taking a bath. This sign has pre-
ceded the deaths of his three predeces
sors, and he has accepted the omen as
sign of the inevitable, and taken to hi
bed, quite i'll.
"Have any of our physicians ever seer
or treated bald-headed consumptive p
is now the anxious question that is going
around, with no answer yet heard from
Can it be that the deft hair-snatchine
wife is pulmonary specific? Stranger
things have been discovered in the world
since Darwin and Huxley got to work.
CONGRESS has its first work laid out
for it by the American Free Dress
League, which unanimously adopted at
its last meeting the following resolution
submitted by DIR. Mary Walker:
Resolved, That the Congress of the United
States be requested to define the length OF
woman's dress, and the material that shall
be used by her to cover her limbs, and that
1t shall pass an act making it penal offense
for any government Official to deprive woman
OF any position because she refuses to dress
according to such officers dictation--barbar.
ism worse than ever cursed heather lands.
THERE are more bay windows in San
Francisco than in any other city in the
world. Bay windows constitute its
architectural speciality. No family can
be without them. Every little cottage
has them. That wonderful hostelry, the
Palace Hotel, has over six hundred front
rooms with bay windows. Every front
room on two sides, and for eleven stories
in height has bay window, and by one
correspondent it is described as present
ing the appearance of an enormous col
lection of dovecotes, arranged in ranks
and tiers one above another.
1T will interest our readers, says the
Indian Daily Neps, to learn that "Quad-
ruple Telegraphy," that is, the art of
sending four messages, two in each
direction, simultaneously, by means of
one wire, has been accomplished on the
Madras Railway Telegraph. The system
which Mr.. Winter the Telegraph Engin-
eer invented in March last, has proved
perfectly successful On eighty miles of
line, and its extension to lines of greater
length is simply question of additional
condensers and battery power. The first
successful experiment on public road
was made on the 18th of April.
THERE is an artesian we'll in Merced
county, California, on the bank of the
Mariposa creek, about sixteen miles be-
low Plainsburg, called the "Giant of
California" and It's represented as being
the finest we'll in the San Joaquin Val
ley. 1t is 270 feet deep, and throws a
stream equal in extent to sixteen inch
sluice stream, miners measurement.
Consequently, the well furnishes from
$50 to 175 gallons of water per minute
$50 gallons at the lowest calculation.
Every twenty-four hours the enormous
quantity of $4,000 gallons of water is
supplied, sufficient to irrigate at least
200 acres of land.
In the Paris International Maritime
Exposition there is small object deserv-
ing notice. 1t is platinum wire,
placed in a bottle and ignited by elec-
tricity from bichromate battery. 1t is
intended to be immersed in the sea, and
the light emanating from it is said to at
tract an immense number of fishes. Ex-
periments have been tried lately on the
coast of the Cotes Du Nord Department
with fishing boat, and have proved very
satisfactory on bank of sardines. The
glass must be green or black, otherwise
the fish are frightened away by the glare
and do not follow the submarine light.
The Leavenworth Times says that,
with 100000 bushels of surplus wheat
this year, Kansas farmers will receive
100000 clear from that crop alone.
For their 81, 900, 900 bushels surplus corn,
they will get at least $13,000,0OO. AL
lowing them only $5,000,000 for other
marketable crops, we find that they will
have $27 100000 to pay debts and make
Improvements, besides beginning another
year with ample provisions to last their
families and farm stock till another crop
can be raised. How is that for "grass
hopper country" settled since the war
In five years from now, the unorganized
counties of Kansas, that do not at present
contain single human habitation or
agricultural implement, will be shipping
more wheat than California.
THERE are said to be four little girls
in Milwaukee, who are employed by a
certain well-known wealthy tobacco
dealer, to pick up whatever may be
found in saloons, on the streets, and in
the cutters, at one cent for every ten
pieces, whether large or small. Every
cigar stump or discarded "quid" is
picked up, no matter how dirty it may
be, no matter who has used it, or where
it is found. These are used in the manu-
facture of both "choice" Havana cigars
and paper chewing tobacco. The longer
and better "stumps" are unrolled and
used for the former purpose, while the
"quids," short stumps, and soaked and
rotten "tips" are made into chewing to-
bacco. There is something delectable in
the contemplation of all this. These
children make good wages at the busi-
ness, their pay ranging from eighty cents
to a dollar and half day. When
large and well-soaked lump is found, the
little rascals divide it, and by 80 doing
make fifty per cent. on their find."
Bishop FITZGERALD, of the Roman
Catholic Diocese of Little Rock, has re-
turned to his own field of labor, after an
absence of four months, which have been
occupied in the visitation of the parishes
In the diocese of Cleveland Ohio sunnIv.