The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-09-02

o ""ieS' Soou suih oi-noney Is pledged
on the start, and then again every gen.
tleman who applies must be acceptable
to every lady who belongs, and every
lady who desires to unite must be an.
proved by all the men belonging at the
time.
The Agricultural Department has sta
tistics collected together in seven States,
which show that in January last there
were in these States on hoof 14,2l3,SO0
hogs. These were divided as follows:
Indiana, 2.670,000; Illinois, 1904, 900 !;
Iowa, 3,399,OO0; Missouri, 2,OS2, 600 !;
Ohio, 1,7S4,000; Kentucky, 1,7O6, 900 !;
( Wisconsin, $4,000. 1t is estimated that
returns from other States will make the
hog crop for, this year over $4,000, 900.
AT the recent goat show, the first ever
held in London, one hundred animals
were exhibited, including one which
gives five quarts of milk day. The
flesh of the goat is extremely palatable,
and that of the kid strongly resembles
lamb, but the defect that has been found
hitherto has been the leanness of the ami
NAL. A kidkilled and cooked will have
very little meat on its bones, but by
breeding goats carefully all the charac-
teristics Ofanimals that fatten can be OBJ
tanned, and this is one among the OBJ
jects that the promoters of the show have
in view.
RAILROAD construction seems to be
in bad way the world over. The recent
report of the British Board of Trade of
the exports for the first half of the year
show that 259, 1907 tons of railroad iron in
all kinds were exported in 1875, against
427 ,267 tons in 1874. The exports last
year were sufficient to lay four thousand
eight hundred and five miles of track
with fifty-six pounds of iron; those of
this year, only enough for two thousand
and nine hundred and forty-seven miles,
or one thousand and eight hundred and
fifty-cight miles less. Roughly speaking,
the exports of this year were about
sufficient for the maintenance of forty
thousand miles of ordinary iron track
during the half year.
A CASE of peculiar interest to those
who use oil-lamps has just been decided
by the Supreme Court of Louisiana. A
woman of New Orleans purchased some
non-explosive" oil-in this instance
named "septoline"-which exploded as
the woman was filling a lamp, burning a
girl of eighteen, her daughter, severely,
and inficting upon herself the burden
and care of nursing the Injured child, and
the expense of medical aid. The mana
ger Of the Septoline Oil Company was
made defendant, and damages were laid
at six thousand dollars-those of the
daughter at five thousand dollars, and of
the mother one thousand dollars. The
defense was general denial. "A lower
court decreed one thousand dollars to
daughter and two hundred and fifty dol
lars to the mother, and the Supreme
Court has just affirmed this decision.
AN exciting time was recently caused
inS Columbia, fE0uths Carolina, by pro-
ceedings under ashabeas corpus for the re-
lease of ex.Treasurer Parker. The ap-
plication was read before Judge
Mackey, Parker's counsel claiming
his discharge under the provision of the
Constitution prohibiting imprisonment
for debt. The SherifPs return failed to
allege that the case was one of fraud,
charge which isespecially excepted in the
constitutional prohibition of imprison-
ment for debt, and after argument the
judge released the prisoner. The court
room was filled with an excited crowd,
and Parker was Immediately re-arrested
on criminal warrant for grand larceny,
bat his counsel waived examination, and,
urging that the amount involved in the
alleged robbery had nothing to do with
the amount of bail, succeeded in getting
him released on two thousand dollars.
IMMENSE quantities of buttons, manu-
factured from pebbles, are produced in
Paris and sent to almost every part of
the globe. These pebbles, which are of
crystalized felspar,, containing as little
clay and lime or lime saltsas possible, are
reduced to powder by heating them to
cherry red and then plunging them into
cold water. The powder is separated
from its impurities by being passed
through wire gauze sieve, and is next
well stirred in water. The residuum is
treated with quantity of hydrochloric
acid, varying from three to ten per cent,
to free it from the oxide of iron, which
would give the buttons reddish tinge in
the baking process. One hundred pounds
of powder are mixed with two of chloride
of sodium and four of flour paste, dis
solved in five quarts of water; the whole
is then passed through sieve and dried
to proper consistency for molding.
WITH reference to the Prince of Wales
visit to India, it is arranged that the
Scraps and the Royal yacht Osborne
will leave Portsmouth on the 9th of Oc-
tober for Brindisi, where the Prince and
his suite will embark on the 10th of Oc-
tober. A guard of honor of one hundred
marines and captain will be sent out in
the Scraps. So far as at present arranged,
the number Of persons going out in her
will not exceed four hundred, and as she
has accommodations for over one thou
sand, it will be possible to render the ship
thoroughly roomy. All unnecessary
cabins and fxings are being removed,
and general clearncss has been made on
the main deck, with the exception of the
royal cabin, reception and dining-rooms
on the port side, thus making an excel
lent. promenade and lousging place, ex-
tending sixty feet by three feet wide.
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