The Lake County star., 1875-12-02
GENERAL NOTES.

THERE are in the Southern States one
hundred and eighty.seven cetton mills,
10, ,447 looms, and 497, ,627 spindles, con-
suming last year 147 ,401 bales, or SO, 1885,
619 pounds of cotton.
A PENNsYLvANIA man has left will
which bequeathed twenty thousand dol
lars to hospital for friendless dogs, and
jury has decided that his children are
legally entitled to the money.
THE annual production of leather
gloves in France is estimated at about
1900, 900 dozens of pairs of first, second,
and third sorts, the average price being
thirty-five francs per dozen. There
are 10000 persons employed in this in
dustry.
In the church of Ste. Maria sopra Mi
nerva-Cardinal McCloskey's titular-
one saint (Catharine of Siena), five
pontiffs, and sixty-two cardinals lie in
TERED. Two conclaves have been held
there-that of 1881, when Eugenius Nv
was elected, and that of 1447, which
elected Nicholas V.
A NICE time the peasants are having
along the Garonne, near Bordeaux. A ship
captain took over eight hundred alliga.
tors from this country, and failing to sell
them, turned them into the water. They
have began gobbling up dogs and even
pursuing people. A grand hunt is in
prospect.
IT is the opinion of the Bosten Globe
that the i'll health of school girls is to be
attributed not so much to Overwork i'm.
posed by teachers, as to improper food
and dress, and the ambition of their par.
ents to have them thoroughly edu.
Gated and accomplished by the time they
are eighteen.
The most singular feat of nature car
be seen in tree near Eureka. tbs hall
pine and half fir. 1t is a goOd-sized tree
perhaps seventy-fve feet high. The
body from the ground to a distance o.
thirty feet is pine. Then for distance
of twenty feet it is fir. The remaining
twenty feet, like the lower portion, il
pine.
A NEW kind of wall decoration hal
come into favor in France. These COP
sist of double sheets of glass, the inpel
surface of the under sheet being paihtet
in oilcolor, in imitation of lapis-lazuli
jasper. onyx, or some other costly stone
They are used like tiles, for walls, vain
scots, ornamental pavements, cabine
furniture, and the like.
THE four cells of prison in Calvert
Texas, are half under ground, are eacl
seven by eight feet in size, and are onl.
entered by small trap doors in the ceiling
There is scarcely any ventilation, ant
but little effort to keep them clean. Re
Gently prisoner died, and there was n,
way to get the corpse out except by hoist
ing it with rope.
JAMES PARKS, of Elletsville, Ind, j
ninety-four years old has been marrie'
twice, and the number of his family foot
up as follows: Eleven children, fifty
seven grandchildren, sixty-two great
grandchildren, and one great-great-grand
child-thus making him the repre-
sentative of five generations. With tn,
exception of being little deaf, he
hale and hearty for one of his age, an
bids fair TO be centenarian.
Mrs. SINCLAIR, formerly the wife G
the late Edwin Forrest, has been III
terviewed" by a correspondent of tn
San Francisco. Chronicle, who represent
her as saying in regard to her separation
from her husband that she does not thin
there would have been an absOlut
estrangement but for the meddling of
"mutual friend" who busted himselfos
tensibly in trying to effect a better rels
tion between them, but really in widen
ing the breach.