The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-10-28
GENERAL NOTES.

A MAsoNs' Congress, with delegate
from all parts of the world, will be hel,
|. in London in 1877.
: ABOUT one-half the persons nominate,
for Superintendents of schools in low,
this year are women.
JOHN RYAN died at Boston, from tn
effects of prize-fght with Michae
Carney. The latter fed.
Two illicit stills and contraband ma
terial, valued at fifty thousand dollars
were seized in Brooklyn, recently.
GERMANY has decided to abandon sill
yer as the standard of value for hel
financial system, and substitute gold.
FORTY miles west of Laramie, Wash
ingt0n Territory, large lake has beer
discovered, the bottom Of which is thicl
layer of sulphate of magnesia or EPSON
salts in almost pure state.
A DEAF and dumb man named
"Pevety" Murphy was recently run over
and killed by a freight train on the @.
and p. road-One mile and half above
Martins Ferry, West Virginia.
ACCORDING to French statistician
more than thousand people have per-
ished by fires in theaters from the begin.
ming of the nineteenth century up to the
present date, while the pecuniary loss
amounts to $50, 100000.
A LARGE mirror in house in Bucks
county, Pa, was struck by lightning,
and the particles of glass SO imbedded in
the wood work of the room that not q
piece the size of an inch could be found.
The piano was also struck, but the tone
was not injured.
The way to wealth is as plain as the
way to market it depends chiefly on two
words-industry and frugality; that is,
waste neither time nor money, but make
the best use of both. Without industry
or frugality, nothing will do; and with
them, everything.
THE paper on which Bank of England
notes are printed has been made since
1719 at place called Laverstock. 1t is
made of new linen or cotton, and a note
will support thirty-s:x pounds before be-
ing sized. while lift is of the right size it
will support man for years.
A MAN in Michigan cut large piece
out of his leg the other day under the
impression that he had been bitten by q
rattlesnake, and then discovered that
he had merely been stung by bee. A
meauer-feeling man on making the dis
covery was probably never raised in the
State.
AN Oswego billy-goat broke up base
ball match by butting both mines off the
field. And SO it seems that goats are
good for something besides eating old
brooms and fruit cans, and knocking lit
tie children over endways. That Oswego
goat is now valued at four hundred and
fifty dollars.
A WESTERN man visiting his brother
in Danbury espied gun on the kitchen
wall. els that gun loaded 2" he asked.
Oh, no, it is empty" replied the brother.
Empty? For Gods sake, load it as
quick as you can, or the children will get
hold of it and shoot each otherW He
had read the papers.
In the Court of Quarter Sessions, at
Philadelphia, Judge Elcock has sen.
fenced Westervelt, charged with being
implicated in the abduction Of Charley
Ross, to seven years in the Eastern Peni-
tentiary at solitary confinement, and
fined him one dollar. Westervelt re-
ceived the sentence calmly.
The natural result of an equal com.
mingling of the sexes in a Wyoming
jury was recently exemplifed, in case
wherein five days and nights of delibera-
tion led-not to verdict, of course
but to five elopements; and they would
undoubtedly have been six If the re-
naming jurywoman hadn't been
mature mother-in-law.
A REMARKABLE article called fish -four
has been brought forward in the last few
years. 1t is not as yet manufactured in
any great quantity, as the article is still
new in the market, and consequently
there is no great demand for it. The
-four is prepared from dried fish of the
first quality; it is thoroughly desiccated,
and then ground in mill.
SAN FRANCISCO paper: The hoist.
ing works of the Utah Mine, Virginia
City, were destroyed by fire recently.
Loss, quarter of a million. The works
had been recently completed with ma.
chinery to sink to depth of two thousand
feet. The engineer stood at his post and
hoisted the miners until badly burned.
Four men who remained below when the
engine was abandoned escaped through
an old shaft.