The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-01-28
GENE RAJ NOTES.

THUNDER travels mile in four sec
onds.
VENUS sat for one hundred photo
graphs.
LONDON has one hundred and fifty
railway stations.
EVERY town in Walworth county,
Wis, has grange.
THERE are nearly nine million milch
cows in the United States.
A GREEN BAY merchants toy stock
consists of APO jewsharps.
The Bible is now printed in AZ many
as two hundred different languages.
FIVE thousand men are now employed
on the Centennial buildings and grounds.
IT is even so that journeymen tailors
in China are happy with two cents day
for wages.
The total steamboat tonnage of the
world is 5,244,8SS tons, of which Eng
land owns 3,0l5,7S3.
In the last nine years in England and
Wales, 1873 persons were sentenced to
death and 1870 to penal servitude.
The debt of Illinois on January /,
1875, was only $l,730,970, and there is
money in the treasury to pay it all off.
The first regular street night watch
was ordered by Henry III, in London,
in 1858. 1t was from sunset to sunrise.
FROM Minnesota it is reported that
the lumber "cut" will not be over fifty
per cent. of last winters, which was
twenty-five per cent. less than the winter
preceding.
1.-TWO hundred and one persons were
killed on railroads last year." Why the
railroads should have gone to the trouble
to kill that odd person is what no fellow
can find out.
JESSE PoMERoY, the boy murderer of
Boston, has been found guilty of murder
in the first degree, and been sentenced to
death. The defense of insanity was not
allowed by the jury.
The route to the Yosemite Valley is
to be kept open this winter. Hitherto it
has not been visited by tourists in the
cold season, but the scenery is said to be
grander and more beautiful then than
ever.
MICHAEL BLON, once member OF the
French Legion of Honor, has gone to the
Connecticut State Prison for ten years.
He was accused of burglary, and in re-
venge he tried to blow up the house of
his accuser with gunpowder.
THE Methuselah of horses is living,
hearty, fat and active, in Durham, VT.
He is forty-two years old, and may be
seen on his way to church every pleasant
Sunday, a shining example to all old
horses, and to all humans, too, for that
matter.
AT the late Franklin Institute Exhi-
bition in Philadelphia there were weighed
15,S4Omen, aggregating 2,3l4, 26O pounds;
IL, 437 women, aggregating 2,249,37O,
making the average weight OF each man
1492 pounds, and of each woman 129
pounds.
AN infantry soldier in the Russian
army carries sixty-eight pounds, the
English soldier sixty-two and the French
sixty-two, the Prussian sixty-One, the
Swiss fifty-nine, the American fifty
three, the Italian fifty-three and the
Austrian forty-seven.
THERE is a negro eighty years old, one
of the crew of vessel loading wheat at
Vallejo, CAL, who has served in the navy
in Bonaparte's time, again in the United
| States service in the war of the rebellion,
and wound up his naval service with Adj
miral Rodgers in the Corean expedition.
AN adroit thief who distracted an os-
tentatiously displayed check for thou
sand dollars from the gifts at Chicago
wedding the other night, only to find
4 a. ~. Il 10 -, fho ho, L
was four dollars and fifty cents, thinks
there is no chance for honest industry in
that city.
AN exchange gives an account of a
boy in Iowa who ate q quantity of slip
pery-elm bark. A day or two afterward
he was taken violently i'll, and four days
from the time of eating the bark died.
On a pOst-mOrtem examination his stom-
ach was found full of the bark. twisted
into balls, the organs being too weak to
digest it.
A BAND of robbers has Just been
broken up in Paris. They called them
selves Chevaliers DIES Cravattes Vertes,"
and were known to each other by pecu-
liar green neck tie which each wore.
The band contained 143 members, all
young men of good family connections,
and were commanded by former Cap
tain of the Commune named Goddard.
The New York Express remarks that
since 1886, when it was first started, the
first journal of its name in the United
States, if not in the world, it has seen in
New York city over one hundred daily
journals give up the ghost, and yet the
passion for printing newspapers and
sinking money in them was never greater
than at present
In the days of the great British
Admirals Collingwood and Nelson, the
heaviest gun aflOat on the largest man of
war weighed but from two to three TONS
The common naval sixty.four FOUNDER
now weighs over three tons, while the
great seven hundred FOUNDER of the
largest iron ships reaches the enormous
weight of thirty.five tons.
A MAN and his negro servant were
lately travelling in Tennessee, when their
horses were stopped by two highwaymen
with guns in their hands. Instead of
surrendering, the man leaped out of the
wagon and attacked his enemies with a
hammer, knocked them both down before
they could recover from their surprise,
and, binding them, carried them to jail
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