The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-05-06
GENERAL NOTES.


In the darkest night fishes pursue their
usual movements the same as by day
light.
FROGS, toads and serpents never take
any food but that which they are satisfied
is alive.
TURTLES and tortoise have their skele-
tons partly outside, in place of within
their bodies.
In South America there is a prolific
honey-bee which has not been furnished
with sting.
SERPENTs never feed upon anything
but animal food which they themselves
put to death.
A WHALE suckles its young, and is
therefore not fish. The mothers affec-
ton is remarkable.
TURTLES dig holes in the sea shore and
bury their eggs, covering them up to be
Matched by the sun.
A REVOLVER with which five of its
previous owners had committed suicide
was sold at auction in Paris, the other
day.
PRINCE NAPOLEON, who was made n
general of division by Napoleon III, is
to be struck out of the French army
list.
The coal strikes in Pennsylvania are
disastrous to labor as well as capital. 1t
is estimated that $500, 100000 of capital
and 5000 workers are now unemployed.
The loss in wages is set down at $780,
600 per day, and on capital, counting in
terest only, $4,000 per day.
AS illustrations of the limitless number
of combinations which the three primary
colors are capable of, it may be interest
ing to know that in Gobelin tapestry
mandatory twenty-eight thousand dis
tinct standings of yarn are employed, each
one distinguishable by the practiced
eye.
Mr.. A. BROWN, of West Baldwin,
Maine, has gun which belonged to his
great grandfather, Captain Brown, of
Lexington, who commanded the first
company of American minute-men en-
gagged in the battle of Lexington against
the British. Captain Brown, under a
kind of entail, left the gun as an heirloom
to the oldest of each generation of the
family, and in this way it has come into
the possession of the present owner.
NEW YORK Herald: There is British
literary theory that Tennyson inspired
Poe with the idea of "The Raven" be-
cause the laureate wrote in his youth two
short poems, in one of which the word
"more' occurs, and the other has in it
the name "Lenore." For our. part, we
have a distant recollection of having
seen the word "more" somewhere in
Shakspeares plays and also in Johnson's
dictionary, and Pope may have read
both. But if Tennyson did inspire "The
Raven" it is a pity he has not inspired
more and written less.
A JACKSONVILLE FLA correspondent
writes: Looking out of my window see
a dozen banana trees-their great, green
tropical looking leaves, three or four feet
long, contrasting with the curious bios
soms-a sort of pale-purple mass in size
like an elongated tenpin ball, and hang
ing down like some apoplectic musk
melon, with an epaulette-like sheath of
purple and gray partly covering it, and
nearly hiding the wreath of staminate
yellow flowers beneath it at the stem.
Some of the trees have cast their bios
SONS and show strings of young bananas
instead. These essentially tropical trees
seem to do pretty well here in protected
situations, though they still show the eff
fects of frost. In middle and
southern Florida they flourish finely.
PHILADELPHIA Press: About one
year from now the National Committee
of the Republican and Democratic parties
will meet in Washington to decide upOn
the time and place holding the Presi-
dental Conventions of 1876. The last
was held in Philadelphia and Baltimore,
and it is probable that next year will 60
West. st. Louis was DESTROYS in 1872 of
having the Democratic Convention held
there, and as she will repeat her request
it is possible that it may 60 there next
year. The Republicans of the West are
anxious to have their convention held in
Chicago, which is 80 we'll fitted for a
national convention by its extensive
hotel accommodations.