The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-05-20
GENERAL NOTES.

The invention of paper barrels was
patented about six months ago, and
there are two factories now working,
one at Winona, Min, and one at De-
corah, Iowa, the latter turning out
1000 barrels per day. Their strength is
said to be greater by four times than
wooden barrels, only half the weight,
and costing 20 per cent. less.
A Courier-Joumaps Shelbyville, KY,
special reports the destruction, by fire, of
the residence of Mrs. Lucy Bakewell at
that place, in which was the library of
the great naturalist Audubon. Mrs.
Bakewell was Audubon's sister-in-law,
and his library had been left with her.
The collection consisted of about 800
volumes, and was of very great value to
scientists. Nothing was saved.
COMETS move fastest when nearest
the sun. The comet that appeared in
1850, according to Sir Isaac Newton,
moved at the rate of $500 miles an
hour. According to Sir w. Herschel,
the solid head of the comet that ap-
peared in 1911 was only 428 miles in
diameter, but the real diameter of the
nebulous portion of the head was 127,-
600 miles. The length of the tail he
computed to be above loo, 900, 900 miles,
and its breadth $4,000, 900 miles.
The province of Rio Janeiro, in Brazil,
is the greater part of it covered with
mountains, which are generally very
steep. Southwest of the city of Rio
Janeiro the mountains come close to the
coast. In this part the shore is very ir-
/ regular, with many bays and peninsulas
and small rocky islands along the shores.
Northeast of the city, along the coast,
there are some broad, low plains, with
the ocean on one side and steep mount
aims on the other.
The most perfectly shaped man or
woman is unsymmetrical-that is to
say, there is q marked unlikeness be-
tween the two sides of th e body. The
two sides of the face (which is most
seen, and, therefore, permits of more
accurate study will be found always to
exhibit considerable differences. Proba-
bly, no two sides of any human face are
precisely alike. 1t is the same with
every limb. No pair of limbs is shaped
alike. One hand is almost always
larger than the other; so with the foot !;
so with the leg and arm.
Miss IDA GREELEY, the elder daughter
May 1, to Col. Nicholas Smith, of Gov
ington, KY, at the residence of her
aunt. Mrs. John F. Cleveland. The Rev.
Father Farrell, an old friend of the
Greeley family, performed the ceremony
according to the rites of the Catholic
Church. There were present large
number of invited guests, including
judges, military, and professional men.
After the ceremony the bridal party
embarked in the steamer Abyssinia for
Europe.
ACCORDING to the Springfield Repub-
lican, the largest maple sugar manufac-
turer in Vermont, and possibly in the
country, is F. E. Ray, of Wilmington,
who taps 1850 trees and sets as many
buckets. His average crop of sugar is
from four to six tons, each spring, about
one-half of which is run into diminu-
to molasses, which is put up in cans and
Theoretically sealed. He employs seven
men, and uses seven yoke of oxen, but
the annual receipts are only about
$4,000.
A WOMAN testified in the Beecher
trial, who declared herself spiritual
medium, and who said she saw spirits
floating around her in the court room.
She also professed to have the clairvoy-
ant power of reading all the acts of peo-
ple's lives written on their souls" 1t
would seem that this witness ought to
have been able to tell whether the de-
fendant was guilty or not, but the ques-
tion was not asked her. A great oppor-
tunity was evidently lost to end the trial
then and there, and put stop to all this
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