The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-09-23
MINOR TOPICS.

A CASE not unlike that of Charley
Ross, except in one particular, has oc-
Cured at Lyons, in France. A little
girl returning from school was enticed
by a woman with some sweet liquor,
which made her stupid. The woman then
put an old petticoat over her shoulders,
let down her hair, and carried her of.
But the French police are not like the
police here. Assoon as they had intima-
ton of the affair, they did not rest until
they returned the child to her parents.
A DROP of perspiration has caused a
terrible explosion in the Pyrotechpic
School at Toulon. A naval student was
filling bottles with dynamite, gun-cotton
and phosphate of calcium, and the story
is that drop of perspiration falling
from his forehead, under certain condi-
tions, on matter not explosive without
contact with water, produced the catas-
trophe. At any rate, three persons were
killed on the spot.
A NEW style of barrel, which has been
patented by Canada inventor, is de-
scribed as "made in two parts, the inside
part consisting of one piece, and the out
side of several pieces or slaves, secured
with fat, broad hoops. Instead of having
an increased circumference at the center,
it is straight cylinder in shape, SO that
in packing large number in storehouse
or the hold of vessel, there is saving
of twenty per cent in space. The pecu-
liarity of its construction prevents the
waste which usually occurs in -four bar
rels, while its durability is such that
burning or rotting will be the only means
of destroying its usefulness"
INTELLIGENCE from Bay City, Michi-
gan, gives horrible report of a case of
accidental burial before death. A dis
patch says: can insane prostitute,
known as Canada En-, recently lodged
in Jail for safe keeping, died Wednesday
at midnight, and was buried Thursday
at 8 a. m. Friends, suspecting that the
body had been stolen, had the grave
opened Friday, and, to their horror,
found the body lying on its side, hands
clenched in the hair, eyes wide open, and
sheet covered with blood. Several per-
sons were present, and substantiate the
story. The woman, to all appearance,
was dead when buried. She came from
Toronto, and was about twenty-five years
old"
GARIBALDI's project for diverting the
course of the Tiber at Rome, approved by
the last Italian Parliament, is said to be
two hundred years old. Very early in
the eighteenth century the Jews of Rome
offered to pay $4,000, 900 for the privilege
of searching the bottom of the Tiber and
recovering all property lost or buried
therein. To effect their object, they pro-
posed to turn the course of the river
mile above and below Rome for six
months. Their offer was not accepted,
as it was feared that the drainage of the
river in the summer months, during
which the work would be done, would
produce epidemics. 1t would be Gu
rious thing if the work now to be under
taken for other purposes should result in
the profit which the Jews expected to
realize in the last century, and the gov
ernment be thereby saved anticipated
expenses.
In Montreal, Canada, great riots have
occurred in regard to the interment of
one Guibords bones in cOnsecrated
grounds. Guibord died in 1869, and
having incurred the displeasure of the
Bishop, that functionary refused to per-
NIT the interment of his body with the
Catholic rites. This refusal was sus-
tanned by the Pope. The matter was
carried into the courts, and decided
against the church authorities. Appeal
was taken to the Privy Council, and a
royal decree issued commanding that
Guibord's remains should be allowed in
terment in consecrated ground. The
Cure and Trustees of the cemetery re-
fused to obey this command, saying they
could not obey the Queen while their
Bishop commanded otherwise. 1t was
an attempt to obey the royal decree that
occasioned the recent riots. f,,seY5s
A BRITISH Parliamentary return gives
a statement of the increase of wealth in
Great Britain between 1914 and 1873.
In 1914 the gross annual income from
real estate, mines, quarries, canals and
gas works was about $500, 100000. In
1874, after the establishment of the rail-
way era, and railway earnings were in
cluded, the income from real estate had
grown to $476, ,OO0, 900; in 1864 to $SO7,-
100000, and in 1873 it was 81 ,065, ,OOO,-
900. A similar increase has been shown
in the trades and professions, which have
grown from $1s5,O00,000 in 1914 to
$976, ,000,0 in 1873. These figures are
of course only approximate, being based
upon the English income-tax returns,
but nation must be very wealthy whose
people have an annual income of 81, ,041,-
OOO, 900, especially when the average in
come from investments is not more than
three or four per cent year.
why He Didn't Hang Himself.
The following is an editorial paragraph
in the st. Paul Pioneer Press: 1t would
seem that the frenzied editor of the
Hutchinson Entcprise rushed into the
woods to kill himself, for the narrowing