The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-10-21
GENERAL NOTES.

| LONDON is full of churches and sim
ners. One million of people never 60 to
church.
SONGS are distributed IL France in be-
half of the resurrection o the Bonaparte
dynasty.
In Wyoming Territory there is bar
room to every one hundred and eighty
inhabitants.
THE leather business of the United
States represep1s working capital of
| 100000.
THE Irish census discovers nearly one
hundred am fifty forms of religious faith
in that country.
LoUIsANA's last sugar crop amounted
to 11GS67 hogsheads, and molasses to
l1,5lS,S2S gallons.
The creates: depth of the Pacific
OCEAN, as found by the British ship Chal-
lenge, was about five miles.
THE civilized Indians harvested last
year more than six thousand bushels of
wheat; property valuation is ten thou
sand dollars, and one-fifth the interest
accruing each year is devoted to public
instruction.
A LARGE elm tree that stood at the
crossing of the Derby and Naugatuck
Railroad, in Derby, Connecticut, has
been cut down by order of the selectmen
of the town. 1t was thirteen and a-half
feet in circumference, and contained eight
cords of wood.
A CINCINNATI corpse rose in its coffin
and quietly remarked: "I feel very
queer" The two young men who were
sitting up with it had i'm portant business
down town the next moment, and did
not hesitate to pass out through the win
dow to attend to it, either.
THERE is complete dearth of small
coins in the South and Southwest, moth
ing less than five cent pieces being cur
rent. So scarce are the copper coins that
Georgia paper, which recently reduced
its price to three cents, was obliged to
import lot of pennies to make change.
A SOLDIER, belonging at Fort Russell,
walked down to Lake Lahpalutah, near
Cheyenne, the other day, and deliber-
ately undressing himself and sticking his
will into one Of his shoes, plunged into the
water and was drowned. He is the third
person who has committed suicide in that
lake this season.
WITHIN the last seventeen years
Princeton College has received in the
shape of donations 81, ,250, 900; the num-
ber of buildings has been doubled the
professorships increased; new branches
of study added, and the privilege of tax
ing an elective course given to the higher
students.
DURING the last thirty years the popu-
lation of Iceland has grown from fifty
thousand to seventy-fve thousand, and
is now too large to obtain sufficient
maintenance in the island; but an Ice
landic immigration society in Wisconsin
is endeavOring to make room for the
surplus population on this side the At
lantic.
THE Auditor ofMinnesota has received
the return of the State census of this
year from nearly all the counties in the
State. Estimating the population of
those counties from which the returns
have been received, the total population
of the State is 597,018, a gain over the
population of 1870, as enumerated by the
government, of 157,312.
A COPY of the New England Cowant
(whether an original number or not does
not appear) has been placed in the library
of Lexington, KY. 1t has speech of
George I, who was ignorant of the En-
glish language, and is "printed and sold
by Benjamin Franklin, in Queen street,
where advertisements are taken in" The
date is February 4th to 11th, 1928.
THE base ball clubs already announced
to enter for the championship next year,
are as follows: Americus, Athletic, At
lantic, Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati,
Cleveland, Hartford, Louisville, Mutual,
New Haven, New York, Philadelphia,
Red Sox, st. Louis and Washington. II
is also said that professional mines will
be organized in Providence and Buffalo,