The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-10-07
GENERAL NOTES.

THE altar for the new Roman Catholi,
Cathedral, OIL Fifth avenue, New York
is to be made in Italy, at cost O
$250,000.
CHINESE women are sold at auction il
San Francisco. At the last sale eigh
dollars was the highest price, and ont
sold for sixty-five cents, her nose being
out of plumb.
A DOUBLE marriage took vl1ce in al
Iowa cornfield, few days ago, between
a couple of young fellows who stalket
from home with their girls Ostensibly tt
60 to the circus. They were in love W
to the ears.
The condition of Ireland is steadily
improving. Labor is in demand, emf
grafton falling off, and crime decreasing
The investments of the Irish people in
Government bonds and banks amount tC
$340, 100000.
The wilderness Of great cities. The
London police restored about four thou
sand five hundred lost children to theil
friends last year, but seventeen children
and eighty-two adults are still mys
teriOuHly absent.
ANOTHER trotting wonder has made
an appearance in San Francisco. 1t is a
mare belonging to Mr.. Stark and is ac-
credited with trotting mile in 218t,
trotting the last three.quarters of the
distance at the rate of 2:13.
ONE of the New Haven Fire Depart
ment horses, which was prostrated with
collie, f.rd had several men working over
it, rose to its feet at a fire alarm, and,
though suffering intense pain, took its
place at the engine ready for duty.
SEVERAL small pieces of ordnance
were recently brought up by dredging
machine from the bed of the Appomattox
river, where they have lain since Lafay-
cite, from his position in Pocahontas
shelled the enemy who occupied York
town.
IT is claimed that the first camp-meet-
ings in America where held in 1867 by
two Baptist ministers-the Rev. Samuel
Harris and the Rev. James Read-who
preached in that part of Virginia lying
between the Rappahannock and James
rivers.
DURING the past year the number of
cigars consumed in France amounted to
742, 900, 900, and of manufactured cigar
cites, 46S, 100000. This is an average of
twenty cigars and thirteen cigarettes for
each Individual, the population of wo-
men and children being included in the
calculation.
RECENT letters from Hayti relate that
cannibalism exis to an alarming extent
in that enlightened republic, in the
propensity of mothers to puncture their
children's bodies and then suck the blood
out of them. Children are found with
holes in their heads and backs and their
veins sucked dry.
Mr.. SCHEIDECKER, of Cleveland, con-
cealed one hundred and twenty-five dol
lars in his parlor stove and went to De-
troit. During his absence there was an
area oflow temperature in the vicinity of
the lakes, and Mrs. Scheidecker had a
fire in the parlor stove. Mr.. Scheidecker
is now opposed to violent contraction.
A HAWK measuring three feet from
wing to wing flew in through a pane of
glass one evening while the family of
DR.. H. G. Champlain, of Otis, Mass. were
at tea. Mrs. Champlain attacked him
and in ha,ok signo vinced. He is now
Gagged, and the children can study the
anatomy ofhawks and hand
saws.
SPIRTT-KNoCKINGs, il seems, are moth
ing new. Among the manuscripts left
by Richard Baxter is letter in which
he says: heartily thank you for your
on the matter of appari-
tions and dead mems candles. We have
a house, three miles off, haunted with
nightly knockings and walkings. We
spent a day in prayer, and they were free
for five or six months after that. Since,
IL il all as before.