The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-03-30
GENERAL NOTES.

1T is asserted that no work can be done
in the Black Hills before Jane, and that
lis suicidal to attempt visit before that
TIME.
A LONDON Times financial article says
the demand for Erie stock isincreasing and
prices are rising in consequence of the
rise at New York.
The steamship Darian has sailed for
Philadelphia with l ,440 packages of ex-
hibits for the Philadelphia Exhibition,
from Genoa, Naples, Messina, Leghorn
and Palermo.
PERSONS who are starved to death be-
come idiotic towards the last, because
there is not nourishment in the blood
to feed the brain, to keep up its ac-
tivities.
OXFORD and Cambridge University
Boat Clubs have declined the challenge
for the match at the Centennial. 1t is
expected, however, that each University
will send four to Philadelphia.
JOHN HALLAM, boarding-boss on the
Iron Mountain and Southern Railroad,
was found on the railroad track, having,
it is supposed, been murdered, robbed
and his body placed on the track.
JOHN SCALES, a wealthy real estate
broker and speculator, of HOboken, New
Jersey, is said to have started for Europe
on recent steamer, having liabilities
amounting to nearly half million dol
lars.
A DISPATCH from San Diego says let
ter from Guaymas mentions an engage
ment between the Sonora State troops
and the revolutionists, in which the
former were defeated with the loss of
nearly one hundred men.
PROF. MCArEE, of the Iowa Agricul-
tural College, says that "away back in
the years Iowa was covered by an arid
sea, and this sea deposited what is known
as the Iowa Potsdam sandstone, which
underlies the whole of Iowa.
THEY are making new kind of cloth
in Lyons from the down of hens and
ducks and geese. Seven hundred and
fifty grammes of feathers make one square
metre of light and very warm water
proof cloth, which can be worn in all
shades.
The father of all newspapers is the
venerable Pekin Gazette, which is over
one thousand years old. 1t is a ten-pagc
paper, with yellow cover has no stories
no lads" no marriage or death notices.
no editorials, no subscribers. 1t simply
contains the official notices of the Gov
ernment.
WHILE hunting in Nashville, ILL.,, the
other day, a young man shot wild
turkey, and observing it to drop near
some dark-colored object, made an inves-
tigation, which resulted in the discovery
of a partially decayed pair of saddle
bags, containing thirty-six thousand dol
lars in gold and bonds.
AN oyster opener in Toulouse, France,
found in an oyster magnificent pearl.
worth several thousand dollars, and she
pOcketed it; but the person who ordered
the oyster insisted that the pearl be.
longed to him. His contention is that
shell, juice, oyster and everything else
in the shell are his property the knotty
question has been referred to the law
courts. -
A COLLECTION of Cremona violins be-
longing to Mr.. John Thornley,, of
Lancashire was recently sold in London.
Twenty.six instruments and three bows
brought f1 ,197 6s. 3D., the most valuable
being an Antonius Straduarius of 1894,
which sold for ELF 12s., a Nicolaus
Amati of 1891, ELS los, another of the
same make, f120 los, and Josesh
Guarnerius. f75 12s
A DRUNKEN man was riding on the
Platform of New York streetcar the
other day, and being too drunk to ride
safely there the conductor let him inside
and gave him seat. Suddenly the man
sprang upon gentleman sitting opposite
and struck him so violently in the face
as to loosen his teeth and draw blood.
The assailant then jumped off and ran
into bar-room. He was followed by the
abused passenger and marched of to a
police station. Suit was entered against
the streetcar company by the gentle
man, and jury gave him 81 900 dam
ages