The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-04-20

he can get from the Mississippi "White
Line" that bas caused him so much trib-
ulation.
A DEPUTATIoN of the West India
committee had an interview with Lord
Carnarvon, Colonial Secretary, in Lon
don, recently, with reference to the re-
port that the Governor of Barbados was
melting the negroes to rebellion because
of the presumed intention of the home
government to form a confederation of
the Windward Islands. Lord Carnarvon
declared he knew nothing of it, and that
the government had no desire to press a
confederation scheme.
The heirs of the "Ennis estate" in
the United States are assembling them
selves together to recover bonanza in
the shape of a Scotch inheritance estima-
ted at $20,OOO,O00. The Ennis family
now number about eighty, and most of
them reside in Sussex County, N. j., and
Orange County, N. Y. They claim to
have full proof of pedigree and claim
upon the inheritance which has been &C
cumulatiDg for over one hundred years,
waiting for unknown heirs"
The monthly Treasury report shows
that during the month of March there
were issued to the banks new notes for
circulation amounting to $474, ,210; and
during the same month the banks sur
rendered for cancellation notes to the
amount of $6,SSS, ,43O; thus working a
contraction in the national bank curren-
cy to the amount of So, 1854, ,22O during the
month. The total amount of bank cur
rency contraction for the nine months of
the present fiscal year amounts to
$2l, 1885, ,502.
IT has hitherto been the habit to re-
commend a temperate use of animal diet,
and to replace it by free use of vege-
table food in hot climates. This has been
proved by DIR. Livingstone, by careful
observation and experiment upon him
self during his travels in Central Africa,
to be false theory. He says that among
the natives the appetite for animal food
is voraciOus in the extreme, and is not
the result of savage nature, but q
natural consequence of climate; and his
conviction was that 4" for all climates
and under all circumstances, the most
valuable of all food is beef"
PRESSURE of the atmosphere is now ap-
piled to the raising of coal in the Creu-
zOt district in France. The air is ex-
hausted from hollow tube running
along the shaft from the bottom to the
colliery. At the foot of this tube is a
piston fitted to it, and supporting cage
into which the coal to be raised is put.
When the cage is full the air from the
mine is allowed to press upon the piston
beneath, and there being vacuum above
the piston and the cage, the load is borne
upward to the surface. Not only is the
coal raised in this way, but the ventila-
tion of the mine is vastly improved, for
the contaminated air of the colliery flows
up through the tube, bearing the loaded
cage above it, while its place is supplied
by an overflow of fresh air from the sur
face.
A ST. LOUIS firm, Messrs. Gerard B.
Allen q Co., shipped ten car loads of ma
chinery via the st. Louis, Kansas City
and Northern, Kansas City, st. Joseph
and Council Bluffs, and Central Pacific
railroads, for San Francisco, from whence
it will be transported to Nicholaivsk, on
the Sea of Ochotsk, Siberia, by steam
ship in waiting for it. This lot of ma
chinery is for eight steamboats, that are
being built at Nicholaivsk by Russian
gentleman, named j. Paholkoff, who
is engaged in steamboating on the Amoor
river. His boats ply between the port
at the mouth and Nertschink, a point
opposite the Chinese line, and situated
at the head of navigation, or distance
of some two thousand miles from the
mouth of the river. These boats are to
be used almost exclusively in the tea
trade, and will take cargoes of tea up to
Nicholaivsk, on the Ochotsk sea, for ship.
ment to San Francisco.
THE bread Of Germany is one of it,
most mysterious and interesting institu
tions. 1t is never made at home but al
bakeries. It is trundled about the streets
in little dog-carts, carried home by tn,
loaf at night under the arm of not tot
neat-looking street sweeper, etc. small
boys tie it with strings and carry it hom,
on their backs; and when it is there it i
tumbled about in an alarming way which
any but long-suffering German breat
would resist. This rough and tumble
handling of bread is one of the peculiari
ties not only of Germany but of France
and other European countries, which
strikes an American, accustomed to tn,
homemade article, as very odd. In thos,
countries bread is universally bought o
the baker, and is carried through tn,
streets in baskets on mems backs, a
well as in dog gcarts, and every other con
ceivable manner. 1t is the one com
modify that seems to be universal. Anc
then the diversity of forms in which i
appears-huge rings and immense rolls
so long and 70 large that the "staif o