The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-10-19
MINOR TOPICS.

SOME one proposes to call He'll Gate
NewtOn's Channel" All honor to
General Newton, but the present name
tells such story that it should be kept
ii simply for historic purposes. 1t is
corruption of the Dutch Horll Gait" I"
or "whirl-passage."
GEN. NEWTON announces that the
reef at Hallett's Point has been swept,
and summary of the facts is as follows:
From one hundred and eighty feet dis
tant from the shore line to the line of the
buoys, the bottom slopes gradually from
eight feet of depth at low water to twenty
feet. Outside ofthe line of buoys nothing
less than twenty feet of depth at mean
low water was discovered. The divers
have been examining the reef, and report
thorough breakup.
ACCORDING to the Lumleian lecture of
DIR. Quinn, an eminent English physician,
enlargement of the heart is more than
twice as frequent in men as in women,
the precise proportion being eight to
three. This he thinks unquestionably
due to the greater amount of work and
anxiety which fall upon men. The
Sorosis may reflect whether, in claiming
the rights OF men, they may not at the
same time incur new and unexpected
form of disability.
THESE are halcyon days in Jewry.
The children of Israel are finding land
of promise in England. Never has their
New Year opened more auspiciously for
them. They are at the top of the tree
in most things. The Prime Minister,
Lord Beacons6eld, was born Jew, and
is proud of his ancient Hebrew lineage.
A Jew holds the high Office of Master of
the Rolls. Another one, we'll known
here as a secessionist, is among the lead
ers of the bar. Jews are at the head of
the world of fanance. Among those
prominent in London social life whose
forefathers hailed from Judea, are Fran
ces, Countess Waldgrave, a brilliant
leader in the politico-f fashionable world
her fathers name was originally Abra-
ham-he was the famous singer Braham
and Mr.. Hayward, critic of the Quar-
terly. The Duchess of st. Albans is also
of Jewish descent, being daughter of Mr..
Osborne, whose name was originally Ber-
nal, and SO is the future Duchess of Rich
mond. Marriage with Christians is now
permitted. A brother of Lord Harwick
is married to Rothschild, and another
of the family married Fitzroy.
KING GRERE, of Dahomey, is spoken
of as tall, fine looking man, with regu-
ar features, and complexion much
lighter than that of majority of his ne
gro subjects. His aspect is agreeable,
and his manner to foreigners courteous,
but under this mask he hides the cruelty
of tiger. None of his subjects can ad-
dress him except through the medium
of a minister, under pain of losing his
head, and none of his courtiers dare give
him unpleasant information. In conse-
quence he rarely hears bad news. His
best troops are women. They are sub
jected from childhood to violent exer-
cises, and rarely leave the precincts of
the palace. They are condemned to per-
petual celibacy, and any man seen speak
ing to one of them, or even smiling at her,
is punished with DEATH. In walking the
streets they sound little bell attached
to their necks, and on hearing this
the men rush away or PROSTATE them
selves on the ground, through fear of be-
ing thought to smile at any of them.
Like the rest of the army, they wear a
tunic, with loose trowsers and helmet.
The officers carry whips with which to
administer castigation.
In cutting through the Boulevard
Henry Nv in Paris recently the house oc-
cupied in the seventeeth century by the
notorious prisoner Marquise de Brinvil-
liers was demolished, and three tolerably
well-preserved skeletons were brought to
light, two Of them having been
men, the third woman. Near I
them was found some valuables,
one Of them a ring with 1865 en-
graved upon it. The Marquise occupied
the house with her husband, her father,
three brothers and sister; the last four ,
she is known to have poisoned, and it is |
supposed that the skeletons found were
those of her sister and two brothers whom
she buried in the cellar. Her motive in
getting rid of them was to obtain pos
session of their money, in the hope that
1t would induce her lover, st. Croix,
to marry her. st. Croix, how
ever, suspected her, and succeeded in
supplying her husband with antidotes to
all her poisonous doses. st. Croix died in i
1872, and left revelations which finally
secured the conviction of his mistress.
who, after confessing under the torture.
was beheaded on the Place de la Greve,
Paris, on the 10th of July, 1876, and her
body given to the flames.
1T is said that the managers of the
Forrest Home for actors in Philadelphia
have received but one application for ad-
mission-this from an elderly lady in
Maine. Mr.. Dion Boucicault asserted
lately that in no country on the face of
the earth Is there such a com mbination of
excellent actors as in America, and that
they are paid better here than elsewhere.
when an actor is no longer able to
work." said Mr.. Boucicault, "when he
quits the stage and those who have been
familiar with his face In the tbeater lose
sight of him, the world does too. He
never becomes a public mendicant, and
never will. When Mr.. Forrest left por-
tion of his estate to the decrepit and
bankrupt of his cherished profession, he
must have been actuated by the simple