The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-08-17
GENERAL NOTES.

The "big tree" as it was called,
which grew in Calaveras County, Cali
fornia, contained half million feet OF
inch lumber, and was recently felled by
five men working twenty-five and hall
days, making one hundred and twelve
and One-half days labor.
THERE is an English capitalist repre-
senting $15,000,000 now in North
Carolina to establish smelling furnace
for the treatment of sulphurets and re-
fractory ores. The establishment COM
plete will cost 800, and draw six
hundred operatives from England to
utilize the ores of that and the neiga.
boring States.
The Western Texas papers are still
hammering away for a new State of
West Texas. The San Antonio Herald
claims that the original founders of the
Texas Republic stipulated that Texas
should be divided into four additional
States whenever any section possessed
sufficient population for admission, and
hints that this time has now arrived.
The population of Danville, Virginia,
increased from 1000 in 1860 to 5,464 in
1870, and is estimated at 1000 at this
time. There are five tobacco warehouses
in Danville, and the sales of leaf tobacco
during the season of 1874-75 aggregate
ii ,697 ,421 pounds, with value Of $3,.
002,2l8. From the receipts thus far in
the present season the aggregate sales, il
is thought, can not be less than 10000.
600 pounds, and in all probability will
greatly exceed that amount.
A MAN in Palo Alto County, Iowa
made "smudge" the other day to drive
away the mosquitoes. How the mosqui
toes were effected is not known as yet
but among the incidental results are
mentioned the burning to death Ofeleven
hogs, a calf, large quantity of grain,
threshing machine, and fine horse
and severely scalded half the neighbor
hsod, who turned out to extinguish the
smudge.
A SOCIETY has recently been formed
in Paris, the members of which declare
by a special clause in their will, thai
they do not wish to be inferred after
death, but they desire their bodies to bt
delivered to the amphitheaters to be dis
sected. Their object, they state, is tC
contribute to the progress of this import
ant science, without which profound
study of the healing art is impossible
They would also remove existing pref
udices against dissection of bodies. A
society of the same kind, it appears, ex
lists in Zurich.
ALTHOUGH the civil war in Spain has
ceased, the Spanish soldiers arc doing a
great deal. For several weeks upwards
of fifteen thousand of them have been
fighting the locusts, which have over
spread and utterly devastated some OF
the western and central provinces. In
Badajos alone the quantity killed
amounted to sixty thousand arrob;s, or
one million five hundred thousand
pounds. But for this plague Spain would
have to count 1876 as one of imp. cce-
dented productiveness. AS it is, the
yield for the whole country of the vine-
yards and cornfields will be very great.
A RECENT official investigation of the
Partisan Libraries has given the follow
ing statistics: The library of the Arsenal
possesses 200, 900 volumes and 5000 man.
uscripts; the Library of the Sorbonne
$4,000 volumes; The library of the School
of Medicine, $4,000 volumes; the Ma
tional Library, 100000 volumes, 80
900 manuscripts, 100000 engravings
and maps, and 120, 900 medals; the Ii
brary Mazarir, 100000 volumes, 1000
manuscripts and so relief models of Pc.
largic monuments in Italy, Greece, and
Asia Minor; the Library Sainte Gene
We've, 1000 volumes and $50, 900 man.
uscripts; making total for all the pub
lie collections of Paris of 1876, 900 vol
umes and 442, 900 manuscripts.