The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-03-02

sum VI euiec anu one hall HlliiOn collars
worth. Those figures are indicative O
a rapid revival of business throughou
the country.
ACCORDING to the annual statement
of Wells, Fargo & Co., of San Francisco
recently published, the yield of precious
metals in the States and Territories ives
of the Missouri river, including British
Columbia, and by the west coast of Mex
leo, for 1875, was the greatest annual
production in the history of the Pacific
slope, aggregating $50, S9,037. The in
crease was outside of California, where {
decrease is reported, on account of the
slim water-supply during the year.
The late Reverdy Johnson was mar
ried November 16, 1919, to Miss Mary
Mackall Bowie, daughter of Governor
Robert Bowie, of Prince Georges county
who filed the executive chair of Mary
land in 1911. Mr.. Johnson leaves tw,
children, about fifty grandchildren anc
several great grandchildren. Upon tn,
fiftieth anniversary of their marriage. OF
the 10th of November, 1869, at which
the late Rev. DIR. Mahan officiated, nearl,
all the members of the family wer,
present.
A CHANGE has recently been made il
the length of pace to be used in the
French infantry, whereby it is increased
from twenty-five and one half to twenty
nine and one-half inches, and the cadence
raised from one hundred and ten to one
hundred and fifteen minute. In the
German army the step is thirty-one and
one-half inches, the cadence one hundred
and twelve a minute. The Austrian
pace is twAnty-nine and one-half, the ca
dence from one hundred and fifteen to
one hundred and thisty the Italian pace
is twenty-nine and ene-half, the cadence
one hundred and twenty, and in the
English army the pace is thirty inches,
with a cadence of one hundred and sin
teen a minute.
ACCORDING to M. Sonstadt, the sea.
water of the British coasts contains in
solution, besides silver, an appreciable
quantity of gold-estimated at about one
grain to ton of water. This is separa-
BILE by the addition of chloride of barium,
apparently as an aurate of baryta adher-
ing to the precipitated sulphate, which
yields, by assay, an alloy of about six
parts of gold to one of copper. Other
methods have also been devised by chem
ical ingenuity for separating the metals
in question from their solution in sea-
water, but not, of course, in manner or
to an extent rendering it practical OBJ
ject. The agent which keeps the gold
of the sea in soluble or oxidized condi-
tion is, according to M. Sonstadt, simply
the iodine, liberated under certain con-
ditioDs.
The following is list of the various
articles a man will have to consume
should he live an average lifetime: 30
oxen, 200 sheep, 100 calves, 200 lambs,
so pigs, 1,2OO chickens, 800 turkeys, 263
pigeons, 140 pounds of salmon, 12O
pounds of other fish, 10000 oysters,
5, ,443 pounds of vegetables, 2433 pounds
of butter, $4,000 eggs, Al tons of bread,
5000 gallons of tea and coffee, besides
tons of fruit barrels of sweetmeats and
of wine. These are the figures
given by Mr.. Soyer, the cook of the Lon
don Reform Club, in his book, "The
Modern Housewife" as the amount con-
by each individual in lifetime,
and they are said to be below, rather than
above, the real quantity. Of course the
food may be varied, but what is taken
off from one kind must be added to some
other.
DURING the five years ending Decem-
Der, 1875, Gays the New York Times,
there were two hundred and eighty-one
committed in the City of New
York. Some Of them were premedita-
ted, many of them were unprovoked,
and large majority were utterly with
out palliation. Nevertheless, out of all
this appalling number of man-killers,
the perpetrators who suffered death were
only seven. Only twenty-four were sent
to prison for life. And, reviewing the
dreadful list, we discover that more than
one fourth of the criminals were never
brought to trial at all. Some of them
escaped, and were never followed up and
arrested. A few have ended their own
worthless lives after they have committed
crime, and more evaded detection. These
are in hiding to this day. Possibly some
of them, variously disguised, return to
their old haunts and live Securely, in the
belief that the thing has blown over"
MRS. HELMBoLD, the wife of the Buchu
man, gave some interesting testimony be-
fore a commission de hinatico inquirendo
in Philadelphia. Her husband is not so
much a lunatic as a confirmed inebriate.
When they were in Europe some years
ago he became unmanageable, and was
confined in an asylum for the insane,
the French not having any institutions
for inebriates. He managed to escape
from the asylum by duping lunatic,
promising, If he could get the loan of a
back to help him over the wall, to lend
his own back for the same purpose. The
lunatic was furious when Helmbold,
having got safely over the wall, did not
redeem his promise. Mrs. Helmbold
also says that her husband has ga
mania for newspapers, not caring what
tiey say so that his name is in them /;
he bores the men to death in the Offices
where they print newspapers" This last
assertion is true beyond the shadow
of doubt. Helmbold mails to the lead
ino newspapers of the limited States