The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-11-02
GENERAL NOTES.

THE largest shoe mandatory on the
Pacific Coast has lately discharged all
its Chinese help, and employed three
hundred white men, women, and boys,
finding them more profitable.
The people of the New Hebrides
shave with the teeth of the shark, an
oyster shell. or a piece of bottle glass,
and perform the operation with the
skill of accomplished BARRIERS.
THE most methodical suicide on record
was that of man at Youngsyille, Pa, a
few DAYS ago. He rose early, prayed,
embraced his wife, kindled the fire,
MIXED the cow, and then-hung him
SELF
TwENTY-NINE thousand dollars have
been received from Virginia City New. }
gambling saloon in one year, in the way
of license. The money is collected
monthly, and gambling is not restricted
at all.
A BLIND tramp was restored to sight
at Erie, Pennsylvania, by a thorough
washing, administered at the alms-housse.
He viii. probably sue the city for in
Aicting cruel and unusual punish.
ment.
The dog Bob, a wonderful fighter, was
cut short in his successful career in st.
Louis. He won one thousand dollars for
his owner by killing another dog in a
contest, but soon died of poison that had
been rubbed on his opponents skin.
IT has been proposed to establish penny
banks in connection with the public
schools of New York. The candy shops
and chewing gum venders might suffer,
but good results would be obtained. The
experiment has been tried in Londen,
where in a few months 5,266 children
had deposited no less than $5,62O.
The town of Gotha has granted a site
for the cremation of bodies, the Duchy
of SAKE Gotha having allowed the rite
to be established. Previous to cremation,
however, all bodies are to be examined
by competent medical officers, that the
cause of death may be properly ascer-
tained.
AMONG the odd and exceptional arti-
cles at the Centennial Exposition is the
telemeter. 1t is small brass instrument
used in warfare to measure your distance
from the enemy you desire to shoot, by
observing the flash of his gun. 1t records
and translates into distance the interval
which elapses between the flash and the
report.
The Gear Alexander receives in round
numbers, $4,000 day income; the
Turkish Sultan, $4,000; the Emperor
of Austria, $4,000; the Emperor of
Germany, $8.200; the King Of Italy,
Sc, ,440, the Queen of England, Sc, ,270 !;
the King of the Belgians, 81 SAB; the
President of the French Republic $500,
and the President of the United States,
$137.
A SINGULAR case of suicidal avarice
came to light in Baltimore the other day.
A miser named Mammalian, who had been
elected from boarding.house after board
ing house for non-payment OF his board,
died of starvation. After his death it
was found that he had 50, 600 on his per-
son. He had carried on his savings up
to the last, and perished of privation
rather than spend cent of his money
for food.
AFTER the execution of Captain Jack
anu scNtIdl OIuCI NlOuOC CHlClS, thC tIlOS,
to the number of one hundred and fifty
three, were removed to a reservation in
the Indian Territory on the border of
Missouri. Climatic influences have
proved very unfavorable, and in three
years fifty eight have died. There is no
physician upon the reservation, and
light diseases, like whooping-cough,
prove fatal.
INFORMATION as to the portraits on
postage stamps: The bust on the one
cent stamp represents Franklin; twos
Jackson threes, Washington fives, Tay-
lor skies, Lincoln ;sevens, Stanton tens,
Jefferson; twelves, Clay; fifteens,
Webster; twenty.fours, Scott; thirties,
Hamilton nineties, Perry. The seven,
twelve, and twenty-four cent stamps are
not now issued, but many of them are in
circulation.