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

A BRUTAL outrage was perpetrated re
Gently in Queens County, England
The tails of four cows were tied together
and the poor animals, in trying to ex
tricate themselves, tore each others tail
of.
A NOVELTY in the form of foldin,
scissors has made its appearance, th'
backs of which double up on the blades
80 that the whole can be put into littl,
leather case like that for pair of eye
glasses, and occupying scarcely more
space.
GAsTIEN, Austria, is the place to live
If one wants some of the spice of life
which is variety. After an intensely hot
day there, a short time ago, which raised
the thermometer up to the top Of the
bulb, then came a heavy fall of snow
which lay upon the streets for some
time.
SoUNDINes show the mining opera
tionsa Hallett's Reef were well managed
Already there is sufficient depth o.
water there for steamboats, and crafts o
moderate draught, and no large rocks
appear to have been left. The explo
sives did their work of attritior
thoroughly.
1T has been the custom of sharpers in
New York, Immediately upon the death
of some prominent citizen or the bank.
ruptcy of some wealthy merchant, to ad.
vertise sales of horses, carriages, fancy
stock, etc., giving out that they were the
property of the prominent men aforesaid.
In this way broken-down horses and Sec
ond-hand equipages are auctioned off at
big prices.
A WONDERFUL place is Bankok, the
capital of Siam. On either side of the
wide, majestic stream, moored in regular
streets and alleys, extending as far as
the eye can reach, are upward of seventy
thousand neat little houses, each one
floating on compact raft of bamboos;
and the whole intermediate space of the
river is one dense mass of ships, junks,
and boats of every conceivable shape,
color, and size.
AT Cincinnati, recently, Henry Knoll
mann, who for years was engaged in the
grocery business, at No. SO Gest street,
and more recently in the restaurant bust
ness, on Walnut, below Pearl, committed
suicide by jumping from the Fifth Street
ferryboat Some of the men who were
at work on the coal-barges attempted to
rescue him, and succeeded in drawing
him out of the water while he was still
alive, but death set in in few minutes.
The carbonized skeletons of two men
have lately been unearthed at Pompeii.
Among the things found near by were
eight rings. six pieces of gold. two pairs
of earrings, one single earring, two large
armlets, each ornamented with thirteen
pairs of half globes, and three hundred
and twenty-five pieces of silver money.
1t is thought they were thieves buried
by the falling mud from the volcano,
while making off with the spoils of houses
during the confusion.
OBED SMITH, bow oarsman of the
champion four-oared crew, who distin-
guished themselves at Philadelphia, and
Mark, his brother, were drowned lately
in Halifax harbor. They were going
home in their schooner-boat of about
sixteen tons, with some coal and winter
stores on board, when they were run down
by the mail steamer Nova Scotia, bound
in from Baltimore. A woman named
Luke, a passenger with them, was rescued,
but the Smiths were not seen after the
and it is supposed that they
.ank with the boat.
The German Government has built
,he mammoth kitchen. 1t is one thou
and feet long and constituted of stone
md iron, and is designed to supply food
or the army in times of war. Two
eighteen hundred horse power engines
lrive its machinery, which is capable of
polling down and condensing for trans
one hundred and seventy oxen,
ind will grind three hundred end fifty
jons of -four and make three hundred
thousand loaves of bread daily. 1t can
llso supply enough preserved oats for
me days feeding of the horses belonging
o an army of two hundred and eighty
thousand men.
WASHINGTON Star: Some malicious
person or persons are evidently trying to
leface the Senate wing of the Capitol. A
hort time ago nearly gallon of oil,
which must have been brought into the
for the purpose, was spilled on
me of the inner flights of marble stairs.
A day or two ago it was discovered that
. large quantity of blue ink had been
poured over the outer balustrade of the
corridor connecting the Senate wing with
the main building. The ink was poured
n two or three places and splashed about
% as to do as much injury as possible.
It can not be removed without cutting
nto the marble.