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

The London Times says that the desir,
10 construct the largest single roof in tn,
world was achieved in the roof of tn.
Midland Railway Station at st. Pancras
which now possesses that distinction
having eclipsed the roof the Imperial
Riding School at Moscow by few feet
the span of the former being 24O feet,
and that of the latter 235 feet. The
roof to cover the large new station at st.
Enoch Square, for the Glasgow Union
Railway, has span of 1913 feet, and a
length OF 518 feet. The roof of the new
joint station of the Midland, the Great
Northern, and the Manchester, Sheffield
and Lincolnshire Railways has span OF
210 feet.
A MACHINE for melting snow in cities,
which often forms a source of much an
nOyance and obstruction to traffic during
the winter months, has been invented by
John Mullaly and John T. Hawkins, OF
New York. 1t is claimed that the pro-
cess has been brought to perfection. Su-
per-heated steam is employed for the
purpose, and by simple contrivance the
steam at the same time creates draught
in the furnace which increases the heat.
One snow-meltsr is said to be capable OF
clearing off from one to fifteen miles OF
streets in twenty -four hours. The in.
ventors estimate the cost at from one
fifth to one-tenth the expense of the
present system of carting the snow away,
and have made proposition for under
taking the work to the Street Cleaning
Department of New York.
The Commissioner Of the General
Land Office has made his report; the
following is summary: The cash re-
ceceipts of the Office during the fiscal
year ended June 80 aggregated $1,747,-
2l5. The total number of acres of pub.
lie lands disposed of during the year was
6,524. 1926, of which 1876, ,9l0 acres were
absorbed by homestead entries; 607, 1886
acres were obtained by entries under the
Timber Culture Law; 1,00S,0OO acres
were approved to various States as swamp
lands; 1,O01,07S acres were certified to
railroads under land grants of Congress; !;
and 640,692 were disposed of by ordinary
cash sales. The total disposals were
545, ,945 acres less than those of the pre-
ceding year; 21,SO6,517 acres were sur
veyed during the fiscal year, and $780,
253,O94 acres had been previously sur
veyed, yet leaving to be surveyed in the
land, States and Territories of the United
States, l, 1882, ,665, ,244 acres.
The London Daily Telegraph, in
leading article, says: England, much as
she loves and desires peace, must wage
war from end to end of the world, rather
than permit the Russian flag to be hoisted
at Constantinople. Lord Derby justly
said that for British interests, the Eastern
question centered in Constantinople, and
we hold it clear to all sensible English
men, that the first overt invasion of the
Turkish Territory, the British fleet, with
the assent of the Sultan, should most
assuredly cast anchor in the Golden
Horn. Those to whom such a step might
appear like help for the Turks, may take
comfort, for it would be simply an act
vital to British security, and accom-
plished in the name of, and for the pro-
lection of British rights. If it were not
done Asia, from Scutari to Shanghai,
would know and proclaim Immediately
that we had abdicated the scepter of the
East, and commerce all along our Ori-
entail lines would be at the mercy of a
future Black Sea squadron.
The N. Y. Post, speaking of the war
prospects in its financial columns, says:
Looking over the whole situation, how
ever, it is impossible to come to any
other conclusion that the war, even if it
is confined to Russia and Turkey, which
is hardly among the possibilities, will be
all that is needed to awaken the dormant
industries of this country, and give us
degree of profitable activity in every
branch of business, such as has not been
seen for many years. So far as the price
of gold is affected by the foreign trade
movement, it must be borne in mind
that, as respects breadstuHs, one of the
greatest sources of supply for wheat will
be cut of, a good part of the wheat
which supplies the world coming from
Russia, and that there will be an enor-
nous demand for our breadstufs and
provisions, in fact all products; that
there also will be great demand for
coarse manufactures, and particularly for
everything that comes under the head of
war supplies; that this demand will
directly help the transportation lines of
all kinds, and will indirectly stimulate
every branch of industry. 1t must not
be forgotten, however, that at least
part of what our exports will gain in this
way will be lost on cotton, of which we
have an enormous crop this year.
Whether the domestic consumption of
cotton can be increased so as to compen-
safe for whatever reduction there may
be in the foreign demand, is another
question.
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