The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-10-12
GENERAL NOTES.

&ENEkAL NOIEos
The New York glaciers held mutual
coincidence after General Newton's He'll
Gate matinee. Their roseate anticipa-
tons of jobs on smashed windows were
crushed.
A NEW census of Norway has just been
taken, showing the present population to
be 1915, 900, an increase of IL, 900 since
1865, when the last previous census was
taken. The population of Sweden is
1882
PROFESSOR HITCHCOCK has found upon
the top. OF Mount Washington, six thou
sand two hundred and ninety-three feet
above the sea, under a pile of stones, a
bowlder which could only have been
transported thither by glacial action.
On the 7th of August the German flag
was planted on the peak of the Matter
horn (Swiss Alps) by DIR. Reiners, Vice
President of the Cologne section of the
German-Austrian Alpine Society, and
Professor Haushofer, of Munich. The
Matterhorn, or Mount Selvin, is 14,77l
feet high.
IT takes six hundred and fifty-f0ur
bites to satisfy flea, according to the in
vestigations of the celebrated etomologist
Herr Scheckelheirmer, so that when you
can count six hundred and fifty-four
bleeding spots on your body you can
know that that flea is satisfied and has
gone to take nap. In reality mosquito
is much cheaper boarding.
WINDSOR Castle was struck on Thurs
day, September 6, by meteoric stone,
between Henry the Eighth's Gateway
and the Garter Tower, and portion OF
the stone parapet was knocked oil. The
stone is said to have been the size of a
small cannon ball, and to have exploded
on striking the castle with noise like
that of shell and shower of sparks.
A SPANISH capitalist advocates the
connection of Africa and Europe by a
tunnel under the Straits of Gibraltar.
He desires to obtain for the enterprise
$20, 100000, and says that, with this tun-
mel and the one between Calais and Dover
completed, the railroad company might
soon be advertising that they would take
passengers from London to Calcutta
without change of cars"
The Japanese do not get weary of the
endeavor to transform Japan into some
likeness of an American or European
State. They now have commission in
this country visiting the schools, intend
ing to learn the best methods of educat-
ing children. Another Commission, also
now in this country, is ascertaining the
measures taken by the governments OF
cities through Boards of Health to pro-
tect the health of their inhabitants.
IT looks as if the old Kingdom of Is
rael would be reconstructed at no dis
tant day. Information coming from
Europe plainly and unequivocally estab-
fishes the fact that the last three or four
years have witnessed a return of the Jews
to Palestine from every quarter of the
globe. The number going from Russia
Is entirely unprecedented. The Hebrew
| population of Jerusalem is more than
double what it was ten years ago, and the
movement is going on rapidly.
SOME goods which were sunk over two
years ago of the japanese coast, while
on the way back from the Vienna Exhi'
bition, have Just been recovered and 1t
is found that the lacquer work made in
the last century, after two years INNER.
sion in the salt water, is uninjured, while
the lacquer articles of recent manufac.
ture are quite spoiled, a proof that the
modern makers of lacquer resort TO spu
rious limitations, which were unknown
or at all events not practiceu, in the
eighteenth century.
LARGE forests of oak flourish in the
vicinity of Odessa, Russia, and an Amer
ican has conceived the idea of pulveriz
ing the acorns, of which there are great
quantities, into -four or powder fol
food for hogs, poultry and horses. Ht
has already started in his new enterprise
and will ship the products to various
markets. An exchange advises the pro
priety of shipping the hogs to thu
acorns and then sending them abroad il
the form of salt pork.
NEW YORK Graphic: A sequel of th'
unprecedentedly hot summer is the vel
low fever that RACES along the South AT
lantic coast. There seems to be no doub
that the genuine article appeared in Bal
timore, and the fright occasioned by tha
fact is all the greater on account of tn
efforts to deny it and keep the news from
spreading. This cool weather will sool
drive it out, however, as it quite pre-
vents its appearance in New York. Ii
had been brought to Savannah earlier il
the season the dreadful plague woul'
probably have visited Northern cities.
ATPaxton, Illinois, a balloonist name
johnson, while making an ascension in
hot air balloon in the fairgrounds a
that place, met with fearful acciden
and most miraculous escape. When tn
balloon was about five hundred fee
from the ground it exploded, and imm'
diately began to sink. The canvas acte
as parachute until at the height OF tw
hundred feet from the ground it collapse
and shot eastward at frightful velocit!
johnson with wonderful presence
mind, did everything possible to brea
the force of the fall by bending h
: knees, and at the moment Of contat
7 with the ground, pulling quickly at tf
rope. When he struck his feet wei
forced into the mud of the track aboN
the ankles. After removing the wree
Q from above him he was found senseles
He soon revived. His principle injury
: a severe cut on the head inflicted by
oaken hoop.