The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-01-27
GENERAL NOTES.

THE Illinois Supreme Court has
granted q writ of alternative mandamus
on the Common Council of Chicago, re-
quiring that body to show cause why
they should not order an election for
Mayor in April next.
The banks of Louisville have organ
lied a clearinghouse establishment
with q capital of nearly nine millions.
Business has begun under very favorable
auspices, the clearings of the frst day
amounting to 100000.
A PIECE of carbOnized Tough basket
or waffle work has been discovered in
the interglacial coal-bed at Wetziken,
Switzerland, giving what seems to be
clear evidence of the existence OF man
during one of the warm intervals of the
glacial epoch.
PROF. MosLER, of Germany, is now
successfully treating phthisic, or pull
monary consumption, by making an in
cision through the wall of the chest, and
drawing off the pus with a syringe, and
afterwards washing out the ulcers with
weak carbolic acid.
A. T. STEWART pays about $l2O,O
in taxes on his real estate in New York
city. His wholesale store is assessed at
81, 100, 900 and taxed $32, 200; his retail
store, assessed at $3.50, 900, pays $23, 800,
and he pays SIG, 800 on his house on Fifth
avenue, which is assessed at 100000.
THE London Medical Record announces
the formation in Paris of strange So
ciety. The members bind themselves
by a special testamentary disposition not
to be inferred after death their bodies
are to be delivered to the dissecting
rooms of the various medical schools for
dissection.
The Forest and Stream describes a
curious race of sheep living on an island
in Englishman's Bay, on the coast of
Maine. They are nearly as wild as deer.
Their principal winter food is seaweed,
chiefly dulce. They also eat the
branches of nearly all the trees which
grow on the island.
"BULL RUN" RUSSELL loses $40, 900
through the purchase of the Suez canal
by England. He had made an arrange
ment with the Khedive to "write up"
Egypt for the amount above stated.
After the latter had made the sale of the
canal he didn't care whether folks knew
anything about Egypt or not.
The New York Herald obtains the
gratifying information by cable from
London that the supposed female gorilla
i'm the Geological Gardens at Dresden,
Just before she died, recognized her re-
iationship to Director SchoNpf, and
l. I,rso Nj
rector was visibly affected, and became
Darwnist from that moment.
"A FRENCH machinist has discovered
that by keeping his turning tools con-
stantly wetted with petroleum he. was
able to cut metals and alloys with them,
although when the tools were used with
out the oils their edges were soon turned
and dulled. The hardest steel can be
turned easily if the tools be thus wet
with a mixture of two parts of petro-
leum with one part of turpentine.
The Mormons say they are anxious to
have test case involving their right to
practice polygamy before the Supreme
Court of the United States. They main
tain their right to what they call their
religion under an article in the treaty OF
Guadalupe Hidalgo, guaranteeing to
all inhabitants of territory thereby ac-
quired from Mexico the free exercise Of
their religion.
WHEN the American Railway Liter
ary UniOn-a society to prevent the sale
and circulation of vicious and impure
literature, and to introduce such litera-
ture as will benefit as well as interest all
classes-began its work about twenty
months ago, there were sold yearly by
the news agents running out OF Boston
11O,000 copies of vile illustrated week
lies; now the sales do not exceed $4,000
copies. In other impure matter SINH
lar result has been reached.
The first postal system of the colonies
was organized by four printers, Frank
lin, Holt, Goddard and Hazard. July,
1775, Congress appointed Franklin the
first Postmaster General, with salary of
one thousand dollars, residence I'M Phila-
delphia, and instructions to establish
posts from Falmouth, New England, to
Savanns 4, Georgia, with cross posts, and
rates. twenty per cent. below the old
Parliamentary charges. The Secretary
and Comptroller got $34O each.
A SPECIAL to the New York Evening
Post, from White Plains, says Surrogate
Coffin has decided in the Singer will case
that Mrs. Isabella Energie Singer, named
in the will, lady whose character is in
no way impugned by or involved in the
matter, and which we are bound to con-
slider as above reproach, is the widow of
the deceased, and her children his legiti-
mate offspring. The application of Mrs.
Mary Ann Singer, Miss Foster, the sec.
ond wife, who claimed she was entitled
to widows dover, is denied.