The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-12-21
GENERAL NOTES.

GENERAL NOTES.
A YOUNG girl in South Lee, Massa
chusetts, attempted suicide by jumping
into the Housatonic, but the water was
so cold that she screamed for help and
was rescued.
The Graphic records the death of q
large and interesting family from small.
pox communicated through borrowed
newspaper. The only safe plan is to
subscribe direct at the business Office.
In Napa County, California, one John
| Webster has received the bounty for the
scalps of four thousand squirrels. An
unfortunate justice of the peace has to
count them all before issuing the cer-
| tificate.
The city of Charleston was recently
inundated by fOcks of strange birds
from the size of dove to that of SPAR
row supposed to have been driven by a
fearful storm to that shore from some far
ofislsnd.
NEW YORK consumes the most oysters,
in proportion to population, Of all the
cities of the country; Washington comes
next; while Baltimore, which packs and
ships most of any, falls far behind in
consumption.
Mr.. JAMES O'MEARA, of Hoopestown,
Illinois, is the last gentleman of high
reputation who knows that Wilkes
Booth is still alive, having seen him and
conversed with him recently during
visit to the South.
A CANADIAN farmer missed valuable
heifer, and, after several days of unavail-
ing search, found that she had eaten her
way thirty feet into a straw stack. She
had taken winding way inside the
stack, which accounts for her not having
eaten her way through.
CONNECTICUT oystermen complain
that they cannot find a market for all
the oysters they have on hand. and that
the prices offered are far below the real
value. Large quantities are shipped all
over the country, yet they can supply
thousands of barrels more If. a market is
only offered. .,
A NEW industry has started in Har.
cock County, Maine extracting tannin
from sweet tern. From ton of sweet
fern barrel of extract tannin is made,
worth twenty-five dollars, and also bar
rel of second quality worth seven dollars
and fifty cents per barrel.
SEVERAL newspapers are urging
another Centennial for 1883 to COM
memorate the close of the Revolution
and the final departure of the British
troops, when Washington surrendered
his sword and retired to private life.
The suggestion is not likely to be
seriously considered.
SOME curious statistics, just published,
show that, out of population OF 81, ,OOO-
600 in France, there are 81, 1927 blind,
and 29,512 deaf and dumb; so that in
$50 inhabitants there is one deaf and
dumb person. In Paris alone there are
1888 mad people, while in France there
are II, 1913 male and female lunatics.
FRANCISCO XAvIER, monk of the
Trappist Order, is about to establish
monastery three miles from Buffalo, New
York. OF the monks who are now on
their way to this country equal numbers
have been selected from the monasteries
of Mariastern in Turkey, Mount Millany
in Ireland, Sept Fonds in France, and
ST. Bernard in Belgium.
PROFESSOR HUXLEY, having, at
London lecture the other night, given
some striking instances of the i'll effect
on public health of neglect of drainage,
showed, by the case of the town of Sails
bury, that consumption, which was
more fatal than all the zymotic diseases
combined, might be diminished as much
as fifty per cent. by thorough drainage
of the subsoil.
A CoLoRED child was recently born in
Bayside, Talbot County, Maryland, of
the tiniest proportions ever known. AT
birth it was only about twelve inches
long, and weighed one pound. The only
imperiection about it is total absence
of thumbs, not having even q place
where thumbs ought to be. 1t has long
hair, coming down over the shoulders. 1t
is female child.
WILLIAM MILLER, proprietor of the
well-known hunters resort at Miller's
Bayou, on the New Orleans and Mobile
Railroad, was standing with the butt of
his gun resting on his wharf, and the
barrels against his arm, when the butt
dropped through crack, causing the
gun to discharge its contents into
Miller's shoulder, from the effects of
which he died in three hours.
THE total number of cinchona trees
now planted in India is 2,765, 900, chiefly
of the red bark variety, which, though it
does not yield SO much quinine as the
yellow, yet is said to give more alkaloid,
which is febrifuge is equally effective,
and easily extracted. These trees occupy
about 5000 acres of ground on the Mig
herries, and the bark is now sent to Lon
don for sale, at one dollar pound.
DIR. FORBES WINsLow, who is re-
garded as one of the most able modern
authorities OIL mental arrangement,
records il as a startling fact, not mere
rumor, that over 10000 persons of un-
sound mind are confined in lunatiC
asylums in the United States, driven mad
from over-excitement by Spiritualism.
DIR. Winslow adds that insanity from
this cause is now very prevalent in En-
gland, and is increasing day by day.
Educating Boys for Husbands.
How many unhappy girls have paid
dearly for the early bringing up of theil