The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-03-30

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A PAPER was recently read before the
London Society of Arts on an invention
for concentrating or condensing beer. II
appeared, from the paper, that beer Of
any kind may be condensed in vacuo, SO
as to save not only the alcohol, but the
volatile favors and aroma, which would
otherwise pass away in reducing the
extract to semi-Auid condition. In
remixing the alcohol containing the fra.
grant matters of the beer again with the
extract, all the constituents of the beer
are retained except the water, of which
nine-tenths or more are removed. This
affords saving of seven-eighths of the
freight. Moreover, as the condensing
arrests fermentation till the beer is re-
made by mixing with water, the loss in
the export of beer from its becoming sour
and unsound in transit is saved.
TIE United States, Russia, Turkey,
and Egypt, are the principal nations
which produce more wheat than they
consume. The two fields last mentioned
are exhausted by the hungry ports along
the Mediterranean, leaving the United
States and Russia to mainly supply the
surplus population of the North. Ten
years ago Russia furnished more than
half the bread imported by England,
while America furnished only one. eighth;
now America furnishes one-half, while
Russia contributes only one-ffth. In
1874 the Russian crops greatly dimin-
ished, leaving little for export, while the
American exports doubledin three years.
The Russian crops of the last two years
have been scanty, giving American grain
a still more signal advantage.
TIE Duke of Norfolk has been taking
steps to prevent Arundel Castle from
being injured by the ivy which has grown
into the walls and expanded so as to
cause many parts of the walls to crumble.
The ivy has now been removed and the
walls carefully restored. At present an
interesting search is going on in square
tower adjacent to the keep, called the
"Well Tower" In this building is a
well, formerly four hundred feet deep,
but now nearly filled up. There is ira
dition that it contains hidden treasures,
the occupants of the castle during the
sieges sustained by the fortress having
cast their valuables into it to save them
from the enemy. Already the well has
been explored to the depth of nearly two
hundred feet. Between thirty and forty
stone cannon balls have been brought to
the surface, but as yet nothing has been
seen of the expected treasures.
The King of Burma has just sent to
Pekin an embassy to re.establish, with
China, the former relations which had
been momentarily interrupted by the
insurrection of Yun-nan. The Journal
de 50. Petersburg publishes curious list
of the presents sent by the embassy: ga
letter ornamented with gold leaves; an
idol of the god of longevity in Burmese
stone; five tanned elephants; two ele-
plants tusks, weighing 90 ghins (120
pounds; two pieces of Jade, weighing
alO ghins (2sO pounds); eight caskets
with mirrors, set in gold; two gold rings
with eneralds; two rings, black as a
crow eight pieces of orange. colored
plush cloth; ten pieces of thick cotton
stuff; ten fine towels; eleven pounds OF
aloes; six more of the same, red eleven
pounds of lac ten TASKS of perfume ten
of odoriferous oil; four large boxes; ten
smaller; nine pictures; FIVE peacocks'
tails; ten pieces of foreign Grape.
IT is little remarkable that Just az
the carnival is securing a good foothold
in America il is dying out in the land
where it has hitherto fourished mos,
luxuriantly. Writing from Rome to the
New York Tribune, T. Adolphus Trollope
says that the carnival is on its last legs
and prophesies that there will not be
many more. He adds: "The old spirit
of the whole thing is irrecoverably gone
1t is now mere whipped up business,
bearing but too unmistakably the marks
Of speculation on its jaded and weary
brow. A programme! Why, there was
no need of programme in the old days,
when the revelry was spontaneous, and
the natural outcome of the short pc riod
of license tempered the despotic
ecclesiastical rule that prohibited all
popular amusements at other times.
Now people may dance and fiddle and
have masked balls if they please all the
year round" Cincinnati will be glad 10
hear this, for the crowd which has Wis.