The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-03-09
GENERAL NOTES.

windows throughout summer, are said to
drive away flies. Remember this, ladies,
and try it next summer.
DELMONICo, the lion tanner Of Paris,
lost four of his lions in one night. They
managed to reach stuffed horse which
was near the cage, and gnawed the skin,
which being prepared with arsenic,
caused their death in few hours.
FIGARO says that the plum pudding
of Paris restaurants is made of sweep.
ings of the tables-crumbs, stale cakes,
leavings of the previous day, sour cream
and the like, boiled for hours to acquire
a proper consistency, and then served
with a fiery brandy sauce to Disguise the
flavor.
The French sardine packers have Of
late years palmed of spurious fish, such
as sprats, mackerel, and even more COM
mon spt cies, to such an extent that the
consum ption has largely fallen off, and
measures are to be taken to restore the
business by honest dealing. The United
States are the greatest consumers of sar-
dimes.
The London Times, in commenting on
a collision on the Great Northern Rail
way, ascribes the results in great meas
ure to the vicious system of loose coup
ling and long buffers, and says that the
greater safety of close-cOupling has been
proved by the Pullman cars in America,
which have passed through many COLI
sions with safety, because they were
closely coupled frame to frame.
MILE TITIENs, it is said, has a marvel
of q memory. She is wonder on that
account to Sir Michael Costa, who can
not understand how she can retain the
music of sixty-eight operas (for her re-
pertoire is so extensively in her mind.
1t is long since she sang Norma" but
the other day she went to rehearsal and
rendered it without glancing at the score.
And what is more, she not alone knows
her own role, but that of everybody else.
The Burlington Hapkeye says: A
Benton county man hid six hundred
dollars in the spare room stove. The
next day his wife's mother came down
during his absence for three weeks
visit, and that spare room was warmed
up for the first time in three hundred
years. And they say you can pick up
shreds of that mans hair and clothes
where he clubbed himself around the
country when he heard of it, anywhere
within ten miles of the house.
GEORGE WEBSTER, manager of the
Kentucky State Lotteries, was found
dead in ditch near his residence in the
suburbs Of Louisville the other morning.
His horse and buggy were standing near
by. 1t is supposed he got out of the
buggy for some purpose, was kicked in
the head by the horse, and falling in the
ditch was drowned. The re was the mark
of a blow on the head as if from the kick
of horse.
NEW YORK Graphic: The resignation
of General B. r. Cowen, Assistant Sec
retary of the Interior Department, de-
prives the Government at Washington
of one of its most efficient and hOnored
servants. He has kept his name .untar-
nished through long and creditable
service in scandal-mOngering age, and
now retires because he is fatigued with
the harassing cares of Office and wishes
to take care of his private business. He
will engage in banking at Bellaire, Ohio.
A COLORADO paper, speaking of a re-
cent wind storm, says that the gale was
thickly freckled with things strange to
the eye, things living and dead, that
fitted hither and thither, going and
coming, appearing and disappearing
among the rolling billows of sleet and
dust, shingles, barrels, coal-buckets, ashes
and cinders, fragments of frame houses,
horses, mules and wagons, while now and
then a human form scurried down the
gulch with the rush and roar Of the
tempest.