The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-05-04

tlOn NlIBos ~ pidneC nltnertO aunknOWn,
the continued observation of which was
interrupted by clouds, On the 18th he
observed u satisfactorily. 1t shines like a
star of the eleventh magnitude. The po-
sition is right ascension, 13 hours 20
minutes ;sdeclination, 110 47v south. Its
motion is retrograde, one minute daily
in right ascension, and north two min
utes daily in declination.
The marvellous recuperation of France
is again proved by Leon Says budget
for 1877. In 1869, the last complete
year before the war. the revenue amount
ed to 1,400,000,000 francs; the expen-
diture for 1877 is estimated at the enor-
.mous sum of ~, 12O, ,O00, 900 francs, which
shows that in eight years the taxation OF
France has increased 80 per cent, the
excess over last years expenditure be.
ing 50,000,000 francs. For the army
and navy 730,0O0,OOO francs are allotted
but for education only 100000
francs.
The Boston Transcript says that A. T.
Stewards largest theory of business was
no doubt of the Darwinian sort-that
the fittest must survive-that big fish
must eat up the little ones; but he made
bis stores sort of asylum for decayed
merchants whose business he had eaten
up. He was not loved in trade, but sen.
timent had very little place in his scheme
of business. 1t was in the magnificent
example he has left of thoroughness,
honesty and work in what he undertook
to do that he conferred perhaps the
greatest good.
THE Germans Of New York propose
to celebrate the coming Fourth of July
with unusual eclat. A grand torch
light procession, composed of German
singers, will enter Union Square as the
clock strikes twelve on the night of July
Sd. They are to arrange themselves
about the statue of Washington, and
then all the bands are to play Bayard
Taylor's new National Hymn, while the
assembled multitude will join in with
their voices, and the heavens will ring
with music. During the day there will
be Orations, music, and tableaux at public
halls.
JAMES L. HAYNES, United States
Commercial Agent, telegraphed the
State Department from New Laredo,
New Mexico, date of April i6, that the
revolutionists had levied forced loans on
the merchants, and said if they were not
paid by the 18th the stores would be
forced open and goods sold to double the
amount of the demands. The amount is
divided between ten merchants, five of
them American. The Secretary of War
directed that orders be given to the De.
partment Commander togrant protection
asked to American citizens in New La
redo against such lawless outrages, as
the government of Mexico is unable to
prevent them, but wishes caution to be
exercised.
MEERsCHAUM shavings and dust are
used when compressed for making inferior
or imitation pipes. Forty-one thousand
hundred weight ofthis waste are annually
'eonsuinsd' in Vienna in the production
of pipes, cigar-holders, ETC., and the imi-
tation has been carried to such perfec-
ton that connoisseurs sometimes find it
difficult TO distinguish these articles
from similar ones of the genuine sub
stance. OF the meerschaum itself, $4,000
cases, each weighing fifty or sixty pounds,
and worth E35 case, are used up in
Vienna alone. In working up the shaw
ings and dust into materials, about sixty
women are employed in Vienna in sort
ing, sitting, washing and cleansing the
refuse and rubbing it through silken
sieves.
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ACCORDING to some recently prepared
statistics the total income of the bishops
of the Established Church in England is
ai65,0O0 year, and that of the cathe-
drals, which goes 10 the canons and other
officers of the cathedrals, is 5000, 600
The income of the parochial clergy,
arising from tithes, etc., is over "a, ,500,-
900 year; and the daily and weekly
collections made in the. e.churches amounts
to about $4,000, 900 more. The Roman
catholics and the Nonconformists con-
tribute for the support of their churches
about f6, ,O00, 900 year; and the various
religious societies get about fl,700,000
for their purposes. So, altogether, the
amount paid for religious uses in England
is about f17,00O, 600, or $s5,eO0,0 900 q
year. This is considerable sum but
tits small when compared with the
"drink bill" of the United Kingdom,
which amounts to no less than E142, ,800,-
600 year, or $714, ,400, 900.
SOME interesting Investigations re-
Gently made by M. Cooley into the
chemical constitution Of the brain show
that the human cerebral substance con-
tains about eighty per cent of water !;
and that two albumenoid matters are
present, one not differing from albumen
and soluble in water, while the other is
insoluble--and for this the investigator
proposes the name of cephaline. The
fatty substance of the brain, he finds, is
formed principally of cholesterin, leci-
thin, and, cerebin, also, olein and mar
garin, and the organ contains likewise
certain salts, some soluble in water and
In alcohol, others soluble in water and
not in alcohol. During decomposition
the cerebral pulp furnishes acid pro-
ducts, among which are oleic, magaric,
phospho-glyceric and phospboric acids.
A GANG of railroad car robbers, who
have been operating on roads coming
10 st. Louis from the East, have been