The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-02-24
MINOR TOPICS.

MANVh lOIlCSs
The negroes of Sumter county, Ala
bama, at a colonization meeting, held
few evenings ago, offered resolutions
memoriaiizing Congress to set apart some
portion of the public domain, ON which
to colonize the colored people, that they
may have an opportunity to become
nation, to be eventually admitted into
the Union as one of the United States.
A DAUGHTER Of Lucius w. Pond, the
Worcester fOrger, has been for several
months employed in restaurant in that
city, where the table walters arc women,
voluntarily working out debt of 800
owed by her father to the proprietor of
the restaurant. Although brought up
to the use of the elegancies and luxuries of
life, this young lady shows a nice sense
of honor, modicum of which would
have saved her father from criminals
fate, and his family from disgrace.
THE fortune left by the late Sir An
thony Rothschild amounts to nearly
10000, 900 sterling. The fortune of the
late Mr.. Brassey, who has hitherto been
regarded as the largest of millionaires,
was about 96, 900, 900. Mr.. Morrison, the
head and founder of the we'll known
house of Morrison, Dillon & Co., left be-
tween f3,OOO,O00 and f4,OOO,OOO. Sir
Anthony has, therefore, surpassed all
previous collectors of wealth, and has
left a sum which would buy the fee-simple
OF many German principality.
The Centennial legion to represent the
thirteen States at Philadelphia on the
4th of July is complete. The following
are the names of the companies: Boston
Light Infantry, Amoskeag Veterans,
Providence Light Infantry, New Haven
Grays; Old Guard, of New York; Phil
Kearney Guard, of New Jersey; State
Fencibles, of Philadelphia; American
Rifles, of Delaware; one company of the
Fifth Maryland; Norfolk Light Guard,
of Norfolk; Fayetteville Rifles, North
Carolina; Washington Light Guard, of
Charleston, and the Clinch Rifles, of
Georgia.
The Secretary of the Treasury has re-
ceived letter from person in Williams
burg, Virginia, who, on seeing that the
public debt amounted to 1924, 1885,
.9Sl.95, thought it would be good idea
to dispose of the whole debt during the
glorious Centennial year, and to that end
nclosed twenty-five cents to pay the last
two figures, hoping that the Secretary
will find five as devoted friends to the
Union ready and willing to tackle the
remaining ten figures, paying two each.
The letter is signed "a rebel of 1865,
patriot of 1876"
AN enormous cylindrical glass shade
or cover for a statute, which is to
be exhibited at the Centennial, was re-
Gently made in Somerville, Massachu-
sets. 1t was made by the following pro-
cess: A long hollow iron tube was in
serted into the pot of molten glass, and
by careful manipulation about seventy
five pounds of the latter were caused to
adhere to the tube. This was then taken
to wooden mold of semi-circular form,
in which it was rolled few times by
three men, and thus brought to a white
heat. 1t was then taken to a wooden
cylinder placed beneath the floor of the
factory; and after it was placed therein,
the work of fashioning it te its proper
proportions was begun, which was done
by blowing through the iron tube and
into the body of the glass; while at the
same time two men raised and lowered
the glowing cylinder gently but quickly
until it came forth finished, and meas
ured five feet in height and seventy-four
inches in circumference.
The New York Sun contains the
plaintive story of a young man who took
his sweetheart to the opera, the other
night, and on his way home stopped at a
high toned restaurant for little supper.
The light repast ended with two plates of
strawberries. The victim says: "When
we had eaten the strawberries didn't
take us long for they were not numer-
ous-the waiter laid the check on the
table with the figures downward, as I
then supposed because he didn't want to
intrude any vulgar business calculations
on our pleasant tete-d-tete. helped her
on with her cloak, draped myself in my
own Ulster, and grappled the check,
turning it over carelessly, as though the
money part was really matter of no ac-
count. But it made me feel kind O. sick
when I saw the total, $16.50, of which
$40 were for the strawberries, being IS
per plate, about ninety cents per straw
berry. Fortunately had in my pocket
a twenty-dollar note, the funded repre-
sentative of several small bills that I had
saved toward suit of spring clothing,
and l paid the bill; but it grieves me
when reflect that paid the price of
vest and pair Of trowsers for those two
dishes of strawberries"
AN historic dungeon or tomb has been
unearthed at Dedham, Massachusetts,,
which puzzles the natives. A number
of common Indian mounds are near the
town, and opposite them, some two hun
dred feet from the Charles river, some
workmen ran across piece of rock, kind
of tufa, about three feet in diameter. Roll