The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-08-24

'teMpteu 10 rise with It's prey, and 1t was
thus secured. This prize is Schenectady
contribution to the Centennial Exhibi-
tion.
In 1870 the number of sets of cards
engaged in the production of woolen
fabrics in the United States was four
thousand one hundred and thirty-nine,
about twenty-five per cent. of which
number was then idle. To-day it is es-
timated that there are no less than seven
thousand sets for the manufacture of the
same class of goods, the same proportion
as above being unoccupied.
DURING the late races at Long Branch
the stable of August Belmont won $12,-
$50; that of Pierre Lorillard, $1,000;
that of X. w. Sears, $4,000, and that of
George Lorillard, "a 900. In addition
to these Davis, of Virginia. j. G.
Bethune, Joseph Donahue, w. r. Bab-
cock, J. Coffee, j. A. Grinstead, George
,Surliffe, w. Cottrill and III. p. McGrath,
who was the heaviest winner in the
races of 1875, is the lowest winner in the
contest of 1876. The largest sum won
on one horse was $3.50. This was car
ried off by Patience, belonging to August
Belmont, of New York.
DIR. BENNETT, professor of some
celebrity, considers the tomato an invalu.
able article of diet, and ascribes to it
very important medical properties:
First, that the tomato is one of the most
powerful aperients Of the liver and other
organs; where calomel Is indicated it is
probably one of the most effective and
the least harmful remedial agents known
to the profession. Second, that chemi-
cal extract will be obtained from it that
will supersede the use of calomel in the
cure of disease. Third, that he has sue
cessfully treated diarrhea with this
article alone. Fourth, that when used
as an article of diet it is almost sovereign
for dyspepsia and indigestion. Sixth,
that it should be constantly used for
daily food-either cooked, raw or in the
form of catsup, it is the most healthy ar
ticle now in use.
The Norwegian expedition that sailed
from Christiansand in the direction of
Iceland, in the latter part of June, to
explore the Northern Atlantic Ocean,
has already been heard from. Twenty |
five miles west of Statland the icy zone
was entered, the water being very cold
to the depth of four hundred fathoms,
and the fauna of the Arctic variety. An |
umbellularia five feet in height was
among the curiosities of the expedition.
This strange growth of the Arctic seas
consists of long stem, at one end of
which is a cluster of twenty or thirty
polyps, huddling together like bunch
of grapes. Two specimens of the umbel-
lularia were found by Captain Andri-
ance, of the whaler Britannia, in 1853,
near the east coast of Greenland. They
attached themselves to the line of his
lead at depth of two hundred and
wenty-six fathoms.
In the course of his examination be-
fore the Factory Arts Commission at
Glasgow, DR.. Irvine stated, as among
.he strange transactions characterizipg |
some of the British factories and public
works, that, in the making of iron masts
hollow tubes, ETC., small children are Sc
lected to 60 into the tubes to hold the
ends of the rivets, and, in consequence
Of the great noise accompanying the
operation, the drums of the children's
ears get split, and they become quite
deaf. The children, it appears, are in
duced by the high wages offered by the
manufacturers to 60 into this employ.
ment, which is in fact, as unfavorable,
physiologcally, as the occupation of the
chimney sweep. The children are made
permanently deaf. Much the same re-
suit, in this respect, appears in the case
OF those who are employed in boiler
making.
BUCKLE maintained in his History of
Civilization that the intense superstition
of the Spanish people proceeded from
the influence of their earthquakes and
their lofty mountains, the terror and the
grandeur of which inspired them with
fearsof the unseen powers that produced
them. The influence of human agencies
is counteracting this disposition, if it
ever existed, for law has just passed the
Cortes, which, so far from recognizing
railroad disasters as proceeding from any
unknown agency or being visitation of
divine wrath, attributes them entirely
to human causes, and provides that the
company shall pay to the family of any
person killed fifteen thousand dollars,
and OF any person incapacitated from
labor seven thousand dollars and five
dollars day for the care of the injured
until they recover. There is great deal
of hard, solid materialism" in such a
BILL not half as much superstition"
as would be agreeable to railroad stock
holders.
A REMARKABLE man died at Lemberg,
in Austrian Poland, on the 10th of July.
This was Count Alexis Fredro, the
"Moliere of Poland" as he has not been
too extravagantly called by his own
countrymen. He was the founder of
Polish comedy. The tragedy of Polish
history has so filed the political stage
for the last century that it will be news
to NEST people that there is such thing
as Polish comedy. The comedies of |
Count Fredro are more than Polish
they are human. Many of them were
translated years ago into half the
languages and played at half the thea.
ters of Europe. Count Fredro was born
in 1898. He joined the Polish armies,
and made all the great campaigns with
Napoleon from 1909 TO 1914, after which
he retired 10 his estates in Galicia. He