The Lake County star., 1876-06-29
GENERAL NOTES.

ANVAL
TEXAS has two and a half millions O
sheep and only one mill to work up theil
wool. Home manufactures need en-
couragihg in the Lone Star State.
The total amount of imports from
Turkey to the United States for tht
fiscal year ending June 80, 1875, wa
$579,947, of which amount $472, Al
entered free of duty. The domestic ex
ports for the same period amounted tt
81, ,244, ,7S4.
PROVIDENCE Journal: Since Monday
last, on Swinburne, Peckham Il Co.'S
wharf, very small spider has been rails
ing from the ground to the roof of q
shed flint pebble twenty times as large
as himself, and up to last evening it had
reached height of about five feet from
the ground. 1t is slung in web as skill.
fully and Systematically as could be done
by the most skillful human hand. Two
and half feet higher will place the
stone on the roof, from which the insect
commenced its labor.
The total production of all kinds oi
rolled iron in 1875 was 1,890,379 net
tons, slight increase over 1874. The
product of cut nails and spikes was
4,72S, 881 kegs against 4, 912, 18O in 1874
Of the total rail production of 1875
sol $40 tons were iron rails and 290, 1868
tons were Bessemer steel rails. In 1874
the production of iron rails was 584, ,459
tons, and of Bessemer steal rails Ia, ,944
tons. A notable feature of the rail pro-
duct of 1875 was the large quantity Ol
steel rails that were made-16, $40 net
tons, against 6,739 tons in 1874.
FROM Fort Abraham Lincoln comes
the story of fresh discoveries of limit
less goldfields in the DeadwoOd region of
the Black Hills, where the impecunious
can shovel up gold at the rate of several
cartloadsa day. In view of the existing
difficulty of getting to the Deadwood
country, it looks as if the parties who
communicate this intelligence were in
close partnership with the Indians in the
scalp business. The road to Deadwood
is watched very carefully by the knife
and rile.bearing Sioux Indians.
The crop of "Cuban" tobacco grown
in Gadsden County, Florida, continues
to increase in quantity and improve in
quality year by year. In 1870 the census
reported 1928 pounds. Last year a
writer to the department of agriculture
returned 100000, and this spring 35O, 900
pounds for the crop of 1876, grown on
$50 acres-an enlargement of fifty per
cent. in the area planted. The quality
is the best of any crop since 1866, at
tributed to the fact that experienced
planters have entered upon its cultiva.
ton.
THIS is the story told of the Great
Spirit Spring, Kansas, and it probably
helps to fill the hotel recently built there
An Indian Princess chose a brave for
marriage, and her father selected an
other. One morning, as she sat by this
spring, the rivals met and fought in her
presence. They fell into the water,
neither would let 60, and they were
drowned. The Princess then jumped
in, and was also drowned. That gave
the spring medicinal properties; but
the connection between drowned Indians
and the cure of rheumatism is not ap-
parent.
ALL residents in China know we'll the
term applied to the made-up or adulter-
ated tea, which, with a singular truthful
ness, is called "lie tea." The process
consists in collecting the used and ex-
hausted leaves thrown away from the
tea gardens of public tea-drinking estab-
lishments, and putting them into bags
with a certain proportion of charcoal.
They are then dried over a fire, and
when turned out of the bags are found
to have black coating resembling the
-Congou brand, which is very popular
tea in England.
MADAME DUDEvANT George Sandy },
the brilliant French novelist and writer,
died June s, at Paris. Her literary
career was begun over forty years ago,
under somewhat peculiar and discourag-
ing circumstances, but she speedily rose
to fame as a novelist, and her works, for
more than generation, have had very
wide sale. She has seen good deal OF
the world in her time, some of it in com.
pany with Alfred de Mussel, the poet
and the pianist, Chopin. The works by
which she is best known in America are
Consuelo, Valentine, and Teverino. She
was nearly seventy-two years of age al
the time of her death.
The latest-and in some respects the
fshiest-fish story is from the st. Louis
Republican. The pitch of it is that {
fisherman in that neighborhoOd, seeing
what looked like fish "with tail OF
both ends" pulled it in with gaff ant
discovered that he had catfish with {
buffalo fish in its mouth, which it wa
trying to swallow. The Republican says
"The cat fish was found to weigh seventy
five pounds and the buffalo ten pounds
Both were in good order and made ,
palatable meal, as was tested by famil.
in this city" The story, on the whole
is a good one; but it is 9 little disap
pointing in not giving the numerical
strength of the family that make pala
table meal on eighty-five pounds of fish