The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-03-16
GENERAL NOTES.

An Egyptian juggler in Paris tried to
swallow q sword. lie was successful,
and the sword was exhibited at his fl
neral.
CHICAGO aurists make more money
than any other class Of m dical men.
T.ey contract to effect the cures at so
much yard. The corn doctors, who
work by the bushel, are the next in rank
of prosperity.
In Cuthbert, Ga, the other day, a
live fish was found in an oyster shell,
and the scientists of that region are puz-
zled. 1t had head like catfish, but
its body and the arrangement of its fins
were unlike anything ever seen in those
parts.
CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER thinks the
Germans frugal people, and illustrates
his meaning by the following statement
of what he saw at the opera at Berlin :
GAS soon as the opera was over the man
in front of me took wads of cotton from
his pocket and stopped up his ears, to
save the music he had paid for"
If James Parton, who has married
his step-daughter, had had son by his
first wife, there would have been some
queer relationships IN the family. While
he is son-in-law to his late wife, he would
have been brother-in-law to his own son,
who would have been the son of bis own
sister-but he didn't have son.
A HEIDELBERG correspondent writes
Of course we went down into the cellar
to see the old tun, the most prodigious
barrel ever saw. 1t is thirty-two feet
long and twenty feet across. The slaves,
two hundred years old, seem good and
sound; they are of two-inch oak. Thi,
hogshead, almost as big as house, holds
236, 900 bottles Of wine. What enormous
drinkers these old fellows we're!
SAN FRANCISCO has forty.se zen foun'
dries, ETC., one rolling-mill, 0ne wire
works, one wire-rOpe works, one saw
works, two cutlery works, two screw and
bolt works, one electrical instrument
works, one spring works, and seventeen
other iron or steel.working establish
ments, making total of seventy-seven
Besides these are one lead-smelting
works, one sheet works, two type foun.
dries, seven brass and bell foundries, two
glass factories, and one oil refinery.
The London Times has reprinted its
annual summaries of news of the world
for twenty-five years in small volume,
to which it appends note saying that
the volume, containing five hundred and
ninety-eight pages, was put in type by
four boys with two composing machines
in ten days, of eight hours each. That
would make each boys work amount to
rather more than fifteen hundred ems an
hour-which all printers acknowledge
would be fast work for the compositors.
LUCIUs POND, the Worcester (Mass. }
forger, when he reached the State prison
in Boston, the other day, entered the
Warden's Office with very cool and easy
bearing, holding a rose to his mouth,
and telling the Warden that he chad
come to pay him visit" So compos-
edly had the forger acted that the hack
ney.coach driver who had brought the
Sheriff and prisoner from the cars, sup
posed at first that the Sheriff was Pond
and the latter was the Sheriff.
A NORTH CAROLINA journal says
The famous Colts pistol is North Car
olina invention. The Gatlin gun. so IA
nous in Europe as the matrailleuse, is a
North Carolina invention. The Ed
wards battery, patented during the war
by resident and native OF Orange
county, is a North Carolina invention.
One of the latest useful inventions is a
sewing machine, made in Cleveland
county, which comes in competition with
the famous machines of Howe, Singer,
and others.