The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-04-13
GENERAL NOTES.

UENEhAA NVIESs
THE sum Of $121 ,OOO,O has been
spent in England since 1910 in building
and restoring church edifices.
The value of domestic exports from
Portland, Maine, in February, was $l,-
097, 1856, against $4S4, 101 in 1875.
RALEIGH, N. c., crows over the pos
session of Cochin China rooster that
weighs nineteen pounds, and eats corn
from the top of -four barrel.
A PIECE of scroll ivory veneering sixty
feet long and ten inches wide, containing
nearly fifty square feet of surface, was
sawed from an elephant tusk, the other
day, at Deep River, ct.
The fines for drunkenness in the
British regular army and militia since
the issue Of the general order OH the sub
ject in 1869 9have amounted to more than
$50O,OO0.
A PLATE-GL window in store at
Springfield, Mass, was filed with fine
cracks, and had to be taken down.
Another was substituted, and shared the
same fate. Investigation proved that
the continuous siamming of an adjacent
door did it.
In Waco, Texas, recently, a mule at
tackled yearling calf very savagely.
The calf tried to get away, but could not
and at last turned on the mule, which
was biting and kicking it, and butted him
squarely in the forehead. The mule
staggered and fell dead the calf was un-
hurt.
No action has been taken by the
authorities at Washington regarding the
request from the Mexican Government
for the purchase of arms from our
government. Persons officially connected
with the War Department do not think
our government has the material to
spare.
The Greeley houses" at Chappaqua
are offered to rent with garden at four
hundred dollars. One is the original
mansion and the other is the new house
which Greeley was building for the fam
lily at the time of his death. The old
house was inconvenient, but the new has
all modern improvements. The farm is
let TO marketman.
THIRTY years ago there were but 551
newspapers issued in Great Britain. Of
these, IA were dailies. Now there are
1912. Of these, England publishes
1,276; Scotland, 1872; Ireland, 1888;
Wales 81, and the Isles, 49,. There are
SO daily newspapers in England, 10 in
Scotland, 10 in Ireland, and 2 lin Wales
The Sutro Tunnel is now in 1900
feet, and work in the header is progress
ing at the rate of one hundred feet a
week, while the tunnel is being widened
out at the rate of four hundred feet per
week. One hundred and ninety men are
now employed and twenty mules. This
tunnel issupposed to mean silver in vast
quantities.
SOME idea might be formed of the ex.
tent to which Sebastopol was fired upon
by the allied armies and fleets, when it
is stated that from tax of sixpence per
hundred weight, which the Russian
government levied upon the proceeds Of
the sale of old iron, shot and shell picked
up and sold by the people, a sum of
nearly sixty-five thousand dollars has
been realized.
Brown and black are the only fast
colors in boook-binding cloth. Red,
green and blue are the next nearest to
fast colors. In calf binding, yellow or
tan is the only color that will not fade.
1t wears best. Blue calf wears and rubs
white. Purple and wine colors fade very
quickly if exposed to light. Claret is
greatly superior to the last-named, and is
nearly fast.
THE Louisville Courier-J0mWdl OBJ.
serves: The political campaign this
year will be a personal affair. "Char-
acter" is what is wanted by both parties.
The best man is likely to win. Neither
organization can afford to run q scrub.
Nothing short of a thoroughbred can
enter. The people want honesty, econ
omy and reform.
In various parts of Scandinavia the
boring of artesian wells is done by means
of a Jet of water. The stones, in the
diluvial ground, which are hinderance
to such operations, are thrust to the one
side if small; if large, they are shattered
with dynamite, and the boring is there
after proceeded with. In Kiel twenty
two artesian wells were thus bored last
half year.
CUTHBERT (Ga) Messenger: One day
last week some negro children were play
ing near a creek in Quitman county
when an allipat crawled out and swal-
lowed one of the children. Next day a
party caught the alligator, cut him
open, and took the little negro out
alive. This is no newspaper lie, but was
reported to us by lawyer, who substan-
tiates the statement by two negroes who
saw the child.
The Four-in-hand Club is beginning to
make itself known in New York. Ofan
afternoon Mr.. John Jay, jr., may be
seen driving along Fifth avenue on top
of the old Dorking stage coach which he
recently bought in England. This huge,
rumbling vehicle, with yellow panels, is
drawn by four spanking bays, and its
top seats are usually occupied by several
fashionably dressed ladies and two or
three stylish young men, one of whom
blows large horn.
AT the recent elections in France for
the members of the lower house of the
new Assembly there were 8,583,612 per.
sons who voted. Of these 1857, i'll
voted for Republican candidates; 2,147,.
0S4 for Conservatives, and 1888, All fol
Bonapartists. Thus the Republicans
have a majority of 840,612 over all
others. The elections, in fact, were q
regular 1,lebiscitun, at which the ques
tion, Republic" Empire" or Mon
archy," was put to the people, and they
voted for the Republic by majority o.
0,6l2.
George Washington.
The dress in which George Washington
generally appeared at church was faced
hat, stone colored coat with gilt buttons
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