The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-04-19
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
A LONDON man named Onions, ha
petitiOned to have leave to change hi
name. He can't get any one to marry
him.
Miss MAUDE OSWALD is storing uT
immortality in New York by riding
three hundred miles in twenty-six
hours.
PHILADELPHIA Saturday Night says
that Joaquin's Miller's name is Cincin.
natus Heine and that he was born in
Indiana in 184l.
GEORGE RICE has been placed under
81, 900 bonds in Louisville for falsely re-
porting he had married young lady
named Graham.
A REIDsvILLE (Va.) negro recently
ate forty-four boiled eggs at one sitting.
He then drank seven glasses of water
and called for more eggs
A MAN at Oshkosh, Wisconsin, wants
to marry the ex-Empress Eugene, and
as soon as he gets his spring suit OF
clothes he is going to write hera letter.
A PARTY of fourteen New Workers,
including several ladies, talk of making
voyage around the world in one hun
dred ton schooner yacht.
DORA L. NEGARD, the matrOn of the
Anchorage Lunatic Asylum, at Louis
vile, died recently from the effects OF
corrosive sublimate, taken with suicidal
intent. She was a native OF Cincinnati.
SEvERINo DE LA BARRERA, Spanish
Consul at New Orleans, died suddenly
on March "a, from poison. 1t is not
positively known whether it was taken
by mistake or Intentionally, but it is
believed to be suicide.
The Japanese Minister in Washington
is described as not looking over twenty
years old, and is about the size of an
American boy of fourteen. He wears
cream colored trousers, scanned with gold,
and black coat with gold collar.
Hon. ELoN FARNswoRTH, formerly
Chancellor of Michigan, died recently
at his residence in Detroit, aged seventy
eight years. He came to the State in
the year 1923, when there were but
few hundred inhabitantsin the then vast
Territory of Michigan.
PAUL DE CHAILLU says parrot which
he taught to speak also transmitted his
requirement to about twenty Others,
while some of these escaping taught
other wild ones, 80 that one day he was
surprised while walking in the forest to
hear French words blended with the
chattering of a number of these birds.
BIETT, the illicit manufacturer of
mataziette, kind of dynamite, which
has been prohibited in France, has been
sentenced to three years imprisonment
and the payment of fine of 10000
francs. FOrty.twO barrels of his explO-
sive products were placed in the Fort Of
Lamont, where they blew up all the
buildings, killing ten men.
In February last man was drowned
in the Rimac, at Lima, Peru, in a most
singular manner. He was an excellent
swimmer, but while standing upright
and endeavoring to persuade friend to
wade out to him, he suddenly discovered
that his feet were fast. He had stood
upon a quicksand, into which he grad
ually sank, and was ingulfed before as
sistance could reach him.
Col. WILLIAM KERRY, who died few
days ago at Brantford, was one Of the
Michigan, in 1890, when that Territory
was a British possession, and fought
with distinction in the war of 18l2-14,
at Lundy's Lane, Chippewa, etc. He
was a friend of Tecumseh, the Shawnee
Chief, and son-in-law of the great Mo.
hawk Brant, after marrying whose
daughter he built the first house at
Brant's Ford, now the fourishing city of
Brantford.
BISHOP HARE, of Nebraska, and John
Welch, of Philadelphia, of the old Indian
Commission, had an interview with the
President on the Indian policy, and were
informed generally it was to be one of
peace and forbearance toward the
Indians, but that the hostile Sioux were
to be followed up and punished. Mr..
Welch was told that if change was de-
cided on, he should be rendered the CON-
missionership of Indian Affairs, but he
replied that he did not desire any Office.
The cable brings us news of the death
f Walter Bagehot, editor of the London
Economist, author of valuable work on
the English Constitution, of which an
enlarged edition has Just been published
in this country, and of several other
able works on political and financial
topics. Mr.. BagebOt's fame as close
thinker and clear writer was just getting
established out of his country when his
earthly career was terminated. At home
he had won reputation for himself by
hard and important work, yet even there
he has been widely known for compara-
lively few years. He could not have
passed many years far beyond middle
life, even if he had reached it at the
time of his decease.