The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-01-11
GENERAL NOTES.

The losses by fire at Little Rock dur
ing the past year aggregate $l33, $50.
In man the temperature of the blood
is 980; in sheep, 1922, in ducks, 1917 4:
in ague it falls from $50 to 94o; in fever
it rises to 1922 or 1862.
EDWARD HALL, of Deer Greek Town
ship, Pickaway Co., o., hung himself
Christmas day. He was respected man,
aged about sixty-five. Cause not known.
THE Texans near Fort Griffin captured
fifteen horse thieves the other day, but
hung only eleven of them Immediately.
The four are to be hung in another
county.
A BILL to abolish ball-fghting has
been brought into the Spanish Legis-
lature by the Marquis of San Carlos,
Equerry to King Alfonso, but it is not
likely to pass.
JIM JACKSON, in Jail at Decatur,
Georgia, charged with murder and rob-
berry, committed suicide by hanging
himself with a pocket handkerchief, to
save himself from the hands of mob
who surrounded the iail for the purpose
of lynching him. The Sheriff was de-
Tending the Jail with posse of sixty men
at the time.
THERE is curious artesian well at
Cherrytree, Indiana. 1t is two hundred
and sixty feet deep. The water is a
mild cathartic, cleanses thoroughly,
softens the skin, is cold and very clear.
When stirred in any vessel it becomes
white as milk. A gas also escapes with
the water, which. when collected, burns
with bright flame of two distinct
colOrs-one of them twirling blue
blaze, the other small tongues of yellow.
A PROPOSITION has been started to
connect Europe and Africa by tunnel
under the Straits of Giberaltar. 1t is
suggested that the tunnel should start
from point between Tarifa and Algesi-
ras, on the Spanish coast, and come out
between Cueta and Tangiers, on the
African side. The submarine part of the
tunnel would only be nine miles, with
approaches on either side six miles in
length. The estimated cost is about
100000 sterling.
The tendency to panic in public au.
diences has been largely increased by
the Brooklyn disaster. During the pro-
gress of the play of "Two Orphans" in
the National Theater in Washington,
Christmas day, & cry of eight" was
mistaken by the audience for an alarm
of fire, and panic ensued which hun
dred cool heads were utterly unable to
control. Twelve hundred people placed
themselves outside the building in very
short space of time, but, by rare good
fortune, none were trampled to death.
OWING to the action of the waves,
the great pyramidal rock oveIhanging
the shore of Lake Superior, few miles
east of Silver Islet, and known as Nc
Donald's Peak, has fallen. The peak
was column of granite, measuring at
its base one hundred feet in circumfer-
ence, and rising to the height of two
hundred and eighty feet. This towering
rock, or shaft, was called McDonald's
Peak in honor of the Hudson Bay Com
pany factor, who is credited with climb
ing to the top of it in 1922, and Jumping
into the lake to win wager of EGO.
A PARTY of four fishermen formed
the project of wintering in the forests
of Fortune Bay, Newfoundland, in Feb.
ruary last, for the purpose of making a
large catch of trout in the lakes and
gullies of that quarter, which abound
with those fish, in order to try the ex-
pertinent of sailing them and establish
ing trade in picked trout. No ac-
count was ever received from them,
though constantly up to the end of June
the friends and relatives of the missing
men searched the forests for their bodies.
Not until near the close of September
was the mystery cleared up, when
trouting party, composed of several tel
egraph operators and their friends, dis
covered four skeletons near a gully.
The unfortunate fishermen must have
lost their way and been immersed in the
drift during one of the terrible binding
snow storms that prevail in that section.
In the year 1861 certain experiments
took place at Portsmouth, England, to
test a sixty-eight FOUNDER, firing point
blank at two hundred yards against
JOnes's angulated target of four and a
half-inch iron. There were leaders in
the leading journals a day or two after
ward, recording the triumph of the tar
get over the gun, the target being only
indented an inch and one-tenth after
But what about 1876?
To say nothing of the eighty. one ton
gun at Shoeburyness, tried the other
day, there is the great feat recorded of
the gun made by Sir William Arm
strong for the Italian Government
sending shot through no less
than twenty-five inches of steel plate,
knocking the teak backing to smither-
eens. This is way to make war at sea
of short duration. By-the-way, the
armor plates of the Infexible and Alex
andra, two of England's recent iron
clads, are about twenty-five inches in