The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-01-04
GENERAL NOTES.

Mr.. MoNROE's second and General
Taylor's Inauguration took place on the
9th f March.
The first bank in the United States
was the Bank of North America, organ
lied January 7, 1772, at Philadelphia,
and it is still transactiDg an extensive
business in the Quaker City.
INSPECTOR GENERAL HARDEE, who
died lately in Washington, was a cadet
of the military academy at West Point
from 1889 to 1843. Among his class
mates were President Grant, Generals
w. b. Franklin, VIM. F. Reynolds, G.
G. Augur, Rufus Ingalls,, j. @. Mother
son, and Others as prominent. During
the war of the rebellion he served as aid
de-camp to Gen. Mcclellan.
The occasional cessation recently Of
the dripping of water in the cave of st.
Michael, near the rock of Gibraltar, is re-
garded as a phenomenon in that region.
From time immemorial petrifying wa
ter has continually dripped from the
roof of this curious cave, and formed a
prodigious number of beautiful stalac-
tites. No cause is surmised for the oc-
casional stoppage of this remarkable phe-
nomenon.
The recently published judicial sta
tistics of France reveal the fact that in
1874 the number of suicides had reached
the unprecedented number of 5,617. OF
these 4, ,435 were males, and l, 1872 fe-
males; twenty-nine were under sixteen,
and 1000 over sixty years old. AS
usual, the suicides were more numerous
in spring and summer than in autumn
or winter.
The deliveries of quicksilver at San
Francisco for October were $500 TASKS,
and for the ten months of the year,
so, 900 against $1,000 during the same
time last year. The San Francisco BuL-
letin says: The shipments by sea this
year were valued at 81, ,309, 900. Estimat-
ing the shipments overland on the same
basis they show value of 1921 900.
Thus this trade alone has produced 81,
$40, 900 in the past ten months.
IT is reported that soon after the land
ing of the Pilgrims they were reduced to
great straits for the necessaries of life
and day of prayer was appointed on
Thursday to implore divine aid, and late
in the day ship arrived bringing them
food and clothing, and the day was
changed from one of fasting to one OF
feasting. The custom of designating
Thursday as a day of Thanksgiving has
been continued from this circumstance.
THERE will be five eclipses in 1877,
viz: A total eclipse of the moon on Feb.
ruary 81, visible in the United States; a
partial eclipse of the sun on March IA,
visible in Western Asia; partial eclipse
of the sun on August 8, visible in Alaska,
Kamschatka, and the North Pacific
Ocean; a total eclipse of the moon on
August %, partly visible in the Eastern
and Southern States, and partial eclipse
of the sun on September Z, visible in
South America.
Miss ALLIGATOR MOORE, despite her
name, got husband. She had made up
her mind to stand no nonsense, and, ex.
pecting a serenade with horns, tin pans,
and other noisemakers, she turned her
house into an arsenal on the night of her
marriage. The serenaders approached
cautiously, and were ready to begin a
din, when four shOtguns blazed from the
windows. Wounds were numerous, and
the fun was spoiled. This was in Gid.
dings, Texas.
A WORLDS FAIR OF FANS will take
place at Munich, in Bavaria, on the LIST
of November. 1877. 1t is to last three
months, and will include fans from all
countries. The fan countries of Persia,
India, China, and Japan will be allowed
full swing. Already several remarkable
specimens have been received at Munich
among others the Johanneum collection
from Gratz. After China, France is the
greatest producer Of the article. AL
Europe should be enabled to keep cool
SIR SYDNEY WATERLow, one of the
judges at the Philadelphia Exhibition
told the Maidstone paper manufacturers
on his return to England, that 8l9 paper
mills were running $50 machines in the
United States, manufacturing 800, 600,
600 pounds of paper annually. In thu
United Kingdom 274 mills were running
APO machines, turning out the sam'
quantity as America. The export o
paper to the States had almost entirely
ceased, the latter being determined t,
introduce their paper into the British
markets even at unremunerative prices
Two men were summoned before mag
istrates in England lately for cruelty i'll
treating dog. Mr.. Lay prosecuted Of
behalf of the Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Animals. On Novembe
10 the defendants amused themselves b,
painting the animal-a black and tai
terrierSred, white, and blue, whicl
caused the dog great pain about the eye
and the more tender parts of his body
A veterinary surgeon stated that had tn
terrier licked itself it would have die
from lead poisoning. The defendant
escaped with a trihing fine.
IRELAND, after all, is not in such
bad material condition. From pape
by Mr.. Jonathan PIN, the late Libera
member for Dublin, it appears that sine
, 1848 mud cabins have greatly declines
|, in number, and there has been marke
. increase in the number of farms {
, medium size. Mr.. PIN states that i
, consequence of recent improvement
there are few better ports in the kim
I, dom than Dublin. His general col
clusion is that in Ireland "well-col
z sidered enterprise meets with its rewar'
, and that Ireland affords safe and r
> munerative field for the investment
!. capital"