The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-02-15
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

THE members of the New York Legis-
lature have passed a resolution cutting
down their salary from $1,000 to $l,ooo
per session.
BURLINGTON Hawk-Eye: Alfred Ten
nyson wears his hair long and natural.
The first time he ever saw comb, some
body sent him one for a Christmas pres
ent, and he thought it was something to
scratch his back with.
COMMODORE VANDERBILT was no
speech-maker. When his health was
proposed at banquet in London, he
said "Gentlemen, l have never made
a fool of myself in my life, and am not
going to begin now. Here Is iriend OF
mine (his lawyer; he can talk all day."
THEY dug over and over in snow
drift near Pittsfeld, Mass, the other day,
in a vain search for a missing school
girl. Just as they gave up in despair,
the young lady skipped on the scene, as
lively as cricket, and reported that she
had been on visit to a schOol-fellow.
The proverb that "it's an i'll wind
that blows nobody good" has received
striking verifcation in the case OF a
Georgia planter, whose cotton crop, four
hundred bales, was detained on its way
to market by low stage of water on
the ChattahoOchee River until the price
advanced 80 that he realized 81, 500 more
than he would have received had his
cotton been carried through in the usual
time.
GENERAL GORDON, the lion hunter,
has round face, regular features, and
large, dreamy, gray eye. He is compactly
built and Of medium stature. Among
the curiosities he brought from Central
Africa recently were three natives, two
BOYS and girl. The faces of the boys
are hideously tatooed, like ebony carv-
ings, either for ornament or distinction,
and they give painful plausibility to the
Darwinian theory by their facial out
lines.
BESSIE TURNER went to dramatic
agency in New York recently to ne
gOtiate for her appearance on the stage
A correspondent who saw her there
writes that she is of the medium height,
with nice red hair, which indicates
chaste and contemplative mind like
that of the lady in COmus. She is
rather intelligent looking, and presents
the appearance of compromise between
a chambermaid and Hebe of dance
hall. She finds the managers ~ little
timid."
NEW YORK World: A young bank
clerk at Toronto, Mr.. Barber, gets $50,
900 year for five years. This is how
1t was found that he had been taking the
securities of the bank, of which he wa'
custodian, and using them himself a
collaterals to obtain loans on for stocl
speculations, or to lend 10 other people
for a consideration. A public tria
would have exposed great number o
: his accomplices, men of high position, 81
he elected to be tried summarily
r pleaded guilty and was sent to the Peni
tent;ary for five years. The mon @
,, high position just alluded to paid hin
$780, 600 to take this course.
, Mr.. GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN thus de
. scribes himself in his own paper:
receive no callers, talk with no adults
make no speeches, visit no theaters, cor
certs, lyceums, or churches, enter n
J hotels, restaurants, court or publ
places; see no interviewers, attend II
I dinners, balls, or private parties; max
: no calls, give no Christmas presents
!, make no charitable donations, attend n
: weddings or festivals, shake no hands
2 belong to no club, society, or party
l court no sympathy, ask no favors, nee
3 no money, desire no friendship, seek a
!, office have no wish, possess no aspira
tions."